Talk:Underwater slingshot

Perhaps it was an initial bug that has since been fixed, but I did not lose a slingshot when I got the "put back in my pocket" message; only when the elastic snapped and I threw it through a window. I used slingshots a dozen or so times against Skate Park critters, and got both higher and lower results, so I expanded the range appropriately.

I wonder, based on the item description, if the chance of the slingshot snapping is higher (or guaranteed) above water; it certainly did snap underwater, as I only used it in the Skate Park, but I haven't used it above the surface. --Terion 17:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Initially the slingshot was consumed no matter what; I got a message from Jick that this was fixed as of today.--Foggy 18:53, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, that's handy. So, I used slingshots a number of times in the Skate Park. In 157 uses, I got these damages:

beaned: 72 75 78 57 50 95 79 60 91 89 63 69 65 84 62 81 64 50 68 98 51 71 66 85 69 87 98 80 84 79 50 61 74 87 95 52 69 87 78 96 79 63 85 98 57 61 62 59 82 83 69 65 51 92 84 83 51 75 60 100 61 83 63 63 50 69 51 50 61 62 53 53 80 60 76 87 67 51 53 94 82 86 71 57 67 67 87 96 97 77 87 73 86 70 95 98 56 94 57 57 71 58 74 84 62 50 64 72 51 89 75 64 94 84 64 81 82 88 62 51 58 88 52 55 68 95 57 57 63 65 79 89 91 88

beaned in the eye: 474 372 397 498 398 472 349 376 306 360 494 383 375 500 440 354 486 402 333 350 420 349 497

So, 134 beans ranging from 50-100, and 23 eye-beans ranging from 306-500. (I'd expect the lower end of eye-beans to be 300, knowing TPTB's penchant for nice round numbers, but 306 was the lowest I observed.)

Trying the slingshot against a gremlin, I found it won't let you use it (and you don't lose it from an above-water attempt.) Sorry, I didn't keep track of how many broke in those 157 shots; another spader will have to find the chance of breakage. --Terion 03:56, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Shots

I have encountered 23 breakages in 70 shots, so 23/70*100=32.857... so i'm thinking... about 33% chance of breaking, and 14 eye-beans in 70, so 14/70*100=20, so about 20% chance of critical. here are exact numbers:

81k, 66k, 63k, 59k, 89b, 87k, 69k, 464b, 61k, 56k, 89k, 86b, 498k, 54k, 88k, 96k, 81b, 86b, 79b, 68k, 428k, 53k, 91k, 62k, 84b, 91k, 318b, 72k, 64k, 68k, 99b, 78k, 77k, 71b, 400k, 51k, 84k, 77k, 76k, 414k, 86k, 100b, 86k, 61k, 56b, 66b, 94k, 62k, 358k, 404b, 338k, 70b, 71b, 86k, 84b, 343k, 92k, 78k, 100k, 63k, 100k, 83b, 62k, 61k, 419b, 363b, 97b, 73k, 417b, 318b. b=breaking, and k=kept.--The ErosionSeeker 20:19, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Hit	Crit
465	116

Kept	Lost
297	133

Normal damage ranged from 50-100, crit damage ranged from 300-500. 116 crits in 581 hits gives a 19.96% chance of a critical, 133 losses out of 430 uses gives = 30.93% chance of consumption. --TechSmurf 00:32, 16 July 2012 (CEST)