What do you want to see in the WX rework?

[Hornete]

1 hour ago, ArubaroBeefalo said:

Wx after they get buffed because klei notice what happend when a character is nerfed

give me wx mech and I will be happy

if I want to be a genocidal robot shooting up the fuelweaver with giant lasers, then I wanna be a genocidal robot shooting up fuelweaver with giant lasers damnit.

[ArubaroBeefalo]

10 minutes ago, Hornete said:

give me wx mech and I will be happy

that remembered me about the living artifact and how it will be more useful in a game with that many raid bosses

[IanKSB91]

12 minutes ago, Hornete said:

give me wx mech and I will be happy

if I want to be a genocidal robot shooting up the fuelweaver with giant lasers, then I wanna be a genocidal robot shooting up fuelweaver with giant lasers damnit.

Now that I remember, Wasn't there a concept art for a mech that looked kinda like a car?

[Hornete]

Just now, IanKSB91 said:

Now that I remember, Wasn't there a concept art for a mech that looked kinda like a car?

https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Unimplemented_Features#WX-78_Mech
Yep! It looks awesome, I hope they do something with it.

[SkyistheGround]

3 minutes ago, IanKSB91 said:

Now that I remember, Wasn't there a concept art for a mech that looked kinda like a car?

[Maxil20]

Something I think would be interesting is a Crab King style upgrade system, where you have a limited amount of upgrade slots and specing into a specific upgrade makes said upgrade progressively more effective each one you add. I feel like it could add an interesting dynamic of wanting a few specific stats, having one very high specific stat, or just having a general boost in every stat.

I’m indifferent about their overcharge mechanic. While it absolutely is one of their most powerful perks in DS, the diminishing returns + (generally) less sources of lighting makes the mechanic way harder to utilize in DST. It would be neat if the mechanic was looked into more, but I feel like there should probably be methods to induce overcharge that are either not character specific or require the telelocator staff to proc. As for eating the stale food without penalty, I do actually like the perk quite a bit. It turns a lot of “eh” dishes into great ones (jelly salad’s 50 sanity now goes from 3 days to 6, for instance) and overall is neat to utilize.

As for their resource costs, I never really minded them using gears. Gears are rare early on, but lategame you basically don’t need them for anything. Once you get flingo’s and iceboxes down, your gear supply usually is on lockdown unless you want to make like 15 weather pains, and even then 1 ruins reset will easily net you 20-30+ gears.

 

[goblinball]

I made a post earlier however it strangely vanished, so I’ll go repost what I said along with some new ideas:

If wx does get their own meter, it’d be cool if instead of it being the regular circular meter, it’s like a battery charge meter (like the one on your phone) or smth. I know it wouldn’t add much to gameplay, but I think it’s neat and it’d make WX’s meter mechanic feel more special.

I also think it’d be cool if instead of the overcharge wx would be able to overclock themselves, and while it’d be easier to activate it could have some downsides like maybe wx would overheat over time or they take more damage or smth. I know realism isn’t too important but i personally think the idea of wx overclocking themself, which is a real thing people do to computers, is much cooler than unexplained lightning magic, and this would solve the issue of overcharge being a pain to obtain without a wickerbottom.

[minespatch]

1 hour ago, ArubaroBeefalo said:

that remembered me about the living artifact and how it will be more useful in a game with that many raid bosses

They should implement something with living artifact and moonglass to reference DST Gestalts. Maybe a present from their father Wagstaff which can have some edgy conflict?

[Hornete]

3 minutes ago, minespatch said:

They should implement something with living artifact and moonglass to reference DST Gestalts. Maybe a present from their father Wagstaff which can have some edgy conflict?

I hope Wx-78 gets something moon-related. They're very obsessed with the Moon in general and it's pretty cute, I'd love for them to have their wishes fulfilled.

[SkyistheGround]

37 minutes ago, Hornete said:

I hope Wx-78 gets something moon-related. They're very obsessed with the Moon in general and it's pretty cute, I'd love for them to have their wishes fulfilled.

mini celestial champion companion for them and them only. their alliance is unstoppable and they will crush all the fleshlings

but an actual idea: maybe a module that makes them immune to lunacy? crafted with stuff found on the lunar island. tbh lunacy already isnt a big problem, but its still nice for things like the cc fight or trying to collect resources on there. being immune to insanity would be a bit too much i feel

[Hornete]

4 minutes ago, SkyistheGround said:

but an actual idea: maybe a module that makes them immune to lunacy? crafted with stuff found on the lunar island. tbh lunacy already isnt a big problem, but its still nice for things like the cc fight or trying to collect resources on there. being immune to insanity would be a bit too much i feel

I want to be able to get struck with moon lightning with this hypothetical module.

I don't know what it'll do, but I want to be overcharged on lunacy madness.  (Could temporarily keep the enlightened meter for a while, going into the ruins while overcharged on lunacy could be interesting)

[minespatch]

3 hours ago, JoeW said:

"Are they a boy trapped in a robot body

I guess that was the human wx concept I saw.

[Octohunter777]

3 hours ago, JoeW said:

WX-78 wasn't specifically written as a non-binary character originally. The early concept for WX was "Are they a boy trapped in a robot body or are they a robot that thinks they are a boy trapped in a robot body?" and it was left open ended for fun.

However as time went on, a lot of people wrote to us and thanked us for having a character that they could identify with for many different reasons.

These comments came from a lot of different players with a wide range of perspectives. To some players, WX represents not fitting in and not conforming with what other people might expect of them. Not just players that don't conform to traditional gender or social expectations but also players on the spectrum and even some people who said that they feel like they "don't fit in." Regardless of the exact reason, they all appreciated a character that they felt in some way, even if just a little bit, represented an aspect of themselves.

So that's who WX-78 is, the WX that we try to preserve and just some of the reasons people can be protective of that aspect of the character.

But beyond all that, intentionally misgendering somebody fictional or otherwise is a jerk move. So please don't.

Please keep posts polite and on the original topic. Thanks.

I always liked WX because they were sarcastic, anti-social and generally had the same frustration with other people as I often have. The added amount of dark humor and the feelings of not always fitting just added to my appreciation of the character. While they may not be my favorite one, I still really like and sort of vibe (I hope thats the right word) with them. 

[-Nick-]

I would love a way to choose your own playstyle with WX-78 with upgrades. For example you could go for a fast/speedy playstyle. Another could be a resources machine where you can mine and chop faster.

Or you could balance all of your upgrades to have a generalist playstyle.

 

For downsides, i think WX should have one that is present throughout all upgrades, a rusting mechanic.

Other downsides can appear depending what upgrade you pick. Like a speedy buuld could make you have lower health, or a resource gathering build could make you drain hunger faster and lower tool durability.

[LiamAshvinn001]

I want him to be that when eating 5 gears, his back sprouts a nuclear missile pod that does nuclear damage and autotargets and his hand turns into a machine gun with infinite ammo and deals 900 damage per hit and his feet turn into jetpacks.

[Cheggf]

39 minutes ago, LiamAshvinn001 said:

I want him to be that when eating 5 gears, his back sprouts a nuclear missile pod that does nuclear damage and autotargets and his hand turns into a machine gun with infinite ammo and deals 900 damage per hit and his feet turn into jetpacks.

Finally, some good suggestions.

[Vixen Doe]

I just hope that their rework animations shows us a little bit of Wagstaff lore, and more about their backstory. Maybe even why they hate humans so much, but I'm really just reaching at this point

 

Spoiler

then again, i said that william could show up in wolfgang's animation months before the refresh and considered it a stretch, but look where we are now.

 

[MondayNight]

6 hours ago, LiamAshvinn001 said:

I want him to be that when eating 5 gears, his back sprouts a nuclear missile pod that does nuclear damage and autotargets and his hand turns into a machine gun with infinite ammo and deals 900 damage per hit and his feet turn into jetpacks.

Totally balanced, even if it's a Sandbox game. But you forgot the lighting speed, a must across the board! Then all will be as it should - a bundle of flapping joy over the cuckoo's nest.

 

Anyway, in all seriousness, @Nickolai's suggestion above (I've read even more detailed variations on it - aka interchangeable modular upgrades) seems the most appropriate, simple to grasp, making for engaging game-play with fair drawbacks. Not consuming Gears en bulk for hard stats in general looks like the consensus here, yet imo they should still factorize towards those hypothetical upgrades. Perhaps, yes, eliminating the "eating Gears for quick heal/sanity" aspect should come into place; still, on long-living worlds, where Ruins resets regularly occur, Gears tend to solely pile up in some chest(s) - if future WX module-or-otherwise upgrades will be a thing, Gears should still play a part, with emphasis maybe changing on Frazzled Wires (since their prevalence via Ruins dives is higher than Gears') for up-keeping stats. Will see. Once again: hope WX's rework wont be Wolfgang "refurbishment" 2.0 with idle/tedious mechanics in place.

[FourthLess]

10 hours ago, Hornete said:

I hope Wx-78 gets something moon-related. They're very obsessed with the Moon in general and it's pretty cute, I'd love for them to have their wishes fulfilled.

I swear if WX is going to get more moon related stuff than Wormwood 

[ArubaroBeefalo]

moon related thing will have sense. There are moon lightnings in the moon storm and wagstafd literally gives us a storm captured in a pokeball so would be cool if WX can use these somehow

[Primalflower]

Thought: Wx new mechanic where whenever they fall below various thesholds of health a limb or two falls off, and they begin hopping about, like the mr bones game 

[X-lem]

On 1/31/2022 at 10:11 PM, SonicDen220 said:

I expect a crafting tab with different upgrades, that's it.

Maybe a huge structure that only he can use.

[TheMelonNinja]

4 hours ago, grumm9690 said:

So people aren't even allowed to talk about WX as "he"/"it" it seems.
 

It's almost like you're intentionally erasing more of the already scarce nonbinary representation in media in general. Nobody's upset at you because you're going to offend WX's feelings, they're upset at you because the erasure of representation is a very real and very harmful thing that scumbags like you normalize because "waaaaaa it's just a fictional character!!!!!". 

 

Anyway I would like WX to have funny upgrades :). Some moon stuff would be fun too. There's just so much you can do with a robot character, I hope they act on that. Really looking forward to their refresh because they're probably one of the most bland characters in the game right now (barring Wilson who is intentionally bland). 

[Cheggf]

Maybe for WX's rework they could just take him out of the game so people stop derailing threads arguing about him in literally every single thread that ever mentions him even one single time.

Wait, that wouldn't work because then there'd be threads asking why he was removed...

[Dollmaker]

2 hours ago, TheMelonNinja said:

they're upset at you because the erasure of representation is a very real and very harmful thing that scumbags like you normalize because "waaaaaa it's just a fictional character!!!!!". 

If im honest, i think the people overly obsessed with this kind of stuff are annoying as well, just saying. 

I care enough to use the correct pronouns of a character, but man, you make ONE mistake and people jump at you. 

Just wanna point out, the more pushy you are about it, the more likely of people rejecting it (which btw is an advice the entertainment industry needs to learn...) 

 

2 hours ago, TheMelonNinja said:

Anyway I would like WX to have funny upgrades :). Some moon stuff would be fun too. There's just so much you can do with a robot character, I hope they act on that. Really looking forward to their refresh because they're probably one of the most bland characters in the game right now (barring Wilson who is intentionally bland).

Yeah pretty much, outside of Overload they're basically the same playstyle as Wilson, im kinda hoping they remove the need for Gears, or at least make him able to craft them in some way.