Get the 2x or 4x XP mod if you dont want to deal with a long game. >gotten to a point where I just make custom starts for specific kinds of playthroughs
Role playing as a spinoff of the HN, and starting woth 90 mid level humans whilst being enemies with all other major factions from the start has been the most fun Ive had with the game, its a constant war, I thought it would be easy with so many characters but the raids they send dont frick around. Going to do a UC run next.
Scales with settlement size/tech level. The icon on the map denotes what size your settlement is, if it has the icon of a city they will send quite a few people in their raids, even the friendlies will send a lot to help in turn.
I always end up building 5 muscle club morons who just go around arranging improbable kidnaps of important government officials between their time training up the next weakling through the Gym Club Plan: Id es, beating the kidnapped repeatedly to near-death in my town house.
Speaking of I have a run right now where we're all holy brothers of Okran and frick me is it irksome having to travel half a mile for a decent tech shop. But its nice being holy for once. These Black folk are friendly as frick as long as you're racist.
I decided to try and do a solo character. Started out and grinded athletics, then ran to Shark to deal drugs and make money. Just when I'm about to reach the gate a few bloodspiders appear. I simply run past them, but the fricking gateguard fires an arrow, presumably at the spiders but ends up headshotting me resulting in my character getting knocked out and bleeding to death at the gates of Shark.
Reminds me when I was exiting some UC town and just outside the gate my character tumbled down
I was confused. I checked my health bars and noticed than my head was at -100
Took me few seconds to figure that it was propably a wandering Noble with eagle cross
maybe i'll make a skeleton character and just hire a bunch of ppl try this. my first few times playing i was just doin like solo or me and another guy.
>Start as a lone bugman >Originally made up story about him learning about the major factions, their cultures and beliefs, as well as their fears and hates, plus gathering some general knowledge of the world, eventually leading to him becoming a ranged tech hunter >After scoring some juicy loot, he decided to retire in World's End and become a smith >Realized that he doesn't want to be the BMAT trader's paypiggy, he stormed off into the wild unknown so he can live off the land and continue pursuing a fruitful career of being a smith >Today all he does is slaving his life away harvesting wheat and trying to convince 2 very stubborn worker drones to join his "cause"
I don't think this is how he envisioned his tech hunter retirement to go...
Finally made an outpost instead of just squatting in a town. Far east side of the Great Desert on the border to Heng, and there's zero fricking threats. My previous attempt at a base in the Northern Coast was a cannibal-filled nightmare.
Will be moving to the Howler Maze or Stormgap Coast soon so I can grow food too. Just gotta take care of the Reavers first.
If you dont want to up and build elsewhere, try the "no more no go zones" mod that lets factions from anywhere on the map visit you instead of just locals. Ive had fishmen raid me in Okrans Valley, they have to actually physically make their way to you too which can be intercepted or fail because they ran into another town or beak things etc
Howler Maze is great because its full of crabs, plentiful resources and the farming is good there. In UWE it becomes a warzone as a rival faction sets up shop along the None Islands to the east and will regularly enslave Crabraiders that they end up murking. Unless you are running an army of 90+ immortals you aren't going to be wiping them out as easily compared to the UC.
>install mods that make Hub frickhuge and adds 4 competing gangs >kill them all >buy all the buildings and rebuild them
Shame the mod that allows you to build inside the Hub is not compatible, I'm forced to import iron plates and copper and shit from the outpost close by.
It's not the reality that's getting worse, you're just mentally ill and your psychological condition worsens overtime. Get help or have a nice day. Either way, GTFO.
almost
anyways why the frick would someone be triggered by an okran meme
also how the frick are okranites "right wing people"
if you genuinely believe in the same shit they do then seek help, this is not a political position this is mental illness
>religious >hate women >hate non-humans (minorities) >luddites >good at farming >right about everything
They slot very neatly into the 'Deus vult' meme category except for the fact that they're basically right about non-humans being evil/antithetical to human life as things stand currently.
It's funny how the non-humans really are just a plague on humanity despite the good guys being on the multicult train.
Skellymen basically holocausted humanity, and then half-way holocausted everyone again. They also likely created both bugmen and shek, shek are warlike moron mutants, and the bugmen are sneaky swampjews unless they become nohives.
The only thing Okranites get wrong(other than worshipping Stobe lulz), is avoiding the advantages of using tech, and fighting the UC instead of the hivers/shek.
Imagine living between fogmen, robots, and the Shek, and saying: "We should pick a fight with the other humans".
Wait, I thought the hivers were the one genuinely alien race, and they just took on human traits after coming out of some kind of unspecified hibernation.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think anyone knows for sure, i always thought they were remnants of the enemy mankind fought during the first empire(thats why they needed behemoths, to fight bugzillas).
But there seems to be indications that the second empire was behind their creation, or at least their current incarnation. It's mostly vague, but at least it seems that Cat-mom made the Shek to be warriors, and the Hives(queens have robot shit in them + king) to be farmers.
I got the impression that the southern hive was cat-lon trying to jerry rig hivers, because he alienated spider-man.
8 months ago
Anonymous
from the lore you can collect in the game you learn that both Shek and Hivers were experiments made by the second empire to create more docile humanoids, basically.
Cat-Lon & Co. were paranoid that humans would try to rebel(much like robots did against humans) so he did some really fricked up shit to control them.
That, of course, merely justified the humans' rebellion, and at the end the second empire kinda dissolved.
Revenge on what Black person? The robot homosexuals are the ones that destroyed everything, fricking TWICE. And the majority of their time in Kenshi they exist just to cover up the past, because they know humanity would be justified in eradicating them permanently for it. Literally every single the Holy Nation say is correct, their only problem is the execution (can't fight progress). But, the alternatives are just flat out brain dead.
Humans were the first to try to frick skeletons over in the first empire. Also it was very much an evil playthrough, my first one was an ex-slave that liberated all slaves.
Fish Island is the comfiest place. >kill fish king >no more raids >free infinite crab meat and/or limb amputations, depending on your level >constant sunshowers with occasional acid rain that basically just tickles you for 3 hp or so >grow weed and smoke weed everyday
>Download economy skeleton mod >Main guy's main goal is to liberate his skelly bros and kill the Hiver queen >Figures its easier to buy them out of slavery than it is to fight entire towns so steals to make money >Leads to him and his crew being hated by black desert >With the money earned set up a base to make hashish >Become hated by united cities for growing hemp and being caught with hash >Fighting off tax men , bounty hunters and slavers >Almost strong enough to take on the hives due to constant assault
>30 man slaver squad attacked my homebase >captured and shackled 27 of them >after processing, dying to their wounds and a few executions via harpoon turret now down to 16 >debating whether I should enlist the rest into the mines or just kill them off entirely
This game is full of hard choices.
>start up an Okranite colony in the north-eastern most edge of HN territory near Obedience >outlaws and starvers come by occasionally, beat them down and put them into cages >recruit them as combat slaves and menials with the chance for promotion after time served >service guarantees citizenship.jpg >massive sprawling town and arms market months later consists almost entirely of reformed hobos
Shockingly fun.
>they feel your footsteps upon the glassy metallic surface like Tremors and begin to slowly animate with what little fusion power they have left
Jesus christ why is the world of Kenshi so horrifying?
I built a walled arena with animal cages so I usually just unleash a beak thing elder on my captives. We don't talk about that time I didn't pay attention to the unconscious timer after dropping it on the ground though.
>start out solo >martial arts weaboo fightan time >kill spider-man >start dojo >train students by destroying holy nation >accidentally recruit too many people and decide to build a base for them in the foglands >take out western queen >building a forward base to take down southern queen, and venture into the ashlands
Starting to get bored, everyone is too stonk now. Might start over with some meme challenge run.
>started as 2 human slaves in the slave mine just north of Gut >took me 50 days in game time to escape >had 2 guards carrying me around for literally 2 hours real time >escaped today this morning and this evening got to the hub
I just joined the shinobi thieves now I'm just training for a bit before I go and toughness train. Gonna set up a ninja clan in the holy nation.
>Kenshi 2 in development for 4 years now >Team looks "diverse" >Not a lot of news >Changing the setting >Changing the engine
I didn't vote for him to stop developing Kenshi, and now i have to wait a decade before i can play the game i wanted.
I love this jank shit, but i can't help but notice i'm getting slightly miffed. He could at least make a devblog with updates every 3-6 months
I knew this is what happened. The guy gets rich and suddenly there are a bunch of people willing to >help
him developing his next game. How convenient.
I dont have the necessary High IQ to play and enjoy this game.
Hiw can I play this game without feelin like such an IQlet
This is the easy way to make money, but it's boring as frick. A better way that's still fairly safe is to lure enemies to the guards and collect the loot. This works especially well if you spawn in the desert (been a while, forgot the name).
This. Ignore the autistic homosexuals that tell you to not mine copper. Mine copper, fill your bellies and get enough to afford the entry fee into the Shinobi tower in the Hub for basic training in skills. Then when finished fight starving bandits to build up more, thry don't enslave you or steal your shit, thdy only take food.
Kite enemies to guards and collect the loot, then hire some scrubs to start mining copper or something at the outside of cities. Then you buy some property somewhere and start crafting resources / researching tech. After that the game is free to you and you won't struggle to survive.
Also, leveling sneak by just running while sneaking in 3 times speed holding a body is busted as shit. You can level sneak, strength and athletics extremely quickly this way
If you do the first thing, you literally don't need to mine copper at all. At that point, go kill some starving bandits or join the trade ninja homosexuals to use their training dummies or some shit.
I love getting that guy early simply by wearing UC samurai armor as a disguise and just walking in & grabbing him. It's weird that nobody suggests this and everyone acts like the vault is strictly endgame content.
I have finished cataloging the northern parts of the map and Shun
I am prospecting to see where the water will fill in for Kenshi 2 and what areas will be available still
Cannibal plains is a maybe, but most of the area up there is going to be Lakes. We might see pumping stations in the leviathan coast making the area "habitable"
Shun is where the action will be tho
>thinkin about playing again >had idea for 5man skele crew with the 2 dudes you can recruit and random skeles >realize i love Beep too much a few hours into the playthrough >recruit him >make him cyberbeep
oh yeah, its kino time
Here's the most basic of basic.
Stealing.
Beat a guy (or let a guard/monster beat em for you) and let them recover. If they play dead, good. Go to next step.
Be paused and stay paused. Now steal their shit. And put it back if you actually succeed. Repeat until they catch you. If they don't suddenly go unconscious, good. Just keep going back into their inventory and continue stealing. Try to line your pov up with them so that right-clicking on them will put your cursor over the thing you're trying to steal. If they DO go unconscious, it means you have too many tough dudes standing over them and they don't want to get their ass kicked over whatever you're stealing. Move some people away.
Stealing levels fastest by failing. So just keep failing in quick succession. Try to have gear or injuries that make you suck more at stealing, cuz raising your skill will make it harder to fail.
At the beginning of rock bottom, you can become a master thief in minutes, since you have 1 arm and you're starving.
Oh yeah, and I'll say this one, since the internet keeps giving the most godawful advice for this.
Lockpicking.
Unlike stealing, the best way to level is by SUCCEEDING. gays will tell you to get into a cage you have like a 1% chance of picking your way out of and continue to fail for hours to level your skill. This advice sucks. Thing is, getting into a cage you can break out of easily, picking the lock, then setting that shit back up all over again is tedious, but there's a better way.
Go to a jail or a slave market, and find someone who really REALLY doesn't want to escape. They'll usually start freaking the frick out when you start picking their lock, telling you that you're screwing him over. Pick it. Then set him free. He'll immediately go right the frick back into his cage and re-lock it for you, making the process much faster. If you want, you can move him to a better cage where you're less likely to be seen by picking him up after unlocking his cage rather than setting him free. So just keep attempting to free the fricker and eventually you'll raise your skill to the point that not even a lvl 100 lock is impossible for you.
Find a big group of enemies that wont eat you, and stealth around them until you hit 60-70+, then equip armor that boosts stealth.
Now find someone unthreatening(guy with no legs, guy sitting down, etc) and train assasination on them.
You can now use stealth to sneak by 99% of the game, and use assassination to take nearly all humanoid enemies.
You can loot all the Big Brain books and AI cores from the ancient labs, simply runnign by the guards, you can kidnap faction leaders and watch nations crumble.
You can knock out and steal every guards armor and weapons, and then roll into town and kick the shit out of a bunch of naked idiots.
Sneaking is another that benefits more from failure.
Blood Spiders are absolutely the best thing to use for training, cuz they usually come in enormous swarms, and if they can't immediately get to you, they just turn away, only to spot you again. The ruins north of blister hill is the most famous, widely-known training spot. And the fame is quite justified. Just make sure to have gear that lowers your sneak stat so that you keep failing even as you level up/night falls. Crab gear is especially good at this.
>tl:dr enemy pathing works based on your character's planned movements and not just their current position, so hold down right click (move order) and spam the R key (cancel order) and your character will keep moving but your enemies will keep stopping, you can even outrun beak things with this
Assasination.
Again, failure benefits more, but the best way to train will probably have you succeeding anyway.
When you sneak up on someone, pause, command a stealth ko, and unpause. As soon as the animation starts up, mash right-click on your target like mad. Every click before the animation completes counts as an attempt. Even if you had a 0% chance of success at the start, you might ko them anyway from all the registered failures leveling you up. Just know that all those failures during that split second could attract allies of your target, so make sure to isolate them. Like, say, drag them into an empty building and go nuts. The higher your target's toughness, the better.
Also, once you have a character with a godly assassination stat, you can train allies by putting that already-trained character on a bed that doesn't belong to you (it doesn't work if it's your own bed), and have your allies try to stealth-ko them. The assassination stat works the same as toughness, so you can use the trained person as a dummy for risk-free training.
It won't take long before you have half a dozen characters who can knock out every guard in a city, giving you free reign to do whatever you want.
>kidnap a big-ass animal with a ton of health (gorillo or beak thing or whatever) >put it in a bed >save and reload >free punching bag that can give you EXP without any danger (until it passes out then you have to wait for it to recover and "wake back up") >animal can't ever get out of bed because they never programmed animals to have the ability to technically use/get out of beds >also works with skeletons and regular beds, IIRC
Great game. I can no longer enjoy it though because I've done all the interesting stuff. I tried to force myself to roleplay some specific scenarios or something, but I just can't recapture the magic of the first playthrough.
Please. Just please give me Kenshi 2 already.
Falling sun is such a rad weapon. After dabbling in mods that add wheel axes and triangle blades I still find myself going back to this for my heavies. Planks follow up as a close second.
all I know about this game was getting the OST recommend on yt and I was floored
what's it about and don't tell me it's another open world multiplayer crafting grinding game
Help me, i started a game and have no clue what to do or how battle works. Tuitorial explains 2 and a half buttons and thaths it. Got killed by some giraffe looking shit.
"battle" is just clicking an enemy and watching the fight
you can manually move away to avoid attacks if you want to micromanage, but in any larger fights it's just not going to be viable
your stats at the start of the game are shit, and you WILL get beaten up before you can actually win anything >Got killed by some giraffe looking shit
Beak Things are fricking vicious, don't bother fighting them without a strong party, just run homie, run!
Melee combat in vanilla is 1v1, or rather, only two combatants can fight at a time so a lot of the time you'll see a bunch of people circling some guy waiting for their chance to strike. Exceptions to this are AoE attacks from high skill unarmed and heavy weapons, which can attack other people if they're close enough. Also, range combatants can fire on enemy combatants whenever they want, but just be careful they don't shoot your own guys. Basically, you want to lose, but not lose hard enough your guys die. Combat experience can most easily be attained through actual combat, but there's a couple of training dolls everywhere to help buff up specific stats (though they'll never take you very far).
Good tip for training combat early is to get one dude to block and aggro homosexuals and then have all your other guys wail on the homosexual from behind.
Spears, sabres, and katana. It helps I have a mod that increases the number of combat slots (and another that makes it so 0 damage doesn't stunlock) so you need at least a couple dudes to not get gangraped.
Leviathan Slayer from the mod. >need masterwork powerlifter arms and 150 strength total to even have a chance to swing it properly >frickhuge attack, defence, and indoors penalties >have to duel Guts and his high-level crossbow waifu to get Meitou version >a single hit destroys any bodypart >a circular swing destroys bodyparts of multiple people >multiple bodyparts flying with the shitty havoc physics look cool >look like a chad wielding it
Meme weapon but fun.
If you get the recruit prisoners mod you can drastically reduce the grind. You kind of need self imposed limits though or you can easily recruit a squad of endgame enemies in a couple of hours.
Still that mod and the hiver armour mod created my favorite stories
>start character >fun for days >build base >get new character idea >fun for days >build base >get new character idea
It just keeps happening. It's only getting more convoluted with mods now.
>Base in Northern Desert close to Sho Batai >Got my faction to about 80 members , have about a platoon's worth of actual warrior's worth something >Most of whom have their stats in at least the mid 50's >600,000 cats >Tech level 6 with double barreled harpoon turrets >Allied with United Cities
Yeah I'm thinking of starting a war with the Holy Nation , killing Lord Phoenix then eventually betraying the United Cities and killing every single noble in their entire faction. Then the Sheks. Then the Hivers. Then Cat Lon. Hell, I'll even kill Tinfist too.
I'm taking my revenge on every single shit ass scrub who ever bullied my first character throughout my travels then rampaging across the continent, and no one can stop me.
Yeah that's probably the last things I'm gonna do in this game. I know Cat Lon has an entire army of end game skeletons but I hear the anti slavers are even more broken
Martial arts is broken in Kenshi because all the damage calculations are based ONLY on both combatants' martial arts skills. There's also the fact that a lot of later skill level martial arts skills target the head or torso, and given the bullshit high damage they do, it usually means Tinfist and other high level martial artists will usually one-shot a people. Doesn't help the antislavers are comprised almost exclusively by mid/high level martial artists. Although, I think if you went in with a firing squad, you could probably take them down? I don't like ranged combat much, so I got curbstomped by them the one time I tried.
Ranged is pretty busted , I have 10 dudes with extremely high Perception and crossbows and using them to soften up targets then rushing them with my tanks has cleared pretty much everything so far. Gutters are scared of me
the problem with martial arts is that it's slow. You need to micro your martial artists in big fights because otherwise they either spend the entire thing dodging or they get nuked mid animation.
You should try UWE and watch your mid 50s warriors getting eaten alive but the Bugmaster's horde. And that's before the Chitrin Order and the Dominion makes their way onto the continent.
I've been thinking of invading Cannibalia actually. I want to capture the Grand Wizard to keep him prisoner because it sounds hilarious to me. I don't even need the bounty
The entire setting is in a downward spiral.
Anything the player does makes things worse and everything is doomed to begin with.
The closest thing to a positive is the flotsam ninjas because it's the Mary Sue faction written by Chris sister but even they frick shit up considerably
Wiping out all non-humans increases the chance that humanity will eventually bounce back and fix things.
I wonder what life is like on the planet/other moon. It would be hilarious if they released another game there that was just a blissfull farming simulator where everyone is a happy hippy.
You can't. The more shit you kill the more dead hives or cannibals you create.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I never really got the cannibal thing, my Garru can solo them all.
Maybe it's meant to be northern barbarians vs romans(2nd empire), they're only a threat because no one has the organizational strength to invade and put them down. Same with deadhives.
beep is reddit trash, ray is better
Holy based, Ray is cool as frick. Espher can come too.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I think the only reason they're a problem is they won't stop ever no matter what you do to them. They are probably the reason cat-lon went insane. They just refuse to return to civilization and somehow are thriving anyway.
I saw a theory that beakthings were genetically engineered specifically to kill cannibals and that's the only reason cannibals started to decline.
>no mention of trannies whatsoever >Gankertard still manages to think of them
Your brain is beyond saving. And I was calling people homosexuals here long before you were born, sonny.
Just telling you all now that playing with unique recruits only is based and kino and basically the only way to play. Chris doesn't have the balls to make this the modus operandi in Kenshi 2.
>start as a single armless robot >build a group of 10 robots seeking revenge on the planet >kill everyone in the Holy Nation >kill everyone in the United Cities >kill so many people that even the other robots turn on us
Revenge on what Black person? The robot homosexuals are the ones that destroyed everything, fricking TWICE. And the majority of their time in Kenshi they exist just to cover up the past, because they know humanity would be justified in eradicating them permanently for it. Literally every single the Holy Nation say is correct, their only problem is the execution (can't fight progress). But, the alternatives are just flat out brain dead.
I tried to make a "chad" army. It was led by the eponymous Chad and I copy pasted him over a dozen times changing small details each time.
For example:
Brad (manlet)
Lad (fat)
Muhammad (given beard and brown skin)
Mad (eyebrows turned up)
My goal was to train them all in martial arts and max their strength and muscle bulk and definition. Went pretty well until I tried capturing the 2 big gorillos and using them as training dummies without mods. I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted so I gave up. They kept escaping and fricking all my shit up. Was too hard to mass train so many people.
Now I'm thinking about trying something easier like a bunch of ninjas.
If someone knows of a mod that adds outfits from Fist of the North Star then I'll redo this but with a party of Kenshiro, Rei, Shin, Raoh, Shu, etc.
If I can't color their outfits so Ken is black, Rei and Shu are blue, etc. then I'm not going to bother. I'm not satisfied with the base game's set of armor and color options.
>make new character
>grind for 20 hours
>get bored
>make new character
>grind for 20 hours
>get bored
>repeat
Why I love this game again
kino.
to be fair that's a problem with all open world games
not really
because it's the journey and not the destination
Get the 2x or 4x XP mod if you dont want to deal with a long game.
>gotten to a point where I just make custom starts for specific kinds of playthroughs
Role playing as a spinoff of the HN, and starting woth 90 mid level humans whilst being enemies with all other major factions from the start has been the most fun Ive had with the game, its a constant war, I thought it would be easy with so many characters but the raids they send dont frick around. Going to do a UC run next.
do raids scale with your people
I think they scale with your settlement size
Scales with settlement size/tech level. The icon on the map denotes what size your settlement is, if it has the icon of a city they will send quite a few people in their raids, even the friendlies will send a lot to help in turn.
They scale up but do not scale down
>make new character
>ends up a gang of Hiver thieves with milions of cats and no combat experience again
how do I stop
you dont
I always end up building 5 muscle club morons who just go around arranging improbable kidnaps of important government officials between their time training up the next weakling through the Gym Club Plan: Id es, beating the kidnapped repeatedly to near-death in my town house.
Speaking of I have a run right now where we're all holy brothers of Okran and frick me is it irksome having to travel half a mile for a decent tech shop. But its nice being holy for once. These Black folk are friendly as frick as long as you're racist.
Autism?
I decided to try and do a solo character. Started out and grinded athletics, then ran to Shark to deal drugs and make money. Just when I'm about to reach the gate a few bloodspiders appear. I simply run past them, but the fricking gateguard fires an arrow, presumably at the spiders but ends up headshotting me resulting in my character getting knocked out and bleeding to death at the gates of Shark.
the world of kenshi is a cruel and uncaring mistress
>Putting the Phoenix Lord in Narko's vegana.
I hope the Cannibals send you to Narko via edible installment plan.
Reminds me when I was exiting some UC town and just outside the gate my character tumbled down
I was confused. I checked my health bars and noticed than my head was at -100
Took me few seconds to figure that it was propably a wandering Noble with eagle cross
>get eagle cross
>give it to green
>lose my head the next fight cuz a genius made green have 0 precision shooting but like 70 crossbow
when the frick is Kenshi 2
I fear it will be bannerlord all over again
years of silence then shitty beta
bannerlord is okay now imo but yeah i get the concern
it's gonna be hard living up to being kenshi 2
I always have huge groups of people instead of training one to be overpowered
maybe i'll make a skeleton character and just hire a bunch of ppl try this. my first few times playing i was just doin like solo or me and another guy.
>Start as a lone bugman
>Originally made up story about him learning about the major factions, their cultures and beliefs, as well as their fears and hates, plus gathering some general knowledge of the world, eventually leading to him becoming a ranged tech hunter
>After scoring some juicy loot, he decided to retire in World's End and become a smith
>Realized that he doesn't want to be the BMAT trader's paypiggy, he stormed off into the wild unknown so he can live off the land and continue pursuing a fruitful career of being a smith
>Today all he does is slaving his life away harvesting wheat and trying to convince 2 very stubborn worker drones to join his "cause"
I don't think this is how he envisioned his tech hunter retirement to go...
Kino
Finally made an outpost instead of just squatting in a town. Far east side of the Great Desert on the border to Heng, and there's zero fricking threats. My previous attempt at a base in the Northern Coast was a cannibal-filled nightmare.
Will be moving to the Howler Maze or Stormgap Coast soon so I can grow food too. Just gotta take care of the Reavers first.
the reavers are like the hardest bandits to take out
there is like 500 of them in ark
Last time I cleaned 'em out with 9 people.
For me? Gut.
If you dont want to up and build elsewhere, try the "no more no go zones" mod that lets factions from anywhere on the map visit you instead of just locals. Ive had fishmen raid me in Okrans Valley, they have to actually physically make their way to you too which can be intercepted or fail because they ran into another town or beak things etc
this
i made a base in shun and got so bored cuz noone came there
Howler Maze is great because its full of crabs, plentiful resources and the farming is good there. In UWE it becomes a warzone as a rival faction sets up shop along the None Islands to the east and will regularly enslave Crabraiders that they end up murking. Unless you are running an army of 90+ immortals you aren't going to be wiping them out as easily compared to the UC.
aborted like my dozen and half other attempts to play this shitty game
>install mods that make Hub frickhuge and adds 4 competing gangs
>kill them all
>buy all the buildings and rebuild them
Shame the mod that allows you to build inside the Hub is not compatible, I'm forced to import iron plates and copper and shit from the outpost close by.
I don't get how nu-Ganker accepts this cringe picture of a human, especially right-wing coded human getting owned by a robot.
It's not the reality that's getting worse, you're just mentally ill and your psychological condition worsens overtime. Get help or have a nice day. Either way, GTFO.
Everyone knows the truth, so they are not triggered by the jokes.
almost
anyways why the frick would someone be triggered by an okran meme
also how the frick are okranites "right wing people"
if you genuinely believe in the same shit they do then seek help, this is not a political position this is mental illness
>religious
>hate women
>hate non-humans (minorities)
>luddites
>good at farming
>right about everything
They slot very neatly into the 'Deus vult' meme category except for the fact that they're basically right about non-humans being evil/antithetical to human life as things stand currently.
It's funny how the non-humans really are just a plague on humanity despite the good guys being on the multicult train.
Skellymen basically holocausted humanity, and then half-way holocausted everyone again. They also likely created both bugmen and shek, shek are warlike moron mutants, and the bugmen are sneaky swampjews unless they become nohives.
The only thing Okranites get wrong(other than worshipping Stobe lulz), is avoiding the advantages of using tech, and fighting the UC instead of the hivers/shek.
Imagine living between fogmen, robots, and the Shek, and saying: "We should pick a fight with the other humans".
Wait, I thought the hivers were the one genuinely alien race, and they just took on human traits after coming out of some kind of unspecified hibernation.
I don't think anyone knows for sure, i always thought they were remnants of the enemy mankind fought during the first empire(thats why they needed behemoths, to fight bugzillas).
But there seems to be indications that the second empire was behind their creation, or at least their current incarnation. It's mostly vague, but at least it seems that Cat-mom made the Shek to be warriors, and the Hives(queens have robot shit in them + king) to be farmers.
I got the impression that the southern hive was cat-lon trying to jerry rig hivers, because he alienated spider-man.
from the lore you can collect in the game you learn that both Shek and Hivers were experiments made by the second empire to create more docile humanoids, basically.
Cat-Lon & Co. were paranoid that humans would try to rebel(much like robots did against humans) so he did some really fricked up shit to control them.
That, of course, merely justified the humans' rebellion, and at the end the second empire kinda dissolved.
Humans were the first to try to frick skeletons over in the first empire. Also it was very much an evil playthrough, my first one was an ex-slave that liberated all slaves.
Okran is strong, pbuh
you mirin?
For me, it's Leviathan Coast
Fish Island is the comfiest place.
>kill fish king
>no more raids
>free infinite crab meat and/or limb amputations, depending on your level
>constant sunshowers with occasional acid rain that basically just tickles you for 3 hp or so
>grow weed and smoke weed everyday
>Download economy skeleton mod
>Main guy's main goal is to liberate his skelly bros and kill the Hiver queen
>Figures its easier to buy them out of slavery than it is to fight entire towns so steals to make money
>Leads to him and his crew being hated by black desert
>With the money earned set up a base to make hashish
>Become hated by united cities for growing hemp and being caught with hash
>Fighting off tax men , bounty hunters and slavers
>Almost strong enough to take on the hives due to constant assault
>Nest spawns inside base walls
>go to sleep in Mongrel
>fogmen get inside and kidnap you
kek that happened to me a lot, it was hilarious especially with the fugmen mod
i laughed so hard when catlon first ree'd at me
I'm the one on the left
>not economy limbs
In halt.
>30 man slaver squad attacked my homebase
>captured and shackled 27 of them
>after processing, dying to their wounds and a few executions via harpoon turret now down to 16
>debating whether I should enlist the rest into the mines or just kill them off entirely
This game is full of hard choices.
>start up an Okranite colony in the north-eastern most edge of HN territory near Obedience
>outlaws and starvers come by occasionally, beat them down and put them into cages
>recruit them as combat slaves and menials with the chance for promotion after time served
>service guarantees citizenship.jpg
>massive sprawling town and arms market months later consists almost entirely of reformed hobos
Shockingly fun.
>they feel your footsteps upon the glassy metallic surface like Tremors and begin to slowly animate with what little fusion power they have left
Jesus christ why is the world of Kenshi so horrifying?
I built a walled arena with animal cages so I usually just unleash a beak thing elder on my captives. We don't talk about that time I didn't pay attention to the unconscious timer after dropping it on the ground though.
>start out solo
>martial arts weaboo fightan time
>kill spider-man
>start dojo
>train students by destroying holy nation
>accidentally recruit too many people and decide to build a base for them in the foglands
>take out western queen
>building a forward base to take down southern queen, and venture into the ashlands
Starting to get bored, everyone is too stonk now. Might start over with some meme challenge run.
>started as 2 human slaves in the slave mine just north of Gut
>took me 50 days in game time to escape
>had 2 guards carrying me around for literally 2 hours real time
>escaped today this morning and this evening got to the hub
I just joined the shinobi thieves now I'm just training for a bit before I go and toughness train. Gonna set up a ninja clan in the holy nation.
>Kenshi 2 in development for 4 years now
>Team looks "diverse"
>Not a lot of news
>Changing the setting
>Changing the engine
I didn't vote for him to stop developing Kenshi, and now i have to wait a decade before i can play the game i wanted.
I love this jank shit, but i can't help but notice i'm getting slightly miffed. He could at least make a devblog with updates every 3-6 months
why do you want details on how chris's balls got squished in a different way?
>why do you want details on how chris's balls got squished in a different way?
I knew this is what happened. The guy gets rich and suddenly there are a bunch of people willing to
>help
him developing his next game. How convenient.
I took one look at his team and i couldn't help but think that too.
I hope he doesn't cuck out, i hope i just made this shit up in my head.
Is playing a female character in the Holy Nation that rough?
I dont have the necessary High IQ to play and enjoy this game.
Hiw can I play this game without feelin like such an IQlet
Start by mining copper. Every great empire is built of the backs of that wonder metal.
This is the easy way to make money, but it's boring as frick. A better way that's still fairly safe is to lure enemies to the guards and collect the loot. This works especially well if you spawn in the desert (been a while, forgot the name).
This. Ignore the autistic homosexuals that tell you to not mine copper. Mine copper, fill your bellies and get enough to afford the entry fee into the Shinobi tower in the Hub for basic training in skills. Then when finished fight starving bandits to build up more, thry don't enslave you or steal your shit, thdy only take food.
Get enslaved don't mine copper or join the shinobi thieves
Kite enemies to guards and collect the loot, then hire some scrubs to start mining copper or something at the outside of cities. Then you buy some property somewhere and start crafting resources / researching tech. After that the game is free to you and you won't struggle to survive.
Also, leveling sneak by just running while sneaking in 3 times speed holding a body is busted as shit. You can level sneak, strength and athletics extremely quickly this way
If you do the first thing, you literally don't need to mine copper at all. At that point, go kill some starving bandits or join the trade ninja homosexuals to use their training dummies or some shit.
In my current playthrough, Luquin is a greenlander.
You lied to me, wikis.
I love getting that guy early simply by wearing UC samurai armor as a disguise and just walking in & grabbing him. It's weird that nobody suggests this and everyone acts like the vault is strictly endgame content.
I've tried to play this game multiple times and I get filtered every single time
Proved to me I'd fricking perish immediately if I ever got isekai'd
I have finished cataloging the northern parts of the map and Shun
I am prospecting to see where the water will fill in for Kenshi 2 and what areas will be available still
Cannibal plains is a maybe, but most of the area up there is going to be Lakes. We might see pumping stations in the leviathan coast making the area "habitable"
Shun is where the action will be tho
>thinkin about playing again
>had idea for 5man skele crew with the 2 dudes you can recruit and random skeles
>realize i love Beep too much a few hours into the playthrough
>recruit him
>make him cyberbeep
oh yeah, its kino time
I love mongrel so much, between harassing the skeleton doctor and the squad's training arc fighting fogmen, I always stay there for a week to train.
Scientology keeps knocking at my door and every week they come back with greater numbers.
Why does this game have such a complicated setup for a "paladins vs skeletons" joke?
British humor please understand.
I want kenshi 2 so i can play the game without having every inch of the map and every enemy spawn zone memorized
I want Kenshi 2 because I was promised boats and Kenshi 2: Dead Man's Chest sounds fun as hell.
Teach me the jank. ALL of it.
Here's the most basic of basic.
Stealing.
Beat a guy (or let a guard/monster beat em for you) and let them recover. If they play dead, good. Go to next step.
Be paused and stay paused. Now steal their shit. And put it back if you actually succeed. Repeat until they catch you. If they don't suddenly go unconscious, good. Just keep going back into their inventory and continue stealing. Try to line your pov up with them so that right-clicking on them will put your cursor over the thing you're trying to steal. If they DO go unconscious, it means you have too many tough dudes standing over them and they don't want to get their ass kicked over whatever you're stealing. Move some people away.
Stealing levels fastest by failing. So just keep failing in quick succession. Try to have gear or injuries that make you suck more at stealing, cuz raising your skill will make it harder to fail.
At the beginning of rock bottom, you can become a master thief in minutes, since you have 1 arm and you're starving.
Oh yeah, and I'll say this one, since the internet keeps giving the most godawful advice for this.
Lockpicking.
Unlike stealing, the best way to level is by SUCCEEDING. gays will tell you to get into a cage you have like a 1% chance of picking your way out of and continue to fail for hours to level your skill. This advice sucks. Thing is, getting into a cage you can break out of easily, picking the lock, then setting that shit back up all over again is tedious, but there's a better way.
Go to a jail or a slave market, and find someone who really REALLY doesn't want to escape. They'll usually start freaking the frick out when you start picking their lock, telling you that you're screwing him over. Pick it. Then set him free. He'll immediately go right the frick back into his cage and re-lock it for you, making the process much faster. If you want, you can move him to a better cage where you're less likely to be seen by picking him up after unlocking his cage rather than setting him free. So just keep attempting to free the fricker and eventually you'll raise your skill to the point that not even a lvl 100 lock is impossible for you.
Find a big group of enemies that wont eat you, and stealth around them until you hit 60-70+, then equip armor that boosts stealth.
Now find someone unthreatening(guy with no legs, guy sitting down, etc) and train assasination on them.
You can now use stealth to sneak by 99% of the game, and use assassination to take nearly all humanoid enemies.
You can loot all the Big Brain books and AI cores from the ancient labs, simply runnign by the guards, you can kidnap faction leaders and watch nations crumble.
You can knock out and steal every guards armor and weapons, and then roll into town and kick the shit out of a bunch of naked idiots.
Sneaking is another that benefits more from failure.
Blood Spiders are absolutely the best thing to use for training, cuz they usually come in enormous swarms, and if they can't immediately get to you, they just turn away, only to spot you again. The ruins north of blister hill is the most famous, widely-known training spot. And the fame is quite justified. Just make sure to have gear that lowers your sneak stat so that you keep failing even as you level up/night falls. Crab gear is especially good at this.
Forbidden knowledge
>tl:dr enemy pathing works based on your character's planned movements and not just their current position, so hold down right click (move order) and spam the R key (cancel order) and your character will keep moving but your enemies will keep stopping, you can even outrun beak things with this
Assasination.
Again, failure benefits more, but the best way to train will probably have you succeeding anyway.
When you sneak up on someone, pause, command a stealth ko, and unpause. As soon as the animation starts up, mash right-click on your target like mad. Every click before the animation completes counts as an attempt. Even if you had a 0% chance of success at the start, you might ko them anyway from all the registered failures leveling you up. Just know that all those failures during that split second could attract allies of your target, so make sure to isolate them. Like, say, drag them into an empty building and go nuts. The higher your target's toughness, the better.
Also, once you have a character with a godly assassination stat, you can train allies by putting that already-trained character on a bed that doesn't belong to you (it doesn't work if it's your own bed), and have your allies try to stealth-ko them. The assassination stat works the same as toughness, so you can use the trained person as a dummy for risk-free training.
It won't take long before you have half a dozen characters who can knock out every guard in a city, giving you free reign to do whatever you want.
>kidnap a big-ass animal with a ton of health (gorillo or beak thing or whatever)
>put it in a bed
>save and reload
>free punching bag that can give you EXP without any danger (until it passes out then you have to wait for it to recover and "wake back up")
>animal can't ever get out of bed because they never programmed animals to have the ability to technically use/get out of beds
>also works with skeletons and regular beds, IIRC
In universe holy nation are 100% correct about everything and have never done anything wrong
Great game. I can no longer enjoy it though because I've done all the interesting stuff. I tried to force myself to roleplay some specific scenarios or something, but I just can't recapture the magic of the first playthrough.
Please. Just please give me Kenshi 2 already.
Falling sun is such a rad weapon. After dabbling in mods that add wheel axes and triangle blades I still find myself going back to this for my heavies. Planks follow up as a close second.
all I know about this game was getting the OST recommend on yt and I was floored
what's it about and don't tell me it's another open world multiplayer crafting grinding game
Help me, i started a game and have no clue what to do or how battle works. Tuitorial explains 2 and a half buttons and thaths it. Got killed by some giraffe looking shit.
What do.
"battle" is just clicking an enemy and watching the fight
you can manually move away to avoid attacks if you want to micromanage, but in any larger fights it's just not going to be viable
your stats at the start of the game are shit, and you WILL get beaten up before you can actually win anything
>Got killed by some giraffe looking shit
Beak Things are fricking vicious, don't bother fighting them without a strong party, just run homie, run!
Melee combat in vanilla is 1v1, or rather, only two combatants can fight at a time so a lot of the time you'll see a bunch of people circling some guy waiting for their chance to strike. Exceptions to this are AoE attacks from high skill unarmed and heavy weapons, which can attack other people if they're close enough. Also, range combatants can fire on enemy combatants whenever they want, but just be careful they don't shoot your own guys. Basically, you want to lose, but not lose hard enough your guys die. Combat experience can most easily be attained through actual combat, but there's a couple of training dolls everywhere to help buff up specific stats (though they'll never take you very far).
Good tip for training combat early is to get one dude to block and aggro homosexuals and then have all your other guys wail on the homosexual from behind.
why is kenshi so popular? i don't get it
What's the best secondary weapon and why is it the short-cleaver?Martial art gays do not need to apply.
well obviously it's wakizashi, duh
2 is going to be more "accessible" and less SOVL I can feel it. It's actually over.
So is Falling Sun the only non-garbage heavy weapon?
What types of weapons do you generally go with?
THE
PLANK
Falling Sun > Fragment Axe > Plank > Paladins Cross
Simple as.
Spears, sabres, and katana. It helps I have a mod that increases the number of combat slots (and another that makes it so 0 damage doesn't stunlock) so you need at least a couple dudes to not get gangraped.
>Desert Sabres
>Toppers
>Falling Suns
>Planks
>Moon Cleavers
>Nodachis
With the weapon mods I'll add Ronin Hatchets, Oadachis, Maguro Kiris and Hunting Sabres to my lineup.
Leviathan Slayer from the mod.
>need masterwork powerlifter arms and 150 strength total to even have a chance to swing it properly
>frickhuge attack, defence, and indoors penalties
>have to duel Guts and his high-level crossbow waifu to get Meitou version
>a single hit destroys any bodypart
>a circular swing destroys bodyparts of multiple people
>multiple bodyparts flying with the shitty havoc physics look cool
>look like a chad wielding it
Meme weapon but fun.
a lotof the heavy weapons are good, but they are endgame shit and require obscene grind to make work.
it's one issue I have with this game. Dear lord is it grindy.
If you get the recruit prisoners mod you can drastically reduce the grind. You kind of need self imposed limits though or you can easily recruit a squad of endgame enemies in a couple of hours.
Still that mod and the hiver armour mod created my favorite stories
>start character
>fun for days
>build base
>get new character idea
>fun for days
>build base
>get new character idea
It just keeps happening. It's only getting more convoluted with mods now.
>Base in Northern Desert close to Sho Batai
>Got my faction to about 80 members , have about a platoon's worth of actual warrior's worth something
>Most of whom have their stats in at least the mid 50's
>600,000 cats
>Tech level 6 with double barreled harpoon turrets
>Allied with United Cities
Yeah I'm thinking of starting a war with the Holy Nation , killing Lord Phoenix then eventually betraying the United Cities and killing every single noble in their entire faction. Then the Sheks. Then the Hivers. Then Cat Lon. Hell, I'll even kill Tinfist too.
I'm taking my revenge on every single shit ass scrub who ever bullied my first character throughout my travels then rampaging across the continent, and no one can stop me.
>I'll even kill Tinfist
I remember attacking the antislavers once and getting gangraped by 80-90 level martial artists. Shit's bullshit.
Yeah that's probably the last things I'm gonna do in this game. I know Cat Lon has an entire army of end game skeletons but I hear the anti slavers are even more broken
Martial arts is broken in Kenshi because all the damage calculations are based ONLY on both combatants' martial arts skills. There's also the fact that a lot of later skill level martial arts skills target the head or torso, and given the bullshit high damage they do, it usually means Tinfist and other high level martial artists will usually one-shot a people. Doesn't help the antislavers are comprised almost exclusively by mid/high level martial artists. Although, I think if you went in with a firing squad, you could probably take them down? I don't like ranged combat much, so I got curbstomped by them the one time I tried.
Ranged is pretty busted , I have 10 dudes with extremely high Perception and crossbows and using them to soften up targets then rushing them with my tanks has cleared pretty much everything so far. Gutters are scared of me
the problem with martial arts is that it's slow. You need to micro your martial artists in big fights because otherwise they either spend the entire thing dodging or they get nuked mid animation.
You should try UWE and watch your mid 50s warriors getting eaten alive but the Bugmaster's horde. And that's before the Chitrin Order and the Dominion makes their way onto the continent.
I've been thinking of invading Cannibalia actually. I want to capture the Grand Wizard to keep him prisoner because it sounds hilarious to me. I don't even need the bounty
Make sure to set up a base in cannibal territory so you can capture Mighty Canhead. The name alone is glorious.
So how do I have fun again? Give me some interesting self-limitations and goals pls.
whats stopping you from creating an all female faction and toppling the "Holy" nation?
The flotsam b***hes did it first, and I don't want to copy them.
but they're cool
coward
really just have them anywhere
A frick huge army and Lord Phoenix whose stats are all 85's.
Creating an all female faction and having a cosy yuri base in the swamps
Can you rape in Kenshi?
Nah, closest thing is the milking mod as far as I know.
No, and as it has been made very clear as of recent; romance/sex in games is a cringe inducing moron magnet.
Kenshi is pure, and should remain so.
>"pure"
Isn't this the game with slavery, drug running, and so on
It's pure kenshi.
Dunno. What's stopping me from expanding the territory of the Holy Nation and forcing all of the the floatsam ninjas into peelers?
Holy Nation is in a downward spiral, better to shit and piss on their grave than join them
The entire setting is in a downward spiral.
Anything the player does makes things worse and everything is doomed to begin with.
The closest thing to a positive is the flotsam ninjas because it's the Mary Sue faction written by Chris sister but even they frick shit up considerably
Wiping out all non-humans increases the chance that humanity will eventually bounce back and fix things.
I wonder what life is like on the planet/other moon. It would be hilarious if they released another game there that was just a blissfull farming simulator where everyone is a happy hippy.
You can't. The more shit you kill the more dead hives or cannibals you create.
I never really got the cannibal thing, my Garru can solo them all.
Maybe it's meant to be northern barbarians vs romans(2nd empire), they're only a threat because no one has the organizational strength to invade and put them down. Same with deadhives.
Holy based, Ray is cool as frick. Espher can come too.
I think the only reason they're a problem is they won't stop ever no matter what you do to them. They are probably the reason cat-lon went insane. They just refuse to return to civilization and somehow are thriving anyway.
I saw a theory that beakthings were genetically engineered specifically to kill cannibals and that's the only reason cannibals started to decline.
>game has slavery, dismemberment, misogyny
>still no rape mods
Explain yourselves, homosexuals
>troony calling us homosexuals
Couldn't convince you to join the 41 any faster?
>no mention of trannies whatsoever
>Gankertard still manages to think of them
Your brain is beyond saving. And I was calling people homosexuals here long before you were born, sonny.
Pretty sure they just get removed from everywhere
Literally everyone in Kenshi looks like some brand of potato.
and? this didn’t stop people from making sex mods for oblivion you silly willy
Just telling you all now that playing with unique recruits only is based and kino and basically the only way to play. Chris doesn't have the balls to make this the modus operandi in Kenshi 2.
beep is reddit trash, ray is better
its going
are blood spiders still the most broken shit in the game with an attack hitbox 10 timezones away from them actually hitting you
Nah it got patched
>start as a single armless robot
>build a group of 10 robots seeking revenge on the planet
>kill everyone in the Holy Nation
>kill everyone in the United Cities
>kill so many people that even the other robots turn on us
are we the baddies?
Revenge on what Black person? The robot homosexuals are the ones that destroyed everything, fricking TWICE. And the majority of their time in Kenshi they exist just to cover up the past, because they know humanity would be justified in eradicating them permanently for it. Literally every single the Holy Nation say is correct, their only problem is the execution (can't fight progress). But, the alternatives are just flat out brain dead.
I tried to make a "chad" army. It was led by the eponymous Chad and I copy pasted him over a dozen times changing small details each time.
For example:
Brad (manlet)
Lad (fat)
Muhammad (given beard and brown skin)
Mad (eyebrows turned up)
My goal was to train them all in martial arts and max their strength and muscle bulk and definition. Went pretty well until I tried capturing the 2 big gorillos and using them as training dummies without mods. I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted so I gave up. They kept escaping and fricking all my shit up. Was too hard to mass train so many people.
Now I'm thinking about trying something easier like a bunch of ninjas.
If someone knows of a mod that adds outfits from Fist of the North Star then I'll redo this but with a party of Kenshiro, Rei, Shin, Raoh, Shu, etc.
If I can't color their outfits so Ken is black, Rei and Shu are blue, etc. then I'm not going to bother. I'm not satisfied with the base game's set of armor and color options.