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feed him a sandwich anon jesus, starving your character is not ok

What are you even supposed to do in that fucking game? Looks like your typical "just do what you want dude XD" when really there's nothing to do once you've scratched the surface.

>>15914691

People say the same thing about Dwarf Fortess and Mount & Blade. Set goals for yourself, faggot.

>>15914691

build a town and repel the foreign hordes

>>15914724

>it's like mount and blade

oh no fucking thanks. fuck that boring autistic sandbox.

I got completely lost the last time I tried to play this, not in a good way. Is there any good content guide? Just walking around and talking to everyone didnt solve much for me, I just need to know what I can do

>>15914899

Since i really lve this game, i´m gonna give you some starting tips since you got doubles:

>First you have to do is to get to a "safe place", like a town or city so you have at least the guards take care of bandits/animals.

>You better move the camera to watch out your surroundings instead of locking it on your character to prevent an encounter with bandits while you are looking for the aforementioned safe haven.

>You can activate popping numbers in the options menu so you can see if there´s some action, so you can get there and loot anything of value to sell or equip.

>I CAN recommend training the stealth stats (Lockpick, stealth, assassination and thievery) but i won´t because this can BREAK totally the game since stealth is broken as hell and beyond, but is up to you if you can manage the low levels and savescumming or running away.

>As mentioned before, you can level up your starts by getting beaten, so better get a new recruit to save your downed character (Mind you, if some slaver see your character inconscious on the ground he will enslave it).

>Getting slaved it´s not so bad. You´ll never gonna starve but you´ll gona be like OP´s pic, they won´t kill you so you can fight against the slavers since they will heal you afterwards and put you in a cage, you can train your stealth pretty quick while you´re jailed and lockpicking. Of course they can sell you, but when you decide to ran away you´ll probably have 50 Lockpick, 70 stealth, 30 toughness… Pretty much you are a pro ninja at this point.

>Probably you want some allies, if you manage to get 10k cats you can pay the Shinobi Thieves to join the thieves guild, so you can use all their equipment/beds and a place to heal and rest for free, also they sell blue/green gear and thieves backpacks at 50% discount.

>>15915107

Can you conquer shit in this game? I'd personally go conquer shit.

>>15915115

There's a mod that allows you to destroy factions and kill off their leaders but I don't think there's one to start your own faction and take over cities of opposing factions.

>>15914899

If you want to set a base:

>You need to find a place where you can´t disturb the local factions (Bandits will raid you anyway, but you don´t want the Holy Islam or Dindu Kingdom knocking up your doors), also a place with copper and iron (Copper only serves for electrics, you can buy or steal the components or make a mini base on a copper node) and fertility/water for the crops.

>Build the wall faster, a wall is good to keep away the pests. Build the gates in U form, with turrets on both sides to fire directly into the bandits.

>Hemp it´s essential to make good biofuel if you don´t want to rely only on wind generators.

>As for recruits, check out the races and their advantages/disadvantages (Percentages are EXP rate, so they can train faster or slower):

<Human Greenlander:100 life points, Jack-of-all-trades combat wise, 20% with science/cooking/harvester

<Human Scorchlander:100 life points, Good ninjas 20% all stealth stats/athletics, 20% weapon/armor smith but -20% science/cooking/harvest

<Shek:125 life points, 10% strengh/toughness training and heavy weapons but -20% on dexterity, -20% ninja training and working (Science, cooking and harvesting). You want this guys as heavy soldiers/tanks mainly.

<Hive Soldier:Can´t use boots, uses special undershirts, 100 life points, 200 hitpoints on its heads since they can´t wear helmets, 20% toughness training and same exp penalty as a shek, this guy its suited for duelist/glass cannon.

<Hive drone:Can´t use boots, uses special undershirts, 75 life points, 125 on his head since can´t use some helmets, 20% turrets 20% on building and working so this guy gonna get to work. You can make then fight for laughs since their limbs can be chopped easily and be replaced with 220 hitpoints limbs.

<Hive Prince:Can´t use boots, uses special undershirts, 80 life points, 20% dexterity -20% strengh/toughness, 20% science/robotics/medicine, 20% ninja training and -20% working. This guy is for researching, ninja or crossbow user.

<Skeleton: Can´t use shirts, helmets or boots, it doesn´t need food, 200 hit points, 20% heavy weapons but -20% ninja training. It works pretty well but can be a little expensive to repair for starters but overall they´re pretty good as heavies.

>Until your little sad sacks of shit can beat your raids, you´ll probably need mercs to guard your base. You can find them in waystations/taverns in two flavours, cost 1k day to guard your base or 2k day as your bodyguards:

<Tech hunters: Usually in groups of 3-4, stats ranges from 40 to 80 and can use crossbows (Sometimes), hobo looking.

<Mercenary guild: Usually in groups of 5-6 (In The Hook, mercs camps can spawn with 9 of them) with two of them being heavies, stats ranges from 40 to 50.

<If you´re allied with a mayor faction (Holy Islam, Dindu Kingdom or (((United Nations)))) you can ask for the patrols to guard you or your base for free.

>You´ll need power, so build like 5 wind generators and a battery bank for each generator.

I often hear a common complaint of this game that there is no real goal, you eventually just get too successful/powerful and get bored as a result. Is there any sort of end game win condition?

>>15915237

>Is there any sort of end game win condition?

Not really, the few goals that I can come up with is building a self sustaining outpost, bounty hunting, and getting the legendary weapons from faction leaders and bounties. Bounty hunting stops being about doing the bounty for cats since by the time you have people strong enough to do bounties you'll probably have high grade weapons and armor you can sell for all the cats you want. I was thinking about setting as many self sustaining outposts in every section in the map but I don't think the game knows how to handle multiple outposts that well, not to mention of how disastrous it would be making different squads for all the groups of outposts there would be.

Can you start alone and be Jogimbo? And maybe marry someone and have kids.

How viable is it to be a wandering murderhobo kung fu master that goes around wrecking people while looking for a greater challenge?

game sucks and the autistic dev is anti fun

>not allowed to use slaves yourself

>no decapitations

>can't actually kill people

>>15915107

Amputations. Slowly convert them into rotten clangers.

>>15914691

>tell me what to do

being this much of a goyim

>>15916713

Extremely.

I have a kungfu guy. The way of the fist is a hard path to walk but watching your dude weave between swords and dropping fags in one hit is always a treat.

Did they ever fix the weapon merchants, or is it meant to be a feature?

>go to merchant

>he only has rusted shit

<"Ok, I'll make my own shit"

>grind weapon making to create a decent steel sword

>every weapons merchant in the game suddenly starts selling weapons of the same grade as I can make

This shit annoyed me quite a lot

>>15917425

Yeah. Weapons and armor are cheaper and easier to find.

>>15917449

so do traders offer rusted shit all game, or do they start with a more diverse portfolio?

Tell me when there are highlight for everything.

My eyes can't handle this shit, I don't need my eyes problems getting even worse

>>15917493

Does it not depend on where the merchant is?

I recall having the Hub merchants selling pure shit, but End of the World ones have decent to Edge tier weapons, and there's the Armor King hidden somewhere, who sells great armor.

But it's been quite a while since I last played it, so I might have remembered something wrong.

NO DUAL WIELD NO BUY

Mods will save this game.

>>15921344

But can you impregnate people or have children in this game?

>>15919182

>Mods will save this game.

Remember the last time people said that?

Yeah that was XCOM 2.

Think about that.

>>15917493

>>15918520

This. Holy Merchants and most city merch is pure garbage tier only being useful if you have

ass loads of dosh and need to melt it down for iron scraps.

Even then you still have regular bandit raids so you just melt down their kit instead or use it

for sparring practice against the crippled skeles in your basement.

As for useful weapons you can find some mid tier stuff in the United Cities.

The most inhospitable corners of the world have good shit but as a general rule you should be either crafting or scavenging.

Been out a long time and no good mods exist, the whole 'you are just a dirt bag no different from anyone else' theme seems to, surprise surprise, inspire similarly bland apathy in their modding scene.

>>15921344

We used to have a single thread that would hang around for a few weeks at a time with a dedicated group of /v/irgins who enjoyed the game.

>>15914691

NPCs may have a hard time figuring out what to do in a game like Kenshi. Free thought is one of the hardware requirements.

Did anyone here broke into Tengu's Vault? I heard there are some dudes you can recruit there but I never went to see myself.

Has anyone successfully built a city on Howler's maze or is it just an unforgiving clusterfuck of acid rain and giant crabs?

Gourdman anon, where are you? I want to gas the Niggourds.

Did the dev managed to make ranged weapons?

>>15923194

Yeah, crossbows are a thing now.

>>15923194

There's crossbows you can weild and ranged defenses of mounted crossbows and harpoons

I'm currently trying to build my first settlement. I'm making a run of it on a small hill in the middle of Gut, within a short distance of both an iron tree and a copper deposit. Fuck Beak Things. I should have brought three times as many building materials on my way out and built a palisade first thing. If it wasn't for the fact that I have 8 decent crossbowmen I'd be completely fucked, but as it stands I can get a few hours work in between beak thing raids to work on cranking out more construction materials. At least food is a complete non-issue right now since it's constantly delivering itself to my doorstep.

>>15916751

Wat? What kind of faggot is he?

Now that GOD is ded, where to find latest Kenshi version?

>>15929323

it does

look harder

>>15929330

where??

>>15929359

Mongrel or Black Desert City

>>15929323

Falling sun blueprints can be bought at Black desert city for 25k cats, also the BPs fot the desert sabre and the foreign sabre (nice sabres BTW)

>>15916751

>>can't actually kill people

you actually can, just right click on them

>Kenshi is complete

>Terrible Path finding

>Terrible Animations

>Terrible Diplomacy

>Actions have pretty much no consequences

>Devs which give the silent treatment

>World generally feeling empty

>"Engine cant take anymore content"

I had huge hope for this game and enjoyed over 300 hours of this game however since the Dev got bored with their project there is no reason to continue playing since the game will still be the same as it was released with no future content planned.

Oh and the price increase was totally unnecessary since the original price was fine for the product in my opinion

I bought and started playing recently, im less than 3 hours in the game.

I think I got too many party members too fast and now I think im going to accidentally have everyone starve to death.

What should I be doing, and how did you guys start off the game?

>>15932878

On one hand it's kinda cool because it's one guy's vision and there's some fun weeb things and the world setting is actually interesting. On the other, fuck him for half assing everything. Hopefully the game generates enough of a revenue stream to make him reconsider and hire some developers to make better features. The modding community generally picked up slack where he left off. But there's some big things that the modding tools just can't do. If this game had the same town takeover feature as Mount and Blade it would be an austist's wet dream

>>15933007

>What should I be doing, and how did you guys start off the game?

<Focusing on getting enough money to buy needed food so your party won't starve(Mining is pretty good, if ores are close enough to/or in outpost itself.)

<buy simple large sized (Tier-2) house in well protected outpost(but any will do, less protected could be even better, if you manage to steal some shit and get away with selling it.) to not sleep outside, research basic stuff and train any stats you can(even more if you got mod to build more training tools, which should be included in base game.)

>>15933025

>But there's some big things that the modding tools just can't do.

For example?

>>15933168

Her song sounds actually good. I didn't like some of the songs she had when I found her youtube. I too love hurdy gurdy's.

>>15932873

I like most sheks women have massive tits.

I'm finally getting into this game after trying and giving up several times in the past. It's actually a pretty easy and fun game to play even though the interface overwhelmed me at first. I do have a couple questions though.

Am I able to get any NPC to join my party by getting on their good side, or only certain ones? Also, how do I finish off knocked out characters?

>>15938862

>Am I able to get any NPC to join my party by getting on their good side, or only certain ones?

By hiring NPCs at bar or trying luck in slave shop and be hopeful that they won't run off.

>Also, how do I finish off knocked out characters?

You should get option for that by clicking on them with right mouse button.

Is the AI in this game not very good? I manned one of the turrets in a village and shot one of their own people and they didn't react at all.

>>15922933

So basically it's a tech demo nothing to do then, got it. Go outside and play.

This game seems like prime material for porn mods, is it easily moddable so that we can expect such things in the future? I feel like this needs some rape to truly shine as a sim.

Read about this a bit in the /vg/ thread but not played yet.

>>15939234

I think they were supposed to ignore it happening certain amount of times, before they become hostile.

>>15939394

>This game seems like prime material for porn mods, is it easily moddable so that we can expect such things in the future?

While Kenshi has a lot of mods now, I wouldn't expect one to be actually made.

Besides, if someone truly wanted that, it would be done by now already.

>>15939023

>>15938862

You can also get a mod that allows you to attempt to recruit prisoners after you've put them in a cage, so you could in theory recruit anyone you can manage to shove in a cage and meet their recruitment requirements.

There's not really a way to finish off knocked out characters, the best you could do is either use the "Throw them out" command to have them get removed from your town borders, or pick them up and shove them in a cage with no first aid.

>>15939394

>>15939533

There's a nude textures mod, but nothing beyond that so far.

>>15939554

>There's not really a way to finish off knocked out characters, the best you could do is either use the "Throw them out" command to have them get removed from your town borders, or pick them up and shove them in a cage with no first aid.

I actually found "Kill item" mod, which creates and allows to take certain item from downed NPC to kill them.

>There's a nude textures mod, but nothing beyond that so far.

I saw that too, but wasn't it just for tits?

>The top moderator on the Kenshi Steam forums is a roastie furfag with over 9000 hours in second life.

People need to start spamming the forums on his website to make it so you can actually assassinate and finish off people on the ground.

followed this game since ~2010. It went in a bizzare direction when the dev hired other people, their visions seemed to mix with his and we kind of have a mess of a game with a shitty map now. The original version was obviously way simpler but had a much more solid base and core gameplay loop. meh.

The modding is also a meme, you can edit stats, npcs/buildings and thats it, no support for scripting of any kind and many of the stats are hardcoded in ways that make the modding kit not useful for much. You can add custom items and place stuff but thats not what the game needs.

>>15922385

>Remember the last time people said that?

>Yeah that was XCOM 2.

>Think about that.

So you're saying that mods will in fact save this game? War of the Chosen is fun as fuck with mods.

>>15933533

Same really. Too laggy on my aging PC. Will need an upgrade before it runs better than full expansion Sims 1 on a Win98 machine.

I was doing some research in a house I bought in Squin. A pack of Garrus came strolling through town and I tried to separate one of them to kill it and take its supplies. Turns out the guards helped me kill the entire pack with no consequences. I made over 30k off the loot. Why is this possible?

Game is fun and all but in some aspects, especially the AI, it still feels very unfinished.

>>15939704

How do you even see a mod list in for a particular steam game's discussion hub?

>>15942674

I forgot to mention it was a domesticated pack with a couple people leading it

im in the same exact situation as op

im about 65 days in with an outpost directly outside the hub nobuild zone to the east. Theres an awesome spot next to the road with natural barriers and an extremely thin chokepoint. Unfortunately the chokepoint is still within the hubs nobuild zone but its still well within range of the turrets on my walls.

Im techd out currently and i need ancient science books. Found a skeleton town in deadlands that sells ai cores, science books, and engineering but my money is kinda tight right now. Every ruin i get maps to is usually a tech shack T9000s that would rape me so it feels like buying upgrades is the only viable option. Found 2 libraries that were relatively safe to loot ignoring the local fauna but they feel pretty fucking rare compared to these tech shacks with murder robots. Ive found at least 10 of them.

i found a domed shaped building with mechanical spiders i think i can take. The problem is i have one super ninja skeleton with stats in the 50s and a heavy weapon while everyone else is pretty average. Skeletons overall feel pretty op assuming they have repair kits on themselves.

>>15914691

>>15914691

burgerpilled post

how do i stop getting massive decision paralysis in this kind of game?

all ive done so far is steal weapons in squin and sell them to the stores in stack, mine copper to sell, hire some goons to mine / build / make cloth, and get in barfights

i want to get strong enough to wander outside of the starting areas but also want to make money, and at the same time dont want to have to use a party of more than like three people

>>15921363

>Loverslab has barely touched the game

<FML

>>15945884

Do slave start instead, much better, you end up stupidly OP from all the stealth, assassination, lockpicking, labouring, farming, strength, toughness, dexterity ect grinding you get. Plus you don't need food or bandages.

Beyond that take prisoners and beat them up occasionally. Good ways to grind.

>>15945936

Err I just realised Prisoners now require food. Yeah that makes things a bit harder then doesn't it.

Any recommended mods I should use?

>>15945947

Still worth it. It's really not that expensive to keep a few pieces of dried meat in their inventory.

>>15949357

>256 Squad limit

>New Recruits

>Recruit Prisoners

>Tame Beasties

>Random Enemy Squad numbers

>Kill Item

>Less Suicidal

>Reactive World

>Dark UI and Text color change(Less eye-rape)

>Nice Map

>Try It Yourself, 50+ faction starts.

>Then add few mods which give new weapons/armor/races, if you want.

What's the best way to make money early game? Should I just be mining and selling the ore until I get better gear? I'm also trying to steal some stuff, but I haven't found anything good yet.

>>15951941

Stealing tbh. You'll get your ass kicked a few times but that's also the best way to get your toughness up. Eventually you'll be able to stealth and steal everything with 100% chance. When I first started playing I'd stay in Clownsteady, steal, get arrested, do time, rinse repeat until I had the money to buy the larger house there and was tough af. It's a really good jumping off point to get to know the game before heading out into the wilderness.

Also there's always some starving farmers trying to raid the place before they get insta-fucked by the guards. Many of them will have bounties so you can carry them right inside and collect the cats.

Do I need to start a new game for mods to work properly or can I play them on my current save?

I'm using most of the mods mentioned here >>15949494 btw.

>>15914469

it's multiplayer innit? I don't multiplayer.

>>15954359

No it's completely single player.

>>15954440

Try using borderless windowed. I had the same issue.

>>15954592

>>15954697

>can't give her huge tits

It's shit.

>>15914469

>>15954592

>>15954697

What the fuck is this game even about? Starving in africa?

>>15914868

[Angry Manlet]

Looks like you found the Antifa rally, anon.

>>15914469

But does it have sex-mods?

>>15914724

>shit games is the same as this shit game and this other shit game

If the game needs the player to set himself a goal ain’t good or fun

>>15955126

>I have no imagination, therefore everyone else should just be boring and thoughtless like me!

i have 8gb of ram, how bad can this game get in whit the current version? 2 years ago i had long loading times when traveling and switching characters on different areas.

>>15955186

>huge world to explore

>it’s fucking empty and you just have to do the same thing over and over again

Wow it’s almsot like any (((open world))) shit game ever made

>>15955209

>muh imagination

>here let’s fill the incompetency of the dev myself and excuse a shallow gameplay

Good job. Remember to lube yourself up too

>>15955209

>game needs imagination for it to be good

LMAO, let me guess, you also think "fun" is the most important aspect of a game right? fucking leddit I swear

>empty desert

>some town where everybody hates you and there's nothing to do

>you can do what you want :^)

so I can mine this rock over here or inhale this sand over there, great choice.

In DF, the objective is to create a working base, then a great base. In MnB the objective is to survive small raiders then gather land. Just because it's free form doesn't mean it doesn't have a defined initial and long term goal it offers to the player.

>>15956723

To further expound on your point.

In this your first concern is the story when you start (being pursued by the holy nation, being a set of wandered looking to build a base, etc); which gives you a basis to RP from.

After this comes the immediate realization that you must survive the world, you're not the main character, and it doesn't care if you live or die.

Such as, surviving bandits, integrating or adapting to the culture of factions, and increasing your ability to survive; the means to doing this is up to you.

This could be accomplished through building a base, and to build a better base you go on an adventure to gather supplies; which leads to all kinds of stuff.

There's all kinds of ways to approach the "survivability" issue, and all kinds of ways to RP from your initial story.

Although, games like this are definitely free-form compared to "go here do X" games w/objectives, and all people don't have a leader mentality (instead are followers and want2 be given directives); so it isn't for everyone.

>>15954318

>Do I need to start a new game for mods to work properly or can I play them on my current save?

It should work fine.

By the way, don't use Dark UI and Text color change at same time.

You could have problems in seeing some text.

>>15954713

>What the fuck is this game even about?

Autistic post-apocalyptic grindy sandbox game.

>>15955005

>What should I invest my first money into?

First buy basic bandage kit, then armor.

If you have too much of everything, consider hiring more people.

After that think about buying and rebuilding some medium sized house in Hub, so you could start researching.

Also hire some NPCs in bar to be able to make more work in same time.

>Better weapon so I can travel to a new town?

Just level up your athletics and you will be fastest being in Border Zone.

>Also do NPC's buy and start using houses?

No.

>>15955008

Only half-nude textures for women and making their tits bounce.

>>15955252

It won't crash, but it will make your game paused. Just make sure to set everything to low numbers in graphical settings.

Are there any other games that are similar to Kenshi? The only thing that pops to my mind is Mount and Blade.

I particularly love being just a single nobody, to owning your own city/faction, much like MnB's vagrant becoming a lord/king.

How does the crime system work? If I get caught trespassing and kill the witnesses without anyone else noticing, am I completely fine? Will they later report me unless I use the mod to fully kill them?

>>15956696

>stop telling me I’m a NPC becasue I like shit games

Hows your fifa team going? Did you already catch Ditto in Pokémon Go?

>>15958874

There's a reason they're haram. I won't say why because that'll spoil the story but just keep exploring east of holy nation

>>15956835

>Just level up your athletics and you will be fastest being in Border Zone.

This but make sure to carry the heaviest load you can in a backpack while you run everywhere. You could also carry a body or another team member. This gets your strength up too. If you need to run for your life, drop the pack/NPC.

Also, as far as medkits and equipment go, just hang around in any city that has guards and wait for inevitable plebs to try and invade. If your fast enough you can bait hostile factions to follow you to the city to get fucked by guards Most factions drop at least the shitty little medkits. Also, heal all the guys when they get knocked out, even if they are enemies. It'll get your first aid up so you can heal quicker in a pinch. Sell their equipment, keep the best stuff.

I often park one designated "doctor" at a town's gates and just grind healing. Also, many of them have bounties, so if you're in a place with a police station you can make money while you grind.

I actually just kind of like watching the chaos that ensues when the factions fight.

One time I was stealing from a shop and ran out when i got caught. Apparently the city guards didn't recognize that I provoked the shop guards' attacks and it resulted in an endless war between the shop guards and town guards. The store owner would get arrested every other day leaving the shop wide open for looting. Always fun shit happening in the cities and free stuff to be had if you wait around. I've found it to be the best way to make some initial money and outfit your teams.

>>15935824

Is thieving still horribly broken? I played it a bit like a year ago. You could level up thieving in a few hours then literally steal all the best gear in the game.

For some reason you could make top quality armor, but not top quality weapons.

>>15962479

I've noticed that the guard AI in shops is different now. They used to all mostly head to bed on the roof around midnight, but now they often stay up all night guarding the place. I suppose I could try using a decoy. Send someone in, have someone waiting outside. When they get caught have them run for the hills taking all the guards with them. Send in your backup to clean up the now empty shop. Profit?

But yah if you can get in and there's no guards its still easy to level it up. But it's not really an issue if you don't save scum since the risk is really high that you'll get fucked when your stealth, thievery and lockpicking are any lower than 30ish.

Are houses bought in towns safe from break-ins or can I return and discover that all my loot is gone even if I lock the door?

>>15963147

>Are houses bought in towns safe from break-ins

Yes.

>can I return and discover that all my loot is gone even if I lock the door?

It only happens in outposts owned by you, if I remember it right.

>>15963228

Thanks.

On an unrelated note the disguise system feels really bugged. Did the slave start and eventually escaped through knocking out and stealing some armor.

Now I'm in a town and was discovered but I managed to throw them off and hide on the roof of a bar.

I'm once again fully disguised but the guard is still aggroed on me so he will immediately attack me when I'm seen which will remove my disguise and get the whole town after me.

I made new characters and found that the house I bought on a different save transferred over, including things I built inside and loot.

Is this a feature or a bug?

And 'The Hub' is completely dead on this new save, the bar doesn't have a clerk and the shinobi thieves are nowhere to be seen and there are no Holy Nation Outlaws anywhere.

>>15963480

Never mind, found others with the issue and had to import the save without buildings and research. Works fine now.

>>15962479

Thieving and stealth is still horribly broken, yes.

Add to that ranged weapons. Also everything in the game has 1 swimming so you can just go across rivers and puddles and take pot-shots while things slowly crawl towards you.

>>15962635

It's still a joke. I'm on day 2 and have a full set of plate mail, but my strength is like 6 so I can barely move.

Anyone have suggestions on base locations? Last time I was right around the halfway point between Stack and Blister Hill, it had copper, stone and iron. It was a sweet spot, but I'd like to try something different.

>>15966534

>Anyone have suggestions on base locations?

I found a sweet spot west of squin up the hill to the left of the main road with stone, iron, copper and fertility. Perfect spot since you're near the town. other wise you can just set up camp in fog land and bully the fog people.

>>15956692

>stormtard

>>>/leftypol/

There's far too many memesters just shitposting every thread about how whatever topic is being discussed is actually shit and you shouldn't like it.

I'm sure that there's a few amongst them that genuinely hold those opinions, but for the most part it seems to be just contrarian trolling. Don't bother arguing with them since odds are, they just want to shitpost.

There's a few threads that have learned to ignore them and they are pretty comfy because of that.

>>15962635

I've seen someone using a fun technique to steal from shops.

Basically, you need 2 guys, one with high stealth and one with absolutely terrible stealth so the following sequence happens:

>tall, bulky shek with full plate armor enters the shop

>immediately crouches down and starts sneaking around, looking suspicious as fuck, atracting attention instead of going unnoticed

>the guard and the shopkeeper won't have any of this silly business, so they start harassing the walking wardrobe to leave the shop

>horrible ninja shek goes outside, the guard and the shopkeeper keep following him because "what the fuck is he doing, sneaking around while stomping the ground!?!?"

>unbeknownst to them, a clever ashlander moves in

>he lockpicks everything, takes every item it wants and eventually moves outside

>full plate Shek drops the act, everyone goes back to their posts

>ashlander offloads all the stolen crap on the Shek so he can carry such an heavyweight around back to camp

It's almost like a comedy sketch with Laurel & Hardy.

>>15963374

That's because its accuracy is affected by stealth level.

>>15964013

>everything in the game has 1 swimming so you can just go across rivers and puddles and take pot-shots while things slowly crawl towards you.

It makes sense for regions which don't have any water on ground or have acid lakes, so majority of them I guess.

>>15968082

>That's because its accuracy is affected by stealth level.

Oh I'm aware, but normally when they spot you they call you out and your UI says that the disguise is broken.

This dude just started chasing me down the moment he saw me whilst the UI showed me as still being disguised, then when he attacked me it finally broke and other faction members noticed me.

It's like he aggroed on me, then when I managed to hide and let the counter reset he never stopped his targeting of me and went after me automatically without needing to do a stealth check.

Oh well I'm further in the game and it doesn't matter anymore. Solved it by waiting for nightfall and dropping my disguise completely then stealthed out of town.

>>15971448

>This dude just started chasing me down the moment he saw me whilst the UI showed me as still being disguised, then when he attacked me it finally broke and other faction members noticed me.

He was just really smart. He recognized your face :^)

>get enslaves by reaver bandits

<but their ai is shit so they kinda leave my shek behind

>she breaks out of her shackles and goes back to where they dropped our shit

>town nearby, I'll hire mercs and find out where they took my guys

>meanwhile one of my guys is knocked out and the others leg is fucked up and getting worse

>the wounded one tails off behind the captors

>while in town, I see guards running to the gates

>The bandits are attacking the town and they have my guys

<but because my guys were obedient slaves they get flagged as an enemy so I had to fuck with quickloads

>One of my guys was able to make a break for the town gates during the fight and get inside so he could pick his shackles

>Shek runs out for the limping one while my skeleton picks his shackles during my captors fight

>all free men and the slaving faggots are rotting at the gates

That didn't go as expected but I'm glad I got away.

>>15967299

Holy shit, why didn't I think of that. Thanks anon. Brilliant.

>>15966534

There's a few good spots in the southernmost part of the map that are quite close to Clownsteady, Drifter's Last and the waystation between them. Lots of waterways for good fertile land too. Only thing is you need to watch out for the UC nobles that wander with a REALLY strong team of bodyguards. If you even go near them they attack. But you can just close up your gates and wait for them to pass until you're strong enough to take them down. There's a slave farm in the area too if you like breaking them out for free labor or just turning bandits in for cats. I always sort of end up in this general area, altho I like to have multiple outposts all over eventually.

It's probably been said in this thread but I want to encourage everyone who's struggling a bit to get at least one character's athletics up as soon as possible. Once you are faster than everyone else, you can go practically anywhere on the map and be able to run away from danger even with a full pack. This way you can leave your farmers and laborers to their work while you treasure hunt in hard to reach places.

>>15967299

>>15975631

>Distracting guards

Works great when it does. However sometimes they'll bug and keep turning towards your thief even if you run out of town and are completely unseen.

Guess it can be solved by having two thieves in your squad but so far I've only focused on training one.

At what point is it worth to start building your own base? I've set up a pretty comfy base in The Hub with a storage house, research building, cooking shack and a rest place with beds and training stuff on the roof.

Just started exploring further away than before to check out other towns to find new recruits and better gear, ended up in Mongrel with a squad of roughly 20 people. It's a great place to get really good items but over half of my recruits are new and weak plebs. Even my stronger characters are only in the 25-35 str range with 15-20 melee combat.

I'm thinking of setting up a base in Mongrel to farm the shops a bit, look for recruits and do some light training. Its a long trek to The Hub and it doesn't have many to recruit and mostly poor items.

>>15975631

>Once you are faster than everyone else, you can go practically anywhere on the map and be able to run away from danger even with a full pack.

It isn't possible to outrun all things in game though.

Fucking Beak Things.

>This way you can leave your farmers and laborers to their work while you treasure hunt in hard to reach places.

Better to memorize what major hazards are in certain areas before doing this though.

>>15949395

Aren't you fed by your masters?

Ok, so you can make lolis.

Can you make proper baras? I like playing as baras going with lolis.Is unarmed combat viable? or you'll die without a sword?

>>15975708

Yeah the character creation is pretty flexible and most new recruits are customizable, though you'll probably want to look into a face mod. The anime one is decent. Unarmed combat is its own stat and gets a solid attack bonus indoors, there's also plenty of gear to boost it.

As for viability, I don't know. Haven't it on anyone yet.

>>15975721

I see, is to see if it would be possible go bara monk or get a sword and go bara Yojimbo/sword Clint Eastwood.

>>15975685

>At what point is it worth to start building your own base?

When you have too much people to depend on nearby cities food supplies and start resorting to mass poaching local wildfire for meat.

>ended up in Mongrel with a squad of roughly 20 people

Damn. That's a lot for that place.

>I'm thinking of setting up a base in Mongrel to farm the shops a bit, look for recruits and do some light training.

You will need to do so, especially when half of your people are greenhorns with low athletics.

Get some gas masks too.

>>15975708

>Can you make proper baras?

Yes.

>Is unarmed combat viable? or you'll die without a sword?

Yes, but on low skill levels it's even more dangerous than heavy weapons.

Also it gives minor damage to limbs of user, when fighting against high-armored NPCs. *Skeletons and prosthesis limbs are immune to this.

>>15975757

I see. Good to know. Also, is the game filled with weeabo culture like all samurai stories should? or they have a samurai culture full of niggers and americans when it makes no sense? I just want to play my unrealizable anime story.

>>15975685

>At what point is it worth to start building your own base?

It depends.. but first either find a good spot for mining stone or have a decent amount of money to buy building materials from shops. You'll need mostly those and iron plates to get all the basic stuff built. Sometimes I'll build a small mining camp in a resource rich spot and not even build walls, I just get a couple good turreters and maybe a merc group for at least the first couple days while I set up. This camp is for providing the resources to build a bigger outpost. Once I have a good amount of building materials, iron plates, etc. I'll find a good spot and start building. Get a good fast character and send them on an expedition. Make sure you use the prospecting button to see what resources are available in the area. Have them hang around an area for a bit and see what spawns to get a good idea of what kinds of mobs will be plaguing you. Make sure your teams have those backpacks that stack things. It makes life a lot easier. And have a plan for food. Either town runs to buy it or farming. But keep in mind that farming takes time and doesn't always yield as much as you'll need depending on squad size. How many people you should start with depends on what you want to do. Keep in mind you won't have town guards to protect you when Holy Nation comes a knockin for your Sheks and Skeletons. Turrets are your best friend and you should research all the advanced ones ASAP. A couple good turrets with skilled operators will save your ass time and time again. I didn't really answer your question I guess but I hope these tips help.

>>15975768

>Also, is the game filled with weeabo culture like all samurai stories should?

Not really. It's just contained to United Cities territory and even then it's just weapons and armor for local police force.

Political situation there is closer to China across its entire history.

>they have a samurai culture full of niggers and americans when it makes no sense?

Lord Tengu is a nigger, but not a real Scorchlander though. So it's probably just a mutt and ((nobles)) are real culprit for all bad things that happen there.

>>15975799

So, no weeabo culture except for a few badly made samurai armors? I'm a bit disappointed regarding that. So I guess the world is filled with people called Jack, Johnny or some shit like that instead of just having postapocalyptic nips.

>>15975829

well there are ninjas lots of ninjas

>>15975852

Also Cannibals(13 tribes of these), Fogmen and 20+ other hostile factions or non-factions.

>>15975852

>>15975876

I just watched too much samurai anime and samurai movies, so not having regular samurai towns feel a bit lackbusting.

Are there yakuza at least?

>>15975879

>Are there yakuza at least?

The closest thing to that are Shinobi Thieves. You can join them for a lot of Cats. It was 25.000, if I remember it right.

>>15975927

>It's 10.000c

It's less now? Good to know, I guess.

>>15975966

I mean you can try and roleplay as the last nip using a nodachi and katana wearing samurai armor. Make money by stealing using your ninja skills and shit. Other than that the weapons and armor are the only things to consist nippon influence.

>>15914469

>install game

>create character, enter game

>don't know what to do, mine like a retard for hours

>labour at level 50 or someshit

<well I've got money now. what do next? say, isn't this game about forming a gang or someshit?

>go to some bars, grab 3 followers

>start mining with 3 followers at the same time while 1 stays at the newly created base and does research

>faggot marauders demand weekly pay or someshit

<wtf i can't afford that

>only options are to say "yes, i'll pay" and then die a week later, or to say "no, i won't" and die now

>stop playing

fun game but not for me I think. i really want to get into combat but all my characters get chain-locked by literally any enemy that isn't a rag-wearing stick-holding retard.

>>15975989

Best you can do is try to land yourself in the capital of united cities and live off there, since they seem to be the most nip out of all of the factions with their samurai armor and nip named lords. The capital is Heft.

>>15975981

There's multiple posts in this thread repeating this story and there have been many like this in past threads as well.

If you're some kind of idiot that thinks you're going to discourage anyone from playing this, stop.

The graphics and gameplay do a better job at that than you ever could, and those that aren't stopped by either of these due to sheer autism will just laugh at how bad your examples are.

But just in case you're genuine…

You should get into combat precisely because your characters are shit. Getting a few beatings increases their skills, and getting their ass kicked increases their constitution.

You're not expected to win every fight at the start, especially when you go against well trained and well armed thugs. But your characters can learn and train from the experience since they don't actually die but are merely dropped unconscious. (Unless you're near some really bad shit)

You can also invest in walls and crossbow, especially since now they can be regular weapons too.

Dunno if it's viable to train your guys one against the other either since that'd be a safer option to stat up.

>>15976028

>You're not expected to win every fight at the start, especially when you go against well trained and well armed thugs. But your characters can learn and train from the experience since they don't actually die but are merely dropped unconscious. (Unless you're near some really bad shit)

How do I tell when someone's going to make a slave out of me? I haven't come across this but I know it happens, and this is the main reason I haven't gotten into combat that much. I don't want to lose my guys, ya see.

>>15976040

Last I checked, there was a single faction that enslaved people, the Holy Nation. You can tell it's them because of their incoherent ramblings and since they'll harass you as much as bandits, but they're only a problem if you're near their turf.

You're worried about losing your dudes to something that shouldn't even be a problem and doesn't happen that often either.

Why don't you actually play the game, notice what's dangerous and what isn't, learn from it and do better next time? You don't have to succeed at the first time, the game won't uninstall itself if you lose your first dudes.

>>15975981

Combat tips

>Numbers matter

<2:1 advantage for you is sufficient against people with same stats or slightly higher than you, with equipment on same tier.

<3:1 against herbivore animals, but it will difficult anyway, so you better wait until some animal gets separated, then trash it with crossbows and polearms.

<max you can:1 against predators/hostile factions stronger than you/anything who will eat people if you lose, you need to focus several characters on one enemy, shake them off by running away of their aggro range, run towards to patrol of faction hostile to your attackers or hide in friendly/neutral outposts.

<With animals you can loot them when they get KO'd in middle fight to kill them instantly

>Crossbows are helpful, when used during first strike and on flanks during battle to weaken them further while they are busy with melee fight

>Grind strength, so you won't get slowed by wearing heavy armor, which lowers total damage taken by largest amount and makes grinding toughness much faster. It receives stat exp per hit, but for total damage.

>You can safely hide in friendly outposts during enemy raids, after some time they will get fed up with waiting and leave. However, base can still get damaged and all people need to leave outpost for this to work.

>Just make temporary killbox as in >>15935824 image

>>15976020

Which is constantly raided by Skimmers, so food isn't even issue there.

>>15976040

When Slave Hunters, Slave Traders, Manhunters, Bounty Hunters, Holy Nation(while you aren't white human(Greenlander) male), Reavers are around and all your characters are KO'd or severely crippled and you won't be able to outrun them.

>>15976143

*but not for total damage

Do I need to leave at least 1 unit in a town where I've bought/built houses? Saw some forum posts about some guys losing their shit after ~2 weeks. Don't know if it's just an uncommon bug but might do it to be safe.

>>15975981

This anon listed a bunch of nice mods, the random enemy squad number one will make it easier to get some early combat experience since you'll run into some hungry bandits in packs of 2-5 with low stats early on if you're lucky. >>15949494

Also what the other replies said about starting in a city, worked really well for me and traveling to and from different ones in order to steal is a great way to level up strength, athletics, making money and saving up resources you'll need in the future.

>>15975879

I think I saw a bunch of weeb armors on the workshop.

>>15976262

I guess I'll check that eventually with many other weeb replacements or something. Anyway, does this game get any discount anytime? Everytime a discount period comes the only game in my wishlist that doesn't get a discount is Kenshi.

I know this has already been asked but what's a nice area to set up a base? Both visually, resources and not too strong enemies or super frequent attacks?

I'd prefer something a bit greener but so far the only place suiting that requirement (which I've found) would be somewhere in Okram's Pride but I don't really want to piss of The Holy Nation (yet, anyway) and it would be a bother to only have human settlers and guards.

>>15976565

Leviathan Coast, good luck in breaking through Cannibal Plains or Iron Trail every time you want to sell shit though.

Eastern Islands of Howler's Maze, Very hard to access, but good amount of resources.

Shem, part with lakes at least.

Skinner's Roam, lake in north.

Fishman's Island.

Bast, UC and HN will be too busy killing each other out there to bother you. Maybe some Cannibal attacks, but nothing major with some turrets and tier-1 walls.

>>15976677

Can you make individual homes instead of full houses? To live the pioneer life.

>>15976800

>Can you make individual homes instead of full houses?

I don't think so. Just use small ones ex.Small Shacks and Stormhouses.

>>15939704

“She” is also a moderator for several other discussion boards too.

At least it’s not the Day Z moderator Orlok.

I remember he was backseat moderating Elite Dangerous when they were getting shit for bad dlc.

Pointed out to him that he isn’t the moderator for Elite Dangerous and I got perms bannned for it.

There is a lot of cronyism with moderators on Steam.

The fact deva choose who moderates conversation on a platform is amazing.

It’s like if Amazon allowed retailers to moderate their reviews.

>>15976677

Thanks, I'll start by checking out Shem and Skinner's Roam, both are nice in the centre so I can roam in any direction.

>>15976904

Honestly, the worst part about it is that all of them probably "do it for free"™.

>>15976849

I see, and I guess you can't have children nor have relationships. Just to make a lineage.

>>15976565

>>15976677

Northern Coast is also a good spot, you'll really only get raids from swarms of cannibals, so as long as you get walls and crossbow turrets up, and some decent engineers to keep your gate repaired, you can stay pretty safe. Holy Nation won't bother you there, and you have World's End nearby to sell stuff, or even the fishing village on the coast.

Fertility, iron, and copper are all pretty abundant in that area.

>>15977171

How about cannibalizing cannibals?

>>15977185

You will need mod to do that.

>>15974961

>reaver bandits

pay all my taxes and shit to the united cities only to be hit by Reaver Bandits.

get fucked, enslaved, escape.

go home just in time to pay taxes and protection to the traders guild.

WHERE IS YOUR MASTER SLAVE

am i just done now? i don't want to have to rebuild again but then i got hit by more reavers and my squad got spread out over reaver territory and the game is starting to shit itself. and i don't want to have to ditch my farm. and i had a nice gig stealing beak thing eggs but now i cant even get into town to sell them. level 2 gates do nothing against reaver packs and the beak things that where protecting my base got wiped out by taxmen. the bars are empty so i cant even higher merc's

>>15976040

slavery is unironicaly not that bad… and i suspect a kind of intended story line. my only problem is that you get just about perma debuffed on your reputationwitch isnt even real other than niggers being called niggers even the Great Kan was a slave for a bit b4 he broke lose and eventually rained down vengeance on the clan that did it unless i'm retarded and there is a easy fix for it.

>>15976115

i wasn't slaved by them i settled in the gut and got hit by reavers then there was some slaver raid event that started happening after that. and i hear that slavers will just grab downed characters regardless of relation.

>>15977693

>pay all my taxes and shit to the united cities only to be hit by Reaver Bandits.

That's not tax. It just normal extortion in (((United Cities))) case.

>am i just done now?

Not yet, until all your characters are dead.

>i don't want to have to rebuild again but then i got hit by more reavers and my squad got spread out over reaver territory and the game is starting to shit itself. and i don't want to have to ditch my farm. and i had a nice gig stealing beak thing eggs but now i cant even get into towns that belong to United Cities to sell them.

While that's unfortunate you should grind a little more, mainly strength(by taking multiple heavy items into your inventory) and athletics(it raises itself just by walking), so you could break your shackles and just run away afterwards.

Don't worry about hunger. It won't fall below 115.

>i settled in the gut

That's one of most annoying hostile biomes in game.

>i hear that slavers will just grab downed characters regardless of relation.

That's true.

>>15978081

even if it was just that then they should LET ME GIVE THEM MONEY, i was running a successful farming operation b4 i started slaughtering beak things by the dozen with turrets. showing up to town and draining merchants of all their cats… successful individuals dragging their shit economy out of the fucking dirt willing and able to pay all the bribes necessary but no they want to have me work in that shit cactus farm that barely functions. B4 you count in the labor loss of having slaves be watched over.

>>15978218

>i was running a successful farming operation b4 i started slaughtering beak things by the dozen with turrets. showing up to town and draining merchants of all their cats…

Unfortunately, game just doesn't acknowledge this as fact. Too much work to program it in game, I guess.

United Cities economy lore-wise is entirely supported by slavery, unless you help Rebel Farmers and kill all Nobles off, which demands several genocides and bounty hunting in several areas around great desert for the best outcome possible and some their cities get completely fucked over anyway.

>successful individuals dragging their shit economy out of the fucking dirt willing and able to pay all the bribes necessary

You are implying that it all just doesn't go to yours (((nearest noble))), which is bullshit.

Especially, when they have ridiculous amount of expensive useless shit in their noble houses which I saw myself.

It would be enough to hire over 10 cheapest drifters, feed them for two weeks with bought dried meat. It doesn't even include cats for selling entire equipment of their squads.

>>15978341

oh, i did a mouse over and EX-slave just wears off

>>15978429

Just make sure to not get caught again, it will reset and you will need to wait even more.

It also works with bounties under 10.000c, but just 1c over that and you are fucked unless you have mod for surgery, which makes possible to remove bounties over that amount. Price for doing this is 10.000c.

Is it fun to start as a slave? also, can you edit your look after character creation?

>its crashes on loading, starting a new game and traveling across any long distance

>even on speed one

Is it just this game because it only uses one core or is it time I finally bought an ssd?

>>15978556

>Is it fun to start as a slave?

I think so, but I'm a fan of rough starts in general as they are more interesting to me. My most successful character started with Rock Bottom. Fun or no, the Slave start is a great way to make sure your character gets a chance to level up all kinds of shit easily before you break free and start doing you own thing.

>also, can you edit your look after character creation?

Yes. Plastic surgeons are in some inns and, if you join the shinobi, one at every tower who does it for free.

>>15978998

>Plastic surgeons are in some inns and, if you join the shinobi, one at every tower who does it for free.

I think I lost ability to recognize what was in base game and what I modded in.

Fuck.

>>15978963

I think it just bug with recent versions.

>>15921363

the real question is can you impregnate children and have people

>>15979033

Which version do you use? I had some luck on 1.0.2 but its decided to die on me recently

>>15979049

Any advice on how to stop it crashing before the game even loads? Would an ssd help, a better cpu or should i accept the game is fucked?

>>15979118

Moneys tight tbh

Ryzen 3 2200

8gb ddr4

1050 ti 2gb

HDD

>>15979080

1.0.8

I think about updating to 1.0.10 to get fix for Rebirth bridge and issue with invisible walls on walkable tiered walls though.

>>15979078

No, you can't.

>>15978996

>>15978998

Oh, so you need surgery? I was hoping I could roleplay the life of a slave from childhood to adulthood before escaping and becoming a yojimbo.

>>15980654

No, the 'Ex-Slave' status disappears after 48 hours of being undetected.

>>15980752

But can't you escape in a violent manner after training a lot? opening your way through the sword and maybe kill all the enslavers. Or enslave them yourself.

>>15980767

>But can't you escape in a violent manner after training a lot?

Not completely alone without relying on assassination skill.

You're better off training 20 characters to mid-70 stats to wipe out few slave farms/mines/other outposts that belong to Slave Traders in United Cities Territory, but it still will be hard.

>>15980830

You can recruit people even while being a slave?

Silly question, but are there gladiatory fights? to be a slave and gladiator at the same time.

>>15980849

Yes, but it's a pain.

>>15980964

These were supposed to be added into game someday.

>>15980994

How does recruitment work? do you create another character or what?

>>15981155

>How does recruitment work?

Main ways:

1. Hire some drifter in bar. 3.000c (Always successful)

2. Buy slave 1.000c+ (Very unreliable. They could just run away after exiting town)

3. Some characters(unique ones) will join you for free by choosing correct answers during talking with them.

>do you create another character or what?

You can modify non-unique characters for free after you recruit them.

>>15981258

And is there any social aspect between them? do they talk/have relationships? or are they just faceless goons or cannon folder?

Game sucks.

>>15981458

They have unique banter with other specific followers, like Mount & Blade.

There's also unique dialogue caused by events, such as seeing an enemy patrol, entering areas, replacing limbs with robotic ones etc.

I suggest getting these two mods:

>'Interesting Recruits!'

<Adds more unique followers, with dialogue and everything.

>'Let's Talk'

<Lets NPC's repeat dialogue, much is only ever said once, even by non-followers.

>sell iron ore and buy lots of fabric

>get little nigger making bandanas for his owners

>he picks up fabric from the fabric container, turns it into a bandana and puts it into an armor chest

>everything but putting the fabric in the fabric storage is automated

>leave him at it for a while

>hes level 80 armor crafting and hes making two bandanas selling at 800 each per 60 piece of fabric

Going to move out of town so I can make cotton fields so he can go wihout stopping.

>>15983722

That's a lot of Dust Bandits.

>>15983884

I'll do some tactical savescumming tomorrow and hope they roam into a different direction.

>>15987338

What the fuck is supposed to be going on there?

I have yet to start building my base yet as I am busy running around like a mongoloid.

How'd you get so much money for all those recruits?

>>15981488

>wasting a 1488 get

There's a special place in hell for people like you.

>>15987517

The ones on the outside are bandits attempting to raid my base. I ordered all my units into the house and then had one of them build a shelf in front of the only entrance. The bandits can beat down the door but couldn't figure out how to get past the shelf. My recruits with big heavy weapons have enough reach to strike through (green numbers are damage done) and cleave the fuck out of them but they can't do shit with their small weapons.

I also have a few mounted crossbows on the roof, but need to build more.

I don't know if you misstook the bandits for my recruits, but regardless making money is easy - steal everything that isn't nailed down.

Bring multiple backpacks to fill and some carry assistance then level up a dedicated thief that does all the sneaking and stealing. I went with the slave start and only had two characters for some time, I used 'The Hub' as my base for quite a while. Ran to the nearest city, stole as much as possible (many higher quality weapons sell for 2-4k) and returned to The Hub. Sold until they had no money left and stored the other loot in a small storage house I bought. Then I went to another nearby city (shop inventories reset after 24h) and did the same, often brought some loot I stole from the other city (shops don't mind buying stolen goods if it's a different faction).

Other than letting you earn a lot of money, you'll train the fuck out of strength and athletics this way too. Strength levels when walking/running when encumbered, athletics always levels up but faster at light loads and slower and heavy.

>>15987338

Nice.

>Incoming 100+ bandit corpses

I hope you can build corpse furnaces, because you will need them at this rate.

>>15987702

Is there a mod to butcher bodies and be an industrious meat rancher?

>>15988699

Is Beep a bug man thing from Mongrel worth it? I accidentally got stuck with the guy. I dont even know what he is supposed to eat.

>>15988843

Beep is a worthless bugman with no redeeming characteristics.

He starts with:

>Some funny dialogue

>Some character interactions

But:

<He has nothing in every stat

<Can not equip headgear

<He has low limb HP

<Is in Mongrel

The easiest way to deal with him is to throw him on your back and sprint to the nearest plot of land outside the fog islands.

Alternatively you could always let his limbs get eaten by fog men and replace them with metal ones.

Either way he is absolute garbage but I keep him around because some of the shit he says his amusing.

>Be defending a shithole from dustniggers

>Literal horde approaching the base demanding food

>Crossbow pierces the skull of the leader before the whole outpost goes into a frenzy

>People dying left and right, limbs flying.

>Beep is left in his own house for his safety.

>Finally the fighting dies down, survivors gather loot while warriors recover.

>Wolf pack eats remaining limbs while their shit gear is smelted into ore.

>Beep is given an iron club to beat the dying stragglers with.

>After an hour of swinging wildly at a legless sandcunt he finally knocks his brain in

>"BEEP IS THE STRONGEST WARRIOR"

>>15988843

All races have different bonuses to levelling their skills, Hive Workers are kind of shit at combat but have bonuses to farming and labouring which can be useful.

http://kenshi.wikia.com/wiki/Races

>>15988843

Beep is a treasure and should be recruited if you can.

>>15988101

Yes. It should be in some mod for people which like to roleplay as cannibals.

>>15988843

He can eat everything edible, but limbs.

>>15988874

>He has nothing in every stat

Mine had high athletics and swimming, so he worked good as bait to separate squads out in wilds. I could cripple squads 3 times stronger than me by doing that.

>Can not equip headgear

He can't wear majority of these.

>He has low limb HP

That one hurts most.

>Is in Mongrel

At least that city is big enough to train strength just by using automatic iron drill which is in that town and walking around in that city with 90s of iron, while giving piggy-ride to someone in your squad.

>People dying left and right, limbs flying.

How many people did you lost?

>>15988963

>Shem

Try searching in Deadlands(high acid resistance mandatory and DON'T swim there) and Flats Lagoon.

>>15949494

>mods

I'd like to add

Attack Slots x3

dogbackpack

and for anyone who may be playing on a toaster or wants the game to run a bit more smoothly

Less_Foliage_and_Rocks_x2

>>15988949

A treasure indeed, it´s the only one who can reveal a secret about Agnu (a unique recruitable soldierbot) and he has some other unique dialogues with Probably her since in the dialogue where he ask "who´s else is a woman?" the robot actually responds and he goes unconscious, clangfags will love Agnu and Beep

>>15988954

>Low limb Hp

>Hurts

Not really, in fact it´s perfect for limb replacements, just let him lose his limbs and:

<Replace every limb with a KLR series with 220 HP each one + dexterity and strengh bonus

<Put him the armor of Holy Lord Phoenix since artificial limbs are easy to repair and maintain, plus a Heavy paladin hachigane on his head and samurai legplates to cover stomach/chest/head

<Add a second layer of defence with an hivemen chain mail

And there you are, you just make the weakest character into a murder machine HE will name himself Cyberbeep from the moment you put him his first limb

>>15988954

>How many people did you lose

>People

Most of the casualties were hivers.

So, no, we didn't lose any people.

>>15992640

>Most of the casualties were hivers.

>we didn't lose any people

My fellow Holy Nation brother.

>>15991015

>fact it´s perfect for limb replacements, just let him lose his limbs

I will try to buy/make/steal some first before letting this happen.

>>15993020

>I just wanted to find an economic solution to my acid rain problems and now I'm stuck with an army of mallgoth edgelords

Honestly, otherwise you would end up just with samurai army.

Besides, acid rain isn't even worst weather hazard in game anyway.

Burning is worst. Thankfully it's only in one biome with nothing inside anyway.

>when you wanna recruit Dinga but she is so fucking ugly you dont wanna bother

>>15993290

Aim towards buying a house in a town, anything larger than a shack. Use it for storing loot, save crafting items, consumables and food. Sell spare armor, weapons and luxury goods like alcohol and other things which are only used for trading.

Stealing is good money, lets you get gear and stock up on other things you'll need, some anons also mentioned crafting (make gear, sell it) is good but I feel like that'd only be worth it when you can safely build your own base so you can farm all the resources right near the crafting station.

Crossbows are good but needs careful positioning to avoid friendly fire, I like playing with a squad solely built for ranged fighting when exploring/stealing/looting since armor that helps or at least doesn't harm crossbow skill is light and often offers no negative athleticism. As opposed to heavy armor which most melee characters would want to use which not only weighs a lot but also tends to reduce your athleticism.

But earlier in the game I mainly used melee. Now that I have a nice base they get to work and defend it (with turrets backing them up) while my main squad is out and about.

Check out these mods, you might want to play a bit before modding it to get a better feel for why they're good/needed. But some are pretty easy to understand why you'd want them.

You might want to wait a bit with the 'Attack Slot x3', it's really nice (otherwise it'll just be 1v1 and most of your squad will just stand by and watch) but might make the early game way harder before you have some more recruits in your squad. Ranged weapons don't count towards the 'attack slot' (even without mods) so you can have 10 people mow down a single enemy unit in a single volley.

>>15949494

>>15990675

>>15993221

>>15993270

>>15993304

Just fix her with surgery afterwards or make her wear some helmet that covers entire face.

>>15993290

1. Make sure you have enough food for everyone you have.

2. Grind athletics and strength first. 25% encumbrance is good enough as long you don't go too far from cities. If you don't plan to leave city for long time try to carry as much you can.

3. Buy medium/large house in city to use it as your storage/research base/hospital(Make sure you leave one person there though.)

4. Get more people - 5/6 is good enough early game and not too hard on your wallet.

5. If you find someone/something unconscious on ground and no one is around, steal everything from it you can carry to sell it. Just don't try to sell these things to same faction.

>>15993393

I ended up going with Pia, another unique in the same village. She was also hit with the ugly stick but I found a surgeon and cured her.

My squad

>beat bugmaster

>My main guy, martial arts

>Bonedog all grown up, now boneGod

>Rane the giant. Plank user, nuff said

>Shryke, ung those hips. Also polearm pretty good

>Beep, only 2 mechanical limbs! Uses crossbows and hits hard

>Burn, suicide blade, hits hard and can get hit hard

>Seto, My pussy trophy from the StoneGolem herself, not bad.

>Garu hes just a pack mule man

I have nearly 60 martial arts on my main guy and can now one hit unarmored mobs straight dead and armored ones if I hit their unarmored head. I wear just the sleeveless dustcoat, Gi pants, and wrappings. My dodge and toughness are now high enough where I can tank or dodge damge. All of my crew is pretty high level, I think its time to start killing slavers and unique NPC's.

Also the bonedog at elder is a monster. Not bad for some useless puppy who got the shit kicked out of him all the time.

Is it posible to get very far as a single character or a duo?

>>15994222

>Was that some kind of bug or actually a feature?

I think that loot is only there, when going into ruins for first time.

>I personally just want a good area to make a base, which I have no clue where to.

Try some in >>15976677

>Shem seems like a good place but its crawling with bandits and those starving faggots.

It should get better after you slay Dustkang.

>>15994244

Honestly, every animal at elder stage is a monster.

>>15994322

Nope.

>>15994322

Depends on what you want to do. You can thieve, trade, craft, etc. with two people. You'll want to max-out stealth, stealing, and assassination. You won't be able to build much of an outpost as two people won't really be able to defend it. You can worship Okran with only two people, but it's better to enslave the lizard niggers and other such darkened abominations to please his holiness.

>>15993393

Also if make sure to specialize. Having 1 armor crafter with 90 skill is way better than having 3 with 50 skill.

>>15994369

Damn. I guess thats fucked for that playthrough. I need to focus on getting stronger then. Gonna have to focus on getting my party BEEFY then.

>>15994377

Fuck Okran. The Holy Nation are all a bunch of lunatics.

>>15994501

Is it possible to kill Okran or is he just some kind of unreachable God or is it actually spoilers for you to answer my question?

>>15994533

No, he's dead already. You can just put an end to Holy Nation dynasty. Feminist Ninjas, Sheks, Fogmen and Skeletons will be grateful*. *Your mileage can vary.

>>15994244

Martial arts gets really broken in the higher levels ie. punching and kicking off peoples limbs

>>15994585

On what level? 90?

>>15952882

And this is the post that convinced me to play it, thanks anon

>>15996732

I'm curious is Kenshi made with Spring?

>>15917493

Certain vendors will sell masterworks from day1.

>>15998128

yes, along with some cork, tape and glue.

>>15914469

it's a wonderful grind game, I've built up several settlements of various starts with various population sizes 7 to 28 and it's always been fairly fun.

Archery is shit don't invest

btw, who has a magnet for version 1.+?

>>15998071

It's only hard at beginning.

I still remember how badly I was trashed when I went there for first time.

Everyone died.

>>15998643

>Archery is shit don't invest

It's passable as early game defense, when you don't have turrets yet. Also these don't occupy attack slot, so one good volley from strong crossbows will be able to fuck up almost everything except for leviathans and some extra animals from mods.

>>15998752

To build bowsand get good at it, just is too much of a distraction. Just master melee and get tough instead. Yeah it's my 2cents.

>>15999424

I'm more confused on how you got the crab in there to start with

Has anyone tried blockading mountain paths up to unwalkable terrain? I tested to see if the game would complain. Seems pretty cheesy but a possible way to funnel dickheads or set up gates as early warning systems.

>>15999424

Also like this idea, might incorporate some furniture as blockades.

>>16000282

Yes, I only bought a house to stash my shit. I tried taking on Tengus vault but still got memed which kinda sucks. I thought my guys were pretty tough. Guess I'll go hunt bounties in the meantime.

So I haven't played since 0.98.6, how is the last quarter of the map like Ashlands?

Was anything added to The Eye?

>>16000392

The last quarter is tough as balls anon and nothing new in The Eye region, but there's a working "eye" in the last part of the map.

>>16000282

>Can it be possible to play this game without ever making a cool ass base?

Yes. As long you get any kind of house to use as storage and don't get too many people that getting enough food/medicine/beds becomes problem.

>>16000409

It's prison.

>>15999498

Animals can be knocked unconscious too.

…unconscious things can be picked up…and healed.

>got agnu

>has all of this dialog with beep

God I love Beep. I also swapped his oldworldbow with a Slambat and he can hit for over 100 at a wack now.

>Jesus Christ, I heard it was overpowered but I didn't know it was like that. Now I'm rethinking my whole strategy.

NO

FUCK YOU

This is the REWARD for sticking it out this long with martial arts. Its a really long road to walk but it feels so good when you arrive at the end of it.

>>16000594

>>16000638

Just remember that your limbs will receive feedback damage, if you go with martial arts.

>>16000736

martial artist bindings help with that, though if you don't put them on, your toughness goes up faster.

>>15999654

on earlier builds I built walls up the side of mountains and go to places nobody else could, it wasn't that great though because not enough land to give a shit.

>>15999424

where the fuck can you find giant crabs?

>>16001147

Those first two pics are out of order, that dude was some strangler after the chaos.

>>16001194

>get notification about a ruin i'm walking by

>investigate

>find Tower

>that's wired its not even lock

>GoatsSwarmOut

>slaughter goats with 6 man team

>loot the room

>all that is there is barrels filled with ancient science books (damaged)

>every level of this tower is the same

>hundreds of ancient science books Destroyed with the description reading the Goats ate most of it

The thing about goats, there were two more than I ever saw. I guess it must have been eight initially. Perhaps two packs. What a cross area through The Hub area. No idea about that but the fedora tippers and DEUS VULT.

>>16001241

Did that actually happen? I sure can believe it.

Peace is at 46 athletics already. I don't have many hours through the week for this.

>>15999424

Can you tame those things with that beat taming mod? I've got it installed but haven't tried it, just bought some from the nomads.

>>16001552

It's not tamed. I don't have the beast taming mod installed. But it's not a regular mob so probably not.

diplomacy when?

Not having a main quest in this game feels weird.

I understand the concept of the game is that of a RPG sandbox, but I still feel like I need some endgame which by the look on this tread doesn't seem to exist.

I really like the engine anyway, I think it could be easily adapted to stuff like planescape torment.

>>16001147

Goats don't fuck around. They are able to obliterate everything with low stats.

>>16001684

>I still feel like I need some endgame which by the look on this tread doesn't seem to exist.

Try killing off some major factions in that case(by hunting down NPCs with diplomatic status* *not pacifers) or commit genocide on some city.

Good luck.

>>16001691

My science woman almost died. Peace will not let them die somehow.

WHO'S NOBODY NOW?

If you're wondering who Peace is, she's the one the game made. She has all the toughness, stronk and medical care

The Game made her, and called her Peace.

Pin is the only hard one. Tells Peace to run. Slink away and hide until whoever is dead. I have note had a game or novel make me care this much in a long while.

Apologies for the quadposting,. I have not had a game make me feel like this in a decade.

>>16001684

Yeah it would have been nice for there to be a mystery to uncover. Im also pissed you cant enter some of the crashed ships and what not. Talk about a waste.

>>16002275

Mods will fix it.

Tbh Kenshi should have done what Terraria did and just take suggestions and shit from the community and built the game up from there.

>>16002392

Hopefully, devs will make possible to edit scripts after they cease development on this game.

>>16002426

There is the boob jiggle mod. And upon closer inspection cannibals have nipples. Time to kidnap and mindbreak a cannibal cutie and feed her my enemies.

>>16002591

Its just not out yet. Give it another mo th or two, the game just "finished"

>>15914724

Mount and Blade definitely has a MQ, even MC has one.. I would prefer Kenshi had some ways to take over towns or something, being able to trully genocide a faction (and move into their towns and take their virgins) but.. whatever.

>>15998729

answering my own question. version 1.0.2

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>attacked a slave camp

>stole the noble

>fed her to gutters

Now what?

>>16004812

Either observe what did changed in UC outposts from safe distance far from gates or kill all remaining nobles.

Also try to avoid slave traders entirely from now on.

>>16004667

>I would prefer Kenshi had some ways to take over towns or something, being able to trully genocide a faction (and move into their towns and take their virgins) but.. whatever.

It has but only in "Take over {Insert outpost name}" mods.

This game has bad case of "mods will fix it".

>>16005023

Send Crumblejon to Mongrel, maybe he can recruit some Fogmen to assist you.

>>16005023

Build some walls, turrets, and crossbows. In the meantime you can just wait the bandits out. Give it 24 hours, go back, and they should all be gone. They may have stolen some of your stuff, but that's how Kenshi goes.

>>16005005

You forgot to mention that they probably destroyed First Empire too unless these somehow managed to escape from Kenshi forever.

>>16005321

>not just wiping your hands on your pants to dry them

>>16005321

elder beak? sounds like a mod?

>"Error - Failed to Save: Please Try again."

Am I fucked? first playthrough and I'm 7 hours in

>>16005321

>Recently the Noble for Catun in my game died while chasing me out of the town because I stole from his house, an elder beak thing showed up in the forest nearby, started killing and eating everyone.

Good job. The worst thing about this is that UC will think that's all your damn fault and will try to fuck your shit up if you build any outpost.

>The thing was a literal giant fucking monster with 100+ stats and a run speed of 45.

How terrifying.

>When I came back later the entire town was destroyed and full of fish/crab like creatures called gurglers.

That's because Kenshi has thing called world states, which will override NPC cities after some NPCs get killed or kidnapped. Majority of time it can't be reversed and/or fixed.

To avoid it you can see conditions needed for city overrides in forgotten construction set.exe

>>16005405

That's wrong actually.

Animals have stat multiplier, which affects ALL THEIR STATS and slowly increases as long they are alive.

>x0.00 - x0.25 Pup

>x0.26 - x0.50 Teen

>x0.51 - x1.00 Adult

>x.1.00+ Elder

The highest multiplier which I saw was x1.56 on some Skimmer.

>>16005666

>defeat King in the royal valley

>that spoiler

Now that's super boss.

I am almost thankful that I still didn't went to southeast part of map yet.

>>16005321

>gurglers

WAIT THOSE THINGS EXIST?

I kept seeing a text bubble for gurrgle but I thought it was the game fucking with me.

>>16005836

>WAIT THOSE THINGS EXIST?

Yes. They are mainly around Fishmen Island and fogmen level of threat.