It’s been awhile since I’ve created a thread, and many of the pre-existing Walani threads have now long died out, however next to Wendy she’s still one of my most played characters. I feel like it would be an injustice to Walani to not eventually be playable in DST now that there is an actual sailable ocean full of things to do..
I can play Hamlet or DS Adventure Mode as Walani and that last one has no sailable water at all. So WHY is she being excluded from DST for as long as she has been?
My only conclusion is Klei may see a ocean sailing character as “broken” and it would make the boat platform boats irrelevant (not that they aren’t already when people just build boat cookie bridges to all important areas of the game) Theres a TON of Potential to add Walani to DST.. and more importantly-
If Klei felt her surfboard was ridiculously broken and OP- Maybe here’s a thought: Make it so it’s WEAK and easily destroyable, then if there’s a mob, ocean biome or boss Klei doesn’t want Walani on Surfboard to exploit.. she would have to have the higher health more resistant boat cookie as intended..
Think of it as a Risk Vs Reward type character- do you sail around alone on a surfboard that has low HP.. or do you build the boat cookie, gather a few friends, and explore the ocean content as it’s currently programmed without Walani?
In conclusion: IF I can play DS Solo adventure mode (with no sailable ocean anywhere) as Walani.. there is literally no reason why she shouldn’t be in a game that over the past couple months has been mostly ocean content updates.
Please give me Walani <3 it would make my day, if not anytime this year.. then someday in the future sometime. Thank You 