Not an rpg

I won't try to ruin the experience for you, but you will probably find later on that Bioware and Bethesda RPG's have greater replayability in the long run.

>>2717503
It's good.

>>2717503
Tried to get into the game but my dude keeps getting his shit pushed in and levelling him up just seems like an unironic 200 hour grind. Am I just shit?? Please help me bros...

>>2718432
The game is a sandbox. Your character(s) will toughen up as they go along. You don't need to grind unless you want to jump straight into fighting.

>>2718434
The thing is I managed to get my dude to become a multimillionaire through trading but then you very quickly hit the limit to what this provides.

>>2717777
lmao got more roleplaying than any bethesda title unironically

>>2718437
to level toughness just find a camp of dust bandits and get up immediately every time you're knocked unconscious do this until you feel like you're close to hitting recovery coma and then sneak and heal and sneak around to level up stealth until you've got enough HP back to get knocked out over and over, rinse and repeat. I got toughness to level 90 as a Shek in 15 mins on my new playthrough. Will send pic soon.

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>>2718451
proof

>>2718437
There's not really that much to do. It's a very barebones game. It was never finished. If you get a load of cash then all you can really do is hire a bunch of people and build an outpost.

>>2718470
>There's not really that much to do
very true, two playthroughs is probably gonna be enough to burn me out forever. I'm the shekposter btw

>>2718470
>>2718486
Guess I've already completed it haha....to be honest I did put like 20+ hours in so I got my money's worth.

>>2718539
170 hrs myself
t SHEKMAN

>>2718563
By 20+ I meant 138 hehe...

>>2718571
>138
>he didn't figure out how to speedgrind toughness
come on senpai

>>2718581
To be fair, the longer it takes to figure out the grind, the more fun you'll have. When you sink into that formula of grind toughness then grind strength/athletics or whatever, then you're no longer having fun.

>>2718581
Maybe I did. Maybe I just wanted to keep the thread alive.

>>2718610
I only grind toughness and stealth because everything else takes too long. This is only my 2nd playthrough and on my first I only occasionally speedground toughness.

>>2717777
???
Nice get though.

>>2717503
Not a real videogame.

>>2718470
>It's a very barebones game
inb4 mods
I reckon that the 2nd game will simply be an upgraded first one. I don't get it though. It did sell well so the guy shouldn't be short on cash why not simply work and finish first one?

>>2720153
It is "finished" really, it's just not that deep a game. Better to work on a new game with lots of staff on a better engine (and sell more units hehe) then soldier away on an old game.

>>2720155
>It is "finished" really,
The settlement and faction scirpts/systems were pretty underwhelming. I started to outright ignore the X shitter came to your settlement then N'th time after a while and didn't impact my gaming experience in the slightest. Nor there's a lot of interaction with factions. Also - fake economy.

>>2720174
Yeah I agree, there's certainly room for improvement and the end product is very basic. I just mean that though there's more you could add to flesh it out, for all intents and purposes the game is "finished" and this is the product we have.

>>2720187
I know, I guess I was just whining. My bad. Didn't regret playing it regardless.

>>2720174
Yeah its really just an exploration game as it is now. You could do the basebuilding but its not super complex and it gets old quickly. The combat is pretty good imo but ik a lot of people would prefer it be interactive but for the type of game kenshi is it fits perfectly and is a nice change of pace imo. So thats really what you're gonna get outta kenshi desu, great exploration, alright base building and combat you either love or dislike or probably even hate.

>>2718432
I just installed these two mods then never looked back:
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/605
https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1024
Although it ignores the intended experience, having faster growth feels good to me and I like just spending a bit of time getting a character up to speed without extensive slog.

>>2718539
>20+ hours in so I got my money's worth.
NTA but I'm half same, wish my actual money went to this rather then wasting it on the snoozfest that is Outward.

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>>2717503
should've stuck around to try and haul him out while they're distracted eating some other poor shmuck
i feel that though, the desperate times when someone goes down to beak things/fugmen/cannibals and the tide turns against you and you need to start figuring out an exit strategy FAST are the most fun

everyone in this picture survived, beep became mecha-beep

>>2718432
>my dude keeps getting his shit pushed in and levelling him up just seems like an unironic 200 hour grind
That shit is fine when you first get into the game, but it gets old. It's pretty easy to mod the global experience rates, and to make your own starts.

Gonna make a new game and reshape the Holy Kingdom. Wish me luck boys.

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>>2718454
>day 15
>15 minutes

>go into the swamp
>blood spiders
>fly noises
>brain immediately going nope nope nope nope
Scariest horror game I've ever played.

>>2724030
yeah it went from 20 at day 14 to 89 at day 15 what part of that dont you understand, it didnt take 15 straight days of grinding.

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>>2724030
hyperbolic time chamber, anon

Reminder. If you didn't beat double crab tournament you didn't beat the game. Simple as.

>>2724030
Too be fair what feels like 15 minutes in kenshi is easily too hours in reality
Definitely the worst for just having the entire day disappear before you realize it

Best way to level up fighting??? Looks like as an individual I need to have a dude hanging back ready to run in and bandage my main dude up otherwise they'll die. Sad.

Also I wish there was more average stuff to do in the sense of living a somewhat normal life. Oh and that there was more consumables. I appreciate we're going for a somehow grim world but being a hyper rich noble and still eating a bowl of plain rice is kind of strange. I want to spend my noble greenlander boy's money on quality goods....

>>2726866
I already explained it, I didnt spend the full 15 days grinding that stat it took 1 day which is 15 mins, you niggers are retarded if you think it takes 15 days to grind toughness to 90 as a shek

>>2726919
You can eat people who can eat rice. Not everyone can afford it.

>>2726915
fighting fugmen at the gates of Mongrel is relatively safe way to get few levels early on
treating crippled dust bandit like a training dummy is also good and low risk
That police tower in the smaller shek city has training equipment that's rarely occupied, but guards still can beat you up if they find you
>>2726919
Meatwraps and Gohen are the best thing you get

>>2727121
Would that you could without needing to mod the game....

>>2727154
>Meatwraps and Gohen are the best thing you get
Literally in tears. I just want to spend my money on something, anything.

>>2727154
false, ration packs are the best but they can't be crafted and are rarely sold, also food cubes are more space efficient than gohan and meatwraps

>>2727327
I think they mean best in terms of quality for eating flavor wise.

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>>2727180
There's a mod that adds a bunch of fancy cousine according to the region and local ingredients:

Expansion of Food Culture:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1982620848&searchtext=food

Biome Food Expansion:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1984752079&searchtext=food

I've been using them for so long I legit forgot they were mods

Wanted to replay it and was about to look for a download, but it turns out I already had it on steam.
Cool game and all, but can't believe I payed 27$ for it.
Anyone knows what is he adding to second one?

>300 hours in
>wiped out the holy nation
>have a fully functional small city and another small town built by the river next to rebirth
>50+ characters with best possible crafted weapons and armor
Still need to wipe out the slavers and united cities and maybe the hostile hives. I could easily spend another 300 on this.

>>2727641
Boats

>>2717503
I hope I can play the sequel before I'm senile

>>2727583
I guess I'm just being picky now but I do like the concept of everything being grim. Those foods are a bit too noble bright (if you can even call food that) for me. It's like I want expensive food, clothes and luxury goods but I still want them to fit the theme. I'm probably impossible to please. Maybe I should just mod them in myself....

>>2724030
Based retard

>>2727914
So you want to kill everyone and doom life on that moon to yet another round of post-apocalyptic misery?

>>2728393
If you remove the HN and UC, the Shek just take over. UC is unsustainable to begin with so removing them is not a loss in any objective way. HN is the most sustainable nation, but only because they hold the most fertile land so anyone who conquers them automatically becomes the next top dog.

There's no faction whose demise actually ruins things for everyone. I guess letting the fog niggers take over is the worst end but that takes a lot more effort than just removing the muslims and jews.

>>2728404
The Shelf Kingdom is absolutely unsustainable due to its culture. Shoulda wiped em out first.

>>2728431
Shek*

>>2728431
They'll be fine once they form a few breakaway kingdoms and start eternal wars.

>5 man skely start
>mine copper for repair kits
>mow down hungry bandits for xp
How long into the game until missing armour slots bite me in the ass?
>>2728431
>The Shelf Kingdom is absolutely unsustainable
Isn't holly nation the most reasonable other than "not enough diversity" and "muh wimin"? I mean:
>properly structured
>citizens first
>strong religious backbone to unite its residents

>>2728448
>How long into the game until missing armour slots bite me in the ass?
Not at all. Skeletons are OP, bug people are weak.

>>2728448
>Isn't holly nation the most reasonable
From a sustainability sense totally. Also just did the two slaves start and dismissed the second slave and it put them into the trader faction and they just walked out of Rebirth in full slave gear. Made me chuckle.

>>2728472
>Skeletons are OP
I would have said the same thing if not that random bolt that decapitated my poor bloke.
Armoured Shek with replaced limbs are the best warriors, imo.
Skelies are for farming and making drugs, since they wont die of starvation when left alone and getting stuck due to a glitch.

>>2728716
All fucking skeletons must fucking hang. Skeleton limbs are ok though, the priesthood is just misguided.

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>>2728790
>All fucking skeletons must fucking hang.
kek

>living in outskirts
>a prayer day comes to my skely settlement
>sees my skelies and skedaddles whence they came from
>ok.jpg
>after some time inquisition comes
>proclaims we are fucked, then storms into my shed and just sits there
>few minutes later bandits arrive
>proclaims that my settlers are shitters
>runs into the very same shed inquisitors sits in and then both start mauling each other

>>2728790
>hang skeleton
>he just swings there and waits patiently for you to die of old age
>waits a bit longer for the rope to rot
>strolls away

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>>2728790
As a lil RP play through I did a Holy Nation character who rose through the ranks to High Inquisitor (RP plus tweaks through the modding tool) who created the "Copper City" which was a settlement which researched advanced tech and used decapitated skeletons as a work force (in secret) and augmented injured citizens with skeleton limbs. The guy had a wife and children and had expeditions going out into the wastes to find advanced tech. Needed mods but it was based. Might do something like that again.

>>2728935
Heretic.

>>2728948
Rebirthing skeletons into a loyal useful tool of Okran is within scripture. Maybe drink less grog and eat less chewsticks, they're rotting your brain brother.

>>2728948
When you're the biggest provider of tech components, copper and advanced weapons and armor the pappa P doesn't give a shit.

>>2728945
I don't know who that is but I'd fuck them. Also based starving bandit carrier.

>>2717503
I don't even care about which faction "makes sense" this is a videogame and I am the ultimate God that decides the future of the world, so naturally I genocide anything and everything that isn't to my liking, which is the entire world that isn't my power team. That is the beauty and power fulfilment of Kenshi, natural selection at its finest.

>>2729833
Dangerously based.

>>2717503
>adventure...c&c
That's not adventure gaming, nevermind rpg c&c, it's squad simulation. Kenshi has no narrative progression and little characterisation needed for roleplaying c&c. It also lacks puzzle-solving and the exploration is bare by rpg adventure standards.

>>2730936
You can literally change the world itself so yeah I'd say it his c&c. You don't need a personal narrative provided by the game and puzzles for it to be an RPG. The forefathers of CRPGs, table top RPGs provide neither puzzles not narratives other than the ones created by the players, like Kenshi.

>>2730936
puzzle-solving is an absolute cancer that detracts from gameplay and has no business being in any serious RPG, for example every single module in nwn that relies on puzzles for it's majority of content is absolutely abysmal unless you specifically enjoy that type of content for which you should be playing adventure games instead
rpgs are about character progression, not pointnclick tier puzzles, even dinosaur level game philosophy from the era of wizardry, m&m, ultima didn't focus entirely on puzzles but character progression above all

>>2717503
this has garbage leveling up system that you can basically just fast forward to level up.
It's fun at the start but when you know the mechanics it's just a clunky frustrating and boring game

>>2729742
>but I'd fuck them
Who wouldn't be seduced by that beautiful smile.

What's the best building shell in terms of space efficiency? Multi-story building doesn't count, since navigating floors is annoying if there isn't a char already inside the building.

>>2732044
The banana one. It was always my fav.

>>2732044
Station house it just a really big oval

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>>2728290
then idk what the fuck you want, anon. You wanted something fancier than rice and meat and there is a plethora of choices of meals made out of shit that is available to them.

>>2718470
You could also mod your own starts, or just mod the game. Its pretty easy.

>>2732045
Banana one is a bit too narrow, so production buildings can be placed only in a single file, I think.
>>2732109
Station house is a proper warehouse. Depends on use cases, I guess.

>>2732266
not him but he was fairly plain and upfront about what he wanted. you're being insanely obtuse

They should add a campaign or something to this. I want to actually do something meaningful. like help save this world and cure the world of all the shit in it and help it get onto a path of an actual livable world like ours. to help unite people and stuff like that. killing a big bad. fucking anything. and its annoying that i have to train a bunch of other fucking losers to get anywhere in this game. i just want to be my one guy, the protagonist. i thought this game was all about samurai stuff? but i cant be a lone ronin who helps save the world? that'd at least be satisfying.

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>>2732439
Am I? Anon wanted more food diversity and I provided him two mods for just that. Especially because he wanted something fancier than Gohan to spend his money on, but apparently the ones in the mods were too fancy? It's not like there's a cheeseburger or strawberry cake, they're meals made with ingredients in the setting.

So yeah, I have no clue what he wants, then, but if he ends up making something then I hope he publishes it on the workshop.

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While fully engorging myself in this bait >>2732443
You mean you want a focused storyline? Because you can do plenty of meaningful things like expand Okran's Holy Lands or enslave every single noble from the UC. Better yet, wipe out the Hero League or make a functioning and prosper settlement in their godforsaken planet.
>killing a big bad
There's a kilometric list of them in the game. And I'm not even talking about the average bounties.
>and its annoying that i have to train a bunch of other fucking losers to get anywhere in this game. i just want to be my one guy, the protagonist
Plenty of mods that let you start out as an overpowered guy.
>lone ronin
>saving the world
Lmao.

>>2732514
no but what I mean is actually doing something that impacts the world. it doesnt matter if i can autistically expand the empire of some NPC faction that never does anything and the game only acknowledged my action in an incidental janky way. nothing i do feels impactful. i cant actually change the world. and the namesless faceless 'villain's that do literally nothing but sit around and wait to be killed like an MMO does nothing to improve that feeling.
nothing you do actually matters and you cant improve the planet. nobody really cares if you kill those big bads hiding in the middle of nowhere and the big bads have literally nothing to do.zero effort was made to make this world feel like an actual world. its people standing around and raiding parties wandering around for no reason. fucking mount and blade has more verisimilitude.

>>2732528
Most of the factions are doing something.
Cannibals are eating people
UC and HN are enslaving people
Bandits are committing banditry
Fogmen and southern hivers are turning people into juice.
Skin bandits are skinning people

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>>2732528
>actually doing something that impacts the world
You'd have to actually explain what that means to you. Because expanding an NPC faction that actively raids settlements, enslaves unbelievers, and actively patrol areas making them safer for travelers is pretty impactful.
>i cant actually change the world
Most games, RPGs included, you really can't. Again, I don't know what you mean by "changing the world"
>zero effort was made to make this world feel like an actual world. its people standing around and raiding parties wandering around for no reason. fucking mount and blade has more verisimilitude.
I'll assume you're new to the game because every NPC you see is actively doing something, even Vagrants. Merchants are walking from city to city and selling / buying goods (which actually exchanges money and items from vendor's inventories), cannibals and raiders are looking for people to fuck over when they're not chilling in their camps, Slave Traders are looking for weak retards to enslave, who will then be brought to a local market and sold to the slave market, etc etc. Every NPC is subjected to the same necessities that you are, hunger included, so they do need food or they will starve. Sometimes you even catch starving peasants trying to steal food from a shop, whom will likely catch them, beat them unconscious and send them to jail.

You don't know what you're talking about.

>>2732528
You can literally change the world by killing certain people for better or for worse. I do agree though it'd be cool to somehow help the ecology but eh, there's already a tone of stuff to do.

>>2732505
Maybe I'll make a mod that turns you into a food item? How about that you sirloin steak ass Narko baby? If I do make a mod though I'll publish it.

>>2732598
If you could fix the world it wouldn't be punk anymore.
I wish you could too though. Unless someone turns off the eye above venge the moon is doomed

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>>2732599
make sure to call it Sirloin Steak Ass Narko Baby

Wish there was a kenshi coop mod boys.

>>2732601
The beams don't hurt skeles ;)

Tried playing a vanilla game after only.l playing with mods. Suffice to say I will be reapplying all the mods hehe.

>>2732867
Also, give me some roleplay starts boys and I'll try and do them.

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>>2732881
Beyond based. Thanks.

>>2732881
been a while

>>2732908
greenlander male
weapon your choice
armor/your choice
faction your choice
bounty hunter
ethnoparty hire only fellow members of your starting race
nemesis the first faction that attacks you is your enemy

this is basically my first playthrough 3 years ago, guess it's time

>>2732505
>diversity
Variety

>>2733003
That's a good explanation actually. Like if want to use the resources that already exist. For example the Okran Steak would be a prime cut meat slice that's popular with nobility in the UC, it's preparation is a secret. That is until you research a butchers bench and you realise it's processed people. With the other non meme stuff I mean like a vegetable dustwitch or fish with vegetable dish etc. Difficult to articulate it. Jam bread isn't what I'm after.

>spend 3 hours searching for a place to build a base
>give up and buy a house in town to do research and store stuff
Why it's so hard to pick a spot?

>>2733298
We must colonise the venge brother...

>>2733302
Spicy venge-fag. Absolutely based.
Ashlands next?

>>2733321
Yes...in the same play through

>>2733298
I have the same problem.
This guy's autism helped a bit
https://www.almarsguides.com/computer/games/Kenshi/Misc/BaseLocations/

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>>2717503
>>2718450
>Play Halo 3 Multiplayer
>venture out of my base, knowing my skills are lacking
>team mate to my left - dies
>team mate to my right - calling for backup
>sniper behind me who I was curious as to why never left base, turns out his entire plan is to go unseen, he's the best sharpshooter in my corps
>team mate has the flag, he's screaming for help as melee is insufficient
>warthog
>"GET IN SOLDIER"
>driving at the speed of light
>"ARGH"
>flag bearer is hit and dies dropping the flag
>run over the sonovabitch who killed my brother
>right then realize that i'm faced with a dilemma
>drop all pursuit of the flag, knowing the chances that I fall to the same fate are exceptionally high, however potentially securing the win for my squadron
>planting my nuts on the faggot who I just ran overs face while shit talking over the mic
>my choice is clear
>1 hour later - "You have been banned for racism"
I got more immersed in this 30 minute adventure and faced serious c&c here than I've ever had in any shit bioware and bethesda RPG.
Looking back I should have cut my losses and just grabbed the flag, wouldn't have gotten banned this way and could have even won the game for my brothers.

I love this game so much

>>2733364
That's helpful, thanks.

>>2733298
literally doesnt matter where you set up so long as you've got water, 100% fertility and iron and copper nearby.

>>2720153
>It did sell well so the guy shouldn't be short on cash why not simply work and finish first one?
It collapsed under the weight of his own spaghetti.

>>2733364
>Heng Base Location
That was my first location and it was glorious. A little bit east though where there's a big rock passage that you can literally wall off. It's like a small hill and two big rocks creating the perfect murder corridor for everything. I disagree with 6/10, maybe where he built it because there's sandcrawlers and other shit over there you definitely don't want to be around. Low fertility and water doesn't stop you from growing cactus and the UC taxes + ninja/starved bandit raids are not a big deal, especially after you get crossbows and let it rip through the corridor of death. I've played this game a lot and no other location is more convenient (trade wise), leveling wise, resources wise. The desert is the most kino area ever, it's the reason why I even fell in love with this game.

>>2733485
Damn might check that out. I'm playing a UC allied game now trying to decide where to set up base.
Kinda want to be closer to HN for the sake of easier invasions but I think having natural defense is more interesting than perfect resources.
I made a fog island base last game so don't want to repeat that

>>2733527
Heng 100%. A base in the dune is going to be hell. Spawn in the dunes, go east of the base recommended in the guide. You'll see giant rocks and you'll immediately spot the corridor of death as well. Anywhere there is ok but be mindful of slavers, they have a camp nearby. Other than that it's such a smooth sail it's completely unbelievable to me it's not recommened as your first try in every single case.

>>2734989
Maybe it's time we recolonize???

Man I wish Kenshi was a good game.

>hire a greenlander guy
>want to do a makeover on him @ surgeon
>import a preset look
>the guy changes into scorchlander
>wat
>fine whatever, lets press "done" on readjustment screen and move on
>game crashes suddenly
>reload the save right before the surgeon
>the greenlander guy doesn't exist on that save anymore
>gigawat
I've struck some prime jank right there.

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>>2733298
crank creature nests up to 4x
settle in the Gut
piss off every nation and mod out the no-go zones
let the incoming armies be beak thing fodder

accept no substitute

>>2735408
>picrel
Looks like hell to me, ngl.

btw, nests respawn or are they gone for good after clearing?

>>2736570
Yeah they respawn but there's only a max number in any one area.
>Looks like hell to me, ngl
Water looks lovely though. Bet it's good for the skin.

>>2717503
are there any mods where I can play as a Hive Queen and make my own hive

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>>2735408
>crank creature nests up to 4x
Cranked everything population related to the max and started with rock bottom. Got a pretty decent sum of money in the first 10 minutes while scavenging as ground is covered in corpses wherever I go.

>>2732881
Roll me, I guess.

>>2736962
Nah, you can mod it so you can play as a queen and use shift f12 to spawn stuff in I think. I did a play through once has a hiveless prince who was gathering up other hiveless into a neo-hive.

>>2717503
I really couldn't get into the game. It sounded like something I'd absolutely love but it ended up feeling empty for me. Not much to do it felt like, and though people into the game say you can play however playing with only one or two characters and not aiming to build outposts feels like I'm playing a way that wasn't intended.

>>2737565
Yeah I feel that vibe sometimes. People say you're not supposed to be "the main character" but getting dunked on non-stop is tiresome and when you hit high combat skill levels you DO become the main character.

>>2737565
Get the faster leveling mod. You can solo dunk on everyone with high martial arts for example.

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comfy

>>2737729
Tried playing without dark UI the other day. I can't handle the original style anymore hehe.

>>2737729
Oi, do you have loicense for that marijuana?
Also, why does Agnu doesn't have a regular skely head? Is it a mod?

>>2737799
Agnu is a soldierbot
I think they're called log heads outside of him though