Kenshi - A Sandbox RPG

put 17 hours into kenshi the last few days, love it. very stable game.

One of the few games where I continue to camp my own corpse hoping someone in the near by town saves my ass instead loading an autosave.

Only bummer is it does crash more than it should for a game supposedly out of beta.

Zapatta said:

One of the few games where I continue to camp my own corpse hoping someone in the near by town saves my ass instead loading an autosave.

Only bummer is it does crash more than it should for a game supposedly out of beta.

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That sucks. I got one crash in like 60 hours, most of those hours in long (10+ hour) sessions.

Avatar of Nyx said:

I picked this up over the weekend and it's...overwhelming. There's so much you're capable of doing I almost dunno where to start.

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One way to start is get a 5-10 man team equipped in basic gear, food and enough fighting ability to take on hungry bandits and those dog creatures. It's not trivial to achieve this.

Just turn your first dude into a marathon runner, by running across the map without any gear / burden.

After he gets etheopian, throw a rock at some enemies and kite them to the nearest city, you are now rich.

Tuco said:

One way to start is get a 5-10 man team equipped in basic gear, food and enough fighting ability to take on hungry bandits and those dog creatures. It's not trivial to achieve this.

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highly disadvise

you've boxed EQ too much

Punko said:

Just turn your first dude into a marathon runner, by running across the map without any gear / burden.

After he gets etheopian, throw a rock at some enemies and kite them to the nearest city, you are now rich.

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This is basically what I do at the start too, just I do it with 5-10 teammates. This makes carrying gear from corpses to vendor much more effective.

I do wish that I chose to be a thief at the game start though, because you need those skills later and I think it could've been lucrative in the early game. Oh well, I have a dude dedicated to lock-picking practice on chests now. Not sure if he can get skilled enough to unlock the chests I want without him practicing being a thief in cities or not.

Avatar of Nyx said:

So if I wanted to eventually build a base, what sort of progression path would I need to be focused on? I love base building and would rather level skills or do activities that will benefit me more in that direction.

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So, there are fundamentally two different ways to play kenshi:
1. Figure out all the shit for yourself with no outside information.

2. Look up optimal ways to do things, learn from other people and then execute a sensible strategy.


Obviously people fall somewhere in between. But Kenshi isn't that tough of a game once you understand it so if for your first playthrough you do #2 too much, you're really missing out on what makes it fun.


That being said, the most important attribute to having a good base is being able to defend it from random bandits that patrol over your territory. In some cases that might mean getting a decent group before base building, in other cases it might mean earning enough $$$ to hire mercs and build a decent defensive position in your base before bandits can show up.

In my playthrough I explored the fun possibility of building my base in the Holy Empire's amazing land while having a diverse party (humans, skeletons, turians and salarians). This helps because the holy empire patrols the area and kills any bandits, but then when they come to my base I have to play hide-the-jews with my skeletons, and then claim that my turians/salarians are my servants. I also have to keep their holy book in my inventory. But it's all fine, I shake their hand, give them a hug, they send me on my way and wish me luck. It's great.

So this is now on the Steam Top Selling list, pretty crazy to see this completed now and getting such good reviews

Caliane said:

I didn't feel the need to rain on anyones parade. But I'll jump in and say, I was not very impressed. I did put in a good amount of time over like a week. but then hit a point where I went, "is that all?" and uninstalled, and have not felt the need to come back ever. And actively, felt let down. Like the opposite of a rimworld/oxygen not included, where a new base is always an option.

The game is ugly as shit. its called a sandbox, but its kindof empty and shallow as hell. most of the games mechanics are really unsatisfying and practically exploits. Like, picking up your oxen in caravans to speed up... and this also builds up your str and run speed making your npcs gods, while you just tell them to run in circles to skill up. Leaving your characters afk, picking the same lock over and over to skill up, or stealthed in a room, to skill it up.

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I dunno how you can say, "Is that it?" to a game this massive that was built by like 5 dudes.

Heriotze said:

So this is now on the Steam Top Selling list, pretty crazy to see this completed now and getting such good reviews

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Good, it really is a gem of a game that I'm hoping gets a lot more traciton both so the devs get properly rewarded (and support the game longterm) and also so similar sandbox style games get made.

Pretty sure it was one dude for >70% of the time the game has been around.