250+ hours in, started a new playthrough as a skeleton again in the reboot start. It's been an epic playthrough, but then I realized - I've never started the game as a shek.
Wondering what everyone else's super basic part of the game they've never done is, especially with hundreds of hours clocked?
this is why he says beep so much
i kill three and then 4 more come from around the corner. Is it genuinely a fruitless task to try and save the poor hivers being eaten in this part of the hive.
If your computer can handle it without exploding, putting the max amount of enemies evolves the game into a grueling but satisfying management game.
For starters don’t start with these settings right away - change it when you have a good squad going.
In a normal game your city gets to the point where you amass way too many resources and you’re just bloated with raw material and no need for a lot of supplies. Well if you crank that up you’ll find yourself needing a lot of material and money flowing in and out.
The need for manpower is real. I needed to recruit waves of fighting squaddies, find ways to equip them, feed them and care of them. My city needs actually felt stretched as guards would get wounded and even die and would have to be replaced and rotated, food and medicine was always thin and repairs constantly needed. I actually benefitted from hiring parties of mercenaries just for bulk fighters and making allies helped when the UC would send 200+ fighters at my doorstep
Adventuring was also brutal and I’d have to escort the main squad with specialized fighters just in case things got messy and I’d build outposts everywhere to store all food and medicine they can’t drag back and fill it with beds to recover from all the brutal fights.
My city was composed of the following groups.
Laborers - self explanatory but they still received enough training to be in combat 30s so they can at least beat up animals
Crafters - self explanatory too - I had 3 armorers, 3 weapon smiths, 1 gunsmith, 2 engineers and 1 chemist.
Medical team - 2 full time doctors and a group of 3 characters who would run in and rescue people. During downtime they also repaired things.
Beast slayers - soldiers decked out in all the gear with bonuses towards killing beasts. They are very crucial at the start and cost effective.
Gunners - they wielded muskets (mod) which had high damage but massive reload. Decked out in pure mobility gear they were vital for thinning enemies but also dealing with the extremely dangerous modded fauna.
Gate Guards - armed with cleavers and the heaviest armor, they just stood at the gates and were the first line of defense against the enemy. Cleavers are a very all rounder weapon so they could handle most things and eventually churning out supplies for them became so streamlined.
Army - I made them train in every stat possible in order to be able to actively handle every threat offensively and defensively. Their stats were often in the 55-60 range. They were well equipped, medium armored and supplied. Taking 35 super trained troops to fish man island with hundreds of fishmen spawning was epic. They’d escort the adventurers and help in base assaults.
The most epic moment for me was during an assault by the holy nation the map showed 5 groups of enemies making their way to my base. It was easily 300+ soldiers and I figured even with the gate guards and the army not being pushovers it wouldn’t be enough so I recruited all the immediate mercenaries around me and led them to the base. I received reinforcements from the hounds and shek and they arrived just as the holy nation amassed during their monologue. There was open fighting across the entire grid. Limbs were lost, some troopers died as healing was stretched and medical was swarmed. I won of course but damn it felt like true genuine threat.
Im pretty sure like everyone that gets kenshi and enjoys it immediately becomes sleep deprived. I got it 6 days ago and have 72 hours, i go to bed at 5 and wake up at 8 😭. This game has genuinely turned me into a chud and this is coming from a person that would look at their steam library and give up after 5 minutes. Im pretty sure most ppl are like this at first right?
Anyone have any tips for a new person starting out? I know next to nothing about the game, I just watched a Youtuber play it and decided to get it after seeing the Hivers. It’s fun so far, but I haven’t really done much except run around buying drugs and reselling then at a high markup.
Before I found one prince, I found 3 southern hive soldiers and 1 southern hive drone. 3-4 hours of repeated imports with a person stationed at each slave camp in the north. Takes 3ish minutes per cycle so 80 imports as a rough estimate.
What mods do you guys like to play with. Well known or not.
I'm currently looking for an area to build a base for my squad, and I've been looking around for forever now with no luck. I'd simply like a place for my little farmers and exiles to escape to and live out the rest of their days in peace (besides the raids), with a view to behold alongside it.
The key features I'm looking for in a base are:
I'm willing to give up convenient iron and copper nodes for an area that meets all these features! I'll also work with whatever crops the land offers, too; they're not very picky eaters.
so for one thing. I’m several hours in and combat is still a harrowing ordeal. 90% of the time I’m desperately running away, and when combat is unavoidable/I get confident and try and take on the aggressor. there’s an extremely good chance that it’s going to be a total Wipe and I’m loading a previous save.
now I already have hit on the realization that more dudes will even the fight a bit. so now combat has a 75% chance of wiping out my entire group and a 25% chance only half will be KO’d and needing to be dragged to an “injury ward” (aka: bar/inn) and spending a day or two in recovery.
as you can imagine, this makes travel difficult, and making coin even harder. So far I’ve been having to make money by chipping at ore, or stumbling onto battlefields and scavenging the dead (once the victor moves on) and I’d like to have the option to either pick my own fights, or at least have the option to fight my way through an obstacle rather than flee from it and hope that it doesn’t give chase.
I figure better weapons and armor will help, (like an idiot I‘m over 5-hours in and only just now found where in the weapon’s stats it actually says how much damage it does) (armor stats are a bit… confusing, too much information and No idea what the data all means, I was busy running for my life during the tutorial). But also probably better skills would also probably improve my survivability, but that would require getting into fights, I think, does the training dummy I see in some NPC buildings actually help improve melee combat Skills? Or is it purely decorative?
Also, secondary question: after I was done with the camp bed, I dismantled it (so I could set it up somewhere else later). But couldn’t find the sleeping bag afterwards. I found and got back the fabric I used to make the mercenary tent after dismantling it. But not the sleeping bag. Is it normally destroyed after use? Or is there some known but infrequent glitch with the camp bed where it doesn’t always return the material components when disassembled? Or does it always give the sleeping bag back and I just lost track of where it spawned?
Hey guys,
Can some of you reccomand me mods for more Weapons and Armour sets ? something that still fits the kenshi vibe ?
My Guys start lookint all the same during mid/ early endgame and thats kinda boring.