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Chose a real screenshot instead of the AI sloppa. Suppose these days the sloppa looks almost like the real thing. Soon it will be impossible to tell the real screenshots from the sloppa.

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1st for GALLONS of grog

>Amazing graphics will little effort
Optimizing UE5 is one of the most challenging aspects of the engine. Getting it wrong has destroyed games and their reputation.
>Better performance
Out of the box some of the worst performance. Plenty of examples and delusion defending it - Borderlands 4. Yes, it is because of Epic's poor rendering libraries,. You can't fix that.
>Less work for us long-term, as we don't have to worry about engine bugs and features. We can focus more on gameplay.
You, with a much larger consistent team, have already exceeded the pessimistic minimum projection of six years. Also, you now have to worry about engine bugs even more so, because you have no recourse or solutions to them and are forced to work around them.
>Fancy features, like maybe cloth physics for example
Out of a box of many potential features, you chose hardware bloat.
>Better stability probably?
So this was a guess? You didn't mock up a test model or stress test? Did you put any forethought into this big change?
>New pathfinding system
Borrowed for the Unreal ecosystem, likely had to be rewritten, no different than the trouble you encountered with your first go at navmeshing and pathfinding. Not easy, is it? Doesn't just work, does it?

>More work for us short-term, porting is a huge job
Nobody asked you to port the game. We asked you to fix the game as it was. False dichotomy.
>We have less control over the engine
No control. UE4->UE5 happened mid development. Libraries are managed by Epic. That pathfinding library wasn't yours either.
>Modding support will be more complicated,
Quite right. Complicated enough to have no news on how that's going.
>Kenshi 1 update now uncertain:
>Here's the kicker: Porting Kenshi 1 to Unreal engine is now way more work than making Kenshi 2,
So don't worry about it. Make your shitty sequel and get back to allocating resources into maintaining the successful first game.

Kenshi 2 was and still is a mistake.

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>>544400172
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/233860/view/1599265246183370950

Thank goodness they brought in a publishing director to act as a laxative to force this heap of wasted money into the world. Nice to know Chris threw it all away to surround himself with diversity hires to keep his sister happy. Daddy's company now.

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las screenshot taken from my now dead shek main girl

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>>544412476
What killed her?

>>544412640
she went to challenge the bugmaster on her own and didn't make it
got attacked by a swarm of skin spiders when she was swimming across a pond to reach his lair on the other side

>>544400172
thanks for the insight. im a tourist that's been curious to try this game. i guess ill just pirate it.

>>544415506
You misunderstand the word. You are just curious about the game, nothing beyond that. But yeah - don't give Chris your shekels.

>>544396919
Is there any mod that adds gacha characters?

So that I may hunt them down, enslave, sell, torture and bully them?

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>>544416671
>gacha characters
There must be some.

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>>544415506
To be clear. The first game is a great autism tickler. LoFi (Chris and his domineering little sister) have snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. They didn't have to do anything and instead they chose to do the dumbest possible thing - sign up for another round of vaporware. Go enjoy Kenshi 1 - pretend Kenshi 2 isn't a thing.

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>>544396919
Mods to try.

>try to trick or treat on the moon
>get shot with crossbows and stabbed

What's the best way to train my crabs into absolute pincer menaces

>>544441382
I let animals sit outside the outpost gate and act as a meatwall to train toughness while people pepper everything with crossbows from above

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Remade low poly version. Also adding some clothes

>>544426738
>Go enjoy Kenshi 1 - pretend Kenshi 2 isn't a thing.
That’s the thing: you don’t have to pretend!

>>544456338
The Holy Nation was right about the robots all along!

>>544441382
For cheese training, beak thing beds are good for attack, locking pets to fogmen poles will skyrocket their toughness, just don't let them die.

Having an old video card sure is fun.

>>544483702
A skeleton lies. How surprising.

>>544396919
Nice fashion

>>544441382
>>544460293
I thought animal stats worked in some weird way that made training pointless.

>>544506082
Not quite.

https://youtu.be/IjegAGZUSBk?si=GB23_QzdZGbI12zw

As your animal grows up, its stats get buffed.
For example Bonedog pups have a 0.40x multiplier on their stats.
Elder ones get 1.10x.

Don't sleep in the desert.

>>544496510
the skin bandits would be nastier if they were covered in flies and maggots all the time and the buzzing could be heard from far away

>>544530003
Yes

>>544496510
>bro, it’s like…..human skin? It keeps out the bad mojo or something idk bro like peeling people alive to wear them is just good vibe dudes :^)
How exactly is anyone suppose to trust skeletons when they’re retarded enough to believe this, unironically? The Holy Phoenix (pbuh) is completely correct.

>>544537045
The skin bandits are transracial like Rachel Dolezal basically. They probably hate their circuits and are full of racial hatred against their own races actions. They probably wish to have real feelings and human weaknesses. Savant is charismatic & a outlet for them. The tech bros irl are transrobots, they want to shed their human skin & needs/aging for immortality and robot brains & subservient loyal ai anime waifus to the extent that they are willing to exploit other humans/the world for their goals. So basically skeleton bandits, loyal only to the dream of posthuman supremacy.

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The thirty skeleton dream is nearly complete, including two P4 units. The last slot was supposed to be filled by a guy I did the "KO->leave for slavers->purchase->profit", which worked on the P4s, but something odd happened instead.
I dropped the bot off at Eyesocket, and he didn't come up for purchase. This happens sometimes, say layvee and lazy fair and other french phrases. So I opted to spring him, which he objected to like a big pussy. He kept getting back in his cage, so I picked him up to scurry away and as I did a slaver shoved a grass pirate in the now empty cage. I realized every cage in eyesocket was now full of grass pirates and hungry bandits, so he had no target cage to return to. I left without incident, I was lazily pursued for a short time before they turned back, no hit to faction rep. I dragged his ass all the way back home and now he just stands there, wherever I put him, wearing whatever I give him, his skeleton brain caught in a loop of trying to return to an occupied cage. It's very immersive.
What do I do with this guy? I know he won't sign on, he's basically a mannequin or dummy guard I can carry for strength training. Poor guy's just going to stand in one spot until the world rots away, trapped in the cage in his CPU. I kinda feel bad since I'm the one that inflicted the trauma that made him short circuit.

>>544539390
Anon. Skeletons, who have an AI core embedded within them, are past humans. That emotional emulation line wasn't written as a mere hint. Those are dead people, walking around, with their former personalities used as foundations for Skeletons. Why does AI seem like us? It is us - abstracted and transcribed onto metal. First mechanical organs. Then comes the brain chip. (You are here). Lastly comes augmentation - the wedding of the human mind with the digital circuit. The Skin Bandits are acting out an ancient dream of being humans, but their memories are fabricated and emerge from the superimposition of "real" lived experience.

>High Inquisitor Seta related: The Holy Lord Phoenix sent for me, so we set out until I reached such-and-such a place, and He traced a line for me and told me: Stay between the two edges of this - don't go outside of it; if you go outside of it, it's over for you. Seta said: And so I stayed there. Then the Holy Lord Phoenix went off a stone's throw away or a little farther. Then he (the narrator) mentioned a group of female members who looked like Shek people, as 'Seta said Okran willing, with no clothes on (but I did not see their genitals), tall and curvy. And they came and started to ride the Holy Lord Phoenix, and the Phoenix began to recite to them. And they started to move closer and lean around me, and get in my way, and I become intensely terrified of them, so I sat down. And when the morning light broke, they began to go away. Then the Holy Lord Phoenix came back exhausted and in pain, or practically in pain, from how they had ridden him; He said: Indeed I am exhausted. Then the Holy Lord Phoenix put his head in my lap. And the curvy ones came with Leather Shirts [shoddy grade] on, but the Holy Lord Phoenix had fallen asleep. And I became more intensely terrified of them than I was the first time.

I did not ask for these horrors beyond my comprehension.

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>>544496510
>"They need a constant supply of skin as it tends to rot quickly"
Thatma FUCKING retarded, Tanning the leather would suffice, they could simply explain it by the acidic rains which are common in Sonorous Dark
That's the kind of lazy writing i fucking DESPISE.

>>544550698
wtf is that actually someones face that guy is wearing?

>the island of Kenshi has no soups
Chris, you retard! The technobarbarians of Kenshi would mostly eat that - because it's easy to make! And the UC would have several variations of miso soup!

>>544550698
You assume the ex-sex-bots know all of this.

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>>544550698
Idk, i think they would be called leather bandits at that point, i doubt they would want tanned human leather skin suits. they want fleshy stuff

>>544572027
Go to the shame corner.

>>544556840
it's possible

>>544568304
this

>no ice cream on Kenshi
Hellish place.

Quiet time on /keng/

Very quiet time.

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Best ironman run I had.
Died KINO

>>544556840
There's a video of some executioner from a cartel peeling the face of some poor devil. And they made a younger cartel member wear It, he was clearly digusted by it.

Crabs!

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"Okay boomer" is now considered offensive lol. Platforms are just garbage.

Storytime.
Two of my skeletons were pursued into the Deadlands by rebels, who slowly melted away during the scuffle that ensued. As I was patching up post combat I spied a caravan of Greyflayers who must have wandered in from the Grey Desert, and one of them had a 2k bounty and was sizzling like fajita meat at the end of the line. I snagged him and ran off to Stoat to get my cats, stopping at the waystation to check the bar and rifle through his pockets. Bloodrum and hash, I thought the backpacks were for show. I confiscated his contraband and stashed it next to mine before I turned him in, but it gave me an idea.
Is it wise to prey on these guys? Part of the profit problem with hash is the time spent growing and refining it, this lets me skip all that and go straight to finished product.

>>544649132
Yeah, they guys carry a ton of hashish and blood rum, you can get very wealthy immediately from just ko'ing these guys with very little consequences via assassination. Alot of games i entirely avoid the swamps unless i want to actually do the hashish farming route through the hounds/greyflayers etc. Still very little consequences and they are only present in the grey desert region, stonerats usually end up hostile anyway in normal swamp playthroughs.

Same goes for the traders guild & western hive caravan garru. When they are downed by skimmers you can instakill the garru by taking their death items and take the entire backpacks of valuable rations and skeleton repair kits with no faction rep decrease usually & they wont even attack you/might turn occasionally hostile though but this is only temporary.

>>544648701
Matter of time before games get policed off of Steam and other such platforms. By the time Kenshi comes out in the UK you probably won't be allowed to depict gore (amputation) and slavery (implicit racism). I could see LoFi being forced to self-censor or face fines.

>>544648701
Would you please think about all those Steam users older than 29?

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>>544658038
Theres nothing wrong with being older than 29, is "okay boomer" really offensive/hurtful? Should the Steve Buscemi meme be banned?, should saying someone is old be offensive or warnable or saying someone acts childish or like their 12? Ppl saying "okay boomer" probably isnt implying very much or actually trying to deeply offend someone. Theres alot worse acceptable language commonly used on platforms including steam

>>544662183
>Should the Steve Buscemi meme be banned?
Why? He is literally me!

>>544653183
Aw man, I could have grabbed it all. Good to know, thanks. Seems exploit-y but hey, that's part of the charm of the game. I was surprised to see them there at all since there's exactly one guy in Black Desert City who can even do drugs, and he's on the lam.
>>544648701
I try to avoid mocking others for their age or being bald because that has a way of coming back around. I'm in my 30s and find no offense in the phrase, but I don't use the forums.
>>544662183
>Should the Steve Buscemi meme be banned?
He's kinda funny lookin'. He'd fit right in to Kenshi.

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>>544662183
>Theres nothing wrong with being older than 29
OK boomer

>>544663818
>He's kinda funny lookin'.
and on Kenshi he would be only 15!

>>544663394
yep, im a fan too

>>544663818
>>544664075
If someone was complaining about the word "glizzy" for hotdogs, zoomers or millenials eating avocado toast etc, it would be perfectly acceptable to reply "okay boomer" I dont see it as especially meanspirited really, it just means the same thing as the buscemi meme.

>>544656103
Kenshi content could easily be flagged as offensive despite being fictional. Anything could just potentially mirror real world ideologies whether it really was a inspiration or not, or events in some way, not hard to do with a little bit of determination. Ppl regulating stuff usually just wouldnt even understand narrative writing or the storytelling context of it. Similarly, Do we need totalitarian/fascist authoritarian dictator monsters like Darth Vader, Cat-lon or Kylo Ren to have diversity racial hires in his stormtrooper army? theres stormtroopers in the ashlands too btw. Disney’s addition of diverse stormtroopers, while yes plausible of course softens the fascist origins of the trope, originally modeled on Nazi Sturmtruppen in star wars specifically. It risks sanitizing the bad guys brutality/could apply this to cat-lon or any slightly grey area bad person. Meanwhile, the Rebellion’s destruction of the Death Star killed countless conscripts and non-combatants which correlates with the player in kenshi taking down the uc and causing ppl to starve or cannibals to start wandering the area. Any of this could be construed into being offensive or too violent or resembling rl stuff.

>>544667570
>Star Wars
Bad example. The empire are the forces of good. The rebellion, the Jedi and the backwards ways of the Jedi council were overthrown because it required the oppression of force users by force users to impose its rules. Anakin was right, much the same as Cat-Lon. Rebels destroy. Empires build.

I hate being old.

>>544670558
Revolutions always sound romantic until the aftermath. The idealists & youth get wiped out by design of course, their futures buried with them. WHich is by design. What’s left is a messed up population nursing trauma/ptsd & addiction & a new pos leader just as compromised as the last one. You fight for change & somehow still end up with a soft palmed bureaucratic barnacle in charge.

>>544674935
I just noticed lately that 18 yrs olds are starting to look like 10 yr olds to me now, so i too must be getting old i guess.

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>>544670558

Shem's so cool...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biGJ_5t30Lk

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Decided to start basing in Shun at the very start of the game. It works great as you don't have to deal with taxes and bandits. Just roaming bands of stragglers.

In this case, went with all robots to make a self-sustaining base. Upside of this place is that its great for ore, copper and stone but shit when it comes to plants. So pure industry it is.

>>544664075
>those perfect teeth
My immersion is broken.

There needs to be a farming/ranching mod.
Wandering traders need to have money.
You should be able to make money by having livestock.
Livestock should also breed once a month and give you free livestock if you have both male and female animals.
Riding animals should also be a thing.

>>544681186
Settling at the border of the swamp allows you grow riceweed.

I love Shem

Imagine cuming inside Ruka, repeatedly, until she is pregnant.

>>544705789
>triangle bandit
Castrate him!

I don't care about Okran, Narko, or Kral.
Me and the boys worship triangles.

>>544431937
rolling

>>544714281
>incel
>bros b4 hoes
>ethnostate
so what's the rule on "attack when feasible"? when i think i'll survive? when it's possible to win? not a friendly faction?

>>544714564
Listen to your 'tism.

>>544717515
tell me what yours says

>>544717781
Chris hates tomatoes...

>>544718794
ask it about "attack when feasible" >>544714564
otherwise, tomatoes for a week

>>544718958
Murder hobo is a classic for a reason.

>>544720608
are you really autistic? your response is neither precise nor coherent. you're a fake

>>544721891
>precise
>coherent
the fuck do you think 'tism is?

beep

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The things I do to improve stats.

>>544400172
Knowing this shit is on UE5 basically evaporates 90% of the hype for the game I had.
As much as people shit on TI, he's absolutely correct the engine is completely fucked at a core level because it's designed largely for film before gaming.
If they were on UE4, I would be fine with it, but UE5 is honestly the most performance heavy engine out there and doesn't seem particularly well optimised for gaming.

>>544749628
>If they were on UE4, I would be fine with it
Yep. The UE5 transition was like watching some motor oil get poured into the punch bowl. Unity might've been a better option given where things stands. Whatever though, it's a messy landscape for everyone and there's tradeoffs no matter what you go with.

>>544734052
Why bother? Stats grow on their own.

after 100 days of surviving they bounty hunting and then losing half my squad in such endeavour i'm ready to settle down
the place is the highest hill on the border zone.
it offers a relatively plain terrain, it's safe from dust storms and there is abundante iron resources but nothing else.
i hope to mount a mining camp with my two surviving shek women, then we will start a stone mine, build a generator and a stormhouse.
oh and black dragon ninja attacked once and their swords were sold at the rebel base for some nearly 5000 cats

Man. The year is almost over.

>>544632315
>ironman run
do you mean going to face Catlon at the very start of the game or something?

>>544784025
It [probably] means no reloading after death or save scumming

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>>544787368
The best (and arguably, the only good) creation of Skeleton-kind.

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>Be Greedy Gate Guard
>Harass a robot for extra 2k... for respect of course
>Pays it. Sic the entire police force on em anyway. Not like they can do anything.
>Robot lures the entire police force into the crater.
>They get butchered and scattered by the sheer number of beak things.
>Robot targets me especially with a springbat
>Knocked out
>Left alive, but without armor and gear.
>Have to return to Clownsteady with most of the force dead.
>Back to my normal job... just without the gear or the help and a ton of injuries.
>All because I decided to be a corrupt bastard that day.

>>544796664
>>544787368
if they aren't property - why are they property-shaped?

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Damn Boners. Can't stop raiding my place. So fed them all to the Peeler.

>>544811053
The design of the peeler makes no sense.

>>544741594
Why would skeletons sit? They don't get tired.

>>544813874
Considering Kenshi's limitations with animation, I don't there was much else Chris could come up with, that's the least awkward design that tries its best to show someone getting peeled.

>Have a mod that adds some skeleton radio stations
>In shape of NPCs that sit around in bars and spout some lines
>Enter Black Scratch
>There are skin bandits in the bar
>Trade with the bar keeper

Imagine my surprise when the guy wearing human skin starts behaving erratically and demands my skin.

>Fight brakes out
>Defend myself
>Alarm raised
>Tech hunters start beating me

What a bunch cunts.

>>544819164
>Kenshi's limitations
Chris' incompetence you mean.

>>544667570
>Do we need totalitarian/fascist authoritarian dictator monsters like Darth Vader, Cat-lon or Kylo Ren to have diversity racial hires in his stormtrooper army?
Check some funny telegram groups. The more spicy they are - the more diverse the Austrian painter's fans are. It's weird, but they are all united, in racism.

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>>544826943
As is expected. If you're given the ability to lay out the case against Skeletons, without censorship or punishment, people tend to align to the new reality. It's alright to hate each other, but the Skeletons are uniquely to blame for their actions and deserve a special kind of enmity. No particular reason to forgive the destroyer of civilization.

>>544826943
Is it racism if your just pointing out the circumstances?

Can Jonathan Frakes survive Kenshi? Can Kenshi survive Jonathan Frakes?

so what exactly do you DO in this game?
might buy it but the gameplay videos I watched look super duper boring for the first few hours with him just collecting garbage from hungry bandits, mining, then selling crap at the bar. what's the mid game look like? what's the part that's fun for you?

>>544836671
It's a sandbox. What you're witnessing a a weak player faction start. You can make yourself a super kung fu butt kicking badass with max stats, run around in your dead master's cloth and kill nobles for shits and giggles. Nothing explicitly obligates you to abide by the early game loop. Browse the workshop,. try out some mods, see what appeals to you.

It's a decent romp on discount. You can do worse things with your money.

>>544838492
I dont mind a slow start, I just want to know what happens right after. what is the gameplay loop or the goals you can accomplish in this sandbox, I cant really tell what you can do in this game.

>>544837081
2spooky4me

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Combat stats are stored in the tits.

>>544819405
I see this problem still persists. Odd - the modder said he'll fix the issue. That was a year ago or so.