d99959 No.14406138
Kenshi update is out on the experimental branch.
>what is Kenshi?
A squad-based RPG with buildable settlements, robot skeletons, and a ridiculously large non-procedural map where nobody cares about you and you'll probably starve to death in the desert or get your legs eaten by frogmen. Aesthetically it's somewhere between Desert Punk, Morrowind and feudal Japan. It also has some pretty great lore if you're into that sort of thing.
New features
>when limbs drop below -100, they become amputated
>you can replace them with robot limbs as prosthetics
>dogs will pick up, carry around, and eat severed limbs
>crossbows added, they can friendly fire
>there are crossbow shops now
>perception and precision stats added for crossbow use
>crossbow crafting skill added
>lockpicking is now its own skill, thievery will level faster to compensate
>blood effects on people and on the ground, people crawling and bleeding will leave behind "slug trails" of blood
>they merged that item icon mod into the main game
>new facial hair and shit, new Hiver models
>can sneak around on the ground while playing dead
>tent blueprints for cozy innadesert camping and also protection from acid rain
>bandits will eat your dog
>fog islands now have tons of resources, you should move your base there, it's a really nice place to live
>more xp from fighting while outnumbered
>chance of death from combat is generally higher because not enough people were dying
>campfire will be worked automatically
>idle people in your settlement will find a chair and sit there, now you don't have to assign them a sit task at the end of their work queue for your comfy cornerclub to be populated
>armor and weapons are a quarter of the price they were before, because everyone was just stealing shit and nobody bought anything
>trade profits rebalanced, distance between towns matters more now
>a shitload of other tweaks
>some bugfixes
Magnet link (current stable version, unstable with new features isn't on TPB yet): magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a61bbb02ef47d4f306051e59cec69a0b713640a2&dn=Kenshi.v0.97.6-GOG&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969
>why is there a general?
We had them before, and now there's a big update.
>What's still missing that makes it early access?
The bottom right quarter of the map and maybe some luxury features. But given that they said that amputation and crossbows wouldn't even make it into the game until long after release if at all, it looks pretty close to done.
4b310d No.14406205
I know you're lurking dollanon
your fetish is still shit
e81384 No.14406264
>>14406138
Oh neat it's this thread again. Does anyone have any stories of their gameplay?
>everyone was just stealing shit and nobody bought anything
I usually make my own brand of weapons and armors and sell whatever that town pays me extra for that isn't Building Materials
>Animal skins are worth 8x more and give 4x more leather
Oh thank god I don't need to conserve or hunt as much for leather anymore.
So does the game still run bad and have memory loss out the ass?
18a911 No.14406336
>>14406138
How optimized is this game now?
6a7432 No.14406430
d99959 No.14406482
>>14406264
Weapons sell for less, although it's not a 75% reduction. It'll be harder to get rich, though.
It still runs like ass for me, but I'm using a first-gen i7 and the game has always been CPU bound. I'm running into a different issue right now though, clothing models are all artifacting pretty badly regardless of what my graphics settings are.
We'll probably see a proper optimization patch along with or after the final map release.
>stories
My last game, I had just watched Seven Samurai, so I took the start that gives you five guys but no cash, scraped together funds, hired two more, and wandered the desert in search of justice. I named them all after the samurai in the movie and gave them poses and weapons to match. Because they clearly needed a village to defend, I eventually hired a bunch more peasants, put them in a peasant squad, and set up an outpost in the blue sand area east of the Great Desert. Incidentally, that area is also infested with Beak Things, who did an excellent job of regularly killing off tax collectors who tried to visit me. I didn't make much money out there, but it was self-sufficient and I got it to grow pretty big. With constant attacks from the wildlife, my original peasants were all at 40 or so toughness by the time I decided to abandon the town and move into the Great Desert. I had also ended up with so many peasants that it took multiple squads to manage them - crafters went in peasants, farmers had their own squad, and I had a bunch of "freed" slaves that I made keep their shackles on. They worked the mines and refineries and did all the hauling. I also gathered a couple of skeletons to use as monks and set up a robodojo.
I should actually revert to the last version and take some pictures of the town I had. It wasn't finished, I wanted all the peasants to have small houses and the slaves to live in metal shacks, and there was a shop and a bar. I used the dev menu to redirect a nearby road into town, so I had a fair number of slavers, bandits, caravans, and armies wandering through and buying rum at the bar or attacking me. The town didn't actually have any iron, so I set up a slave camp just outside but close enough that it was counted as part of the main settlement, posted some guards outside and made slaves mine and refine iron, then would manually use a runner to ferry the plates into town. Even got it looking nice and squalid, that's the 4th pic in the OP.
There were a few adventures, mainly revolving around theft. I had a glorious final stand on a massive bridge deep into cannibal territory, where Shek bandits with massive swords kept swarming my squad. A few people would sleep to heal while the others defended them. Occasionally some weak cannibals would sweep through or bonedogs would attack. It took two days to slowly retreat across the bridge to the lab we were there for in the first place. I had Kikuchiyo sneak in and promptly discovered why it was referred to on the map as "Suspicious Lab". We got out fast.
There was also that time Kikuchiyo ended up being followed and constantly guarded by several dozen ancient skeletons whose programming was bugged. Tried to use them as meat shields for an open attack on the Free Empire armory, but sadly it didn't work out. I retrieved a few that weren't killed and tried to use the prisoner recruitment mod so I could get more robomonks, but that didn't work either, so I had them hang around my settlement until we abandoned it. I locked them in cages to sit there forever until a new master comes along.
d99959 No.14406489
>>14406482
Forgot pic of the broken skeletons.
6a7432 No.14407805
Oda Nobunigga shall rise again!
Does anybody know if martial arts/blunt weapons can dismember?
fcddd7 No.14408404
>>14406205
Did I really make that much of an impression? Huh.
Still not my fetish though, I just enjoy despair, and a race of frail, pathetic machines designed for a utopian society now forced to dwell in the dirt with barbarous savages, unable to remember the people and nation they were once so devoted to, fits this for me. If that's still not to your taste though there are always the Turkish deep ones and cannibal gourd people that I have also developed but people seem to like a lot less, probably because they are not pretty.
6a7432 No.14409065
>>14408404
Maybe he's confusing you with me. I kept saying how I wanted to shatter their porcelain crotchplates with my dick.
Still do.
Are your gourd people a serious race? They always seemed like a joke to me. The proportions looked kinda goofy, even for being 'gourds'.
fcddd7 No.14409227
>>14409065
Well the proportions are kind of silly and they have odd accents but I promise I have taken them 100% seriously despite their oddness. The gourdmen have unique lore, various factions, unique gameplay mechanics like balancing tribal allegiances, and can be killed and their inner juices consumed for nourishment.
064d39 No.14409258
>open world
>indie shit
>survival crafting
>early access
Why is this shit even allowed here?:^}
238978 No.14409320
50a709 No.14409323
Glad they finally have more of the map playable. What's all over there on the upper right corner?
6a7432 No.14409337
>>14409323
I'd like to know, too. I started in a destroyed town around there and immediately hauled ass over to Holy Nation territory because I didn't want my puppy to get eaten by bandits.
fcddd7 No.14409348
>>14409323
United Cities territory. Everything is corrupt and oppressive and bribery is the only way to get things done.
635555 No.14409369
>>14409323
Large desert and United Cities territory.
>>14409320
Not exactly, but very close.
Especially when you get to Obedience territory for first time.
65c2b6 No.14409425
does the fucking torrent actually finish this time?
d8d8fc No.14409919
I was just about to make a thead for this, mostly to beg for mods which aren't really in anyplace but the steam workshop.
so I bought it on steam as well but now also have a gog installer I can upload.
gog doesn't seem to have beta shit though
d99959 No.14409949
Patched dropped today that fixes crashes, bugs, and missing icons.
>>14409323
Lots of desert, lots of UC territory, some chokepoints held by the Holy Nation, a wasteland with a bunch of bandits and a bandit fort, some nasty acid rain areas with nice loot, a Skeleton city, massive chunks of a broken spaceship, fossilized (or metal) tentacles the size of an entire town
>>14409320
Kinda, but fairly low-tech in the sense that you can build diesel generators and make biofuel for them but everyone fights with swords, clubs, and now crossbows.
Some people say that the game is post-apocalyptic. The dev says it isn't. In reality, there have been at least two apocalypses, possibly three.
d8d8fc No.14409969
Oh yeah my squads.
Made a guy with a dog who rolled the name Blacksheep. Which seemed fitting because I am doing a martial arts playthrough. Started in the area between the holy nation and the united cities, got my asskicked and almost died. I had to carry my puppy and he was getting worse, and I was about to crit again.
I saw a squad of holy nation troops run into some United cities samurai, then some more bonedogs joined. I waited and just before I was about to pass out I was able to get a med kit. I had to sit around for a day until my pup healed though.
I made my way through some UC territory but didn't find much to do, picked up Rane the Giant, got beep and some shyke chick from the Mogrel, then had to save them from fogmen, watched as my now adult dog outright kills bandits and hives who have no or shitty armor.
Its going well.
>>14409949
I think the holy nation might be on to something.
the other ""moon" in the sky looks pretty green
6a7432 No.14410098
>>14409969
Another man punching his way through the wastes with a loyal hound at his side? Good.
I just picked up another bonedog that I named Supaiku to accompany my first dog Kira, myself.
e81384 No.14410108
>>14410098
How does one go about taming animals anyway? I never bothered to learn since I would just haul all my goods on everyone to build up their strength.
d99959 No.14410131
>>14410108
I don't think you can tame animals, you can only buy them from farms. There's probably a mod somewhere out there for it, though.
If you want to play as pic related, bulls are surprisingly good in combat, their moveset has a shitload of AoE.
6a7432 No.14410137
>>14410108
You can't tame them, sadly. You've gotta buy them from farms.
d8d8fc No.14410149
>>14410098
I never named him. Hes just dog.
I love punching people, I never use armor, only the Gi, and I can dodge just about anything so far. makes it hard to counter. Rane it the heavy and is starting to get to the point where she can swing and take out multiple low rank enemies. The dog though man. He just rips guys up, if they drop they just start to bleed out. Plus hes tough as shit because animals don't really do the dodge thing.
I took out the Dust kind and am trying to think of other shit to do.
On my other file I got a base going in cannibal territory but wouldn't you know it that was a terrible idea. IZUMIE-CHAN, NOOOO!!! So I think I might just break the shit down, pack up and head to greener pastures, or pastures that don't have guys who try to eat me.
170ff4 No.14410161
cute trailer
Do farms still get raided by one quintillion dinosaurs and you can't do anything about them?
d364dd No.14410307
That's nice but I can't play this anymore since one of my RAM sticks died.
d8d8fc No.14410562
>>14410307
I'll email you some, whats email address?
289265 No.14411862
The last time I played this game, I had 28? (4 squads) of guys with like 50s in everything all using forgotten armory and self-made master crafted weapons and armor. The best part was sleeping RL while I had my farmers and smiths queued up to make like 30 sets of armor and weapons.
I was a force of nature. (Unless fucking nature started raining on the coast, then I was a bitch running for shelter)
It's a pity the fucking forums has so little traffic on this game or that it gets so little attention, despite it's flaws it's seriously brilliant.
d894d9 No.14412193
>>14409320
Somewhere between Fallout and Age of Decadence, really.
7dd741 No.14412312
>>14412193
isn't it more like 3d rimworld?
18a911 No.14412349
I found a 0.98.1 Kenshi.
I'm not claiming anything, just that I ran it on a VM, saw that it has amputation and the version it shows is 0.98.1, the latest one.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:68c12dad436244178e2fd46acdbf9830da8a31a3&dn=Kenshi%5Fv0.98.1&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80%2Fannounce
6a7432 No.14412365
>>14412349
Don't even bother torrenting it for the next few days.
18a911 No.14412379
a50071 No.14412940
>>14412312
Nope.
It doesn't have that much of mods and Kenshi can be played in more ways than Rimworld.
I still can't get into city building and don't get trashed shortly after building anything though.
cdfa91 No.14413039
I remember seeing this like a year or two on MODDB and getting annoyed I couldn't find an up to date torrent link, nice to see it's still around.
e81384 No.14413195
>>14413051
>Playing "Limbs"
d8d8fc No.14413602
>>14413195
You see Ivan, when puppy little he play ball and keep run away with ball when you go near.
But is no ball anymore.
Is you.
6a7432 No.14414052
>>14412940
Try buying a building in an existing town to start out with, you won't get raided there.
d6e267 No.14414264
>get a craving to play kenshi again
>right as a new update drops
Nice, are crossbows any good? I want to try playing as a hunter this time since I no longer have to "hunt" by chasing animals down with a katana.
fcddd7 No.14414315
>>14414264
There's like six different types with different skills. Junkbows and Toothpicks are good for throwing a bunch of shitty bolts at people real quick, Springbats are short range but punch through armor, Rangers are the average crossbow, and Cross Eagles are sniper crossbows. There are also Old World Crossbows which are basically really good Ranger Crossbows.
6a7432 No.14414346
>>14414264
If you're faster than it, you can kite it.
I've got a standard quality Springbat(?) that IIRC was doing 50-60 damage a shot with a somewhat lengthy reload. A Toothpick or Ranger might work better, though. I'll have to give them a try.
I'd still bring a polearm for the bonus against animals, though.
also
>not just punching out gorillos
d6e267 No.14414366
>>14414346
>not just punching out gorillos
I already played as a robomonk punching the world to death, I want to RP a little with the new toys.
a50071 No.14414436
>>14414052
I am doing that already.
I still need more people to make my own settlement.
How many people I exactly need to do that and not get trashed?
6a7432 No.14414755
>>14414436
Dunno, I only ever settle down after my solo dude has 80+ in his combat stats.
Go for a full squad of 12, I guess.
Numbers matter less that stats and gear, but crossbows might change that a bit.
Just try to get a few guys really good at knocking heads and give the rest crossbows.
a50071 No.14414866
>>14414755
It will take a long time then.
6a7432 No.14414977
>>14414866
Get your ass beat as much as possible without dying, your dudes will be badasses before you know it.
6a7432 No.14415591
This bitch's arm just fell off.
a50071 No.14415627
>>14415591
Did you read OP?
When bodypart HP is under -100 it's amputated.
>>14414977
Alright.
I will beat up some rebel farmers then.
6a7432 No.14415663
>>14415627
I knew about it, it's just amusing to see it happen while she was limping along.
d8d8fc No.14415896
>>14415663
Oh fuck, she was wounded and when it finally hit over 100 its popped off. Thats hilarious.
d99959 No.14416297
>>14415896
They need to fix that shit, wounds should only deteriorate on core body parts.
d8d8fc No.14416305
>when you forget to pick you backpack full of medical supplies up
6a7432 No.14417157
Man, where the fuck have all these shopkeepers gone.
You can't just remove the jews and not have a plan to keep the cats flowing, Lord Phoenix.
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d8d8fc No.14418337
>>14418288
Last quarter of the map needs to be released, then after that I'm not sure what else they are doing. I don't know if they have quests planned or anything. I can't wait until they start optimizing this shit though.
08e66d No.14419252
So, what are the best crossbows for early/mid/late game characters, solor or group? I'm running a rock bottom character that's going to be a bounty hunter for a while, and as soon as I get a mech arm to replace the one I lost I'm getting a crossbow as my primary. I'm guessing the Ranger would be ideal for starting due to it having the lowest skill req, but I like the look of the Toothpick, although I have no idea whether it'll become useless later on compared to all the other choices.
fcddd7 No.14419262
>>14419252
Toothpicks are good against masses of poorly-armored characters. They fill the uppity peasant removal niche.
7b198b No.14419273
>>14418337
>last quarter of the map
Come again? Last year I played only half of the map was opened for me.
d8d8fc No.14419324
>>14419252
>bountery hunter
Is it viable? How do you find bounties anyway?
>>14419273
Upper right hand quarter is open with some more tech ruins to explore, the united cities, and the skeleton city as well. I hear there is some lore locked away in one of those ruins too.
08e66d No.14419328
>>14419262
So they'd be good for Cannibal or Rebel hunting then. Would they still be somewhat okay against medium armored opponents like Sheks at higher skill levels, or just outright useless? Depending on how huge compared to my character the springbat is, I may end up going with that one if the toothpick isn't good enough to deal with med or even light armor.
fcddd7 No.14419361
>>14419328
Springbats are more meant to punch through armor and have a slow reload time. No crossbow is really "bad" except the junkbow, they just have different niches.
08e66d No.14419373
>>14419361
So the toothpick can still deal actual damage, not just flinching or single digits, to medium armored opponents, then?
fcddd7 No.14419382
>>14419373
Well not really as good as a Springbat. Basically
Toothpick- close range, fast reload, low penetration
Springbat- medium rang, slow reload, strong penetration
Ranger- medium-long range, medium reload, medium penetration, low skill cap
08e66d No.14419396
>>14419382
It doesn't have to be as good as a Springbat, I fully understand the Springbat will deal far more damage to armored opponents, I just want to make sure I don't have to go through 60 toothpick bolts to take down a single enemy if they're wearing anything thicker than cloth armor (doing negligible damage to plate armored opponents would be perfectly understandable though)
7b198b No.14419407
>>14419324
Oh shit nice, the only reason I dropped the game was because my guys got teleport ed to the upper right quarter and it wouldn't let me leave because it wasn't opened yet, guess I'll pick it up again.
fcddd7 No.14419435
>>14419396
Oh well then I'm not sure, but it should be good against people with medium armor as well. Just be wary if they have something serious like metal plate. Not entirely sure about the specifics though.
55505f No.14419754
I have a goat as a pet and it's getting hungry how do I feed it?
6a7432 No.14419815
>>14419373
>>14419396
Keep in mind that armor quality is huge for harpoon resistance. Shoddy samurai armor only has 29 points which is still huge but you might still be able to do good damage with a really good Toothpick. Higher qualities are pretty much bulletproof.
>>14419754
Drop food on the ground or have it in your backpack.
7b703a No.14420177
Why won't the United Cities discuss Hiver and Hiver Crime?!
Look at the raw brutality they carry out on each other, the worker on the left is only a few years old.
PLEASE DONATE TO THE UNITED HIVER FUND SIMPLY $10 CATS A DAY CAN HELP PREVENT SUCH BLOODSHED
6a7432 No.14420228
>>14420177
Ayo hol' up. So you be sayin' we wuz Hive Queens 'n' shiet?
d8d8fc No.14420315
Try tying one to a pole and see what happens.
08e66d No.14420352
>>14420228
>>14420177
EMPEROR TENGU DOES NOT CARE ABOUT HIVE PEOPLE
dc62c3 No.14420460
How viable is a kung fu build?
d8d8fc No.14420486
>>14420460
The journey is long and filled with many hardships, but once you reach the crest of the mountain, you will be a terrifying foe.
invest in a chain shirt
6a7432 No.14420582
>>14420460
Your damage gets increased by your Strength and Toughness stats as well as your Martial Arts skill. Eventually you'll start killing unarmored people outright with a single punch to a vital area. Thanks to the new dismemberment mechanics, a non-vital hit of that caliber will now result in you ripping (Well, kicking or karate chopping) someone's arm or leg off.
7b703a No.14420602
>>14420228
>>14420352
Cruel Hiver Witchdoctors come from the North East Behemoth Coast Islands, to seek profit as mercenaries.
With their Slavic bot allies they kill the gentle Fogmen having them use their own blood trails to draw their evil magic sygils.
d8d8fc No.14420867
>>14420602
>beep in that getup
>S.L.A.V.
I'm laughing
d99959 No.14421065
>weekend is finally here
>still no fix for the clothing glitches
KIKES
>>14414436
I can do it easily with 5. It really depends on crops and how much money/food you have on hand. Desert settlements are objectively the comfiest, but you need to research enough to be able to make dustwiches for your main food. It's much easier if you buy a stormhouse in a city and keep your researcher there doing the basic and free techs, while the rest of the party keeps adventuring for money. Another major factor is simply how good your party is at combat - raids can really set back your production. During raids it might be a good idea to lock a sneaky guy inside your houses so he can patch the other villager up after the fact.
For an easier time, just do as much preparation as you can ahead of time, otherwise you could risk mass starvation.
7b703a No.14421242
>>14414436
Buy a home in the foglands at Mongrel, build a tech bench and hunt princes for that dank bounty.
Use that to upgrade your tech, which will decrease the amount of people needed
7b703a No.14421452
>>14421242
In addition one of the best things about owning a house in a city is that you can use there power as long as your place is set on public
6a7432 No.14421919
>>14421452
And if you're in The Hub or one of the other shitholes, they get to use YOUR power!
6a7432 No.14422018
>tfw too white to make fun of snapchat properly
1d8396 No.14422268
WATCH WHERE YOU WALKIN NIGGA
77df5d No.14422762
I'm outside Stoat but the gates are locked. Do they ever open them?
6a7432 No.14422795
>>14422762
It's a bug. Save and load, the gates should open.
f3ba0c No.14422826
>>14409919
>>14412365
How about someone just upload their steam 0.98.2 Kenshi folder?
6a7432 No.14422855
>>14422826
no… no you hack me
I'm a lazy nigger.
1d8396 No.14422893
>>14422795
>gate locked at mongrel
>lockpick, shinobi guards attack
>fine, wait a few days for bounty to expire
>return, fogmen have rushed through both gates due to lowered defences
>fogmen got on the walls and have turned harpoon turrets onto the town
>nearly die clearing them from the walls
>manning a turret for days on my own, defending the gate until some more guards spawn
>fogmen have taken over the prison, worshipping a cannibal fog prince who is eating all the fogmen locked in the cages
what have I fucking done, I just wanted to buy some crossbow bolts and Ive doomed an entire town to getting fogfucked
b52e34 No.14423497
>>14422893
Wew lad, all it took was one man to doom a town.
Also
>accidentally bought specialist grade of shitiest limb.
>saved instead of loaded
G-guess I didn't want those cats anyway.
a5e503 No.14423506
13c045 No.14424997
Could someone upload their 0.98.2 game folder?
7b703a No.14425063
>>14422893
The fogman glitching is bugged, fogmen spawn on the prison, which can be great for early income as 3 princes are 18 grand.
Also holy fuck does crossbow take forever to train.
fca0c6 No.14425333
fd7f49 No.14425793
I miss old kenshi, the endless desert was cool.
Is there anywhere like that in the current game? Seems like it's all filled with performance killing trees.
d8d8fc No.14425798
>>14425793
New map section is all desert. I think you will like it.
fd7f49 No.14425799
d8d8fc No.14425832
>>14425799
Yeah its all desert. Its great, bring some goggles though, its got dusts storms. If you are feeliing extra comfy you can head out to where the dessert meets the ocean and step up a base there. Get a fishing mod for that.
13c045 No.14425872
>>14425333
This is infected with ramnit, don't download.
50a709 No.14425891
>>14425872
Anyone who clicks on random google drive links practically deserves it.
fca0c6 No.14426076
>>14425872
>>14425891
Niggas want kenshi yet won't even take a download when it's presented to them. No skin off my back.
6a7432 No.14426092
>still some cpu cores left in this ruin
>take the advanced medkits anyways because "I might need it later" is eternal
I should've brought two more backpacks.
d8d8fc No.14426109
How do you get the beta versions with gog? I can upload mine somewhere. If not I can do the stable one, no limb shit or crossbows but eh.
dude shryke as some serious hips
13c045 No.14426148
>>14426076
Downloading a game is not worth having your computer added to some botnet.
d8d8fc No.14426561
>>14426377
>the nigger figures out how to steal from it
6a7432 No.14426631
>>14426561
To be fair, it wasn't hard. I had my dogs skulk around looking all shady to get the guards' attention, including Armor King. Then I had my thief sneak up behind him and pick the lock on the safe. Once opened, the stealing chances weren't 100% so I had Armor King notice my thief who then ran upstairs causing Armor King to do so as well, then he ran back downstairs to the safe and stole everything he could carry before Armor King got back.
Honestly the only thing that'd prevent theft is to have at least one guard specifically ignoring the player and keeping an eye on the valuables at all times.
fcddd7 No.14426789
>>14426777
he's a good boy
d8d8fc No.14426983
>>14426777
He just loves him limbs.
ddf366 No.14427427
just loaded up the most recent version that I have found 97.6 and the load screen is taking like 10 fucking minutes. fuck and forget to name my dude , second new game takes 20 seconds to load.
6a7432 No.14427562
Friendly reminder that swamp turtles are phenomenal for training strength while unarmed and encumbered, my strength shot up from 49 to 76 after going on a turtle genocide.
>>14427427
Plastic surgeons would've also been an option, they essentially put you back into the character editor, minus race and sex selection.
8b0647 No.14427820
d8d8fc No.14428388
Obedience is fucking weird.
dd1100 No.14428703
>>14428388
There is very good reason for that.
World history spoilers
It was ancient fortress full of people, until some skeletons caught robo-aids and went crazy. Ancient empire solution to deal with that was to freeze everything in Obedience using liquid nitrogen.
ddf366 No.14428920
what's the max squad size now it used to be 30?
0082fe No.14429023
After careful examination, I have cone to the conclusion that the best looking crossbow in the game is the Springbat
>dark metal frame
>solid metal stock
>wooden pistol grip
>limbs are reasonably sized and don't make your character look like they have mechanical ass wings from the front when it's on your back
The second best is the Toothpick
>also dark metal frame
>compact, almost SMG-esque design
>motherfucking flywheels
>also has reasonably sized limbs
dd1100 No.14429107
>>14428920
It's ten people, but you can change it.
Just don't change it to stupidly high number.
It will break the game.
ddf366 No.14429113
>>14429107
er– I mean how many total people can you have
6a7432 No.14429124
>>14429113
I think it might still be 30. I don't see why they'd change it. But then again-
>>14429107
-the default squad size limit actually seems to be 12 now.
ddf366 No.14429213
>>14429124
last game I had 4 squad of 7 and it was hilarious but I read somewhere that a guy had 80 or something.. likely a mod or whatever, but I haven't been playing for almost a year, until today.
ddf366 No.14429357
does anyone know the secret of the avatars used for the squads pics? they are seeming snap-shots from different angles everytime for each member, is there anyway to make them less.. random?
f3ba0c No.14429422
>>14429213
>>14429107
Am I the only one who tries to have as few members as possible?
Last game I played, only had a squad of three for a long time and got them pretty strong, only went up to six around the time I founded my own outpost.
Its tough at first but the low numbers really get their stats up quickly. One of the things that really helped was training up a shek tank.
Don't neglect dexterity or they will be slow as shit in combat with all the armor on, even with high strength and the lighter weapons.
4e8beb No.14429455
>>14429422
I usually have a whole bunch of greenlanders running my base and about 5 scorchniggers doing a ninjasquad thing and going on adventures.
ddf366 No.14429566
>>14429422
yeah, well last game I was running 28 all could murder faces really good and I was killing those giant whatever the fuck those things are on the north coast that can eat people. You can't do that with 3 guys. (I suspect). However this new run I'm sticking to a single squad because after that everyone was just a farmer or whatever and I needed more and more just to support the population. I think 7 guys can handle all the trade-skills well enough and keep everyone from starving.
ddf366 No.14429635
>>14429566
I mean, 1 guy each can do armor, weapons, research that leaves 4 to do mining, farming, cooking, fetching and whatever.
d8d8fc No.14429878
>>14428703
But wait.
my guy says its solid metal. I thought it was ice but its not
edceee No.14429978
>>14407805
blunt and martial arts are already capable deal knockout at >0 health, so probably no. Different story if you have a guy with mercenary club or whatever that club was that deal more bleed than blunt damage.
I haven't booted up my kenshi in a while tho
edceee No.14430008
>>14419252
crossbows might be a gamechanger if you play weak races like hives or scorchlanders (my main is scorchlandder cause im an asian nigga)
d8d8fc No.14430075
>>14430008
I use one on my hiver. I'm hunting fogmen right now and it seems to be going ok. I think they can hit your own guys, I could swear I saw him miss and tag one of my fighters.
fcddd7 No.14430085
>>14430075
You can do that yeah, there is even a stat, Precision Shooting, tied to it.
d99959 No.14430132
>>14428703
Your characters will comment on how the ground is like metal so they probably used some kind of crazy, long-forgotten ancient tech to freeze everything. Given the surroundings, it's probably related to the ecology-destroying events that occurred in places like The Floodlands.
Also there are spaceship parts and giant metal/robotic tentacles in some parts of the northeast. And don't forget that there are ruined highrises in some places, and the southern portions of the map have so much rebar sticking out of the ground that it looks like plants, until you zoom in
And then the dev says that the game isn't actually post-apocalyptic.
77df5d No.14430150
>>14430132
Maybe the apocalypse is still ongoing
f3ba0c No.14430161
>>14430008
Scorchlanders aren't really weak, hive can be pretty good if built properly and with the right team.
You add in the 1.2 combat speed multiplier, they become deadly when properly trained in katana weapons for example.
>>14430132
Its actually post-post-apocalypse :^)
d8d8fc No.14430176
>>14430132
I think its a failed colonization.
Spaceships parts, humans don't seem to be naive I don't think. Sheks and hivers are. Holy nation script talks about the war in the sky so maybe some big ol space battle, maybe dark ones were scorchlanders?
Falling sun blade is used by skeletons, and does bonus damage to beakthings and gorrillos, would make sense if they were trying to tame the land. Skeletons went nuts at some points, but if you read it looks like there were 2 big destructions in the past. So one war, and then skeletons did everything wrong.
ca62af No.14431782
Can I find some prosthetics in a normal town or do I have to go to the tincans for help?
ced739 No.14431832
>>14431782
I found a robotics shop in mongrel, try there.
6a7432 No.14432079
>>14431782
Hivers sell economy limbs of various grades.
fd00e9 No.14432246
>>14406138
This piece of shit will never be worth the money I spent on it back in 2014.
6a7432 No.14432329
>>14432246
What did you expect from it?
d8d8fc No.14432894
Wew Mongel is a mess right now. Because Princes will spawn when something is tied, when the guard places fogmen in cages in the barracks, it will spawn in a pod of fogmen there because it counts as tied up.
fabdf9 No.14432939
Where should I put up my first base?
I want iron, copper, stone and water..
6a7432 No.14433099
>>14432939
Leviathan Coast. Don't worry about the name, they just call it that because it's a big place.
f3ba0c No.14433126
>>14432939
Cannibal country has areas with all of that plus the friendly natives will invite you for dinner and cultural enrichment.
3b068a No.14433184
>>14427562
>can't change sex at plastic surgeon
Transphobia intensifies
1d8396 No.14433205
>>14433126
>>14433099
I'd be willing to set up a base here but the lack of any nearby towns to recruit is a turnoff.
If you set up a bar in your base, does that attract drifters?
>>14430132
>>14430176
I'd put the native flora into 2 categories:
>mammaloid (stone and fur): sheks, bonedogs, buffalo, beak things, gorrillos, goats
>insectoid/fungoid: hivers, spiders, leviathans, swamp turtles, garru
>?: river raptors
Originally I though it was too coincidental that there would be 2 dominant classes of animal on the same planet, now I think it can be attributed either to kooky scifi shit from the dev or a result of some kind of uplifting of native species by human colonists.
I also think that the fact there are 2 distinct human phenotypes is evidence that 1 subrace were the original colonizers (imo scorchlanders due to their adaptations to the world) and 1 subrace were part of some interstellar power who fought the other for control of the planet.
1d8396 No.14433212
>>14433205
>Originally I though it was too coincidental that there would be 2 dominant classes of animal on the same planet, and that both would have a sentinent humanoid species among them …
fabdf9 No.14433213
>>14433184
>>14433099
>>14433205
>re bases
My first game and main base was between the Hub and Stack, it was close enough to Stack to get supplies and lacked any big threats, was also close to hub so could shop around.
I don't think I can find any place more comfy, not to mention in the center of the fucking map to boot.
ff7c79 No.14433225
last time I tried this shit a couple months ago I spent 30 minutes aggressively fighting the camera before giving up
have the camera controls improved at all?
b22d8b No.14433231
>>14432939
I usually make my base here and an outpost a bit south for copper.
fabdf9 No.14433258
>>14433225
>cerebral palsy
?
6a7432 No.14433300
I kinda miss when Kenshi was just dudes in the desert with katanas instead of DEEPEST LORE.
fabdf9 No.14433371
This is my default location. 100 iron, 100 stone, 60 copper, water 50+ something .. very fertile.. can't grow cotton for shit so need hemp. Just on the south side of Stack, nearly 1/2 to the hub. I would love to find something more comfy but can't. The worst problem maybe lack of level ground but with a 7 man squad compared to 28 last time I'm sure it's going to be OK.
fd00e9 No.14434169
>>14432329
Something more than a tech demo. Something that actually feels like a game with things to do.
052bea No.14434193
>>14409227
>literally fruit people
>100% seriously
fabdf9 No.14434232
>>14434169
hmm, I wonder how I spent the first 200 hours I played this game… must have done something.
fd00e9 No.14434270
>>14434232
>he spent 200 hours in this pile of shit
You might actually have severe brain damage.
fabdf9 No.14434288
>>14434270
>he spent 200 hour shit-posted
<he might have autism
6a7432 No.14434289
>>14434169
Did you expect a campaign or something? I bought it way back, too, and it was always obvious it was going to be a sandbox. >>14434270
I've got a little under 500 hours, myself.
fd00e9 No.14434309
>>14434288
Only takes me about 5 seconds per post, my man.
>>14434289
>Did you expect a campaign or something?
No? The fuck?
>and it was always obvious it was going to be a sandbox.
Okay…? I would have enjoyed a sand box. However, a sandbox has things to do in it. This is not a sandbox. It is a fucking tech demo.
6f3a17 No.14434322
>>14434270
>go into thread I don't like
>get angry
>lash out at other anons
You might actually have severe brain damage.
f3ba0c No.14434421
>>14434270
At the very least you could explain why the game disappointed you instead of being a massive faggot and trying to shit up the thread.
f7e82e No.14434445
I remember this thing had ass UI then years later came back and the ass UI had a texture skin. This guy needs to read up on information design.
d99959 No.14434567
>>14433205
I could see the Shek being genetically modified humans, maybe used as shock troops in the initial colonization of the planet. Their mannerisms are certainly much more human than the hivers.
>>14433300 (checked)
It still is, you can just ignore the lore if you want. It's mostly speculation anyways.
fd00e9 No.14434775
>>14434421
It's literally just lack of things there to do. There is NOTHING to do. It is a tech demo because there are no fucking gameplay components. It's all just bare-bones mechanics that do not interact with each other very well, if at all. It's just a whole bunch of half-baked ideas thrown into a pot and he just hoped it would work out somehow.
Also what >>14434445 said.
fcddd7 No.14435075
>>14434193
Well yes but there are technocratic slaver fruits and barbarian warlord fruits in addition to three constantly warring tribes with a neat gameplay mechanic to them. Basically, trading or otherwise helping one tribe lowers your reputation with the other two due to paranoia, but it happens slow enough that you can fix it with bribery. If you want to do business with them you need to balance your relations with all three tribes lest you offend one of them to the point that they see you as an enemy.
6a7432 No.14435543
>>14435075
are there watermelon-flavored ones
fcddd7 No.14435581
>>14435543
All gourdmen can be looted for gourdman fluid, an edible liquid that tastes like cucumber water but is highly nutritious and refreshing. This is obviously fatal to the victim but if you don't mind pseudo-cannibalism then go for it.
d8d8fc No.14435612
>>14435581
Niggourds arent people and exist only to be devoured.
fcddd7 No.14435663
>>14435612
>Niggourd
I'm halfway tempted to add that to their racial slur database but I feel like that would end poorly for me.
7917cf No.14438482
Is the learning curve steep?
052bea No.14438550
>>14438482
Depends on what you try. My first time playing I didn't know what the fuck to do so I just started picking away at some wreckage and selling the copper I got from that to buy a house, then I autistically researched all the tier 1 techs in complete safety, going back to mine copper when I needed money. Don't ask me what I did after that; I'm still trying to figure it out.
From what I gather if you try to go out and kill shit as your way of progressing you'll end up dying alot until you know what you're doing.
6a7432 No.14438561
>>14438482
No.
Keep a medkit handy and don't go around fighting things that'll eat you when you're down or are strong enough to kill you before you can wake up.
Hire a bunch of shitty friends at 300 cats each, the more you have the better the chance early on that one of you will wake up in time to save the others.
66016e No.14438665
>>14438482
As an RPG its fairly unconventional. If you never want to worry about money again sneak around town for a while until your sneak is around 40, then pick store locks while no one is looking (sho-battai and bark are great places for this, heft not so much because there are a lot of NPCs). You can run a circle around the three towns selling the stuff you stole, where blueprints are the most efficient due to slot and weight, and stealing it back to sell elsewhere. If you get multiple teammates you can use them to distract the shop keepers and guards while others lock pick. If you do distract, watch the time because the store will lock you in and the npcs will suddenly move very likely busting you. There is a shinobi guild in Heft that has some training dummies you can put to good use as well. Good luck.
d81d15 No.14438823
>>14438482
The main point is you're going to get your ass kicked a lot early game, you're going to be down KO'ed and shit and hopefully not die. Losing is part of the early game. It is important to hire some friends so that if your bleeding out one of you will get up and medic the others after the enemy has moved on, otherwise your main guy might die. (5 man start is good for this, but not needed) 1 man can mine copper or iron or whatever to buy some recruits.
>something else
has anyone ever had enemies break a wall or gate?
6a7432 No.14438902
>>14438823
No, but then again I rarely build my own bases.
I've heard of enemies breaking down gates, though. The 0.98.5 patch notes, for example, saying how people were breaking down player gates to heal neutrals inside, or something.
d81d15 No.14438908
>>14438823
heh, I literally just moved my gate and a bandit attack actually broke into my camp for the first time ever. A couple of bugged events before when my gate was on the other side.
d81d15 No.14439351
fffffcccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk
ca96ff No.14439684
bc4e19 No.14439713
Will play this game when it's finished so never.
3e15f8 No.14439727
>>14439713
It will probably hit 1.0 this year, but I don't know if you'll want to call it finished then.
de00e5 No.14442629
Never forget the OG squad
f5b9ec No.14443025
>>14439684
Shes a big girl
d81d15 No.14443142
>>14420486
imho, leather turtlenecks are the superior shirt.
especially for kung-fu
d81d15 No.14443212
>>14442629
Sif = Eminem of Kenshi? the 1 white kid
de00e5 No.14443502
>>14443212
Pretty much. He impresses the Shek women with his 80 Heavy Weapons skill.
17739e No.14444419
So, in my new game after finding like 1 lab and 1 library, I found a total of 4 treasure maps leading to new locations and I couldn't even use all the fuckers because it said I knew all the locations..
(Now I have a total of 3 discovered locations and 3 on my map that I haven't been too) When I know god dam well their is like 20 ancient sites to visit.
>pic related some screen caps from my old game
<does anyone have a complete world with locations (3/4) my old one is MIA.
17739e No.14444596
beak-thing for dinner AGAIN
6a7432 No.14445591
Fun fact: Burn is only specifically included in two squad chatter dialogue chains.
The first is as one of many possible people to respond to something Pia says when Lord Phoenix is dead or captured.
The second is when you return with him to the floodlands.
d8d8fc No.14446869
>>14444596
Normally I'm the meal for them.
fd5fa9 No.14447052
I bought this game 6 years ago as a part of some cheap bundle, it used some weird install/update system and very long activation key. Played it for two days and then left it in the depth of my HDD.
Nice to see its still being developed.
d8d8fc No.14447590
>>14447052
Its this and starsector I've kept my eyes on and both are progressing nicely.
65c2b6 No.14447699
is it a meme to provide a magnet link to this game that only downloads up to a certain percent then stops?
d99959 No.14448244
Anyone having issues with unarmed in the latest update? I wanted my main character to be a monk, but he flat-out won't attack anything, no matter what, unless he's got a weapon.
6a7432 No.14448511
>>14448244
Is he missing an arm? I think people have said that was disabling martial arts entirely.
d99959 No.14448632
>>14448511
Nope. I think it's because his martial arts skill is low enough that his moveset doesn't have anything to use against the giant-ass swamp turtles, because he landed a few kicks on the sole blood spider that tore the party apart a few seconds after I took this screencap.
7935a8 No.14448703
I'm pretty bummed out that the game won't render building models when I try to build something. I tried everything to fix it but nothing works, I don't know why this happens to me.
6a7432 No.14448718
>>14448703
I have that happen sometimes. I just select something else then go back to the first thing and I can see it.
d99959 No.14448765
I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but the absolute best feature that was implemented this update is that when you tell a group to travel somewhere, they all move at the speed of the slowest person so they stick together, instead of spreading out in a long thin
The worst is that blunt damage can sever limbs, that's just retarded. It should take cutting damage only into account.
d8d8fc No.14448774
>>14448765
>new feature
>new
D-do we tell him?
6a7432 No.14448780
>>14448765
Nobody's mentioned it because that's been a feature for at least a year, from my cursory Google search.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/233860/discussions/0/133259227533558765/
Potentially even worse than blunt damage severing limbs is that wound deterioration can amputate, although there's an option to make it direct damage only.
70875d No.14448801
>>14448774
>new feature
never worked for me, unless I specifically tell them to follow the slowest member
select all run = long ass line of dipshits (v97.6)
6a7432 No.14448816
>>14448801
The setting after full speed didn't work? With the little red stick man running behind the little black stick man?
d99959 No.14448817
>>14448801
Ditto. Even playing with the various squad options and speed settings, I've never had it working before.
ff00e1 No.14448823
I got a bug where the staircase leading to the second floor of one of my buildings became intangible and now I can't get anyone up there.
I got my clothing, leather and medical benches up there and having to build other ones is kind of annoying, has that ever happened to any of you?
6a7432 No.14448826
>>14448823
Try rebuilding the navmesh?
Ctrl+Shift+F11
ff00e1 No.14448846
>>14448826
It said that it corrected 28 buildings, or something like that, but they still won't go up
6a7432 No.14448868
>>14448846
Dunno, then. Sorry.
ced739 No.14448878
>>14448846
bughouse? other people have been having that problem too
d99959 No.14448897
>>14448878
>bughouses are bugged
0082fe No.14448946
>>14448846
Did you rebuild the navmesh while inside the building in question? You, and any squad members you may have, need to be outside of the building and have the door closed when you rebuild navmeshes from what I understand.
70875d No.14448960
>>14448946
rebooting the game might help too. I've had all kinds of goofy shit with stairs in the past mostly they slip between the wall and the stairs and get stuck, hasn't happened this version yet though.
d99959 No.14448964
>>14448946
You can also shift+f12 for the dev menu and a whole host of tools, but with great power comes great responsibility and you can seriously fuck up the game if you're careless.
You can also build roads this way. They won't render, but NPCs will use them in long-distance pathfinding, so you can get a nice flow of traffic through your town.
7935a8 No.14448976
>>14448718
Yeah this didn't work, fuck this shit.
213ff3 No.14449193
The Admag general store is inaccessible because the dev switched a few of the shops around and now the general store tower is off set, characters cannot enter the tower because of how poorly placed it is.
70875d No.14449763
>>14448897
>>14449193
>>14448976
This game is incredibly autistic, the whole concept is great and I love it to death but a ton of things could be better like the UI and building placement and well everything.
6a7432 No.14449779
>>14449763
That doesn't make it autistic. That makes it buggy.
70875d No.14449791
>>14449779
a lot of shit I'm talking about can't be straight out called buggy so, no you are wrong sir.
377e2d No.14449795
Does the pirate version in the OP work with online? This looks neat but I don't know if I want to buy.
6a7432 No.14449800
>>14449795
There's no online. This is Japanese Desert Morrowind: The RTS.
377e2d No.14449816
>>14449800
Oh, I must have misread something somewhere. Neat, definitely giving it a try then.
70875d No.14449880
So this is my default gear pre ancient-tech
naganita with +50% vs animals for main weapon out doors really seems to me like a no-lose situation (also comes with no minuses to skills)
wakazashi – +2 attack +4 indoors, can't think of any reason not to use this as a secondary.
leather turtleneck - covers 4 spots with 100/90s
samuari clothpants - covers legs with some extra stomach protection, feels comfy
drifer's boots - again, so comfy
mercenary leather armor – seems like the best armor pre ancient tech
rattan hat - no negatives, yet somehow provides good armor
what about you guys?
70875d No.14449900
>>14449880
forgot to mention upgrades as I get tech (iirc)
white plate jacket
blackened chainmail
armored face plates – mostly vanity as I can see the hair styles etc.
same legs, same boots (overall for travel just good)
weapons = all whatever can be found in armories
6a7432 No.14449908
>>14449880
I used to use:
>Martial Arts
>Police Helmet
>Plate Jacket
>Blackened Chainmail
>Samurai Legplates
>Wooden Sandals
Updates have shaken this up a bit, however.
Armor was nerfed a bit since I last played and masterwork Samurai Legplates don't give you ~95% cut resist anymore so I might swap out the sandals for Plated Longboots.
I'm probably gonna arm everyone with Eagle's Crosses and use their fists for backup, although the Police Helmet now has -10 perception so I might swap it out for Armored Hoods. I don't like the 90% coverage, though.
6a7432 No.14449916
>>14449908
Oh, wait. Pre-ancient tech.
Drifter's everything I guess, keeping the blackened chainmail since you can just buy it from Shinobi Thieves.
70875d No.14449921
>>14449908
samurai legplates give .50 athletics meaning you run at 1/2 speed (if I understand that), how can you stand it?
6a7432 No.14449934
>>14449921
I'd only equip it to fight.
It seems that along with nerfing the protection also they lowered some of the penalties. The FCS says samurai legplates only have a 0.9 athletics multiplier.
70875d No.14451818
>play kenshi for 6 hours
>have a few drinks
>sleep in bedroom next to room with computer and kenshi music playing
>have a fucked up dream that is a the worst mix of kenshi and craig's list.
>don't shutdown the game, dont' save the game
>die in my dream
>wake up and my settlement is dead too
>hard save is 3 hours before I slept.
09bd09 No.14451951
>>14406138
>robot limbs as prosthetics
in edo period ? get the fuck out of here .
what BS is this
8c416e No.14451956
>>14451818
>kenshi and craig's list
How the fuck does that work? Shek guys posting notices in bars that they're looking for another dude to JO with (but it's totally no homo, bro) while running through the foglands to charge their Lanterns of Radiance or something?
70875d No.14451997
>>14451956
well it was a dream so it's a bit foggy to say the least but it was like I was going to certain undisclosed locations to "party" (I was with a girl) and meeting several people or couples.. it started well but the last location (maybe there was 3 brief locations) anyways I went into this huge glorified barn or something it had a pool in the middle and some huge chick and some weirdo dudes in the back and suddenly I realized they were cannibals or whatever and well I didn't get out of their.. the chick I was with ran away.. lol
70875d No.14452063
>>14451956
btw - My guys often banter about the lantern of radiance but when I met up with the 1 guy offering to sell to me I refused and seems I won't get a second chance on that. What the fuck is it?
8c416e No.14452157
>>14452063
It's pretty much just a lantern you can put in your belt slot as a portable light source. Contrary to hiver claims, it does not actually do anything to keep Fog Hivers away, and you can purchase it for far cheaper prices at Hive villages than from Hive caravans. I have one on my character because I think it's a neat little accessory and because it hels eliminate night/low light penalties to combat and labor skills.
f3ba0c No.14454449
>>14452157
>it helps eliminate night/low light penalties to combat and labor skills
That was finally added in? Remember lanterns not doing anything before.
7b703a No.14454630
>>14433205
The lore of Kenshi is pretty good.
I don't obedience was an betrayal, I think Obedience was literally like its name.
Skeles went to war with someone, and created giant skele's, after they won they ordered them to march into a great metal furnace, which they did, where they then named it obedience.
Also there are definitely aliens, there were a ton of unused assets you could access earlier that were biological chests and furniture.
I don't think the races in Kenshi like Shek are alien, in fact given the lore and mythos of the Holy nation, Shek were more then likely engineered from Humans.
The world of Kenshi seems to be a planet where the rise and fall of civilizations equivelent to the grandeur of Rome, build, deteriorate then rebuild.
d99959 No.14455131
>>14454630
What if whoever manufactured the skellies were the ones who sent the giantskellies to their deaths, and the normal skeletons were worried enough to revolt, sparking a massive war, downfall of one of the empires, and birthing the Holy Nation's hatred of them?
What I can't figure out is what the role of Narko would be, given that he was a giant skelly, and undoubtedly real. Maybe one giant escaped the doom at Obedience and wreaked havok on the greenlanders, becoming a devil-figure in the process? Maybe that was what sparked the war?
7b703a No.14455290
>>14455131
The mythos of Narko and Okran are two deities who were originally one.
I take this to mean a group of people who were so advanced they were revered as Gods, but a philosophical difference made them split, I think one went in the direction of biological manipulation and the other of tech.
Which is why Skeles are abhorrent to Holy nation, but sheks are cursed beings that are in need of saving through hard labor.
Though the Holy nation religion is heavily manipulated to allow its rulers slavery, power and zealots I don't think its entirely accurate for how it depicts things.
However I think it has probably the best recorded history as many religious groups have in the past IRL about Rome and Babylon
ff00e1 No.14456120
>>14448946
>>14448878
Yeah, it's a bughouse, I tried rebuilding the navmesh with no one inside and the door closed and the stairs are still holograms, I don't want to have to build another house and relocate those over there, have any of you ever figured out how to fix it? Or will I have to wait until a new patch fixes it?
aeff78 No.14456139
>>14454449
wow a fucking belt item, I can't wait to pick 1+ up.
>>14456120
it's possible bug houses have been bugged forever. I have one that isn't bugged but it's also empty. I would just pick another structure for critical stuff like production machines.
ff00e1 No.14456164
>>14456139
It was working ok for months until I got into the experimental patch, but I guess I'll make a Stormhouse to replace them. At least I don't have to get them to the chests and shit to get what's in there, losing the 40~ leathers I have would be pretty sad.
0082fe No.14456265
>>14456164
According to the Steam forums, there are other people having the same experience with bughouses, so it's just that particular model as a result of the experimental branch. It'll most likely be fixed in one of the subsequent patches. In the mean time, other buildings should still be good.
0082fe No.14456371
>>14454449
Actually, I just checked on my character. Turns out it doesn't eliminate night penalties. Kind of a shame, but I'll still keep it around for aesthetics.
6a7432 No.14456983
Anyone else like to just set up camp in Vain and punch gorillos? They're nice to fight. 50's in all stats, good proportion of blunt damage by default, 6 leather a corpse, don't eat you. What more could you want early on?
>>14456371
It seems like the brightness of multiple lanterns stack. I've got a few guys doing science at night with lanterns and no penalties.
aeff78 No.14457067
>>14456983
well, that might be true but where there is gorillos there is also beak-things and those will fuck anyone early game
6a7432 No.14457112
>>14457067
I haven't been seeing any near the Easternmost Vain hive, though. Just gorillos. I've been camping there close enough to run to the hivers if I need help but far enough that they don't immediately fight whatever I'm fighting.
aeff78 No.14457167
>>14457112
cool – I often run to Vain to farm leather and meat, just don't get eaten by one of those beak-things that is a shitty way to die.
aeff78 No.14458334
oh dear god I just opened my 2nd lost armory and out came 10 or so spiders against my 8 guys
aeff78 No.14458366
>>14458334
and six more on the 2nd floor – jfc
ff00e1 No.14458537
>>14458366
Assuming you're talking about Blood Spiders, while they hit like a truck, they are easy to kill, and if you KO one, make sure to remove one of their teeth to make sure THEY STAY FUCKING DEAD, other than that, hope you had good defense on your chars
aeff78 No.14458608
>>14458537
I wish it was just those, no, it was 15 spider roboots up on the east side of the bay of leviathan coast. (the middle armory) I don't remember it being so fucking insane against my first crew but that squad had 28 total warriors so yeah, trying to keep my current crew at 8 and knowing I'll likely never kill a leviathan..
aeff78 No.14458620
and, yes, removing a fang from spiders or an electron part from robot spiders or a meat from animals is really useful.
6a7432 No.14458631
>>14458608
Why wouldn't you be able to kill a leviathan? Just shoot them. Isn't that the answer to everything right now until crossbows get nerfed somehow?
aeff78 No.14458679
>>14458631
I'm still on 97.6 so that isn't an option yet
db0357 No.14459076
Is crossbow crafting glitched right now, because it seems like compared to regular weapon or armor smithing crossbow crafting not only devours the used materials almost immediately, but also requires an inordinately higher amount of materials.
6a7432 No.14460152
>>14459076
FCS says that
>Eagle's Cross: 8 steel bars, 4 crossbow parts
>Junkbow: 4 steel bars, 1 hinge
>Oldworld Bow Mk1: 6 steel bars, 4 crossbow parts
>Oldworld Bow Mk2: 6 steel bars, 6 crossbow parts
>Ranger: 6 steel bars, 1 crossbow parts
>Spring Bat: 6 steel bars, 2 spring steel
>Toothpick: 0.04 steel bars?, 1 crossbow parts
Each of them is supposed to take 20 hours to craft.
db0357 No.14460324
>>14460152
When I craft a crossbow with the required materials in their respective slots, the bars fill up immediately on right click as opposed to over a period of time like normal crafting, is what I mean. There's no forging time, it's instantaneous. I guess they are meant to have that much material requirement, though, even if it's a bit odd that it takes less metal to make a fuckhuge plank or fragment axe than a Ranger bow.
2a1282 No.14460738
>>14438823
>Losing is part of the early game
I'm so sick of hearing this shit. Losing is never part of the game, losing is the END of the game. How the fuck can ending the game be part of the early game? That is two hundred fucking percent illogical. If you lost, it's because you failed to know what the fuck to do, or you failed to use your hands correctly. Generally the former and not the latter. Losing is not fun, losing is not part of the game, it's just ignorance or skilllessness.
adaf95 No.14460790
>>14460738
You know that post is like a week old right
d99959 No.14460856
>>14460738
Because you can, and frequently will, lose fights and not have everyone die. It's virtually impossible to play the game without losing a single fight because you start out with pretty much no skill unless you're playing one of the easy modes.
aeff78 No.14461084
>>14460738
That's the thing that is different in Kenshi, losing is not the end. Even after being captured, or being put into a cage you still have a chance to reverse the situation, but you still lost the fight. More commonly you will just be left KO'ed somewhere with maybe just your food taken from you, you lost the fight but not the battle.
7453e7 No.14461145
>>14409258
>early access
it started 2009 you retard
aeff78 No.14461682
I picked up a pretty interesting item out of an "armoury" today. I have not see it before iirc and the wiki didn't have any information on it or where the pattern can be bought. Check out that environmental, 7, yes 7 protected locations this thing gives.
d8d8fc No.14461705
>>14461682
Seen it around. Its for wearing into the reeealy shitty parts of the map, like the skeleton place and probably one more.
0082fe No.14461837
>>14461682
I like the idea of the dust and leather coats, but they have such bad clipping issues with every single pair of pants I can't use them. I wish someone would create a pants item that's tight enough on the legs it won't clip through and make you look like you took a pair of scissors to the coat to cut out fashion holes or some shit
aeff78 No.14462006
How is your base guys? I have build my first right here because it's got everything and it's close to 3 cities. Meat farming is a short walk into Hive territory, while the immediate area is filled with dust/starving/escaped bandits to skill up on.
>>14461837
well that and the stun damage is like 80%
aeff78 No.14462014
>>14462006
forgot to post stats
water 60, fertility 100
copper 60, stone 100, iron 100 x 6
2 XL wheatstaw, 2xl hemp and 2xl cactus farms.
0082fe No.14462091
>>14456983
And I decided to test whether lanterns are worth having a second time. The first time, I saw that I had a penalty and assumed it was the same as not having a lantern. This time, I actually bothered to look at the values. It seems penalties to perception, precision, crossbow skill, and accuracy are reduced, but not completely eliminated when you have a lantern. If the "charges" stat in the lantern's info window relates to how much light it gives off, with a default value of 20, then having five characters each equipped with a lantern and standing close enough together that the light radius completely envelops them should eliminate any penalties.
Final Judgement: A single lantern is good enough to reduce night/low-light penalties for your character, but not completely eliminate them, and the values stack the more people equipped with lanterns there are in a small area. Also, I would make a terrible game analyst.
aeff78 No.14462141
>>14462091
I've still never seen one for sale in a hive village.
0082fe No.14462344
>>14462141
They're there, that for sure I am certain of because I'm in a hive village store with the trading screen open and I see two of them. They're not a guaranteed stock though, since about half an hour ago I was at this same shop and they didn't have it then.
3ca673 No.14466777
Is there any endgame to this?
I played it a while back for about a day.
> recruit squad of 12
> skill up killing bandits
> steal high quality weapons and armor from World's end and Armor king
> steamroll everything in the map
> get bored and quit
Was I supposed to play this as an RPG or something?
79b699 No.14467093
>>14466777
No, this game just isn't suited to someone who looks up the easiest way to kill their own fun. I have a feeling your "about a day" was more like "about a week" and yes, after a full week the game gets boring and you will move on, I just recently restarted a new game because as open world rpg it's a lot of fun. Don't be made bro, nothing lasts forever.
79b699 No.14467131
>>14466777
Dude you are so amazing you did the whole game in a day congratulations on finding the easiest path to victory and flawlessly navigating your awesome 12 man squad to supremacy. You should do esports or speed runs to prove how awesome you are on youtube.
On behalf of the people who do play, and were satisfied with their first game and came back to play a second after a break, I apologize that your inability to find fun after "about a day" may have something to do with your small benis.
79b699 No.14467134
>>14467131
>>14467093
god dam that first reply didn't load at first lol.
44ebb9 No.14467148
>>14460738
>>14460856
>>14461084
Well, losing doesn't have to be part of the early game if you know what to do.
Still, losing makes for a more interesting story in Kenshi than just winning everytime.
But losing doesn't necessarily mean the end, just like M&B.
You get up and learn from what happened and get better.
d97ab3 No.14467159
>>14467134
You should voluntarily leave.
44ebb9 No.14467199
Speaking of prosthetic appendages I have some questions.
Won't the Holy Nation be against prosthetics?
If cannibals caught you, will they eat your prosthetic limbs?
d8d8fc No.14467252
>>14467199
The holy nation is against them, after all, if thats a robotic arm wouldn't it be easy for the REST of you to be robotic???
Time to be purged darkone.
As for cannibals they will probably cut it off and throw it to the side.
3ca673 No.14467331
>>14467131
Building a powerful team seemed like the obvious thing to do.
I ran around for hours trying to find interesting NPCs to talk to, quests to do or bosses to fight. There was a bit, but not much. I built a base, but it wasn't really a compelling game mode. There was one attack on my base, but I didn't want to sit around for hours waiting for another.
Apart from you being a fag, my point was to ask if there was something I'm was missing. It would appear the answer is no.
40866b No.14467346
44ebb9 No.14467683
>>14467346
At least lurk man.
Also, latest os now 98.6
6a7432 No.14467870
>>14467331
The faction leaders are pretty tough and killing/capturing them will get retaliatory raids sent to your base, from what I understand.
6a7432 No.14468189
It's funny that ordering someone to hold makes enemies immediately target them.
I'm pretty sure that since the game considers target acquisition to be an attack (hence enemies running towards you as soon as you give the order), ordering someone to hold position locks them in place but they continue to attempt and fail to acquire a target. These repeated attempts rapidly increase their threat, to use an MMO term, quickly drawing enemies towards them. It has to be the exact opposite of what passive mode was previously.
6a7432 No.14468683
New update, 0.98.7
-Characters now get covered in blood
-Animals stats are now reduced to 25% when you buy one. This is because animals grew into high stats by default, so they were overpowered because those high stats weren't earned through combat, just time. Now they have to be trained up like everybody else. This doesn't apply to strength and dex, so they still get big and strong naturally without training, just the skills need to be trained.
-Adult player dogs no longer play with limbs, though they still collect limbs and carry them around a bit, they eat them quickly and don't run off. Adult wild dogs still run off with limbs.
-it now takes about 20 seconds for a bandit to butcher your pet dog, so you have a chance to stop him
-Characters won't sit around idle if they are selected
-Being in HOLD mode while sneaking no longer ruins your sneaking
-Fixed "use turret" orders not working when too far away
-Changed the ranged combat target selection function to be more flexible, let me know if things improve or not with target selection
-Fixed a miscalculation in the strength XP gain rate for encumbered martial arts combat. It was like 10x too high, now it's the same rates as using a heavy weapon.
-Fixed the FCS character random weapon selection
-Possible missing wordswap fix
-AI improvements for town guards roaming too far from town
-Possible AI fix to help stop Shark getting wiped out by spiders
f3ba0c No.14468720
>>14467870
When was that added in? Do the nobles from UC count as faction leaders?
In one game I assassinated most of them while getting their high tier weapons.
>>14468683
>Fixed a miscalculation in the strength XP gain rate for encumbered martial arts combat. It was like 10x too high, now it's the same rates as using a heavy weapon.
Well fuck, turtle punching while encumbered is now nerfed.
>AI improvements for town guards roaming too far from town
I wonder if that will calm down Mongrel getting constantly attacked by fogmen?
6a7432 No.14468744
>>14468720
It was probably added sometime late last year, but I'm not entirely sure. I only started playing again a week or two ago.
The encumberance nerf stings a bit, but ultimately all it means is that you've gotta punch more turtles.
f3ba0c No.14468773
>>14468744
Remeber seeing a few of those events in the FCS before but none of them worked.
>bounty hunters
>inquisitions
Neat.
>Empire eyegore hunts player
Who the fuck is eyegore? How strong is he?
It looks like pissing off too many people is now an invitation for your shit to get fucked up.
6a7432 No.14468797
>>14468773
Eyegore is a Soldier Drone from the Southern Hives, and the general of the United Cities armies. According to the FCS he has 90's in all combat stats except for strength which is 99. If you kill him he's replaced in raids with elite hunters which have 75's.
f3ba0c No.14468825
>>14468797
So pretty much bugmaster with masterwork armor probably and an army behind him. Fuck that's pretty brutal.
Bet he has a Cross weapon too.
6a7432 No.14468843
>>14468825
Cross moon cleaver with specialist armor, 22% chance of masterwork.
Oh, Lord Phoenix was also added in 0.98.0. I look forward to farming him for his masterwork holy chest plate, at least until the last map quarter is released and we can legitimately get all the rare blueprints from Black Scratch.
0303bf No.14468960
>>14468843
any idea about filling out the research materials required for full tech, I think it's kinda lame you have to re-important and farm previous locations to get enough blueprints.
6a7432 No.14469075
>>14468960
If you aren't getting enough just from clearing out ancient labs, then I don't really think there's anything you can do other than import.
f3ba0c No.14469177
>>14468843
>Cross moon cleaver
Kind of disappointing, moon cleavers are outclassed by paladin's cross, edge 1 paladin's cross is overall superior to an edge 3 moon cleaver.
Instead of the bonus robot damage, moon cleavers should have a small bonus to head/limbs, like 5-10 percent.
d8d8fc No.14469308
>>14468773
>eyegore
You can hear guys in the bar talking about him, says hes mean as shit. They also talk about the southern hives and how hivers from there are a different breed, maybe we will see something fun.
Where should I put my base? I was thinking somewhere near the Sten Desert but now I don't know.
4e5242 No.14469327
>>14469308
for easy mode, weak bandit neighbors
>>14462006
I'm looking for some flatter land with all resources don't care how tough my neighbors are though.
d8d8fc No.14469346
>>14469327
Cannibal plains are nice this time of year.
Up north near the Leviathan coast, can be a bit lonely though so if you want some company settle a bit closer to a road.
17739e No.14478695
any ETA for last 1/4 of the map?
6a7432 No.14478722
d99929 No.14480173
You guys wanna share some of your loli characters?
6a7432 No.14480272
>>14480173
Maybe next thread.
51d7d5 No.14483249
>>14480272
I find it's hard to make proper loli because the face models are a bit rough especially female face 2 only really works if you want a brown QT which is cointuitive since it appears to be for super light skin. Female face 1 and 3 are ok though and with as many sliders as kenshi has you can really get a good variety. The only thing you could ask for is a buttock slider. hehe.
6a7432 No.14484222
>>14483249
The Jap anime faces mod looks alright, try that.