This game is extremely good if you ignore the base building entirely and just focus on a playing a small group of increasingly buff adventurers taking on the world.
if you want a base building colony sim, play Rimworld!
Kenshi
This game is extremely good if you ignore the base building entirely and just focus on a playing a small group of increasingly buff adventurers taking on the world.
if you want a base building colony sim, play Rimworld!
At least in United cities territory they only want tax and leave you the hell alone. Better then the lunatics in the rest of the game
>he doesn't appreciate the magnificence that is the crab tournament
>win the crab tournament but had brutalized the survivors so much that they would continue to send reprisal attacks
>had a processing center that was filled with said survivors in various states of nuggetifcation that I would drag out on occasion for 18 hour beatings
>the lucky ones would serve as living decorations around my base sustained off a steady diet of cacti and long pig
>private beach was lined with the crosses of those who didn't survive the generous hospitality
>Building on arid land
NGMI
Not all of it’s arid. Also their leader has drip
*their leader is a drip
Ftfy senpai
If you take away the abject slavery and classism, or maybe keep it in because the Holy Nation participates in it with almost the same Ethos and Pathos as well, it's humorous that this taxing event is more straightforward and less obnoxious than Jahovah Witness' showing up to pray at your doorstep by force. It's either that or give gibs to the literal poor staving Shek of Squintroit.
I've never done the crab tournament because I think the raiders are essentially evil. Is the crab tournament buggy or does the bong code hold together for it?
Also, I wonder if Kenshi 2 will be good. Kenshi has this weird state where Sseth brought all the based racists to the game but the Bri'ish devs recently got into Wokeism and that might make Kenshi 2 shit like everything it touches.
Yeah the base building is bad, but its hard to make money without mining or something.
Just sell technology or do trade arbitrage with luxury goods
Farm fog princes
Patrolling the fog islands saving drifters from fogtards is my favourite early game.
Go out and see if you can find some beak thing eggs anon. Also visit the ashlands.
imagine looking up
Imagine climbing up
Imagine she notices you trying to scale her body and grabs you. Not firmly enough to crush you but enough that you can barely move. Then she squeezes you a bit just to watch you squirm and says "you like that little man?" ahaha hypothetically.
Imagine the smell.
haha imagine crawling into her butt
FUCK YOU
Hunt bounties. Worked well for me, only problem is I ran a solo rock bottom guy and you can't turn in bounties with the paladins if you're missing your left arm
Idiot take.
That's pretty much the worst, least productive way to make money in the game.
To be fair, making and selling katanas makes some mad money, but bounty hunting and selling artifacts or unwanted meitou weapons is a lot more efficient
it isn't ita just boring. mining copper in vain while getting your ass beat by gorillos got me a million cats and 50s on 8 guys. it's just really boring spending a few hours microing a bull from vein to vein and then to the shop keep
>its hard to make money
it's very easy. make a circuit of the swamp towns, buy out all their hashish, and run up to Flats Lagoon to sell it at a 400% markup. you just needs a few characters w/ backpacks and decent athletics.
Its such a pointless game because of the fact that you can grind all your stats immediately and that the world around you only changes because of your actions, i bet the sequel is gonna have the same exact illusion of challenge and choices.
>the world around you only changes because of your actions
It doesn't even do that. The most you can do is "take over a faction" and by that I mean just change which useless NPCs with whom your only interaction with is attacking spawn in a few select walled off isolated towns. It's fucking San Andreas gang wars but instead of painting the map peice by piece you just kill one guy to paint an entire region.
To be fair, there being very little if any "quests" is because the game is essentially unfinished and not feature complete. My expectations are too high, but I'm expecting a more simulated world in 2. Or at the very least better "ai" in towns to impress the player and character/dialogue decisions facilitating quests.
i always loved the base building in kenshi though
I want a Conan-themed Kenshi game. Although, aren't they pretty close already?
Conan Exiles is pretty damn close, you know.
>multiplayer
>gay
Singleplayer mode has been an afterthought for at least a couple of years now. All game design decisions are made with multiplayer in mind first and foremost.
I hate it when devs focus on MP, most game would be better of as SP only
It always goes like this:
PVE > PVP > SP
Watched many MMOs shit on the PVP crowd too.
>conan themed Rust clone
Nah.
>if you ignore the base building entirely
but that's the best part, sure it takes a while to get the ball rolling but once you do you have an impregnable fortress and an endless supply of bodies to peel
It doesn’t even take that long if you find a place with the right resources. Aside from finding special tech that is
true, if you find a place with a big node of iron and copper each you're pretty much set
I love the little plateau in fogmenterritory
the only drawback is that the traders get eaten constantly
Has anyone here beaten Mad Cat-Lon?
Yes? He's not particularly hard.
I can't deal with the five thrillion storm thralls pouring over me like honey
If you're playing vanilla, use a heavy weapon. It helps that combat only allows 1v1s, so if you take on Cat-lon and his horde with one dude, they'll all form a fuck-huge circle around him and fight him one at a time (heavy weapons let you fuck up a bunch of people 'on accident' with every swing).
He is if you are running UWE. Then again so is Bugmaster with his 200 elder skin spiders, skimmers and false scorpions running around the territory. I watched all my donuts getting oneshot by General Jiang and his hydraulic knights after wanting to do a round in the Ashlands.
It's actually funny how hard those encounters can be, but when I tried them again on a solo character it was so much easier, since you're concentrating all of the training on a single char. Doesn't take long until every encounter is effortless
Everytime I try to do a solo run I find myself wanting to bump up the numbers. This game really shines when its just you and your gaggle of morons vs the world. Its starts falling apart once you hit the 20s - 30s with pack animals, dogs and shit. Skellies aren't an issue but I wouldn't even consider trying to run an army of squishy humans let alone sheks. The thought of having to put down 50 sleeping bags or cycling through waystation accommodations fills me with pure dread.
Exactly, meanwhile a single character, one backpack with medkits, food and camping supplies and whatever weapon you can find gives you full freedom to explore the world and do whatever with minimal downtime. Small squads too
Solo chars get beefy as fuck in no time if you know what you're doing so not even enemies stop your exploration and advance, unless you're trying to take on the hive king or whatever
but you only need to put out sleeping bags so wounded characters would heal faster... or am i missing something?
>solo
you DO have the x5 attack slots mod, right?
No, still soloed every boss in the game using a katana and a topper
pussy gay, then it didnt count
maybe if youre a moron
x3 is all you need
>x3
purge yourself heretic
aye
Tinfist is the difficult one.
This might actually be true.
Had a blast with my adventuring party traveling the world.
Got bored once I settled down. Base building is poorly designed in this game.
i quit the game shortly afterwards, a nice ending for my headcannon, my squad finally safe and prosperous.
can your companions die definitively? i only like games where it can happen
everyone can die or be permanently mutilated, (You) included
game only ends if all your characters die, so you can have your own guy get eaten alive by cannibaks and continue with the rest of your squad
it's permadeath for every character in the world.
What makes that Hispanicy is that you need to be beat to the edge of death to grow your skills.
you can even continue the whole game as your pet if all the humanoids die
When your last character dies there isn't even a game over screen, the world just stays there working until you exit.
>your last character dies
>watch bandits looting the bodies
>maybe a while later some wild beast will come around and devour the bodies
Based
If you ignore the base building then your squad isn't based
I wish Kenshi had direct controls.
i like the base building, it depends on what kind of playthrough i am doing tho
>This game is extremely good
Stopped reading here. No it fucking isn't. It's nothing but miserable grind for little reward. There's no purpose to make the early game grind especially so miserable besides hating the player with passion.
Wasted dozens of hours on this garbage and deeply regret it
>it filters the 70 IQ brainlet once again
I bet you mined copper too..
What else was I supposed to do to make some money while having to endure the obnoxious fucking grind to get my stats to a point where I can actually do ANYTHING
And thats just for one char
FUCKING EXPLORE THEN
BEAT SOME STARVING BANDJTS AND SELL THEIR STICKS
OR JUST FUCKING LURE THEM TO GATE GUARDS IF ITS SO HARD
THEY DEAL BLUNT DAMAGE YOU LITERALLY CANNOT LOSE
>FUCKING EXPLORE THEN
I NEED TO GRIND STATS BEFORE I CAN SAFELY EXPLORE
>BEAT SOME STARVING BANDJTS AND SELL THEIR STICKS
I HAVE TO GRIND STATS AND GET BEAT UP BEFORE I CAN ACTUALLY STAND A CHANCE 1 V 1 AGAINST A LITERAL STARVING MALNOURISHED HOBO WITH A STICK AND DONT GET ME STARTED ABOUT A WHOLE GROUP OF THEM
>OR JUST FUCKING LURE THEM TO GATE GUARDS IF ITS SO HARD
WOW CHEESING THE GAME TO BYPASS ITS SHITTY DESIGN HOW FUN
>THEY DEAL BLUNT DAMAGE YOU LITERALLY CANNOT LOSE
THEIR LEADER ALWAYS HAS A SWORD
There's no such thing as cheesing or cheating in this game aside from literally editing game files. If you don't die, it's a valid strategy.
Skill issue
>I NEED TO GRIND STATS BEFORE I CAN SAFELY EXPLORE
You literally only need like 30 athletics to be safe from every enemy in the game except beak things.
What do you want to see in the sequel?
First Empire tech and blueprints
a better game engine that doesnt die just from you sprinting from one region to another
a more sane experience curve
better pathing for ai
more weather
varied settlement threats that are more than just 300 starving bandits and sunday paladins every week
interesting but meaningless fact: enemies can break the stat cap of 99 but players can't without augmented limbs.
I beat up eyegore after taking his limbs off and his toughness went up to around 150.
WRONG. There is nothing more satisfying than first leveling your entire teamand making everyone overpowered as fuck, then making an outpost just to ABSOLUTELY RAPE all the retards who come to steal from you.
Can you have a harem of desert ladies in this game? Please respond
You can do anything
other than losing limbs are hives good for anything
sex
memes and sovl
overall faster in almost every aspect, from running to combat, at same skill they almost always end a task before any other race, be it running a distance or delivering an attack
They are cheaper to maintain. You can feed 2-3 hive soldiers with the same food as a single shek. That's why hive soldiers are very rare in the vanilla game.
also they can eat raw and foul meat
Correct, it's been a while since I played Kenshi so I have forgotten rare and foul meat was a thing. In general, keeping your squad's population up while dealing with their calorie intake is a problem in early game, a chore in mid game, and a non-problem in late game where you would either have a mega base with 20+ farm plots or a house in a city with some kind of hydroponics. So having 3 hive warriors is much better than having 1 shek, especially when you take into account that gearing them up is a non problem with how much fighting you will be doing or, as others already said, how easier it is for them to lose limbs and get even stronger in the mid-late game.
If you snap their limbs off and replace them they become god-tier. They're already pretty great by default (can't say the same about skeletons).
Anon, when you read English you're supposed to start from the left, then keep reading until there's no more text. You definitely aren't supposed to start in the middle and ignore all the text to the left.
>you're supposed to start from the left, then keep reading until there's no more text
Anon, what are the first 4 words of his post?
>you're supposed to start
people not getting rich by staying in the hub mining are min-maxxing gays that should be lynched by the gate they swore to keep
ive never met a kenshi gatekeeper
i usually get rich by selling bandit gear it's way faster and when i am fast enough i go getting beak thing eggs cuz that shit is broken
Liar there's tons. Which is hilarious because it's an incredibly casual game. You have to deliberately gimp yourself like 3 different ways to make this game even approach any level of difficulty at all.
jesus christ i bet you find mining in eve online fun as well
>c*pper m*nning
moron moron moron
>4 skeleton martial arts wrecking crew
>build small outposts with wind power and skeleton beds all over the map
>Start wiping out every main city one by one except shek and and tech hunters
Such a comfy playthrough
Nothing sweeter than seeing the flying knee land and the victim crumpling instantly
Based nomad chad, I played the exact same way. I absolutely loathe tower defense games and was completely put-off base building because of the stupid minigame you have to play once you build, even if its in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
I always carry a piece of fabric and bedroll in my pack so I can just set up camp wherever and chill when worn from battle. It's peak comfy
>2
>Prequel
Won't it be just Second Empire tard wrangling entire continent?
the optimal way to play kenshi is to make a character that continually gets his shit pushed in until they start doing the shit pushing, the stats work on DBZ saiyan logic
Skeleton master race.
Love these goofballs
>entering Sonorous Dark for the first time
Is this game actually worth playing? I bought it a while back and didn't really understand it, it felt shallow and like there wasn't anything going on. What am I supposed to do to have fun with this? I think I got tricked into thinking it was an open world rpg like morrowind or something.