Still I wouldn’t use it. Move your whole party and whoever is slowest is leader. Then set everyone to follow them. It’s tedious but if you use the running option they sometimes have different pathing which can result in death.
just wanted to point out that you can knockout in stealth mode any npc with the drifter tag without alerting the guards and if you fail the guards knock them out for you . extremely easy start with little to no danger and usable in any city.
After playing it.. It's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game. Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol. Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse. Update The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals. This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do. Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness. I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅
Items that you can scavenge from the shack in The Hub regenerate (randomly) every day or so after you clear them. Low price items to sell and sometimes food
Really good up to date info for this game. For anyone playing it new. I recommend just playing it and figuring it out your first(or second, maybe third) character. Dont feel pressured to push one character to its limits. Explore. Not just the map, but game mechanics. Then when you feel comfy for your early game, come back and watch this video. Try to test these things with a test character you have just for figuring out the kinks. Then watch this guy's next video. Then spend the next 360 hours trying to master it mwahahaha. Trust me though, it is fun. Lastly a cool tip. Guards dont search Goats. So yes you can smuggle "whatever" in your goats.
While it is a single-player game and people should play it whichever way they choose to, for beginners I don't think messing with the hunger rate is something that should be encouraged. While it can seem tedious at times in the beginning, the game feels a little more immersive when you have to worry about feeding your characters and it encourages base building to have a sustainable source of food production. For 1+n playthroughs where you just want to try a certain build/ideas and don't want to have to worry about eating, sure, go nuts. But for 1st time playthrough, playing the game the way it was intended would be my recommendation. Just my 2c.
This is what I'm doing for my 1st play thru. I only got the dark ui and slopeless mods turned on for now and won't use more until I feel I've played enough
Cant wait for the next episode, just picked up the game and I've had a blast so far Evan though I'm lost as a dog 99% of the time the other 1% I decided to mine copper 😂😂
Unfortunately, it's 's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game. Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol. Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse. Update The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals. This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do. Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness. I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅
@@condorX2 unfortunately you're just a crappy gamer. If a game was ruined for you because you couldnt scroll with just the mouse, that excludes you from any credibility required to review a game. Its definitely not a game for everyone, very niche, but your bizarre conspiracy suggestions and clearly inadequate ability to assess a game demonstrate no one should take your review seriously. I get it. You're 12 and upset you spent money on a game you dont like, get over it. Your inability to understand a game's mechanics doesnt mean you should bad mouth it to the extent you bring up fake reviews lol. Maybe not everyone else is wrong... maybe it's you. Worth thinking about.
@@condorX2 i think its really fun, just mine some copper and try to fight some animals. No quests is kinda meh but you can become a bounty hunter, steal, enslave, trade or just murder people
@@condorX2 you can look with middle mouse button.... There are "quests" in the vanilla version, you just never found them. Mostly they have to do with faction combat..although there are a few scattered here and there that arent related to the big factions. Once youve beaten all the challenge encounters and maxxed your tech tree, youve won the game being the most powerful faction on the continent. Its not an easy game, for sure....to take on the big stuff, youll need Meitou or Edge 3 weapons and master crafted armors..
I was able to get into a game and honestly I’m super stacked now just from building a base my first play through. it’s just about using mercenaries correctly to grind in the early game and setting up somewhere for easy trade runs. And once I got walls and crossbows the grind was easy af for good gear
It's a fantastic game! So many possibilities for play, building a base, exploring, and taking on factions the possibilities are endless and the challenges grow with you!
Hey great video! Very helpful for me as a new player, looking forward to your content. Easy to understand and very helpful highlighting of the details your talking about, thanks heaps
Better tip: Don't use the match speed option instead have everyone follow the slowest member. Match speed has resulted in a split party and the loners getting picked off often enough I recommend against it. Following the slowest member will have everyone follow the leaders pathing instead of making their own. Side note if attacked on the path the leader may keep running past the fight.
AI -> formation -> military Also, what you mentioned happens because of the squad member selection sometimes bugging out after loading sections; so you can accidently ungroup them and some dudes will run faster They can also just do that on their own after loading
Here's something I did as a kenshi beginner that made the game twice as approachable without necessarily making it easier. I turned the hunger timer all the way up so my characters hardly ever have to eat, and then balanced that out by self-imposing a rule on myself that I would never make a single coin by just mining ore and selling it. The lure of the mines is really strong for me as a new player because it's free money without hardly any risk, but I found myself having to resort to it constantly just so I could by food for my squad. With this setting and that self-imposed rule, I could focus on discovering better ways to make money and get food that are more fun than just watching my guy whack a stone for hours.
Weight of the weapon is only a factor insomuch as how much encumbrance it puts on you.. The stats are actually grown from the damage types and amount of damage from weapons. Use one like the polearm, and both your str and dex will increase when you swing it and connect. All Cut = dex, all blunt = str. This is why falling sun is roundly considered the best vanilla weapon, once you get the STR to swing it at full combat speed.(88 i think). Polearms/Heavy Polearms are arguably the best starter weapons and can carry you to end game...both damage types, huge reach, not really heavy and armor piercing.
Heavy weapons only care that you have twice their weight in strength, otherwise you get a hefty combat speed penalty. This also means to have extra strength so when you take damage you don't immediately go under your strength requirement.
It's a shame you can only get good Polearms from the Scraphouse, so if you're trying to equip a squad with them, you pretty much have to make them yourself.
I once have had build a 'stock' room in the hub where you put downed bandits inside to heal and be a bloodbag, the goal is to train my martial artists hero there. What a weird savage farming scheme. XD
another tip no one mention Bar thug in bar didn’t count as citizens so If you sneak and thunk them the guards in the bar will help you fight them off then you can loot thug gear afterwards standard grade dustcoat,blacken chain shirt,plated drifter pants,drifter boot and low grade nodachi perfectly good gear for starting the game
I like to use the copper node over by the rebel base to the east of the Hub, because i find that more enemy patrols go through there and you can see them coming, and you can sell goods and use the Shinobi guards there for defense.
Got Kenshi 3 days ago, started following it on UA-cam maybe 10 days ago; yes I knew all the basics, painfully obviously from the tutorial tooltip popups and reading. ..
My favorite spot for wanderer start actually Hive Village next to the hub, for one purpose collecting skin from Baek Thing, and train armor crafting skill with that. Btw you can't out run baek thing so beware of situation first before baiting them to hive village, Baek thing can become good partner for training MA in early game but only with other hive hit that baek thing if not you will die. For new player of kenshi, you want to know how OP Martial Arts are? With strength 94, And Though 97, and Martial arts 80, dodge 80++, you can solo elder Leviatan(HP over 5K for each limb) with proper technique(Movement and position technique), for other weapon that will be hard unless in team battle. oh yeah, high level MA really graphic more than any else weapon when against bandit.
Just got this game. Wasn't sure what start to do. I picked the 5 guys one. Figured more people to fight if I get in trouble. I wasn't sure what to do when I started the game, so I roamed around for awhile. Then my dudes were getting hungry. I saw nothing to fight, until a pack of goats roamed by.... I got my ass handed hard lol. Death by goats, would play again 10/10!
Played the game back when we only had the Holy Nation territories, today I learn about group running. I've always just had my squad run to a short distance place to see who the slowest
I just bought the game and about to start my first game. I am hoping to learn it, it does look complicated and i unfortunately have 2 x extreme brain damage so i am not the smartest tool in the shed. But i am going to give it my best try.
It just takes time, rome wasn't built in a day, and this game won't be mastered in a day either no matter who you are. But it is a blast to learn and enjoy as you get better! Enjoy 😉
Chance of stealing isn't dictated by stealth, but by thievery. Thieving from container has a chance of you getting caught, stealing things on tables and such is always at 100% success rate: steal those to train. Kenshi can be finnicky, and sometime characters don't seem to pathfind right or just starve themselves to death with food in containers. Use CTRL+SHIFT+F12 to fix pathfinding issues. The "move at the same speed" button has the very deprecable habit of spreading your group all over the map if you don't stay there watching them, so use it only if you're doing just that. If you move a group and want to do other things than babysitting it while they travel, make all "Follow" order the slowest member: it can still fail if they encounter hostiles, but it's more consistent.
Any time you find a settlement or waystation press the Alt key several times, by default, to highlight signs and look for a Bar. You can also left click on any building and see a description of it in the lower left of the screen. Bars will have at least some food for sale. Just don't load up on it in the early game as hungry bandits will beat you up and steal it.
1:10 in or so. I'll give some pushback on 'Food Early'. In the early game, Food is Money. In the Mid to Late, since you are growing it, Food is Time. Now to be fair, Time is Money... I go bang on Rocks for an hour to Sell the Ores to buy the Food. But the idea with Farming is it is more efficient, I'm not needed to be doing the action constantly, just see to the upkeep here and there. So I can Farm... AND go bang on Rocks for an hour. And now I have Food, so I don't have to turn that Ore into Food, that Ore can turn into other things that advance me. So in the Early Game, on Default Hunger, if you aren't bringing in the Money you aren't Eating. Everything revolves around making enough to eat... and a lot of food is EXPENSIVE.
That's why Thievery is so strong in Kenshi. Many Bars will have some scraps of food in the barrels on their rooftops, and it is easy to creep behind them, enter Stealth, and grab some food without a guard seeing you. If Thievery really isn't your thing the Prospect button in your friend. Find some Iron, or better yet some Copper, near a city and mine it. You can leave up to 5 units in the ore pile as you work, only grabbing all 5 when you're done and check your surroundings for safety.
When playing as a noob, I was so angry with myself having slammed the keyboard and yelled profanities multiple times that I instantly felt like disliking this video just from seeing it, nothing personal, but it was actually really helpful so I will instead like your video. Hopefully, I will get good now. Anyway, that was my initial kenshit experience.
Pro tip: the game actively encourages and rewards doing things wrong. Example: fist fighting fighting while injured, in heavy armor, overburdened as a novice against a trained assassin. The resulting gauging of your booty hole will sky rocket your stats in strength, dexterity, dodge, martial arts, and toughness. Always get your character up when they are playing dead and even better try to sneak up and knock out the guy that that left you as a sun dried pretzel moments ago. Just don’t do it near any slaver caravans or you’ll experience the Kenshi tutorial mission.
Oh man, seeing all the things i modded out of the game makes me sick a bit. But its so much easier on the micromnanagement. When I see the unstackable items, I'm know why I modded it :D
I play solo. My first goal is to buy a house and have a second character literally mine for their whole life. Passive income encourages me to explore and learn combat.
Personally I think that the Hub is a bad starter town, you have only 2 bars (1 inside and 1 outside) near the town with very little cats available, that is why I tend to move directly to Squin, loads of iron and copper, but also 2 bars and several stores, one of which sells backpacks.
huh.. its good to know I never stood a chance at winning a single fight early on .... I've died so many times and been knocked out so many times ... and the weapons ... good to know what weapons I should be using or trying to use.. this game is really hard to get into .. especially when you lose every single fight .. and still dont understand why guards keep randomly attacking me though .. when I try to go into a building .. or if i stand next to a shop thats closed to wait for it to open .. then they just randomly start attacking me ... and what armor should you try getting early on? to give you a better chance at surviving ?? light medium or heavy?
Great questions and it is so difficult! If you're in a holy Nation city and you are anything other than a Greenlander male, then the guards will attack you, otherwise unless you're trying to break in or you're wearing an enemy faction uniform (unlikely, it says this clearly under the item name) than im not sure what could be going on. As far as armor goes get an item that doesn't have too many harmful effects (ie sneak .60) but does have 100% coverage to different body parts, or close to it - just make sure to prioritize the critical body parts 😉. Otherwise just keep training your stats in fights! And shameless self plug - I have a two other videos which might give some context to Kenshi and I think are worth checking out - hope to see you around again! - Cheers
@@TheModishGamer cheers, I need all the help I can get.. This game is so overwhelming I never really play these type of games either. I think I'm slowly getting the there, but so much I still dont understand and I'm still struggling with
In Squin, there's a guard that occasionally picks up a fight with you out of nowhere. Most newbies get off guard by this, since Squin is usually one of the first cities they visit, and if you don't have your character is off screen when this happens, it os hard to understand what is going on.
Good content, clear explanation, and easy to listen to and follow. You have a great voice for tutorials, too. Only recommendation I'll make is to not beg for likes or subs. You did so three times in the video and it's a bit of a turn-off. I know you're trying to grow the channel, but just keep making good content and it will stand on its own. That being said, liked and subbed.
Eager to see the next one. Because it's GONNA happen, a guide on what to do when the slave traders get you would be nice. I spent three days locked in prison of the Holy Nation (my character was a filthy woman!) and was VERY lucky to escape. Still unsure how I pulled it off, but am now stuck with what seems to be a permanent 30k bounty for escaping...
I'm more than certain at this point that the vast majority of UA-camrs that claim to be experts on kenshi are just liars and pretenders. Rhadamoron screwing up work orders and not realizing why his characters are getting attacked by the npcs at The Hub. Multitudes of mistakes that were so numerous and on top of that he ignores feedback. Giant egos and unjust attitudes that have little understanding of all the functions of the fcs. There still actually isn't a thorough fcs tutorial that covers it well. You have to go beyond "the basics" or your not much help.
Gonna put some corrections/opinions of some stuff in the guide as I watch it if I find any I mean. 1:05 Highly recommend not touching default settings or you will not really experience Kenshi. Just opinion on this one... 1:23 No race is actually better at fighting. The only exception is health which is another story entirely. No one is better at crafting/farming. They just level the skill faster. A Shek with 80 Farming will obtain the same crop amount and at the same speed as a Greenlander. 1:33 Greenlanders are a rough starter race to their bleedrate of 1.0. All other humanoid races have 0.9 and below. Scorchlander is the "best" starting race other than Skeleton. Faster healing, less hunger rate, lower bleedrate etc... Opinion ofc on this one. 1:53 How healthy they are is the bar above your health to the right. That just lists their current state. Normal, dead, unconscious etc... 2:17 Blood is another "health" category on its own. So technically 3. 2:25 If an arm goes below 0 it is useless. Until your legs reach your KO point you can still limp. You do lose them when hit below -100. Not just a chance. They are lost. 2:38 Not too big of a point but head/chest/stomach are called vitals. Critical is when you have over 100 cut damage in a body part. Might confuse new players. If they go below -100% hp then you die. No chance, just death. 2:45 Both arms need to be damaged, or one below 0 health in order to have a stat debuff. Legs need to go below 55.6% max health to effect movement speed/swimming. Dodge is affected based on Toughness level. 2:55 You can reach 30 characters without mods through recruiting. 3:30 I don't know of any buildings with 5 floors... I could be wrong though. 5:11 Kinda... Block doesn't affect damage taken though. Just defense/dodge level. So, you can better block attacks. 5:48 We can't pickpocket. Only NPC I can think of atm is Red who can do that. We can just assassinate and stealth off them or steal off sleeping characters. Sneaking skills is pretty vague. 9:26 I won't say anything... 12:53 Kinda. Toughness is primarily leveled through getting up when playing dead though. Levels VERY slowly otherwise. 12:58 The damage to go unconscious for vitals is always below 0 health. That never changes. You might be confused with going into a coma? 13:05 Seen this a lot. Dex XP is weapon Cut dmg / (Cut dmg + Blunt dmg) it has nothing to do with weight. Str xp with weapons is how much str you are off from being able to use it. (Blunt dmg x 40 = Str needed) If below 20 str required the xp is 110%, if at or above the level it is 10%. 13:21 Units who are fleeing can be attacked by multiple characters at once no matter the attack slots. 13:56 I uh... Am a little confused... Light weapons aren't a thing. Heavy weapons are just that... The class. I don't understand what you mean. 14:08 Disagree massively. It gets strong pretty early on. Around 25/30 it starts to shine. 14:14 It's Blunt dmg x 40 not weight. The formula is either blunt x 40 or weapon weight. Whichever it the highest value... And Sabres are extremely light compared to Polearms/blunt weapons. 14:46 Turrets aren't an enemy type and unsure what you mean by defenses. Except for certain weapon multipliers (Like Katanas mostly having -40% robot damage) a certain type of dmg doesn't perform better or worse than another. 15:02 Blunt damage adds almost no time to unconscious timer... Cut damage/blood loss does that. 15:06 No. It does not perform better vs those races. Depending on the weapon one might do better vs certain armour types. Some armours in the game have more blunt resist than cut. Important to remember that even though many armour pieces do have more cut resist than blunt resist that damage that is resisted is turned into blunt damage. Except for the top tier armour this results in more damage or almost equal damage taken from cut. 15:41 To be clear they multiply your healrate by that value. So, a camp bed isn't +400%, it is x4, bed is x8. To add the rebel bar nearby is free to sleep in. And the hub 1? camp bed lying around near a building you can sleep in for free.
Good to see you over here! And great points Frankie, thank you! For anyone reading this make sure to check out Frankie's channel, he has some amazing and in depth content, especially about Kenshi. I would Strongly recommend! -Modish
@@TheModishGamer Hey thanks man! Overall though I want to say your guide was very well put together. If you ever need any help (Especially on stuff like KO times, animal damage, experience mechanics, strategies) when making more guides feel free to hmu. Kenshi needs more quick and info filled guides out there :)
I appreciate your help but the in game tutorial explained most of this stuff all ready and let's be honest most of the stuff I kenshi I quite self explanatory
Wrong! Martial arts is the best thing to start with (although terrible) because it is the most effective way of training dodge. Once your stats go up it's harder to train dodge because battles are shorter due to you dealing more damage. The first thing you should use on a new toon is martial arts for this reason.
Sabres and hackers do not require twice the strength, only the heavy weapons do. Sabres and hackers are not heavy weapons the information in the video is just flat out wrong, you can check the wiki for all strength requirements for every weapon in the game for example the Foriegn Sabre at Meitou (highest strength requirement) is only 12 strength to wield. Only the weapons belonging to heavy weapons have high strength requirements. Those weapons are the Plank, Fragment Axe and lastly the Falling Sun. Moreover the whole "light weapons" thing is also a debunked myth as even the falling sun can be wielded with 12 strength if its rusted junk quality so early on almost all weapons are viable moreover the only weapon i would avoid is anything blunt as blunt weapons are mostly trash in kenshi unfortunately
Definitely! If you can sit back and hang on for the ride though, it can be an incredible experience! It's certainly not for everyone, but hopefully you can find a playstyle that you enjoy in this sandbox - that's when it becomes a real treat! I (or maybe even some other folks from the community) would be able to guide you in a playstyle if we had an idea of what kind of playstyle you'd find enjoyable 😉 You have Rogue/stealth One man wrecking crew Management Exploration Trader Group of mercenaries Point us in a direction and hopefully we can help!
Great question! Attacking with martial arts will hurt your character, so when leveling, make sure to have a healer nearby. One of the best combat moves in the game is unblocked at level 45, but strength factors in to how much damage you do as does the opponent's toughness level. Long story short, you need both strength and martial arts to deal damage, and the higher tier the opponent is the higher your skills should be
Came looking for a real beginner guide since the game has no tutorial and tells you basically nothing. I came out of this video still knowing basically nothing. Is the goal of the game explained? Nope. How to get a quest? no way man. How to use an item? idk man. How to initiate a combat? wait there's combat? Where should I try to go after finding the bar? beats me. how do i get started on a build? no clue. what should i have done in my first hour? idk man just loot some items. What reason is there to invest in thew long term of this game? hahah like and subscribe. Are you really gonna make me watch the only other kenshi beginner guide on youtube thats 1hr48mins for some reason? Just to learn how to exist in the game? I got the game on sale 10 years late and i still feel ripped off
Goal: What you make of it, do you want to be roving adventurers, build a base, move into a large city and manufacture things, up to you. Quest: You won't find that kind of structure, though you can look at Bounties and Treasure Maps and the like to mark locations for yourself. Initiate Combat: Right click and hold to bring up a menu of actions, necessary if you want to Attack Unprovoked. If you Sneak you'll be able to attempt 'assassination'. Where to go: If you started at The Hub the game marks Squin on your map, that place sells maps and bounties and lets you learn about more locations. Build: Cutting weapons(and Ranged) use Dexterity while Blunt weapons/Martial Arts use Strength, weapons with both damage types like Polearms benefit from both. To train Strength you'll want to overencumber your character(ore is an easy way to do this), pick up a body for more encumbrance, and literally spend a day exercising by marching about town. If you find an enemy that is Crippled(missing a leg or two) they can be your punching bag, beat them up, bandage them up, throw them in a bed, drag them back out for another beating, etc. First Hour: While ultimately hanging around The Hub is boring, you can eke out a minor existence for a day or two as you learn the interface and flow of things. But you should move on to Squin since it offers so much more; though purchasing the expensive membership with the Shinobi Thieves has its own perks(and if you find the Wandering Assassin from that faction you can Bodyguard him(right click and hold to bring up the menu) and he'll rescue you as needed since you're officially considered Allies in the Faction system.
@Gogeata4 no im simply not playing the game at all because it has no goals to achieve. In fact no one is playing the game because it has no substance or direction. Its just an empty world with some useless npcs walking around that offer you nothing. But hey you can sell some items
What's wrong with this beginner guide -reducing hunger rate to make newer players get used to easy mode settings -greenlanders do have drawbacks such as: -being the most likely race to bleed out -having no attribute/combat skills multiplier only shared with skeletons which are overpowered, as well as being vulnerable to acid Both of these matter a lot when starting - immediately focusing on stats, its just one way to play in a sandbox -encouraging mining which is basically sitting around PUSH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON x3 COMBO so many times i read people quit because they think they should be mining to make money most of the time -encouraging passive play which slows down toughness gain the most important stat in the game next to athletics -while attack slots work count for melee weapoins crossbows dont so you can gank up on someone with 30 crossbows some of the very popular mods will increase attack slots also -grouping light weapons and heavy weapons ??? when one of the classes is heavy weapons, even if you do that polearms are somewhat in the middle -discouraging martial arts, its a hell at the start sure but a really good way to train especially for beginners are interested -wielding sabres early is very realistic early on in the game if you carry your friend to savety for 1 night or do the awful mining until you have a full backpack its likely you got some strength of that enough for a basic sabre, hackers are not much worse the 40kg memes are from high end weapons only at which point you could consider training up for it -Blunt wepaons are light because ??? they still use a lot more strength than sabres -the cutting damage meme has you confuse unarmoured targets with humans / people/animals(its true for this since they never have armour!) even then polearms have great armour penetration - if you are confused against armoured targets you want either blunt damage or armour penetration only one lacking here is katanas really -"against turrets or defenses" gonna assume you mean skeletons and robots and not doors and turrets since those are objects, what you want to say here is armoured targets -going back on that statement with blunt damage as they were laballed light weapons earlier in the video this is conflicting info within a very short time of videotime but correct just mention armour penetraion on weapons also -attribute section didnt mention strength increases carry weight or dexterity increases weapon swingspeed as well as block speed -how about mentioning experimenting and exploring over sitting in the hub -half of this video is the in game tutorial but worse more of an opinion thing here getting enslaved can be pretty good early on you get fed and healed for free while you can fight your guards over and over and train lockpicking another one is mods, performance enhancing mods could have been mentioned kenshi runs like shit and has long loadtimes For everything you NEED to know it surely didnt mention importance of speed or KO point of toughness the thing that will kill a character if left alone knocked out If you really want to be another mediocre noob friendly SMASH THAT SUBSCRUBE guide channel make a follow up video or edit this one to correct your missinformation at least
You have some fantastic points! And though this is hard to hear, I do appreciate your feedback. This channel was designed to help some of the new gamers in the world! I am under the impression that keeping things a little simpler helps a broader audience. That being said you've raised a lot of good points! I know this will also help a lot of people, and for what it's worth, after completing a basic run through, I'd like to make a short video kind of discussing some of this, and other approaches to this incredibly complex and in-depth game 😉
Some good points, but also pretty brutal dude ! And I mean BRUTAL ! We're all here because we love Kenshi, and I know the vid was labelled as "Everything you NEED to know", but it was also a pretty good start for a humble beginning in the game for someone just starting out. Granted, the points you mentioned cover more of the game's specifics, but the things you mentioned aren't really beginner material. You're talking more meta, and way more advanced than a new player is likely to experience in less than 50 hours. This is a 15 minute beginner's guide to Kenshi to help someone not drown in a pool of their own tears because they just got beaten to a pulp for the 20th time by some hungry hobos with sticks while they were trying to hit a rock. Just saying.
You would be terrible at making a beginner guide. The information in the video is intentionally surface level so beginners dont get overwhelmed by an information dump. He mentioned exactly what was required to know to get the points across, without bogging it down with way too much meta. Please never make a beginner guide for anything. All you'll do is turn noobs off from wanting to play the game by overcomplicating everything. P.S. You made one of the most fedora-tipping discord mod type posts I have ever read. Congratulations.
Helpful tutorial. Unfortunately, it's 's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game. Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol. Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse. Update The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals. This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do. Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness. I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅
You lack the capacity to play the game, that's fine, but understand it's your inadequacies not the games lol. Definitely a grindy game that's not for everyone, but there's a reason it has such positive reviews, people like it because it can be very fun. You may not like it, but that doesnt make it a crappy game. Dont hold the developers accountable for your incompetence and/or stupidity.
This is important. A lot of Kenshi UA-camrs and players who leave reviews will leave tales of their best stories partly as a flex and partly to attract new players. However it is very important to note that game is a sandbox game with no real tutorial. There are some text dumps that explain certain aspects of the UI, but ultimately you have to learn everything on your own. This also means that there are no quests- the game does not provide you with any structured story to follow. When you create your character, I highly recommend that you have a concept in mind: what do you want to accomplish with that character or with that group? Set a lofty goal (goals are super important for games like kenshi) like capturing the leader of a faction. And then allow the game and your own desire to fulfil that goal guide your story. If it means you have the build the best mining outfit in Kenshi to hire all the mercs to attack your enemy, do it. If it means that you have to form a bounty Hunter group, do it. Let your role play guide you. That all being said, it isn't for everyone. It’s exhausting to constantly have to make your own goals and complete them, sometimes I just want to have something tell me what to do! And that’s ok. Anyone who insults another based on this preference is an imbecile themself since they clearly aren’t mature enough to empathize with another gamer’s preferences.
@@waleedkhalid7486 I see. What's your opinion on this review? "Kenshi is a weird game. I don't know how exactly to describe it other than Mount and Blade meets The Sims with a learning curve as steep as a mountain. Like mount and blade you start as a nobody. Unlike mount and blade you can't fight sh1t. So you grind. You grind for 4 hours in order to fight a basic enemy. You do that and you still are too weak to win as the basic enemies come in packs of 6-10. You grind some more, then some more, then some more, then you finally go into battle and... you still get your ass whooped and make no profit. "WTF!" you may say, "you're recommending a experience that sounds like pain in electronic form". That's fair actually because I am doing exactly that. Kenshi is pain. It is honestly boring pain at times. It is pain that is hard to understand".
Sounds like a ton of copium to me, my friend. Gotta take some time to slow down and appreciate things for what they're intended to be. Atomic Heart is not a top-down (ish) squad RPG, and it certainly wasn't released in 2013. Give the past some slack - this sucker released before Fallout 4, made by a studio of 22 total people. It's not a triple-A game, and if you think it looks so terrible, perhaps you ought to schedule an eye appointment. As far as quests, do you really need people to hold your hand through what to do with your free time? Read some of the lore, or run around and figure out something that you want to achieve - toppling a faction, becoming a trader, saving slaves - whatever boats your float, as it were. When it comes to stealing getting you beat up... have you ever stolen something? It uh... it tends to get you thrashed and jailed. Your perspective seems to me rather infantile, if all you want to do is steal. Besides, what if you join the Shinobi Thieves (in the Hub... where you spawn...) and try to rob a city as a goal. Boom! Quest completed!! The world's only empty if you choose to ignore the wildlife, flora, biome environs, wandering NPCs, world lore, ancient tidbits, and the cities and POIs listed Think before you speak, please, it'll make your life much easier.
kenshi, project zomboid, hotline miami. these games all don't have exceptional graphics like cod or battlefield but they give good gameplay. you are missing out
Bro I’ve been playing Kenshi for 3 years and didn’t know that the last running option was to make all of them go the same speed as the slow guy
Glad I could help!
Yeah I would usually make people body guard the leader so they wouldn’t run past him.
So far the only thing I've learned from this "basics" guide is that Kenshi is the planet. Which goes more to lore than to mechanics.
Still I wouldn’t use it. Move your whole party and whoever is slowest is leader. Then set everyone to follow them.
It’s tedious but if you use the running option they sometimes have different pathing which can result in death.
Whoaw! The troubles you went through by not knowing this. I can only imagine
just wanted to point out that you can knockout in stealth mode any npc with the drifter tag without alerting the guards and if you fail the guards knock them out for you . extremely easy start with little to no danger and usable in any city.
I feel bad for the drifters...
Lmao wtf, poor bastards
That's great, I will try this right now. Ty.
Great to see some active kenshi content creators in 2023! Don't let the critics get you down, Keep it coming!
Thank you so much!
Well said!
After playing it..
It's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game.
Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol.
Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse.
Update
The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals.
This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do.
Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness.
I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅
@@condorX2 press mouse wheel to look around
@@hilkovanwalraven3111 "press mouse wheel to look around"
Cheers for the advice. Why can't we hold right mouse to look around?
Many of the beginner guides are soooo long and in depth, this is the perfect quick start guide, thanks!
Items that you can scavenge from the shack in The Hub regenerate (randomly) every day or so after you clear them.
Low price items to sell and sometimes food
Really good up to date info for this game. For anyone playing it new. I recommend just playing it and figuring it out your first(or second, maybe third) character. Dont feel pressured to push one character to its limits. Explore. Not just the map, but game mechanics.
Then when you feel comfy for your early game, come back and watch this video. Try to test these things with a test character you have just for figuring out the kinks.
Then watch this guy's next video.
Then spend the next 360 hours trying to master it mwahahaha. Trust me though, it is fun.
Lastly a cool tip. Guards dont search Goats. So yes you can smuggle "whatever" in your goats.
While it is a single-player game and people should play it whichever way they choose to, for beginners I don't think messing with the hunger rate is something that should be encouraged. While it can seem tedious at times in the beginning, the game feels a little more immersive when you have to worry about feeding your characters and it encourages base building to have a sustainable source of food production. For 1+n playthroughs where you just want to try a certain build/ideas and don't want to have to worry about eating, sure, go nuts. But for 1st time playthrough, playing the game the way it was intended would be my recommendation.
Just my 2c.
Best 2c I've ever seen. Well articulated.
Sustainable source of food production is stealing it from Vain lol...
This is what I'm doing for my 1st play thru. I only got the dark ui and slopeless mods turned on for now and won't use more until I feel I've played enough
@@stevensheets7217I bet ya had a better time this way
@@krischurch3763 can confirm
Cant wait for the next episode, just picked up the game and I've had a blast so far Evan though I'm lost as a dog 99% of the time the other 1% I decided to mine copper 😂😂
Genesis mod is great addition to the game.
Unfortunately, it's 's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game.
Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol.
Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse.
Update
The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals.
This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do.
Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness.
I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅
@@condorX2 unfortunately you're just a crappy gamer. If a game was ruined for you because you couldnt scroll with just the mouse, that excludes you from any credibility required to review a game.
Its definitely not a game for everyone, very niche, but your bizarre conspiracy suggestions and clearly inadequate ability to assess a game demonstrate no one should take your review seriously.
I get it. You're 12 and upset you spent money on a game you dont like, get over it. Your inability to understand a game's mechanics doesnt mean you should bad mouth it to the extent you bring up fake reviews lol. Maybe not everyone else is wrong... maybe it's you. Worth thinking about.
@@condorX2 i think its really fun, just mine some copper and try to fight some animals. No quests is kinda meh but you can become a bounty hunter, steal, enslave, trade or just murder people
@@condorX2 you can look with middle mouse button.... There are "quests" in the vanilla version, you just never found them. Mostly they have to do with faction combat..although there are a few scattered here and there that arent related to the big factions. Once youve beaten all the challenge encounters and maxxed your tech tree, youve won the game being the most powerful faction on the continent. Its not an easy game, for sure....to take on the big stuff, youll need Meitou or Edge 3 weapons and master crafted armors..
I was able to get into a game and honestly I’m super stacked now just from building a base my first play through. it’s just about using mercenaries correctly to grind in the early game and setting up somewhere for easy trade runs. And once I got walls and crossbows the grind was easy af for good gear
It's a fantastic game! So many possibilities for play, building a base, exploring, and taking on factions the possibilities are endless and the challenges grow with you!
The easiest way to get good gear before having all that is hanging around cities and waiting for battles and looting bodies
This is the guide I needed 2 weeks ago. Thanks for your accessible tutorial!
Thank you!
Hey great video! Very helpful for me as a new player, looking forward to your content. Easy to understand and very helpful highlighting of the details your talking about, thanks heaps
Better tip: Don't use the match speed option instead have everyone follow the slowest member. Match speed has resulted in a split party and the loners getting picked off often enough I recommend against it. Following the slowest member will have everyone follow the leaders pathing instead of making their own. Side note if attacked on the path the leader may keep running past the fight.
AI -> formation -> military
Also, what you mentioned happens because of the squad member selection sometimes bugging out after loading sections; so you can accidently ungroup them and some dudes will run faster
They can also just do that on their own after loading
If you hold/passive everyone nobody fights while following which is my preferred method when speed is 22mph+
Thanks for your video, after several hours to play Kenshi I learned again !
Here's something I did as a kenshi beginner that made the game twice as approachable without necessarily making it easier. I turned the hunger timer all the way up so my characters hardly ever have to eat, and then balanced that out by self-imposing a rule on myself that I would never make a single coin by just mining ore and selling it.
The lure of the mines is really strong for me as a new player because it's free money without hardly any risk, but I found myself having to resort to it constantly just so I could by food for my squad. With this setting and that self-imposed rule, I could focus on discovering better ways to make money and get food that are more fun than just watching my guy whack a stone for hours.
i have thousands of hours in Kenshi but these are still fun to watch
Weight of the weapon is only a factor insomuch as how much encumbrance it puts on you.. The stats are actually grown from the damage types and amount of damage from weapons. Use one like the polearm, and both your str and dex will increase when you swing it and connect. All Cut = dex, all blunt = str. This is why falling sun is roundly considered the best vanilla weapon, once you get the STR to swing it at full combat speed.(88 i think). Polearms/Heavy Polearms are arguably the best starter weapons and can carry you to end game...both damage types, huge reach, not really heavy and armor piercing.
Heavy weapons only care that you have twice their weight in strength, otherwise you get a hefty combat speed penalty. This also means to have extra strength so when you take damage you don't immediately go under your strength requirement.
It's a shame you can only get good Polearms from the Scraphouse, so if you're trying to equip a squad with them, you pretty much have to make them yourself.
I was mining and a bunch of giant mutant bugs attacked me
I once have had build a 'stock' room in the hub where you put downed bandits inside to heal and be a bloodbag, the goal is to train my martial artists hero there. What a weird savage farming scheme. XD
another tip no one mention
Bar thug in bar didn’t count as citizens so If you sneak and thunk them the guards in the bar will help you fight them off then you can loot thug gear afterwards
standard grade dustcoat,blacken chain shirt,plated drifter pants,drifter boot and low grade nodachi perfectly good gear for starting the game
Love your guide would like to see a kenshi series from you
I like to use the copper node over by the rebel base to the east of the Hub, because i find that more enemy patrols go through there and you can see them coming, and you can sell goods and use the Shinobi guards there for defense.
iirc with the attack slot thing - stuff like Leviathans CAN have more than one attack them at once, but well… very dangerous
Very helpful.. I think telling people to build a ore storage early show help
This is the best kenshi beginner tips video I've seen!
Thanks! Just saw this game for sale in Steam and decided to bite. This video is helping a lot!
Good for you! It's a boatload of fun!
I'd like to see a story arc of one character to show off some of the possibilities this game holds
My favorite series is Pixel Rookie's series on his character, Rook. Really fun storytelling adventure
Your vibe is awesome. Thanks for learnin' me!
Got Kenshi 3 days ago, started following it on UA-cam maybe 10 days ago; yes I knew all the basics, painfully obviously from the tutorial tooltip popups and reading. ..
My favorite spot for wanderer start actually Hive Village next to the hub, for one purpose collecting skin from Baek Thing, and train armor crafting skill with that. Btw you can't out run baek thing so beware of situation first before baiting them to hive village, Baek thing can become good partner for training MA in early game but only with other hive hit that baek thing if not you will die.
For new player of kenshi, you want to know how OP Martial Arts are? With strength 94, And Though 97, and Martial arts 80, dodge 80++, you can solo elder Leviatan(HP over 5K for each limb) with proper technique(Movement and position technique), for other weapon that will be hard unless in team battle. oh yeah, high level MA really graphic more than any else weapon when against bandit.
Just got this game. Wasn't sure what start to do. I picked the 5 guys one. Figured more people to fight if I get in trouble. I wasn't sure what to do when I started the game, so I roamed around for awhile. Then my dudes were getting hungry. I saw nothing to fight, until a pack of goats roamed by.... I got my ass handed hard lol. Death by goats, would play again 10/10!
Played the game back when we only had the Holy Nation territories, today I learn about group running. I've always just had my squad run to a short distance place to see who the slowest
I just bought the game and about to start my first game. I am hoping to learn it, it does look complicated and i unfortunately have 2 x extreme brain damage so i am not the smartest tool in the shed. But i am going to give it my best try.
It just takes time, rome wasn't built in a day, and this game won't be mastered in a day either no matter who you are. But it is a blast to learn and enjoy as you get better! Enjoy 😉
You should get more subscribers... Your videos help me to understand the game a lot cause i hate using mods and make the game too easy😂😂
Chance of stealing isn't dictated by stealth, but by thievery. Thieving from container has a chance of you getting caught, stealing things on tables and such is always at 100% success rate: steal those to train.
Kenshi can be finnicky, and sometime characters don't seem to pathfind right or just starve themselves to death with food in containers. Use CTRL+SHIFT+F12 to fix pathfinding issues.
The "move at the same speed" button has the very deprecable habit of spreading your group all over the map if you don't stay there watching them, so use it only if you're doing just that. If you move a group and want to do other things than babysitting it while they travel, make all "Follow" order the slowest member: it can still fail if they encounter hostiles, but it's more consistent.
thanks for the added info
Stealing is dictated by both, since if someone is watching/seeing you the chance gets lower, even from stuff just lying around in tables
I remember setting the hunger need to the lowest value cause I thought it's multiplying how fast are you getting hungry.. ah sweet old days.. :D
Lmao. Mf woke up and ate 12 loaves of bread and 6 large pizzas.
Amazing vid make more kenshi noob content please! 💪🗿🙏
i like the background music
"Reduced hunger gain is not a big deal early in the game" meanwhile me who doesn't have any food day 2
Any time you find a settlement or waystation press the Alt key several times, by default, to highlight signs and look for a Bar. You can also left click on any building and see a description of it in the lower left of the screen. Bars will have at least some food for sale. Just don't load up on it in the early game as hungry bandits will beat you up and steal it.
@@XoRandomGuyoX Yeah I know that, I just suck at the game. Early game is a real struggle and I need to learn how to deal with it
1:10 in or so.
I'll give some pushback on 'Food Early'.
In the early game, Food is Money. In the Mid to Late, since you are growing it, Food is Time.
Now to be fair, Time is Money... I go bang on Rocks for an hour to Sell the Ores to buy the Food. But the idea with Farming is it is more efficient, I'm not needed to be doing the action constantly, just see to the upkeep here and there. So I can Farm... AND go bang on Rocks for an hour. And now I have Food, so I don't have to turn that Ore into Food, that Ore can turn into other things that advance me.
So in the Early Game, on Default Hunger, if you aren't bringing in the Money you aren't Eating. Everything revolves around making enough to eat... and a lot of food is EXPENSIVE.
That's why Thievery is so strong in Kenshi. Many Bars will have some scraps of food in the barrels on their rooftops, and it is easy to creep behind them, enter Stealth, and grab some food without a guard seeing you. If Thievery really isn't your thing the Prospect button in your friend. Find some Iron, or better yet some Copper, near a city and mine it. You can leave up to 5 units in the ore pile as you work, only grabbing all 5 when you're done and check your surroundings for safety.
Thanks for the video.
The first very important Kenshi tip is turn on VSYNC in the launch menu! this game will fry your graphics card without it.
When playing as a noob, I was so angry with myself having slammed the keyboard and yelled profanities multiple times that I instantly felt like disliking this video just from seeing it, nothing personal, but it was actually really helpful so I will instead like your video. Hopefully, I will get good now. Anyway, that was my initial kenshit experience.
The subscribe button did the thing!!!! :0
Pro tip: the game actively encourages and rewards doing things wrong. Example: fist fighting fighting while injured, in heavy armor, overburdened as a novice against a trained assassin. The resulting gauging of your booty hole will sky rocket your stats in strength, dexterity, dodge, martial arts, and toughness. Always get your character up when they are playing dead and even better try to sneak up and knock out the guy that that left you as a sun dried pretzel moments ago.
Just don’t do it near any slaver caravans or you’ll experience the Kenshi tutorial mission.
You don't need to pay for the bed at the bar in the hub, as the abandoned building that you loot has 2 beds
I cant believe there are 62K views on this niche game
Great vid👌
Just got the game
Fantastic video
Oh man, seeing all the things i modded out of the game makes me sick a bit. But its so much easier on the micromnanagement. When I see the unstackable items, I'm know why I modded it :D
I play solo. My first goal is to buy a house and have a second character literally mine for their whole life. Passive income encourages me to explore and learn combat.
Personally I think that the Hub is a bad starter town, you have only 2 bars (1 inside and 1 outside) near the town with very little cats available, that is why I tend to move directly to Squin, loads of iron and copper, but also 2 bars and several stores, one of which sells backpacks.
huh.. its good to know I never stood a chance at winning a single fight early on .... I've died so many times and been knocked out so many times ... and the weapons ... good to know what weapons I should be using or trying to use.. this game is really hard to get into .. especially when you lose every single fight .. and still dont understand why guards keep randomly attacking me though .. when I try to go into a building .. or if i stand next to a shop thats closed to wait for it to open .. then they just randomly start attacking me ... and what armor should you try getting early on? to give you a better chance at surviving ?? light medium or heavy?
Great questions and it is so difficult! If you're in a holy Nation city and you are anything other than a Greenlander male, then the guards will attack you, otherwise unless you're trying to break in or you're wearing an enemy faction uniform (unlikely, it says this clearly under the item name) than im not sure what could be going on. As far as armor goes get an item that doesn't have too many harmful effects (ie sneak .60) but does have 100% coverage to different body parts, or close to it - just make sure to prioritize the critical body parts 😉. Otherwise just keep training your stats in fights! And shameless self plug - I have a two other videos which might give some context to Kenshi and I think are worth checking out - hope to see you around again!
- Cheers
@@TheModishGamer cheers, I need all the help I can get.. This game is so overwhelming I never really play these type of games either. I think I'm slowly getting the there, but so much I still dont understand and I'm still struggling with
In Squin, there's a guard that occasionally picks up a fight with you out of nowhere. Most newbies get off guard by this, since Squin is usually one of the first cities they visit, and if you don't have your character is off screen when this happens, it os hard to understand what is going on.
Good content, clear explanation, and easy to listen to and follow. You have a great voice for tutorials, too.
Only recommendation I'll make is to not beg for likes or subs. You did so three times in the video and it's a bit of a turn-off. I know you're trying to grow the channel, but just keep making good content and it will stand on its own.
That being said, liked and subbed.
Great feedback, clearly no hate just trying to help.
Eager to see the next one. Because it's GONNA happen, a guide on what to do when the slave traders get you would be nice. I spent three days locked in prison of the Holy Nation (my character was a filthy woman!) and was VERY lucky to escape. Still unsure how I pulled it off, but am now stuck with what seems to be a permanent 30k bounty for escaping...
Hahahaha hope to see you in the next one! How about a guide on how to Destroy the Holy Nation instead? I hear revenge is sweet
@@TheModishGamer Now that you mention it...
the best video
Do yli have a series on kenshi?
I finally tried to get check out the hype of this game and I can’t even move the character properly
I'm more than certain at this point that the vast majority of UA-camrs that claim to be experts on kenshi are just liars and pretenders. Rhadamoron screwing up work orders and not realizing why his characters are getting attacked by the npcs at The Hub. Multitudes of mistakes that were so numerous and on top of that he ignores feedback. Giant egos and unjust attitudes that have little understanding of all the functions of the fcs. There still actually isn't a thorough fcs tutorial that covers it well. You have to go beyond "the basics" or your not much help.
gr8 vid v helpful
What's the music at the beginning again... Sounds like terraria but i can't put my finger on it
BLOW YOUR NOSE
helpful
Gonna put some corrections/opinions of some stuff in the guide as I watch it if I find any I mean.
1:05 Highly recommend not touching default settings or you will not really experience Kenshi. Just opinion on this one...
1:23 No race is actually better at fighting. The only exception is health which is another story entirely. No one is better at crafting/farming. They just level the skill faster. A Shek with 80 Farming will obtain the same crop amount and at the same speed as a Greenlander.
1:33 Greenlanders are a rough starter race to their bleedrate of 1.0. All other humanoid races have 0.9 and below. Scorchlander is the "best" starting race other than Skeleton. Faster healing, less hunger rate, lower bleedrate etc... Opinion ofc on this one.
1:53 How healthy they are is the bar above your health to the right. That just lists their current state. Normal, dead, unconscious etc...
2:17 Blood is another "health" category on its own. So technically 3.
2:25 If an arm goes below 0 it is useless. Until your legs reach your KO point you can still limp. You do lose them when hit below -100. Not just a chance. They are lost.
2:38 Not too big of a point but head/chest/stomach are called vitals. Critical is when you have over 100 cut damage in a body part. Might confuse new players. If they go below -100% hp then you die. No chance, just death.
2:45 Both arms need to be damaged, or one below 0 health in order to have a stat debuff. Legs need to go below 55.6% max health to effect movement speed/swimming. Dodge is affected based on Toughness level.
2:55 You can reach 30 characters without mods through recruiting.
3:30 I don't know of any buildings with 5 floors... I could be wrong though.
5:11 Kinda... Block doesn't affect damage taken though. Just defense/dodge level. So, you can better block attacks.
5:48 We can't pickpocket. Only NPC I can think of atm is Red who can do that. We can just assassinate and stealth off them or steal off sleeping characters. Sneaking skills is pretty vague.
9:26 I won't say anything...
12:53 Kinda. Toughness is primarily leveled through getting up when playing dead though. Levels VERY slowly otherwise.
12:58 The damage to go unconscious for vitals is always below 0 health. That never changes. You might be confused with going into a coma?
13:05 Seen this a lot. Dex XP is weapon Cut dmg / (Cut dmg + Blunt dmg) it has nothing to do with weight. Str xp with weapons is how much str you are off from being able to use it. (Blunt dmg x 40 = Str needed) If below 20 str required the xp is 110%, if at or above the level it is 10%.
13:21 Units who are fleeing can be attacked by multiple characters at once no matter the attack slots.
13:56 I uh... Am a little confused... Light weapons aren't a thing. Heavy weapons are just that... The class. I don't understand what you mean.
14:08 Disagree massively. It gets strong pretty early on. Around 25/30 it starts to shine.
14:14 It's Blunt dmg x 40 not weight. The formula is either blunt x 40 or weapon weight. Whichever it the highest value... And Sabres are extremely light compared to Polearms/blunt weapons.
14:46 Turrets aren't an enemy type and unsure what you mean by defenses. Except for certain weapon multipliers (Like Katanas mostly having -40% robot damage) a certain type of dmg doesn't perform better or worse than another.
15:02 Blunt damage adds almost no time to unconscious timer... Cut damage/blood loss does that.
15:06 No. It does not perform better vs those races. Depending on the weapon one might do better vs certain armour types. Some armours in the game have more blunt resist than cut. Important to remember that even though many armour pieces do have more cut resist than blunt resist that damage that is resisted is turned into blunt damage. Except for the top tier armour this results in more damage or almost equal damage taken from cut.
15:41 To be clear they multiply your healrate by that value. So, a camp bed isn't +400%, it is x4, bed is x8. To add the rebel bar nearby is free to sleep in. And the hub 1? camp bed lying around near a building you can sleep in for free.
Good to see you over here! And great points Frankie, thank you!
For anyone reading this make sure to check out Frankie's channel, he has some amazing and in depth content, especially about Kenshi. I would Strongly recommend!
-Modish
@@TheModishGamer Hey thanks man! Overall though I want to say your guide was very well put together. If you ever need any help (Especially on stuff like KO times, animal damage, experience mechanics, strategies) when making more guides feel free to hmu. Kenshi needs more quick and info filled guides out there :)
I appreciate your help but the in game tutorial explained most of this stuff all ready and let's be honest most of the stuff I kenshi I quite self explanatory
Are you the guy that speedruns every game?
Minus 100 mean dead not high probability
I wish they would make a narutoverse exactly like this. Copy and paste lol
Wrong! Martial arts is the best thing to start with (although terrible) because it is the most effective way of training dodge. Once your stats go up it's harder to train dodge because battles are shorter due to you dealing more damage. The first thing you should use on a new toon is martial arts for this reason.
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I bought Kenshi for 3 years and i still don't know how to play it lol
Sabres and hackers do not require twice the strength, only the heavy weapons do. Sabres and hackers are not heavy weapons the information in the video is just flat out wrong, you can check the wiki for all strength requirements for every weapon in the game for example the Foriegn Sabre at Meitou (highest strength requirement) is only 12 strength to wield. Only the weapons belonging to heavy weapons have high strength requirements. Those weapons are the Plank, Fragment Axe and lastly the Falling Sun. Moreover the whole "light weapons" thing is also a debunked myth as even the falling sun can be wielded with 12 strength if its rusted junk quality so early on almost all weapons are viable moreover the only weapon i would avoid is anything blunt as blunt weapons are mostly trash in kenshi unfortunately
game is kind of weird, and awkward. I'm trying to like it =/
Definitely! If you can sit back and hang on for the ride though, it can be an incredible experience! It's certainly not for everyone, but hopefully you can find a playstyle that you enjoy in this sandbox - that's when it becomes a real treat! I (or maybe even some other folks from the community) would be able to guide you in a playstyle if we had an idea of what kind of playstyle you'd find enjoyable 😉
You have
Rogue/stealth
One man wrecking crew
Management
Exploration
Trader
Group of mercenaries
Point us in a direction and hopefully we can help!
How much martial art skill i need to survive with my fists ?
Great question! Attacking with martial arts will hurt your character, so when leveling, make sure to have a healer nearby. One of the best combat moves in the game is unblocked at level 45, but strength factors in to how much damage you do as does the opponent's toughness level. Long story short, you need both strength and martial arts to deal damage, and the higher tier the opponent is the higher your skills should be
in game tutorials🤢
UA-cam tutorials 😏
Nah. I dont cheese the game. i just play it as is and experience what ever happens my way. I dont cheese games. im not american.
Came looking for a real beginner guide since the game has no tutorial and tells you basically nothing. I came out of this video still knowing basically nothing. Is the goal of the game explained? Nope. How to get a quest? no way man. How to use an item? idk man. How to initiate a combat? wait there's combat? Where should I try to go after finding the bar? beats me. how do i get started on a build? no clue. what should i have done in my first hour? idk man just loot some items. What reason is there to invest in thew long term of this game? hahah like and subscribe. Are you really gonna make me watch the only other kenshi beginner guide on youtube thats 1hr48mins for some reason? Just to learn how to exist in the game? I got the game on sale 10 years late and i still feel ripped off
Goal: What you make of it, do you want to be roving adventurers, build a base, move into a large city and manufacture things, up to you. Quest: You won't find that kind of structure, though you can look at Bounties and Treasure Maps and the like to mark locations for yourself. Initiate Combat: Right click and hold to bring up a menu of actions, necessary if you want to Attack Unprovoked. If you Sneak you'll be able to attempt 'assassination'. Where to go: If you started at The Hub the game marks Squin on your map, that place sells maps and bounties and lets you learn about more locations. Build: Cutting weapons(and Ranged) use Dexterity while Blunt weapons/Martial Arts use Strength, weapons with both damage types like Polearms benefit from both. To train Strength you'll want to overencumber your character(ore is an easy way to do this), pick up a body for more encumbrance, and literally spend a day exercising by marching about town. If you find an enemy that is Crippled(missing a leg or two) they can be your punching bag, beat them up, bandage them up, throw them in a bed, drag them back out for another beating, etc. First Hour: While ultimately hanging around The Hub is boring, you can eke out a minor existence for a day or two as you learn the interface and flow of things. But you should move on to Squin since it offers so much more; though purchasing the expensive membership with the Shinobi Thieves has its own perks(and if you find the Wandering Assassin from that faction you can Bodyguard him(right click and hold to bring up the menu) and he'll rescue you as needed since you're officially considered Allies in the Faction system.
You playing the game wrong if you need people to tell you what to do, make your own goals.
@Gogeata4 no im simply not playing the game at all because it has no goals to achieve. In fact no one is playing the game because it has no substance or direction. Its just an empty world with some useless npcs walking around that offer you nothing. But hey you can sell some items
What's wrong with this beginner guide
-reducing hunger rate to make newer players get used to easy mode settings
-greenlanders do have drawbacks such as:
-being the most likely race to bleed out
-having no attribute/combat skills multiplier only shared with skeletons which are overpowered, as well as being vulnerable to acid
Both of these matter a lot when starting
- immediately focusing on stats, its just one way to play in a sandbox
-encouraging mining which is basically sitting around PUSH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON x3 COMBO
so many times i read people quit because they think they should be mining to make money most of the time
-encouraging passive play which slows down toughness gain the most important stat in the game next to athletics
-while attack slots work count for melee weapoins crossbows dont so you can gank up on someone with 30 crossbows
some of the very popular mods will increase attack slots also
-grouping light weapons and heavy weapons ??? when one of the classes is heavy weapons, even if you do that polearms are somewhat in the middle
-discouraging martial arts, its a hell at the start sure but a really good way to train especially for beginners are interested
-wielding sabres early is very realistic early on in the game if you carry your friend to savety for 1 night or do the awful mining until you have a full backpack its likely you got some strength of that enough for a basic sabre, hackers are not much worse the 40kg memes are from high end weapons only at which point you could consider training up for it
-Blunt wepaons are light because ??? they still use a lot more strength than sabres
-the cutting damage meme has you confuse unarmoured targets with humans / people/animals(its true for this since they never have armour!) even then polearms have great armour penetration - if you are confused against armoured targets you want either blunt damage or armour penetration only one lacking here is katanas really
-"against turrets or defenses" gonna assume you mean skeletons and robots and not doors and turrets since those are objects, what you want to say here is armoured targets
-going back on that statement with blunt damage as they were laballed light weapons earlier in the video this is conflicting info within a very short time of videotime but correct just mention armour penetraion on weapons also
-attribute section didnt mention strength increases carry weight or dexterity increases weapon swingspeed as well as block speed
-how about mentioning experimenting and exploring over sitting in the hub
-half of this video is the in game tutorial but worse
more of an opinion thing here getting enslaved can be pretty good early on you get fed and healed for free while you can fight your guards over and over and train lockpicking
another one is mods, performance enhancing mods could have been mentioned kenshi runs like shit and has long loadtimes
For everything you NEED to know it surely didnt mention importance of speed or KO point of toughness the thing that will kill a character if left alone knocked out
If you really want to be another mediocre noob friendly SMASH THAT SUBSCRUBE guide channel make a follow up video or edit this one to correct your missinformation at least
You have some fantastic points! And though this is hard to hear, I do appreciate your feedback. This channel was designed to help some of the new gamers in the world! I am under the impression that keeping things a little simpler helps a broader audience. That being said you've raised a lot of good points! I know this will also help a lot of people, and for what it's worth, after completing a basic run through, I'd like to make a short video kind of discussing some of this, and other approaches to this incredibly complex and in-depth game 😉
Meme?
Some good points, but also pretty brutal dude ! And I mean BRUTAL !
We're all here because we love Kenshi, and I know the vid was labelled as "Everything you NEED to know", but it was also a pretty good start for a humble beginning in the game for someone just starting out.
Granted, the points you mentioned cover more of the game's specifics, but the things you mentioned aren't really beginner material. You're talking more meta, and way more advanced than a new player is likely to experience in less than 50 hours. This is a 15 minute beginner's guide to Kenshi to help someone not drown in a pool of their own tears because they just got beaten to a pulp for the 20th time by some hungry hobos with sticks while they were trying to hit a rock.
Just saying.
You would be terrible at making a beginner guide. The information in the video is intentionally surface level so beginners dont get overwhelmed by an information dump. He mentioned exactly what was required to know to get the points across, without bogging it down with way too much meta. Please never make a beginner guide for anything. All you'll do is turn noobs off from wanting to play the game by overcomplicating everything.
P.S. You made one of the most fedora-tipping discord mod type posts I have ever read. Congratulations.
Helpful tutorial.
Unfortunately, it's 's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game.
Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol.
Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse.
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The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals.
This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do.
Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness.
I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅
You lack the capacity to play the game, that's fine, but understand it's your inadequacies not the games lol.
Definitely a grindy game that's not for everyone, but there's a reason it has such positive reviews, people like it because it can be very fun. You may not like it, but that doesnt make it a crappy game. Dont hold the developers accountable for your incompetence and/or stupidity.
@@Tezwah Speaking of stupidity, care to address all my negative feedback?
Maybe I might change my mind on your intellectual
This is important. A lot of Kenshi UA-camrs and players who leave reviews will leave tales of their best stories partly as a flex and partly to attract new players. However it is very important to note that game is a sandbox game with no real tutorial. There are some text dumps that explain certain aspects of the UI, but ultimately you have to learn everything on your own. This also means that there are no quests- the game does not provide you with any structured story to follow. When you create your character, I highly recommend that you have a concept in mind: what do you want to accomplish with that character or with that group? Set a lofty goal (goals are super important for games like kenshi) like capturing the leader of a faction. And then allow the game and your own desire to fulfil that goal guide your story. If it means you have the build the best mining outfit in Kenshi to hire all the mercs to attack your enemy, do it. If it means that you have to form a bounty Hunter group, do it. Let your role play guide you.
That all being said, it isn't for everyone. It’s exhausting to constantly have to make your own goals and complete them, sometimes I just want to have something tell me what to do! And that’s ok. Anyone who insults another based on this preference is an imbecile themself since they clearly aren’t mature enough to empathize with another gamer’s preferences.
@@waleedkhalid7486 I see. What's your opinion on this review?
"Kenshi is a weird game. I don't know how exactly to describe it other than Mount and Blade meets The Sims with a learning curve as steep as a mountain. Like mount and blade you start as a nobody. Unlike mount and blade you can't fight sh1t. So you grind. You grind for 4 hours in order to fight a basic enemy. You do that and you still are too weak to win as the basic enemies come in packs of 6-10. You grind some more, then some more, then some more, then you finally go into battle and...
you still get your ass whooped and make no profit.
"WTF!" you may say, "you're recommending a experience that sounds like pain in electronic form". That's fair actually because I am doing exactly that. Kenshi is pain. It is honestly boring pain at times. It is pain that is hard to understand".
Sounds like a ton of copium to me, my friend. Gotta take some time to slow down and appreciate things for what they're intended to be.
Atomic Heart is not a top-down (ish) squad RPG, and it certainly wasn't released in 2013. Give the past some slack - this sucker released before Fallout 4, made by a studio of 22 total people. It's not a triple-A game, and if you think it looks so terrible, perhaps you ought to schedule an eye appointment.
As far as quests, do you really need people to hold your hand through what to do with your free time? Read some of the lore, or run around and figure out something that you want to achieve - toppling a faction, becoming a trader, saving slaves - whatever boats your float, as it were.
When it comes to stealing getting you beat up... have you ever stolen something? It uh... it tends to get you thrashed and jailed. Your perspective seems to me rather infantile, if all you want to do is steal. Besides, what if you join the Shinobi Thieves (in the Hub... where you spawn...) and try to rob a city as a goal. Boom! Quest completed!!
The world's only empty if you choose to ignore the wildlife, flora, biome environs, wandering NPCs, world lore, ancient tidbits, and the cities and POIs listed Think before you speak, please, it'll make your life much easier.
graphics so bad
Kenshi is not about graphics ..
@@edwincze4363 deosnt matter, who wants to play an ugly game? not me
kenshi, project zomboid, hotline miami. these games all don't have exceptional graphics like cod or battlefield but they give good gameplay. you are missing out
@@brobiv2452 then dont play it, go away
@@brobiv2452 bro has a Minecraft profile picture and is calling other games ugly. Can't make this shit up.
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