Not really, though. If you dive into the world's lore you realize the Holy Nation is mostly right. The Shek are bloodthirsty retards only held back by their new leader, the United Cities are thugs in suits and the Skeletons, well. If you have a skeleton in your party NPC skeletons have rather different dialogue if you use your skeleton to talk to them.
Same reason I am mortified at the thought of importing the game.
you probably just need a mod which increases max amount of simultaniously engaged enemies to like 5 (from 1). with that hordes will do 5x damage.
There isn't, really. Once you've seen through the formula, there is no going back. Sure, you can alter the prices, but that just postpones your financial powerspike a bit. Haven't you noticed that Kenshi isn't actually difficult, just very time consuming? Combat is 'your numbers vs. my numbers' for the most part, only crossbows mix it up by being pretty broken with how movement and combat works. The only thing you can do is limit yourself, which is a shitty way to play any game. While I had fun with Kenshi for a good 100 hours or so, that's the thing that keeps me from going back. Even if you don't steal shit or you don't build a base to generate infinite money, the only gold sink in the game is food. And food is easy to come by, even if you'd increase the prices to a ridiculous amount.
Lethality just affects the speed with which damaged limbs deteriorate / blood loss occurs, which in turn is offset by the toughness stat. You'd just make it slower to get through early game while late game remains largely unaffected. If you increase the attack slots, that mixes up how you play the game, because the amount of people you have in your army has an even greater effect. Which would make fights harder when you're outnumbered and fights where you outnumber the enemy considerably easier, think of the Bugmaster or Cat-Lon. Also, I think animal type enemies would be even more of a hassle than they are in vanilla, enjoy those Beak Thing AoE attacks when 5 of them can attack one dude at once. The AI can't deal with AoE attacks, and since every attack causes a bit of AoE because the hitboxes are tied to the animations themselves I don't think this would make for a particularly good experience. If the game had something like poise or stagger resistance this might work, but since basically every attack that deals more than 1 or 2 points of damage staggers you, well.
all stuff which can be tweaked, not really a broken, hardcoded mechanic.
On the other hand, I don't know how much is possible with the tools the devs have provided. For example, people have tried for a long time to get a 'finish off downed enemies' type mod working, but all they've come up with so far are crappy workarounds that add items to every NPC that cause death when removed, like with the Fog Princes and their heads or with animals. Needless to say that this is suboptimal because it causes slavers to kill anyone they try to enslave since they take away everything in your inventory. It seems you can only modify what's already in the game or repurpose some mechanics but adding entirely new things, like biome effects that are independent from weather effects or thirst seem to be impossible for now. Maybe some code wizard cracks the game's code and provides the community with some sort of script extender but I wouldn't hold my breath.
