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Skeleton only no agriculture run

Recruitable prisoners and a shops stock increaser mod help a lot. Also, don't put thralls on turrets. Their lack of head means their turret skill will always be halved.

>>16641342

So is this only fun as an autistic settlement building game or is the combat also good?

>>16641513

the combat is kinda weird, not like anything i've really played before, kind of like mountain blade and some other game i've completely forgotten the name of, it's limb-based with each limb having a health bar as well as your head, stomach and chest, you can also get your limbs hacked off if they're too low and they get hit and you gotta replace them with prosthetics then. you'll get your ass kicked a lot for a while but that's normal and the more you get your shit kicked in the tougher you get, unless one of your important characters die i wouldn't recommend you reload anything really.

you can go without making a settlement for a while as well and just roam the world as a nomad and seeing all the weird shit there is, i'm really shit at building bases so i usually just make a few shacks and walls to make drugs/alcohol out of to sell for money but you'll find yourself naturally expanding even if you're not super into the base building thing.

>>16641342

oh shit and also

>What mods you using?

>>16641542

I can deal with a harsh early game, but can you become so powerful that nothing short of a zerg rush can kill you?

So long as fighting isn't a chore I think I'm gonna get the game.

>>16641562

well you can get pretty damn strong for sure, not quite zerg rush levels and you'd probably need a partner or two who at least somewhere near your level to take a settlement as well as disposable people to take care of the riff-raff. of course there's mods to fix it so you can in fact become stupidly strong and remove the level cap of 100 to the levels you want

>>16641576

and let me add that the mods that remove the level cap do so really well and it feel well earned to become the absolute powerhouse you can be

>>16641489

Let's see what I get.

>>16641489

Rollin

>>16641513

i recently did a wander start. (the way the game is meant to be played) and really its a looting with base building mechanics. there are dungeons all over the map most guarded with loot lying around you can just take and then sell in the local town. the trader start is bullshit because the price modifier for each item is way to low to be able to make a profit trading. like fuck why cant i buy building material in bulk from a slave mine or bulk cactus from the fucking cactus farms there should be runs you can make between settlements that give you more than a 10-15% markup other than lol hashish while getting a settlement going is easy money across the board make bread? instantly buy out any store with 50 loaves, shit the copper/ iron ore patches are easy starting money and are even easier if you can auto haul to a stockpile. towns Despite the lore don't really produce anything witch is odd because the game lets your settlement produce goods like gross amounts of goods weapons like top tier weapons that you can only sometimes find in the devils asshole and even then you can sometimes "crit" to surpass them. every way station will have everything you need to build a base food and beds to rent you don't need to go far to buy industrial amounts of (concrete/stone?) or iron plates and will just have a library of books for you to burn.

but in the end… i don't know why i cant stop playing this game

Currently running a Skeleton Mayor. Started out as a Wanderer, because last time I started as a Skeleton Wanderer, I started in fucking Bad Teeth. I got my ass kicked six ways from Prayer Day. Which means I had a great time.

But for whatever reason, this time I started in The Hub. 40 hours later, I got an Unassailable Mountain Fortress, everyone but the Shek and the United Cities hate me, and I just one-hit-crit killed the fucking Bugmaster with the Metiou Horse Chopper. Now I guess I'm collecting these fucking Godweapons like I'm summoning Shenron.

>>16641935

Is that acid water? Fun fact: Cannibals are immune to acid water for some reason.

>>16641489

roll

>>16642020

No just regular water. It's in the bonefields right next to fishman island. The point is just to slow down enemies in a confined space while they pass below my turrets. I've got a long gauntlet with water and turrets, followed by an arena with my best melee fighters, walled in away from the rest of the base.

>>16641489

Rollan

>>16642954

can you actually hack off specific limbs from people? i could never find any sort of targeting option for the combat.

>>16643014

thanks for the tip honeybunches, i'll be sure to check it out

>>16641489

z

>>16641342

>What race?

WHITE

>Whaddya buildan?

a settlement on the border of the waystation town. we're so close that anyone that attacks us gets mobbed by tech hunters.

>What faction?

my own faction?

>What region you settle in?

ive been at this settlement for a long time now and im right by the waystation which i thought was no-mans land. now i got some guy from the united cities pop up and say i gotta pay 3k. i paid him because we are currently in no position to defend ourselves, but wtf? i didnt think i was on their lands. they dont even have any cities near me as far as i know. is the waystation part of the united empire? it doesnt say that anywhere in the wiki.

>>16641489

Roll includes me re-installing Kenshi.

>>16643584

the UC will jew you out of any money they can since they're all over the map, the border zone has one of all the major kingdoms cities in there. so until you have a deathtrap gate setup to deal with them you best pay up piggy

alternatively just pack up and move to vain with the ant dudes

>>16641489

Rolling for non-degenerate

>>16643594

they dont hold any nearby terrirotry though, and border zone is supposed to be neutral.

>>16643606

it's neutral in that the three cities won't go to war with each other, but they'll certainly try and fuck over your virgin settlement

>>16643609

ive been there for a solid 3 months in game. why did they suddenly show up for the 1st time now? is there a way to get them off my back? my outpost is too big to move.

Also, why does waystation have a cluster of mercenaries in the center of town with the status "retreating" but they just remain there even after an import?

>>16643643

did you also start as a rock bottom man? we call ourselves the rock bottom feeders.

>>16643609

also, does attacking the UC taxmen reduce your relationships with any other factions? they mentioned being affiliated with various trade caravans and i dont want to make those guys upset. thats one of the main ways i get farm supplies and food.

i paid the 3k because we were in no shape to fight, if i kill their messenger, will they be able to report back to base and get reinforcements? when he comes back next week im probably going to have my bone dogs kill the collection squad. i mostly play with my gate wide open so nomads and traders can come/go as they please as well as patroling tech hunters.

will the tech hunters "stop the troublemakers" if they attemptt o raid my outpost? if this hurts my standing with UC will i be able to visit their cities later as other characters or will they aggro on site?

One thing I like about this game is that everything metal is made with plates. Look at all the armors and swords and you will see. Its like the refinery only spits out plates and since it works so well no one thought to try it another way.

>>16641489

Rollan again

>>16641489

R O L L

>>16643764

No I started wanderer since I just got the game, lost my arm in a battle with the samurai weebs.

>>16645846

>samurai weebs.

which weebs? the black dragon ninjas or the UC samurai?

>>16647559

UC samurai

>>16647630

those fuckers are collecting taxes from me and i live miles away from any of their terrirories. right now im plotting a way to get rid of them for good… how easy is it to murder their leader? i have a guy thats a pretty good assassin.

>>16647747

can i just kill the messenger and his minions to prevent word getting back to them about my insurrection?

can i just instigate a fight between them and the tech hunters at the waystation? if this is a bug, can i fix that? im seriously built next to waystation and i cant imagine why these fucks think im on their territory. they just want the money, but im too weak to face them. still struggling to eat.

>>16650371

i've been using the IGG crack, i know it's frowned upon but i haven't had any issues so far

https://igg-games.com/kenshi-490014189-free-download.html

So anyone use hives expanded? What do they add?

>>16641489

Rolling for first run.

>>16654371

>Stobe alive

Most likely seeing as how he only ate shit about 100 years back according to a certain character.

>Cat-Lon

Also probably, is it after or before the fall? I thought it was right after. Odds are we will meet the Phoenix too. Oh fuck I wonder if we will run into Burn as well, he seems like a guy who gets around.

What mods do I need to make the women not all look like they're 2 years into a meth habit?

Rolled a skelly for the fiirst time ever and its pretty great. I can mine copper all day long and sell it in town and not have to worry about things like food. Going to use a fallingsun so I picked up a cheap one. Probably going to go beat on sole dust bandits. I'm considering wearing no armor and just beef up my toughness

>>16656798

Save your pennies and buy a place in town. Also I think a bar owner start was added on where you have hydroponics unlocked and 100k cats. That might be a mod start though I'm not sure.

>>16641489

never played before

Kenshi on newer engine soon.

>>16657113

Suffer and learn, that's the best way.

>>16641489

Rollin.

>>16657139

I'm not lying, a little birdy told my its gonna be very soon. Believe it or not, Kenshi 1 will be able to run on toasters, 2 is going to use about the same code.

https://twitter.com/lofigames/status/1108442139921432579

https://twitter.com/lofigames/status/1113081466815238152

https://twitter.com/lofigames/status/1102987091649200138

>>16641489

Roll.

>>16657148

god fucking bless this man and his work

Haven't played this game in a long time because of the random crashes at the critical moments. Also the game lags and stutters like fucking crazy with bigger groups. I had like 5 skeletons and 10 humans in a group and it becomes unplayable at that point.

>>16657756

It runs better now. Walking into big areas you might still have it stop while it loads. There is a compressed textures mod that I use that helps. But its still not super great. Maybe this engine update will help.

>>16643643

>those names

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U

>>16656747

>I'm considering wearing no armor and just beef up my toughness

despite the toughness description not wearing armor doesn't boost your gains

>>16658752

Lame.

Guess I'll roll with Sleeveless duster then. I think I'll go train off of fogmen seeing as how they wont chomp on my sexy skeleton body. That and they use beating weapons so I wont bleed out.

>>16658828

i would sugest hitting up the armor kang and getting kitted out in max samurai gear and heading to the cannibal plains. with there short stature if you max out your hight they will rarely if ever hit your exposed head and the cutting damage is reduced far more than blunt. even if you dont plan on having it on your guy late game it is a great training tool for toughness (by dragging out fights longer) and forces strength training

>>16659894

You don't understand, I can very easily wipe all the fishmen out with but a single Skeleton.

The issue is that they seem to always bounce back. That and the crabs. I spent a full real day killing Fishmen for this exact idea. There was always more Fishmen. 24 real hours of killing Fishmen and Crabs did nothing to stem the tide of nearly-worthless Martial Artist Swarms.

>>16659973

Sounds like turret fodder.

>>16660017

You'll get beat up alot, expect lots of running and if you want to become a true beefcake learn to cheese.

>>16660029

>You'll get beat up alot

Can I not get a potion seller to sell me his strongest potions?

>>16660032

no, you must master being hit in the balls until your balls no longer have feeling

>>16660032

No you need to get your teeth kicked in, pick yourself back up do it again and keep going it until nearly dead then run away toughness is a stat that straight up gives damage resistance and it caps @ lvl 100 with 40%, everytime you get knocked out and force yourself back up as long as you didn't get too damaged you'll get 10+ levels, hell I maxed mine out after I found an island full of crabs which don't kill me nor do they do much damage so I built a house and killed all of them after two weeks in game

>>16660039

How do I go about doing this without getting murdered or kidnapped by skin bandits?

>>16660043

Oh, alright, I'll do that, thanks.

>>16660045

Just don't fight skin bandits ezpz.

>>16660049

Prostratz right here

Oh and Fogmen. Avoid Fogmen.

>>16660053

Fogmen are a peaceful people who are misunderstood. This is a perfect time for someone to go out to them and get them to open up.

>>16660045

Go to the fog and you will be fine, we wont hurt you.

>>16660045

Waste a week training athletics & strength with big piles of rocks whilst running in circles. Have the first chucklefuck you can hire as a secondary mining you copper or iron & sell that so you can have food without worry, do this until 40 athletics also don't bite off more than you can chew ever.

>>16660048

The build mechanics are bullshit & a solo/duo trader character is what I did while looting ruins it was fun but I legit saw the whole work after some months in game, probably four days irl time it was great as I pieced the whole world together with everything I saw visually, it was fucking cool, there's this desert spot with an old broken castle that has satellites firing at it from the old wars

>>16660055

Sure if you got nothing on your back and 60 athletics they'll be as peaceful as anything else you can outrun.

>>16660055

Oh fuck, I thought they were saying "frogmen," I played Dark Souls enough to know that the fog is bad shit.

>>16660063

>spoiler

Where do I go in-game to read more about the history of this world? That sounds amazing.

>>16660063

If I were going to play a truly solo game I'd train stealth, assassination, strength and athletics first. Then I'd capture Tinfist, rip off his arms and legs and strap him to a robot repair bench to train my offensive skills and dexterity. Toughness and Defense come last.

>>16660074

>lore

Quips from characters, some books. Having a skeleton in your party is a big help. It's surprising how much info they give up. Worlds end is a good place to get information from a skeleton.

and then talk to him as a skeleton or with a skeleton party member and see what he really has to say

>>16660074

Play it and run around, talk to some npc's in towns if they're friendly also I'd recommend a neutral start don't be on the badside of anyone first time around so you can explore, you'll also find tidbits of rumoured lore but if you rush around you can confirm some of it yourself. One town for instance is a specific mega structure but you'll see it yourself.

>>16660080

On my first playthrough I didn't even know how to train assassination I just trained athletics but running in circles while some other asshole mined for me so I had cash & food was what I did. I departed at 10k cash, good amount of food and ran through the whole game all the time and maxed athletics ez.

>>16660080

Why Tinfist? Because as far as I know he's the only skeleton with 100 Martial Arts. When you attack someone, their "level" and whether it's higher than yours (for training speed the higher the better) depends on their melee attack OR martial arts depending on their currently wielded weapon. A sleeping enemy, or one with no arms, wields no weapon and therefor defaults to martial arts even if he has a weapon "equipped" to the appropriate slot.

>>16641342

Is there any porn of this thing?

>>16660101

No but we got porn of your mom

>>16660091

Stealth+assassination is OP. 100 effective stealth (counting bonuses from equipment) makes you effectively invisible. You can walk through an entire army from the front and they won't see you at all. Successful assassination attempts don't break stealth either. It's a little hard to train at first, but once it gets high enough to have 100% success on weaker enemies you can just spam it on them and move on to tougher enemies as your skill gets higher.

The reason you take stealth/assassination of course is that it makes kidnapping NPCs to use as punching bags rediculously easy. You can also easily use it to get Cross weapons, or the peeler machine blueprint. Hell, assassinate the Armor King and get some masterwork samurai armor for free.

>>16660107

And you're a nigger

>>16660111

STICK IT IN HER HOLES

BREED HER

>>16660113

Oh, and 100 stealth also allows you to run at full speed while stealthed. You train athletics and stealth at the same time and can do so in town, so it's easy to work up to ~60ish.

>>16660115

so is your mom I've seen those pics

>>16660117

>>16660113

How do you work up stealth effectively?

I could never level it more than like 20 even when I tried.

>>16660118

if it moves,we can fuck it

>>16660128

Just walk around in stealth. Anywhere where people or animals can see you that aren't your own faction is fine. They don't have to be hostile.

It's possible something like higher perception "opponents" makes the skill train faster. It trains regardless of whether or not you are detected or merely in line of sight.

>>16660140

So in theory you should fuck yourself?

>>16660141

I guess I just felt I wasn't getting anywhere maybe I'll give it a shot sometime.

>>16660143

Yes but unlike me that is exotic and has the potential for hot exotic sex.

>>16660241

I'd rather drown it in atomic fire, but you reminded me of this.

>>16660241

Yeah no.

>>16660258

Well this is something I didn't wanna see again

>>16660294

YEAH YES

>>16661015

Beep is the shit and only gets better with Agnu. I like the odd friendship they form. That and the scene that plays if you head back to the same area where you got agnu.

>>16661278

i love it when beep finds out one of your squad is a woman. he's without a doubt one of my favorite squadmates

>>16661015

Kinda looks like Beep's wearing white stockings, which go well with his trim waist and wide hips

>>16641489

rollan

I'm making a 'vampire' mod and I can't believe how gated the fcs is.

Anyway, I need a method of extracting blood and how to save an image for an icon file(saving as png from paint.net doesn't seem to work).

Method 1: Tie an enemy to a pole and allow blood to be extracted by the machine. No further player input.

Method 2(untested): Place limbs in a machine and have the player use the eat animation to extract the blood.

Those are the best methods I could come up with. Hopefully the fcs is opened up as the game gets older.

Can't post images using tor.

i.postimg.cc/jq4GXZRz/Blood-drainer.jpg

>>16664163

You can create a unique humanoid race with vampire properties.. aka blood spider proc

>>16664243

I did that already. I tried adding the same package that the fog princes have but neither allow the player to do anything useful. You can't even add a burn debuff. If natural armor worked properly I could but it doesn't. Also food is still edible unless I alter every food item. What a mess.

>>16664163

>Method 2(untested): Place limbs in a machine and have the player use the eat animation to extract the blood.

Update. Now tested and it is visually better but the downside is I can't make the machine universal to any limb. Each limb needs its own machine as far as I can tell. I'll keep trying different things but this method is better due to the difficulty of acquiring limbs and it uses the eating animation which makes it look like the PC is draining the blood from the limb.

>>16664451

The best I could do so far is to make the machine require all 4 human limbs and nothing more and make it produce 4 blood bottles. This means non-human limbs won't work and you need all 4 to get any blood bottles. Another method would be to use generic meat instead or adding a heart item and using that instead of the limbs.

I still need help with the icon not showing up.

https://i.postimg.cc/FKXbVkm6/blood-drainer-2.jpg

Im getting into Kenshi, what should I expect?

>>16665169

You'll get your ass kicked, this is normal and actually good because it raises toughness. Don't quit easily, as long as one member of your party is alive you can always keep going.

>>16665217

What mods should I get?

>>16665295

>remove clutter

>compressed textures

>less foliage

>reduced weather effects

>fast doge

>lets talk

>blood spider nerf (limits their attack range not damage or health really just makes it less retarded)

>256 squad limit

>simple map icons

>>16665366

>Fast Doge

Either this is the mod that makes bonedogs faster, or increases martial arts dodging animations

>>16665366

I had to make the mod myself, but I found that if you make acceleration and turning speed both arbitrarily high and equalize all playable species footprint size, you can dramatically reduce instances of getting stuck on terrain or separated from a group. I'd highly recommend something similar.

>>16666063

>>16665366

>Fast Doge

Its not on nexus mods so im out of luck, same with blood spiders. Either way, I only got 2 in my party and I cant really seem to figure out what to kill without getting at least my main character btfo. My side kick is pretty good.. but me? I cant hold my ground. All were doing is wondering, not sure what to do.

>>16666063

>>16666631

He means fast dodge

>>16666631

Get your group up to 5 or 6 people, go to the center or the map and fight shitty bandits, or assist Holy Nation in doing so until you can stomp them and after that branch out.

>>16666639

Yeah, not on nexus mods. So I wont be able to get it.

>>16666640

I'll try that, thanks.

>>16666631

You can download steam workshop mods for Kenshi using https://steamworkshopdownloader.io/ Just make sure to rename the folder the same as the mod file

>>16666717

starving bandits

dust bandits

shek niggers

in that order

>>16667857

So Im kinda having some trouble finding them but whatever, im currently in the city of Stack. I see them sometimes, other not so much.

I tried mining for money, but it turns out copper is only 15 credits and not the 250 or whatever. What the hell am I supposed to make money now? I can have maybe 4 people mine at 2 spots near by but I dont know what to do with the rest of the 4 I have?

>>16641489

>Half the quirks are no fun bullshit

Everything else looks fine but always encumbered or no armor is retarded as fuck and never leads to fun. Fighting naked and missing arm is actually a quirk.

>>16668827

well go somewhere with a better modifier then. regions will have a different P"rice Mark-up" modifier.

>>16657334

It better have fucking body highlights, my eyes can't handle playing this game.

You only see fights happening because of the huge ass high contrast numbers

Torrenting now.

What am I in for /v/?

>>16675032

Don't give up.

>>16675032

murder, robbery, slavery and being eaten alive. then murdering robbing slaving and peeling your opponents skins off alive. the most valuable information you will pull between playthrews is what type of opponents will strait up murder you, slave you or leave you for dead. and learning how to endure encounters is more important than winning.

got'a get that toughness up asap.

>>16675032

You're going to get eaten and not just by long necks.

Some nerd on reddit claims that Shek have the highest EHP in the game and basically shit on all the other races in combat. But is it worth playing as a butterface?

My early game companions are usually skeletons because I don't have to feed them and the patriarchy hates me anyway.

>>16675721

everyone is a butterface in this game, skelies do have the best limb health thew even with it being more costly to repair but they also bounce back faster from fights, nothing like cheesing base defense with a few skele beds to rotate back on when knocked down. but again expensive in the early game unless you know of a bed rental that wont cost 2-3 k cats. the black desert city has beds for 200 but all the enemies around there are rather over leveled

>>16675755

>not playing with the japanese loli mod

>>16675721

Reddit are consummate shit eaters and generally retarded though. Play the race you want, as long as you train you will ve strong. Avoid martial arts until you get a feel for the game, or don't. Its a long hard path but very rewarding.

So what mods are you guys playing with? i like to keep my games fairly vanilla, but since the dev gave up on this game and left it to modders, mods are fairly mandatory.

i like mods that dont fuck with the lore, dont affect the difficulty in a direct way, and keep the game fairly vanilla.

i am playing with the following mods

>18+ female bodies

>tsuki reshade

>faces+

>256 squad limit

>copper drill

>recruitable prisoners

>Hippity Hoppity You're Now My Property

>let's talk

>more bolt charges

>dark ui

>animation overhaul mod (crafting)

>defensive wall2 upgrade

i am considering a few mods like reactive world, tame beasties/immersive taming, players slavery, and "general modifications" but have some reservations about them typically in regards to concerns about game stability or difficulty.

>>16676352

link?

>>16675032

You can get your doggo to fetch severed legs for you.

>>16676506

>i

Mods I'm using are bouncing boobs, lets talk, cannibals expanded, 256 squad, recruit prisoners, interesting recruits, market stalls, and an economy fix. I think I got a few more but I can't think of them.

>>16676649

>bouncing boobs

got a link or specific name?

>economy fix

is this the one that gives everyone a universal income? i was considering this, but i didnt like how it makes NPCs "buy everything" because it makes no sense why a bunch of mercenaries would buy iron rods from starving bandits or their rags.

>>16676725

https://anonfiles.com/43e38fy2n5/_Bouncing_Boobs_rar

>>16676725

The boob one is just legit called bouncing boobs. It works on metal armor too which looks really funny. The eco one just gives everyone a bit more cash and makes certain people buy certain items.

>>16676749

thanks, does this stack with the 18+ female body mod? or will i have to use one or the other.

>>16676749

>_Bouncing Boobs.rar\_Bouncing Boobs\character\meshes\female_skeleton.skeleton

hmmmm, this seems like it could get spooky. are you trying to trick me?

>>16676769

You're right, he's trying to trick you into straying from Okran's mercy and into the arms of the vile thot.

>>16677399

That looks like John Cena with a wig

>>16676506

I use "Hub Plus"

it adds shops and recruits to the hub.

https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/276?tab=description

>>16677399

Nice dubs Ms Webb

>>16677399

>hey reddit do I pass?

It might be a while, but if Mountain Blade can get sex mods I don't see why Kenshi can't

>>16677908

Because Kenshi's mod tools are garbage and nobody is doing anything about it.

>>16677945

isnt the dev to blame for this? or is it possible for someone to make mod tools that can modify parts of the base game without direct help from the dev?

>>16677908

i dug around in the game files to see what i would have to do to make one and o god the base mesh/rig that they use. garbage and then you can tie 1 animation to an object(cage) but getting 2? can make a "work" animation play but you cant force orientation with that.so unless you want to dry hump the air around a stripper go fuck yourself.

Just to clarify companions won't leave you unless you're forcibly separated, right? I don't want to lose my fem Shek posse because I needed to steal a few cats from a merchant

>>16677945

Well that's a fucking shame. So now we just hope that Lo-Fi decides to help?

>>16676749

when i put this in the mod folder it doesnt show up in the mod list. is there something i have to do to make it show up? is there a location with notes/instructions for the mod?

>>16678298

Yes and yes. Most games that get mods do so without any help from the devs and often completely contrary to the devs wishes for the game. By providing super shitty mod tools with the game, the dev has effectively killed the drive for modders to create their own. Something like skyrim is popular enough to get a script extender in spite of the existing tools but I don't see something like that happening for a much smaller game.

>>16678385

The .mod file must be located in a folder with exactly the same name, that is then directly placed in the kenshi mods folder. The file path MUST look like "Kenshi\mods\MODNAME\MODNAME.mod" If MODNAME.mod is one folder deeper or named even slightly different than the folder it's in it won't work.

>>16678307

If by "companions" you mean player-controlled characters, yes. All characters you control are effectively "you". Unless they die or are manually removed from your faction, they will always belong to you and are functionally indistinguishable from the character you created at the start of the game.

>>16641489

Rollin.

>>16679825

That won't be for years. But if you want to fix pathfinding yourself you can easily solve 90% of problems by eliminating acceleration.

The biggest problem with pathfinding is that when turning, it takes a certain amount of time to decelerate and the game does not plan this in advance. A character reaches the spot it intends to turn, starts to decelerate and then moves past the turning point and has to recalculate its route from the new location. Deceleration speed also trumps level geometry in most cases, so instead of stopping when you hit a wall or boulder or whatever, you keep moving until your acceleration speed allows you to stop, ending up in non-pathable areas as a result.

Group-pathfinding is also hindered by different footprint sizes, turning speeds, and water-aversion levels. While fixing acceleration and turning speed will stop characters from getting stuck 90% of the time, they still seperate when small characters decide that a quicker route is to walk through a space big characters can't fit through (mainly an animal problem), or when quick swimmers decide that the water is a faster route than land.

All of this is extremely easy to change in the FCS. Pathfind acceleration, pathfind footprint radius, and water avoidance can all be changed from the races navigation heading, and turn rate can be changed from the characters>animals heading (turn rate only applies to animals). Just make sure to set acelleration and turn rate very high and footprint and water avoidance to be the same across the board.

>>16679900

Thanks.

Yeah my biggest problem has been when characters start ignoring water (across the board, even those with 0 swimming) for some apparent reason. Even rebuilding navmeches doesn't seem to always fix this.

Was trying to make a mod which adds a town but got really frustrated with the busted pathfinding leading to the AI being blocked by non-existent walls, ignored bridges and just generally pretended like there was no water. This despite rebuilding navmeches and setting up custom pathing routes in said town.

Then sometimes it worked again, but only to once again break shortly after. And redoing the steps which sometimes made it work, didn't solve the issue the next time.

>>16678643

>All characters you control are effectively "you".

I had a feeling it was designed that way but with the hiring dialogue I couldn't be sure. Thanks.

>>16679917

>Yeah my biggest problem has been when characters start ignoring water (across the board, even those with 0 swimming) for some apparent reason. Even rebuilding navmeches doesn't seem to always fix this.

Water avoidance doesn't take into account a character's actual swim skill. It's a racial value based loosely on the racial modifiers to swim speed (for instance, a greenlander will swim almost twice as fast as a shek with the exact same skills and equipment).

>>16681505

You seem to be well versed with the FCS. Is it possible to add a racial condition to machines? Can I create a group of items or a keyword than can go into a BF_refinery machine instead of having several separate machines per item?

I never realised how open the TES modding kits were until I started modding in the FCS.

>start in hub

>decide to go out and try mining copper

>get knocked out

>bandit leader gets stuck on the copper rock

>i recover and have just enough time to apply first aid before

>get knocked out

>2 day coma

>decide to follow passing caravan back to hub

>armored bandits attack it

>get knocked out

>super speed back to hub still takes a couple minutes

>sell stuff to merchant by entrance

>hungry bandits decide to attack the merchants near entrance

>cant hobble away fast enough

>get knocked out

>5 day coma as limbs slowly restore thanks to the splits i put on them before getting knocked out

it gets better right?

>>16682038

You probably know more than me. All I can do is tweak some basic parameters. Every time I've tried to look into something more advanced I've been stonewalled with "can't be done".

>>16682548

I also keep running into "can't be done" online but my hopes is that someone knows of a convoluted workaround. I see there's a "flag" box but there's no information on what it does or how it works.

Why make such a gated modding kit in the first place?

>>16683615

The game's basically held together with duct tape and prayer, so I can sort of understand why.

>>16682467

Focus on stealing enough to get yourself and a few others equipped. This isn't the kind of game you can start out solo and expect to blow through bandits like butter.

>>16641489

rolling

>>16641489

le role

Why does all my equipment give me -20 bonuses????

>>16688385

Stop wearing heavy as shit armor when you are a weakfag.

>>16641489

roll

>>16679837

Not really, minecraft has had lots of updates recently.

>don't touch the game for months

>see thread

>get back into it

>was procrastinating on building walls for my base

>start building them as well as a multi gate system that is surrounded by 3 watch towers

>getting raided a lot more by starving bandits

>at my base located in scenic lower deadlands, with a small section tetchily located in Venge for fresh water and wind power

>Suddenly there are people in my base, even walking around in my buildings

>thought it was a raid and almost attacked them

>turns out I forgot to set my outpost to private, assuming that nobody would bother going there

>ai keep getting suck while trying to build the last part of the wall in the venge corner

>game also keeps crashing likely due to the town being beyond the official town zone

>might just move shit around with the debug commands

fun game as always.

>>16688786

leave the zone with squad and let the zone "despawn" when you come back that shit will be sorted out.

So, who can enslave you and what jobs do they make you do? Just looking for a good place to RP a betrayal and be enslaved.

>>16689739

there's a slaver group who can enslave you, they're to the north east in the deserts, and then there's the holy nation who enslave you if you piss them off for whatever reason (being non-human, having artificial limb, being a woman etc) and basically once you get taken to the slave camp you just mine copper or stone for them and then get thrown in the cages at night

>>16688760

Stop following me stick-bug, I already traded with you. Let me flop away in peace.

>>16689802

I just want to do farming slave jobs and I'm not sure which factions slave and which don't.

Also, I guess the Merchants are with the United Cities?

I'm using a mod that makes your characters join the nearest faction after you kick them out of your party. Thinking about using it to make NPCs related to my party and even make a nemesis who betrayed a group.

Its a shame you can't combine the best race skellys with the best start. slave

If a skellington is captured by manhunters and made a slave will the slave owners heal him or not? I'm guessing not but its worth asking.

>>16690162

Yes with mods.

>>16690162

No in vanilla

>>16690131

All the slave jobs I've seen are mining, except reavers. I ran in their faction hq to check it out but they just left me in a cage for a week. They did have a patrol leave and take a few slaves with them with "protect master" job, so maybe if I was there longer they would have taken me on patrol with them, but I got bored and broke out. Shame they don't have pit-fights for the slaves they leave behind.

Also, yes, trade guild is aligned with UC. Also comes with ally status with slavers, but they'll still sell your ass if they find you in a UC jail. I fucked up allying them and now shek kingdom won't talk to me, but I was still able to ally them with bounties.

>>16650901

Any other links that don't use cloudflare? I've been using 1.0.21 for a while now and looking to update but there aren't any(that I've found) for 1.0.31 that don't require cloudflare. A magnet link would be best.

>>16692587

just finished raiding them and turning vamilion in, whiped over half my squad after i set up in their territory. just carried fuckers away and let them bleed out rather than capturing them as slaves. ended up eating a few cross weapons too…fucking magpies. during the raid they would repeatedly try to slave dowend squad mates so i ended up loosing a few spring bats from my archers. basically just an inconvenience thew. but hot shit i was pissed when they killed angu by refusing to give her medical care and dragging her off b4 i could patch her up. the 8 random flesh sacks not so much but still they could have done something for them rather than just carrying them off random directions.

on another note the crab tournament broke for me and now i keep getting the remedial round. then i went and asked the crab queen to be nice and she obliged in exchange for making skin bandits (hostile) skeleton bandits (hostile) and the revers (hostile) and now they show up and attack any mercenaries i hired (and they seem to just keep hanging around the base and buy shit the moment their contract ends giving me all my money back. i got like 3 stacks of tec hunters and 2 merc squads just milling around my base.)

>>16682467

You just need to practice, and level up some skills. What I did was get some shitty wooden sword or wtv, and find some starving bandits or dust bandits outside the sheik town, preferably a small team of 2-3 and use defensive and offensive mode to train swordplay, and defense. What you do is you stay in defensive mode so you don't auto-attack them and you watch their attacks. The enemy attacks for bandits are incredibly easy to discern because of how choreographed they are. Generally speaking, when they do the overhead big swing, and you move your sword up to defend, instead of the side, the parry will succeed. So parry. If you move your sword to the side and know you're about to get hit just run back, and they'll miss. Keep doing this running back and out of range of attacks, only staying to parry when you know it will work, until you train yourself up a bit.

As for attacking, it takes a bit more practice, but what you need to do is time it so you change from defensive mode to offensive after the enemys attack and leave themselves open to you making a swing without them being able to retaliate in time. Generally, this is right after one or two of them do big swings at the same time. As an example, after two dust bandits do two big swings with their clubs towards you and advance forward with the momentum, with one dust bandit moving to catch up, you quickly change to offenssive mode and right click the enemy to attack. Hit him once or twice but immediately move back as soon as any of them look to be retaliating.

Just repeat this until you're good at fighting. it's what I did. Also, you will fuck up and get him from time to time, this is good, as it builds endurance. Also, if you're knocked down later, when you go more endurance, you can get up, and stop playing dead, do it. Even if it's just to run away. it's a massive boost to endurance. Kinda like every cheesy anime when the protag refuses to stay down makes them stronger.

>>16694949

Oh, forgot to mention, when shit gets too crazy, or they become too much to deal with, run to town and let the homicidal guards deal with them, then rob the bandits before any survivors are dragged off to the cells. It's also a good way to make some money and buy a better weapon/armor/wtv.

>>16694949

That sounds stupid, slow, and autistic. Just grind your skills a little bit higher, train more dudes, get better armor, and do your combat at max speed.

>>16694988

It's only necessary when the enemy has higher stats than you. Otherwise it's all just a stat game. Even all that bullshit he told you is just trying to abuse the flat boost you get to defense from being in parry mode.

>>16695196

You lack a warriors spirit.

>>16695623

It's a game for logisticians anyway.

>Cat-Lon and Tinfist lead the skeletons and save the humans from extinction and establish the 2nd empire

>Over the years, the empire overextends and starts to crumble, Cat-Lon creates more and more oppressive policies in a desperate attempt to keep order

>Humanity's frustration reaches fever pitch as the First Phoenix leads an armed revolt against the skeleton overlords

>Tinfist sees things going to shit and bugs out with as many skeletons that will listen to him

>Cat-Lon is infuriated by Tinfist's betrayal and thralls thousands of his skeleton forces by removing their heads, turning them into mindless killing machines that only serve him.

>Tinfist is on the run and hides out in the Deadlands for a bit. The skeletons he saved from Cat-Lon make the Black Desert City

>Tinfist wants to fight Cat-Lon, but almost all of the skeletons are crestfallen and are content to just wait until they rust out in the Deadlands

>Meanwhile, Cat-Lon is hunting Tinfist so he can rip him apart bolt by bolt

>He establishes a forward base in Venge to hunt for Tinfist. Humanity is a mere annoyance. He turns on the still operational orbital death laser to keep fleshbags away from his shit while he can focus on capturing Tinfist

>However, Tinfist is hiding in the one place Cat-Lon wouldn't look: Right under his nose in his own backyard

>Tinfist needs to kill Cat-Lon, but his skeleton forces are just a ragtag force of homeless, depressed rustbuckets, while Cat-Lon has an army of mindless killing machines

>Tinfist needs allies, but who would side with a skeleton after the fall of the Second Empire?

>Meanwhile, The Holy Nation has an army of badasses trained from the womb to kill skeletons

>They're expansionist, and are moving east

>Their biggest obstacle between them and Cat-Lon is the United Cities

>UC is crumbling politically, but in an all out war between them and the HN, the HN would probably win, but would be weakened and unprepared to fight Cat-Lon

>All they need is a little push and they'll eat themselves and clear the way for the HN

>Tinfist establishes the Anti-Slavers

>>16696061

Daily reminder that Sishio is stronger. He just couldn't bear anymore and began to burn.

I want a all female slave army. How do you recruit slaves? With that mod right? You have to have your own cells right?, you can grow food with hydroponics or something? is it best to practice all of this crap in a safe city before base building your own? What are some good big cities? Some big cities don't have much building available to buy. Wish you could set up shop in a city. But then again they really only buy food and booze in the counter. Do they stop you when you have hemp clothing or just drugs? Right now I'm just running around beating up some bandits I got a decent training building and storage set up in that one Holy Nation city by the farms and stuff, north east of Stack

>>16641489

rolling

I should make a good ol fashion samurai in this. The only thing I've done so far is make a martial artist. I was working on a suicide blade Skelton but wandering samurai sounds more fun. What sart would be best for it though?

>>16696057

>first human settlers arrive in ark (they are all weebs)

>use robots and genetically modified humanoids to terraform and set up manufacturing

>even make genetically modified warrior cast to keep order

>robots making robots

>hivers struggling in the fields desperately trying to pull food out of toxic muck

>humans getting fat

>treat robots like tools

>broken tools get discarded

>useless tools get discarded

>oh hell no we matrix now

>purgethefleshbags.jpg

>fist empire falls

>time of chaos

>loss of anyone to build maga-structures or spacecraft

>strobe saves some remnant of humanity despite their "sins"

>cat loin forms the second "empire"

>tec is still regressed from robots going insane and breaking fucking everything even the tools to make more robots

>build tin shacks that still exist to build basic components to keep the existing skeletons running

>food shortages are rampant

>humans riot loot steal to stay alive

>cat loin sends robot general to deal with the "pirates"

>cat loin sets up slave labor camps

>robo police cant deal with the amount of fuck going on with even robots thinking cat loin has gone to far

>Tinfist revolts, having had a human marshal arts mentor

>Cat loin now starts thralling every robot he can save 4 "generals"

>slaps massive AI cores into them to make up for this

>second "empire" fails robots escape empire collapses

>turns out you cant herd thralls into nation building with only 5 lobotomized autists

>human survivors consist of ex slaves and feral cannibals

>yea when you leave people in a camp and then not feed them they will resort to cannibalism.

>great evil

>slaves revolt when you have them work 23 hr days

>great evil

>shitheads will still say cat loin did nothing wrong

>slaves and surviving genetically engineered species escape

>shek tribes form then united by kral into one nation state

>holy nation scared by the cluster fuck that they just escaped from now hate skeletons and the ability to make skeletons just want to farm have kids and teach them not to trust the skeletons

>two "queens" or gestation chambers for hivers survive found nation states 1 built of of farming and trade and the other built around collecting all the meat available to feed to a hijacked combat robot

>scorchlanders genetically enhanced humans or literal lizard people direct descendants of mark zuckerberg that fallowed humanity to kenshi start collecting wandering humans/hivers/shek/robits and start slaving those they cant get to buy into management positions forming the slaver groups and the (((United Cities)))

>tec hunters are formed by Robot to cover up what happened to the first empire/tine of chaos/time every robot murderboneing every flesh bag they could get their hands on

>colect strays the same way the (((UC))) did, and set up a bounty system and dole out low level tec to pay for it while scrubbing records clean of what the robots did

>holy nation goes along with this and gives tec hunters free passage to clear out the dangerous tec

>UC nobles see skeleton hate sparking up again as bad for business so tec hunters git a free pass

>shek are to busy harassing farmers and training to be come stronk to give a fuck

>tec hunters are spread from the north to the south and from the east and to the west because their real purpose is to hold back tec/research and that benefits all the major factions

>all living Robots lived thew the age of chaos and got their murderboner on strobe had a change of heart tinfist had a change of heart wen he found some chill ass meat sack training on a mountaintop tinfist is *now a "paci-fist"

>tinfist is genuine and a massive autitst that forms the anit slavers for anti slavery things because he has to keep fighting for justice. cant make progress in the holy nation because the paladins don't fuck around as much as the (((UC))) does, so focuses on the (((UC))) not some hidden loyalty to tinfist

>anti slavers cause the few peasants (people who formed cities on their own b4 the UC became a thing and where eventually annexed only to have some scheming merchant find a way to carpetbag their way into leadership positions.) to get fucked, despite doing nothing wrong, for getting bullied by the fags that stole their cities.

>Because tinfist is a autistic robot

>fall of the second empire only happened some 100- 200 years ago in game

did i miss something?

>>16696191

>>16696191

you install recruit prisoners then brute force you way threw the dialog until you find the sequence that causes that particular prisoner to join up. reaver slave's are all the same broken skeletons are all the same….. otherwise you just buy them from slave markets or free them, but then only the honorable personality type will join you. raid rebirth repeatedly for mass honorable shek warriors i'm 90% sure that there is a disparity in personality types and race

>is it best to practice all of this crap in a safe city before base building your own?

<the problem with towns is that they don't let you build outside &that some things can only be built outside. so some heavy industry and food cant be produced in town. hydroponics is a workarround for this but really its late game tec and at that point you will probably be getting cramped in town and wanting to start a plantation somewhere or just skipping the base building feature.

<illegal goods are based off of the faction your are dealing with with all of the big 3 shek holy nation and (((UC))) baning hemp and hash, but importing splints and high grade medkits the holy nation however goes a step further and bans skeleton limbs, books that require a fifth grade reading level, AI cores,& robot parts. why in gods name would you set up in UC town. even if you wanted to ally with them you still need to get your rep up to 50 b4 they stop searching you and beating your ass for getting a peg leg

<a hit or miss feature is that your house gets plugged into the power grid of the town for free but limited power. and if you build any power source the town will eat your power, and you cant build the larger wind turbines on your roof so get fucked.

>but towns never get raided

>towns never get raided by skinbandits

>you will never have to see your people be drug off to be flayed alive

>when hostile npc's wander in they will get killed by the town guards

>you can set up a shop and dump goods on other shops without making another trip to town

>safe secure beds to rest in where you can lock the door and a slaver wont bust his way threw and kidnap you for taking a nap

>>16696765

Stobe was way later. Literally only a century ago if a certain skeleton is to be believed.

>>16696820

>fall of the second empire only happened some 100- 200 years ago in game

second empire did not last long

the skelebanit leader i think you are quoting is one of the reasons i think the first empire only fell 100 years ago but when counting in centuries it can get a bit fuzzy

90- 140 years? i don't really feel that the second empire lasted longer than the age of chaos witch is where i have strobe doing his thing. probably saving humanity after kick starting the age of chaos being both orkan and narko

>Playing for the first time

>Choose a human, want to start with something boring and work my way up

>Take the default route and learn the controls

>Seems pretty simple

>Leave town looking for adventure with my iron club and a single loaf of bread I bought

>Get immidiately raped by dust bandits

>They even steal my bread

>Finally wake up, bleeding out

>Walk to closest camp, turns out to be some templars of Okran or whatever his name was

>Realize they won't patch me up for free

>Mention Norak, assuming he's the devil to them and expect to get murdered and start over

>They enslave me and heal me instead

>Try to lure my main captor to a house away from other guards to kill him with kung fu and escape

>Get my shit pushed in yet again

My days are now spent trying to get the fuck out of their gay camp, but every time I try they beat my leg again and I have to wait until I stop limping. Fuck this game is awesome.

>>16696896

It can't be more than its got to be 1000 years MAX for the whole time line. Anything over that feels to long. The thing is history gets lost very quick when cities eat shit. Look at how many more cities there were that are burned out husks. I would imagine that each of the civilizations lasted about 300-400 years with a falling period of probably 100 or so. I'm sure there were other smaller cities that popped up in between. I guess we won't know until the dev spills the beans about the time line.

I'm pretty sure that the 2nd empire was already gone when stobe ate shit and sacrificed himself to save the planet or a large chunk of it, hence the burned out nature of Stobes Gamble. It must have been some ancient war machine still going on. The Skelly who tells you seems to make it sound like he has some sort of following that was with him, and is now gone. I guess we won't know but I'm sure the second game will clear some stuff up.

>>16696057

>>16696057

>All this headcannon

I blame the dev for the great lore holocaust after 1.0., many holy temples had ancient and forbidden lore books about the past but for some reason the dev axed them for no reason.

Also Try going into Black desert city with a hiver and Chritin is dead, but Okran and Narko are still alive, but you guys know them with their real names

>>16697016

Blast is described as eating shit right before the game takes place the shek kangdom ate shit and barely brokered for peace with the holy nation describing 90 of the ruins there all of the cities in the game are post second empire aintchent labs and the maga factories are first empire and the ramshackle "engineering" huts run by skeletons are second "empire" the only real account of anything being stretched out is the holy Phoenix being the 62nd Phoenix if they are given the title at their birth further stretching it all out….. so what average life of 50 years so 3100 years to the age of chaos/fall of the seccond empire? far to long. someone is lying or the lore wasn't really planed out all that well beyond lol trigun with swords and lets have some robots and shit what if the machines rose up.

>>16697006

You're basically in the holy nation's power leveling camp's so use that to your advantage.

>>16697066

>hiver in the black desert

Blease do tell

>those 2 still alive

what skeletons are they

>>16697200

I would assume tin fist and catloin

>>16696063

Sishio was a coward, and was weak. He would have lost eventually either way.

melee stats are around 50s-60s, where do I train for gains or do I need to make a base with a prisoner arena again?

>>16698292

Go southeast

>>16697068

average life 50 in post-apoc civ.. nigger plz

it's 56 in russia right now.

what is this game?

>>16698588

Enslaved/ eaten alive sim

>>16699045

Taxes from UC and protection money from Redsabers. Maybe some other swamp assholes too.

>>16699125

Beats having to clean up the cannibal corpses in the northern coast. Theres some beak things to the west in the crater, any chance they'll try to fuck up my shit?

>>16699137

>Some beak things

Perfectly friendly creatures anon, like pack beasts. You should go say hello and think about taming one.

Sell me on this game, where to pirate too?

>>16699230

Big titted waifus, or small ara aras, samurai, and the abomination lovechild of /pol/ and /christian/ as one nation, as well as badass robot samurai, and disposable limbs, all wrapped in a shell similar to the aesthetic of morrowind.

>>16699546

With the performance of a lame duck.

>>16699546

>>16700575

And the pathfinding of a malfunctioning roomba.

>>16641489

Rolling

>>16701224

Resist any and all urges to start over or even save scum. few mistakes in Kenshi are as fatal as they appear and you get extreme experience gain from near death experiences.

>>16641489

>attacked on site

>on site

>site

>>16701224

>restart

Don't do that. Getting your ass kicked makes you tougher physically. The slavers are unintentionally training a living stone golem the more they beat you.

>>16701758

>>16701600

Plenty of mistakes are bad enough. If a character you actually care about dies, especially one you've spent days (real time) training, or if your base gets slaughtered, or some asshole slaver steals your Cross weapons and Masterwork Armor and disappears.

Toughness can be a double edged sword. The higher your toughness, the lower into negatives you will remain fighting. However, the lower into negatives you get the higher your risk of instant death. Your character dies the moment his head, body, or stomach reach -100% of their max value (so -125 for shek, -100 for humans, -200 for most skeletons). If you are a human and still standing at -79 (-80 is the cap for toughness), all you need is to take 21 damage in one hit and you die outright, no bleeding out, no recovery coma just dead.

I decided to come back into this game but I originally stopped because base management is so boring. Last I played you basically needed to get a base to progress into the otherwise you're stuck at shitty tech levels. Any mods to turn this game into an adventure game like early game Kenshi?

>>16701981

>a character dies or I lose my equipment

Roll with the punches baby.

>>16701986

Keep running on that treadmill, you'll get there someday I'm sure.

>>16702038

It’s a game man, There is no “get there”. I play, I enjoy it, I close it when I’m finished.

>>16702227

It's a /fit/ thing

>>16702303

No. I just intended to mean that all his progress is constantly getting undone as he does it. If you spend days training a guy and then he dies, that's basically a huge waste of time.

>>16701985

don't do base management then.

>you don't need to roll a large squad

>you don't need to mine ore

>you don't need to farm

>you don't need to make your own food

>you can just sell those AI cores for 25K each and just fucking buy whatever you need

>the best weapons are found

>the best armor can be purchased

you can just buy a shop in town and set up a few beads and a arrow making bench or whatever 1 industry you want to run or again just don't

my games just grind to a halt the moment i get a base set up

>>16701981

why would you go put yourself into a situation you cant win or risk getting sucker punched? and why did you rush some cross tier weapons if you still have problems with slavers? i mean in this thread i bitched that it happened to me but i really shouldn't have set up shop in reaver territory without a far fuller squad of actual competent characters but really why worry about collecting all 24 of them? shit if you want to you can duplicate them in world by importing your game

>>16702883

>my games just grind to a halt the moment i get a base set up

exactly. Do I even miss anything by refusing to make a base? It feels pointless but I also feel like there is something that I'm missing out on.

>>16702937

You miss out on having a base, defending a base etc, and it becomes extremely difficult to do anything on a larger scale. Small scale crafting can be done in towns buying up the raw materials at shops, but that actually requires more micromanagement than crafting in a base when it's set up, and can't scale up beyond a couple of crafters due to limited space and material.

Crafting is mainly important for getting Masterwork armors. Cross and Edge 3 weapons can be found or purchased relatively easily. Masterwork armors are pretty much limited to the Armor King, and he doesn't sell very many. There are also multiple types of armor (such as Crab armor, the strongest defensive plate armor in the game) that he doesn't sell.

>>16702867

My time isn’t wasted though. The excitement of earning the shit back, particularly by smearing whatever took it from me into the sand, is more fun than actually having the shit ever was. I might add, I am almost always able to recover my cross shit (at the very least) whenever I’m enslaved or caught in prison, on the rare occasion that I am.

Your thinking is kinda fatalistic to be honest. Is your day off “wasted” just because you have work in the morning?

>>16702937

endless free money but cats are a null issue once you start looting a few of the higher teir labs/armories

>>16702951

you can set up an armor shop in town and it really is not a bad choice to do early game to get the initial cats rolling in as ore skips iorn plates and goes into the plate beating station to get the iorn plates all that can be built indoors. therefore in town. the real trick is getting enough fabric to keep it all going as the clothing bench leather armor station and heavy armor station require it and no one seems to sell it in bulk

>>16702998

>Is your day off “wasted” just because you have work in the morning?

yes

>>16702998

In order to get your shit back you have to find the actual guy who took it from you. Even if you killed him right then and there it tends to be hard to find the correct body in the literal pile of all his friends. If he gets out of sight for an instant it's gone. I don't consider grinding another character's stats back up to 80+ "exciting" either.

>>16698588

a weeb-madmax hybrid game about getting fucked to death by a pack nigger giraffes.

sorta.

>>16703129

what's weeb about it

>>16703173

Coolie hats and chink/nip weapons and armor.

>>16701600

Very true. My toughness is high as fuck because I refuse to stay down. Feels anime as fuck, especially when you're surrounded by ten dudes stronger than you, and you know you should play dead, let them rob you and fuck off, but instead you get back up, barely holding together.

I'm fucking around the Swamp with a team of 4 (and a doggo) but I kind of don't know where to go from there. I'd like to train my dudes in an organized fashion but that's not easy in the swamp. (I have seen exactly 1 turtle, the rest is just a bunch of fucking spiders)

Also I visited multiple taverns and haven't seen a single plastic surgeon.

>>16703173

The games title is literally the Japanese word for Swordsman (剣士)

>>16703731

turtles, they are so passive, but once in awhile i just need their shit.

A long time ago, even before The First Empire, the Great Shek Kangdom enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity. Led by Krolm, the scentist-philosopher-kang the Shek Kangdom reached technological and cultural peaks never seen since. From his flying cyber-crystal-pyramid, Krolm ensured the Shek people thrived. The Shek people created the Scorchlanders so they might also enjoy the fruits of civilization, however, the most evil and black hearted of them gave birth to a mutant that had its skin bleached white over years of incest and beastiality. These "greenlanders" were fueled by envy and racist hatred, and plotted to kill Krolm and steal his power for themselves. They snuck in while he was doing nothing and stabbed him 6 million times. However, without Krolm to calibrate the melenin of the world from his cyber-crystal-pyramid, the First Extinction began. And the rest, is history.

I downloaded the demo and played a bit yesterday. I have no idea what to do, can someone help?

>>16707271

Run around and try to make enough money to feed yourself. Steal stuff off of corpses and explore

>>16707271

Install mods.

>>16707301

The only thing I found that I could interact with were these iron nodes that I mined a bit but it didn't seem very lucrative to sell the iron.

>>16707335

Try copper.

Started my martial artist save back up and I'm going around knocking over slave farms and camps. I've done about 4 of them now. I'm going to keep working at it then go after Tengu when his kingdom is a shithole. I'm trying to get the 100k bounty too, All I have gotten right now is about 62k.

Do you guys savescum when you die or start a new guy? I just got gored by 3 weird longneck dinosaurs and got eaten to death

>>16701600

>>16708760

sometimes the swamp can contain some serious bullshit, you can't exactly walk away from having your entire party permadead from bloodspiders, thats where I rollback.

>>16708760

Depends, if it was some bullshit like bad pathfinding yes. If it was something stupid that I did, no.

So is there any recourse but to import if you've explored every goddamn ruin on the continent and don't have enough ai cores to finish out your research?

>>16708760

You cant even play Kenshi without savescumming. Its already so unforgiving that it feels bad to even try to play it.

Oh, you failed at stealing something even though nobody was around you? Too bad, "magical alarm goes off" every guard in the fucking city attacks you.

Oh, you clicked that random spot on the map? Too bad, because pathfinding doesn't actually do its job well enough and you get killed by random gangs of enemies while your character was stuck.

This game is very near non functional early access mess. Random crashes are fucking terrible as well. You may lose huge amount of progress if you don't manually save often.

>>16712077

It doesn't really matter if you get caught committing crimes. The only times you really have to reload is when your last character dies or a squad gets wiped out.

Everything else can be recovered from, like losing limbs, being arrested, being enslaved etc.

Wild animals and cannibals are probably the most dangerous enemies in the game since they will eat you alive.

Thoughts on where Kenshi is going and Kenshi 2?

>>16712054

You try searching the heads of powerful skeletons?

>>16712054

AI cores are easy. Just go to the Ashlands and farm Cleansing Units. They spawn randomly, impossible to miss since they are almost as big as leviathans. You can turn up the general spawn rates in the options if you want to do it faster. The other rare research materials are much harder. Engineering Research and Ancient Science books might require refreshing the world if you don't have enough.

>>16715657

Farming cleanser units is also my favorite way to earn money in late game. Every one drops 1 AI Core, 4 CPU units, 3 Skeleton Eyes, and 6 Skeleton muscles, plus some basic materials that aren't worth the inventory space. That's almost 70k in value, and the AI cores are worth exactly the amount that most shopkeepers have on hand (25k each with no markdown on selling, so you can take all the cats from a shop with a single sell). I like to keep the Skeleton Muscles though to craft robotic limbs with.

Man the building system is kinda annoying. I thought I had chosen a relatively defensive base position but still needed to wall up the entire thing because the AI kept finding holes.

>>16715777

>needed to wall up the entire thing

That's pretty much how it goes. Never rely on natural terrain as a barrier. Even if the terrain works, you end up screwing up your wall/building/turret placements because of it anyway. Just build on flat open ground with walls on all sides. The one kind of useful terrain is water. You can build in water without much issue, and it drastically slows down most enemies so it makes a useful gauntlet. I posted my design for that here >>16641935

>>16715847

I settled in Vain, so I can use an ACID MOAT… Trouble is, so far the raids have spawned inside the perimeter.

>>16715082

I really hope they add the ability to claim buildings from ruins and toppled cities. It always felt kind of weird to me that you couldn’t just pick up where some other town left off.

>>16715855

I did that before, and then I had cannibals try to raid me. I found out cannibals are immune to acid water, for some reason.

>>16716047

You shouldn't settle in Vain unless you have some good fighters already anyway. Cannibals aren't really hard to fight, they're scrawny fucks. They travel in hordes, though, so they're death to raw recruits (unless they have a veteran nearby to save them).

>>16716076

You shouldn't really settle ANYWHERE unless you have lots of good fighters already. I think maybe you might be able to manage in Okran's Gift, provided you stay on very good terms with the HN. The worst you should face there without directly pissing someone off is dust bandits, which you can eliminate by killing or capturing the dust king if you want.

>>16716141

Forgot you can bribe the dust bandits actually, so as long as you can fend off river raptors (annoying, but not threatening) you should be perfectly fine there early-ish into the game.

>>16641489

Feet

>>16712054

ashlands cleansers are totally not laviathans that have AI cores and they respawn ad infinum and there are 5 npc's in the ashlands the leader of the Skeleton bandits and loot in the ashlands if you missed that.

>>16716141

with the freedom seekers start you have enough cats to hire out some bodyguards and clear out your local bandit problem and then set up right there. did it a few times by taking out the band of bones and the dust bandits in the same 2 day period and used the bounties to kick start the building possess. bonus if you get your settlement set up in time mercs will just "hang arround" after their contracts are up and the mercenary guild and tec hunters are auto hostile to all the bandit groups. and you can cash out their payroll with a shop counter (teir 1) plus BandOfBones has teir 3 training dummies to get your B team up to 15 atk before you throw them into the shitshow.

>>16716141

i settled right outside of a hub full of tech hunters near the dead center of the map. if anyone comes thats too strong i attack them and then run into the bar. 20 tech ninjas descend upon them and are insanely strong. plus mercanaries and other really powerful guys get involved and then i can scavange/sell all their shit in 1 spot and return home to improve. its also a nearby place to get food and supplies.

>>16708760

You just have to self control on some mods… there are recruit prisoners and it makes it for some really hard to recruit and a bit of time but others are stupid easy. You have to go though the dialogue correctly and then there's a chance you might recruit them, also should be one chance a hour or something. So there are some requirements. But there's also a mod that lets you stick anyone in a cage and recruit them immediately.

>>16716147

>fend off river raptors

All you need is a small wall around your farms.

It's that easy. They are a joke. Prayer day is scarier than those river shits.

>>16717822

>Prayer day is scarier

i dont get this, cant you just talk to the guy? i just keep my holly bibble in a trunk and when they come i grab it, remove my fake arm, and approach.

>>16717938

>remove fake arm

No need. My Bibleholder has a hightech skeleton arm and the preacher doesn't give a shit. I just lock up my non humans, and especially my skeletons until they fuckoff. Just hold his hand a d chant his mumbo jumbo, who gives a shit

>>16717822

When I set up in Okran's Gift, river raptors would constantly attack my gates and my turrets wouldn't do a thing about it. For some reason they stay non-hostile even when doing actions like that. Similar problem with mercenaries trying to get in or out of my base, which is why I refuse to hire those shits.

river raptors are the absolute weakest animals and potentially the weakest enemies in the game, so they aren't really a threat except to poorly armed, unguarded farmers. Just annoying as shit. As for the idea of putting a wall around the farms: if the wall around my entire base won't stop them, I don't see how that would.

>>16718144

>I just lock up my non humans

>having non humans

disgusting, i bet you have niggers in your society too.

are you saying the traveling preacher doesnt aggro when seeing the spooky arm like i get if i wander near any HN soldiers? what about the soldiers traveling with the traveling preacher?

>you gotta pay taxes every week if you build a shack in the middle of buttfuck nowhere, have to build windmills to keep the lights on and fend off bandits by yourself

>you buy a fixer-upper in a major town for peanuts, hook up to the local power supply for free, and enjoy the protection of the town militia without paying any taxes

How does this even make sense in-universe?

Also, why THE FUCK can't I highlight contaimers or dead people. I get highlighting live enemies kind of ruins the feeling of never travelling safely, but then again you get to see damage popups from fights happening half a mile away, which 9 times out of 10 means free stuff and probably stragglers to use as punching bags.

>>>>16722260

you are taxed for mining and farming rights. the kangs say it best with "you farm our land and now we are taking back what you took from it" also if you leave town for too long you can lose your property. but yea the in game economy is fucked and you should get taxed moar based on what type of icon you have on the map at the vary least. or a tith being demanded of whatever like shit those bone niggers wanted food they could just demand X food rather than just gobbling up everything they see. but at the end of the day i think it's just something to get you out of your base and actually do something.

how do you all feed your colonies in arid/dead lands with relatively little headache, I don't get much meat coming by because its either 20x extremely hostile strong batdogs or it isin't

>>16727899

>Is life easier on the north of the continent?

Cannibals are in the north and northwest, they are numerous but depending on if they are scrawny or not, it ranges from fucking you up to victory with some of your own K.O.ed. If you lose they will carry any of your fleshbags to their camps or villages, whichever is closer, and imprison you until they decide to eat you.

The Fog Islands have the flesh eating deadhivers that will fuck you up due to their numbers then eat you at the pole while screeching: "REEEEEEE!"

In the farthest northwest are the Behemoth Plains which are very beautiful and abundant in Garru, Beak things, goats, and Behemoths. If you can make it here, technology and riches await as you can cheese iron spiders out of their structures and let whatever passing wildlife handle them eventually. Just keep your distance from the Behemoths and stop for the Garru when prompted and you'll be fine.

In the Northeast you've got UC in most of it, the Rebel Farmers HQ, the Anti-Slavers, Slavers, Scrawny Cannibals, and a burrowed predator in the desert sands. Only the Tower of Goats and Tengu's Vault are worth mentioning.

The south side of the continent is the most interesting one.

>>16731147

>how do you all feed your colonies in arid/dead lands with relatively little headache

Make dustwiches in Arid lands, you can grow cactus and wheat there as long as you have water.

Dead lands require hydroponics, a tech 6 research, you'll be lucky if there's any water anywhere but if it rains in your location build rain catchers.

>Batdogs

Just how far south are you?

>>16731515

>Beak things were able to talk

Genuinely creepy and would have added an interesting layer of mystery around them.

>>16731515

damn thats creepy. not quite as creepy as the fogmen. a character that joined me by accident was sent on a suicide mission. was knocked out by fogmen, they tied her to a pole and 1 ate her while the others waved their arms worshipping her while shouting "WREEEEE".

>>16731515

Oh so they were based on the primordial serpants from dark souls.

Give me a goal, please.

Self imposed limitations will be that I must have nonhumans (previously I've only done single race plays, I'll have a mixed band this time), I will only mine at permanent settlements, and I will never lure enemies into guards for money.

>>16731515

I remember when they were this yuge and it got me interested in the game more, size cut was a mistake.

>>16733054

Add to that you will never steal or assassinate anything, because both of those skills break the game. Money isn't an issue when you can head to Black Desert City at the start of the game and steal some unguarded masterwork limbs (which restock daily) to sell over in Heng for 10k each

>>16731515

That wasnt them talking, that was what some Npc's say when they go to kill you. He was probably testing them.

>>16733857

Oh wait I just read the fucking tweet where he himself says they could talk.

Well fuck me then.

>>16701758

tfw no Saiyan gf to make me tons of food and fug

How do I properly organize my base, especially the job assignments? Game has a habit of stopping my dudes from working when I switch to a character elsewhere.

>>16739723

If you are really fucking far away, your base stops "existing" and no events happen, everyone stands in place. People can "show up" but nothing happens until you click back. Ehich can sometimes be funny when the Shek come by to flex on you, and the Holy Nation drop in for Bible Studies. They usually kill one another and fuck off, prompting the survivors to send a raid to either Stack or The Skek town I forget the name of.