walter Walter's Slingshot

[-Nick-]

When Walter was added i was exited for a ranged character. When i got to play him in game for a few hours i found that his sling shot wasn't really fun to use after using it for a while. I found that his range for firing the Sling shot was fairly short for a ranged weapon, meaning you could only get one and two shots before the enemy was able to hit you. It doesn't help that the reload speed for the sling shot was slow, making the damage output worse than a spear over time. With the slow reload speed and short range its tedious in combat because you have to keep taking one shot or two and backing up, making your damage output even worse. The sling shot is not viable against enemies that move at a decent speed, like hounds, merms, koalaphants, etc, since you get hit by them by just shooting one shot.

When just pressing the f key, the slingshot aim for birds and other small creatures and not the monster in from of you, making fighting against enemies annoying.
The slingshot only really excels against targets that are really slow or cant even move at all, like tentacles and treegaurds. Its not really helpful since you don't really encounter many slow enemies. The sling shot is also good for birds and drawing aggro to certain monsters.

I would use it a lot more if the firing range was a lot longer or the reload speed was faster. 

This is my thoughts about it and i would like to hear yours too.

[sijil]

I think that Walter is not meant to be a combat character, the basic ammo used for the slingshot is meant to hunt small prey like birds or rabbits but in a fight with a more dangerous mob it is a good way to get in a free hit before switching to a ham bat, the real purpose of the slingshot is to inflict status effects to enemies from afar so that you can kite/interrupt attacks easier since Walter takes more punishment from being hit. IMO the real use of Walter is his ability to create cheap mobile tents for everyone and tell story's at the campfire, making him the sanity king in this game so far.