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I'm pretty sure they're mutated Hives.

>>16440244

Maybe everything that he wants to implement will be in the sequel?

>>16440204

I think spiders are just spiders. I dont think there is anything crazy behind them

Is there a dependable download for the latest version of this yet? Only ones I've been able to find are pre-1.0, (((IGG-Games))) or have some shady shit included. No one on the share threads put it up yet either.

Going to do a hive only run. Crossbow workers, dex soldiers, princes crafting.

Where do I get large numbers of hive guys?

>>16441100

You can easily get 2 hives in south-east part of Border Zone.

After that you will need to lurk at United Cities bars and slave shops.

>One of the few things I can't change the color of with this mod are dustcoats

>But I can its weaker little cousin, the longcoat.

Fug, rite in the benis.

>>16441100

Try checking EVERY SINGLE BAR IN THE GAME.

The first half of my game was going into every single bar in the game to gather all of the unique recruits.

Still missing a few after several imports though, something you can probably do to get even more Hives if you still don't have enough after doing that.

In my mind I'm playing an unpolished Suikoden spinoff as I'm 26 away from 108.

>>16440204

Should have named the thread "14 Hours a slave before being killed to be harvested for meat"

>>16441372

True, that would have been better

>>16440204

I imagine that drawn wallpaper with the HN slavemaster has Stobe holding his glorious beertower in the background and HN trying to explode it with all the fire and smoke.

Did anyone save that glorious piece of work?

What are some interesting ways to play? I keep starting again when I get rich and it feels boring that I have nothing to spend all the cats on. I thought bounty hunting would keep me poor but looting a base after capturing the bounty was hilariously lucrative.

>>16444703

I've been using 1.12 forever (3 threads) it works good and it is clean afaik.

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>>16445229

what level bounties?

ie, dust lord general whatever the fuck

>>16445333

A bunch of ninjas have some really good shit in their hide outs, easy money. The bounty themselves suck but that's part of the playthrough, the booty is where all the cats are made. The one in spine canyon is a good place to to clean up. The swamp has 2 easy ones. Kralia's chosen is easy and the shek there don't all attack on sight so as long as you have numbers you're taking the bounty.

>>16445356

so are your guys all using edge2+ weapons and specialist+ armor? because true wealth is power.

>>16445328

>IGG-Games

I'll pass I don't want to risk that. Guess I'll wait for a sale or something.

>Caravan drones are fighting tech hunters

>Pick them up, imprison them for recruitment

>One works, I now have a 60 melee dude for free

>The other 5 captives won't, are considered kidnapped

How do I get rid of the kidnapped tag?

I've tried releasing and knocking out and putting back in a cage, still counts as kidnapped. I have a town house, so I took it into the wild and it's still considered kidnapping.

With recruitable prisoners mod obviously.

>>16445356

There is a mod that adds bounties and random bounties. its nice to be able to make some early cats by turning them in.

>>16445866

>found in venge

I meant stobe's garden, sorry for doublepost

>>16445866

There is Lore on him in game.

Thats Stobe. He saved the continent about 100 years back and no even remembers

except those who were alive at the time

>>16445969

Skele's dindu nuffing they is good boys spreading the word of population control.

>>16445474

I only had 1 guy and a bunch of dogs at the time for fighting. I was using a lower tier weapon because of the weight and mostly high tier armour because I couldn't find anything better at the local shops.

>>16445962

There's some animation mods that make unarmed way better against groups of enemies but rip out both your arms and replace them

>>16445497

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GOG torrent from rutracker

>>16447038

Do you know if it comes with the experimental version of the FCS?

>>16447386

>Apparently my army can't pick up that anyone not one of us running around our base and are bandits probably need the fuck killed

Maybe you set their behaviour on passive

>>16447125

>it doesn't

WHY! I just want the updated version so I can make robotic limb starts.

>>16447755 (Nice triple dubs)

Can I join cat-lon in a vanilla playthrough?

Does the HN hate humans with prosthetics?

>>16448413

Most likely hivers are genetically engineered by the robot reich. They're some sort of weird mix between skeletons and biology. When the skeletons went into exile into the south eastern part of the continent they most likely put the hivers there in order to keep everyone else out.

For years i thought this game was multiplayer only and dismissed it. Now I see i was wrong. Can you tell me a bit about it, i want to try it out.

>>16448438

>Multiplayer Only

Nigga, this is single player only.

In this game you're plopped into a world. No one gives a shit about you and you do nothing important and die horribly. Unless you get /fit/ and grab life by the pussy.

>>16448438

I know what you mean. It feels like a simulation of a multiplayer game, but single player.

>>16448438

It's a weird sandbox rpg. Just try it, odds are you'll get addicted and sink hundreds of hours into it.

I just bought the game.

Which mods are recomended to roleplay as a slave becoming independent? also to turn enemy corpses into food and resources.

>>16450927

most important. How the hell do you eat being a slave?

>>16451434

you don't

the cages make it impossible for you to starve

>>16451579

Weird, I keep getting hungried by being a slave. Are you supposed to get fed in the cages?

>>16451579

Or do you mean the hunger of my characters won't drop to a certain level?

>>16451454

>>16449876

>build settlement in the deadlands to make house for my army of repaired robots while I do other things

>have to set up mining and processing facilities to get the resources and learn to build the cages

>just stated building the cages

>black dragons try to raid the settlement

>robots rape them till they lose consciousness

>most die in the rain because they don't have full acid resistance

>raid failed

>put 2 of them in the cages and nurse them back to health

>one lost a leg

>let them go

>realize now I should have had someone tail them to see if they made it out or just died in the rain

If there was a way to grow food here I would never leave.

>>16451864

Hydro

>>16451876

Interesting

What kind of music do you guys listen to when you play?

>>16451975

The in game music. Shame none of it is very long.

>>16440950

GGn has 1.0.25 (cracked by 3DM), and I trust them enough not to have IGG or other shit. Sorry I can't just post it for you, just letting you know that it exists.

>>16453646

>>16452009

>>16440950

For anyone waiting on this release, GGn tracker is down so this download is going nowhere for the time being.

So, which is the best biome to set up a base? is there any snow mountain in the game?

I just want a comfy snow village.

>>16455778

Is it nice?

>>16455810

Very much so.

>>16455834

How about mountain zones? everything just have mushrooms, rocks or sand.

>you can no longer use martial arts as a non -lethal method because you kill them on one single hit

I just kindapped that skeleton foreman to train my guys, it's easy when you are using the training weapons mod, and i still dont know which faction i should nigg with this power.

>>16456596

>>16455888

Now I'm starting to question your motives.

>>16456052

Check out the first comic It Hurts!

Bretty good

I wanna play a bug. Is this a bad idea?

>>16448310

>Etika

The fuck's wrong with that dude lately?

>>16455888

>>16456052

>>16457019

I'm genuinely surprised this is still going, I thought Pasqualo aborting himself and giving miss apocalypse trigger his life was the ending.

>>16457580

Shit, guess I got to read the first comic then.

>>16456537

download got broken somehow, won't download no matter the browser used, did this get shoah'd already?

>>16458904

If you're at the Hub, then the bar's will sell you small bandages. If you're looking to take screenshots there's a dedicated button for it in game.

>>16458946

Yep most common way for people to start off is mining copper and selling it for food rations.

>>16458961

What does my dude mean when it says, "the machine is full"? What machine? I can't find it in my inventory.

>>16458964

Okay the machine means the mining spot, it has its own inventory.

>>16458964

Click the iron resource and take the ore and put them in your inventory.

Mine copper, iron isn't worth as much.

>>16458333

working for me

>>16456537

>>16459015

Is this up-to-date?

>>16457580

>>16457746

>>16457989

Holy fuck shit, what a rollercoaster. I just marathoner the who thing and the shitty RPG MakerMV in one sitting.

God damn that was a good read.

But I don't think shits going to hit the fan, given that the universe was basically made for everyone to get a happy ending.

Fucking hell, I'm 99% certain that Patience is the fried chicken goblin reborn and he legit walked into nonexistence.

I need mods fam, stuck for some. Is there a place to get them other than nexus? I need more. I knew there was a russian thing where you could get stuff from the steam workshop.

Why's this game trying to make my computer melt?

Feels like this game would be perfect for a witcher inspired mod tbh.

>>16459442

Cool. Where's the mod for that?

>>16459384

https://www.steamworkshopdownloader.io/

>>16460104

Thanks lad.

I really wish there was some sort of tower defense mod that caused increasingly difficult raids to happen instead of raids generally getting less difficult due to depopulation. Maybe combine that with a reproducing queen hiver and some way to generate science artifacts and you have a neat tower defense setup.

>>16459015

page is not redirecting properly is the reason for why it's not downloading, what the fuck happened to it?

Is there any mod to remove bulk? I use a mod to raise my stats and skills over 100 and my character looks pretty retarded after getting some strenght, mostly arround the shoulders.

>>16458989

Iron is better for weight training though.

Ok, I'm losing my mind. How the fuck do you set a store? I'm trying to search for a tutorial and I find nothing at all.

>>16460372

>increasingly difficult raids to happen

There IS the chaos raid mod.

Which I am using.

I have a band of heavy shek + Falling Sun. I am wondering if the fragmented axe will do more damage as they have the strength now or is it good to keep the bonuses against the freaks of nature?

>>16464312

Just to add, I recommend everyone at least have a small band of 6 heavy weapons, clears out bandits & hordes of fogmen in seconds.

Just started this game as a ronin scorchnigger. The first thing that happened when I walked out of The Hub was a group of hungry bandits tried to kill me, and I kited them around in circles in town until some trade ninjas killed them. Sold their pipes, got a katana and the saga of ronin nigger begins. I found an inn where there were locked chests upstairs and a guard, but the guard patrols downstairs randomly, so I'd have ronin nigger pick locks while he patrolled and pretend to sleep when he came back. More amusing than I might have thought. I also found a ruined Shek village with a ton of loot including high grade chain mail so I'm fairly well off. I've managed to get my toughness up to 8 by occasionally stepping in fights with bandits and such but my dexterity is only 3. Is there a more efficient way to level up combat skills and stats? I saw skin spiders once Fuck that shit

>>16464559

Actually I just thought of something. If I get a follower can we spar against each other to train combat and healing skills?

>>16464589

Nope, just go to the fog islands as soon as possible, that should give you at least 20+ toughness, sneak, or lockpick, if you didn't die and actually made it into the only town there.

>>16464630

That is the area I was kind of meandering towards. Wasn't sure when to start researching so I built a shack along the river which runs through Okran's Gulf, because theres water and iron nearby. It does look pretty ominous on the map though.

>>16464651

You can go to the town and buy a shack there instead, the town has Iron drills but i'm not sure about the water

>>16456537

works for me, thanks

>>16460374

>>16458333

install gentoo

>>16464726

that thumbnail looks like a gorrila with it's back turned to us is pouncing Mississippi

I wish there was a mod for highlighting enemies that aren't stealthed. My vision is honestly shit (I can't drive a car, to give you some idea) and while I really like the aesthetics of this game, it's just a bit dumb that I get "ambushed" by gorillos or something while mining because I was speeding up time while mining. It doesn't really make sense that the player has to rely on their own vision given that this is an RPG where the player is almost fully divorced from direct agency in the game mechanics. I just have a habit of pausing the game more regularly now, but it still annoys me.

>>16465328

Also, is it me or is there really no combat log? That's kinda mind-blowing considering we had those in DOS RPGs like the Gold Box games.

>>16465328

toggling stealth for yourself might help because of the eye meter, you can also zoom out and look for the dust fx left by the footprints, apart from that not much it seems

>>16465639

It seems that I've already got over 50 Athletics so nothing can catch me anyways. Got to Mongrel and found Beep there. Fagmen are great for training on because of their harmless iron sticks. Sneaking around the Deathyards made my skill skyrocket.

>>16456537

thank you so much, this game is fucking tops

god damn, i've been playing for about 7 hours total and there's already so many stories i have to tell, this is the best timesink i've played in a long time, think i might buy it to support the devs

and (((they))) say piracy stops sales

>>16464818

by the way this actually does run on GNU/linux with wine+dxvk

>>16447386

black dragon ninjas, that script is fucking stupid as shit, your guys won't even properly fight them until they filled their fucking pockets with your shit. the only way to deal with it besides gates+turrets is to make multiple food storage places, because the script will only target 1 food storage and I'm fairly sure it's the same one every time. also, make that one hard to get too, slow them down with some pathing, so like 50 guys at once can't tap it.

i dont think i get this game. i started rock bottom, in the desert. i found a pretty green valley in HN territory. i buy goods from nearby cities for my outpost. feel like im doing tons of grinding.

no squad, no other characters.

waiting for farm to grow. building training doll.

am i missing something? feels like alot of grinding with very little to do.

>>16466879

So get more characters, it will give you more to do. There is a free unique recruit to get if you can find him

Is there a way to set up walking "jobs?" Like setting up a circular patrol path for my dudes so they can do strength training. I know you can shift-right click and drag but it doesn't work that great. The lack of UI design and number of half-assed UI elements in this game fucking kills me.

>>16466879

just wait until you find fun shit to do while you're weak, it'll start to click with you. i ended up leaving corpses outside of city gates so the bonedogs start to get attracted and eventually knocks out one of the guards, so i take his stuff and take him to the nearest slave trader, also attracting a group of bandits to town guards gives plwnty of fresh meat for slaves

>>16457043

just being a nigger.

>>16467644

The most fun things have been stealing and exploring by a decent margin for me. Especially since I got that incredible haul from a ruined Shek town. Think I'm going to leave the Fog Islands and do that tonight, if I can sneak by dozens of Fogmen then I can probably manage in most of the wastes. I just wish combat was easier to start on in this game so I could find that fun too. I want to start kidnapping people since I have decent Assassination but I'm not sure what the best way to extract value from that is.

>>16457043

He got sent to mental care, guy went batshit, also started talking about the jews.

>>16466879

you must have picked an easy zone to put down your first outpost.

The first outpost I put down was next to the hub and I got bullied by 5 different factions every 3 minutes.

>>16468226

It is easy to tell that it is a high traffic area if you stick around for a while. Unfortunately, isolated areas have their own issues.

>>16469203

if you don't mind being attacked by a certain bandit faction, I like building in the zone before snipers valley with all the acid pools everywhere. Mostly because it's 100% wind all the time.

>>16469836

That's a pretty comfy spot. I always slap down my starter base a little off screen to the left for more flat land. tfw starter bases always turn into main bases

>>16469877

This isn't a "starter". My "starter" is just buying the Longhouses in Heng. Then I moved into Gut. I enjoy harvesting the Beak Things, but the terrain is giving me so much grief I want to move into something more interesting. Plus Okran's Pride is more central, so I not only get a new goal (eliminate the Holy Order), but I can make expeditions to other parts of the map more freely.

>>16469836

I built right on top of a bunch of rivers myself.

This wound up giving everyone 95+ swimming..

Invaders can't swim too well which makes them easy pickings.

Get used to lots of river raptors though, pain in the ass but they feed all my pets and supply leather, shame they don't drop any non-foul meats for meat wraps though.

>>16470039

I could use the river I guess. I don't really like having to swim to leave, but like you said it trains the skill pretty good.

>>16469203

I built my first base in Vain. Prime wheat growing soil and tons of 100 quality copper deposits just littering the place, plus plenty of nearby Hive villages to sell to. My only issue is it's a long walk to get somewhere I can recruit non-Shek.

I'm about to start a Holy nation playthrough, so my squads will mostly consist of human dudes.

Does the HN consider scorchlanders to be more acceptable,since they're a race of humans, or are they hated as much as non-humans?

>>16471256

They are acceptable, I've been through a couple of HN towns with a scorchlander as my main dude, and he gets the "you wouldn't search a pure blood brother now would you" dialogue option with guards

Question, can you raise your reputation with other factions without killing others? I'm starting a slave start and I'm already under-20 reputation yet I need to be undercover in the Holy Nation until I can tell the Pray Day to fuck off.

made a big mistake settling in vein myself, these fucking giraffes have eaten one of my team already

>>16472466

Try healing them in order to gain reputation.

>>16472479

Can't I just put slaves in their cages? That brings another question, how do you sell slaves that aren't yourself?

>>16472484

find a slave shop in any city and carry the slaves, then when you talk to the shop owner he'll give you the option to sell them

>>16472521

The slave shop is the police station?

>>16472536

no, there's shops specifically for it, they have signs of people with chains over them smiling, you can find one in every town in the top right desert, i usually lead groups of hungry bandits to the town guard and make some bank

>>16472644

You shouldn't have been made of delishous man flesh.

>>16472727

I play more or less like you do, but I like having the options. I currently have 9 fighters, 6 turret operators, 5 pack animals, and about 12 assorted craftsmen and laborers. That's already going over the 30 unit cap in the default game and I'd be happy to expand several of those areas. I could use a few more laborers (about 4) a couple more pack animals, a few more fighters (up to 12 maybe?), and I always want more turrets.

>>16472478

For some reason they don't seem to spawn or go to the specific area I set up at, which is just east of the westmost Hive village on the river. Only time I get beaked things attacking people at my settlement is when they follow me back from elsewhere. Gorillos are all over but they are easy to avoid. I made a lot of use out of the hive soldiers.

>>16472727

What's the point of putting 2 weapons in the weapon slot 2? it isn't like you can dual wield, or you can?

>>16472644

>>16472685

just leave your camp empty and they will leave eventually and arround cannibals, always have a thief for sneak rescuing your party members

>>16473518

I've read that there is not and will not be dual wielding, and yet you still get 2 weapons on your back and there are some enemies (ninjas mainly) who spawn with 2 weapons in that slot. I think it's just aesthetic

Alright I just walked into Obedience and I'm fucking hungry, where should I head to seek out more lore of the world's history? I'd prefer ingame but if there's a site that points to important places that'd be cool too, this is the single most unique and engrossing world I've touched since I was a small child.

So, is there any starting game mod where allows you to start as a slave group or near one? The only thing I've found so far is about a couple enslaved.

>>16474893

Try It yourself - Faction Starts

>>16473812

My best advice to you is to get some cash for some food and just start walking around and occasionally talking to people in towns when you find them. NPCs with advice are few and far between (I'd venture to say most towns don't have them). One guy gave me advice that says to never go to the northwest corner of the continent.

But the most engrossing part of the world is just walking around and watching all of these freakshow motherfuckers live their lives. Sneaking around the Deathyards in Fog Island, hearing distant screams from people being eaten alive and seeing Fogmen ritualistically eat people is one of my highlights in this game. Having a settlement will also cause things to happen. I got a free recruit who was a runaway slave from the Holy Nation because I set up a mining camp. Finding village ruins and exploring those is also highly rewarding

>>16475174

I think I looked at it, but it didn't had any starting as a slave or it was a singular one. I just want to get a group of 5 into slavery, but at least I managed to get some starting with a group near rebirth. After some dealings I'll roleplay their slavery and done.

Seriously, I need an answer because I believe I did everything well.

How do I set up a store? I just want people to buy my metal.

>>16475415

Location matters. Remember everything is tracked in this game. In my Vain mining camp, the only people who ever passed through were Hive traders because those are the only other assholes crazy enough to live along an acid river surrounded by giant ostriches with teeth.

As far as I can tell there's no one "best" weapon, the good weapons do a lot of different things, but there are a lot of weapons that are just inferior or outright bad.

Blunt weapons are all utterly useless. Though they do great anti armor/anti robot damage, the enemy will get back up faster than you can knock them down.

Hackers are great single-target anti-armor. The best Hacker, the Paladin's Cross, does 30% armor pen which makes it good even against humans. Other hackers however just seem statistically weaker all-around. In my experience though in spite of the 23-reach Paladin's Cross only ever hits one or two enemies, I assume the same is true for other Hackers.

Heavy Weapons: Supposedly the Plank is the most damaging weapon, but it's more blunt than bleed so it suffers from "enemies getting back up" The Fragment axe is even worse, which leaves the Falling Sun as the only option. It's great damage and better at crowds than a Hacker, so I'd call it one of the best weapon options available.

Katanas: Nodachi has some of the best multi-target in the game. Katanas are overall fast and easy to use, but horrible against armor and robots so you need to bring some other specialists along. In general though there's no "tradeoffs" between them, they are just statistical upgrades from each other with the Nodachi or topper being best.

Polearms: The Nagitana does a good job of being a poor man's Topper, but that's about it. Polearms actually seem to do less with crowds than Katanas, so the choice between the two is pretty clear.

Sabers I'm still on the fence about. They might be just as good as Katanas but I haven't gotten much chance to use them at higher skill levels to find out.

>>16475680

But to set up I just need to put on a counter and some stuff in it?

>>16475728

Katanas are supposed to be better for killing people I guess, although nodachis are good general purpose weapons. I got the impression that blunt weapons are for taking prisoners more easily to sell for slavery like in Mount&Blade.

>>16475738

I don't know that much about selling shit from your town. I do know it needs to be set to public and then people are supposed to pass through and buy shit. But if there's no traffic where your settlement is, I could see that being a problem.

>>16473518

Aesthetic for one, and sword for humans, spear for animals. Also keep a hacker on my side and a big one in my bag for robots.

>>16475787

>I do know it needs to be set to public and then people are supposed to pass through and buy shit. But if there's no traffic where your settlement is, I could see that being a problem.

It's also bad if you're enemies with the native population or if they're farmers with no damn money.

Dumbass farmers that keep spawning infinite amounts of "Holy Conduct"s for my guys to make a huge ass pile of dead bodies out of.

I was kind of hoping allies would come visit with caravans or something but I've not seen it yet.

Course I'm only allies with the crab raiders currently due to them getting their asses beaten in the crab tournament and they're far on the other side of the map. Have yet to see them do anything since.

>>16475984

I'm bros with the Shinobi Thieves and have even smuggled shit to them on occasion. I wish there were smuggling caravans that traveled to your settlement because Hivers grow hash here in the river and I'd sell it all to them. Faction progression quests with rewards like that would set this game over the top into masterpiece territory

>>16477322

I hope you've got your Quran handy.

>>16475738

Search the wiki dude, not that hard.

I recal reading something about only certain items being of interest to npc's. Like food or building supplies or some shit.

>>16477322

mashallah brother

did /v/ start playing this because a cuckchan patreon eceleb did a review of it in February?

>eceleb reviews random piece of shit game in December 2018

>suddenly talked about endlessly on /tv/ one month later

What did /v/ mean by this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ZPBKi3obo

>>16477421

>>16477428

No, people here played it way before that review. Lurk more fags

>>16477432

post evidence of Kenshi being played before December 2018. I never seen it here before.

>>16477421

>>16477460

It was mentioned a while ago but I never looked into it because it was Early Access.

>>16477460

lurk more faget.

>>16477460

I think I've seen it once or twice? Doesn't matter, I'll admit that the reason I personally started playing it was because of this thread. I know nothing about any eceleb bullshit, I don't see that crap in the OP here.

>>16477428

>>16477421

I never heard of it until I saw a thread on the catalog. It's almost as if the game released which caused more people to talk about it. You could apply this retarded argument to any game.

>hey guys what do you think about Call of Dicksuckers 6: Modern Family

<AN ECELEB MADE A VIDEO ABOUT THIS GAME AND NOW THERE IS A THREAD. COINCIDENCE? YOU DECIDE

>>16477428

>>16477421

>game comes out of early access in December

>hmm I wonder why everyone started playing it around then

>must be e-celebs

>let me search jewtube so I can shitpost about it

what kind of dumb cunt thinks like this?

>>16477460

It was mentioned here quite a bit in the past.

Back then I always thought it was a MMORPG like SW Galaxies

Last night I realized my Vain settlement has a flaw. I never realized what stone mines were for until I watched some video where the uploader mentions offhand that they produce building materials. I'd gotten all my materials by trading with Hivers. Well, there's no stone along the riverbed at all, so now I am trying to set up an ancillary stone mining camp, but I got delayed because a gorillos atracked before I could build all the walls I needed and now they need to heal. Boy oh boy am I looking forward to having my own source for that.

>>16481345

I just learned about the skin peeler. I think more of my guys might be getting cybernetics in the future. First I need a good supply of spare limbs though.

>>16482045

I have a dude making parts for limbs ASAP to train him up when I make a base

>>16483047

The vendor in Black Desert City sells so many masterwork limbs I didn't worry about it. He also has two chests full of limbs you can steal every time his shop resets. However, if I want to equip everyone with masterwork scout limbs it's gonna take more than just that.

>>16483147

This, masterwork ranged weapons are also common enough to not need a master crossbow maker for.

You will probably want a crafter for melee weapons and armor though.

Assuming you're not only using martial arts.

>>16483147

>>16484235

In my last play through I had a hard time finding left or right limbs (depending on the who needed them) of the right type so there's always that.

>>16483972

I think higher-tier walls have denser harpoon placements. Tier 4 walls get 4 slots per large-section. Small wall sections have 0 harpoon slots (they also look uglier and are less efficient in materials), so try to straighten out your walls and use appropriate lengths to maximize the number of large sections.

Beyond that, Watchtowers are your obvious choice. Each watchtower has 10 slots on top. Keep in mind that Turrets can actually turn 360 degrees, so at least 7 of those slots should easily be able to face your target (the other 3 would have to shoot through the tower itself)

FYI, the two "outpost" type buildings (the last 2 researches) have ZERO turret slots. They are also really bad in terms of space (footprint vs usable space) and materials (requires more advanced materials to build, namely copper alloy). The only benefit to those building types is they can be built on extremely bad ground, for example you could have an outpost hanging off the side of a cliff with little effort.

Speaking of putting buildings on cliffs, you can try this mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1740462542&searchtext=slopeless

https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/398

It allows you to place normal buildings on bad terrain, level them out, and even put buildings partially inside each other. Definitely a must have for any autistic base designer.

>>16484235

I want to train someone to be a martial artist just to see what the animations are like, but I can't find the "special training equipment" mentioned in the skill description. Is it a recipe I have to find? Is there a town with one built that I can use?

>>16485348

I have no idea what that skill description is talking about. However, the fastest, easiest way to train Martial Arts is:

>Capture a skeleton with high skill

I think Martial Arts skill is the important one for this training, but I'm not really sure it could just be attribute based.

>Remove the skeleton's limbs

A peeling machine (blueprint looted from the Skin Bandit's leader) makes this task easy.

>Place the skeleton torso on a Skeleton Repair Bed

With no arms and no legs he won't actually get back off.

>Overload your inventory

Use Wooden backpacks filled with Iron Ore, and place them in your regular inventory, not the backpack slot

>Attack with whichever weapon (including unarmed) you want to train.

Use rusted junk weapons for other weapon skills. Giving the skeleton strong armor lets him take more hits faster, but when using unarmed it hurts your own limbs if you don't have prosthetic or armor that reduces self-inflicted damage. Unarmored skeleton torso doesn't hurt to punch, in spite of also being made of metal, but the training will go slower that way.

Note that while this trains MA, weapon skills, melee attack, and Dexterity (very little strength because rusted junk weapons are comparatively light), it does NOT train melee defense or dodge. In order to train those you are going to have to actually spar with a high skilled opponent, so give your punching bag some prosthetic limbs and have some fully armed dudes on hand to put him down: Also another very important note: A limbless skeleton on a bed tends to fall through the world and disappear when loading a save. Make sure to pick up the skeleton torso before saving your game if you don't want to lose him. In a cage is fine.

>>16485405

One more detail: If you try to set up a training room inside your base every other asshole not set to Passive is going to run in, open any locked doors on the way, and try to immediately beat down the sparing partner for you. Unless you want to set EVERYONE to passive, I recommend building an actual walled/gated area to be your arena, they won't open locked gates. This doubles as a prison complex, because enemies that get into your base seem to free your prisoners. I've never actually seen them do it, but anytime I leave the gate open the prisoners, even the limbless skeleton in a cage, disappear on me.

>>16485440

Except my shit is all vanilla here. Besides, non-modded training dummies don't train unarmed, or any weapon skill at all. They only train melee attack.

>>16485445

Well yeah thats my point. Why bother with all that shit that you could eventually do in vanilla anyway if you can just install a couple of mods and skip the middle man.

>>16440204

How the fuck do I get out of mongrel?

>>16485449

Why bother playing the game if you could just install a couple of mods and skip it?

>>16485478

There are two ways to get through the fog islands: either you are strong enough to kill everything that tries to fuck with you, OR you are fast enough to outrun it. Assuming you are neither, you can either hire some mercenaries at the bar (preferably multiple groups), or start training your athletics skill.

>>16440204

How do I get money quick?

>>16485765

Mine copper.

>>16485765

Steal shit or kite bandits to guards and loot the bodies.

Don't listen to this >>16485809 fag, you'll get bored in 10 minutes.

>>16485478

FOGGED.COM

>>16485765

Steal shit. You can steal from the robotics merchant in Black Desert City, he keeps half his very-expensive inventory in unguarded locked chests. Once you leave skeleton territory anyone will then buy those stolen goods with a 100% chance, no need to worry about fencing it. Heng is relatively close by and has a lot of shops to sell to.

>>16485488

>>16485449

/v/ can't play any game without installing 500 mods.

>>16440204

What's a good way to train my men

without mods that is

Does anyone know exactly what skill is calculated when deciding if the enemy is "stronger than you" for the purpose of gaining attack skill levels? I've been doing a lot of testing on this, but so far I'm stumped.

Currently, I have Mad Cat-Lon and the Spider Foreman as my test dummies. Mad Cat-Lon supposedly has 100 weapon skill (all weapons), melee attack, melee defense, and 60 Dodge and Martial arts base. Spider Foreman should have 75 weapon skills, melee attack/defense, dodge, and only 10 Martial Arts. As a result of using both of them as training dummies, their Dodge skills have increased significantly. With current equipment, Cat Lon has 111 Dodge, and the Foreman has 109 Dodge (using dodge-boosting equipment because I thought it might help, I'm not sure).

There are only two things that I've been able to find out for sure, one, removing the weapon from EITHER target (leaving them unarmed) INCREASES the rate at which I gain skill xp. Two, Cat Lon grants significantly more skill XP than the Skeleton Foreman. I can't currently come up with a theory that makes sense with this data.

>>16487958

See >>16485405

Alternatively (and in order to train defense this is a necessity), simply equip your prisoners and your trainees with good armor and shit weapons, release them and spar. While I still can't pin down the relevant stats, the basic training technique is the same regardless

I wish there was a way to sell your buildings in a city when you are not going to use them any longer. Is a sad truth you have to start in a town, but when I want to go fill pioneer I just want to cut with everything.

>>16487974

My current working theory is that when the enemy has no weapon DRAWN, regardless of whether or not they have one equipped, Martial Arts is the skill that is tested. When they have a weapon equipped (but not drawn) martial arts takes a penalty. Therefor in order to train using "punching bags", it's best to find enemies with the highest martial arts skill possible, remove their weapons, and give them martial arts boosting gear (such as assassins rags).

Are there any good modpacks out there? Don't really feel like wasting hours selecting mods

Vain settlement guy here again. I've made an iron mining camp in the Stenn desert, only a couple of in-game hours away, because I was tired of constant trading runs to hivers for iron plates. It was an ideal spot I found with 3 100 quality ore veins right next to each other. The only problem is I had no idea if I was technically in Shek territory or not and yesterday I found out when a proving group came to my doorstep and I ended up stopping there after seeing how much damage makeshift walls can take since I haven't been sieged before (it wasn't much). I have something like 11 guys now. I had a slow start on recruitment because the only easy to get to town with good amounts of recruits is the Shek city in the middle of their kingdom, and obviously they're all Shek when I wanted laborers, but now I have 11 people with about 6 being dedicated warriors (2 of them fresh and relatively inexperienced) that do some minor labor when they're not fighting.

Considering my forces are split between my main settlement on the Vain river and this iron mine, I'm weighing my options. It's possible that I could win the proving if I move all of my fighters to the mining camp and get the Shek war party to funnel through my gate, negating their massive numbers advantage. The problem is that Shek are tough motherfuckers that take forever to die, so I'm not confident about my odds on this strategy. I didn't expect much more resistance at this new camp since my Vain settlement is literally only visited by Hive traders–nothing else wants to live in acid river land, who woulda thunk?–so I only have makeshift walls. It's possible that I'd have enough time to upgrade my walls but I seriously doubt I'd have enough time to set up mounted crossbows, despite having all the plates I'd need.

The other option is simply packing up and leaving. It's a bare bones mining operation with a powered refinery, wind turbines to power them, a few storage boxes, a shack with two beds and a food store. I just came back with a ton of tech from an epic voyage to Catun though so I anticipate needing lots of iron, but there's always other locations.

What do you guys think about my chances against the HMPH menace?

I hate both the Holy Nation and the United Cities, yet I want to make profit with slavery. I guess there is no mod to make your own slave store?

>>16489028

Supposedly they're not hiding anything, they just assume you're in on the act.

>>16489047

What act now?

>>16489050

Oh, don't worry about it, meatba-I mean, Human. It's just an old skeleton in-joke. Hey, wanna talk about how evil and oppressive the Holy Nation is? They're the biggest problem in Kenshi. We should help put a stop to their bigoted ways so they can be prosperous like the UC. Wouldn't you agree?

>>16489046

Slavers are the biggest cunts in the entire land. Let me share with you my Catun odyssey story.

>hear that Catun has katana recipe, which is nonexistent where I am and I like using them on some of my guys

>decide to head over there to see whats so great about these scrapmasters anyway

>haven't gone south past the Shek kingdom so I'm going off of purchased maps

>make it to Clownsteady without any problems, looted a really nice workshop complex on the way

>start heading east

>look around nervously as I walk through the swamplands because there are no fucking towns being discovered

>get attacked by swamp ninjas once or twice but manage to evade

>suddenly a bunch of red sabers hiding behind a rock formation attack my party

>my warriors wipe the floor with them individually but there's too many – I had 4 guys, 2 of which are fresh recruits I just hired

>my Shek right-hand hangs in there and fights like a fucking demon, killing everyone with his deadly polearm sweeps

>everyone is critically wounded except the Shek who is only badly wounded in her leg. My main guy has both arms and a leg crippled so he's useless even when he wakes up later

>check the map and consider my next move

>we are dead in the middle of the lowlands of this swamp swarming with bandits and dank weed ninjas, Clownsteady is equidistant from us with a vague settlement simply labelled "Market"

>decide I might as well die walking forwards rather than backwards, so the most pathetic journey ever ensues, with a limping Shek carrying two Scorchlanders and a Hiver in a leapfrog pattern

>things begin to look up as I somehow evade most of the danger, only being attacked by a lone swamp ninja which the Shek promptly skewers

>arrive within territory range of the market

>drop my first party member off in relief and the Shek returns to get the next

>wait what the fuck is that guard doing, he doesn't need to be touching my guy

>"Excuse me sir, that's my friend, would you mind –"

<"You're going to make a real good slave, chumbo."

>fuck

I ended up hiding under a fallen tree trunk near the market until enough of my guys healed that I could carry the others in without dropping anyone so I could limp into town and rent beds while the guards eyed me like a vulture might eye a lone wildebeest dying of thirst.

>>16489132

>>16489132

I try to roleplay as slaves, but I built up my characers first before doing so, researching almost everything, yet they are now so powerful it is hard for them to get wounded enouth to be captured.

Also, if you are enslaved in one city will you remain in that city or will they send you to a slave camp or sell you?

>>16489220

>I built up my characers first before doing so, researching almost everything

But why? Doesn't really make much sense if you wanted to roleplay.

>Also, if you are enslaved in one city will you remain in that city or will they send you to a slave camp or sell you?

I don't know, I haven't actually allowed my characters to be enslaved yet. I'm trying to play through the game "normally" right now and I'll fuck around with that stuff later. I want to make a hashish smuggling empire and I just got the tech for it.

>>16489254

To start from zero but as a though guy being enslaved by being careless.

>>16488173

>>16488158

Shit shop, but the Armor King makes a great punching bag if you can capture him. 80 Martial Arts skill means that when you have him strapped to a table your weapon skills go up really damn fast, second only to Tinfist, but unlike Tinfist you don't have to fuck up an entire faction (anti-slavers) just to snatch him.

>>16490247

> don't have to fuck up an entire faction

Why not just sneak in and grab him? No need to sack the town.

>>16464488

Is that some derivative Roiland degeneracy?

>>16490316

He's the faction leader. Capturing or killing him has effects on the faction by itself, regardless of how you do it. The sub-leaders are going to come and attack your base, and when you kill or capture them the faction will be wiped out.

Meanwhile the armor king belongs to no faction, so you lose nothing other than his shitty shop that never sells what you actually want (and doesn't sell Crab armor at all).

>>16464488

I kind of get just wanting the varied playstyles, but anything other than a melee dude in crab armor seems to be a waste of space to me. First, "tanks" are unreliable. Everyone gets attacked even if you have certain characters set to "taunt". Putting anyone in anything less than 90% reduction armor (crab armor) leads to them getting fucking ganked. Second, Crossbows are a pain in the fucking ass to train and don't do enough to be worth it, plus you shoot yourself a lot (in fact the only way to train crossbow guys not to shoot your own guys is to have them shoot your own guys).

Martial Arts is powerful, but runs into the tanking issue because it basically has zero defense against weapons, dodge just isn't as good as melee defense and requires light armor on top of it. For thief skills, I usually just bring an alternate set of armor (ninja or assassins rags) and swap into that outside of combat if I need to go stealthy. Very rarely do I actually even bother with that though, only for snatching certain characters I can't fight my way through.

>>16490764

>Crossbows are a pain in the fucking ass to train and don't do enough to be worth it

Are you shitting me? I found 2 shoddy Rangers in a workshop, gave 1 to my recruit with 1 crossbow skill and he was pumping out 35-40 damage to wildlife and staggering every few seconds, with no risk of damage to yourself. That's pretty good for no skill shit weapon. How are they a pain in the ass to train when there are many enemies you can kite infinitely? Just kite a fucking gorillo until he bleeds out.

>plus you shoot yourself a lot (in fact the only way to train crossbow guys not to shoot your own guys is to have them shoot your own guys).

You can position your rangers so they don't shoot your allies pretty easily in most situations.

>>16490781

Yes, so you basically have to micromanage every shot of your training before even considering that you have to micromanage the ammo on top of that. Compared to melee where you just click once and let them do their own thing, either in a crowd of enemies or on a captured sparing partner/punching bag. Pick your method, it's fire and forget regardless.

>>16490793

The ammo comes in packs of 30 for regular bolts, per kg. 30 is enough to carry around just for travelling.

>micromanagement

Yea, so, basically my strawman makes you look dumb and I'm smart.

Maybe try placing your melee dudes on one side and your archers on the other? Or putting your melee dudes at the bottom of a hill the archers are standing on?

Serious question. Have you ever played a video game?

>>16490835

30 bolts doesn't even handle a single fight. As for positioning, none of that shit helps when you fire into melee. Either you are relying on your archers to shoot everything before it reaches your melee, or you are going to be shooting into melee combat which guarantees you hit your own guys.

I guess it's not that bad with only 2 guys with crossbows, but what even is the point? If you don't have a full firing squad why bother at all? It's just extra effort to accomplish nothing.

>>16490857

Position your archers on the flanks by having the melee guys run backwards into your center and envelop, that's how you use archers as an asset.

I haven't been monitoring Kenshi for some time, can someone tell me if their is a sex mod yet?

Because for fucks sake, why can't I be a sex slaver in the post-apocalypse?

>>16491081

hire mercs, you don't have to be fast, you just have to be faster than them

>>16491270

what is it with trying to turn everything into a sex game, you're the kind of person who requests nude mods on terraria and you SICKEN me

(sadly no but it would be epic to rp a muzzie)

>>16491300

>wanting to rape a muzzie

>not wanting to rape a Shek or hive fag

>not wanting to rape those skin bandits

All of my disgust

>>16491314

rp = roleplay, a fullblown post-apocalyptic immigrant simulator

>>16490857

>30 bolts doesn't handle a single fight

Maybe you should stop picking fights with Shek patrols while randomly travelling then.

>I guess it's not that bad with only 2 guys with crossbows, but what even is the point?

Again I feel compelled to call you names because no one can be this stupid and you must be hamming it up in order to make your argument sound more reasonable. You can kite entire groups in case things get hairy, assuming you aren't fighting beakies and your guys have 30 athletics, then turn around and fight after they've bled a bit. If you can't kite because you have trade goods, then your crossbows can soften them up before they get to you. Not having to heal your crossbowmen because they aren't in melee is a benefit. Being able to kite the enemy in case everyone else is defeated and rescuing them afterwards is a benefit.

>>16491298

The mercs died or got stunlocked.

The fuckers followed me out of the fogs and I can't find help since I'm in enemy territory

The holy nation hates me because i was far from my outpost during prayer day. they came to kill me so i ran far away and after escaping capture by ninjas i ended up in some outpost called waystation.

whats my best option? will holy nation forgive me? should i abandon my outpost? should i come back and try dismantling it for the supplies and set up an outpost elsewhere?

>>16491491

check the wiki, there's somebody for every faction that'll reset their hostility towards you

>>16491491

if you are not at your base during a prayer day they shouldn't give a shit actually..

also if they decide to raid you once, if you are not at home, they won't come back..

unless you did something else..

>>16491497

apparently the "pacifier" shows up to waystations with a 20% chance… so i guess i'll wait there and train/mine until i meet him and am able to move back home… hopefully this time not getting captured by assholes.

>>16491516

that doesnt seem right… whenever i mouse over a HN member it shows a red icon, even after the palladin wrecking crew left. i was never at my outpost when they came, and i would get notified about not attending prayer day or them showing up while i was trading in a nearby city.

>>16488977

So I resolved this by trying to fight the Shek guardians… And I underestimated their honor. They beat the shit out of me, hung around for a while so they could look at my camp in contempt, and left. No deaths, nothing stolen. Just free combat experience and humiliation for daring to take their iron. Shek are all right in my book.

>>16491563

i dont know where that is. but i am at a waystation, so why not just wait there? it says "waystations" for pacifier location.

my guy is so weak and missing an arm and i dont know where to get a replacement limb i've got a 50/50 chance of survival against a single hungry bandit, and if there are 2 bandits; im basically going to get beaten and robbed so travel is something i like to limit as much as possible.

i started the game as rock bottom and went in completely blind. i try to avoid using wikis and stuff like that because they kind of ruin games like this for me.

>>16491663

ah, fair enough, a hint about the limb replacements if you want they're found in most towns in the shops with a wrench and there's always cheap ones in the hive villages

>>16491668

yea, since i started as rock bottom in the desert, i saw limbs for sale in one of those horrible cities, but had no money. i dont know what a hive village is but one day i'll learn. now i live in holy nation territory and none of those repair shops or whatever had them. perhaps the holy flame forbids?

either way, im at a waystation now and am going to see if i can find some info that can lead to getting repaired or locating a nearby city. then i plan to pacify the conflict with HN and return to my outpost… where i will have to make an effort to participate in prayer day until im strong/rich enough to rebel or leave altogether… atleast the river raptors will enjoy eating my farm plot while i'm away… i hope my shit doesnt get destroyed or stolen.

>>16491700

Here's another non-specific hint: There are ruins with free prosthetic limbs lying around and many of them don't have enemies guarding it, or if they do they are slow enough to outrun. If you keep looking, eventually you will find a replacement. I do wish there were more NPCs that gave tips like this. The most information I've gotten from item descriptions and talking to people after trekking all over the southwestern quadrant is "Skeleton smiths are the best craftsmen" and "the northwest is a savage land filled with monsters."

>>16491955

>>16491700

Also, you are right about holy nation hating cyborgs, good hunch

>>16491955

there's also tips on the loading screens but that's about it sadly

>>16491960

hmm, so will they bother me if i get a new arm and move back near them?

>>16491955

yea, im sure i could find them, but like i said… traveling is extremely dangerous for me.

for some context; traveling in a straight line from bad teeth to the waystation nearby lead to me being beaten unconscious by bandits that stole all of my dried meat. then after i woke up i was captured and attacked by a bunch of weebs with katanas that brought me to their tower and tied me to a pole, i then picked the lock after 1000 attempts, stole their medical supplies, and sprinted out of there where they chased me down and left me critically injured, but i was able to play dead long enough and heal in time to stay alive and continue towards the waystation. then a lone hungry bandit punched me unconscious and ran away after stealing the rest of my food. now im at the waystation sleeping… waiting for morning so i can hopefully buy a splint kit and stop limping.

>>16492104

considering you're a sign of the end times, probably

After escaping Rebirth from the slaves start, I built my outpost at Okran's Pride. I've made over a million cats trading with Blister Hill and Stack as I tried to get Masterwork armor for my troops. Okranites are very friendly if you're a fellow human. I really grew up to like them and now I am making a crusade against the shekniggers.

>>16492104

If you have good relations with HN (over 50 I think) they don't mind if you have prosthetic limbs.

>>16492141

Here's something worth knowing about Prayer Day and scheduled events in general. If your active character is not near the outpost, it won't trigger, even after it says "Prayer Day has reached (your outpost)".

>>16492130

ok, so right now they hate me. i plan on pacifying their anger. im assuming that will bring me to neutral. will i be able to get above 50 with a prostetic limb and earn their trust? or will i have to wait until im in good graces with them before getting the limb?

are any limbs "good" enough where theyre mistaken for real limbs?

>>16492171

You'll have to get in good graces before getting the limb. Or you can just not equip the limb when you're around them.

>>16492178

>Or you can just not equip the limb when you're around them.

who do i have to hide it from? paladins? guards? or any HN resident?

>>16492195

Anyone who attacks you. I don't think being attacked lowers relations, only attacking. I've read that they stop attacking immediately when you remove the limb, so it doesn't sound too concerning for me.

>>16492218

> I've read that they stop attacking immediately when you remove the limb, so it doesn't sound too concerning for me.

well i guess thats not too bad since i only need the limb to fight/pick up bodies. does having 1 arm slow down how fast you mine or work or anything?

>>16476474

The Black Dog are wandering mercs you can hire for protection. THat's just where they live, just in case you don't get along so good and want to pay them a visit.

This game has an incredibly popular japanese modding scenery, isn't it?

>>16477421

My brother would play this game sometimes so I decided to play too eventually.

>>16492339

I'm not sure I would call it an "outpost". It's just one Stationhouse with beds and shit. It's a good place to retreat and heal in between hunts but it can't actually support anything long-term.

>>16492237

>does having 1 arm slow down how fast you mine or work or anything?

Depends on the arm in question. Generally you're looking at major trade-offs, but not necessarily worse. For example I found a specialist arm which increases base Strength and Dexterity, but lowers several skill ratings substantially. I think that one is a combat limb.

>>16492823

I'm retarded and misread your post. If you have one working arm and no prosthesis, yes, it slows down your labour (and most other skills) very substantially.

Suddenly I don't get more base events, not even Pray Day. I'm not sure if that is caused by a mod. Anyone uses a mod called Player Slavery?

Just got raided by Band of Bones at my iron mine. They beat up my front line once, then all crowded into my one tiny shack. It was quite amusing. Just about all of my warriors recovered in a minute, and due to their strange positioning I drew them out a few at a time. I also looted the gear off of the ones I knocked out and threw it on the ground. It ended up that I killed all except 3 or 4 who retreated. They only looted my Hiver soldiers weapons, which were the shittiest quality at refitted blade – nice going. Overall, a nice bit of free experience and a ton of vendor trash gear.

How do I get traders to fuck off from my base?

fuckers won't leave

>>16494221

Talking to them usually gets them to leave, even if you don't buy anything.

>>16494551

Fuck, and how fast they leave.. I can't even do some shopping without pausing.

>>16494566

Yeah, it's weird. I have a habit of pausing a ton in this game because I feel like I always need to know what's happening with everyone. I wish there was a generalized "here's how many building mats/iron/steel" display for your settlements.

>>16492834

>If you have one working arm and no prosthesis, yes, it slows down your labour (and most other skills) very substantially.

fug.

is there a way to rename characters so im not still running around as "naked dude" hours into the game?

>>16494636

Talking to any plastic surgeon will allow you to re-use the chargen screen for a nominal fee. They can be found in bars sometimes, but the Shinobi Thieves have employed surgeons. Joining their guild is expensive though, but worth it.

>>16494646

> re-use the chargen screen for a nominal fee

wait, i had the option to change my name when i started? i didnt see that… i'll have to be more careful.

>>16494655

Yes, you had to click on the field where your name was and you could type there.

>>16494701

crap…. does getting plastic surgery reset my standings with different factions?

>>16494706

No. I got plastic surgery on my main guy to change his hair and they didn't change.

>>16494712

but if i look completely different and change my name, how do they know its still the same guy that didnt show up to prayer day?

i guess it would be pretty tedious if suddenly touching any of your items also meant you were stealing…

>>16494816

You have to understand that your character is a part of a faction, and that is your own faction which has standing. It's as if you have an ID card on you that says "I'm a member of the Totally Fucked One-Armed Losers" and you keep it with you when you get plastic surgery

Just made my own mod that should massively improve pathfinding. I simply set all playable races (including animals) to have the exact same acceleration, turn rate, water avoidance, and footprint size, and I made sure the acceleration and turn rate were arbitrarily high (basically instant). This should eliminate problems where multiple characters in the same group attempt to follow different paths AND problems where low-acceleration overshoots the desired path and has to recalculate.

If this works, I have to wonder why no one else has done it already. It's just a simple numbers tweak.

>>16495194

As a guy who develops for a living, be prepared to be crestfallen when that fucks shit up in ways you didn't expect. I wager you're going to have some clipping issues with animals if footprint size is anything to go off of.

>>16495207

Well so far it works flawlessly. I grouped together a bunch of characters and animals and sent them across the map and they actually reached their destination together in the same group in one click! Basically it takes the whole "realistic momentum" bullshit and throws it out the window in favor of a game that actually works. Maybe some animals might clip into buildings because of it, but they did that shit anyway and with the acceleration increase they are much less likely to do so.

Here's the mod if you want.

https://mega.nz/#!XHg3gQ7B!JaxRU97iX9GQeVakAIULJQVb4FrSQVPlkU9lSujcfc8

>>16495211

I empathize with your desire to have this mod, but you do realize the "Follow" command exists specifically to address this problem right? Just make sure your slowest character/animal is the leader.

>>16495211

There is one limitation I can't get around unless I want to make Pups and Elders exactly the same size. Currently the footprints are only the same for max size animals. If I wanted the footprints to be the same for all animal sizes I would set the minimum scale to 1 (same as max), instead of the roughly 0.35 it is right now. At the moment young animals might be able to find better paths than humans.

>>16495220

I've used "follow". It's absolute shit and causes animals to get stuck on terrain even more often than without. Besides, the acceleration change (applied to humans as well) should eliminate the problem of people running through walls and storage containers at high speed and getting stuck. Higher acceleration=higher deceleration, meaning they can now stop instantly and won't overshoot.

Overshooting was one of the main problems with pathfinding even with individual characters. The character would come to a turn and go past where the pathfinding algorithm told it to stop and turn, then the pathfinding would have to recalculate how to reach the destination from the characters new incorrect position.

There is always a problem I have with this kind of game. When I'm somewhat advanced and get all researched stuff I get bored and delete my game save, just before I start building my base. I guess I make a mistake and makes me dislike my base or group.

All this happens until I get bored and stop playing. I just don't know how to organize my base.

>>16495231

I agree that the overshooting was retarded, but couldn't you just have increased the deceleration when stopping instead of acceleration in general? Or are they bound together?

>>16495271

It's just one value in the FCS called "acceleration"

>>16495274

Ah, so it's the same concept then. Wonderful.

I'm considering making a mod that adds NPCs that give tips and rumors but I'd like to finish my current playthrough first.

Does anyone else find the defensive structures to be woefully lacking? I was attacked by Canhead last night at my mining camp and I thought that defensive gate/walls would at least hold them long enough for me to whittle them down with turrets, but they have a pathetic amount of condition and no armor. How does it make sense that my dudes take less than 20 damage from cannibal attacks due to their armor but they can bonk my concrete walls and metal portcullis with sticks for full damage? They busted the gate within 2-3 attacks, and this is a group of total savages with no armor and less than 20 in combat skills, which is exactly what I would expect walls to be effective against. As opposed to a specialized war party.

>>16498076

Also another thing that really annoys me is that enemies can just run through your front line because enemies don't block pathfinding at all. It provokes attacks from the defenders at least, but it's still bullshit. I don't really understand how defense is supposed to work in this game.

>>16498081

Like most real time tactical games you have to pause constantly. There's no such thing as a line in kenshi fights aren't fought in formations. Just exploit the AI's aggression by enveloping them and make sure your ranged troops are firing from the flanks. Give all your guys as much heavy armor as they can wear without being overweight. That's the best advice I can give.

>>16494999

>"Totally Fucked One-Armed Losers"

words hurt, anon.

ok, that actually helps me understand alittle more how recruiting people works in this game

>>16498096

>Like most real time tactical games you have to pause constantly

Already doing that for sure.

>Just exploit the AI's aggression by enveloping them and make sure your ranged troops are firing from the flanks

Envelop them how? The raids always outnumber my force. I have some pretty decent warriors but the numbers are just too much, not to mention that the cannibals have hackers. Also, they always aggro my ranged guys extremely hard to the point where the majority of the enemy force sprints through my melee units and charges the ranged guys so I end up playing tag with them, which is admittedly helpful because it gives my melee guys some space but also annoying.

>>16498221

>>16498076

The way you handle base assaults is to put your melee fighters in front of the gate, while having turrets manned where they can fire at the enemy over the walls. Enemy AI priority usually goes Ranged>Melee>Gates, so if you station your guys outside the gate they will fight your melee and not break down the gate. If you are on the inside they simply rush past.

Granted, once you have enough turrets you shouldn't need to fight at all, and with a well designed killbox the enemy won't even reach the gate. See my layout here >>16470754 I have 3 gates. One on the outside is where the enemy gathers. Base raids will (assuming the pathing doesn't fuck up) always gather outside of your outermost gate before they attack. This gate actually stays open most of the time, it just lets me control the enemy start point. The second gate is the main defense. I position the turrets so that most of the enemy is dead before they reach that gate, and then I can continue shooting them while they attempt to break down the gate itself. The third gate is where I put my melee usually. By the time they get through the second gate there usually aren't very many of them left, so the melee simply cleans up and the third gate prevents the enemy from just rushing past the melee. I can (sometimes do) put my melee in front of the second gate instead, mainly because my design is a little messed up and the turrets don't seem to shoot into the second killbox.

The water helps slow them down, otherwise you pretty much HAVE to fight with your melee in front of the gate.

>>16470754

>>16498295

Damn. That water pit looks brutal. I don't have the luxury of doing that because of the way my iron mine is situated but your killbox advice sounds good, I will take that into consideration.

>>16498498

That was well thought, a perfect base for Skeletons.

So, what mods do you guys recomend? also, is there any other place that looks like Rebirth regarding mountains and trees? trying to set up a camp near the river over and over and I always end messing up with something and restarting.

>>16499343

I actually just use skeletons for my turret gunners because I don't have to feed them. In my experience gunners will starve to death on the job if you don't micromanage their food. The rest of my crew is human and shek. I'd never use a skeleton as a melee fighter simply because they can't wear helmets.

>what mods do you guys recommend

I'm mostly vanilla with some tweaks I've accumulated.

<256 recruit and squad

Default limit is 30 characters total. That includes animals. If you want a functioning base and a strong away-team, you are going to need to increase the limit. 256 is excessive but nothing says you have to actually recruit that many people.

<Less Foliage and Rocks

0x version. Pretty much necessary if you spend any time at all in or around Stobe's Garden. Yes it makes the terrain look boring, but at least it loads faster and doesn't kill both your frames and your pathing.

<Adventurer's Guild - Lore Friendly Recruitment

Go to the guild rep, pay a fee, and they send about 8 recruits to your outpost (who you also have to pay for). This is basically the only mod that will give you non-unique skeletons. They are expensive though.

<Slopeless

Increases building tolerance. Build on uneven ground, level out your buildings, even build overlapping structures. Doesn't really let you do everything but it helps a lot in base design.

<Bleeding requires aid kits

Or some kind of mod to increase combat lethality. When your enemies get up for the hundredth time on 4x death chance you know it's time for some adjustment. This mod makes both blood loss and wound degeneration much slower to stop on its own. Combined with the 4x death chance option in vanilla the vast majority of enemies will die the first time you knock them down, provided you win the fight and nobody comes along to patch them up. Not recommended for early game.

<Storage Sheds

Or some kind of storage mod. There are a thousand different mods to tweak the maximum amount of storage space for various containers. This mod instead adds buildings (using the small shack model) that store a huge amount of materials. I find the (comparatively) large, exterior-only buildings to be a good compromise between not needing a million storage boxes and not needing to design your base for storage at all.

<This mod >>16495211

There's a reason I went to the trouble of making it myself. It solves so many problems with the game

>>16499848

Wouldn't that reset the world state or something?

>>16499848

that's for COWARDS, live with the consequences you bitch ass

>>16501106

>fighting in the bar

>literally the Swamp Beer Hall Putsch

Anon you need to support Swamp Hitler immediately before he goes to jail and writes Swamp Mein Kampf

>>16501118

Are the swampers the same as the hounds? They look similar

>>16501153

I actually don't know who the hounds are, I've only explored the western half of the continent except for Okran's Pride and Catun/Bonefields

>>16501520

What's that?

The more I learn about what can't be done in the modding tools, the more I want to murder the fucking dev. All the functionality of the game is locked out and all you can do is tweak some surface level numbers. It's the kind of thing if they didn't release a toolset at all people would have actually figured out how to mess with that shit on their own.

>>16502056

>Implying they won't

You say this as if we live in a world where script extenders don't exist for every Elder Scrolls game.

>dev not good enough

Pretty good for a fucking solo project. Solo projects become exponentially more difficult as they scale, because as the system becomes more complex it becomes more difficult for one person to maintain it all.

>>16507444

Because he's literally hitler and he knows it

>>16477421

>game has been in development for a decade and 1.0 gets released last year

>Did the jew do this?

Yes, he's also the only reason there are SS13, Dorf fortress, Morrowind, Elona, Mountain blade, Deus Ex, Stalker, and God Hand threads. Faggot.

Is the Tsuki reshader a good mod? it looks pretty good from what i've seen.

I can only find it on nexus and i dont want to pay for mods. does anyone know a better place to get mods like this? if someone has it can you upload it to mega or something?

>>16511891

What are you talking about? Nexus doesn't make you pay for mods, Steam Workshop is the one that's DRM for Mods.

>>16512772

>nexus

i hate having to create accounts for shit. i find it odd that no major mod resources that dont force you to create an account have this mod.

>>16512888

Probably because without accounts they have a tough time preventing abusive downloading. Bandwidth and shit costs money so they have to make sure that it doesn't get wasted needlessly because some asshole sets up a script to download everything.

>>16511735

There's an elona thread?

where?

>>16507444

he does the same wreeeee thing the fogmen do, right? Aren't those just dilapidated hive critters which may or may not be bio-mechanical based on the queen? I don't know, something to think about though.

What the fuck? why did the shinobi suddenly become so hostile to the guards? now they're all fucking dead because of their actions.

Do you anons have this mod?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1747904297

Mind sharing a link? I downloaded the pirated version of kenshi

>>16522889

Here's your link:

https://steamworkshopdownloader.io/

>>16524124

Thanks a million!

Just what I needed

So, does anyone have the Reactive World mod? Can I kill the Shek and give the cities to the Holy Nation?

Also, how can you mod some generic minions of a mod race? I just want to make my nation of Juggernauts.