39a2e0 No.15512180
I didn't see any threads for this game, please fuck my face and point me to an existing one. What do you guys do to enhance your fun in the game? I haven't done much, myself. I managed to make a city out of a wanderer start that brought in millions of cats, and mowed down guerillions of raiders and solicitors. Trying the Holy Sword start now, since I want to return a sense of vulnerability to the game (and avoid getting caught in city manager hell).
cd99c2 No.15512190
If only I could find a torrent for the latest version. Although at this point I am considering just buying it even without a test run.
But from what I remember and saw? It's looking pretty good. Can't wait until I can make a little settlement and fend off against hungry bandits.
006408 No.15512191
How did you get into it anon?
I tried it for 30 minutes, got bored of walking around the desert and uninstalled.
39a2e0 No.15512198
>>15512190
I ended up buying it, since I enjoy the game so much. Poured in over 130 hours within two weeks. There goes my sick days.
>>15512191
I like the lack of mercy in the game. You're not a hero, and get your ass kicked so much it's a mechanic. You can end up a slave or a king, and either way I end up having an experience to share with people.
39a2e0 No.15512429
>>15512190
And for what it's worth, don't worry about building a settlement until you have sowed your character's wild oats. Else, your adventuring and exploration will be juggled with defending your base from zealots, ninjas, and bums.
911c63 No.15512474
>>15512180
the developer is literally sitting on his fucking hands before releasing the last corner of the map and the only real reason for people who have already dumped a hundred hours or more into older versions.
36e53c No.15512482
do i really need 16Gb to play this?, i only got 8Gb
e6ebcd No.15512491
>>15512474
He released the last corner a week ago, those things in OPs pic are from it.
39a2e0 No.15512509
>>15512474
The experimental version has the full map. And skin bandits.
>>15512482
I only have 12GB, and manage fine. 8 is dicey. If you can, try to torrent a version of it to get an idea of how hard it hits. The game needs a lot of optimization, either way. The more people you have in your faction, the worse the performance gets (my retarded thesis being it has to likely simulate multiple cells, assuming you have characters far apart from one another). I also couldn't bear it not being on my SSD.
39a2e0 No.15512514
>>15512491
I'm retarded and didn't realize you answered that.
911c63 No.15512553
>>15512509
yeah my first game was 28 people.. because fuck you.
second game was 7 because of the optimization.
39a2e0 No.15512575
>>15512553
My first game was at 112 people, though most were just city workers and guards. Dealing with the UI with that many is so, so shitty.
36e53c No.15512585
>>15512509
i tried earlier versions when we had half of the map and trade routes existed but didnt worked well, the only issue i had is that loading times when moving arround the world where kinda long
>The game needs a lot of optimization
>(my retarded thesis being it has to likely simulate multiple cells, assuming you have characters far apart from one another)
i dont think it can be optimized since it runs in unity, alsoi think the game works similar to the Stalker A-Life, so i imaginethat it simulates everything but it doesnt load the graphical stuff like textures of the whole world and only fully "simulates" the zone where the player is (or where the player is focusing if you got your guys spreaded arround) where the other parts only "simulates" positions and basic stats (you can leave one of your party members working far away in something and he will keep doing that even if you leave them there)
39a2e0 No.15512624
>>15512585
only issue i had is that loading times when moving arround the world where kinda long
Yeah, that's why I ended up moving it over to my ssd. And if you're right, then it only confuses me more as to where this performance-killing bloat is. It could have something to do with how it manages squads. I cracked open my old save folder, and a single save had over 700 dust bandit platoon files. Importing seems to fix that. On my HS run I'm steady 60.
90c092 No.15512746
>>15512585
>runs in unity
I'm going to pretend I didn't read that. I fucking hate that engine.
39a2e0 No.15512877
>>15512746
Why is that? Because of the shitty asset flips?
e6ebcd No.15512901
>>15512514
S'all gud mang.
The new areas have some harder enemies, which is kinda nice. And that bottom right handed corner is all endgame it looks like, has some nice shit though.
39a2e0 No.15512928
>>15512901
I've only sent one expedition of 8 40-50's down there. Never again. I made it all the way to sniper valley, and then ran into a handful of skin bandits who outnumbered and outgunned me by no small measure. At least I could outrun them lol
ff6bf1 No.15512936
>>15512901
>a proper endgame
I'm tempted to make a squad of 5 guys, and try to take that on.
I remember my most effective playthrough had exactly 12 members in 3 squads:
>2 farmers/cooks
>3 crafters
>1 thief + 1 Trader
>5 soldiers
The farmers/crafters were mostly automated to do easy stuff and keep a stock of food around while pumping up their skills. Once they reached the 70's in their skills, I started investing into proper weapons for my soldiers.
Ocassionally, my soldiers would grab food for a week and set out to explore and raid places. They take a long, long ass time to train, but when you average 60 in every stat, the game gets a lot easier.
Whenever the soldiers came back and had to rest/heal, I'd take the thief and the Merchant for a spin. Thief steals, merchant holds merchandise with his pet bull and they head off to another town to sell their crap plus wathever we produced.
I'm thinking of moving the game to an SSD, getting another RAM chip and using some popcap unlocker to make a 150 population city, but I'd imagine training an army that big would be a nightmare.
39a2e0 No.15512972
>>15512936
> I'd imagine training an army that big would be a nightmare.
Just get the recruitable prisoners mod, and kidnap your recruits from nearby cities. I have a vanguard squad of masterwork/edge 1 inquisitors that eat beating hearts for breakfast.
cd99c2 No.15512996
I take it there are no torrents for the latest version then? Buying the game before testing if it runs is something I ain't willing to do.
ff6bf1 No.15513048
>>15512972
Recruiting them isn't the hardpart. I never missed hiring people in Vannilla, and with an Increased Spawns mod, you'll find 5-6 guys on Inn's that join you for 2000-3000 cats.
The problem is training them to decent combat levels. I noticed the training dummies still seem to work past lvl 15, but very slowly. Strength training (running with bags of rocks) also works, but micro-managing 30 guys running around with that, is a shitload of autism.
I personally feel Kenshi is best enjoyed with a small band of guys settling their Outter Heaven somewhere in the wastes, mainly because the UI is ass for anything else, but maybe that will change one day.
The new map is only for unstable? I think I'll wait, last time I played unstable, it royally fucked up a saver 30 hours in with a floating building my guys could get in, but not out, after auto-saving my 5 soldiers inside the place.
7924d3 No.15513070
>>15513048
>The problem is training them to decent combat levels
That's what I meant to address with the mod. The inquisitors start with 70+ stats, which is more than an adequate cut to training times.
e6ebcd No.15513154
>>15512936
I like to keep my squads small and then pick up a pack mule or something for loot. Works pretty welll. I have 5 plug the bone dog who tears shit up and a garu.
>>15513048
Thats why I like the smaller squads. Its easier to train up a lesser number of guys, I mean when you have enough you can just dogpile a faggot but they don't really learn much.
6cf36d No.15513211
>>15512190
>If only I could find a torrent for the latest version.
kenshi
0.99.1
vsetop
0b82cd No.15513346
Back on my computer. I'll get some more pictures and shit in now.
>>15512996
They have a demo on their website (which is down and the furfag mod on steam didn't explain why)
>>15512936
>moving the game to an SSD
It makes a world of difference, even if it isn't entirely fulfilling. I get a couple seconds where the game needs to render the interior of a building, but it's far superior to the hell I went through with HDD's. I'm just scared that the game will eat through space. Pic related, over 3gb of space taken up by the save files, and most of the platoons mentioned are just ghosts that are dead/despawned and replaced with new roamers.
On another note, does anyone have any lore on the fogmen? I've had a few speculations, but I wanted to see what someone else thinks first.
a5329e No.15513360
>>15513346
>most of the platoons mentioned are just ghosts that are dead/despawned and replaced with new roamers.
I think there was a mod that fixed that, or did regular cleanups. A short fix for that is also to import your faction into a new map.
>fogmen
They're friendly chaps that smoke weed all day and would like to share it with you. Everyone should visit and make their base in the middle of the fog. That's a great way to make friends very fast.
There's some sort of facility north of them that appears to have leaked some sort of chems down. The fogmen appear to only have princes, and I'm guessing that's a mutation induced by those chems. The lack of a Queen robs them of purpose/will since they all follow the mind of the closest prince. The thing is, since there's a lot of princes, and they're quite near each other, they might be territorial and on edge all the time. That would explain why they're so aggressive, doubly so when you're carrying a Prince's head. No idea why they eat you, but I hear greenlanders are a good source of protein, so maybe that's it.
0b82cd No.15513413
>>15513360
kek
I figured it had something to do with a missing queen, seeing as they're so aimless. As for the whole eating thing, I think it's more ritualistic than feeding. I've beaten down a group of them before, and any that I stuck on the spikes would be eaten in a similar manner. What does the eating symbolize? How much of their princes' fucked up mindsets can be blamed on the chems, and how much on the absence of a queen?
>a short fix for that is also to import your faction into a new map
Yeah it does work, only thing is I'm based right next door to the hub, and any time I've imported the results have been… well, see pic 2 for my daily routine.
One time I had nonstop raids from cannibals. Didn't know my workers were tasty enough to cross half a continent for.
a5329e No.15513468
>>15513413
>Upcoming Events
>Prayer day
>Shek Challengers
WOW, I haven't played in a long ass time, it seems. What is all that?
I know we at some point got amputation and robotic limbs, but I have a question: can you voluntarily replace limbs? Or amputate them at will? I think I wanna make some Robocops.
>Dead or alive, you're still gonna die.
0b82cd No.15513487
>>15513468
>prayer day
The benevolent Holy Nation sends a priest to share the joys with Okran with you. If you don't pray with them they'll send a legion of pallys and high inquisitors to assrape your town
>Shek challengers
Just shek bandits trying to claim your house.
>limbs
Only way you can replace limbs is if they're lost (usually when they're ripped/cut/eaten off, not voluntarily. Maybe with a mod)
e6ebcd No.15513507
>>15513346
>fogmen
a hiver says they got a brain parasite and called them the deadhive, happens when you got a hiver in your squad
0b82cd No.15513565
>>15513507
shit, I forgot the brain parasites.
>first pic
I see your butt, and raise you thicc² thighs
a5329e No.15513605
>>15513565
>>15513507
You're half-wrong, half-right.
The brain parasites simply cut the link from Hivers to their Hive. They're called Deadhivers because they appear to be dead to the other hivers since they can't "feel" them. That's where all those independent Hivers you see in bars come from. The Fogmen still appear to have a sort of hive-connection because of the way they speak and how they behave (each prince group travels like a mini-hive). The Fog-hivers simply have a fucked up hierarchy because there's no queen. I also just remembered: one reason for them to "eat" bodies is oviposition. Plenty of animals do it, and when it comes to sci-fi, oviposition is usually an oportunity to mix the genes of one species (fog-men) with the gens of the victim.
49b194 No.15513917
>>15512180
This game is the best shitty game i have played. Because it have very very terribly done most of the features I really really want in a game
48a399 No.15513937
>We will finish the rest of the map in august we promise!
>two months later
>fixed bug where guards took shit at the wrong place
Quality game
7924d3 No.15513945
7924d3 No.15513973
271be4 No.15513985
This game actually has straight white male privilege unlike real life at least in the holy nation. It's pretty sweet.
Also polearms are better weapons than shortswords.
b54f48 No.15513991
God damn haven't had a Kenshi thread in so long. Have some screenshots I've had stowed away from earlier adventures, might as well post em seeing as other anons are doing the same. Also, those Skin Bandits in OP's picture legitimately horrify me. I had heard they were in the new map section and what their deal was, I just didn't realize it would look so gruesome.
48a399 No.15514009
7924d3 No.15514023
>>15513985
Literally appealing to the male fantasy
>>15513991
They're even worse in game. I mistook them for normal bandits (weird for starving bandits to be so far out) until they clocked out one of my scouts. Imagine if they could peel off someone's skin and assume their identity.
7924d3 No.15514034
>>15514009
The full map has been out in experimental for a while now. I fucked up the quoting, my bad
b54f48 No.15514043
>>15514023
Well I also heard that they DO actually have a machine that skins people, but it seems the identity is lost when that happens?
48a399 No.15514048
>>15514034
So what kenshi is shit old game which took 49 years to complete and its still not complete. Get supercancer and perish you dark skin.
49b194 No.15514054
>>15513991
third pic reminds me of when I was grinding hand to hand or whatever it's called.
>use 99 stealth gained by standing still near the thief guild
>knockout a robot dude, drag it into a cage built nearby
>wait for it to wake up
>punch it until hands are at -280~
>put it back into the cage
>repeat
I wonder what happens in the newest patch, does my character performs a rocket punch when the hands reach -100?
7924d3 No.15514096
>>15514048
You're right, Jamal. I should just go back to playing NBA 2K and enjoying my grape drink.
Go get some skittles so you get shot, mouthbreather.
7924d3 No.15514116
>>15514054
Your arms' hp are at -280? If you have the limb behavior set to default they'll probably fall off the moment you load in
49b194 No.15514122
>>15514116
It was on a very old patch, before crossbows.
I wonder what would happen now
7924d3 No.15514153
>>15514043
Yeah the skin doesn't retain its former owner's figure. It's just some potential lost I guess. Not that the skin bandits are any less creepy for it.
48a399 No.15514157
>>15514096
You fell for prank. *cameras come out* How do you feel being pranked?
7924d3 No.15514167
>>15514122
You could set limbs to fall off only if they are below -100 AND take damage. It could let you live out your weaponized limb fantasy for a few seconds before a bandit clobbers you
e6ebcd No.15514655
>>15514614
Man I gotta take better screen caps.
b54f48 No.15514666
>>15514614
Hey, I dig em. At least you know to take off the HUD for maximum cinematic effect
7924d3 No.15514764
879da6 No.15516524
Trying to find a version 99 torrent.. All I can find is these 500k torrent files that load 2 mb torrents.. no idea what the fuck that is.. not going to download that. TPB and kickass have nothing.
a577bb No.15516590
2d0bb8 No.15516861
Game promises an open and dynamic world, but the world is static and uninteresting.
b825ff No.15517335
so is the big bar in The Hubb always smashed now or just on the default start? I tried restarting once to see if it was random but it was still broken on default, that bar is usually quite useful..
b54f48 No.15517355
Why are the Steam forum mods for this game such fucking cunts? Is there any forum that exists at all on the internet that is moderated by someone who isn't an unlikable know-it-all fag that usually has some mental deficiency?
b825ff No.15517366
>>15517355
being a homo is basically a requirement to be a mod anywhere.
a9536c No.15518245
>>15517335
The bar on the default Wanderer start?
There's a smaller bar that's open. Dev probably changed the big one for the small one.
cac0cc No.15518313
>>15517355
The steam forum mod is a fucking tranny furry fuck that employs KGB censorship in around 10+ other Steam forums.
0db308 No.15518387
>raise crafting
>finally create a sword that isn't a rusty piece of shit, feeling like the king of the world
<every store in the world now sells swords of the same grade
Is this bullshit still there?
a4b926 No.15519009
>>15518387
Don't think so. When I can craft edge weapons everywhere else still stocks basic stuff. Are you sure you're not wandering into world's end or that one robo-crafter place in the deadlands?
0db308 No.15519074
>>15519009
It's been a few months ago, but the moment I crafter a better grade gear, literally every shop in the game also upgraded its selection to match it.
495638 No.15519169
Does this have guns already?
a4b926 No.15519627
>>15519169
It's got crossbows and some people modded in guns.
ea048d No.15519636
>>15519627
How do the guns look like and how do they work?
a4b926 No.15519656
>>15519636
One's a matchlock, one's a shotgun. As far as I could tell there wasn't any sound, or maybe I was just playing on too fast a setting. Looks are fine, if a bit wonky, but that's the crossbows too.
They need ammunition just like any other ranged weapon, and they do a fuckload of damage for a comparatively long reload time.
ea048d No.15519669
>>15519656
Sounds great, thanks anon
7800ce No.15520951
they upped the raids a tad bit jfc.
I'm on day 8, I wanted to build a tech bench and do stuff like
research training dummies.
I've been raided 4 times (bandits x2, ninjas, squids) , had 1 trader visit (hive) and had a "prayer day" visit from holy nation.