Weapons & Equip The Snowball Launcher should be a Sentry (and also more common)

[randomuser425]

What was Re-Logic thinking when they made this thing drop from snow flinxes at a 1 in 150 drop chance? That's barely 3x more than the Rod of freaking Discord! Snow flinxes being so annoying to find is part of the reason why nobody fights Deerclops (even though I do myself fight him I always dread having to farm more flinx fur when I don't get the drops I want) and I'm sure summoners will also agree on flinxes being tedious as hell to find and kill. Also, this weapon itself, in its current state, just sucks. You don't just have to stay close to it, you also have to actually be constantly clicking on it and be close enough to do so. I'm not even sure if it can even turn around, pretty sure you have to use wire to do so. I don't think anyone's actually used it. Ever. I propose we make it a sentry, obviously with the ability to turn around on its own to attack enemies and having summon damage, etc. Sentries are a very limited subclass right now and it'd be pretty cool to have more of them while also making this forgotten item relevant again. And with increased drop chance, of course.

(Yes I know in the hopper teaser it was shown attacking by itself with wire and actually damaging enemies, but I think that might be like the 1.4.4 Lunar Portal Staff rework teaser with the portals attacking target dummies and then it turning out that it was just to demonstrate the new rework)

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

Yes! I just obtained this thing a play through I started (first flinch I killed if you wanted to know) and I have not been able to use it. Making it a sentry so it is autonomous and doesn’t consume snow would be awesome!

 

[Noobiescrubpleb]

The Snowball Launcher is already a sentry gun that launches snowballs and will soon deal damage when wired. Because of this, I don't t think the Snowball Cannon needs to be changed in any way, certainly not changed to a sentry summon weapon.

But that might just be me, who knows.

 

[Heliodoros]

Yeah, and maybe same goes for Cannon from Pirate NPC. Those things should be non-OoA sentries, maybe just because there are only couple of those. We need more!

 

[Stellar Mastodon 267]

Yeah, and maybe same goes for Cannon from Pirate NPC. Those things should be non-OoA sentries, maybe just because there are only couple of those. We need more!

Specifically only 5 non OOA: Houndius Shootius, Queen Spider Staff, Frost Hydra, Lunar Portal, Rainbow Crystal.

 

[Big Sammich]

The Snowball Launcher is already a sentry gun that launches snowballs and will soon deal damage when wired. Because of this, I don't t think the Snowball Cannon needs to be changed in any way, certainly not changed to a sentry summon weapon.

But that might just be me, who knows.

I think you misunderstood... they're suggesting that the Snowball Launcher be turned into a sentry Summon weapon. Not the Snowball Cannon.

Anyway, I'm neutral on this suggestion. Sentries aren't something I really care about, but it would certainly make me more likely to use the item.

 

[randomuser425]

The Snowball Launcher is already a sentry gun that launches snowballs and will soon deal damage when wired. Because of this, I don't t think the Snowball Cannon needs to be changed in any way, certainly not changed to a sentry summon weapon.

But that might just be me, who knows.

I think you misread the title, and also the rest of what I said. I said the Snowball Launcher, not the Snowball Cannon, should be a proper sentry in that it should take up sentry slots, attack automatically, dela summon damage, etc, and not the weird gimmicky thing it is now. As I also said in my comment, I know in the hopper teaser it was shown attacking by itself with wire and actually damaging enemies, but I think that might be like the 1.4.4 Lunar Portal Staff rework teaser with the portals attacking target dummies and then it turning out that it was just to demonstrate the new rework.