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[Genetical difference] 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

Mods for this feel?

>cannibal base attacks keep spawning from the ocean
That's a mildly troubling thought

>>542461127
start with "bedsex". The (old) Viera mod comes with "bedsex" included AFAIK.

>>542461562
would be more fitting if they came from bogs, like true Bri'ish.

>>542460472 (OP)
Izumi is hot as fuck.

Is the bug with blunt damage converted from cut damage skipping lower layers still in the game?

>>542460472 (OP)
more rolling sheets

>>542468640
No idea, but Chris doesn't fix Kenshi, so probably it's still in the game.

Post screen shots >:^)

>>542461127
top lel

Any updates on kenshi 2? I'm guessing Chris is too busy sucking on BLM nigger cock to be coding kenshi 2 so it's dead... vaporware my dudes.

>>542468640
I gave up on that and have just used the no cut efficiency mod for a long time now

>>542360010
Reavers feel like a good but undercooked idea.

>>542360450
Superman...

playing UWE, does anyone know how to unlock armor smithing?

>>542474789
I genuinely wonder if the politics of the game/writers will have shifted at all with how the UK has changed in the last ten years. If they serve up factions like the HN and Heroes League again then it's like they learned nothing, collective anglo cultural suicide

>>542474606
That woman is killing her liver.

>>542474789
>BLM
Please don't remind me. Chris and Nat are retardedly normie-tier. I bet they both got many covid shots as well, without thinking about it for one nanosecond.

>>542483332
Never played it, gomen.

>>542484267
>collective anglo cultural suicide
If I could tell to any Bri'ish man in 1930s about the state of the future Bongstan - he'd never believe me. How the mighty have fallen.

Man kenshi can't push me to replay it hundreds of times like warband. I should probably reinstall it and start over again.

Is slavery under the reavers any different from anywhere else? Like do you actually get sent with war parties, or do you get to fight other slaves or something? The wiki page is vague. Their whole deal seems to be explicitly taking slaves for war which sounds like a really fun way to train but I assume you'd just be hitting a rock as usual because chris is a one-man bethsoft

Don't worry guys, some anon called me stupid and said Kenshi 2 is going to be his magnum opus, just seven more years bros!!! I have no idea why I waste a bump on you sadsacks.

>>542496805
Could be fun when it works, they strip all gear, give you shackles and a uniform, then drag you around the map. I just glitched at HQ steps though, looping in and out of a cage. Never got it to work for RP or anything characters usually just KO/bleed out usually unless the reaver squad dies and you got healed at some point.

>>542484267
There should be more factions like the Heroes League in Kenshi. It mirrors rl nationalist cults. These groups are easy for ppl to fall into b/c they dress themselves in solidarity rhetoric, community defense, moral urgency, but they’re mainly built on exclusion & violence. In a world like Kenshi, cults like this should be everywhere. Just look at rl examples like Azov or Golden Dawn. Apocalyptic conditions should breed scumbag militant identity factions.

>>542460472 (OP)
Lol, I was just playing games and realized I haven't thought about A*las in 2 or 3 years. Has there been any faggotry on his part the last couple of years? Doesn't "he" STILL have mod tools Chris gave him and his cronies and no one else?

This general is now Beep blessed.

>>542487290
One year of hearing how libtarded him and his imouto are, you'd just hope "Oh, they won't fuck with their bread and butter. Kenshi is supposed to be raw so hopefully they don't fuck with it." This late in the game, ESPECIALLY with the race war heating up in Britain, there's no way they don't cuck and ruin Kenshi 2. I didn't even have that opinion until reading your post. I'll see what the promotional material is like close to release, but if I see screenshots of quests being added just to have dialogue about helping "Poor little misunderstood Shekniggers that commit 90% of the crime," I'm gonna have to boycott. Not even trying to start doomposting here. This late into clownworld any game dev that isn't throwing Nazi salutes are inviting the bloodshed we'll have to endure.

>>542503383
Also, there's this gem I had saved.

>>542503383
>this late into clownworld
This deep into clownworld, posting that kind of stuff isn’t just reckless, it’s a permanent stain on your digital footprint. Good luck getting a loan or passing a background check when your AI scraped & archived post history is tied to your mandatory biometric ID.

>>542503383
Kenshi 2 releasing and being pozzed to hell just means we get to clutch 1 as our special lightning-in-a-bottle niche indie gem even harder. At the least it would serve to revive interest in modding the original for a while. Grind your Contrarian and Hipster skills, your Insight is calculated based on their combined score

>>542502924
>This general is now Beep blessed.

I am tired living in society. Even playing games doesn't help.

>You guys shouldnt be so cynical jfc.
Those who virtue signal endlessly & sanctimoniously? They’re usually unwilling to do anything beyond performative, feel-good social media posts. You’re not powerless, history proves it repeatedly. Even the most brutal regimes have easily collapsed, despite "expert" predictions saying otherwise. People resist, endure & win. Cynicism leads to paralysis. Propaganda exists to make you feel isolated & helpless. Look at the stuff bot accounts & propagandists on reddit & X are pushing, thats not the actions of a side that thinks its winning.

>>542461562
>local fisherman moments before his death

>>542506253
My reaction image is quiet hilarious you see. In it, YOU are meant to be the mindless beakthing and /based/ Kensher players are the cute and funny (cunny even) Beep claiming dominion and dominance atop the beakthing.
>>542505151
Things will never get that bad because clownworld will fall within the next ten years. It's untenable. Don't be a doomer. Every single nice thing in the modern world was made by White people treated nicely. As society gets uglier, the comforts the elitists have come to find natural will dry up. Shocking their ignorant selves.

>>542510562
>>542515064
We only lose this war if
>They successfully put Whites in gulags.
>Do a nuke to kill the non-rich.
>Do a REAL plague to kill the non-rich.
>Summon aliens/demons to kill the non-rich.
How likely do all those sound compared to them being such jew scumfucks they run this world into the ground because they're JUST that greedy and inbred, thus necessitating bloody revolution.

>>542524270
Bad news. The jab is already causing mass, diffused, chronic conditions. There's another lockdown coming and this one will be militarily imposed. If you aren't infertile yet, you will be. And if not you, your children will be. You've had all the opportunity in the world to fight the banks and resource barons. Far too late. This was war lost a century ago. You will own nothing. Happy was cut from the budget.

There's worse fates than a dead thread

>>542525780
Fuck you, /indie/ scum, I VILL bump /keng/ every day!

BREAKING NEWS out of the great desert: Emperor Tengu's favor has turned against the Heroes League and their affiliates are being arrested en masse. Lord Mirage himself was killed during a riot at a stone camp last night - sold and quietly whisked out of town after what was initially supposed to be only a 20 hour sentence, turned in by "independent bounty hunters". They're calling it The night of long Nakinatas.

But why? Mounting pressure from the western hive through the Trader's Guild has forced UC leadership to make a call, and as usual they're siding with the money. The message is clear: we are not important. We do not serve their plan any longer, so we've got to go. They hate us.

Kenshi has no fruits. None at all. Why does Chris hate the Kenshians so much?

Kinda wish the Heroes League had more character. No world states, takeovers of HQ, barely a unique uniform or gear. "Lord Mirage" is just bland, no character, i dont think he even has any lines or personality, but guy has tons of followers. He should actually be a charismatic monster. Shouldnt bloodraiders take over when mirage dies, or if cannibals or rebel fighters, sand ninjas. Theres alot of stuff in kenshi like this.

>>542530704
>Kenshi has no fruits
Kenshi does have green fruit. . .which is a vegetable. . .No enjoy your cactus & foodcubes peasant.

>>542531398
They aren't just some HN 5th column with a tiny fort in the middle of the desert?

>>542531794
>Heroes League "THEY TOOK 'ER JOBS!"

>>542534565
>just learn to craft robotics bro

>>542535669
Yeah lol, i remember when coal miners lost jobs they were met with a cold, dismissive "learn to code. . ." by journalists on Buzzfeed or Huffpost, then those journalists got laid off very soon after that. Now coding is compromised with ai.

>>542536270
Karma is a mean woman.

I must get busy IRL. Do not let /keng/ die for the next 10 hours.

>>542524010
I was fucking drunk and still am. This was the reaction image before I changed it.

they really phoned it on for those coastal UC towns, it's like I accidentally walked into an EA part of the map

>>542551684
>EA part of the map
explain please

>>542565949
Stinky creature

>>542506253
This kills the beep

>Getting the crab remedial round even though I throughly beat up Barnabus

You fucking crab niggers, next time I'm bringing the decent weapons out of storage.

>>542565949
Gone to soon.

hot take but i really hope kenshi 2 has more quest type turn ins and more faction related events where you can change how the world factions look or work. Kenshi 1 already has bounties and reputations which are like a lite version of that but i want a sort of 'quest' like giving a faction 1k iron bars so they upgrade their armor factionwide or something

>>542558570
it blatantly looks placeholder/'early access'
it's as if the other great desert settlements had passes to make them look more interesting with props/varied layouts like the refugee partitions and unique interiors/important faction characters, then instead of having big harbors or coastal cities everything touching the water is a shitty little slave camp with nothing of value or interest whatsoever. In some of them you can just swim over the walls and leave. It feels very 'we'll do this bit later' because building desert cities is boring but then they never did, coastal settlements should be their main economic link to the southern UC what with all the bullshit between them inland

>>542591804
Naruhodo.

>escape rebirth
>swim wend all the way down to blister hill
>cross the deadlands to the skimsands and then past tengu's vault to heft
>wearing masterwork and specialist armor stolen from armor king, top of the line
>gate samurai immediately identifies everyone as slaves and tries to arrest them anyway
>all hiver so not even visibly slaves on any reasonable level since they don't have an equivalent like shek shaved horns or humans with cut hair
I can accept the UC deeming other people's slaves still firmly slaves in their own hierarchy but come on how could they even tell

>>542618557
>All hiver
This is the UC anon, come on. They knew, they can smell the slave on (you) with their samurai senses.

>>542618557
Your dead slave eyes gave it away.

>>542588778
One of my dream mods for kenshi is a system where after you ally with a faction you can start to dump the millions of cats you made producing cheap cactus rum into a faction you’ve allied with to upgrade their patrols/make them more frequent + rebuild ruined towns in their border + bankroll their invasion of far reaching lands. That would be hell to code in so many world states, but it would be so cool to finance a minor faction like the Yabuta Outlaws into a major political state that can compete with the HN or UC

>>542623749
Maybe there could be quests to turn in certain numbers of armor to upgrade their patrols.
Be a way to use your smiths outside of hawking heart protectors.

Quests are a double edged sword, they can cause feelings of constraint, but going questless means you have to figure out what's interesting about settlements besides the shops.

>>542618557
Chris can't code.

>>542627950
That isn't a coding issue.

>>542628185
When it comes to Kenshi - it's always Chris' fault for not learning how to code properly.

>>542624109
>nobody needs help with ANYTHING
>nobody has ANY tasks done for them
>nobody needs ANY messages deliver
>nobody needs ANY labor assistance, bodyguard & asset protection, targeted kidnappings and assassinations (disregard the bounty posters and factions which do this, they are NOT quests!!!)
On and on. It's retarded and just because Chris said it doesn't mean it has any merit. The game should have local politics, local concerns, isolated events specific to characters and their relationships. Farmer's bulls escaped? Help wrangle them in. No, sorry, goes again the princi- Stupidity.

If you don't want to have proper quests what you need is random events that can happen while traveling or in towns.
Few devs seem to realize this though.

Quest systems feel outdated imo, i do love Skyrim & probably played every single dungeon and questline in it. Thats a old game though, it just walks you through steps like “go here, to this pointer” “talk to guy, with pointer on head” “fetch item” that also has a pointer on it, “enter doorway.” Theres no thought in it, even puzzles are designed for toddlers & takes little to no thought to complete. Games used to experiment with new original mechanics, games on ps1 often were entirely original & very experimental. I’m hoping AI can push things forward NPCs with dynamic personalities that actually has some thinking capabilities, real time reactions & unscripted dialogue instead of canned lines. there should be amount of set stuff to create a story but dont you ever feel like games are kinda stale? They are just doing the same thing with improved graphics and a few additions.

>>542643410
Well, what do you suggest to make towns be anything except a shop and recruit pickup hub that you only check once every game import?

How do you make a settlement with multiple defensive gates that doesn't make the AI spaz out when it comes to tossing people outside?

>>542643857
>I agree, alot of ppl would just think its a nuisance probably, but base gameplay around, bounty hunting, trading, or crime/smuggling. & make each of these things actually fun/worth doing w their own legit separate systems.

-City & Faction Systems
• Multiple factions per city with dynamic influence.
• District-based cities: slums, merchant quarters, ultra-wealthy zones.
• Factions control specific districts (e.g. Shinobi Thieves run the slums, traders guild runs merchant district).
• Players can fund factions to upgrade gear and expand influence.
• Assassination/sabotage can shift faction ideology and power balance.

- Functional Economies
• Cities have defined industries: mining, farming, smuggling, metalwork like weapon and armour smithing etc.
• Food, water, and crime systems tied to geography and trade.
• Trade routes reflect supply chains (e.g. food from slave camps).
• Disrupting routes (e.g. poisoning water, burning crops) causes starvation, unrest, or riots.

- Fewer but Higher-Quality Cities
• Larger, more detailed cities with fewer total settlements.
• Realistic NPC behavior—less idle standing, more role diversity.
• Hardware load acknowledged—depth prioritized over scale.

- Black Swan Events (Systemic Disruptors)
• Plagues: Spread through trade, water, or population density; impact labor, morale, and faction stability.
• Famine: Triggered by crop failure, trade disruption, or raided supply lines.
• Religious uprisings: Ideological shifts or cults destabilize cities or fracture factions.

> i realize its easier said than done, but just giving a really in depth hq city with functional supply/demand economies could do alot on its own. Its hard to just justify doing a trader playthrough in kenshi as is rn.
- I also kinda realized this is basically elite dangerous or something at this point, so much for being original i guess lol. Idk, id like kenshi to have some of these ideas atleast though.

>>542643857
>Well, what do you suggest to make towns be anything except a shop and recruit pickup hub that you only check once every game import?
If your talking for a DREAM system? Each town has a prosperity level, with the high levels means there are no destroyed buildings, extensive farms outside the wall with several armed patrols roaming near the city, and the shops have higher end goods at a higher price. The lower stage means the city turns into basically Mourn.
The prosperity level would be changed by either world state changes OR the world would have list of events (sort of like base raids, but more spread out) that would effect random cities. There would be raids (which the player could help stop or help the raiders, if they want), supply shortages/surpluses (prices would be effected and the player could help make up the supply deficiency), political guests to certain cities (which could be kidnapped), ect.

>>542654569
>i like those, especially the political guest thing.
• Maybe food spoilage, you would have to have food storage and raw food wouldnt last long, could make pemmican etc./ thats already in Ark
• Morale system, units might just run when they are overwhelmed/ppl are dying etc. Or desert if conditions arent good.
• Age or just age slider, "teen/adult/boomer/elderly" not aging/dying of old age, but you could make unique characters with some handicaps for fun have each age have benefits & detriments. make elderly guy a cook or farmer or bar patron etc, give some more personality and make ppl more diverse. Then when eyegore kills some ppl its extra sad
• wound festering/infection & disinfectant, adds extra layer to survival, more rp opportunities.

I unashamedly use R
I am an Rtard. say it loud and proud if you're part of the team

>>542653071
Other than keeping it permanently closed or doing something that defeats the purpose of a gate (like fencing off the area around it), I have no idea.

>>542664269
There is objectively nothing wrong with R-tethering to kite enemies.

>>542666107
I enjoy how the game feels like a tug-and-pull of unfair scenarios collapsing onto the player while they desperately exploit whatever they can to survive, from pulling enemy groups into each other to stealing beak thing eggs and scrambling up to a city
r-tarding is darwinism and reinforces the main themes of the game because it gives you a fighting chance

I may be going overboard here but base building is fun.

>>542672524
I recall there is a mod on buildable trees on the Gabenshop.

>>542672524
How does this actually perform gameplay wise? Do they hang on buildings and shit or is it fluid?

el bip

>>542503558
>>542487290
Doesn't this fill you with the need to create?

love how lax the item transfer range is in player towns/buildings, you can transfer everything in your base right to one dude standing next to a merchant while paused

>>542687123
I have a pretty beefy PC Kenshi runs well enough, even with fast zone hopping most of the time.

Burdened martial arts vs. long distance rock hauling, which trains strength faster?

>>542705684
Burdened fighting means having to find fights and rest in between them, honestly just get a weightlifting mod if you're going out of your way to train.

>>542705684
If you exploit it by doing weird shit (turning skeletons into nugget punching bags, gorillas in beds, etc), martial arts. If you're actually going around looking for fights, rocks. Just assigning someone a job that moves a lot also has the benefit of being significantly lower maintenance (none really), but martial arts is also leveling up your other stats as well.

>>542705684
Honestly as someone who ruined my first playthrough by overtraining, strength training is necessary but try to keep everything else to normal progression only.

Sure is quiet on /keng/ right now

I hate time-gated content so much.

>>542742863
What's time gated

Really hate how some boulders just disappear when you build near them, sometimes they show back up but it seems random. And I built my walls taking the boulders into account, then the fucking thing vanishes and my defenses have a hole (and the section looks less cool).

>>542750743
c'est la vie

>>542746363
one or more of the posters in keng is a gachaslug and cannot help but bleed it into his pity bumps

>The boulders are back on a random section of the cliff I'd already built on
>The boulder on the gate is still gone

Thanks chris.

>>542758279
Sounds like you would benefit from a placeable boulder mod. Easy to make btw

>>542758279
I had this happen with a bunch of plants clipping through my base, they kept showing up again even after using foliage removal every reboot. It annoyed me so badly (along with learning for the first time why not to build ANYWHERE near water) that I just ditched the run and essentially started it over

>>542746363
it's when War Thunder makes an amazing Dune inspired map, and the entire player base is having a fuckload of fun, but since it's "le April 1st" event it has to be shelved - forever - and now the playerbase wants it back. But the devs won't give it back because they are assholes.

>>542756107
shut up and bump /keng/ when I am punishing the German mains for being blind cretins.

>go out to collect gutterhead's bounty
>there's an ex-outlaw farmer slave limping along away from the city in chains
>take pity on a fellow hiver and the soldier breaks the shackles apart with his hands
>apparently heroes league had been following us out of town and suddenly shows up yelling about whooping our asses
story generated

>>542765849
This should happen more often.

>>542653071
...Just kill them, have corpse incinerators as well as one guy doing corpse disposal and be done with it.

>>542653243
So a much more defined version of Kenshi. It can happen but the tricky part is to keep it from overdoing it. Like what living world did in expanding the fuck out of cities.

>>542769432
Lucky for me this time, somehow my AI is working despite having 3 gates. They always pick the farthest gate possible to toss em out but it works.
Besides this settlement gets no merchants so I don't have the problem of them picking the wrong door to hawk there wares at.

My first megabase in Shem was a complete mess though, haulers would pick up corpses by the outer gates and toss them right in the middle area where the inner gates were, apparently recognizing the entire inner section as outside.

>>542653243
> I also kinda realized this is basically elite dangerous or something
I never played elite dangerous but like these ideas and hate this argument against doing stuff because it might rip something else off. The best stuff that ever existed stole from something else that was good while providing something fresh, if they need to use another game as a design document to figure out how a city works then so be it

>it may not be worth much... but you have my loyalty until the day I die
we've got a leather tanning bench with your new name on it back in town buddy

>>542772578
>Elite Dangerous is great
Admittedly haven’t played much lately though. Every system has stations & multiple factions, usually including at least one crime faction. You can take jobs for them to raise their influence by smuggling or killing ppl etc & by week’s end, that often triggers a war all over the system. You can then join the war & turn in bounties, doing this can push the crime faction to the top/eventually anyway, which can flip the system into an usually anarchy state for criminal organization but theres other system states, pros and cons included. You can do this via trade etc too, theres a empire and federation and some military & pirate factions. Its a good system & really well thought out.
> I think ppl have good ideas but alot of devs are hesitant to try new things & risk a game flopping. This is also why so many devs are vulnerable to like sweetbaby inc or dei initiatives. Which im not entirely against in principle if its done well etc.

>>542772578
>argument against doing stuff because it might rip something else off
This is, amongst many mistakes, one of the biggest the developers over at Pearl Abyss (BDO) made. They had a captive audience, a niche combat system and instead of embracing workable engagement systems from other MMOs they went the way of being unique for the sake thereof, causing many sureshot additions to devolve into false starts, cut content and missing fundamentals because they can't get the roundabout take "just right". This combined with the capitulation to shareholder & market demands means the only people being served by the current game state are those who swipe to keep the company going. The game itself is vapid and lacks any compelling systems because the late game has been relegated to a copium drip. Much like how Kenshi ends about 20-30 hours in, but you can keep playing for thousands, and it will be upon you to find the fun thereafter.

Why can't skeletons wear shirts? Not a dad joke, just an honest question

>>542786646
They could, but the way they’re implemented, they’re not actual meshes, just texture overlays. Opening the shirt slot on skeletons shows a stretched chainmail texture across the body and face. Regular skeletons don’t have separate face textures, faces are baked into the body texture. There was a Steam mod that fixed that and gave face variations, but I can’t find it now.

>finally through painstaking research I've discovered a way to fight back against this awful disease, the key to saving my people
>truvada

>>542788420
>but I can’t find it now.
I tried to warn you. The Steam Workshop (and Nexus, it has its own issues) is not a reliable way of archiving mods. Because modders retain the ability to take down work, which they do for numerous reasons, useful and worthwhile mods disappear over time. The only stopgap we have available at the moment is local storage by migrating workshop mods to your actual game directory.

Blog over - back up your mod list because it's ever in flux when tied to the workshop.

>Day 10 of nobodies playthrough
>role-playing as skeleton leading cult of trans skeletonist humans
>desire to replace all my party's limbs with robot ones
>hike up to flats lagoon and boneyards hoping to find gorillo bandits and beaks
>still nobody dismembered yet
So the dangerous enemies I want stop spawning when I look for them but I can't go 10 seconds without finding a dust bandit camp

>>542698654
Aye, saves time. It's nice.

>>542698640
Better men might want to create. I am too tired.

>>542750743
>>542761805
The Bong Code doesn't want you to be happy.

>>542773389
Still a better fate than most others free bugs have.

>>542793887
import and turn up nest frequency and import again whenever they're de-limbed to turn it back down/revive whatever NPCs it got killed
alternatively there's a cheesy 'execution pole' mod I use to finish off enemies I dislike on the go, I noticed that it's just a reskinned peeler so you could use that and pull them out once their limbs fall off (or go straight for the peeler blueprint itself and do the same)
alternative alternative: trip to the deadlands, mad skeletons with heavy weapons and security spiders are more common and shred limbs about as well

This is why I can't go to war with the slave traders
They buy so much shit.

>>542807409
you finally took the slaverypill and realized it really was just about economy

>>542810884
It's just satisfying to see NPCs actually use your counter. I don't really need money.

>>542810884
>It's just business
Always has been.

I left my first base in mongrel entirely in the hands of broken robots
I have them stockpiling raw materials and crafting for money, and the shops in mongrel are 30 seconds away.
I don't think I'll use any of it but I'd feel kinda bad just leaving it abandoned.

>Combat alert from my workers in Stormgap
>Find this

What the fuck did a beak thing just spawn randomly inside my base?

Project

not even racists like the heroes league

>>542819796
You have my attention

>>542819192
Is it a particularly large base where you don't have people covering all of it? I find weird shit will sometimes happen if part of the area isn't loaded

>>542820861
No, it's actually the most compact base I've built. But the area wasn't loaded so I guess weird shit happened.

Also in my Stobe's base, I can't prove it but I think beak things snuck into my prison and killed several of the imprisoned crab raiders, killing two and maiming the rest.

>>542819796
N i c e

>>542843751
the most uncomfortable way to sleep possible, with the cold rusty frame pressing against the back of your neck while the back of your heels have to constantly exert force to keep your ass from falling down through the frame
give the poor bastards bedrolls of their own outside already and eat the halved healing rate

>>542846689
It's the Tech Hunter Bar in Blackscratch

>>542843751
Chris is a lazy hack.

>>542821898
the ugliness of the rocks' textures still hurts my eyes to this day.

Kenshi Vibes

>>542705684
I installed a X2 over encumbered xp rate mod and I forget about it. Having to stop playing the actual game to run around with rocks breaks the immersion.

Someone here once told me that no one in the world of Kenshi knows fear. I'm starting to realize how true that is.
Except for those bitch boys that go back in their cages I guess.

>>542861538
Explain.

>>542460472 (OP)
For me it's Ruka

>>542871006
The unique NPCs should all have Beep-sized dialogue options and speech barks.

>>542877435
Best I can do for you is no unique dialogue package or no dialog at all for over half of them.

>>542877435
Who else even comes close? Pia seems to have a lot, but I can't think of any that have something like special dialogue options for another unique character like Beep and Agnu

>>542877435
how about generic shek dialogue

>>542869120
https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1760625799458972.jpg

>>542877435
Luquin, Crumblejon, Bard, Maybe Griffin has unique dialogue still isnt much. Lumi is just a crab radar, idk how useful that is though.

Lumi bitches about having to fight every time she gets beat up, and Hamut has special dialog with her where he promises he won't let her get enslaved again. Hamut himself asks you if he can attack any slavers he sees.

Bard has a lot of dialogue but he sings Harmxertoe way too much.

>>542888346
Not Lumi, Miu. She's also a spider radar which is pretty nice sometimes.

>>542890589
wew, I wrote more lines of text for the rabbit women for the modder, by compatison. The Nat's "99% of dialogues" contribution to her onii-chan looks very small.

hi guys I need help with tia lhe Lost Media launcher for Minecraft. It's a Russian multiplayer launcher with mods. It was called mcborax. Help me find its creator. I've only been able to find a screenshot of the launcher from 2016-17.

>>542651327
>no rideables ingame
____ ___'_ ____

>>542892487
Are you one of those people who endlessly whines because Fallout doesn't have cars anymore

>>542819796
Big things happening in the kenshi modding community….

>>542892182
>Lost Media launcher for Minecraft
Hey drifter, this is /keng/

>>542892850
I would the Tesla-Bots, but they gotta have optional thickness for everyone - from stick-fuckers to lard-riders.

>>542892604
Are you one of those people who thinks game developers, especially the most modern variant, are infallible and make no mistakes? I'm sure you always get your money's worth because you live on your knees.

>>542896268
"The feature I want isn't in" is not always a mistake, and often solid proof that games can't design for shit.

>>542896649
Chris scrapped Kenshi 1 because he couldn't make boats work. So, whatever dude.

>>542897238
>Scrapped
?
It's out
I played it.

>>542893323
>I would the Tesla-Bots, but they gotta have optional thickness for everyone - from stick-fuckers to lard-riders.
This, but the slider should start on the lard-rider setting and go even further

>>542897375
Disingenuous semantics, as usual. Why did development on the first game halt?

>>542901902
Because live service is a bullshit modern corpo invention that's poisoned the expectations of a generation.

>>542902932
Nothing to do with live service. Again, you just cannot stop shifting the goal posts. The correct answer is features which were unable to be implemented, such as boats and mounts, were chalked up as the primary drivers of an engine swap. This and performance which of course Unreal is notoriously not an ideal choice for. You want it to be one way, but it's the other way.

>>542903132
I don't care which way you think it is, the idea that a game that is out and finished is "scrapped" because the devs are working on the sequel with more features is pure LS driven brainrot.

>with more features
lol. lmao, even.

>>542903132
Weren't there a community poll on what to do with Kenshi? Think people wanted Chris to move on and work on the sequel

>>542906721
The poll had maybe 1500 votes (in a community hundreds of thousands, eventually passing into the millions), was framed as
>ughhhhhhhhhhh we'll work on Kenshi 1 if you REALLY NEED US TO, but ughhhhhhhhhhh we REALLY don't want to
>or
>BRAND NEW SHINY AMAZING INCREDIBLE NEW PERFECT 4K ULTRAHD EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED, THE SKY IS JUST THE BEGINNING!!!!
Yeah, they chose new and shiny. Seven years later, nothing to show for it. By the way, we've passed the originally estimated timescale of six years to move Kenshi 1 to Unreal. It's all nonsense and damage control. Second game was a mistake, especially announced early, should've spent time in quiet development. Instead, you deal with my critiques. Cry about it.

>>542909003
It happens.

>>542909003
I can understand the appeal of taking a step away from focusing on the jank that comes from the engine that would probably never go away. Ultimately that's a choice that trades something for nothing until the second game shows any signs of life though.

>>542918259
Believe me when I say nobody has to (or should be expected to) spend a lifetime managing a single property. I suppose my gripe boils down to not particularly wanting a Kenshi 2. That wasn't an option because it came loaded with the notion Kenshi 1 had to be worked on. Could've written a book or two, perhaps started a series of short stories or expand the cinematic universe through video productions. Plenty of people have pitched for a TTRPG speaking to the whole Settlers of Catan connection. And why not something else?

It's presented as this inevitability that Kenshi 2 had to begin production and the community demanded as much. Rather, they were already experimenting with Unreal and simply wanted the blessing to go ahead with plans in motion. It's alright, just a real letdown knowing everything has been pushed aside for what is obviously a decade or more of development slotted in with this singular decision. Not six or seven years, 10 to 12, maybe.

Side note:
>comes from the engine that would probably never go away.
That is what Unity, Unreal and Godot, etc, present. Rigid ecosystems which have hardline limitations you cannot affect for. A wholly bespoke in-house engine doesn't face that dilemma. Instead if faces keeping up with industry standards being hoisted upon the internal team, not an externally contracted entity. Fine and well but again look around at what opting for Unreal has done to high profile IPs. Some good, some bad, we'll see.

If there's one thing actually worth giving the devs shit for is they never released decent modtools.

>>542672524
kino, feels like a place that's actually lived on, just missing some tents/storage boxes outside and some rooftop decorations

>>542765849
auto generated jank induced storytelling is fucking amazing in this game, one good thing to come out of the bong code
>>542811719
meanwhile at the first empire...
>>542819192
happened to me too, had an elder beakthing inside my house at catun without previous warning
>>542819796
another haydee mod?
>>542861538
great_desert.avi
>>542892182
i respect your search but you won't find jackshit in this thread, try /v/, maybe you have better luck there
>>542772578
there's innovation and refinement, if you create something new you're innovating (like the nemesis system, or basic vidya concepts that are everywhere nowadays) but there's a chance it doesn't stick, but taking something already existing and refining it (like most RTS did until they devolved into deadlock) is still a good option, kenshi could take the trade system from starsector or warband down to a t and it'd still be a great addition over adding some esoteric overworked oc donut steel system
>>542773389
>secured home, secured food, cozy job indoors instead of roaming the desert, hell i'd take it if i lived in kenshi
>>542784706
fucking clankerlovers...

>>542920056
all they had to do is give us a rimworld-level mod organizer and i'd be happy, you wouldn't even have to make re-kenshi vanilla or whatever, just make organizing mods less of a pain in the dick

the quietest quiet in all of quietdom...

>Kenshi has no Internet
The most boring moon in all sci-fi settings.

>>542934751
Who draws these

>>542935295
A good man who spent some time on /keng/ long while ago.

>>542865053
>stick-wielding emaciated bandit clothed in rags
>picks a fight versus a man-eating murderbeast 50 times his body mass
Was he really just THAT hungry, or did his heart know no fear?

Made a shack in Gut to hunt beak things with turrets.
This is like shooting fish in a barrel.

el bip

>>542941276
The best part of putting a base in Gut is watching the tax man desperately try to make it to your door

/keng/, don't fall

I see youtubers tell me that you can train combat skills by healing a beak thing and entrapping it in a bed, but every attempt at this has the beak thing dying despite actively healing wounds above -30

>>542960409
Honestly it's just not worth it. Everything but strength can be leveled reasonably well by playing the game normally, maybe using some equipment to lower your stats later. Your guys will get strong before you know it, don't skip the journey for the destination.

Gave the Rebirth start a try.

It sucks in here.

Internal "discussion" on the future of the company has ended. The Laissez-faire nature of their workflow is no more. Chris has formed a coup by taking control of the company finances and is holding the rest of Lo-Fi Games at his behest with financial blackmail. He is drunkenly steering the ship off a razor's edge and steering development towards whatever arbitrary feature he thinks of that day with near-psychotic tunnel vision.

These things I'm saying -- not many people are saying them. Years worth of Steam revenue are being poured into funding widespread takedowns on various sites, including this one. To keep costs down on this battle on information, Chris has forced Nat and Sam to work out of pocket for at least a month filing legal notices, some of them false. The sites don't care to know the difference. The rest of their workers are temp contractors and were never even put on payroll, exploiting community passion for labor. This includes time spent working on the game and all development-related expenses.

To keep control firmly in his hand, Chris has sought allies. Nat has been given a full-time position 'supervising' the contractors, making her feel more integral and less likely to jump ship or seize the reins herself. Blood is thicker than water, and the nepotism has never been more clear before now.

I can confirm accusations of verbal and physical abuse by Nat down the totem pole; their employees are either obedient to a fault or too scared to say anything. There's no wiggle room for error on their part anymore and tensions are high. The situation is a taut rope that could snap at any moment, and you'll want to be around for the fireworks when it does. Keep your eyes and ears open in the coming days and prepare to quickly archive any new content on the youtube, X, facebook and reddit feeds. You'll see why.

Kenshi is a psychological experiment scenario descended from the twisted minds of the Anglo elite. People have joked about Mr. Beast style competitions to survive in the future dystopia of the wealthy and their macabre designs. Skeletons, being the result of autonomous AI systems, are deployed to act as watchdogs and guardians of the psychotic survival games. Eyes on the ground for the mass human sacrifice to keep the upper crust entertained. Imagine, if you will, having a bubble placed over Australia and deploying a robot army to clear out the bulk of human & large fauna life. Re-seed the population, slowly, and ensure nobody is ever allowed to build a boat again. The Truman Show but everyone's starving or bleeding out. Chris isn't a real person. Worked a security job for years and quietly comes up with this simulated sickness? Sure thing. Whatever you say. Reeks of military intelligence.

>>542973459

hahahaha! oh phuckins! RIP kenshi 2, we never knew you...

>(vanilla) women in Kenshi 1 look like post-wall crack-cocaine addicts
I shudder to imagine the (vanilla) women in Kenshi 2.

how are you guys even taking screenshots in-game...
sharex refuses to work for some reason

>>542993926
PrtSc
____
SysRq

The button located above your < arrow

>>542996691
I don't... have that...

>>542996782
I would take a picture of my keyboard, but it's old and dusty. AFAIK all keyboards have such button.

>>542996782
on a modern os you can just search screenshot from the start menu and it'll have options for 'take screenshot in 5/3 seconds' etc and you can tab back into the game to do it
f7 to toggle the UI if desired, put your mouse in a corner (a little pixel showing doesn't really matter, nobody is going to use them as wallpapers or anything)
alternatively you can download lightshot or some other newer equivalent, alt-alternatively you can go in steam options and toggle saving a local hard copy of screenshots if it isn't already on, then go to where they're locally saved and use that

>>542996782
Basically every keyboard has a variation of it.

any good underwear mod? i'm thinking about kawaiiclothes but i don't know if it'll fuck up my compats
>>542996782
try impr pant petsis, or just pressing F12 if you're playing on steam, i think pressing f12 makes your screenshots look like shit tho, depends on resolution methinks

The transmission of the fogmen's parasite is kept pretty vague... here's my idea:
>fogmen transmit their parasite to captured hivers with bites until they die, changing them to fogmen themselves (deleted and fogman of corresponding race spawned in place on pole) and executing others while worshiping the prince executing non-hivers ritualistically (or maybe they all beat them to death with sticks in a frenzy like the cult village)
As far as I'm concerned this would be canon behavior if the game was finished or if they could have figured out how to get it working, like how aren't they all died out by now? They're gone permanently when you clear the deadhives caused by collapsing the western/southern hives, so they have to be coming from new captives in the foglands. Vain is right there, so they've got a steady stream of exiles bouncing off the HN and Shek/Swamp/Spiders right to them.

That or the fog itself turns hivers into fogmen, as the fog mask directly states "negative effects". Turning a player hiver into a fogman with weather effects is a lot more likely to be in the 'couldn't figure out how to get it working' department. Honestly, there should be more acknowledgement of how the hivers are a nuke waiting to happen with their volatile susceptibility to a terrible disease... not even the heroes league mentions it, so maybe it's not well-known. I'd expect them to be top of the list including 'diseased' among their insults. I bet if the HN knew more about the fogmen (or cared to) they'd have all hivers on the kill list with skeletons. All it takes is one of multiple queens dying and you've got zombies.

>go to Tora the gutless as Ruka
>She acts like I still have my horns and attack
Shit game

>>543010609
Dark skinned shek just look better. Good contrast with heir horn bits.

>>543010609
having Torah the gutless go "oh! you're just like me :)" and join your party would give you a mid stat character simply for having ruka, who is free... at least you have to pay for kang
she is also a violent bandit who has led other violent bandits to kill others, so she would be unlikely to give up her thus-far successful vendetta to haul iron around or whatever you'd have her doing
the bounties you can recruit make sense like the more reasonable guys sitting in tengu's vault, but I don't see her taking pity even on someone she can relate to - even then you could prybar it, does recruitable prisoners not work? I find it too cheesy but you could use that and only take her and a handful of her minions before it collapses, in this case it makes a lot of sense she'd join ruka after losing to her anyway and having her own gang fall apart

Hatemonger mod when? Hatemarch on Kenshi when?

I've started giving my enemies cheap robot limbs so they can limp away instead of hanging around legless by my gate.

>>543014531
How kind of you. Someone else would turn those enemies into dog food.

Esata and her daughter are nothing but human loving traitors... The west has fallen, flying bull was right...

>>543007261
>parasite theory
Based off a recent statement from one of the knowers... there's a chance the parasite will be relegated to heresay and an outsider assumption of what's happening to the Fogmen.

I land on the second option, i.e.:
>That or the fog itself turns hivers into fogmen
Though this is not so straightforward as the statement implies. Rather, there are multiple classifications of Hivers we can find in and out of the Fog. Those being:
>Western Hivers, connected to the Queen's pheromone network, never willingly entering the Islands themselves -- (they do however encourage adventurers to enter and explore)
>Mongrel-aligned Hivers, all of which can be presumed to be exiles, whether considering for Beep or the Hivers in the town guard, none are a part of the West
>Player-aligned Hivers, who are also exiles as a matter of course, therefore in a similar situation to those of the Mongrel-aligned Hivers
>Lastly, the Fogmen, who have no clear origin, are endless in number, and are primarily restricted to the Fog at the game start

What I believe is going on is something that the West encountered and has "taken advantage" of over time. That being, when a Hiver with functional pheromone receptors enters the fog, they are forcibly disconnected from the pheromone network, thereby emulating the physiological response to a Queen's death. This emergency response and the inhibition of the receptors doesn't occur in exiles who have seen that aspect of their biology deactivated / rendered inert, such that they do not succumb to the feralizing effects exposure to the Fog has upon loyalists. Which in turn means the Western Hive is the true source of the Fogmen, caused by the Queen purposefully sacrificing healthy Hivers to the Fog. Why? Proxy war with the Okranites.

>>543023519
>Based off a recent statement from one of the knowers
QRD?

>>543024861
Nothing serious. Shidan, who is a long time volunteer Steam moderator, occasionally gets bits and pieces of info leaks. He suggested recently that the parasite lines should be seen as "old lore" and an early inclusion in what was an unsettled aspect of the world - the origin of the Fogmen.

>>543025761
lol they're totally going cross-species for zombies and retconning it

>>543026220
Doubt it'll be cross species zombies.
Unless they wanna give a singular explanation for fogmen and cannibals, but seems pointless.

>>543023519
My headcannon is the the fogmen, shrieking bandits, and the cannibal are all caused by a dangerous excretions from the trees in the shrieking forest, which slowly degenerate genetics with prolonged exposure. Cannibals are the result of prolonged human exposure (who then migrated out of the forest) the shrieking bandits are first generation victims and fogmen are the genetic deterioration of hivers. I guess you could even blame it on the berserker plains too, but the face the berserkers are down in the shek kingdom makes that a stretch.

My in-game source? The Shrieking Forest has an orange smog over it and I saw that once when I had bad allergies, and I haven’t trusted it ever since.

>>543026895
The region provides ample reason to believe the ground, plant life and potentially air is contaminated. Most of the denizens of the northwestern regions have gone feral in some regard. Be it the red trees of the Cannibal Plains, the crazy overgrowth in the Shrieking Forest, the lagoon of industrial waste in the Floodlands, the actual lake of metal in Obedience and the possibly toxic fog in the Islands to the south. And who knows what was happening in the northern labs - since they may be connected to the devolution of humanoids we're seeing. The whole damn area is a shitshow almost worse than the Ashlands.

>>542502924
he still helps to make some mods (i guess the same goes for boron and his possie at the discord server) but every time i get a ping from his server it's some kind of third party shill that nobody cares about, only reason i'm still there is if i ever need the modding resources for making something of my own

>>542973459
this is the kind of shit worldstates say to you when you try to speak with them

>download way too many mods
>check the hub
>10 naked voluptuous toy chikas congregated infront of the thieve's tower
>waiting
>judging
maybe i should see what i download before i do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0KZPLtsbSU

>It's impossible.
>No one knows why...
>In spite of this... it looms above us.
>A tether to the sky.

>>543039979
Don't let them catch you during the night.

>>543039979
Should've been the Cryptiacurves version.

Post generic recruits that you made into something cool.
I'll also accept uniques with randomized appearances.

>>543052849
Sligs in Oroboros armor sets and with heater crossbows.

>>543053878
What are thoooose

>>543054652
Sligs. They love guns. They love to shoot things with guns. They are cool.

>>543053878
little squid squad is much good

>>543055413
>Guns
They do look cool, but...

>>543055512
They are funny fellows.

>>543055536
GUNS!

>>543055413
>>543055858
If you framed it as an airgun, sure. An improved crossbow system which can fire *smaller* projectiles such as darts (as compared to crossbow bolts) and BBs. Given their smaller stature a minified adaptation of the ranged weapon technology would make some sense.

>>543053878
>>543055413
>>543055858
I came into this thread to ask a question to see if I want to try this game again but I'm not going to ask, I'm just gonna play as a slig and collect more sligs this is so fuckin cool. Love these niggas to death

>>543056371
They shoot bullets from their guns. Their guns make loud gun noises. Their guns are awesome.

>>543058005
My sligga!

>>543066684
I can't accept this.
This does not fit Chris' vision.

beep

Really can't believe no one's made a projectile blocking/dodging mod.

>>543081635
>nerfing crossbows
waiter I would like my lobster with less butter
let's just remove the extreme damage and flying limbs from MA while we're at it

>>543082825
If it came with martial arts actually having proper blocking, I'd take that deal

>>543081635
I think you'd still have the problem with stunlocking due to how rapid fire some crossbows are.

>>543081635
game's limits?

GURGLEGURGLE

>>543084815
Yeah but it'd be cool as fuck.

>>543087716
Most likely.

>Welcome to the team, bud. Here's a little piece of hash. Go to fatlag's dune, do some hot knives, get stoned and get the fuck to work
>Worst case ontario there's a couple of break flings on the way, just run away from them and bring it all back, we get paid, basic supply and command
>The stupidest thing is that the people who make the beagle crosses don't even check with the people who make the shop doors. All they have to do is make the doorway smaller than the crossbow, then you can't get it out

>>543066884
you'd have to retrofit it a lot because chris is a hack that won't let us have nice things
>weapons work with compressed air/like very advanced crossbows because gunpowder isn't a thing
>they're super edited humans or otherwise native to this planet because ayys don't exist in kenshi (supposedly)
the rest of the oddworld mod fits decently if you fix it with these guidelines too, just gotta get rid of the mudokon's spiritual thing because magic isn't real (maybe abe isn't here or the magic of oddworld doesn't extend this far into the wasteland that is the kenshi moon)
otherwise they're pretty on model, ugly but highly detailed, grimmy critters that look like they've been punched in the face

>>543116954
In an expanded world, encountering elements of what comprises Oddworld (yeah, minus the magic) wouldn't be too hard to recontextualize to Kenshi. Something between a fishman and skeleton prosthetic enthusiast / body modifier. They could be mocked up as people who used to wander largely unbreathable environments so the masks were made to keep what they couldn't replace (their lungs) with an external rebreather.

>>543116954
No but honestly I agree with chris' vision in this case. The most I'd accept is primitive rifles, but only if you allow high defensive skill to be able to deflect bullets and arrows. Guns wreck sword stories, and if the AI wasn't retarded crossbows already would.

Why do we still play kenshi in 2025?

>>543120025
Because I didn't play it in 2024 or earlier.

>>543120025
Play? Not really. I just mod and make resources for doing.

>>543120025
because we're all too mediocre to make our own kenshi 2 with blackjack and hookers, a dude was making a kenshi like but it looks like it got stuck in dev. hell (did you guys know that making games is kinda hard)

>>543115885
This man looks familiar, but I can't recognize him.

>>543116954
Yeah, Oddworld stuff does fit Kenshi, minus the magic. Now I wonder if Chris played the Oddworld games...

>>543117765
Can't they just be isekai'd?

>>543119857
>if you allow high defensive skill to be able to deflect bullets and arrows
Fly to Bongstan, find Chris, and force him to finish Kenshi 1.

>>543120076
>Because I didn't play it in 2024 or earlier.
I can tell.

Is kenshi a game for losers? I only fuck Asian girls so I probably qualify as a loser.

>>543121849
Anon if you're having sex you can't be considered a loser.

>>543121849
I don't believe you. What was the last phrase said by the last Asian girl's mother at you?

>>543116954
I love the stranger and paramites models, their amazing. I used that one of my last playthroughs. The older models are okay, but some animations look wierd. I wish it was still being worked on.

>>543121849
Only winners here bud.

>>543121430
>Can't they just be isekai'd?
Sure. I was trying to roughly fit the character traits and mold the oddness into swordpunk. Much like the Star Wars mod (or any other franchise) you can dump basically any sci-fi faction into the sandbox.

>>543122418
She’s inside singing karaoke at this moment. Does that count?

>>543124316
>Much like the Star Wars mod (or any other franchise) you can dump basically any sci-fi faction into the sandbox.
list of games/brands/series that would fit into kenshi's aesthethic?
>star wars (whole mod dedicated to that, force may be a bit fucky in lore)
>oddworld, discussed itt
>griftlands really feels like a kenshi game based around the 2nd empire/post-kenshi 1 good future

>>543124616
>Does that count?
Almost - what was the last phrase she said at you in the presence of her daughter?

>>543126815
Fallout would be great in Kenshi's engine

>>543003383
asking for this again, incase anybody got anything
also any face mods that don't create compat. problems too, any would be nice

>>543128364
Something about the congee she cooked for me. I can’t really understand her.

>>543128425
Kenshi 1 or Kenshi 2?

>>543129072
There's only one Kenshi as of now and that's Kenshi 1 and it's the only one i recognize.

>>543121430
>I can tell.
I mean yeah I haven't played it enough time to get fed up with it and obsessively nitpick and whine about it and the upcoming (?) sequel here but I don't know if that's really an L.

If these fuckers showed up on Kenshi - what would they do with the moon?

>>543129183
Being quite frank we don't know much about the second game. We've had seven years to sit around and speculate. There's nothing there to nitpick and whine about in a tangible sense, it's just a pile of promises and some official media.

>>543130227
Fair. The official media's old now but it looks nice.

>>543129674
>oddworld inhabitants
turns into that discarded RTS where you have the tree huggers vs the industrialists, full on war on the moon of kenshi with the rest of the factions taking different sides
>more realistic scenario
they outgun and outforce every major faction, if they don't bicker with eachother for long enough the moon of kenshi would turn into a barren marble in about 10 years
>lo-fi games
crashlanded private colony ship with young queens (mudokon, glukon, sligg) and oddworld fauna falls somewhere in the world (shot down by venge?) and they go into dissarray trying to make it survive so they lose most of their hi-tech (or it gets scattered across the population as super rare better than aicore tech stuff), they build an industrial complex at the northwest and turn it into a mini deadlands, if they don't set up at the deadlands to begin with and build trainways to send their products directly to the UC and some others, mudokons join rebel factions and keep cockblocking the glukkon expansion while sliggs turn into swords/guns for hire, every gluk for himself in this new unexplored land
>lo-fi games (realistically)
slavers that have multiple settlements set up around most big nations (other than the holy nation) with their queens well guarded in new-nollybab, sligg slaver raids for everyone, tons of expensive (but plentiful) caravans, you can ally them but there is no settlement takeovers nor vanilla way to recruit them, mudokons on the other hand can take over every ''bad'' faction including the holy nation for some reason, just because they're the underdogs

Man I really love how this mask looks on skeletons. It's taken a lot of willpower not to just put it on every skeleton on my faction.

>>543130951
final footnote before devolving this into oddkeng central, i love how they managed to make molluks look so human in their expressions while keeping them as obviously aliens, it's all in the wrinkled skin, frown and unamused lips, really sold the whole ''corporate overlord cartel'' vibe

>>543132263
The art direction, and the art style, are very important for games. Graphics is merely the spice on top of art style.

>>543137603
Thank goodness they're focusing on what matters. Visual fluff and hardware tax.

>>543139969
>sovl vs sovlless
I will beat you with a dried cactus for your failed attempt to be witty on this Mongolian throat-singing forum. You know exactly what I meant by "art style is imporant", you mouth breathing ape. Now go buy Kenshi shirts - Nat's cats are hungry.

>>542460472 (OP)
Hi I'm new to Kenshi. If there is one thing you want me to do at the start of the game, what will it be?

>>543147716
>If there is one thing you want me to do at the start of the game, what will it be?
go to the foglands

>>543147716
Sniper Valley.

>its another case of a modder fucking with something out of the scope of his mod
>now have to sort through list and trouble shoot each mod till I find that faggot
I HATE MODDERS
FUCK YOU
FUCK YOU

What do you do with your old bases when you start up new ones?

>>543153909
whats the changes? I've come across some of these on really popular mods. i might kno

>>542460472 (OP)
How feasible would it be to make my player town into a mod that spawns in all my future playthroughs as an NPC town. The NPCs of course being my old player characters?

>>543155532
I don't know about the NPC population part, but but as I understand it adding your town as a mod is reasonably simple.

>>543147384
Nat's allergic to cats.

>>543155532
Its not hard, pretty easy.
- Create mod file in fcs with unique name
- in game on your current save, press "shift + f12" & save the town with the unique mod name you created.
- Go to plastic surgeon and export your characters sliders "bod2" file and move a copy of them from the "data/character/bodies" folder into your new mod with the town
- create all the residents in fcs with the .bod files in your new mod folder selected with the stats they had in the last game. make them the residents. Look at a vanilla town to figure out how it works.
- Maybe make them possibly recruitable if you want, use in game dialogue examples for how to do that.

Would be cool if one could save a town's "blueprints" as a mod, so they'd be designated to be built, but you'd still need the materials to do it.

What are the most essential mods?

>>543132263
they simply sent their concept artist to a JP Morgan Chase branch and had him sketch out management

>>543161875
Enhanced Vanilla armor, slopeless and better storage, for me. Also, Nice Map.

Why do the UC women keep writing weird books about "milking" the shek males?

>>543166987
Because the ones in the Holy Nation aren't allowed to read.

>>543166987
>>543167758
if i start seeing blacked edits with shek symbolism istg

I do play with larger spawns and population but these fuckers right here are like fogmen
Near constant stream of them hanging around my base, I'm in permacombat because they never retreat, they just get their grasses kicked, then as soon as they recover they attack again, until they lose a leg or die. And before all of them are dead a new squad of them will probably walk in.

Amazing place to train basic combat skills though.

>>543168306
I am here since around december of 2018 or January of 2019 - I have yet to see one of those usual creatures that plagues popular generals. I did see, ironically enough, someone that tried to project himself of being a shek male that loses his females to the Holy Men - full on racial self-hatred and whatnot. /keng/ is a magical place in this regards.

>>543160167
Aight thanks man. This will suit my autism pretty well.

>start game
>barman sells me everything i need at hub
>after dragging some alien cows to have the trade ninjas fight, barman is unconcious
>kidnap to put barman to bed so they can recover faster
>get caught
>run away
>can no longer trade with barman as the cursor turns red and still hostile despite escaping
How do I fix this?

>>543173785
Go to a different town troublemaker.

>>543173785
>How do I fix this?
Do not break the laws.

>>543161875
256 Recruitment Limit if you like recruiting lots of characters.
Performance mods depending on what specs got. Compressed Textures Project, Clean and Speed, Less clutter, and Fastr are some good ones.
If you are adding mods for more unique races and for more animations, then you need the MEGA All-In-One Compatibility Pack. This is a great mod packed with compatibility patches for many mods, and it's regularly updated.
Lot of people hate the vanilla UI, so you might want Dark UI or Clean Grey UI.
Copper Ore Drills, just something that should be vanilla.
That's about it for what's really essential.

>>543161875
Check the list

Someone give me a playthrough idea. I started with the 5 nobodies yesterday and already have 20,000 cats and everyone equipped with basic gear. Now I'm bored. I'm thinking about doing a solo thief/nomad run. The problem though is that I feel like I've done everything in this game

>>543185401
Sounds like you need to take a deep dive in the workshop for mods.

>>543185878
I already do mod quite a bit. The problem for me is that the only fun parts of the game are struggling and breaking out of jails. I've done base building, I've done boss capture/killing, I've destroyed HN and UC before on different playthroughs, I've built a literal army before of 100 dudes and fucked up the entire map, and the only thing stopping me from a thief playthrough is that it is piss easy to be a thief in Kenshi. You can go from being in HN jail to 100,000 cats in about two hours.

>>543185401
- Exiled solo shek warrior, recruit a crossbow person and complete game with those two
- Crab Raider start, i did this and it was fun, start at crab village, set out for UC with a pack crab, recruit lumi.
- swamp playthrough, head to swamps, recruit green and stubs and two scorchlanders and do the gang stuff with the hounds & base.
- project kathun

beep

>>543147716
don't build a base until you have atleast 20 strong dudes, and even then don't settle down unless you can hire mercenaries to stay at your outpost
also buy a tech hunter map and go to whatever direction it reveals on your map

So quiet.

beep

>>543161879
Couldn't he just google the images of those creatures? It'd save him time and decency.

>>543126815
Afro Samurai is basically Kenshi with gunpowder.

>>543128612
>Underwear mods
I am sure some Chinese modders made at least a dozen by now, but since I don't look for such mods on a purpose I can't tell the names (they are written in Chinese, most likely)

>>543128840
>congee
Is it good?

>>543124043
Skeletons made sure there are no mobile phones and the Internet on Kenshi. Maybe the skeletons aren't that bad...

>>543120916
Good man.

>>543130552
>but it looks nice.
Are you a fan of the Nintendo games by any chance?

>>543229583
>Are you a fan of the Nintendo games by any chance?
No.

I over-salted soup. It isn't the first time I cook with my brain turned off. I should stop doing that.

>>543241759
can't over salt a dustwich

>>543243317
You reminded me that there is no salt industry on Kenshi. Chris has a retarded obsession with "no spices allowed". He is truly Bri'ish.

>>543253640
Awful.

I miss the old posters. They were fun. They loved fun. They posted their adventures. I hope they are okay.

Races tiered by what they say about you

*favorite races

>battle 1: 0\3 k\d on three vehicles
>battle 2: 10\0 k\d, on the same vehicles

Kenshi x War Thunder collab when?

tierlist makers are the biggest faggots of all.

>Animal shit all over the island
>Kenshians don't pick it for their farming needs, as peasants did historically
Chris could have excused the animal shit he placed all over the island in such simple and logical way, but he chose to just leave it as is. He must be a zoocoprofag.

>>543268001
Who says they don't?

>>543268161
given how shitty everywhere looks - it doesn't look like they know about farming much.

>>543273379
>Where do shek even get their food supply?
They dont grow crops, neither do hivers. Theres traders guild caravans in the hive and shek areas, so maybe them??

So they all get their food supplies from the United Cities or the swamps which are slavery dependent? Nomads atleast have livestock milk realistically.

>>543273379
Most places have farms though, the shek are retarded so they just tax smarter races for food.

>>543275437
>the shek are retarded so they just tax smarter races for food.
I mean they are kind of retarded but they don't farm because it's a loser thing to do in their culture, not because they're literally too stupid to.

>>543278015
>not because they're literally too stupid to.
Farming isn't as simple as heating a pre-cooked dish in a microwave oven. Merely tossing seeds on ground won't work. And given how the shek are too dense to learn from their mistakes...

>>543282673
Dense skulls turn blades, flatskin.

>>543265676
good bait, where is torso-only man at?

I like Kenshi. Any "build" works. In comparison with those retarded gachas, made for numbers-obsessed nerds who can't get a stiffie unless their team is fully meta - hence the gacha devs rotate the whole characters' creation process around those math obsessed imbeciles. Thanks, Chris. Your shitty, unfinished, buggy mess of a game has some positive moments sometimes.

hivers > skeletons > humans > shek
hivers are custom built for the planet and are interesting with their lore, I like using them and they fit perfectly into the game
humans are white bread but there's the donut OC flavor and it's cool leaning into their purity supremacist angle with all the other races around, they fill out the world well
skeletons are OP in gameplay and serve as a lore bottleneck but I don't like using them too much because they feel more like machines than people, usually just one in the squad to spit out exposition
shek are shit tier orcs and I find them annoying to use and talk to
>hrpmh hrpmh hrpmh. meet me outside town. give me one thousand meatwraps. what is this 'joy' you speak of? hrmph.

>>543292960
I meant to post this image, I haven't had dinner yet so my mind is psychically clouded

>>543275437
Theres no farming in the entire borderzone or shek areas? I guess borderzone crops would just get raided by dust bandits, shek or ninjas etc though. HN cities rely on 4 small farms but are largely cut off from traders guild and UC, also have varmints/river raptors to deal with.
>>543278015
I think some of lower class shek could be farmers, they atleast have traders guild & hive caravans though. From dialogue, alot of shek are almost servant level class i think.
>>543282673
Idk, i disagree with this respectfully. Farming isnt that difficult, but requires nutrient rich soil & water, something the borderzone and shek areas might lack, theres also probably realistically pests and disease/blight to think about that are realistic obstacles irl, why we have so many gmos in the real world. Swamps are nearby but they mostly just grow hemp/produce hash? Theres good desert crops irl, but kenshi kinda lacks crop diversity other than cactus, but meh

>>543294738
>Theres no farming in the entire borderzone or shek areas
Shek don't farm, and what else is in the borderzone? Bandits, Nomads and the independent ninjas that rely on raiding.

>>543294738
>Theres good desert crops irl, but kenshi kinda lacks crop diversity other than cactus, but meh
Less is sometimes more, there's mode than enough crops to serve as an abstraction for farming, same reason nobody needs to drink water, it's just understood to be part of food rations.

>>543294738
>Farming isnt that difficult
Tell it to several African countries, city boy. The sheks would sooner rediscover nuclear fusion than farming.

>>543295614
Fun fact : I once started a mod that added a man-eating slaver shek faction in Skinner's roam with slaver raids in some other parts of the world, but got bored when I realised I couldn't make the slaving part work like I wanted to. Basically, the slaves would work the field and get eaten once in a while. Their leader would have been a Shek supremacist with the IQ of a wild bull

>>543297350
There is nothing fun about the fact that Chris' incompetence stopped you from making a mod you wanted.

Chris' incompetence is the reason I didn't draw this morning like I said I would.

>>543295614
>>Tell it to several African countries, city boy
it’s terrain-dependent, theres soil degradation and lack of water. Muammar Gaddafi promoted "the great man made river project" in libya that is almost complete. Theres alot of solutions, but historically, African regions have supported massive crop diversity, millet, sorghum, cassava, yams, coffee, cocoa, bananas, palm, and more. I think rn the africa problem is more linked to philanthrocapitalism/corporate control via industrial mining & similar bs, power conflicts & industrial farming, many countries are encouraged to replace native crops with commodity staples like corn and onions rather than the stuff they have been growing for hundreds/thousands of years, which also happened in indonesia.
>rediscover nuclear fusion than farming.
Self-sufficiency in food and water was a pillar of freedom, the shek should want that. Your right though, they wouldnt do anything like that. "lets go try to kill bugmaster alone with no armour and a giant overized sword we cant even swing properly." "ooga booga, flatskins"

chris is the reason my back sore is weeping into my pillow. why does he let it happen

>>543300228
Tell that to the africans that inherited the farms expropriated from white farmowners and chopped down the fruit trees for firewood.

>>543301059
reminds me when farmers were looking for good kindling and came across a ancient tomb, then decided to slowly over time burn several ancient irreplaceable books & scrolls etc.

>>543301059
Haiti would be a great example too. First they killed "da witey" (they victims were f*ench, but still!), then the creatures on Haiti started killing mulatos - their own brothers and sisters - and now Haiti looks like Borderzone - they don't even have trees left. Almost 12 millions of people live like in Africa. Meanwhile their neighbors on the same island decided to... not kill the Europeans after going rogue from the European powers. The difference between the two halves of the island is night and day.

Perhaps Catlon thinks that all humans are like creatures from Haiti. Explains why Catlon went into hiding in the toxic south-east of Kenshi.

>>543301059
>>543301575
Haiti would be a great example too. First they killed "da witey" (their unfortunate victims were the F*ench, but still!), then the creatures on Haiti started killing mulatos - their own brothers and sisters - and now Haiti looks like Borderzone - they don't even have trees left. Almost 12 millions of people live like in Africa. Meanwhile their neighbors on the same island decided to... not kill the Europeans after going rogue from the European powers. The difference between the two halves of the island is night and day.

Perhaps Catlon thinks that all humans are like creatures from Haiti. Explains why Catlon went into hiding in the toxic south-east of Kenshi.

>>543301185
I doubt there will be any UK in 2030+

>>543300338
He does it because you refuse to buy Kenshi shirts.

>>543298648
Happens with the best of us.

>>543295376
>it's just understood to be part of food rations.
Not to worry, the modders added drinkable water and booze.

>>543293173
Lack of sleep can do that too.

>>543305336
>UK fashion is five years ahead of the US.
The UK will still exist, just more authoritarian, with tighter censorship, biometric surveillance. Just wait til Palantir begins ramping up. Expect jail time for posts, virtue signaling from the state and moral policing to enforce compliance. Mainstream media will push absurd narratives no one believes, but dissent will be dangerous. Big Brother is watching. No wrongthink.

>>543305336
>Not to worry, the modders added drinkable water and booze.
I do think it's more fun to manage water than not in desert / survival games, but I get Chris' point. If anything what I think is best about kenshi is they did a great job simplifying complex systems while maintaining the illusion of complexity.

>>543307704
I believe in the bongs, they will blow up the big ben if it comes to that.
At least they would, if they weren't replaced by muslims.

>>543312646
>Sounds like divide and conquer
Divide & conquer is a control strategy that breaks potential alliances by fostering distrust, competition or conflict among groups. It works by identifying fault lines using ethnic, religious, ideological or social & then amplifying them so that unified resistance becomes unlikely/impossible. In colonial contexts like British India, it meant deepening Hindu-Muslim divisions to prevent coordinated opposition. In prisons, it’s used to pit inmates against each other using race, gang affiliation, or status so collective action is suppressed & authority remains unchallenged.

>fractured groups are easier to manage than unified ones.

>>543327215
Nice

>>543307704
Sort of. Unless you're on the do not fuck with list. The same reason some people are scared to be tracked is one in the same as to why I know they don't dare bother me. They don't have all the answers - that's why they need to know everything about you. Control? By the grace of chasing pussy & putting up with women's obligations under the notion the social contract was in-tact people have played nice. Do you have any idea how vulnerable the power grid is? Do you really think running away to Singapore and New Zealand is enough? You should've listened to the doomsayers in the 90s. Nothing surprising is occurring.