IM GETTING FUCKING FILLLTEREDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Just steal shit.
>>739168494>he hasn’t founded the third empire yetBet you don’t even have a crab
>>739168601keep your stupid crabs
>>739168494It’s just not very good
hot take: the stat system in kenshi is flawed and its biggest weakness
>>739168528Have, it's all slop>>739168601I have like 7 people recruited, all at starting location, I try to leave and just get mogged by 25 starving bandits. I don't even know where to go because I have 2 hive niggas and the rest are big boob shek girls, and I just know if I travel and try to enter a town they'll attack me because racism or something
>>739168494Toughness is the most important stat, counterintuitive to most games, you need to deliberately seek out damage and severe harm to improve it so you're better at taking it. The best way to do this is to let Fogmen eat your limbs or strap yourself into a skinning machine.Fill a pack with weights and stick it in your inventory, then just run back and forth a ton every day, and that makes pretty good strength training so your melee attacks don't hit with the power of a pool noodle.
Been watching the new fist of the north star anime adaptation and started playing this too.
>>739168494I like this game when im just playing as 1 dude. I can RP and stuff. As soon as I get a squad or whatever I feel overwhelmed
Run around a bit until you're a fast enough runner to outrun a typical armored guy, equip the wood sandals for more running speed, and ragebait random bandits into town guards. Loot the wounded, sell them to slavery. Then hire a fluffer into your party that you keep hidden and crouched outside of combat but close enough to pick you up whenever you get your ass kicked and left for dead in the desert. Don't put yourself in that situation in areas frequented by slavers, carnivorous animals or cannibals. Jobbing to crabs and mantises is fine I think since they won't eat you.
>>739168685>and the rest are big boob shek girls,based anon playing the game right
>>739168685getting your ass kicked is part of the process. Camp in gut and if you survive the beak thing onslaught (I did it with 0 tech) you will be able do anything.If you actually decide to camp in gut, remember gut thing can clip in inside building, there's no safe space.
>>739168685Are you reloading after losing fights? As long as you don’t have anyone die then just keep going after losingAlso try to earn money for better gear, that will help with keeping you alive while you grind stats
>>739168726>Don't put yourself in that situation in areas frequented by slaversGetting enslaved by the Holy Nation isn't a bad choice if we're being honest, you can stick a guy in that work camp and train a bunch of stats completely autonomously and then just bust them out when they're done.
>>739168814Seconded, slavery is one of the better things that can happen after getting knocked unconscious Everyone should escape from rebirth at least once
I haven't played this in years and looking at it now I haven't got a clue how any of this works or why I was doing what I was doing.
>>739168685>Have, it's all slop>He didn't steal thieve's backpacks for everyone>He didn't steal 154862 science books to build his base>He didn't steal maps to reveal the world>He didn't steal ration packs for the best food>He didn't steal yellow grade gear or chain mail to resell it for 5k at the next townAnd most of these are all in every traveler's shop!
>>739168494I don't even remember the names anymore. >start desert samurai area>rock bottom so free disability free slot for robotic arm>toggle sneak always to lvl them >fast forward to move quick with sneak on>town bar at nighttime>keep out of sight>steal food and valuables>lockpick other stores and vendors>outta sight of potential instore guards>steal loot out in open>or savescum steal blueprints from containers>scoot into next town, sell, repeat here then scoot into next>make enough for starter robotic limb, starter samurai set, keep wooden sandals>get backpack, stock food, bandages, sleeping bag>from the samurai desert (Northeast) towards the center of big map, there's a plateau clearing somewhere between>early giant groups of bandits spawn hereJust fucking fight here, with katana to train your offense, blocking and katana stats. Keep getting up to build toughness. Only back down when you're absolutely at the brink of death (usually in a coma). Heal yourself and go camp nearby in the wild. Repeat until proficient and can tank full groupd of dits. Never kill off the leaders. Once proficient, repeat but barehanded, to train your martial arts but most importantly your dodge. Go Northeast find the cannibals let them eat your limbs off so you get all free slot for robotics. Lick my niece pussy.
>>739169324Northwest I mean for the cainnanites
>Go to police station>Go to prison cells and find a 5k bounty guy>Free him>Bring him downstairs to the desk guy>Get paid 5k bounty>Cop carries the thief upstairs and locks him back in his prison cell>Repeat
This game is so ass, it's just grinding for hours on end so you don't lose to a dog then grinding for hours on end with some more grinding then you walk out and just steamroll everything with no challenge.
>>739168494Sneak into noble homes during the day, steal Sake and Luxury goods, sell to the thieves guild traders you find in major towns. Follow United Cities and Holy Nation patrols, let them deal with bandits and wild animals, loot whoever they beat up.
>>739169450>this game is so ass it's just playing the game until you win the game
>>739168724I always go max 4-5 Solo is good but you will need extra companions so you can heal and save captured members
>>739169514I like to hire a couple of skeletons, build a base in holy nation territory, then seal the building and sit them on turrets on the roof. You can just loot the raids they send to you forever. Skellies don't need to eat, and you can just build room dividers in front of doors to make buildings impenetrable.
>>739169450Well yeah, if you grind all your skills and stats to 100 before fighting anything you're going to steamroll everything. You could just... not do that.
>>739168683the biggest weakness is the empty world and half-assed systems like world states and outpost attacks
>>739169667>you can just build room dividers in front of doors to make buildings impenetrablesuper lame, why not just straight up cheat?
>>739169667Game has shit pathing once in a while it loses track of positions when loading game / instances and suddenly your turret operators phase through walls, under the ledge, outside the walls and they have trouble getting back inside etc.
>>739169767Yeah, you're real cool doing everything the hardest possible way. If you played the game as intended not using any of the exploits available to you, you would spend hundreds upon hundreds of hours getting to any of the good content like killing the phoenix dude or having Beep punch Cat-Lon in the face with the force of a thousand suns.Barricading buildings isn't even the worst exploit out there.
>>739168683I disagree entirely. I wish more games had systems like this.>do the thing to level it>you dont ding to level up and just assign points and instantly a character becomes good at something then never touched, if you want to be good at something you have to do itThe game gets around how this would normally be a problem by allowing you to control multiple characters, if you controlled one character it would be the most tedious thing imaginable, but you can just swap to another character doing something else and assign someone a job to level a certain stat.
Greenlander is the most based race, no penalties or bonuses plus they can wear all armor, shek are super ugly and rest of the races cant wear cool helmets
>>739170000little black girls tho
Skeletons are easy mode, you didn't beat the game
>>739170054You have skeletons around so you can read their cryptic comments when exploring the world.
>>739169915The game isnt "hard" anon. In this game even when you get the shit kicked out of you youre not expected to just reload the game.>build base>dont build kill box>set raids to max, and events to max>keep gate open and only close it when there is something like a mega faction raid, so I can buy time to open a wall and run out the back to escape if necessary>now you have a constant source for training combat>not enough guys to handle it?>recruit more people>youre now building an army, and need to outfit them so now your manufacturing weapons, you have a reason to wear different armours and weapons because of different characters capabilities>need more food to feed everyone so now youre recruiting people whos only job is to farm etc etcLike, if you are doing exploits and kill box stuff youre basically building a base for no real reason other than to generate money but have nothing to spend it on because youre making your own weapons, but you dont use them because you already beat raids via exploits.Just let them attack and fight, and lose, then deal with it however you see fit, like go buy mercenaries to protect you, or hire more people.
>>739170306You're getting all twisted out of shape over something you can simply choose not to do.
How's your Sentient Sands AI-powered slaver adventures going vros
>>739169970Its fun when you progress a single character, but once you add a new guy and hes all 1's, the system goes from rewarding to tedious fast.
>>739170473it was good but the same thing ended up happening that always happens.>make dude>make dude stronk>kill all the other dudes>found shem town>tire of town management>end playthroughi almost convinced armour king to ally the skeleton faction to me by enthusiastic praise of his armour everytime i stole all his shit tho. that was funny.
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>>739170481Just split them retard. Split the squad. Play them as different chars, tasks, routines, goals etc.
>>739168494>Lure retards to fight gate security>Loot dead body>Buy food>train until you become not-shitterWhat a hard game
>>739170473Do you have to buy new token regularly?
>>739170342Bent out of shape? Im trying to tell you that youre probably not getting a lot out of the game by effectively skipping past half the reason to do anything in it, you can do whatever the fuck you want, thats the whole appeal of a game like this, but saying you need to use exploits to do something meanignful is not true at all. >>739170481Well thats why I leave the doors open, so those guys can level up faster like this and be in a place where you can put them back together when they get pasted. Also just mod the game for X2 xp, or more training dummies if this stuff is tedious, training things like dexterity and strength are annoying in that you need to gimp yourself to train it so I can see why its a complaint.I like to just have a smaller crew which I take direct control of and the rest are just workers and guys who come to help fight when necessary, so those weaker units will just train as Im playing with those characters, and if you set a medic as a job someone will always go an heal them, and things like farmers and labourers are not expected to fight so I dont need to train them.
>>739170767No I just run gemma2:9b local>>739170609Yeah having a personal reputation as well as faction reputation changes is pretty nice. I wish it was more flexible and accurate than being capped to +1 for every vaguely positive interaction though. Like, if i wipe out Okran's Shield and tell Longen or Tengu or whatever it shouls result in a +25 at least
>>739170907>youre probably not getting a lot out of the game by effectively skipping past half the reason to do anything in itI didn't the first run, I didn't boot Kenshi for the first time already knowing every exploit and trick in the book, I figured all that shit out after playing the normal way once. Skipping tedium that only exists to consume dozens of hours the second, third and seventh times around is normal and there's nothing wrong with it.Wanna know what my first run was like? I spent 20 hours mining the copper vein outside the Hub manually. Believe me when I say I've experienced everything you can """gain""" out of engaging with the game's tedium.
>being so bad at games you have to cheese Kenshi out of all fucking things
>>739170980What kind of wacky stuff have you done?
>>739168685you kinda just need to get the shit beaten out of you a little bit, eventually you will either die or stop getting the shit beaten out of you. That's when the game begins.
>>739171283Nothing too crazy. The most fun thing has been having consistent backstories with every recruit and that reflecting when they do random travel banter through the radiant system.Also using it to recruit in this legendary of kenshi run, kind of naturally convincing like the former quartermaster of the Reavers to join me since Valamon is a chump and I stole his saber, or reprogramming sniperbots and watchbots I capture out in the wild.It's the fun little things that also make it. Like, my faction is based out of Mongrel, and going back and being greeted by the general shopkeeper after every expedition, asking how it went, and I drop an odd +25,000 cats or some of the finds to them to help with the fogman defenses and that gradually resulted in me getting into an alliance with Mongrel. Or wheedling out the secrets of the behemoths from skeletons in Black Desert City and World's end.
>>739171576That sounds like a lot of fun honestly. I'd love a system like that for morrowind.
>>739168494It is literally just a roleplaying game. If you can't have fun with your own mind making up scenarios, you need to accept that Kenshi, Rimworld, Mount&Blade slop isn't for you.>oh shit the holy nation captured my dude>damn they're starving him, this is brutal>that is now his backstory>he has a fiery hatred for the holy nation, but also of slavery in general>other party members only have a problem with holy nation racism, most of them see slavery as a part of life because the empire also does it>but your main guy will lash out and get in fights with samurai because he has a raging boner against slavers >entire party is forced to defend him when he aggros half the town due to his PTSD from Rebirth
>>739168685You will spend the first 3 hours in prison or slavery in most runs
>>739168494I got filtered too which sucks because I really want to get into this game and I'm usually giddy for tism games like this.
>>739168494Can we get this game but not fuck ugly?Any other setting than brown deserts, please.
>>739172052you don't need to do any of that niggerjesusstat go up, kill bigger, more riches, bigger basethe fuck is wrong with you?
>>739172260Your favorite character is Beep, isn't it? Brown retard
>>739172325NTA but for me its Crumblejon
I honestly cannot get into this game at all. I have like 500 hours in rimworld and another 300 in invisible strain and starsector and maybe like 100 in zomboid. A combination of all three games ideally would literally be kenshi to me as far as mechanics and it should be, but I can't find that breakthrough point like I do with other games, and it always comes down to the environment itself not being interactive I guess. Idk maybe I should force myself to play it for a weekend or concede forever and admit I have bad taste.
It's one of those good setting bad gameplay games
>>739172370The game is jank, but consider this. Imagine mastering the janks and turning it around to your advantage, to your pleasure, your own sandbox playground. Master the janks, and the world is yours.
>>739172258deserts are kino thoughforest and deserts = kinoicelands = lame
>>739172370It's a very raw game, it's not like rimworld or starsector ironically, it works more like an RTS.
>managed to get knocked out while clearing out deadhive overrun and dragged onto a feeding pole next to two paladins and a half-eaten starving bandit >fugmen are distracted getting to work eating one of the paladins, use that time to have my men start sneakily unlocking themselves>fuckers on his last arm screaming his head off begging for the phoenix lord to save him by the time beep gets around to finally picking his lock open>all three of us simultaneously hop off our poles and start bringing the fugmen down>heavies in repurposed paladin gear with decent combat stats, thankfully wounded from our previous battle so they go down easier this time>first paladin bled out during the fight from limb trauma, second still up on the pole witnessing this shit go down>gang of freaks and an escaped foid from rebirth, understandably, the holy nation has fucking hated us>decide to take a chance on the last paladin out of a mix of pity and respect for fighting a common enemy and bring my medic in to free him>he reluctantly thanks us and we part ways amicablykino
>>739172457I don't mind the gameplay since i very much enjoy rtwp and the setting is nice but I can't put a finger on it, something about the game just does not stick with me and it kind of pisses me off.
>>739172825It takes ages to get to anything interesting, and the game isn't big on giving you pointers on where to find the cool stuff, so it takes even longer. There's just you and a barren wasteland, I recommend going to see Cat-Lon, look up where he is if you have to, but get there without any other spoilers.
>>739168685>I try to leave and just get mogged by 25 starving bandits.Keep doing that, you'll eventually get strong enough that it'll take 50 of them.Any time they kick you down, click to move and get up, it will make you get stronger faster.Once you start beating them, carry their loot and corpses to get stronger and hit harder.Once you're strong and resilient, leave your weapons behind and fight them with your fists, you will get faster.Once you are strong, fast, and hard to stop, pick up a hacker sword, and start learning to use it, eventually, you will cleave through whole groups of starving bandits in a single swing.Also bring a m8 to camp outside the area with all the starving bandits so they can heal you when you get put in a critical state.
I like to bring characters I liked from previous playthroughs to the next playthrough via cheats to just give them the stats and equipment they had and have them mill around the towns I make, I give each of them an apprentice whos only job is to follow them and use whatever weapon they use to train it with a master and carry their shit so they dont have to wear backpacks that gimp their stats. I want to get a hiver in the group this playthrough but none have really proven themselves or done anything notable, yet. yes, this is incredibly autistic, Im aware, this is my enjoyment of starting different runs of the game when I come back to it.I hope Kenshi 2 is more moddable, Id like to see overhauls of different settings. I make my own fun, just give me the tools.
>>739168685>I have like 7 people recruitedNo wonder you're getting filtered. Play the game for 250 hours with 1 or 2 characters and learn the mechanics of the game before adding any more characters. If you're building your own base under 300 hours in, you're doing it wrong.
>>739173853>250 hours to learn the mechanicsgood advice but you wildly overestimated this part
>>739173923It's an exaggeration but you know I'm right. The biggest causes of people getting filtered by this game are>took retarded advice to mine iron for money (lmao)>biting off more than you can chew with no experience at the game (juggling multiple characters)
>>739172370>PicDoes that game even exist? Feels like another cubeworld situation
>>739173067You're nowhere near as autistic as the guy role playing an entire town in Terraria.
>>739172370For anyone struggling I always recommend just picking a major faction for that playthrough like Holy Nation, Shek or United Cities and siding with them, and taking on all their enemies even to your detriment. It gives you a goal to push for and a looming threat to your base if you build one, so you are more inclined to live out of a town. Like if you play as HN only take humans, and fight every skeleton or shek you see etc, only wear HN armours and take prisoners to the prison colony even though it has no in game value beyond rep, youre playing as the Holy Nation so this is just what you do and emergent gameplay just comes out of doing all this.
>>739173982>juggling multiple characterSame reason people get filtered by RimWorld
>"you're gonna love being a slave..."How would you react?
>>739175004To be fair, I have like 800 hours in Rimworld and I still prefer small colonies of no more than 3-5 pawns.
>>739175109I'll never understand how people can play tribal without getting bored and deleting the game, pawn spam is just so fucking lame.
>>739175196I play tribal but with tech level advancement and low number of pawns. In fact, it's the only way I've ever played Rimworld. I've never built the shuttle. I've never escaped the world. I don't see the reason to.
>>739175257I'd rather do naked brutality
>>739175631I did that once in extreme desert, was pretty comfy. I've never done ice cap though, I'm not that masochistic.
>>739168685>Get mogged by 25 starving banditsBut that's a good thing? They all use blunt so you wont die and your toughness/defense goes up. Keep doing that and eventually you'll be stronk, also stealing shit from higher level stores is an insanely large power boost.If you wanna buy stuff just go loot in Bast if you're neutral to both Holy Nation and UC. It prints money, I've started there limbless and solo while doing fine.If you really want the easiest of easy modes, play a Skeleton and go to the fog islands after you get your hands on a repair kit. Fight Fogmen day and night to become a god in no time. Once Fogmen become too easy move onto Cannibals. Given I do this even as fleshies but it's because I know how to farm enemies safely even if they're flesh eaters.
>>739175008These dweebs have saved me more than they hurt me while I was a newbie to the game. You can usually rely on them to save you when you're slowly bleeding out solo on the dunes. Then they usually die while carrying you back to the slavers due to the giant rape bug nests everywhere.
>start at hub>get assraped by the weakest fuck>manage to lure every patrol inside so guards kill them>manage to persevere and put a small settlement outside>level my niggas and now they're in the 20s in combat skills>still getting raped by almost everyonegame is fun
>>739177183Consider yourself worthless until skills are at minimum in the high 30s to 40s.
>>739177269>>739177183good weapons/gear will make up for your shit stats, you need advance research for the best weapons but not for armor, so high level armorsmith is all you need to craft masterwork gear
>>739168685>I have like 7 people recruitedCan you feed them all? You may have overextended a bit. Not an uncommon or unfixable situation.>all at starting locationDa Hub, maybe Squin. This is as easy as the game gets, everywhere else is more hostile. There's a shack with free beds and stuff to take in the middle of the Hub, owned by nobody.>I try to leave and just get mogged by 25 starving bandits. How do they catch you? They're malnourished, slow, and carry sticks, terrible sticks. They have no armor at all. If you never fight them you'll never get good at fighting. Run to the bar if there's too many.>I don't even know where to go because I have 2 hive niggas and the rest are big boob shek girls Those girls will eat you out of house and home, might be part of the problem. Have them sit when they're idle and they'll consume less food. There's plenty of places to sit in the Hub and Squin.>I just know if I travel and try to enter a town they'll attack me because racism or somethingIf you go north to Holy Nation territory they absolutely will bar you from entering their cities if you don't have a male greenlander or scorchlander with you. If you're human HN territory is very safe. Going south leads to the Swamp, which is like Blight Town and not safe for fresh recruits. West leads you further into Shek territory which contains a variety of bandits and skin spiders, the spiders will eat who they kill. East leads to either the Deadlands (acid rain) or Venge (sky lasers during the day). Doctor's prescription: save up 10k and join the Shinobi in the Hub, get your guys trained up. 10k gets you training, beds, a good trader, and allies for life. Their backpacks are very good. Hire a white man and go north through HN territory, way north to a place called Bast. There you will participate in battlefield salvage and sell to a place called Drin. Do not talk to any Samurai there, just conduct your business and go. Do not pick a fight, watch out for cannibals.
>>739170306>when you get the shit kicked out of you youre not expected to just reload the game.THIShonestly when i realized this is was definitely when the game clicked for me
Kenshi is way too sandboxy. If I don't set arbitrary limits on myself everything is braindead easy.
>>739178227Theres plenty of mods to make it harder and try fiddling with the options in the base game around damage, nest count and raid sizes.Shit, one of the goofiest and most fun runs Ive done is turning all damage up.>anyone who isnt skilled gets hit once>either starts bleeding out and falls over, or a limb goes flying off>armour is important if you can wear it>skilled fighters can take out multiple enemies in a few seconds, so can youWas actually pretty fun.
>>739170646>faggot following me around>go to rob people's house at night>faggot still following me>the house owner noticed because he is not nearly as good as I am at sneaking>got his faggot ass beaten by the guards and put in the slammerDeserved.
>>739177183Go 1v1 some beak things to roid out your stats. Just draw them off from their groups one by one by clicking on them and running away at max distance. If you're worried about screwing up and getting ate, do it near a hive village or slave camp in case you pull too many.Beak things are honestly a cheat code for power.
>>739168494Kenshi is a boring sandbox with no actual content
>>739168494Just be Human.Easy.
>>739179717This, all you do is fight people with swords and crossbows, it doesn’t even have gay butt dildo mechanics.
>>739179717works on my machine
>>739168683I just think that there needs to be more easy to kill low level enemies, or just less of them. I know you can adjust spawn rates but stillA band of even 20 starters or weak cannibals is too hard for a couple of low level characters, and hiding by the town guard for something to stumble and maybe get one or two hits in isn't terrific.
>>739179814AAAAHHHHH GET THE FUCK OUT GET OUT GET OUT I DONT CARE FOR YOUR FUCKING PRAYER DAY GET OOOOOOOUUUUTTT!!!
>>739170000>>739170037Greenlander men and Scorchlander women
>growing from one greenlander to a raider gang to an outpost to a small town to a small economy to a group of fighters to an army to a legionMy playthroughs just end up snowballing into one then multiple giant hordes. I'd go from town to town, hiring every recruit and freeing every slave. Eventually I stopped keeping up with equipping them and would send my swarm through Holy Nation territory into UC. Unarmed slaves running through the streets and stealing shit while my fighters lay waste to the guards. Putting Tengu in a peeler overlooking the city as my soldiers razed it was kino.
>>739168494How ? I managed to survive with nothing at start.Literally go to hub or near it... bait bandits on you go into hub pub they fuck them up then look the bandits and sell their gear.
>>739182449*loot
