Man the world really changed in these past 3 years eh huh I remember only seeing your NV tier list once and then kenshi happened and things ain't ever been da same Oh also if ya ever read this can ya tell me what the music is that comes on at 19:47 would like it for walks in the desert
You spend a few hours training the characters then they get unlucky against some slavers then get carted off to a city for the slavers to attacked and killed right outside by some dust bandits and then bleed out on the ground because you accidentally stood up when they were fighting and a slaver took personal offence to that
I think the moment I fell in love with Kenshi was when I was in day 3 or 4 of one of my save files and my two party members got their ass beat by dust bandits. Ruka is the one person playing dead and at that moment I decided she wasn't the type of person to stay dead. I get her to stand up and while she slowly gets back onto her two nearly broken legs she says something along the lines of "I'm going to keep my honour. Horn or not." Every dust bandit turns to face her. A single swing of her Plank knocks one of them out, the bandits have the majority of their flurry of blows blocked by her, and eventually, Ruka is the last one standing with barely an ounce of blood left in her body. She picks up her unconscious bug-man buddy and limps her way out of there on her way to many days of bed rest after snatching the first victory in a fight out of nowhere. This save file has continued to be an emotional rollercoaster ever since
Ruka is best girl. I spent half of my first game with only her and my starting character (later on Beep, Shryke and others to go get Agnu), but she's gone from bullied weakling to unstoppable god of war that cuts limbs for breakfast and I love it.
Ruka is my hero man. Remember my lone adventurer first playthrough, just my starter character and her. Learned the hard way why fog islands dangerous, managed to kite fogment all the way into some hungry bandits. Main character bleeding out unconcious, Ruka 1v1ing the 1 remaining fogman. It was a fight she couldn't win - Thankfully the fogman was more crippled. She kited him away, ran back to bandage the main character a few times, stop the bleed-out. Eventually picked him up and carried his catatonic ass, limping, all the way back to stack with them both starving.
Idk I guess I should just say, this is like a comfort movie for me. I love just turning this on and watching it just to relax. I've seen it so many times and I never get tired of it lol
Pro-tip: if you choose to be a citizen of the Holy Nation... either live in one of the cities, or don't be a woman without a husband. Some Paladins just slaughtered me for being a woman living on her own in the wilderness. 11/10 sexism simulator is top tier
In the introduction to Beep you left out any information about Beep's best friend Agnu who can be found imprisoned in a ruin where the death lasers are firing from the sky.
Wait... enemies can destroy walls? I play Kenshi for a long time and that never happened to me. Oh. And there are troughs for animals, they don't need to starve.
Once you get tier 2 walls, enemies will almost always go after your gates instead. Makeshift walls however, bandits will chew through them like a 70% encumbrance Shek with, uh... chewsticks.
The reason Kenshi is so great is because the entire game was basically meant to be exploited, enemy has slow attacks? Literally just step out of the way. AI is too tough? Just lure them into a trap. It's glorious, and the devs seem to get it.
The real world isn't completely polished and balanced. Some people are slow. Some people are REALLY tough but relatively oblivious. Kenshi is more 'realistic' in this way than some other games.
"If you are SLIGHTLY unsure if you're ready to put down roots... You are nowhere near ready." I have heard this advice spoken across videos and guides so many times in so many forms, yet this one hits the best.
I did start in Hub, mined copper and bought waystation ruin, 12.000 moneys, then mined more copper to get over 20 building parts for it, then some more for first research station, then more for Iron plates and books etc. Took about 12+ ingame days, but now I have lvl2 research station and both weapon and clothing stations. Need mine more for even more books and Iron plates to get good at thinks. Can make Blanks, spiked maces and heavy polearms already. Shame is that you can't make ore smeltery inside houses even if your house would big enough for it...
Carry bodies around at all times, in stealth mode, one backpack for you and one for a corpse, fill your inventory with copper or iron and you will be insanely strong after like a week
I HOPE you mean an IN GAME week XD! because I've tried looking at ways to get decent stats, and a lot of people were mentioning in under or a "REAL LIFE" week XD!
@@SomeGuy-qh6rw Is a good idea. But when you start, you don't have the funds available to invest into a pack animal. And even if you do, is wiser to invest in gear or another companion. STR can be trained to 50 easily enough, using a wooden backpack that costs 500 (ore stacks in it) and iron or copper ore, plus a body, which can be mined/obtained for free.
@@Zamolxes77 True enough. Though once you have the strength, I find pack animals are much better back packs. lol. Also, once you get stronger, if you are only wearing light or medium armor, it can be hard to get a heavy load. I find only things like armor plates tend to be heavy enough at that point. Ore is too light. But yeah. Early game, a back pack is definitely better. Especially if you're not cheesing thievery by putting something on the ground and picking it back up.
I too, kidnap people and store them in cages only to take them out and beat them up to the point of them nearly dying, only to heal and feed them to do it all again
Btw you can change your walk/run speed by clicking the arrows on the movement icon bottom right When you select multiple people, you can set it to the *match speed* one that will have them all go the same speed So nobody gets left behind.
@@pinbox5814 if they follow the person they run the same path. If they don't, sometimes they get stuck in a loop of running back and forth along a straight line. It breaks their AI for some reason. I just find the following tactic to be more reliable. If you don't get this bug then go nuts.
@@THE_Glass_Grizzly I think your pathfinding got screwed somewhere on the map. This happens to me if I take people to go to the Hub from the rebel base.
Pro tip: Always have some stealthy bois at hand on an expedition. Ancient towers are soooo much more relaxing when you just need to squeeze that one 80 stealth doggo/boi in and loot the shit outta the place. "limb loss and other fatal injuries upon being discovered will not make this comment liable in any juridictive way ossible. Stepping on a mechanical spiders toe may result in intense headache and accute missing-limbs syndrom."
Ancient towers are piss easy if you have one guy with a decent crossbow. Get in, get out, bait spiders out and pepper them with crossbow bolts. Spiders are slow and don't have ranges attacks
@@teecee1827 I know this comment is 3 months old but your tip led to my 2 of my 5 man squad being ripped to shreds lol. "They are slow" didn't really hold.up to the iron spiders 30 mp/h or the alpha gurglers murder squads lol. You're right though. If I don't roleplay I use a fast boi as distraction while the rest of my squad loots the surroundings. I think the worst luck ancient tower I've found was the one in reaver territory.... I'll never forget how I broke the seal on that accursed tower and 30 blood spiders sprint out immediatly. I remember having my skeleton crawl to the entrance to lock it again. I lost 7 very well trained party members that day...
@@PuddingXXL sorry to hear that, I considered them slow cause I use hivers (naturally faster with a higher limit) or my starting character (who's usually in the high 70 athletics by the time I got a nicely sized squad) as my dedicated crossbowmen and bait, while the rest of the squad hangs out as far as possible. Also compared to Beak things, any decently trained character can outrun spiders, not so much a beak thing.
@@teecee1827 No worries. I'm just teasing because my idiot bum made the great decision to scavenge another ruin and keep all the loot on me with just throwing off the backpacks. I also used a squad with 60 athletics but far too little strength to actually utilise it. The blood spider ambush scared the Fuck out of me tho lol. I also didn't know of king gurgler. I just scavenged the tower and calmy walked to the top floor. Imagine my face when I saw 30 gurglers surrounding the lovecraftian horror that is king gurgle. Needless to say that squad was devoured but damn that weirded me out like no other game can. Skin bandits are nothing compared to him lol Anyway thanks for hyping me up for kenshi again!
@@OM-ig4fj Virgin greenlander only knows how to farm grass, be stupid, and can't do anything without holy nation approval. skeleton chads wander aimlessly and beat the shit out of random animals because they don't need a god.
I have an announcement: I have finished writing the script for the sequel to this video. Even with drastic cuts, it will be the single longest scripted video I've ever done.
The best way to enjoy kenshi: 1. Recruit Beep 2. Sell drugs 3. Mess up with everyone 4. See the world burn, get beat, stronger and destroy everyone in your way 5. Stealing and thievery as you ninja way, your way to the top
@@rcrhinehart66 after trying out 5x exp for my first pthrough i can verifyably say that 10x experience is a horrible experience and completely breaks the game destroying any sort of fun or natural progression, if you wanted a neat and simple experience then play the sims lmao
i want to let everyone know that when he says every playthrough is different, he means it. for example, i also allied with the shek and conquered the holy nation, except in my playthrough i did it by myself. that's right y'all, u can absolutely level up high enough to wipe out empires single-handedly. please do not ask me how long it took
29:00 -- Fighting your way into an ancient science lab? I mean, yeah, you can. If you like CBT. Or, you could wander in with three high stealth people kitted out in ninja gear, rob everything out from under the security spiders, and ghost out of the door without them ever knowing you were there. Or, if you're feeling really cheeky, you can kite the whole lot out of their tower and across the landscape until their 'Home Territory Aggression' programme switches back to passive waiting. Then have someone else wander in with a Garru and recover all the goodies. Did all that early game cowering, sneaking, thieving and body looting teach you nothing?!?!
Renn It’s not just that. The setting is unique, the game prods your morality and makes you feel either bad or good without going “YOU DID BAD” like fallout, the combat gets more and more satisfying as you go on, and the storytelling is extremely subtle (I found myself looking at people’s stats to find out more about them and their history, such as how the Armor King has an armor smithing skill of 1 yet sells the best armor grades in the game)
I commented awhile back. It's been 108 hours. This is the best game. I even learned how to use mods for the first time. Mama needed a beak thing in her party. Fug is Beep's personal body guard.
I just recently made a skeleton crew (haha) I got only 12 guys, but they are BAD. ASS. every one of 'em lol. Also.. 10+ Iron Spiders/Sentry Spider things and growing. Looking for some Mkll's. This playthrough has been so satisfying.
Those things are insane aren't they? Never worry about a base raid again with a handful of elder Security Spiders guarding the gate. Never even have to close it any more lol.
The Holy Nation are a massive faction and have some of the best lands for farming on the continent. By definition their beliefs aren't fringe. Tinfist's anti-slavers are actually the weird extremist fringe group in Kenshi because about 90+% of the population in that world thinks slavery is okay.
I love this game, its amazing how in reality this is a true sandbox game because while you have gone the route of nation building I've gone the route of the swamp criminal. You out there making power moves while I'm working my way up with criminal factions so that I can begin to make power plays and take the swamp for myself once I'm built up. The games story is truly up to the players imagination in terms of achievable goals and I love that.
I became a bounty hunter who's goal was to caputer every named bandit and convert them. Soon we were a nation of bounty having bounty hunters. I finished by defeating the holy nation and making pheonix a robo convert
Man imagine if you could have co-op. Like you guys could both play in the same world space and didn't need to be on at the same time and the world state updated when you hopped back on to see that while you were making power moves to conquer the known world your friend had basically made the swamp into mafia territory.
"You need to build your gates in a concave" Hmm, if only this was a thing our ancestors figured out some nearly 1000 years ago while building big wall-surrounded fortresses. Hmmmm.
i actually disagree with how he built his gate walls. In my game they are concave so that my guys wont shoot each other but they are concave in the opposite direction going outward from the main gate, not inward from the gate. So I have walls long enough to post up 3 turrets on each side of the gate that enemies have to pass by on their way to the gate. The gate walls then run straight into a large tower on each side. So that any enemy that wants to get to the gate must first pass by two corner towers with turrets on top and the wall turrets.
They did, you can see this in Japanese and some medieval castles. It's just that such walls are much less efficient in terms of material/protected land and most of attacks on castles were more about starving your opponents rather than wasting valuable troops (that should return to work on land next season) against thick gates anyway.
Mine's are steeply angled, and supported with twin watchtowers armed solo-harpoon turrets and manned by the best turret operators of the group, becoming the best 1-shot snipers. A pair of 6-barreled harpoon turrets at the placements closest to the gate to maximize DPS and make the best of its lowest precision. Followed by pair of crossbows in case of power failure, pair of dual barrel harpoons with spotlights to directly spotlight enemies that might not be covered by floodlights illumunating the zone. Then another pair of crossbows. I try to keep someone or two as the heavily armored gate guard at full coverage and as much projectile resistance as possible. Tempted to just deploy crabs as guards, but they are better off as my heavy travel party since they can't patch themselves up, though they offer impressive toughness experience.
I was thinking the other day about how there needs to be an rpg where u aren't some big hero, i guess I can change that to more games like this, since this is exactly that....I'm gonna pick this up since I somehow didn't pick it up earlier.
To be fair, you do become a bit of a hero after awhile, but you’re also a villain in the eyes of the people you’ve taken down. Killing the Dust King or random dust bosses will prompt dust bandits to always attack you, mentioning how you killed their friends. Kidnapping Emperor Tengu will cause the anti-slavers to praise your name, but the Samurai will brand you a terrorist and try to outright kill you for abducting the Emperor, rather than imprison you. It’s very well crafted in that regard, even the strongest of your characters will never be a messiah of good who restores order and lets everyone live happily ever after.
Outward is great. Also I love the way dark souls games make you feel. You start out as just another contestant in the trials to later become a god slayer.
This is the video I'm going to share to describe this game, it properly and humorously explained why I'm obsessed with this mount and blade looking RPG/RTS/Sims/whatever sandbox game. I called it a story generator in a review and the hour long description of your travels proves it. I also wrote a bullet point journal of my first playthrough to preserve just how unique this game was to me. Ty!
PLEASE DO MORE. There is honestly NOT NEARLY enough kenshi content on youtube and you are one of the rare good and funny ones please for the love if all things holy make another video!
I've watched this video like five times and was so fascinated by the game I got it yesterday. Please note: I have never played a computer game with mouse and keyboard, nothing with any kind of RTS, economics or anything like this...but sir...I am all in. I have managed to somewhat control the camera, stolen several sticks, and mined 2 copper. I will see you in 100+ plus hours and thank you for this recommendation.
I am genuinely curious to know how you are progressing. Kenshi has quite the learning curve. Built my first town in cannibal territory for instance lol.
Ethan Payne Dont worry, I built my first outpost in the Sonorous Dark like a total dipshit and... well, let’s say the end result was extremely painful for my crew.
So I'm 400 hours deep now lol. I still haven't made it to the sonorous dark or the ashlands. I haven't even really been up through sinkuun yet either. I've tried to start building bases a couple times but those were a hot mess. I recruited too many peeps and found I couldn't manage that much. After a few restarts, I'm now living out of the hub, traveling around with a small group of like 12 and trying to learn martial arts with a group of woen that I made look like all my friends. With our "crackhead crossfit bodies" as Ive been calling them. I will dragon punch a paladin dammnit. Sorry I didn't reply sooner
@@kyfy24 glad you're still at it. Martial Arts is over powered lol but it is fun. My MA hitting folks for 400+ damage. Broken lol. Also, this is the first I have heard of Sonorous Dark lolol. I should pay closer attention to the map I guess.
I like how the dev had a philosophy in building this game where NPCs should be reasonably able to do what player characters can. This is why, for instance, enemies tend to become unconscious rather than "killed" because the dev didn't want the player character to be killed the moment they are defeated too.
What i Love and Hate about Kenshi is that everything that u achieve in Hours of playing can be gone in a blink of a eye just because u got distracted just for a sec. ^^
Kenshi is effing amazing. I didn't think I'd like it, but I absolutely loved it. I still remember my first time playing when I sold cups and trash for some food.. finally got enough money to buy a bone puppy and then he got torn apart by skimmers. Poor Poppo
Yes my man, my first playthrough I went with skeleton and googled how to make him a martial artist, it told me don't die but lose all the time. Best advice just grinded it to level 50 with 80 toughness and ran from everything.
Pro gamer tip here, instead of having 3 of your guys take damage from one swing, put them on hold and spread them apart, the enemies will come to your guys and it will be more efficient.
The game isn't actually that brutal. In context, the world of Kenshi is horrific, but the gameplay itself isn't. When you hear things like, "physics based combat," you get the wrong idea. The game is still, functionally, a real-time with pause RPG. If blends at the edges with RTSs, because of how well it scales into larger forces. So, my advice would be to take a look. It's difficult to come to grips with, but it's not like this is some kind of Dark Souls style experience.
Yea it's actually pretty hard to die if you have more than one person. And still unlikely with just one. You will almost always just be knocked out for a little while, unless you were fighting carnivorous animals. Getting beaten up, knocked out, and patching yourself up is literally the fastest way to increase your stats and champion the next fight.
@@Alex_Barbosa If you're a weak enough solo guy then it actually is pretty likely that any fight against sharp damage will put you into ""dying" territory, so I would kinda argue against that "still unlikely with one" thing, but yeah once you have backup it's not so bad, and 3,000 for a new recruit seems like a lot at first but it's really not. I had a greenlander dude, so I just made all my starting money by running around outside of a holy nation city and looting every river raptor kill the guards made. Those pelts seriously add up quick, so it wasn't long before I had some recruits and then trained them a bit so I could start fighting the raptors myself.
@D Dichev Fair enough, since in my case I just started playing a month ago, chose the lone dude and his dog, so at that point I didn't fall into the category of "knowing what you're doing" at all. I knew about places like the ashlands, but I was still dumb enough to end up becoming a criminal entirely by accident, which got me killed once or twice when nobody bothered to tend to my wounds fast enough. And my spawn was some crappy ruin a little to the west of the UN cities, so I spent a bunch of time trying not to starve and getting chased by the giant desert bugs. At one point they caught my dog and I didn't feel like save scumming for him, so RIP starting dog. That whole fiasco was why I decided to go down to the Holy Nation instead.
I found this game in quarantine as well and when I saw where your base was I was like. Wait did he build where I did? Yup. It's a great spot. I did buy 2 buildings in the hub and repair them first so I had more research than you I think but yes. Every experience of the base was nearly the same. No money to bribe the dust bandits , holy nation purging my base because my main. Was a skeleton and I didnt know any better and ninjas staying in my base for extended periods of time. Really like this video. Good work!
Hey, that's around where I put my first base too! If you find my review on the Steam page for Kenshi, I go into a lot of detail as to my first run in with the Black Dragons... Fuck those guys.
25:50 You DON'T have to follow lowest athletics, just use the appropriate icon for movement speed. It automatically toggles the run speed of the group to move as a cluster, at speed of lowest atheltics.
Hey there, Kenshi isn't that much of a graphically demanding game, as much as it's a single cpu clock heavy game ( and gpu ram). Deathbeard started this game like...14 years ago, back when multi core cpus were just becoming available on the consumer side, games were being made with clock speed first in mind and intel thought we'd be at 10 ghz or something by now. A side note, I love how much kenshi is enjoyed now. I remember playing kenshi back when it was just a desert, no sound, and a shit ton of sand ninjas and dust bandits. I've imported my squad since that version and it's kinda like having a squad of ancient soldiers, being there from the beginning of (mostly) of kenshi.
@@coffeethief7550 Define good. As long as the cpu can turbo to a decent amount (I reckon over 4.0 ghz) and the gpu has adequate ram, kenshi isn't hard to run. It's the other kenshi issues xD
@@saveimageas...9352 they really don't. On the other hand, starting with a Scorchlander near HN territory is a very good way to train your toughness and labour skills, wink wink
@@teecee1827 the slaves start is probably the best way to train strength, toughness, assassination, dodge, stealth, lockpick, and martial arts which all translate into having 2 godly characters that can kick people's arms off and take bounties if you leave them in there to grind a bit
Over a hundred hours in a month of owning Kenshi Me: * looks at my time played of Kenshi in the week and 3 days that i've had it. * - 128 hours Yeah, after a month those are baby hours, you gotta get them hours up.
speaking on the moral choices, i remember a time when i was running a small squad whos goal was a guerilla war against HN. they were traveling in okrans valley & came upon a small farming settlement. i sent in my squads thief for a little harmless property alteration in their storage room, just to keep my already well squad in the green for a while longer, & then i thought "hey theyre just farmers, why not just take everything so i really dont need to worry about this expedition in the worst possible situation?" so sure, because i considered holy nation citizenry as combatants we send in the group to grind the bigots into dust, while in the middle of this, theyre having dialogue blurbs asking for mercy, asking why we're doing this, & begging us to stop. i patched them up before i left but it made me think as the squad was walking away, bags so laden with loot walking was all they could do. i didnt *need* to raid the farmstead, i couldve just passed it by, & had plenty chances to walk away. they couldve just been genuinely nice people trying to get by in a safe if draconian society. little moments like that happen all the time in kenshi, its great
Small tip for the early game: buy a few houses in a town and start building some basics there, like a research station and the like. Keep making cash and the like so you'll have a slightly easier start when you do go ahead and make a proper outpost
This video along with Nurse's "Surviving Kenshi" never fail to pull me right back into Kenshi. Only issue I have with the game is how everything blends into the background and makes it basically impossible to see anything. Anyone know any mods that might help with that? I tried the Cell Shading that Nurse recommended but I could never make it look even ok.
In ALL of my playthroughs, Beep is always my #1 cyborg slayer. On my latest playthrough, he could hit upwards 500+ damage on fogmen and could solo a leviathan easy.
I spent ~1000 hours killing the holy nation, united cities and finally cat-lon solely to have a squad strong enough to walk across that sweet sweet purple sand
Beep is like the most adorable autistic friend who gets through life on sheer determination and I guess his autism special ability is sheer perseverance and combat.
Hey a good tip when starting is to but a pack bull they deal quite alot of damage when they become elders usually 100-150 to armoured guys and can make extreme work on the beak things if you attack with the bull first then squad right after
To be fair if you use the 256 recruitment mod you can also turn up the squad size on the NPCS as well. So if I have 100 men in my army I also turn up the NPC squad size to three times the normal setting as well to even out the difficulty. I also use a popular mod that adds a lot more people to towns, this way there are more people defending it when I attack with a massive sized army.
yeahh kenshi is awesome, a lost my 250 hrs save , want to start again. there is a mech spider at the south of the map that is a F****g strong monster. you have to build your main antrance like a V , you know built a sort of corridor exposed to all your crossbows.
Limb loss to "rare" in the game settings. You have to have the limbs take cutting damage that puts them at less than -100% health to lose them. I think it's the default setting. But "frequent" is more fun...
It's probably the rare dismemberment setting. He has to take cut damage when below -100 to dismember. On frequent it happens the moment a limb touches -100
I remember setting up a base in the cannibal lands and then barely escaping, saying "fuck this iam gonna make a base a far away from these cannibals as possible". Long story short, i travelled to the other side of the continent and setup base in a lovely place caled "fishmen island". Yep, that was a horrible mistake.
My first play through I chose the people who have building supplies. I don’t know if the old soldier is a standard guy for them but he was the only thing that saved my play through. Multiple times.
Easiest way to deal with Beakthings, get a crossbow, and someone to distract them. You can also dodge their attacks fairly easy if you move away once their attack animation starts. There is also now an Animal Feeder for animals though, and Goats and Bone Dogs can enter buildings of their own volition, so long as the door is open, not to mention they should also eat from packs as well. Pretty sure Mercs are a finite resource, so if you waste them, they won't get replaced. Not to mention most are Tech-Hunters which don't have a Pacifier, despite being a pretty massive faction present in practically every city. So if you get on their bad side, good luck continuing the game.
"There's no way you're taking on more than one security spider at a time" The best part of Kenshi is the eventual point where that's no longer true. One character with the right gear and skill can take out several in one go. But it takes an Eyegore level beast to do it.
Tips mega tips I'm sorry but your fighting security spiders wrong Range weapons use them Also hivers and skeletons are immune to acid. Hivers and scorchlanders can eat yellow meat.(amazing for early game) Robots are OP if your able to support the cost of a skeleton medkit
I remember buying it when it came to early access years ago, accidentally attacking a guard, getting beaten and thrown in jail, put on the slave chain, trying to escape, getting beaten half to death again, then dragged to the desert and left to die. It's too hard for me, I won't lie.
Fun fact for those that have already been through the game a few times: The Enslaved start nets you an excellent way to build your ability to work, your toughness, your dexterity, your strength, your unarmed skill, and your lockpick skill if you don't mind getting your teeth kicked in repeatedly. As long as you don't get yourself killed doing it, you get all the time in the world to brawl against the bigger and tougher forces that make up all the guards all over the place.
I remember reading a story of a guy who hired like 8 groups of mercenaries to try and take down the Bugmaster. In the end, nobody except his guy survived, and thats because he ran away. All things considered, I think Charlatan reallllllly lucked out.
Then you can literally abuse the system of the game like I do and get insta lvl 60 in martial arts and kick everyone´s ass like Kenshiro in Hokuto no Ken.
Dammn, it's physically hurting me seeing that even after a 300+ days gone by in ur game, most the time u were keeping running on second (jogging) mode at least for some of ur guys, which is a half of maximum speed, and still was doing that follow the slowest member in squad type of thing, when u could set for the whole team that adaptive running mode which makes ur group run with the pace of the slowest squad member, but at the full speed when controlling an individual member, besides u didn't even touch or even mention the stealth mechanics (ik that those are kinda broken, but), breeding a very high in stealth/lock picking/assassination etc character is like making effectively the ultimate ninja that can kidnap the most important npc (like imperator and nobles of UC, or phoenix and his inquisitors), and in result collapse all the power structures of these factions, with no combat stats leveled up and no weapon whatsoever, because u dont even have to pick up a fight with anyone, and if u wont make a base for urself, then those factions can't even respond with the raids or whatever, because you are just a random hobo ninja outside of everyones scope while running around (sneak on) naruto style at 30mph. Anyway sry for ranting, its still was a great explanatory vid overall on the game but you indeed did cover about a 3/5 of the content and second vid would be in order to truly show off the full might of this GOAT indie game.
My first experience in Kenshi was similar: 'Huh, this looks cool, what's this though?' *sees tip say: 'you are not the chosen one, you will get rekt'* 'I'm sure it will be fine' *Got beaten into a coma by starving bandits and then dust bandits that came along when I recovered and tried to run away* 'Wow this is hard!' *Got enslaved during my coma* 'oh' *tried escaping then got knocked to death by an iron spider in the deathlands and died to acid rain during a coma* My second experience: 'Right, if I can't fight them, I'll just run,' *trains athletics to 60*. 'Right, time to explore! I think the Vain sounds like a cool place!' *spots some monsters* 'What are those long necked creatures?' *Gets knocked into coma and then eaten alive by Beak things* Me: :D
7:59 Ah i see you didnt learned ways of 'The Final Ninja Solution'. Everytime i build base near an Ninja Outpost, i just build 5 turrets lined inside the Food Storage Building (I always use Stormhouses for that) and everytime i see those maggots damaging the gate, i send guys to man the turrets and once every ninja gets inside the food storage i close and lock the door and just enjoy the slaughter :3.
In my game, I played a bunch of skelingtons and took over and rebuilt the HUB, recruited a lot of people and built a trading empire. Once, a caravan of the Holy naiton just got in my city, saw one of the skeletons and just flipped the fuck out.
The thing I love the most about Kenshi is that there is no objective. You can be allies with whoever you want, basically no limits, and you can kill everyone.
one little detail that I like about the game is that the game actually shows anything you sell to shops being traded to other stores, I noticed this when I made a living selling katanas to the neighboring shek kingdom and at one point I made first time trip to a different region and and saw katanas on sale that the game claimed was made by my faction
I feel like people too often equal racism in kenshi to real like racism. The Holy Nation does not discriminate against Scorchlanders in any form as they are human, but people assume that since the Holy nation are anti other species then they must be anti black.
Racism in fiction, especially in sci-fi and fantasy, used to be an interesting thing to tackle. You had these fictional histories with fantastical settings and saw how histories and varied cultures gave rise to such things. Now, everyone wants to parallel it to real world racism.
Enough people have asked for it to where I know I'm gonna make it, I just have no idea when. hopefully I get around to it by the end of the year as it is a nice excuse to sink another hundred hours or so into Kenshi
