Slingshot

[Cazz]

I was wondering if I am missing something regarding the damage done by the slingshot. As I got down to the iron level I was finding mobs that were taking forever to kill with the slingshot. They die in about 5 shots from my tin sword which has 74-90 melee dmg but when I used the slingshot on one I realised I had shot off many shots and it was still alive so I continue with the slingshot and started counting. I had to shoot 47 more times before it died. The dmg on the slingshot is 43-51 and each shot was doing an average of 57 dmg. It sure makes the slingshot pretty useless and it doesn't make any sense.
What am I missing or doing wrong here?

[Zaflis]

How is your sword only tin quality in iron zones? After king slime you can craft the fiery sword, it's made of copper and tin at most.

But i guess that is how armor calculation works and not just in this game. If damage only barely exceeds the armor then not much damage is done. If you have played Factorio it has similar thing trying to fight behemoths with yellow ammo.

Maybe you will find better ranged weapon soon, i'm not that far so no idea.

Oh the slingshot completely destroyed the slime boss, very easily.

[Zaflis]

Oh there's an issue like this
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1621690/discussions/0/5757294878591309767/

[Apocaleptic]

the sling shot sucks. and being very low lvl in range it sucks more. the 2nd npc sells a rifle

[Cazz]

Thanks for the replies. I just hope the slingshot is not working as intended and they will fix this issue.