Walter Skill Tree Impressions & Affinity Ideas

[Opallll]

I love Walter and I’m so happy he’s getting the buffs he needed, but I noticed that even with his best gear a lot of people often find him boring to play as and his kill time is still rather slow, which can expend more resources than melee options.  Combining some ammo skills into bundles and maybe give options to help Walter with melee would be beneficial.

As for his affinity, the concept of just having ammo for the rift resources seems a little underwhelming so I’ll spitball a couple ideas here:

• Shadow Affinity (alongside standard affinity buffs): The Shadow Queen will reward Walter’s loyalty by helping him confront his fears - getting hit at least twice within a time frame will fill Walter with adrenaline and boost his damage up to a certain cap for as long as he keeps attacking. (Intended to allow players to make a risky play with him by giving the choice to sacrifice health and sanity for extra damage)
• Lunar Affinity: This isn’t as concrete, but the main idea is being able to temporarily mutate Woby like with lunar Merms using a new craft with moon shards or pure brilliance (maybe the planar defense will allow her to take more damage before bucking Walter off, a speed boost, I also have an idea where she could do a charge attack but that may be too overtuned)

[Opallll]

On 11/30/2024 at 1:10 PM, Opallll said:

I love Walter and I’m so happy he’s getting the buffs he needed, but I noticed that even with his best gear a lot of people often find him boring to play as and his kill time is still rather slow, which can expend more resources than melee options.  Combining some ammo skills into bundles and maybe give options to help Walter with melee would be beneficial.

As for his affinity, the concept of just having ammo for the rift resources seems a little underwhelming so I’ll spitball a couple ideas here:

• Shadow Affinity (alongside standard affinity buffs): The Shadow Queen will reward Walter’s loyalty by helping him confront his fears - getting hit at least twice within a time frame will fill Walter with adrenaline and boost his damage up to a certain cap for as long as he keeps attacking. (Intended to allow players to make a risky play with him by giving the choice to sacrifice health and sanity for extra damage)
• Lunar Affinity: This isn’t as concrete, but the main idea is being able to temporarily mutate Woby like with lunar Merms using a new craft with moon shards or pure brilliance (maybe the planar defense will allow her to take more damage before bucking Walter off, a speed boost, I also have an idea where she could do a charge attack but that may be too overtuned)

 Spitballing more ideas here:

• Woby’s digging skill should be readjusted so that she can sniff out and collect a specific item in a certain radius if Walter gives her that item to sniff first (eg have her sniff a stick to allow her to collect nearby sticks in close proximity)
• an option to deal with his bee allergy, please, a salve he can craft to temporarily ward it off