[Between pillows] Edition
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>Current version: 1.0.64
>Latest important announcement (May 12, 2025)
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/233860/view/509579312492447178
>Kenshi 2 Announcement:
Soon (tm)

>What is Kenshi?
"A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story."
"Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Research new equipment and craft new gear."
https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/
https://www.gog.com/game/kenshi
>Demo Link
https://lofigames.com/
>Tips for beginners
Learn to pick your fights, don't hesitate to run away and don't reload unless you die, any fight you survive makes you stronger. Building an outpost will attract trader caravans and hostile raids. Building one too early might be more than you can handle. Pressing F1 will open the tutorial screen. Mousing over the stats screen and HUD will reveal useful tooltips and additional info. If the enemies feel too difficult - get crossbows for your units. And don't be afraid of the RP autism - engage in it whenever you can. And do unlock the sliders.

>https://pastebin.com/zw9fCJdC
>Some mods
https://mega.nz/folder/x4d1SLwZ#i09S39AoukUkqYLtHaTWTg
>AND a link to the giga muscle-girl mod
https://mega.nz/folder/6ZBmADJK#8uL2GFZYoLgdS6kBV0DJfA
>Some moonrune mod archive on the LL Kenshi thread
https://ux.getuploader.com/hentaibutayarou/index/date/desc/1
>LL modding thread
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/87203-kenshi/
>post with jonijonikenshi mods (like milking mod) after he deleted it all
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/87203-kenshi/page/48/#comment-4050418
>LL mod index
https://www.loverslab.com/topic/172556-kenshi-mod-index/#comment-3450198
>Kenshi Fuck Mod
https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/24433-kenshi-fuck-mod/
>The package of optimization mods from Nexus
https://mega.nz/folder/XhERDCRI#37kPAWeA_LKfPTO-qiaY1Q

>>527286579
Izumi doesn't deserve this...

>>527286217 (OP)
Mods to try.

>>527271554
>thats a cute hiver
Do not the bugs.

>>527271957
>Is there a mod that adds sex and pregnancy and children
Both of those things are sexual, and therefore bad. Bad bad bad. Do not breed. Only kill. The answer is "no" and "no", sadly. Wish I could breed my shek cows with my main character...

>>527273142
>Starting skelly squad
Do post screenshots of their adventures.

>>527288316
>Izumi doesn't deserve this...
In the glorious 2D world the womanlets suffer. Izumi will never be a tall, sensual, healthy and breedable titty monster. But don't worry - she still has the "sensei" types that will lust after her.

>>527286217 (OP)
Someone's recommendation.

Whose the artist of the OP image?

>>527291814
Some Latino. Can't remember his name. Suppose you can find him via Twitter's Kenshi tag.

>>527286217 (OP)

>>527286217 (OP)

>>527286217 (OP)

>>527286217 (OP)

What is early-game supposed to look like? I tried Kenshi a while ago but just spent about 10 hrs wandering around the map getting destroyed by everything I encountered. I never seemed to get strong enough to take on bandit groups and felt very directionless. I guess I’m supposed to hire people but then it feels like a chore to manage everyone. I wish you could get directions to locations from NPCs. I play a lot of Rimworld and Bannerlord so I feel like Kenshi will click for me at some point, I just need help getting there.

>>527306509
Chris the main dev is an ideas guy. Ideas guys must be paired with tard wranglers that will force the ideas guys to finish their ideas properly instead of half-backing everything.

You are supposed to, somehow, figure out that you must bait bandits to the gate guards who will kill the bandits so you can sell their loot. You are supposed to somehow know that you need to train the STR by lugging a dead bandit on your shoulder. You are supposed to somehow know that you must run around weightless to train your speed. The player is SUPPOSED to have the meta-knowledge that he can only get AFTER playing the game. It is very tiresome.

>>527306509
I haven't completed the game, but I have opinions and questions.
What start/race combo did you pick? This determines a lot of the early game and matters less and less as the game goes on.
What do you want to do? It's a game where you set your own goals. Goal 1 is survival, then you can have luxury goals.
Do you use mods? I have some minor mods like the one that gives NPCs pocket change. It seemed strange that the only people with money were me and shopkeepers. I didn't think about it at the time, but it makes starting scavenging MUCH better.
My early game looked like mining copper, third partying the wounded after a scuffle and looting the bodies, and petty theft. Instead of dragging bandits to guards I would drag mobs into each other. I started with a skeleton so I don't know the hunger struggle. The only goal I have now is 30 skeletons. 16/30 so far.

>>527306509
In Kenshi, it's actually takes no time at all to become an excellent fighter. The problem is that it requires getting your ass beat, this has some risk and you can be beaten way pass your threshold and end up dying. The early-game consists of trying to make training as safe as possible. This means getting armor in the best quality possible, getting one or two recruits to help save others, or just grinding money.

>>527306509
I had the same problem but after finding out how to play I got addicted to it. You have to ride the line between cheesing and playing off the mechanics of the game while also putting in your own autistic RP to flavor it. As an example, My first serious successful play through was with the trader scenario and I traveled the wastes getting chased down by every spider and beak thing in the wasteland and taking refuge with any city to heal. Eventually I found reading descriptions that Samurais love Sake and Swamp people make it very cheap so I used the crazy atheltics developed from running for my life to make runs into the swamp and back into the Samurai towns to make some money. During this I met some NPCs that would join for free and some that were specialists in something I wanted to have. Eventually I made enough money to settle and had to fight hordes of hungry bandits trying to kill us all and now, to make a story short, dozens of hours later I'm raiding the Bugmaster's domain with my legion of loyal warriors and settlers while researching the final tier of technology.

Admitedly it is a slog to survive at the start when even malnourished bandits can kick your ass. I think characters should have better stats depending on their starting scenario but if you want an easy start just to get your foot on the door and not feel like you're a hobo you can do this: Go to a town with a good general store and steal an expensive item, chainmail sheets are usually the best and more common then run to a near city of a different faction or a waystation and fence it. Get a trader's bag and buy alcohol that you can profit selling (mos commonly rum to sell for +25% profi at the swamp) then continue to steal and buying and selling until you have a solid fortune and you can invest in recruits or weapons

>>527309587
What happened with Kenshi 1 could be put as a developer spending far too long inside their own game. No tutorial? Why bother? Chris knows how to do everything. And by everything that means you better follow in his footsteps or you'll end up going against the grain.

It's probably safe to say most games nowadays are primarily created to appeal to players and generate profits. Look at gacha. That's exclusively made to pander and prey upon losers prone to addiction. Which is what makes Kenshi "unique" in the modern landscape. It doesn't have a clear goal and the dopamine hits are hidden behind weird gameplay patterns which compounded into an aimless loop. No quests? No problem. Chris literally was just devving until the tank ran dry and had his balls twisted by his sister to wrap the shit up and make some real money off the damn thing. What they should've done from there is NOT mentioned Kenshi 2, quietly develop it for 2-3 years, continue pumping out "content" for Kenshi 1, slap a price tag on a DLC or whatever and then announce Kenshi 2 once you have a MVP that meets your PRD. Instead they decided to grab the vaporware baton and run with it until they had a product to show, which they still don't, lol.

>>527317896
>should've
What you said is rational and future-proof. Which is exactly why Chris and Nat didn't even think about it.

>>527306509
>What is early-game supposed to look like?
Probably getting money to hire some more party members and get them equipment. Then you find enemies that you can survive fighting, fight them until you start winning the fights, and then go look for stronger enemies.
The most reliable way to make money in the early game is to kite bandits to the nearest city and let the guards kill them so you can loot their equipment. If you started near Hub, there's also a few ruined settlements nearby that you can loot for a few thousand cats worth of scrap. If you started near Bast, you can gather loot the battlefields, just be careful not to get involved in the battles.
When you visit cities, pay attention to item prices. Trading is a reliable source of money, for only moderate effort. If you're a human with all your original limbs intact, running liquor between Hub and the Holy Nation is basically risk free.
>I guess I’m supposed to hire people
You should have at least two guys in your party, for better chances that at least one survives a fight to bandage the other.
More guys than that can make things easier, but it's up to personal preference. I personally think the ideal adventuring party size, if you don't have a settlement to run, is between 4 and 8.
Don't reload if you lose a fight but are still alive, losing fights is the fastest way to train your combat skills.
>I wish you could get directions to locations from NPCs.
You can buy maps. Lost Libraries will have more maps.

>>527317896
Honestly it's a complete mystery to me how Kenshi 1 was ever released. Everything about the development looks like Chris has no fucking clue what he's doing.

>>527322136
Dude was having fun, simple as.

>>527325532
What happened next ?

>>527327423

I'm using a test start with an overpowered character to see some stuff. like the mod that nerfs Toughness damage reduction to make it less important. Mega Beep actually got downed a few times by bandits.
Also first time using Martial Village, they really don't fuck around.

>>527327971
Comedy and tragedy.

Meet Mimu a drifter who got got stuck in Mongrel do to the hordes of Fug Men but after finding some one like minded in Shryke the two decided to finally leave the Fug but they would not use cowardly means, no running, no sneaking only stand up fights. The last couple weeks they spent fist fighting Fugmen and carring around Iron to get the proper physic and have now begun the next phase of the training hunting the Fug Brinces for sport and profit

>>527332565
Oh fug :-DDDD

The robots are suspiciously aware of the weak spots of humans. The Viera in return become more and more suspicious of the robots.

Fighting through a horde of Fug men what are greats our heroes Cannibals absolutely disgusting new goal find there home land and slaughter them like the animals that they are

>go to holy nation with shek
>paladin stops me to ask what's going on
>tell them we won't make any trouble
>they let me go about my business
wow so racist.

>>527345295
And this is why it feels wrong to me attacking the HN. This is also why those with rotten minds hate the HN so much.

>>527345295
>>527345816
Things like that make me want to rewrite most HN-related barks. Especially the ones for the women since they're ridiculously over-the-top.

>>527346437
my favorite is when they say some cartoonishly sexist thing and then immediately follow it up with "blessings upon you, sister!" i once had a scorchlander go off about how it's a woman hating hellhole only to have a paladin interrupt her dialogue to offer a free escort and give her a free ration pack.

>>527346437
Yeah and then there's the Phoenix freak out. I think it's bad writing and diminishes a character (more broadly, faction) we should be struggling to sympathize with only to have it stolen away by LOL JK THEY'RE CRAZY BIGOTS! I'd call it mishandled at best.

>>527349434
yeah it's pretty terrible. emperor tengu is ridiculous as well. luckily the dialogue is extremely sparse otherwise it would probably make the game unplayable without a mod to remove it. i do enjoy some of the random banter when traveling around the world however.

Saw a sister enter Squin with a flatskin "man" today.
The Shek Kingdom has fallen.

>>527351858
He heard that every shek woman is 255cm tall, has a 158cm bust, 103cm waist, 130cm hips, and has U cup tits. That poor gullible retard...

>>527350657
Tengu is closer to the realm of character I'd entertain as alright. His pranks are charming and his arrogant out of touch demeanor is understandable when coupled with the knowledge (and possibility of his own overt awareness) of being a figurehead. This and the Guild's concerns about Tengu's ambitions growing beyond their desired limitations leaves the door open for the seeming fool to pull a fast on the merchants. Perhaps Blister Hill *would* make a nice vacation home. Maybe the capitol could be moved...concepts they didn't explore but are there.

The Phoenix did have some interesting bits about questioning his own validity as the Messenger and what it was to be an indoctrinated dictator by no choice of his own. At a glance there's some curious stuff going on here though it is explicitly written to be a pretty run of the mill "thank you for your service, brother" schtick.

All that said, this reminds of a post chain from years ago. Anon was trying to ally with the HN and fought the Shek. He had a bit of a tough time and finally dragged the Shek queen all the way to Blister Hill. He walks up to the Inquisitor with the queen slung over his back and the Inquisitor looks his main female donut in the eye and tells the bitch to sod the fuck off with that nonsense. Anon was flabbergasted. Hearty chuckle.

>>527348384
An untentional comedy, courtesy of Nat "I hate men" Hunt.

>>527349434
I am still annoyed that there is no option to simply put a nicer Phoenix number 63 on the throne. You would assume the libtards Hunts would love to write this "choose love not hate" route for the HN, but no. They insist that the HN is... le BAD!

>>527352224
It would be kino of writing if the player could find Tengu's diary where he admits that he lives in a golden cage and he has to pretend to be retarded, or the nobles and TG will get twitchy.

>>527353023
I've been writing revisions to the characters for awhile -- if you didn't notice through my posts. The Phoenix is an especially tricky one to approach because the "just kill him" option is tough to handle without acknowledging all kinds of reverberations of his death. My strategy was to play on slowly pressing for reforms by, simply put, traumatizing the populace through externally imposed crises and increasing exposure to the outside world. We're not talking an overturning of the status quo - rather, maybe fanatical women could end up battle maiden in service of Okran. Maybe the HN revises some of the techno-militaristic limitations and embraces advancements in equipment so their boys stop coming back amputees. And just maybe someone can figure out the answer to the existential question of:
>Why the fuck are we still fighting in Bast?

Tengu is one of the neatly positioned characters where the more there is to him, the easier it is to rub off the depth onto other characters. That's sort of what they already did with Longen and Yamdu. Their dialogue lines create a rather large web of interconnected context to why the world is moving in the direction is it (not necessarily how it got there, the past is left murky). We're given a totally different perspective on the Shek Kingdom by Yamdu alone outlining the empire (read: TG, another layer of nuance) are on the hunt for a cutthroat to cut the queen's throat. The busywork of the imperials lays the groundwork for all kinds of subterfuge, sowing dissent and dirty deeds done for devious reasons. I'm guessing you've happened upon one of my musings about Moll being a rather obvious agent for anyone with eyes to see. Nat wanted that girl to be important and I agree, she should admit she's an ex-Jonin Elite up to some serious no good pretending to be something she is definitely not: a caring individual. Behind those golden eyes are LIES!

>>527354302
>fanatical women could end up battle maiden in service of Okran.
Since the priesthood insists that women are made by Narko's asshole - this will take a while to rewrite for the HN.
>techno-militaristic limitations
The reason the HN burns the science books is because the Hunts can't comprehend how do the believers think. Modern normies that they are, they think believing in God is like believing in magic. The HN should freak out only about the robotic limbs, in a sense of "brother, how dare you try to become a skeleton?!" instead of "AAAAAAAAAA IT'S LE SKELETONZ WE ARE GONNA DIE!!!!"
>Moll is a glowie
Yes she is, by her actions - not her words. And the retarded Hunts are still trying to insist that the snow is hot, and water is dry.
>the image
She would grow her hair out over the years, but yes. Fuck Moll. Cum inside Moll. Repeatedly.

>>527357427
>this will take a while to rewrite for the HN.
And if it gives you any comfort - it's not so straightforward as the Phoenix throwing women on the front lines. More like Okranism survives long enough such that it spreads and is interpreted with some liberties by outsider elements. I see the state and the religion as somewhat separate entities especially given the chance for populations outside the HN to dabble in and experiment with Okranism (see Preacher Cult for an extreme example). Desert radical converts going on purging sprees in the wake of imperial chaos? Stuff of that nature. Crazy ladies who aren't under the same pressures of the internal HN culture.

In reality though it's a smaller plot device that isn't hard-written to occur. The larger idea is to at least explore topics that never were though could've been.

>>527357427
>>527354302
>be skeleton squad
>run into flotsam ninjas
>”are you gonna attack us like the legends say”
>always pick “AAAAAAAARGGGH DESTROY ALL HUMANS”
>flotsam ninjas never panic like HN paladins despite being probably as devout Okranites
>despite the fact that the average HN paladin probably has more combat training than the average flotsam shinobi

>>527291814
https://www.deviantart.com/610gonzalez

Greetings from the wikilands. Another short update bringing good news.

I've somehow survived the worst of the early game beatings of learning web dev, wasn't too painful. Finally moving into building out the frontend of the site-to-be. Still a ways to go on reworking the antiquated templates and reuploading the sea of files over on the Fandom wiki. Lots to do, always is.

Appreciate any feedback or assistance if you're into that kind of autism. Thanks for reading the blog.

>>527368204
https://kenshi.wiki/

I should probably include the link. It will probably never SEO well no matter what I do.

>>527365309
GRRRLLL PWRRRR do be like that.

>>527368204
You are learning. One day you might use this skill to make good dosh.

>>527368364
>never SEO well
the what?

idk anything about .net or C# shit but 5000 homemade json/blkx "parsing" and all the core logic inside Button1_Click in Form1.cs definitely seems like Optimal Coding Practice to me bros
think I can at least get the .txt data files needed to generate the sights updated to the current datamine with some manual intervention tonight, but updating it to reliably generate them by itself without crashing will take a bit more work (this shitpile is abominable there's no way to fix it properly without rewriting the whole thing)

>>527368915
wrong threda AGAIN

>>527368897
Search engine optimization. The Fandom wiki has a rather strong presence on Google. The site indexes but as long as the Fandom wiki is up (and it's not likely to come down) it has the strong promotional backing of Fandom + a history of clicks. If someone searches for the independent wiki it'll be around page 5+, usually.

>>527369064
Nigguh go take a nap.

>>527369101
Naruhodo.

i dont go here but i just saw a youtube interview with the dev and his sister and there was a lot of sexual tension between them

Some UC mercs are pulling teeth from recently downed, bandaged, and then butchered bone dogs. Why would the UC mercs need those cheap teeth is a mystery to the Viera.

This seems cool.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3496858772

>>527378028
>moon and tides stuff
Ah, brings back memories of discussions from the long time ago...

>>527345295
art imitates life

>>527373580
with the lethality of pulling teeth i wonder if the profession dentist is another byword for butcher

>>527382573
Before the modern medicine? Yes.

Will the game go on sale for 9 euros or should i just buy the key for 12 euros

>>527386201
Maybe, and depends - do you have the autism to spend 1000+ hours in Kenshi? If yes - make Gaben and Chris a little bit richer. Steam is nice for the workshop - you don't need to go out and look for the lastest version of any mod.

But, your money aren't infinite, so...

>>527386453
I am into autistic games mostly, i have the time to spend on Kenshi. I've seen many people compare it to rimworld and it sparked my interest by a lot. I know they are different games but i really like grinding and doing tedious tasks that other people despise in vidya.

>>527386201
give Chris 12 euros , probaly will go for summer sales

>>527386674
I'll be waiting. I can hardly contain myself because i want to dive into the world of kenshi

>>527386571
Kenshi is Sims + Fallout + Wasteland + Rimworld. No Minecraft because the player can't change the land and water, but F12 mods opens some options for building one's perfect Barbie Dream Murderhouse.

f12 MODE, not MODS.

But anyway - Kenshi is fun. Modded Kenshi especially. And the player can change the look of the characters - his own and NPCs - via the "editor" folder in the game files. No mods are needed for that.

>>527387557
>sims
self explanatory
>fallout
i love fallout and post apocalyptic environments
>wasteland
same
>rimworld
i fucking love rimworld

seems like kenshi is my unknown dream game

>>527387890
Do remember that the "AI" in the game was made by a bong who had no desire to full-ass anything. He half-assed the entire game. Mods on performance are very much needed even if you have a L337 PC. Mods that try to dig this shin-deep game are also needed. But one can enjoy Vanilla Kenshi for like 20 or so hours. Then the emptiness of this slice of bread will get on one's nerves.

>>527388105
I am gonna play with mods of course, since there is a steam workshop for it. I will try to find any qol mods, if you know of any i would appreciate it if you told me.

>>527388183
do check this post:

>>527288552

>>527388252
great, thanks. I'm gonna mail this to myself just in case

>>527369101
via duckduckgo you're the third result if i type "kenshi wiki" :-D

Is there some way I can use the editor to claim ownership of existing settlements, to be able to build in them? I'd like to revive one of the ruins.

>>527388105
What are some essential QoL mods I should install before playing?

>>527397415
yes, you can place your town marker over the ruin. if it has its own marker you can erase it and place your own. you can do this with inhabited towns as well although it can cause some odd behavior. it should be fine with abandoned ruins. i would create a backup save just in case.

Greenlanders can't pull off the Japanese style clothing but can the Holy Nation clothing. Scorchlanders can pull off the Japanese clothing, but not the Holy Nation. Why?

>>527404812
brack

>>527359851
Just a cool skeledude. That nip ikaruhula nailed the look for the prosthetic skeletons.
>>527404812
>be scorchlander
>bee free
>wear loose clothing so as to not hinder your free lifestyle
>be greenlander
>prefer order
>wear orderly clothes because anything else would be too loose or uncomfy

>>527399949
Can't remember the names but they are mods ons tacking this and that. Stacking bolts, first aid kits, stacking things in the storage buildings and etc.

>>527419187
Again?!

What's the best mod to make the Bank in Heng actually work as a Bank?

>>527424387
Endgame martial arts is donuts firing nukes at each other, even though Mega Beep is stronger he gets delimbed very easily.

>>527424387
Thanks, is there anything that improves the AI/Pathfinding? I keep getting some wonky logic with the jobbers at my settlerment or bad pathfinding when traveling with a group of recruits

>>527429246
the Bong Code won't be denied. But I remember 1 mod on fixing the pathfinding for the traveling on the Gabenshop - can't remember the name. Been a while.

The Tech Hunters of Mourn leave their gates open and unguarded. Their bodies are strong enough to defeat a sporadic elder gutter that waffles into the city, but if a herd of them pays a visit - the city will be destroyed.

>>527437541
It's like they can't decide if they want to do anything with Mourn or not, the effort to build up Mourn is very halfassed.

>>527439985
>the effort to build up Mourn is very halfassed.
urge to post an image of a screaming cat is very high.

What are some mods that make the game feel more "complete?" As in, including obvious things that should already be in the game and adding additional content?

>>527446467
Kaizo is NG+, mods like "cannibals expanded" and similarly named mods usually just make vanilla stuff stronger but not Dragon BallZ tier stronger. Try "Goat Raiders". Not much of a threat, but they have goats. Free meat!

The Viera came close to watch a fight of an elder beak thing, and a kaiju. The kaiju won, and then headed at the Viera. It was a mistake.

>>527446467
yeah like what >>527447006 said cannibals expanded
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1654903438
Cannibals expanded readjust - this just adds extra craftable armour
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2750269400
Shrieking Bandits Expanded
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1648289968
Shrieking Bandits Expanded Readjustment - nerfs a couple of the mobs because they can destroy neighbouring areas pretty easily
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2757476201
Hives Expanded
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1688546539
i like to add a shitload of clothes and weapons too, provided they look fairly vanilla
Dread Gear
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1594211115
OMO'S ARMOUR for the World
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1534443862
Armor; Nomad Cape
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1817582624
Nomad Cape Fixes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2735125382
Nomad Pants
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1835921564
Craftable Black Nomad Pants (Patch)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3441837670
New Weapons Dissemination Mod - bunch of weapons
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1552374986
NWDM Remove Triangle Bandit - removes a faction that was added to the above mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1666155881
NWDM light - removes some of the weapons that conflict with the expanded series weapons
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2927692113
More Weapon Variations - this came out 3 days ago, haven't tried it but the weapons look nice
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3497928183

>>527454923
>New Weapons Dissemination Mod
this mod adds the triangle bandits. Would not recommend for the players and-
>NWDM Remove Triangle Bandit
Nevermind!

Whats the most well written faction among the three major ones?

>>527458221
The UC

>>527446467
Stuff that genuinely should be vanilla:
>NPCs Equip Robot Limbs
>More Bounties
>Guardpost
>Sleeveless dustcoat blueprint
>Unholy Headgear
>Backpack Distribution
>Worthwhile Hashish Smuggling
>Skeleton Limb Storage
>Burning Stake
>Trade Routes Intensified
>Shinobi Thieves Occupy Tower of Ninjas
>Ally the Tech Hunters
>Ninja Mask Undumbed
>SCJ Mourn (just adds guards, eh maybe, vanilla Mourn is kind of funny)
For less vanilla-y mods that I still think complete the game:
>the Minor Faction Overhaul series is very good, I especially like what they do for Black Desert Ninjas because in vanilla they're just a copy of the Black Dragon Ninjas that aren't fit at all for their environment
>Bounties Galore
>Thrall Shop

I still don't know why this Arc guy gets gassed up by the Ringed Sabre's description and the boneskins seething over him just because he's good enough to behead the Fraud Golem's head and horns.
When you get to Mongrel, he doesn't even have any dialogue. He's just there. Half-baked. Unfinished, even.
I've gotta take a look at that modding guide and see if I can do something about it, because that just irks me. Imagine if there was a Fogman War planned and they just shoved him and Mongrel out of the oven half-baked.
Kaizo Kenshi also seems to do SOMETHING with the Deadcat faction, considering that it adds in ranger-type squads and a possibility to repopulate Deadcat proper after you kill off Big Cannibal.

>>527459116
Arc is one of the stranger things about Kenshi. He's apparently one of the strongest people alive and he's the leader of Mongrel but there's next to no lore on him or how he obtained his position. He's also one of the characters that should have a Meitou but he just doesn't, I mean his name is in the description for the Ringed Sabre but Elder deserves it more?

>>527458221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cufG2Dlxvk
UC.

>>527460215
I guess a number of excuses could be made for Elder because he's been around even before Stobe got fucked up, but still, Arc gets Edgewalkers because it's the second best thing.
Not even a guaranteed Edgewalkers 3, it's randomized, so he could end up with Edge 2 or 1. Same goes for his armor. (Capped at High or Specialist grades)
Someone's got to do this guy justice.

The kaiju was defeated and bandaged. The kaiju is lucky that the Viera found this creature cute.

>>527461684
>Someone's got to do this guy justice.
You mean no-one made a mod for that and placed it on Gabenshop by now? A bit surprising.

>>527461684
>>527468406
Closest thing is Legendary of Kenshi where he's dressed like a cop. Still no Meitou though.

Best race for each start (that I care about) by theme and/OR cool factor
>Wanderer
Greenlander
>Trader
Worker Drone
>Holy Sword
Worker Drone
>Hive Exile
Soldier Drone
>The Slaves
Any short human male and a tall thicc Shek woman
>Rock Bottom
Worker Drone OR Scorchlander
>Guy with a Dog
Greenlander
>Freedom Seekers
Skeletons

>>527470271
>a tall thicc Shek woman
Who, in her healthy form, is 255cm tall, has a 158cm bust, 103cm waist, 130cm hips, and has U cup tits. And the short human male can somehow carry her body on his shoulder, even when he is starving.

>>527475026
Greenlanders are just built different. Literally.

Was there a mod that alerts you when someone is idle?
I swear I saw one years ago

maaan i heard shek pussy be mad tight

As long as you don't mind the tiny needles inside

Avoid the shek women!

>>527478498
Those Skeletons are wicked beings for engineering them, much like their now-defunct masters from the First Empire.

>>527479070
Speaking about the "skeletons"...

The old desert city with the island-wide famous sword shop is near. How does this city survive at such woodless location is a mystery for the Viera. The locals can hunt as much meat as they want, but how do they cook that meat without the firewood?

Warmaidens mod: Sexo or Cringe?

>>527484810
>Sexo
They smell like sweat, dried blood, and female pheromones.
>Cringe
Mildly. It is a shame to see such brave women willing to train their bodies so much wasting their lives as childless mercs.

esata the stone 'gina

tora the rubberless

>>527488781
>>527488701
Do not lust after the shek women!

Reminder to set the auto-save on at least 15 minutes. You don't want to waste time because the game was bong coded and it "runs out of memory". No other game that I ever played has this exact problem. Only Kenshi.

>>527493409
>at least 15 minute
lol
lmao
2 minutes minimum

>>527493409
>15 minutes
You like to live dangerously I see.

>>527493409
I've never had this problem and I'm playing it on an 8GB of RAM, GTX1050M Samsung laptop back from 2017.

>>527458221
UC is the most fleshed out and has the best enemy groups, there's even a bit of nuance with Tinfist's careless terrorism.
HN is in 2nd place, game tries too hard to make you dislike them.
Shek last just because they're boring. Chris must have came up with them last.

>>527306509
Had the exact same issue. Found myself in the Hub with nothing to do and no way to make money. Tried exploring a bit around just to find barren wastes. Tried exploring further just to get mauled by any encounter. Bannerlord by comparison is far far more streamlined in its progression.
My advice would be to train your athtletics and go to Mongrel. A city in the heart of the mist region. It's risky considering that losing to Fogmen will get you killed but it's also a dense hub filled with opportunities and a great way to learn game mechanics while still having some fun.

A UC peasant might starve, but he will never stop caring about his facial hair and hairdo.

>Cyberpunk armory
>a mod I use in all playthroughs
>it was created in 2019
>last time it was updated in 2020
This is pain.

So what’s the deal with the None areas? I can understand why no one would want the northern shore of Arach, but other parts don’t have that excuse, and 0 stone/water is just bizarre.
Is there also any meaning in both Fogmen and Cat-Lon going WREEEE or just coincidence?

>>527520963
Because Hivers are genetic experiments by Skeletons to replace humanity, presumably combining spider & human DNA to create a self-contained control matrix. Experiments were possibly done resulting in cases like the Bugmaster (proto-Queen pheromones & influence). What are Hivers? Well, I don't know any more than you do, I just read the lore and dialogue. My guess is they were made to replace humanity through a loophole of "human life must be preserved" but "nobody said it had to be pure human life"....and so you get crude demihumans who somehow speak the native tongue running around multiplying like crazy because one bug with a piece of hardware strapped to her makes it so.

>>527520963
I think it's just a missing area definition.

>>527522992
My theory is that it was the Bugmaster who spliced humans with skin spiders to create the hiver race, though I admit that this is somewhat undermined by the fact that the Bugmaster is a weird naked man who collects teeth and doesn't have anything to say when you attack him.

>Epic games can revoke your game engine licence if your game doesn't bend the knee to their retarded "inclusivity" demands
>They forbid the use of "sensitive" words like "Master" and "Slave" and also gendered or racially charged words... Including words like "Blacklisted"
Kenshi 2 is fucked isn't it?

>>527533889
Very much so.

>>527532998
I'm going off the rumors about Bugmaster and the story told about him:

>What he is, eh? Well, me, I heard he's a bug romancer. Yeah, the guy's obsessed with insects. Story goes that he was in an accident as a kid, left for dead, but he got revived and nursed back to life by bugs. Since that day he's had this mental connection with them, they revere him as their king. Crazy stuff you'd only believe if you'd seen the destruction he's capable of with your own eyes.

>Some say he's the chosen one, chosen to cleanse the world of festering vermin... of humans...

>How about the one where he's a reincarnated bug god, reborn in this land to bring a new era of bugs, to take over the world. Oh that's gotta be my favourite one...

Now look at the way the Southern Hive speak.
>Greeee! Fleshy ones!
>Death to the fleshy ones!
>Meat, meat, meat!
>Take it to King! King will love us!

On and on. My hunch is that the Cannibals are a precursor to the later experiments which led to the creation of the Hives. The South is what you might call the "intended" form of the Hive with all its intended elements running. That is to say the Bugmaster is to the spiders what King is to the South, i.e., the Bugmaster is an experimental form of King, probably gone wrong. As to the West they may be a form of the Hive without that "King" element, so they lack the centralizing driver for what fuels their militaristic behaviors. So, the West is a kind of incomplete or "economic" form of the Hive which operates in a different mode than the South. It wheels and deals because it...has to? Either way, curious connections between the demihuman races.

>>527535987
>It wheels and deals
and just like Gavlan - they enjoy it. And they never think about it, which I think is a bad writing - they should question their way of life if, let's say, TG falls.

>>527536540
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnnau-f9Pus

There is a lot of untapped potential in the trade war occurring between the TG & West. I've been exploring the opposite end of the affair through which the empire captures the river valley and proceeds to escalate the conflict with their commercial rivals.

I'll posit the following:
>1. The Traders Guild is only using the convenience of the Western Hive's willingness to freely trade their cheap goods due to the (multitude of) ongoing imperial crises. If and when the empire seizes the Okranite riverlands they will rapidly shed the need for the West's utility and just as quickly will desire to see their exit from the logistics network. As much is already expressed by the literature spread across the empire.
>2. The West is operating in a peculiar adaptive behavioral mode it has come to by the nature of its internal structure and those resultant capabilities (see the lack of a "King"). That intuition of "they never think about it" drives at the heart of the matter. This Hive is following a found strategy which seemingly works but isn't battle-tested so to speak. Pressure from the empire could cause the West to buckle and utterly fold. How the currently passive South reacts (if they do) to this series of events would lead to quite a lot of chaos in the southern imperial territories. We know the death of the Southern Queen *will* induce a widespread invasion from the Southerners into the swamplands and beyond.

The West has made a major enemy out of the Guild (and natural enemy of the Okranites by their mere existence). I think the Guild would go all the way with things and not play on isolation. They're ready to kill Esata. Why not the other Queens... once they find them and the stars align, who knows.

>>527538921
>death of the Southern Queen
Er, Western Queen*. One of the cooler events people don't often experience.

>>527533889
There are no Masters in Kenshi, only soldiers of Okran.
There are no Slaves in Kenshi, only sinners that must be Rebirthed.

Say, what's a decent melee defence? I'm training my guy at the ashlands and he's at melee defence 66 is that enough to handle most threats or should I try and get him to be at 70 or even 80?

The Viera have a combined fund of over 1.200.000 cats, and this old hyur woman accuses them of being poor. She needs glasses. The shop does have a large offer of melee weapons, almost best quality on the island. Alas, the trip was a waste of time - the spears used by the Viera are as good as the local top tier weapons.

>>527546180
60 is the upper end of a mid-tier fighter. You'll handle most random fights while out and about, but elites like Hundred Guardians or Inquisitors sit around 70-80, unique bosses even higher than that, and even the difference between 66 and 70 is pretty substantial. If you're hunting big game, train up a bit more.

Paladin's Cross schematic is in Catun, if anyone is interested.

Quiet American hours on /keng/

CRABS

So quiet... Should I summon that neurotic woman again?

Before Mimu can start on her next goal, the eradication of the cannibal degenerates, a few things need to be prepared. First of recruiting and training more scorchfus.

The second thing is to acquire high quality armor, as a bonus collecting the raw material needed helps train the recruits body

>>527583267
Cool robot
>>527583375
>First of recruiting and training more scorchfus.
Sounds dangerous...
>>527583798
No skirt. Risky.

>>527590483
>clipping issues
Annoying.

Reminder that Kenshi had the "monster girls" even before the modders got their hands on the modding tools. Human men are the sluts in all universes.

>>527598746
love me sum beak bitches gargling on my thang

>>527603298
do NOT the beak things!

Do not forgot that Pia is incredibly stupid.

>skeleton nobodies playthrough
>start out in Stobe's Garden
Fuck!

>>527603448
gorillo amazon press

It's amazing what you can achieve with bloated race health.

I have a weird bug: when I load a save, back at the base Izumi starts to scream "Intruders!" and "Help!". She usually stops after a while, but there're no enemies anywhere near her. Girl's going bonkers absolutely for nothing.

>>527603734
PIA ISN'T DUMB!

>>527605094
Don't believe Pia and her lies.

>>527604195
Do not let them Amazon Press (You)!

This is a winnable fight for 5 naked skellies with sticks, I was impressed.

>>527604072
>start out in Stobe's Garden
poetic
>>527604282
>with bloated race health.
And the fact they can be repaired quickly.
>>527604429
Given the nightmarish state of Kenshi - this isn't surprising.
>>527604572
Skeletons are killing humans again, the HN was right!
>>527605393
>tfw no dumb naive pure Kenshi gf
This is pain.

>>527607049
Now that I think of it, it's really an awkward position. You need to have a long schlong AND it has to be pretty flexible. Mine won't bend that far down.

>>527607225
>>527604572
>>527604282
>being beaten to death by skellies with iron sticks

imagine even

>>527608294
Tell it to an impatient lady shek that is about to tie you like a sailing knot, with or without the consent.

>>527617454
I wonder if Chris played KKnD...

>>527604572

I'm reporting this to the holy nation...

Guys please help me i have a burning desire to play Kenshi, should i buy from eneba or wait for steam sale? I will get it 2 euros cheaper in summer sales but i wanna play it right now RIGHT FUCKING NOW

>Bought the wrong leg
>AGAIN

>>527628112
just keep it as a backup for when you need it later

>>527627838
you'd be getting it on steam either way right?
you can just pirate it too if money is an issue

>>527627838
gog-games(dot)to

>>527628805
I am waiting for summer sale, i am getting it 100% then, money isn't an issue because it will be 9 euros if i buy on steam and 12 euros if i buy on eneba

>>527628938
no steam no buy :^)

>>527629258
>no steam no buy :^)
retarded nigger

>>527627838
I've been using instand gaming for years with no issues and it's 10 bucks for a Steam key on there.

While stealth is indeed OP, should someone notice you sneaking around, your character can't really hide from them. They will run after you, untill you get out of their aggro zone and they give up the chase.

this is my current situation

>>527640850
Just pirate it from gog-games like normal person you dumb nigger

>>527641212
i don't pirate because in my country shit is strict, you can get 500 euro fine for downloading stuff. I'm also not buying VPN to download ONE game and all "free" VPNs are shit

>>527640850
Real grim if you have to grab a key from a site that's one letter swap away from "enema".

>>527640850
Buy it now.
Play it for 12 hours straight
Get distracted for a week and get put off coming back to a half remembered playthrough but also by the idea of starting fresh.
Completely forget about it's existence.
Get reminded by next year's summer sale.
Play for 400 hours until some new autistic obsession grabs you

>>527646317
eneba is based, cheap and legit and i'm not even a shill

>>527647658
i have soooo many autistic games in my library, kenshi is a must. But it would be nice if i were a bit more patient.

>>527641356
>too much of a dumb nigger to use a vpn
get the free proton vpn if you're a poor fag
you can always buy kenshi later and transfer save files once it's on sale

>>527640850
>isp gets your ssn
do greeks really?
>>527647942
random people online are saying that direct downloads are fine to use like the ones from gog-to but you would know the risks better than me
have you heard of people getting in trouble for direct downloading random indie games?

I gave in

Hmm. Shoddy Firearms with its patches, yes or no?
Could need some ACTUAL firepower against the fuckmen and the cannies.
>>527655848
Good man.

>>527655920
will i regret this?i love autistic games with tedious tasks

>>527656081
I am heavily biased so I'd say that "no, you won't regret this".
Have fun.

>>527656230
thank you anon, i love making my own fun so kenshi is gonna be a treat

This is my favorite location in the map so far cant believe I took this long to visit Mongrel and the Fog Islands

Huh. Was this always here?
Are there others, outside Obedience?

>>527660973
can't spoil it for you
also I forget

>>527660973
Yes, there are a few places where you see the giant hands sticking up. There is a giant octopus monster right outside of Stoat or Sho-Battai, too.
>>527656081
I have a love/hate relationship with this game. It's a great time sink but sometimes it drives me crazy. I always find myself coming back to it so it can't be bad.

>>527664067
Is there a map of them all somewhere? This is vital information that will surely prove my theory that it was Cat-Lon behind the Obedience robot massacre all along.

Meanwhile, at the forges of the "Giant Sweaty Scorchie Titties" inc...

Quiet LATAM hours on /keng/

/keng/, post the screenshots of (You) playing Kenshi onegai.

The skellies got to Black Scratch alright. Every once in a while we bully a bandit that strays in.

>>527681165
What are their stats by now ?

A naked mad Kenshian woman attacked standing still Viera who were in the middle of a conversation. The mad woman had nothing but a "heart protector" to cover her body. She was beaten, bandaged, and left in the middle of nowhere as a legless and armless woman. Her friend - who tried to help her - was also beaten and bandaged, but not robbed.

>>527684725
Still bad. All their melee attacks are still low but their melee defense is about 10-15 from getting hit so much. They still need to surround one guy to beat them, but they managed to sneak to Brink.

big fan of the Northern Hive in UWE. I thought they were a little too bright-red at first but it's striking and it grew on me. Plus they hate non-hivers which is how I play the game anyways, so they are literally me

>>527692923
They will remember in time.

>>527696626
>UWE
I miss the time when the modder let me CHOOSE which parts of his modding madness I want in MY Kenshi...

Any other performance mods I need other than texture compression?
Also dark UI is really nice

>>527703138
>CHOOSE
I went with a bunch of mods I knew nothing about to get something fresh and so I could pick out the parts I didn't like next playthrough when I take a closer look at the list. I'm sure there are a lot of mods that bundle terrible additions with good ones but I'm just going to leave that misfortune to my future self
speaking of issues, is getting like 30 "[Bad save data]: Extra zone file" messages in the error log every time something I should be concerning myself with or is that just another Kenshi quirk

>>527706195
>"[Bad save data]: Extra zone file"
Never happened on my machine. Be worried.

So I'm trying to base out in gut but the circle is too close to the station house if I build more houses would I be able to make the "circle of influence" bigger as well or should I just try to make a more compact base?

>>527706521
>Be worried.
It's not too rare of an occurrence.

>>527706195
>[Bad save data]: Extra zone file
Try https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789171241

>>527707309
I would go more compact. Trying to grow the zone is a pain in the ass

>>527705230
there's a couple good particle effect mods and a reduced clutter mod. clutter x0.5 or something like that. i would only use them if you have low fps. i only use compressed textures personally and it really helps with load times. the fasted load times i experienced were on linux through wine without any mods. it must be a windows filesystem thing because i have it on an m2 pci3 drive and it still hits loading screens every 20 seconds if i run over 19 mph on windows. on linux i don't recall ever hitting loading screens or even crashing to desktop for some reason. kenshi is the pinnacle of jank.

>>527707309
There is a mod on better-looking vanilla walls - "storm walls", on the Gabenshop.

>>527710215
yeah it pretty much works like shit on my rig (thinkpad with hd 630 and 16 gigs of ram)
but it's playable
by the way what linux do you use
i was thinking of installing something to learn devops stuff and server setup

>Sangueli Mod
Someone had a lot of fun playing Halo, and decided to bring back the old memories, with a sauce of goonery. Nice.

>>527711156
i use opensuse but it's about to change to an immutable model so i don't recommend it. linux mint is probably the best to start out with. there's very little difference between distros in reality, it's just something nerds like to argue over. any major distro is well documented and has a large enough community to create guides and busy forums.

>>527712469
in that case i might just go on over to arch since i'm looking for something that makes you learn the most things as you set it up
dunno
or mint

I love short haired scorchies.

Gotta ask something.
Do you guys ever see any blobs of Mercenaries standing out in the open instead of sitting inside a bar?
When editing my save (because I'm a powertripping fag), I always see that there's only one Mercenary squad amongst all the other in-game squad files.

>>527714239
Considering Arch as well.
>>527712469
Red Hat and the legion of Rustkiddies are trying to change that by putting the axe to systems they acquire and shockingly don't want to work on. Creator of systemd goes to work at Microsoft. Suddenly Microsoft is hungry to become Linux friendly. It's always the same embrace-extend-extinguish gameplan when it comes to software playbook. Play nice, ingratiate yourself, ascend power structure, assert cultural changes via code of conduct, expel dissidents, enforce new culture, abandon old norms, throw out old projects along with it, champion your new solution as the answer, the landscape has now changed.

>>527719048
>current example
Wayland v X11 (Internal foundation rustkiddies versus one homeless C dev)

Do you really think Kenshi 2 will be good?

>>527719905
I think it will lack the charm of the first one. What they needed to do is to make a game that runs well and has 10x the content of the first while looking the same but it seems it would be impossible to fix Kenshi to not be so janky while expanding it within the same framework
They brought a really talented art director so it's going to look very polished
i think kenshi looks perfect sans performance and more assets

>>527717295
Why short haired?
>>527718680
>any blobs of Mercenaries standing out in the open instead of sitting inside a bar?
Sounds like the game bong coded at you. If I had such cases - I can't remember them now.
>>527719905
Lol. Lmao, even.

>>527723121
Something about short hair looks really good in particular, scorchies make for great tomboys.

>>527723121
>bongcodeism
God damn. Not the first time this has happened either. Problem's even extended to some unique recruits as well on my save, like Crumblejon in Mongrel.
Guess I'll just disable a few key mods, import, and see if anything happens.
Otherwise I'll just stack another mod and call it a night.

Do you guys have any cool mountaintop spots for a base? Green fertility if possible

>>527723459
Do not tell me you think that "woman with short hair = tomboy". This is like thinking "man with long hair = gay".
>>527724514
One time the game bongcoded at my old save file - the game kept deleting cis white males hired by me. Yes, male greenlaners. It was funny at fight, but after I tried to re-do the squads, import the game, do other things, and still have this bug - it stopped being funny.

Thankfully I had an earlier safe file. Loaded that one, played for a bit - no bug. Bong code makes no sense.
>>527724626
Stick around the HN, you will find a good enough spot.

>>527719905
I've read bad things about the engine they're using and it's not a good look that there's barely anything to show. I think as long as it has that Chris touch with some nice lore and factions, it will turn out decent.

Ok i boughted yesterday and now i dive in
what the FUCK am i supposed to do

>>527728809
Go steal shit

>>527728809
>what the FUCK am i supposed to do
Go to Squin. Squin is the designated "noob town". Live there for a while. Train your running speed and strength (by being "heavy", look at your inventory screen). Mine copper if you need pocket change to buy meat for your character. Your original character, donut of steel. Or simply - donut.

>>527729171
thanks anon

>>527728809
Anything you want! :^)

>>527728809
Molly spotted. Recruit her, scorchies are one of the better races.

>Mogwai reposted some of his mods on Nexus and I was able to use them to recover my Legendary of Kenshi playthrough
Thank God, just the ones I needed.

>>527733138
Same. My Slig and Rare Skeletons playthroughs was about to be canceled, but some kind stranger posted a catbox with those mods.

Does anyone have any character pictures for steam pfp? I've seen some nice brown character elf designs(well that's the closest i can describe it) and was wondering if anyone has any concept art here.

>>527737204
One guy here made a lot of "AI" pictures like this one. I saved some of his work, but not all. Does it look good for you?

>>527733138
what helmet is kang wearing?

Pretty close anon. I found the picture i should have used as example. But your picture is very close to what im searching for

>>527738348
The Triangle, Triangle Bandits wear it, you get the blueprint from Triangle Third. He's strong as hell though.

>>527738373
meant for >>527737678

>>527738373
if that Spanish man ever comes back, and you'll happen to be here too - do ask him for the pics. Some of them were amazing.

>>527738754
I will be lurking until then, maybe post some questions because im a noob. I played for 2 hours straight and it passed like seconds.

>>527738946
>I played for 2 hours straight and it passed like seconds.
Welcome to Kenshi. Relax. Enjoy death.

2B and her 150kg ass was modded in Kenshi. When is the Eve's turn?

>>527741623
That happened because i am at work and had some unfortunate shit happen. Now that i will go home i'll play more of it. I can't wait to explore everything.

Do you go for fashion or optimal equipment

>>527747393
Fashion first. Optimal if it fits within their theme.

>>527747393
You can have best of both worlds with crabwear.

>>527747393
Fashion. Kenshi is just like Dark Souls games in this regards. Once you have enough meta knowledge about how the game works - you can afford to not care how low are the defensive stats of the "armor" your donuts wear. Why care about that, when a donut in purple peasant dress looks good in your eyes?

>Added more unique Grineer Empire dialogue if you're Grineer. Yes. The Grineer prefer their own kind.
You lil' shit, I didn't know this. Good thing I hired Theta.

>>527747103
stay strong brother.

I really enjoy playing solo but I miss the dialogue flavor companions add. Wish I could see my character's disposition too.

>>527747393
What do you think?

>>527751837
>pictured: Chris without Kenshi
Think of your future, don't do indie game development.

>3 new recruits
>Lost 2 because Mourn decided to have 20 beak things running through it

>>527758623
Lol.

>>527762168
Let it be known I'm a man who learns my lesson
I just need to keep zigzaging and avoid the next 7 to make it to Catun

Holyshit guys, i am having so much fun this is better than sex

>>527767246
You must have shit sex

>>527768018
it's basically rimworld in 3d

>>527719905
>Kenshi 2
If they could not and refuse to finish working upon their flagship title then there's no chance the second will be a measured improvement. Most of the excuses given about the first game's lack of polish are an admittance of incompetency masked by business minded decisions. In case you believe the propaganda, no, Chris did not develop the game "by himself". It had devs come and go ovetr the years. He couldn't pay them. Only Sam stuck around and he did most of the fixing post-release. The herd doesn't care and naturally will accept new and shiny.

Kenshi 1 is a decent game. I have little reason to believe based off the last seven years they're figured out a better way to make game. If anything, we're looking at a regression scenario.

I got my first set of clothes and boots yay :D

Casually robbing the bank while going on a recruitment drive

>Download a playable cannibal mod
>Every single one of them go down in two swings because every hit goes straight to the chest
Jackass dumped all the other combat anatomy values down to 5. At least it gave me a reason to learn the FCS.

Just discovered the fogman stealth cheese
On my way to cannibal tribes to thief max

It cost me 6000 cats to recruit this scorchfu I guess I know what I have to do in the character creator, not sure if the name is vanilla, something I added or from something entirely difrent.

>>527785514
Pic Related

>>527785514
Its done

>>527785753
Imagine paying 6k for someone you haven't unlocked yet

>>527719905
Actions shall speak louder than words. The use of UE can worry, depending on WHEN it's out.

We know it uses Kenshi's FCS, so it can be modded the same way as the first game.

>>527790242
>We know it uses Kenshi's FCS, so it can be modded the same way as the first game.
A dangerous false assumption. The FCS is above all else a data editor for classes assigned to it. Every single piece of the backend is being rebuilt due to Unreal. Nothing, I repeat, -nothing- about the first game will necessarily be replicated and possible merely because the FCS exists. You might be able to observe some elements though it's far more likely you must use Unreal to make meaningful changes or more specifically await the successor to the FCS to be made specifically for the Unreal mod tooling.

Recruitment is going well a quick trip to the UC and the merry band is already almost a dozen scorchfus strong, a quick pit stop at rebirth and there should be enough to start implementing operation TCD

Any mod that removes all the bullshit from the swamps so I'm not stuck with constant loading screens?

>>527747393
Fashion for my main unit and mostly optimal for my others, which leads to everyone else getting higher combat stats than my main when he gets taken out of the fight in one swing to the silly hat or barely-protected stomach
God I love Armoured Rags.

Guys all i do to grab money right now is guide bandits to guards and then selling the loot and mining for copper. Any other way to make money early game?

>>527792870
>and mining for copper
I was just thinking of asking if anyone was dumb enough to get sucked in to copper mining kek
Go steal some chainmail and weapons

>>527793087
From where? I got the game like yesterday and played for 4 hours. Didn't have enough time to explore more. But i see myself sinking hundreds of hours on it.

>>527792870
I like to steal beak thing eggs early game. Need a quick donut for that though

>>527793761
How much do they sell for?

>>527793650
just steal everything that is not nailed down then run to the hub and sell everything

>>527794889
I like the shek, holy nation, hive combo of Squin, Stack and that Hive Village between them. Constant loop of stealing and selling

>>527747393
The damage reduction from high level Toughness is so nuts that there's no reason to not just go Fashion in Kenshi. If you're trying to kill Tinfist it's a different story.

>>527758623
There's a reason they call it Mourn.

>>527786518
>name is "Oppai"
>breast size is merely 170
Ah, that one mod. The modder is a coward - he made the max tits not even 200, and he didn't make sure the tits have more "weight" and they spread out a bit more - to simulate how big anime boobs would act.
If you ever want to see proper titcows - do remember that you'll need to unstall this mod, and open the "editor" folder in your game files. No mods are needed to make Eiken women.

>>527791606
Clean and Speed

>>527791606
I use "Foliage and Stone Total Rework (FASTR)" mod. Swamp only loads if my donuts run on >>> speed in there. If my rig wasn't from 2018 - I would not even see the LOADING.

>>527804041
>Nothing
>Not trees
>No plants
>Just empty plains
Perfect

>>527798317
Thanks you made me aware I accidentally over wrote some values

>>527791441
Zoo has nice hair. Also - you can feed them all by killing gutters. Neat.
>>527792870
>Any other way to make money early game?
Get a crossbow and become unstoppable. You did train your running speed, right?
>>527794006
9000 per egg, I think
>>527795242
>Constant loop of stealing and selling
It can be fun indeed, but only for a few hours.
>>527805924
>tit size 275
>max size is beyond 300
Nice. There are mods on faces that don't lock the "editor" files. Why did that exact modder decided that he must do it is a mystery to me. Sure, the normies that won't play the game beyond 30-40 hours won't mind, but why must autists suffer too?

Also, just to be safe - /vg/ is a blue board. /keng/ USUALLY doesn't have snitches, and the j*nnies rarely come here, but when they come - they can send you on a 3-days vacation. They did it to me 2 or 3 times, in total. Ever since I began using the mouse cursor as a "safety measure". So far it works.

>>527804482
I got the clean and speed plus along with the other retexture mods to improve performance and with an RX 6600XT I still get loading screens in a completely flat open swamp

>>527812569
Check the "options" - is the rendering distance far? Does your game load "distant cities"?

>>527812569
And you will, that's how the game handles chunk allocation. Fast zone hopping is intended to alleviate this. The real fix? Unfinished code refactor.

The Shek Outcast never learn their lessons. They attacked the Viera, they got beaten with bare bunny fists, they were bandaged, and they were left to live with their shame. Their equipment will be sold in Squin for pocket change. If Sheks knew about the honor - they would sudoku themselves after such defeat. Alas, they are "honorable" in words only.

>>527798317
Is Kenshi unofficially a WEG?

>>527823619
>WEG
If only. Chris the bong followed the "traditional" American worldview regarding computer game: "murder is good, sex is bad". There are cannibals. Lakes of blood after a group vs group battle. Limbs are being cut off and send to the lower orbit. But: there are no children. No brothels. No in-game marriage system (there is a modded Las Vegas though). Women can't get pregnant. No female NPC promises her body to male NPCs or male PCs in exchange for anything. Etc etc.

As for the bodily sliders - they can be changed via the "editor" folder in the game's files, in the steamapps\common\Kenshi\data\editor. And the tits in vanilla Kenshi are both small and bolted-on - you'll need mods (I recommend "idle stances") that touch the female "skeletons". And those mods can only give the bouncing effect to tits - the asses in Kenshi are all flat. And there is no "ass slider". One guy tried to add it manually - the game refused to adjust pants for such changed characters.

In short - "no" by the initial design.

Made a stop at Rebirth, kind of a lack of scorchies this time around but none the less one valiant recruit Knife joins the scorchfus

>>527826491
Find and hire her older - and bigger - sister, Knoife.

Alright, back from my wacky, non-sensical escapades.
I've managed to fix this bug. It ended up being an issue with two mods that I had, so I moved them lower on the list.
Now people actually stay inside the damn bars.

>speaking of WEG body proportions

There is no steel left to make weapons, so half of the blacksmiths are resting. There is no steel left to buy from the nearby settlements, so half of the couriers are resting as well. "Little garden" mod is a must-have for the comfy time of your resting donuts. 10\10, do recommend. It has yet to cause a single crash on my machine as well.

>>527827828
cheers mate, post screenshots.

>>527840259
Shure. I'll be posting some once I get back in game.

Meeting the Skin Bandits was pretty depressing. But seeing them and the Ashlands made me understand the Holy Nation a little bit. Maybe they've been dealing with this shit for a long time?

>>527840743
>Maybe they've been dealing with this shit for a long time?
Skeletons have been tormenting humans for so long they ended up going turbo kernel panic retard mode and committed a rather anti-climatic schizophrenic seppuku. No really, having your army of semi-invincible power tools begin to complain about their feelings, kill your entire extended family, then apologize, enslave your offspring for thousands of years, once again recall the concept of regret, obliterate your own civilization and as a reward for your victim's patience dump them into a world of genetic horrors you probably made out of spite and afterwards regress back into "it's their fault" mode.

I cannot imagine why humans dislike these things.

>>527845315
Stobe was, without a doubt, the only Skeleton in the history of Kenshi who didn't have a Skeleton Moment.
rip my skelly 5real

>>527840540
Will be waiting. It gets lonely here, bumping this general in the sea of gacha generals.

>>527840743
Peak Kenshi writing. Necron flayers, but slightly different.

>>527845315
Oy vey, stop being antirobotic!

>>527850271
Same.

>captcha is JAVPV
kek

So why does the Holy Nation hates anything involving even just Ancient Science Books? AI Cores make sense because AI is how you get Skeletons, but with Ancient Science Books they could make even better grade Paladin’s Crosses and armors to kill Skeletons even better.

>>527859624
Their fear of Skeletons has led to them rejecting all advanced technology. Maybe they believe if they advance even a little it will cause a slippery slope that eventually leads to robots again.

>>527859624
ever heard of gateway drugs?

>>527859624
Chris' inconsistency and Nat's wacky writing. Disregard both.

>skellibros save an escaped slave getting attacked by robots in the grey desert
>he just rudely wonders why he escaped slavery instead of thanking them
Cat-lon was right.

>>527861119
>play skeleton
>able to progress to level 30-40ish stats within 3 days or so
>play any other race
>day 7, main combat stat is still sub-10, only stats of note are athletics
am i playing too safe for my organic donuts?

>>527862235
The problem is that Skeletons have more health and heal faster. They're naturally much faster to train due to staying in the fight longer. You might be playing too safe though, as long as you have sleeping bags and good armor everything will be fine. Even with more health the Skeletons had some really close calls. Skeletons being unable to wear helmets is a really concerning weakness.

>>527862235
>organic donuts
What do you mean? My organic donuts fare just fine. They run fast, heal fast, their limbs are sturdy and they are pleasant to look at.

>>527862684
what’s a good grade of armor to wear?

>>527864495
Best you can get your hands on, this will usually be High or Specialist.

>>527864495
High is fine, specialist is better. In a pinch standard quality faction armour (samurai plate/holy nation armour) can work for training, but it's not ideal

>>527862235
It depends on what you're doing, how much you're willing to abuse the game mechanics, etc. If I'm trying to train with minimal exploits then I like to send rookies into Bast with decent armour to fight the armies there. They'll get KO'd a lot, but it'll train their weapon defense and toughness decently quickly.
You can train the latter a lot faster by abusing shackles and sending out donuts one at a time into Bast, parking everyone else in Drin while you train, the same can be done at smuggler's bar with the hungry bandit mega mobs, but I find that getting shackles from Port North is the easiest escape from slavery.

Quiet Polish hours on /keng/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlK3T2DeJuc

I suggest looking into what LoFi plans to do with their brand development and protection thereof. They are small and lacking serious litigious power right now. Wait until Kenshi 2 drops and don't be surprised when the friendly fan environment starts to turn into an approved access system. Plans within plans. Don't say I didn't warn you.

>>527876580
Urge to make haram things with Chiori is very high...

>manage inventory
>game crashes
>reboot Kenshi
>manage inventory
>game crashes

Chris, in his infinite retardation, made his game unable to process how to load many processes at once. 15 hungry donuts got their food all at once during the pause? Unpausing the game crashes it. Why? BUY MY SHIRTS BRUV! KENSHI 2 SOON!

>"but why pause the game in the first place?"

So I can see where are all my donuts, what are they doing, and because I must be able to pause and unpause the game at any moment I want. Having a crash to desktop experience twice over the past 10 minutes is annoying.

Stalker is a more stable game than this shit.

>NPCs and PCs stand at open gate, not going in or out
The bong code is bonging at me.

>>527886565
In my experience that happens a lot more with player bases if you've shoved buildings/objects really closely together or used the editor to adjust things

I'm surprised HN doesn't have a problem with unclothed females in public

>>527888372
The problem is not women. It's the fact that the races struggle to interbreed and produce offspring. We've seen *a few* successful Scorchlanders and Greenlander couplings... they definitely cane make children but not every pregnancy takes, especially since Scorchlander girls are habitually bipolar and malnourish themselves to the point of infertility. The good ones settle down as one would expect throughout the empire. And so it falls upon each racial group to maintain their own populations. If Greenlander men were busy having their dicks crushed by Shek ladies then we might as well kiss the whole human race goodbye. Okranism stays, sorry friend.

>>527655848
welcome nigger

>>527889713
>The problem is not women.
This post was written by skeleton hands

>>527826491
Arriving at home the newly recruited scorchfus begin their training by fist fighting the fug men

>>527894735
Also to answer this question.
He would follow you outside of mongrel and promptly get eaten by the fug men, this is clearly the best time line

Hurry up with the fucking lock

>>527894735
Here we can observe the scorchfus stalking the local town guards while recovering from their injuries sustained during training to become more swole by caring around dead bodies and stacks of iron

>>527902138

I started playing 2 days ago. Can't put it down.

what causes the phenomenon of some donuts obtaining ludicrous girth and size as they increase in strength/skill? while others look normal but buff after reaching 90 strength/martial arts, others attain the physique of one piece characters at that stage.

is it really just armorsmithing and weaponsmithing?

>>527907584
It says on the skills page which skills make you bulk up.

Bruh moment

beep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0b0rnMcic

>Would you kindly explain to me again why we're at war with the United Cities.

>>527888254
The same base didn't have this exact problem for in-game months. I will demolish and rebuild the gates, maybe it'll help.
>>527889713
>If Greenlander men were busy having their dicks crushed by Shek ladies then we might as well kiss the whole human race goodbye.
Maybe Esata isn't a retard after all...
>>527894735
Oh fug :-DD
>>527895018
some modder somewhere fell in love with the meme bug it seems.
>>527901336
It's okay, Kenshians can run in circles forever, they never get tired.

>>527902395
Scorchfus are so vanta black - it's hard to tell they are naked.
>>527914559
Fun mod.
>>527922541
Is that a cannibal woman?
>>527937113
I love living in the Current Year!

Kenshi's biggest blacksmiths - the "Steel Spines" - are sitting idly in a row - they have no steel to work with. If the two idle couriers won't depart for a steel fetching quest very soon - they might be forced to entertain the idle blacksmiths instead...

>>527902395
Well half the new recruits got beaten in to unconsciousness in another successful training sortie

>>527953728
>there is no option to choose the people carrying mode
>I can't tell my donuts to princess carry each other

A thousand lashes upon the bong's ass for this crime!

En route from a trade mission in Shark the local swamp bandits decided to commit a group suicide via the Viera. Despite being not the first bunch of swamp bandits beaten and robbed by the Viera - these ones believe in themselves...

Haven't played Kenshi in a long time; but got the itch to play again.
Are the total overhaul mods any good (Genesis, UWE, Kaizo, others?)?
UWE has the most attractive Nexus page (for me) but Genesis has a lot more downloads.

Kenshi has raw meat, vegetable (1 type), cactus (1 type), mutant wheat, and mutant rice. Kenshians don't make soups. Kenshians don't make wheat or rice noodles. Kenshians don't fry or boil crab and fish eggs. The game never shows how exactly the beak eggs are cooked and eaten. And Kenshians - despite being Space Asians - don't make sushi.

The more I think about it - the more I want to strangle Chris for half-assing everything in his magnum opus.

>>527967939
Kaizo and Reactive World are vanilla+, Genesis is a bloatmod "made" by an ego queen (male), UWE is a bloat mod like Genesis made by an ideas guy who can't balance anything - but back when he posted his mods separately I used some of them - and they were okay enough. Legendary Kenshi is NG7+. Don't know the others.

Why is it that when I make shitty rusted junk weapons on a Weapon Smith III it still uses steel and fabric? Should I make a separate Weapon Smith I and II for lower tier crafting?

>>527971397
Do that, and import the game with 0.5 production speed. Let your donuts train without wasting too much resources. Once they have 80+ in skills - this problem will be gone.

>>527968193
Chris went a bit hard on the misery porn at times, like all the vanilla food sucks, tastiest thing is a meatwrap. Desert people kill themselves over the food.

>>527973684
Figures, his entire life is miserable. Imagine living in Bongstan with a ballbusting bong sister.

Time to play the game "Find a dying swamp ninja"

Someone among the robbed swamp ninjas got two tamagochi toys, on Kenshi of all places. Where and how that happened is currently unknown. Where is the target settlement is also unknown.

A bratty skeleton needed corrections, with spears.

>Sneak behind group of cannibals
>Sneak goes from 0 to 50 in 20 seconds
Can't believe I ever did the map clicking in okrans valley way to level it

>>528007165
Yeah it's totally busted. Same with how you can start at the back of a caravan and put the whole squad to sleep without anyone noticing back to front. Literal comedy tier shenanigans as default behavior.

>>528010229
>14.940 hours
Autismo overlord...

>>528010229
>>528010915
Weak.

>>528011162
How the fug?!

>>527719271
>X11
Kenshi 1
>Wayland
Kenshi 2

For those who know.

>>528007165
cannibal hunters is the most op start. you can have reach high enough levels in sneak, thievery, and assassination by day 2 to sneak anywhere, steal anything, and knock out anyone. just steal from the chest in the cannibal village and keep putting the items back to steal again on pause to level thievery. the other two you level on cannibal patrol at night. r spam helps. if you don't mind cheese it's a great way to jumpstart a run. you can level lockpicking with the cages in bast if you want but it's not necessary. just head to heng and steal until you get 200k cats before heading to eyesocket to buy grass pirates until they join you. you start with a big chunk of cats and a squad in the 20's. you can use a plastic surgeon to change their names and appearance to make the squad you want. you could just mod a start but this way feels a little more rewarding and less like cheating.

>>527719271
whenever i tried to look up the advantages of wayland they always mention x11 screen tearing which was fixed a decade ago. they claim greater security but i've never once heard of an x11 exploit and when i tried to find an actual case of an x11 exploit being used i found nothing. they say running as root is dangerous but the entire point of running something as root is to protect it from unauthorized access so i have a hard time taking them seriously when it comes to security, they clearly don't know what they're talking about. benchmarks have shown it to be less efficient so they fall back on claims that it's a new project and will get more efficient over time, which is the opposite of how large software projects always evolve. it seems like wayland is just another change for the worse that everyone jumps on because it's new. there's a retarded idea in the linux world that something that isn't being regularly updated with new features is somehow dead rather than complete. the moment you complete a project everyone declares it dead. totally retarded mentality.

>>528011162
>>528011162
And I feel bad about my Rimworld hours even though probably half of that is from leaving my computer on overnight

>>528017321
i could never get into rimworld. i don't know what it was because i love dwarf fortress. rimworld just felt off i guess. i didn't enjoy it and had no interest in the late game content so i couldn't motivate myself to keep playing.

>>528018380
Kenshi without the charm. Rimworld is not a bad game and has quite a lot of fun to be found. It's something about being inherently tied to that first map square, the default railroad to base build and the extreme aimlessness of the final third/quarter of a Rimworld playthrough is where the game "falls apart". It's possible to sit down and write out a reasonably compelling late game narrative for the world of Kenshi to follow to fill out the late game. Rimworld doesn't have that same capacity. It's a much narrower experience and has hard boundaries on how far you can color outside the lines. Kenshi being more of a mess plays to its advantage here.

Scorchlander feet

Don't suppose there is a toothbrush moustache mod.

I want to rp as isekaid Hitler

>>528032238

>Wish You Were Here!

>>528032809
aside from the TG he would have nothing to fight...

>>528032809
Hivers are honorary

>>528007165
The skelebros have bad racial modifiers for stealth yet they all reached the 30s just from sneaking in Stobe's Garden. For a stat that invalidates all danger it sure is easy to powerlevel.

bandage

Quiet Brazillian hours on /keng/

Shek women can use the momentum to use their own bodies as blunt weapons. The bigger the shek woman - the stronger are her blunt weapons.

>>528074234
these count as limbs

>>527295628
Roll

>>528074234
Why did you dress the shek ladies like Carl from aqua teen hunger force?

>>528032238

>>528032238
Why do (You) crave these feet?

>>528003490
A normal day in Cannibal lands.

>>528060097
>robot arm
Not pure anymore...

>>528075703
the Shek women are gene-modded war machines after all.

All hail bong code

>>528078485
>Carl from aqua teen hunger force
I do not see the resemblance. Carl is "white top blue bottom". The shek gate guards do not look like him. Although they are all bald, so maybe a little resemblance is there.

>>528081376
this stupid bug was in Sseth's video ages ago. Chris still hasn't fixed this issue. My hatred for the laziness of that bong is infinite.

Quiet American hours on /keng/

>>527983445
Are there any mods that highlight enemies or something because I am struggling to find enemies to loot and capture for bounty?

>>528091631
There is a mod that adds glowing flies over corpses.

>>528091716
I think I need that, does it have a name?

>>528091779
Gabenshop, search words "flies corpses", first page, scroll down a bit...
>id=2983850572&searchtext=flies+corpses
Mein negro, it took me 20 seconds to find it. Come on now...

>>528091779
there is also mod "Ridiculously Large Corpse Fireflies". It adds "fireflies", but bigger. I use "FIrefly" mod though, my eyes aren't that bad just yet.

>>528091779
unrelated, but I also recommend "Quieter Kenshi" mod.

>>528082015

>>528093482
I never asked for this mental image in my head...

"Black Dragon Ninjas has no appetite" seems to be a good mod if One doesn't want to search for the corpses of those ninjas after a raid.

"Meitou Bull Horn Axe" mod. It buffs the weapon and the weapon's user, and also gives "New Kralia" a better chance to not be steamrolled by a random hiver caravan that happened to be passing by at that moment.

>>528093482
>aye yo flatskin, we goin' to Arach or what?

Mods on more limbs can be nice. It was very tiresome seeing exactly the same few types of limbs again and again. Ironically, I prefer my donuts to be intact, but still - it's good to have a choice.

>>528054367
do they really not check your backpack in any town?
I understand the Shek neglecting them but you'd think the UC guards at least would be more savvy.

>>528105285
Do you still have any faith in the Bong Code ?

>>528105832
>Bong Code
What do you mean? It's clearly Microsoft's fault.

>>528112132
Every day I hope that some autistic Asian man will finally release not_Kenshi, properly coded and cooked. Every day I suffer.

>>528099046
Never understood why the Bull Horn Axe is so dogshit in vanilla, Shager must not be good at gifts.

>>528041981
I'd say he take offense to the United Cities treatment of their citizens. No questions, the TG needs to be eradicated.

The skeletons too, could be seen as a foreign element sabotaging the people of Kenshi.

He'd be amicable towards the Shek, due to their honour code.

The Holy Nation as well, due to their order.

The Flotsam Ninjas amicably due to their fight against UC/TG.

The Hives, probably neutral to disgust to their lack of will.

While Hivers who broke free from their Hivemind would be welcomed.

Beep is Nietzsches Übermensch of Kenshi.

>>528074234
Those tits are just vulgar.
I wouldn't mind them in my mouth, Shek milk gotta be as nutritious as whale milk, but I'd still find them vulgar nonetheless

>>528093482
>Feet not gray

0/10

>>528113925
suppose Chris wanted to make the Sheks a "noob zone", but as an ideas guy he of course can't balance anything.

>>528116324
>The Flotsam Ninjas amicably due to their fight against UC/TG.
Do they fight the UC in game, in vanilla? Never noticed personally.
>Nietzsches Übermensch
Nani?

>>528117028
Stop being a tsundere for those giant shek tits you baka.

>>528117325
Please do not sexualize ShekCarl.

A courier since he was a lad, Karsa was making the routine trip from Sho-Battai to Heft yet again, delivering a letter to a noblewoman there--another in a lengthy affair. Knowing better than to pry, he couldn't be certain--but why else did he only arrive when her husband was travelling?
Whether by a cruel stroke of Fate's brush or the indifferent roll of Luck's die, this delivery was to be his last. As he trotted across the dunes to the unfaithful wife, he noted a samurai party coming the other way. It wasn't until he was within earshot that he saw they were escorting a nobleman, and only after a bolt flew past his ear that he realized it was the cuckold.
Turning tail and running for his life, Karsa didn't dare look back until he had made it out of the Great Desert and into Heng. Seeing no pursuers, he finally collapsed in the shade of a boulder, and let loose his frustration in a tearful cry. Regardless of how misplaced the nobleman's anger was, there was no way Karsa could return home anytime soon. He sulked for hours, and it was evening before he truly considered his options. The sun had begun to set when Karsa finally started south to find the slave quarry. As soon as he did, he found himself too exhausted to walk more than a mile before finding a place to sleep, in the cover of a rocky outcropping.
He awoke feeling even more tired from the misery of sleeping without a hide beneath him or blanket to cover him. Seeing no alternative though, he trudged south. This time, it was either Fate's mercy or the flip side of Luck's coin--he witnessed a band of half-dead wastrels fling themselves upon a caravan, not a league from the quarry. Pilfering a sword from their dying leader, he scooped up a Scorchlander who looked like she might live, and delivered her to the slavers. Walking out of the building, he found himself with newfound hope--a sword and a pocket full of cats was a fine start for any would-be kenshi brave and smart enough.

how much does armor matter for being a low toughness donut? should i save up to buy high quality plate armors? or will medium armors of similar quality like the plate jacket help?

>>528121471
if you want to get rid of the low toughness - use the starvers for training.

>>528121312
>a woman cheats
>"her" man gets angry
This logic annoys me. Go full Okranite on the wife. Simple as.
Neat backstory though.

>there is still no mod for Kenshi that adds the silly Au'Ra lizards
A shame, really.

>>528127607
See >>528035408

>>528127607
the au'ra are more like scaled mammals like pangolins or armadillos. they're not really scales but more like calloused skin.

>>528119417
>Nani?

I just find the Hiver lore to be somewhat Nietzschean. The way some break free from the Hivemind and try to find their own way in the world.

I wish I could recruit lost drones, if I happen to stumble across them getting their shit pushed in

>>528137237
I think the meme bug can recruit them.

"More Combat Stance MIABC+" mod apparently has the jumping tits bonus. Didn't know.

>>528119417
>>528137237
Forgot pic

>>528137237
>break free
How human of you.
>exiled
or
>broken
You do not break free from the Hive. Death is certain, reproduction is impossible. Freedom is failure, for there is no purpose greater than serving the Queen. Exacerbated by the fact any action not for is inherently against the Queen.Every Hiver is left with an irreplaceable void once that presence disappears. And what remains? The cold, calculating, depths of cruelty only Skeletons could speak to. Yamdu shows us how deep that abyss goes. Heartless barely scratches the surface. Casual disregard for moral terror.

>>528128817
wut

I will unite the Holy Nation and Shek kingdom by fertilising every Shek womb

>>528151496
Post screenshots as you do that.

A random Viera squad is misbehaving in a Grineer Mercenary Base. These two groups usually ignore each other, and Viera don't have a habit of trying to enter closed private buildings, like the hiver caravans. Somehow the entire Grineer base isn't alerted, so the rabbit women are winning, for now.

how do you put stuff on swamp rooftops without cheating? It's a valid place to put a building there but none of my characters can actually path close enough to start building. Pls, what kind of shitass swamper has to pay somebody for water

>Despite disguising her marked flesh, the hunters can still smell the stench of a maneater, cursing her out before the bemused crowd. But even as they hear the screams of alarm, the rebels see only the madness in the cannibal hunters' eyes, and not the true danger in their midst.

>>528122518
It's been like six or more years since I last played so I don't remember the lore; just made up a story that sounded believable to fit the noble hunting party.

>>528173754
I'm based out of Mud Town and I just steal water from the well in the village to the north to make Sake. I wanted to make hashish in that dome but it won't let me, I have to buy it from the general store.

The Viera went to Catun on a trade mission. The local slavers are still suicidal. Some things never change...

...or do they? Miracles do happen sometimes in the Southern UC territory.

Karsa's newfound life as a kenshi has proven more challenging and deadly than he'd imagined—yet tenaciously he plunged onward. Pointed towards a farming compound from the quarry, he continued south and spent the night in a rented bed, grateful for the opportunity to rest his weary legs. At dawn he continued southwards, without clear direction. The pale blue sands of what the farmers called 'Gut' were beautiful, but they were patrolled by 'beak-things', horrid creatures Karsa had only heard tales of before. The massive beasts walked on four legs and had elongated necks the length of two men—which they whipped with frightening speed to smash their eponymous beaks into prey. Known for quickly chasing down and devouring anything that moved, Karsa lost his nerve and left Gut to the west.

Whether that was any better, he wasn't sure. At least he lived the ordeal. The area looked fairly normal at first, just dunes with towers of ancient scraps visible on the horizon. As he traveled, he was suddenly blinded by a pillar of light before him. It moved along the ground faster than a man at full sprint, before disappearing seconds later, leaving naught but the haze of intense heat in its wake. These beams of fiery death plagued the region, and Karsa was somewhat relieved to find it devoid of life. Spotting a human-like ruin in the distance, he made his way over.

Within the charred ruin, Karsa found unexpected treasure—a number of fine tools and intricate artifacts made by the ancients, for some purpose unknown. Stashing the heavy kits, he carelessly barged out of the ruins, only to be confronted with certain death. Waiting outside were dozens of headless skeletons, their blackened metal stark against the bright sunlit sand. Their leader approached, emitting noisy nonsense in the crackly voice of his kind, before drawing a massive sword from its back.

What happened after that, Karsa couldn't recall. But he found himself nearly eviscerated in blood-soaked sand in the middle of the night, unsure if he even still lived. Pulling himself along the sand back into the ruin, he bandaged himself and floated in and out of consciousness for at least a day. With the bleeding stemmed and his rations running perilously low, Karsa risked escape under the cover of darkness. Seeking civilization of any sort, he remained vigilant against all possible assailants, and stayed out of sight of all passerby until he sighted a city.

Having continued west, he arrived at the Hub—where he sold his looted treasures. With a belly full of rice, he reflected upon the past week and decided he needed to improve himself. An unskilled weakling had no place calling himself a kenshi, and deserved defeat to nameless enemies. Seeking allies to train with, he purchased entry into the ranks of the Shinobi Thieves. The coalition of individuals was perfect for him—guidance and advice without duties or strict rules. He purchased a katana from them, convinced by their praises of such thin blades' usefulness. Now, he's devoted to training with their resources, dedicated to avoiding further humiliation and proving himself worthy of the title kenshi.


Gotta remember to take more screenshots.

The cost of not being swarmed with the Grineer shock troops and\or bombed from orbit is 2000 cats. The Grineer Empire is very reasonable.

What causes CTDs and how do I cut down on them?
I have the optimization and CTD Fix mods (installed properly as per the description page).

>>528214445
>and how do I cut down on them?
That's the fun part, you don't.

>>528214445
sounds like you need more optimization mods and 4k shek lady bodies. You can never have too many of those

>>528214445
Uhhh uhhh engine limitations uhhhhh there's nothing more that can be done umhmmm the devs can't dedicate any resources to Kenshi but they're working on the next game k buy t-shirts watch video like the twitter post download bloatmod see you in 2030 you're welcome!!!!

>>528177767
Omoshiroi...

>>528183560
It sounded very believable, good job!

>>528188167
Chris wants you to support the local Swamp economy.

>>528205592
Quite an adventure.

>>528205690
>Gotta remember to take more screenshots.
Please do.

>>528214445
>What causes CTDs

Oi bruv. Have you bought the Kenshi shirts?

Ahem.

Chris sucks fat floppy donkey dicks.

That is all.

>>528215078
You are back. Post your brapbunnies, some guy really wanted to see them.

Karsa trained in the Shinobis' tower for days, diligently practicing simple strikes of his sword, picking locks, and even the art of a stealthy takedown. Feeling much more confident, he purchased a number of maps and began wandering the war-torn Border Zone, vaguely headed towards the Shek Kingdom within Stenn Desert to the west. He was curious to see how their society operated, and thought they may offer a different perspective on his training.

The Border Zone proved rather easy travel for Karsa, his skills as a courier translated well to the relatively tamed terrain. He was able to avoid the roaming bands of bandits and found the courage to meet trading caravans rather than hiding. Reaching the Shek settlement of Squin, he found himself in awe of the brutes' physiques and the ease with which they handled their oversized weapons. Of course, he couldn't help but utilize some of his recent training to bolster his traveling supplies without burning a hole in his cat pouch.

The martial society of the Shek seemed an ideal way to harden Karsa, so he continued as planned towards the kingdom proper. Visiting a number of smaller way-stations and military bases along the way, he even laid eyes upon the mighty Stone Golem herself—the woman towered over her city and momentarily locked eyes with him, sending a shudder through his shoulders. Inspired, he asked the enforcers about banditry nearby, but was disappointed to find out the Shek were uninterested in his help—they had things under control. Karsa had his doubts, however, and decided to patrol the Stenn Desert himself. The guard's claim proved veritable, and the only 'criminals' Karsa could find were a band of Shek warriors eager to challenge any flatskin such as himself to a battle to the death—one that he'd surely have lost.

Lighter on his feet, Karsa outran almost all of this Band of Bones. One, however, was unrelenting in his chase. Ducking behind a ridge, Karsa hid behind a boulder until the enraged Shek passed. Letting his breath out with a gentle exhalation, he crept behind the warrior and brought the hilt of his katana down upon the skull of his foe.

As soon as he began the motion, Karsa regretted it. The massive horns of the Shek forced the blow to come from an awkward angle, and rather than incapacitating the giant he merely stumbled forwards with a growl. He spun around with lightning speed and his massive saber found purchase in Karsa's thigh as he unsuccessfully tried to leap backwards. Karsa's scream of pain became his salvation—as the Shek gloated over him with a sadistic grin, he was tackled by a skin spider. Karsa seized the moment and dragged himself away, leaving the bloodthirsty pair to their duel.

Having limped to a Tech Hunter way-station to heal, Karsa's conversation with the passerby detailed a series of hiver villages north and west, which he set as his next destination. The journey proved uneventful, other than the bizarre rain. Seemingly ceaseless, the precipitation was colored red, almost like blood—but it felt like water, not the acid he'd heard of. The village itself was a marvel, a swarm of hivers working apathetically while the soldiers were locked in fierce battle with beak-things. Karsa attempted to aid them, but quickly retreated inside one of the buildings after a stray kick reopened the wound in his abdomen. Sitting inside their factory bandaging himself, he couldn't help but feel the whole thing was a dream. The whole thing was so surreal, the soldiers fighting and dying while the drones seemed oblivious until they were personally attacked—and they were. These beak-things were not going hungry.

>>528214445
I play on a really mediocre laptop.
In my experience crashes can happen because of:
>mod incompatibility, if two mods just happen to add a new location in the same place for example, it will crash upon trying to load
>a mod might also just have wonky performance, like this one mod called Expanded Cities - The Hub that a bunch of shit and three warring factions in the Hub, maybe look over your modlist and see if you got anything that makes radical changes to a settlement, you should always read comments and discussions before installing anything
>something like a file just straight up broke for whatever reason, this is the nuclear option but you might have to verify game files on Steam, backup your mods.cfg file before doing so, that's your modlist, it will be reset after the verification, one of the Ashland Domes kept crashing my game until I did this
>make sure your modlist is sorted properly, follow this guide https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1850250979
After all that, make sure your game autosaves every 2 minutes in the options. Kenshi doesn't really crash that much for me, all things considered.

>>528232823
Squin. I have many memories of that place.

>>528233024
Why didn't Chris give hivers any crossbows is a mystery. If princes were the "squad leaders" of the warriors - they would shoot at gutters safely while the soldiers bum rush in the melee range.

>>528236000
>game autosaves every 2 minutes
That's a bit of overkill desu

>>528239554
Princes can only jew you out of your money by making you buy their 9 cat Lantern of Poopshit for 2.5k cats.
Actually, thinking about it, isn't Longen a Hive Prince too? It's been a while since I've been to the Empire capital.

>>528246172
>isn't Longen a Hive Prince too?
On some levels he is.

Somewhere in the Burning Forest several rabbit women are dreaming of going back to their homeworld.

>>528262620
What happened ?

>>528266794
Consequences of their folly. >>528177767 The rebel farmers turned on the cannibal hunters, weakening each other enough for the cannibals themselves to finish them all off.

>>528268012
Naruhodo

Sure is quiet on /keng/ right now...

>>528279312
It was supposed to be a minimum of 8 tonight, it's fucking -2
Kill me

>>528283890
What happened?

What's the implication of there being a Horse Chopper in game but not horses? Were they all chopped? Did they ever even exist?

>>528285348
Chris thought it'd be funny.

>>528285348
>Falling Sun
>you cannot use it to make the sun fall from the sky
Chris Hack can't keep getting away with this

>"World's Edge"
>isn't located at the edge of the island

CCCHHHHRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

>>528287793
Surely it should be at the highest point on the moon, the real edge of the world.

>end, not edge
Same shit. And don't forget such amazing names for cities such as BAD TEETH and BLISTER HILL.

I hate this bong so much it's unreal...

>>528286429
>Moon Cleaver
>can't cut the moon with it

>>528285348
There's Eagle's Cross too. Where are the eagles? Did they get crucified into extinction?
Did the Holy Nation see birds as a more dangerous agent of Narko than skeletons?

>>528285348
Skeletons chopped them all because they want fleshbags to walk everywhere.

>>528230553
Maybe the real brapbunnies was the friends we made along the way?

Is there a guide on how to manipulate world statuses?
I kinda get how to do it with the Shek, Holy Nation, and both hives, but I don't know what I can do with the UC and minor factions that doesn't lead to their cities and bases becoming ruins.

>>528284718
It got cold of course

>>528293539
The Kenshi wiki does a good job detailing worldstates.
You can also learn how to use the FCS and read these things yourself.

My main source of income is running hash from Shark to Flats Lagoon. It pays well enough, but are there any other recommended ways to make money for early game?

>>528304894
Luxuries and Pearl from the Western Hives sells high in the United Cities. Grog from the Holy Nation sells high in the Swamp. Sake and Hash from the Swamp sells high in the UC, and Rum to the Holy Nation. Machinery from all over sells high in the Western Hives. I don't remember what the Sheks want. Basically you can choose your trade route and make enough money however you like, Hash is just the most efficient.

>>528306145
Thanks for this. I just need some variety.

>>528306364
Money isn't super important in Kenshi beyond a certain point anyway so don't worry too much about it. Food can be hunted, equipment can be looted, many companions come free. As long as you have enough to buy a meal and a bed in an emergency you'll be just fine.

If HN appeals to incels and UC appeals to merchant maxxers, who does the Shek Kingdom appeal to? I've never seen any shred of enthusiasm for it... anywhere.

>>528309901
MILK

>>528309901
Mommy issues.

>>528289397
There are at least birds in the game. Whether they're actual eagles, spy drones, or gene-edited humans, who knows.

>>528290535
Excuses. Post the cyborg brapbuns.

>>528309901
Tall buff woman, made for impregnation and princess carrying (males)

>>528255790
how do you get them all to sleep, I'm having to sleep each one by one in their own bed

>>528317687
Rewrite your question please.

>>528317687
Roofies probably

>>528309901
The Shek Kingdom and UC are natural enemies to me. Always.

>>528309901
>who does the Shek Kingdom appeal to?
It is a mystery...

>Smelling blood in the air, the Sun Heart Tribe's hunt brought them to a fertile hamlet in a sea of sands. Fields of green bloomed on the crags, verdant leaves crowding around the staked corpses that fed their roots, crimson and veridian blooming in dazzling colour beneath the full moons.
>Their appetites whetted, the cannibals fell upon the farmers in the night, cleaving limbs and feasting on their entrails as they went. The leader of these prey animals, their preacher, soon called upon his guardians and gave prayers to the moons for strength, but he too was brought down beneath their savagery. By morning, their bloodied carcasses adorned their fields instead, and the tribe gave their own prayers to their cannibal deity as they devoured the preacher's heart, growing stronger with his power taken bite by bite.

>>528333071
Horrific.

>>528333071
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-W4O6rlAW0

>You can't stop what's coming.
>Give in.
>Give up.
>Give us your insides.

>>527286217 (OP)
I want a greenlander drifter girlfriend that looks like Chunners.

>>528304894
Get a character with decently high stealth and thievery, go to the Heng bank, take everything that isn't nailed to the ground, and sell it to the skeleton that sells robotic limbs. Quick way to make 100k+ Cats in a few minutes.

>>528309901
10% Dragon Ball autists who share their thirst for battle
10% redditors who side with them, thinking they are the only good faction out of the three main powers in Kenshi
980% buff women enjoyers

>>528336789
I may try this next. Sounds fun.

>>528333021
https://youtu.be/2dPaVk4G1jg?si=dqdPUSX69gRpAaT3

>>528337615
Thievery can break the economy very quickly. I guess that's why almost all vendors will refuse to trade with you permanently if you're caught stealing even just once from them. High risk, high reward type shit.
I recommend that only if you wanna speed things up a bit in the early game, but it's not a stable source

>>528336712
>tfw Chunners' robotic arm will never malfunction and snap your beak thing mid-stroke
why live

>>528335693
I find the Pathologic 2 soundtrack fits the general mood pretty well.
>https://youtu.be/RhVrRgs9mng

Feeling like caving in some Cannibal skulls tonight.
Should try and get some screenshots too.

>>528300513
Guess I have studying to do. Thanks, m8

>>528339356
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRg7CE1zqic

You've hit one of my favorite chords for lore expansion & exploration. The gist is taking the north and devolving it into a continuous mess with one crises leading into the next until the region is exhausted of any civilized life encroaching.

>1. Over the time the tribal bickering of the Cannibals can (and likely does if not stopped) lead to a unification under the Grand Wizard and a more directed aggression pointed against the humanoid neighbors. This feast first preys upon the vulnerable rebels, eventually pressing onto the borders of the major powers until the war in Bast is forced to an armistice.
>2. If and when the Cannibal invasion is dealt with to completion, especially if the rebels are not consumed beforehand, the area is slowly and haphazardly settled by the dispossessed and opportunists arising in the wake of the greatly diminished Cannibals & rapidly opening real estate. This mission to colonize does not pan out particularly well. As quickly as the residents establish themselves in a meaningful manner deep within the plains the smell of something wrong emerges.
>3. The enthusiasm is replaced with growing doubt and troublesome reports trickling back to the coastal entrypoint. Sickness spreads amongst the populace. The scrambled world salad turns to slurred, confused speech. The frail begin to fall first. Some stay asleep. Some fight to persist. Is it the food? Maybe it's the water? Could it be in the air? We...have to get out of here. Go where? Anywhere? There's no help coming ish dere? I... feel...sho....Hah...
>4. Concern grows to panic. The area must be quarantined. Great evil lives here. And those damnable Hivers gleefully traversing that northern corridor might be responsible...who can say? They certainly never would.

>>528337503
You forgot me. I want to enslave those shek women to my flatskin penis, and then use my harem of these cows to revive the dairy industry on Kenshi.

>>528339618
>Should try and get some screenshots too.
Please do. It's interesting to see how do the others play this autismo simulator.

>>528321149
Ok when I tell a squad to go to bed, only one guy goes to the bed I click on. I want each person to go to a different bed at the same time.

>>528347554
un-check the JOB to ensure they stay on beds, and then manually command your donuts on which beds they should sleep.

So is my guy strong enough to solo most things by himself or do I need to keep training his stats?

>>528347931
He should solo most of the island, yes.

>>528345018
It's just part of the 980%, but with a visionary's perspective.

>>528348036
What about for taking on like ashland hordes? is he ready for that or are they just too numerous.

>>528347931
Watch out for snipers in big groups. Otherwise, he solos the entire moon.

>>528347901
so I do have to tell each one, one by one, to go to bed? FUCK

>>528347931
How did you do it?

>>528348232
>a visionary's perspective.
Indeed.

>>528348446
>ashland hordes
Depends on the lucky strikes on his body. Hits degrade stats. The fewer stats remain - the weaker the donut at the moment of his fight.

>>528348529
use - and = buttons as "choose next" and "choose previous" character. Have your squads of 21 donuts - with the extra donuts in the last, unfilled squad. You will get used to this micro-managing rather soon.

>>528348671
AFK'd in rebirth for a while until we were able to punch our way out then made a base down in gut and learned that you can quite easily down and trap elder beak things because of blood loss KOs with crossbows then bullied them for a while as for melee defence I just blocked like 3 guys down at the ashlands.

>>528349304
How did you get 95 dexterity if he's only skilled with heavy weapons?

>>528336712
>Chunners
do you mean Chun Li? Why not have a more advanced option? Juri will make sure your body is always 100% ready for a hand-to-hand, ass-to-ass combat with her, at any place she chooses. If you lose - she will sex you. If you win - she will sex you, but gently. Imagine that!

shek sex

>>528349610
he has 97 martial arts

>>528349671
>Flotsam dyke seethes at the sight of greenlander male-shek female love

>>528350093
Surprisingly unsurprising, all things considered.

>>528349805
I forgot that it also trains DEX. Dayum, nice

>>528285348
>Shark
>no sight or mention of sharks at any point in the game
I mean, the sea level used to be higher where the Swamps are and fish exist.
These implications are giving me a headache.

>>528347931
You can kill everything except Anti-Slavers and maybe Cat-lon.

Alpha Scrabs aren't pushovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjaB9GBmrA
Everything in Kenshi can be solo'd, but Anti-Slavers is a coin flip.

>>528352985
There used to be a race of clowns that lived in the bonefields

Can I get some good custom starts?

Finally caught the bastard. What should I do with him? He was such a pain in the ass I wanna throw him in the peeler for a while

>OI BRUV, ME GAME RAN OUT OF MEMORY MATE
>CAN'T DO NOTHING 'BOUT IT MATE, BLAME THE MAICROSOFT

...at least the last autosave was about 5 minutes ago.

>>528365215
sell him to the female sheks.

>>528361865
do define "good" onegai.

>>528358678
So it seems.

>>528361865
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1916646566
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3483361943
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2523620379&searchtext=starts

The science of the NPC Titty Sag is peculiar. Make the NPC tits not saggy enough - and they look like bolt-ons. Make them sag too much - and they look unpleasant. Decisions, decisions...

Is 1.0.68 the current version?
t. pirate

Holy shit, everything went to shit so fast. From planned kiting as usual... turn into Garus, Beak things, a single Leviathan and bunch of security spiders free-for-all brawl. Lost only 3 expendable mercenaries though.

>>528370464
Think so.

>>528370639
Isn't Kenshi beautiful?

>>528370464
Yes. The game is in post-maintenance mode. No further updates are expected so you can be sure that flavor of jank is the intended experience.

>Grineer mod got updated yesterday

Nice.

To those that were reading the story of Karsa; I apologize. My incompetence has led me to having to restart. The tale of Cutter will begin soon enough.

I hate WuWa. I hate "challenges with timers". I want unga bunga.

>>528379189
what happened to karsa?

>>528365917
>define "good
Zero to hero starts with good roleplay potential that are a constant uphill battle.
>>528366948
Thank you.

>finally got solo ironman save going
>things going super well
>suddenly the Samurai attack me for getting attacked by the city heroes for some reason
>get thrown in jail and lose my Edge 3 plank
>take it on the chin regardless of how retarded it is
>break out of jail eventually
>my character won't fucking run, making escape impossible
>have to load to an earlier auto-save, tainting my run by no fault of my own
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>528387201
>my character won't fucking run
Did you take his shackles off?

>>528387260
Yes.

Back to the NPC Tittiology. It is better than trying to understand how to play gacha "abyss towers" fast enough.

>>528387201
it could be a couple of things: unhealed leg or two, over encumbrance, obedient slave job still working or perhaps you forced your character to walk by switching the walking speed option next to the time speed buttons.

>>528384851
I relied on autosaves and when I was testing adding new mods AFKed at the character creation screen, absolutely clueless to the fact that autosaves start during that

>>528394275

>>527747393

>>528398024
what weapon mod are you using?

>>528398024
>mismatched robo-limbs
my 'tism is angry

>>528370639
Leviathan coast is a magical place. I'm gonna build my final city there after I'm done conquering all of the Holy Nation territory

I've got 400 hours in this and this is the first time I've seen these ugly fucks.

>>528409008
Please leave the turtles be.

>>528410451
Was considering aggro but they probably don't drop anything special anyway

>>528419965
It's the animal that drops the most meat in the entire game.

Nibbling on the tips of a Shel amazons horns

>>528420319
You, stop it.

>>528421642
(You) cannot esto The Hunt™

>>528422121
*stop

>>528422121
There will be consequences.

>Four nights hunting in the dark, the Sun Heart tribe picks away at the fortress of the cannibal hunters, chewing up patrols in twos and threes before slinking back into the canyons to feast on their spoils. Bolts and harpoons keep the predators at bay during the day, but slowly, by a thousand cuts, the cannibal hunters are bled dry, their numbers dwindling, stretching thinner and thinner with every hunt.
>On the fifth day a band of rowdy nomads take refuge in the keep, sheltering from the storm. Deep in their cups, a slight is made, an insult taken to heart, and before midday the first of the nomads puts his club through the skull of his fellow man. Iron fills the air, the clatter of blades, the scent of blood. Predators are brought into the light by the stink of a fresh meal. They set upon the once impenetrable fortress, now left exposed for the teeth of a carnivore, and with sharp claws and jagged blades tear the heart from the hunter Robun.

I know this is the kenshi general, but have any of you played survivalist: invisible strain? Only asking cause it's very similar and I wanna know if there are other games like it

>[Yesternight, before the plight to the Cannibal Plains]
It's been a while since he's fought. That's what he thought back when he was in Mongrel, rotting away with a crummy Fragment Axe.
At least, that was before some albino freak came out of nowhere, with a lot of Fogman heads on his backpack, alongside some scorchie who was with him.
>"This guy's crazy; Makin' me run around in these plates, killing all sorts of things he runs into. An absolute madman."
Something that the old man murmured to himself while thinking about the chances he missed, the wife, who was probably dead by now. Hopefully. That "open relationship" shit only works for promiscuous nobles and no one else.
>"At least I feel strong again."
That he was. He was carrying a brand new weapon on his back, a heavy sabre from the Swamps, used by their beefy thugs. The design had, naturally, trickled its way out of it, and into the lands beyond.
Still, he felt off about this entire ordeal. After all, the head of this ensemble was no ordinary person.
... But then again, who is?
Come on, tell me. I need to make a joke about this before the next group of cannibals comes hollering at us.

>>528461295
>[Somehow, still Yesternight]
A daring swordsman, the leader of this pack is.
Him and the rest of his troupe were resting in a place not-so-far-away from the famed plains, a relatively quiet village that only got assaulted by migrating cannibals every once in a while.
And by "every once in a while", we actually mean every two hours or so.
Like any self-respecting Cannibal Hunter, he has a nifty blade. One of them Falling Suns, manufactured by the finest of Catun's Scrapmasters.
Lots of heads had to be taken before he could even lay his hands on it, but it was worth it.
His name was Sharpe. Which made for quite a lot of unfunny jabs throughout his entire life. Even more so when he first got a blade of his own, which wasn't as sharp, 'cause it was a refitted one.
The only things in this man's mind right now are:
>"1. Get my hands on those cannibals and their village."
>"2. Get something good to drink."
As seen here, he's waiting for a drink. The fishermen are either going to give him grog or some Big Fish garum.
I'll get better pics of the other donuts when I pick up from where I left off yesterday. Promise. Trust.

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

CRABBER SUPREMACY

teehee I liek Kenshi :)))

>>528467779
play a beakthing start (age 0) with their faction

>>528468896
Should've been a Hacker-class T.B.Q.H.
What mod by the way?

>>528468517
Like a mod..??? err uhh??

>>528467769
based and crabpilled.

>>528468896
So many modders try to fix the katana problem, sad.

Say, Let's say I get like 30 guys with similar enough stats to Garlumin here do you think they could take on reavers or would I need to put them all in decent crab gear first?

>>528420319
>>528409008
are your guys hungry?

>>528418449
Kino

>>528421042
Stop posting with one hand drifter.

>>528438774
The rail falls, but the stench doesn't go away.

>>528450631
Alcoholism kills.

>>528451193
>have any of you played survivalist: invisible strain?
Never heard of it.

>>528462969
mein negro, it was a while since I enjoyed reading something this much. Bravo.

>>528471101
>the katana problem
Katana is a noob slicer. In that role - it works.

>>528472869
>toughness -2
Send Garlumin to Squin on a toughness training.

The Swamp stores have enough cactus salt to salt half of the fish in the entire Swamp's waters. But the Viera got hit hard by the wild life while on the trade mission. One rabbit woman somehow lost a little bit of blood while nearly losing her entire legs. She'll have to occupy a bed in a bar till the sunrise.

>>528472869
Crab armor is useless with stats like those. I'd say you can do it despite all those guys having the defenses of paper. Put everyone in dustcoats or assassins rags with armored rag skirts and you should be fine.

This short female swamp bandit needs a correction...

>[Tonight, the Cannibal Plains]
Our fellowship found itself in a feisty melee with the cannibals.
Our HERO, Sharpe, decided to dive straight into the heat of battle in order to cleave down one of the high-ranking members of this village in particular.
As you might be able to see, the scene is quite hectic. Chaotic, even. You may also realise, there's also some other people in here!
>"Die, cannibal scum!"
Truly, an original man, with a very original goal in life. Too bad that the grog served at the fishing village won't be enough to slake his thirst for battle.
One thing to note here. In the majority of screenshots I took, I realised that the cursor was still visible, which I thought would be gone once I was off free-view.
Clearly, I have been played for a fool. Much like the cannibals in here, but then again, these slabs of meat are very chewy. Not tasty at all, eugh.

>>528488873
Remember how we... I mean, remember when I said that there were more of these misfits?
This woman is one of them.
In a rather violent visit to the Shrieking Forest, which ended with numerous dead shriekers and many, many looted weapons sold off for maximum profits, two of these bandit leaders were captured and dragged all around the place, until they stopped being irrational.
The Big Red Woman with a Big Club, otherwise known as "Big Clubber" by the group, is seen here kicking one of these cannibal whelps.
As one might know, carring huge lumps of steel tends to make someone a bit... slow... on the uptake. At least she's aware of this fact.
That doesn't mean that she'll get out of this battle unscathed, even with all of that plate she's wearing.
Kind of makes you feel bad for them... until you remember that they'd happily eat you, your buddies, dog, cattle and Personal Hiver Butler alive.
>"But they don't eat hivers. That's the fogmen."
Shut up.
>>528475796
Thanks brah. Appreciate it.

>>528489441
This be the second Shrieker-turned-Rational Human Being here, who's been nicknamed "Howler", because of her former affiliation to the Howling Shrieker subsect of the Shrieking Bandits.
>"That's a mouthful. Can't you just use an acronym or..."
>"Hey, who's telling this tale here, you or me?"
>"You're going to confuse whoever buys these papers off from you..."
>"Hey, shut it. Now, hear me out..."
Being the top brass of these bandits is good and all, yeah? You've got your underlings, you've got your own armor and all. That's neat.
HOWEVER... how would they fare against the never-ending hordes of cannibals? Not very well, I tell you!
Well, at least THEY wouldn't last long out here, but this one? She'll last for quite a while with the group. Provided we don't run into anyone more powerful, smarter, or Okran forbid, RICHER than us.
>"You make it sound like the UC nobles are going to be a problem."
>"Aren't they always a problem...?"

>OI MATE, ME GAME RAN OUT OF MEMORY AGAIN
>BUY KENSHI SHIRTS MATE

I hate Chris. I hate his bong code.

where do you guys go to buy assassin’s rags of decent quality?

>>528494196
Shinobi towers. But ass rags are easy to make in the first place.

>>528481248
-2 toughness is not enough for a melee anyway. Any hit will stagger his donut.

>>528489441
>Appreciate it.
Doo itashimashta. Some high quality RP autism is rare.

The bratty Swamp bandit scorchfu was bitchslapped into submission. The trade mission resumes as planned.

The Blackshifters never had so many guests at once. Yet none of these guests want to play the casino games.

Working to break my stories into 4chan character limits is way too fucking hard. Hope you still enjoy, but I didn't think about the character length while editing until too late so won't be trimming it down enough to fit into the two pictured posts.


All he'd ever truly wanted was respect from his peers. Always a bit of a runt, as a boy he kept himself fed—barely—by pickpocketing the caravan guards and passersby making their way through his hometown of Clownsteady. He'd dreamed of one day becoming a Shinobi, recognized as a scout and assassin worthy of others' fear—after all, that too was a form of respect. Of course, none of them would consort with some pissant like him, at least not without coughing up a membership fee. Aware he'd never make the cats without venturing into the dangers of the wasteland beyond Clownsteady's walls, the boy—now a young man—set out at dawn, with naught but a rusted piece of iron and a new name for himself—Cutter. He'd let none stand in his way, cut through all before him.

The rest of the world, however, hadn't heard Cutter's inspired reasoning. Hours after leaving the comfort of civilization, he was already running for his life, a pack of blood spiders practically tasting his heels. Yet the brush with death wasn't without reward—they'd been attracted to the scent of blood, some skirmish a day or two past. Cutter'd been there first, and found himself a real sword within the carnage.

Passing through swamp and skirting around a frightening series of pillars rising from the ground, Cutter found himself in the lands claimed by the Shek. Too keen on survival to test his new sword, he watched a number of their factions war against one another from afar. They were often called savages, but their battle fascinated Cutter. There was savagery, yes. But that wasn't the whole story—there was art in their movement. The fluidity with which they maneuvered their oversized weapons, the brutal blows sustained to better their own attacks, and the merciless maiming when a blade found purchase in flesh—it was as if they were all a part of some masterful ballad to which only he was deaf.

Trailing a band of brigands, he seized the first opportunity he could to duel an isolated straggler. It was anything but a fair fight; the Scorchlander was limping hard before Cutter struck, and the first blow was dealt from the shadows. But as Cutter looked down, his own blood falling to mix with his foe's, he thought he heard whispers of music.

Shek lands were slim pickings for a hunter as selective as Cutter. Too many hardened by their battles, both victories and defeats. He'd continued north, to a fertile valley inhabited by hivers. He truly felt like an outsider there, and was even challenged to a duel. He won—but was overly eager to make use of their hospitality to nurse his wounds. As he lay on their hide bed, a feeling of homesickness fell upon him. But he realized he couldn't go back as he was—all he had to show for his grand adventure were scars and a novice's grasp of swordplay. He had to impress his friends, show them he'd done what he'd set out to, and become more than some lowly thief.

Cutter sought such successes in the sizable swamp. He nearly found them, too—a ruin, still largely unravaged by time or looters. Forcing his own entry with saws, crowbars, and rope, Cutter found his hope for heaps of loot dashed—for the interior had been colonized by massive spiders. Careful to avoid their ire, he managed to pilfer only a small piece of strange machinery—in the intricate style of Skeletons. The prize didn't seem enough to truly impress, although it wasn't without value. A trader in the town of Shark offered him a backpack full of booze and narcotics for the relic. Accepting may have been a mistake—Cutter had no idea what it was truly worth. But he did know how much selling such vices could make him in the United Cities. He agreed, and by the time he returned home to Clownsteady, was richer than anyone he'd known.

The first thing he did was buy entry into the Shinobi, of course. But as he stood atop their tower, looking over his home, it all felt hollow. The wind was too cold, the walls smaller than he remembered, and the murmured sounds of the people below distant and ethereal. But somewhere, far away and from hard to find the direction of, he thought he heard a vibrant song—just one musician, pouring his heart into the strings, setting the stage of some story not yet told. And that, was what Cutter wanted now. Not the praises of people who scarcely knew him, or just wanted to partake in his newfound wealth—rather, the ecstasy of battle, the near-divinity of letting the sword and song control him, devoting himself to the art and losing himself within it.

anyone know how to fix characters being able to walk through this hole? walling it off didnt seem to work. thankfully havent had any issues with any enemies or raids pathing through since they seem to prioritise the gate on the other side, but occasionally one of my workers will run through and get ganked by blood spiders.

>>528489441
>many looted weapons sold off for maximum profits
Modders can't balance things, more at 11.

>>528490237
This reminds me how I never made their autismo armor so far. Hmm...

why are they called donuts

>>528517960

>>528517960
Alternatively

Quiet hours on /keng/

Community of losers.

>>528529150
meanie

>>528513517
>have NWDM
>just by sitting in the grey desert outpost i’ve made 80k cats just from selling equipment from the new gangs it adds

Kenshi 2 is not being publicly tested. In fact, there's unlikely to be a beta phase of any kind. The game you get will be one which has been internally vetted but not publicly scrutinized. Kenshi 1 underwent a constant hazing and trial by fire to get to release. It did so, breaking Chris on occasion to mold into the game people are still playing.

If the recent string of Unreal games dumped onto the scene haven't opened your eyes yet, I will. This is going to be the most generic, unplayable, fan-unfriendly followup to a beloved game we'll have seen in recent memory. No feedback allowed, accept the slop and shutup. That's where this IP and fanbase are at.

>>528533252
Just the fact that it won't have thicc sheks already makes it a 0/10

>FASTR kills the vibrant red moebius vibe of Bast and makes it dirty brown

>>528546721
I mean, it's supposed to look like scorched land, isn't it?

>>528474086
kinda, yeah

In a tech hunters' shop, a Viera listens to a talkative Kenshian woman who said why is she hiding from the law. The Viera was mildly terrified for some hyur man she never even met personally.

I wish this game didn't have this "no bodily collission" thing. Seeing characters pushing their own limbs through solid matter or their own bodies during animations is annoying.

The Stenn Desert never changes. Some of the shek cows died before the Viera had time to bandage their bleeding wounds caused by crossbow bolts. All the sheks "donated" their planks to the Viera however. The pocket change must flow.

The Shek capital city Admag now has some spices from the Swamp, and a lot of spare swords.

>everyone on the island has an access to clean underwear 24\7
I can't suspend my disbelief this much, Chris.

>>528569090
>>everyone on the island has an access to clean underwear 24\7
How do you know it's clean?

>>528569090
The heresy around here is getting out of hand.

>>528569090
Those look anything but clean

>>528569090
FACT:
>All female Shek panties are soaked with my cum dripping from their powerful pussies.

newfag here
do you guys have a booru or something?
I see a lot of cool art from these threads, and I have a hard time finding any Kenshi art anywhere else

Do they have printing presses or are there niggas out there producing copies of the Holy Flame from memory?

>>528583679
>In addition to their xenophobia, the Holy Nation is also hostile to advanced technology. Ancient science books and AI cores are banned within Holy Nation territory, and their aversion to technology is likely related to their hatred of skeletons and belief that they caused the First Extinction.

I guess it depends on whether you consider printing presses as "advanced technology"

How tough should my donuts be before base building? Currently have a squad of six with att & Def in the teens.

>>528585081
At least 20-30 melee combat skills, most raids will be hard to fend off otherwise

>>528585081
It depends on where exactly you're building, but yeah at least 20-30.

>>528580813
>a booru or something?
/keng/ has 4 to 5 posters at once. Who would make a booru for such wide audience?

>>528201252
One of my biggest asks with Kenshi 2 is ai having a better threat assessment system, as well as bandit-class beings fleeing from cities to avoid being cheese'd for loot.

Does anyone know the name of the mod which shows damage numbers and which body part that they hit?

>COR BLIMEY, QUIT YOUR WHINGEN ABOUT KENSHI TWO AN BUY MY BLOODY SHIRTS MATE

>>528593504
trust me, I've seen "deader" generals

>>528595749
Impossible. We practice the fine art of existing on the verge of death in a near constant recovery coma for reasons I cannot explain in polite company.

>>528580813
We have me, who has saved hundreds of OCs, doodles and scanned through deviantArts and Russian blogs to find the good shit. I'll bundle it all up and dump it in mega or something. Figured someone else would be on art duty.

>>528594058
That's not a mod, it's a vanilla ingame option.

>>528596420
anon, I spent years lurking in the deh general, fueled only by waifu tism and a few nostalgic faggots that reminisced about the days their threads used to be fun.
I lost count of how many times I had to bump a thread to keep it alive after 16 hours of silence. this place is leagues above that
Thanks for the shek segs pic btw, gotta expand the collection

>>528596738
based, thanks man.

>>528596874
thanks

we made a healthy informed democratic decision to get back on hash as soon as possible

The villages of the bug people have no walls. Nagai thinks the bugs are either very brave, or very stupid.

>>528604819
Damn those bugs are wide.