Kenshi - open-ended sandbox RPG set in a desert world

[TheEntitledOne]

Is it safe to KO shop vendors in their sleep and steal all their shit while they are unconscious? If no one witnesses, will they be mad at me when they recover?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Props on hauling in those bounties. I considered making a run at the Bugmaster but all of my characters are lightly armored glass cannons. An army of spiders is not a good style matchup -- in fact the other day I made a run at the Tower of Spiders and got absolutely wrecked.

You might try running or sneaking past some of the spider hordes. When I approached the Bugmaster's Citadel, there were two spider hordes nearby, and I knew that if I fought one the other would soon join the combat, but I was able to exploit the gap between them to reach the citadel without either pursuing.

Is it safe to KO shop vendors in their sleep and steal all their shit while they are unconscious? If no one witnesses, will they be mad at me when they recover?

I know that if a shopkeeper is aware of your theft, they will hold a grudge against you and refuse service, but I'm not sure what happens if you knock them out before robbing them blind. Try it and find out!

 

[Sheepherder]

Is it safe to KO shop vendors in their sleep and steal all their shit while they are unconscious? If no one witnesses, will they be mad at me when they recover?

Asking for a friend.

Be careful about KO'ing people in UC towns. Slavers and manhunters might pick them up and leave the store empty. It happened more often when I left the town and let it unload before the shopkeeper woke up after a KO.

 

[Saduj]

Raided the Reaver base, Ark, last night.

One thing I hadn't realized is that when you are indoors, your characters will pull their backup weapons. Makes sense for characters with big weapons that have indoor penalties. But, my backup weapons are significantly worse than my main weapons and I didn't realize that this would happen until well into the battle. Didn't cause me to lose but next time I will be more careful.

Some bad screenshots:

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The Reavers really aren't as strong as other factions in the area and the most challenging part was getting twenty characters controlled by Kenshi AI to go all the way up the two story ramp. In this shot, I still have seven or so guys trying to go after Reavers outside the base. As long as the combat lasted, I had characters trying to leave the building to go fight unseen Reavers outside. And at times the Reavers were reinforced by returning patrols.

My best fighter squaring up against Valamon. He is significantly outclassed and fighting with a Skeleton Smiths III longsword instead of his Edge 3 Falling Sun.

Luckily, he soon had plenty of help. Miu, a martial artist, is doing some crazy kung fu move in the background.

Valamon's stats.

Valamon's Meitou longsword. Yes, I am autistic about my guys having food and medical supplies. Those thinfish have been passed around from character to character for well over 100 days...

Victory! Looting this place was a pain in the ass due to returning patrols and my guys trying to leave to aggro on dudes outside any time combat was going on inside. Eventually it slowed down, but I still didn't do a very thorough job and only found one CPU unit and some Skeleton Smith/Catun weapons.

The journey to turn in Valamon for the 50K reward was not so bad. Three grass pirate patrols and a beak thing nest.

Bosses I've turned in for bounties and the weapons they dropped:

Dust King - don't remember
Tower of Ninjas Boss - Meitou Ninja Blade
Screamer the False - Meitou Heavy Polearm
Ponk - Meitou Holed Sabre - I didn't turn in him and Screamer. They might still be alive even.
Swamp Ninja boss - Skeleton Smiths III guardless katana - and actually by the time I figured out which one was her, she was dead
Red Sabre Boss - Meitou Horse Chopper
King Gurgler - Meitou Combat Cleaver
Preacher - Meitou Moon Cleaver
Valamon - Meitou Longsword
Gorillo Raiders Boss - Meitou Plank

 

[Tovias]

Raided the Reaver base, Ark, last night.

One thing I hadn't realized is that when you are indoors, your characters will pull their backup weapons. Makes sense for characters with big weapons that have indoor penalties. But, my backup weapons are significantly worse than my main weapons and I didn't realize that this would happen until well into the battle. Didn't cause me to lose but next time I will be more careful.

Did you notice something peculiar from Gorrillo's weapon?

 

[Sheepherder]

Does anyone know where I can find a meitou quality long cleaver?

 

[Lagole Gon]

So, how drastic is power growth in this game? Can you solo trash bandit party with a high level character?

I think I've learned all the basics, now I have to figure out what kind of game I want to play. I'm thinking about "rock bottom", but Best Faction doesn't like prosthetics :/

 

[Tovias]

So, how drastic is power growth in this game? Can you solo trash bandit party with a high level character?

I think I've learned all the basics, now I have to figure out what kind of game I want to play. I'm thinking about "rock bottom", but Best Faction doesn't like prosthetics :/

Kenshi is a really good game to feel the power growth that your character goes through. From running away at the sight of hungry bandits to wiping them out as soon as you see them from pure fun.

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[Saduj]

Did you notice something peculiar from Gorrillo's weapon?

Other than the tremendous weight and damage? What am I missing?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Does anyone know where I can find a meitou quality long cleaver?

According to the wiki,

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there isn't a Meitou long cleaver, just a Meitou combat cleaver, moon cleaver, short cleaver, and paladin's cross.

 

[Tovias]

Did you notice something peculiar from Gorrillo's weapon?

Other than the tremendous weight and damage? What am I missing?

The description

 

[Lagole Gon]

I went with the regular starting scenario.

The great post-apocalyptic Wuxia saga begins!

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[Saduj]

Did you notice something peculiar from Gorrillo's weapon?

Other than the tremendous weight and damage? What am I missing?

The description

Oh I did see that. Is it just flavor or is there more to it?

 

[Tovias]

Did you notice something peculiar from Gorrillo's weapon?

Other than the tremendous weight and damage? What am I missing?

The description

Oh I did see that. Is it just flavor or is there more to it?

keep hunting bandit leaders and sooner than later you will find its owner

 

[Lagole Gon]

What's the optimal adventure party size? I have the classic six, thinking about seven.

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[Tovias]

What's the optimal adventure party size? I have the classic six, thinking about seven.

Heavily depends on your playstyle. Some people play the game with armies of 30 something or more. While others have a single martial artist.

 

[Obsequious Approbation]

IMO that's a pretty optimal setup you have there. Maybe you could invest in a pack bull (elder bulls pack a mean punch). My own party has recently swelled to 15+ after an influx of liberated slaves, which has made the game feel a little impersonal for me, like an RTS. I should undertake some big offensive against the holy boys so as to lose a couple of the less remarkable ones.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

to fix the impersonality there's all that "description" free space in every character sheet, every larper's dream. if only we could write in there...

 

[Lagole Gon]

World's coolest hunchback will be now the seventh and final member of my main party:

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This game is like crack cocaine... I should probably uninstall it for a bit.

 

[mondblut]

Hey guize, I've got myself a cool brick (and iron plate) factory. Look at it:

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

What's the optimal adventure party size? I have the classic six, thinking about seven.

I eventually settled on 8 for my adventuring squad, enough to haul off large amounts of loot and deal with tougher fights, but not too many to make micromanaging combat (more of) a chore.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

I eventually settled on 8 for my adventuring squad, enough to haul off large amounts of loot and deal with tougher fights, but not too many to make micromanaging combat (more of) a chore.

You micromanage combat? Wow. I never do that. Should I be doing that?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

You micromanage combat? Wow. I never do that. Should I be doing that?

You should be micromanaging combat as little as possible, but micromanagement is a means to make ranged weapons overpowering --- almost gamebreaking --- and to easily kill creatures such as the Beak Things that have slow, evadable attacks.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

You micromanage combat? Wow. I never do that

I limit combat management to switching between block and assault while my crew gangs up on superiors.

 

[Zanzoken]

Decided to invade a holy military base. Things got bloody:

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Good experience for the rookies, but I don't think it damages the opposing faction in a meaningful way unless you take out one of their leaders. So my next offensive will be to capture High Inquisitor Seta and pacify Stack.