ah yes, kenshi, a game where the way to progress is to litterally get yourself beat over and over by non lethal enemies until you grow strong enough to beat them instead
I once explained Kenshi's setting as a: Sims in a Post-Post-Post-Apocalypse setting on an abandoned Space Desert Colony, inspired by Mad Max, Japanese Feudal Myths, Eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the daily life of Brazilians living in the Favelas.
I've never seen anyone do well in Kenshi without totaly cheesing the training mechanics. Your editing of these videos is great btw, really fun and great flow.
I think the game itself is at fault for that, the earlier levels make you less than useless, and the intended training methods take forever and are simply not fun. Like spending my first 30 to an hour of playtime staring at a pixel hitting a copper node that I can't even afk because there's a chance that pixel might get eaten by a dog if I don't pay attention only to get a measly 30 lvls of str is not fun, instead you can tie an animal to a bed and punch with with a full inventory to get the same 30 levels in a couple seconds and go out to actually do the fun stuff... Some skills are worse than other, but I think strength, martial arts, dodge, and toughness are probably the worst ones to level up properly, which sucks because excluding martial arts and dodge the others are mandatory if you want to actually get anywhere in the game
have a medic with bandages hide away when you take (and lose) a fight with starving bandidts, after the loss sneak medic in and heal up, repeat until you are tough enough to win than move up to slightly stronger enemies. anything that doesnt kill you makes you stronger
My first game of kenshi had me immediately get sent to rebirth, only to train my unarmed combat to the point that i could 1v10 the guards, and could pick almost any lock in the game. I spent 0 time doing anything base building in that game, just became a ninja solely dedicated to revenge. Killed the entire holy nation with just hands, absolutely fucked up the holy pheonix too
I remember my first game of kenshi. Made friends with ruka and decided to leave stein only to get jump by a pack of hungry bandits 100 yards past the gate and left to bleed out on the road after they beat our asses, all within 4 in game days. Next game I decided to try the "hardest" start and did rock bottom only to find it easier as spawning in the United Cities territory turns out to be a good source of income if you can make it to one of the cities since they're constantly attacked by bandits and the local wild life which you can then freely loot for cash.
@@michaeledblom9164 i feel like all of us share a close first experience it brings us together lol, anyway looting others kills for free money is always a Win lol
The best advice for this game is to train athletics and wear heavy armor. Once you get your first couple doods, have them run from one end of the city to the other. You can pause the game then hold shift key and right click on multiple different locations for them to walk to. Now they will walk to each spot, minimizing your input for this training. You get even less micromanagement necessary by enabling Sneak and setting the run speed of everyone to the walking emoji. Athletics xp is not dependent on your actual speed, just the weight load of the character. You can match or be faster than most early game bandits at ~18mph. Heavy armor may sound lame and reduce your damage and speed, but at the end of the day surviving longer in a battle means more combat xp. Reducing the cut damage type means your characters are more likely to get up to bandage their wounds instead of continuing to bleed out and die. I hated this game my first hour because everything was faster and stronger than my character, but once I understood athletics training and the power of early game armor, the game felt a lot more fair. Now I have like 300 hours and love starting a new save.
1. Brother you gotta do some roleplay at kenshi its the best to create your story . 2. you gotta slap a lot of hungry bandits before you can do anything in the world 3. get some bodyguards if you wanna explore, you can sell their loot or equip your ppl when they die
@@batznben it was my first time playing I had no clue what was going on, bodyguards is an amazing idea I didn't think of it, but I now know how many you get as well ty for the tips :D
Kenshi is one of those games where you have to beat your head against a brick wall until it crumbles to dust under your thick skull... and where you have to stay aware of the locations and what is within them in order to stay alive. I wish you luck in your future journeys in this game, because this video was quite entertaining.
thank you thank you, my skull can be very thick so ngl I will probably have fun sending 8 people not very trained into a losing fight over and over till they can do it lol
That is actually a TERRIBLE idea in the context of town guards and slavery; your characters do not level quickly enough to bridge the gap from 15 to 50 in the span of a few fights, and you're more likely to die than to succeed. If you want to escape from slavery, your best bed is to just run, preferably while the guards are asleep or busy dealing with other escapees.
@@PandaHands You need to go after enemies of a similar level to your own party, really. It'll take multiple battles to train up, but once you stop getting much experience from combat- say, about five to ten levels above them- you can move on.
@@PandaHandshot take but even without cheese this game is not as hard as it's made up to be, you just need to be careful and logical aboit your actions, which is very different from a lot of games where you have multiple lives or make risky decisions with no consequence.
@@PandaHands You can do all kinds of things with it. New character starts, new towns, custom weapons and save editing. I made a town override for Brink where if both Lady Tsugi and Valamon are gone the town will be taken over by the Tech Hunters rather than fall into ruin. There is a lot of info and tutorials on how to use it on the Kenshi Wiki.
yet to try crossbow kiting but yes, stealing and assasination is op. Mpney go brrr. (but money also go brr from my copper mining and my dustwitch production)
We oldtimers called it "grinding". You gotta get dem numbers up by banging your head against a wall (aka hungry/starving bandits) until its not your head anymore that breaks but the wall. There are of course secret and forbidden ways to speed up the 'gettin dem numbers up' game, but i say do it the right way. At least on the first run.
Going as a lone warrior and getting your ass kicked over and over until I could solo a swarm of dust bandits made me feel like Sisyphus finally getting the boulder to the top, only for it to not roll down.
just the other day I was thinking about my first solo wanderer starts way back, and how awesome it felt the first time you survived a full group of dust bandits. peppered with dozens of arrows sticking out your body AND skull, still barely standing against those 2-3 last bandits staggering around you just as exhausted, one of your arms broken in several places and flopping around uselessly while 11 bandits lie in the pool of their own blood. then you get a couple of lucky hits and are the last one standing. bleeding to death, limping, broken, covered in arrows you faint on the way to nearby city and bleed to death. welcome to kenshi.
@@philippl.49 I appreciate it, any yah it was a fun first playthrough although there was much pain I understand the love and hate for the game I'm on the love side tho 100%
Since a few people are dropping their first time stories and some mild advice here's mine: My first time playing the game resulted in a 50 hour playthrough, the reason being, I started as a skeleton. they no need food, have double the limb health and are much more resistant to damage. The only downside to them is that they require an expensive repair kits or a special bed to heal themselves (although for whatever reason sleeping in a regular bed will also heal them at a slow rate). This lone wanderer called Chadicus moved place to place never really settling in one spot and often finding themselves in ancient and dangerous locations. They, like many novices, weren't very skilled at anything but got that speed up from all the walking. Moving to the south then up into the holy nation, ran from the paladins ended up in big desert then moved north into cannibal territory. this is where I learned how cheesy the game is. Normally loosing a fight to the cannibals' means getting dragged into the deeper region and getting cooked... literally. However, they will leave robots alone once defeated, and have mediocre stats (but come in packs of 20-30). So I ended up training Chadicus in the way of many weapons, eventually using heavy weapons and cutting down hundreds of cannibals at a time. I want on a rampage eventually pulling up to their bases, capturing and selling their leaders, and eventually decided to get into base building. While a personal base is nice, it time consuming and costly. And depending on where you are, a verity of mf's will pull up, from tax collectors to priests with armed escorts or gangster looking for hand outs. In the end despite having about 3 skeletons, each one more than capable of putting entire hoards to sleep, it was a frustrating struggle that had me bail on the save.
Bro, the way to make your guys stronger is to let them get their butts kicked, and knocked out, then get back up. Toughness is the definitive measure of combat strength.
For an "easy" or easier strat start as a skeleton, steal some repair kits, give him the medic job and then run to the foglands. Cannibals don't like eating metal
one of the keys to success in Kenshi is high toughness, as it reduces incoming damage, increases healing and lowers the KO point so you can stay in the fight longer. Toughness is trained by getting beaten down, but there is a huge one-against-many toughness training bonus you can get by forcing your character to stand when they are playing dead. To best take advantage of this you want to try to solo the biggest groups of hungry bandits you can find; hungry bandits because they wield sticks which only do less-lethal blunt damage (watch out for their leaders who have sabres), and because they can be found in great numbers in Skinners Roam. Strength is also easy to train simply by carrying around a backpack full of iron ore; the more encumbered you are the faster strength goes up. Strength will increase damage dealt (exactly how much depends on the weapon), and is necessary to wield heavier weapons or to wear heavy armor without becoming encumbered. The third important stat is dexterity which is trained both by fighting with martial arts, or a light weapon that does cutting damage; dexterity will increase both attack and block speed. There are mods that add training equipment for strength and dexterity, but toughness can only be trained by repeatedly getting beaten to unconsciousness.
Ahh yes kenshi the game where you get to play in a fantasy world but you are not the chosen one not even a side character you are just a pathetic npc with barely any skills and the only way to the top is to get beat up
I once had a bounty target and was running him to the nearest city and got attacked by beakthings, I had to reload at least 30 times before I could keep my bounty from running away or getting eaten alive
The fact that getting your ass beat is a core mechanic in Kenshi really tells you everything about what kind of game it is. For the uninitiated, I'm not joking, your Toughness stat which dictates your damage resistance scales based on how many times your face ate dirt, late game tactic of character training basically involves giving them the best and toughest metal armor, handing them a stick that does no damage and sending them head first into a group of bloodthirsty bandits, bonus points if the bandits manage to cut off arms or legs, because that is a good thing.
Can remeber goong on a long trip into beak thing territories. My men fought for hours slaying beast after beast, sometimes my men were left aa heaps of barely breathing steaming meat, the hunt was a success and no one was lost but they moved ar a snails pace back home having almost tottaly destroyed limbs. This was before i got my first Skeleton and I had a human "Patch" who i trained as a martial artist. Patch became extremely powerful able to kill a Elder Beak Thing with nothing but his bare hands. I setup in the mide of the Fog Islands were i discovered how to train toughness. It involves allowing yourself to be captured and having half your body eaten by the monsters.
@@PandaHands I don't know.if they need to make a second one but I'm looking for that next big thing! A mod I have to download and try out. Since I played it for a while I become op rather fast. You just gotta grind out mining for copper to sell for food and just get your ass beat for a bad stretch. Once you get to were your making food cubes the camps will run themselves. I build in the very center of fog islands no one once even got thru to fight me, instead stuck on a fog man pole and ate. And the frog men would die before they got my front door. Even built a small base outside Lord Phenoix place and eventually had him in chains. If ya know of any killed good mods let me know. I need to get back into it but been thinking of making a mod adding a faction The Monks of So HI, they show up in mass at yer base and make ya farm hash, or kill you.
The best thing about playing kenshi is that you're not some all powerful plot armor protagonist. Mistakes get punished harshly and you gotta be tactful. One of the best games ive played by an indie dev
@@PandaHands no worries panda I know u do your best to reply to most comments, anyway bro always enjoy you doing more kenshi, it's always a good time ♥ 👌 🔥
Install kenshi re lets you speed up the game to 15x. Also getting knocked unconscious is a good way to train stats espeically if u get up with enemies around. Once your characters are fast enough (wooden sandals improve speed and can be found on starving bandit leaders) try smuggling hashish from the swamp to a certain strange city or the empire if you have money for bribes. Alot of lore can be discovered by exploring the map so dont spoil that for yourself
Idea, begin the true martial journey by getting a metric ton of cheap ass bandages, food stored at your base in Squinn, leather armor only (no shoes to train your warrior sole), rustiest of weapons (the ultimate weapon in kenshi is the rusting blade katana) and then just throwing everyone at anything that looks remotely hostile in the border zone (not Vain or anywhere with beak things)
@@matthewmeyer1470 me being sick is making my stupidity stronger, but I mean sounds like a good idea to me just have a medic that doesn't fight so he can pick everyone up after they get beat down
I usually grind new unit's strength up to 50, athletics up to 80 and attack up to 15 on training dummy before even letting them out to the world😅 there they train on 1-on-1 fights with weakest opponents to gain their initial combat skills. Mind that some fractions are hostile to each other, Kenshi has a big learning curve, that's true, but the atmosphere of the game is amazing and quite unique Shift + right mouseclick allows to set tasks for the unit, trader's backpacks allow to stack resources, well, there's a ton of manuals all over web
Looting trade guild caravans. ~70 000 cats per caravan. Had 30 max ppl squad. Everyone with master armor / weps. Eventually took out that guy in ash lands with 2 chars. Beastmaster was more difficult due spiders and narrow alleys.
Constant battles while exploring. Few scouts with robotic legs as archers/medics. 3 mil cats in cash and another 3 on gear. It was 250~ hrs save game tho.
Here is my strat Hire a couple of mercenary groups and a wooden backpack go to a beack thing nest in vain Put your character in passive and steal all the eggs you can fit run and don't look back Profit Those eggs used to cost like 6 thousand but got needed to 2k They are still hella profitable as hell
target starving bandits first, these are dust bandits :D dust bandits are much beafier.. they are the next step once you feel like starving bandits don't pose a challenge to you anymore.
@@PandaHands No worries man. It is quite easy to recognize them once you know what to look for. Starving bandits are only in rugs with only rusted sticks (but that also depends on mods that you have), and are extremely thin, because well.. they are starving :D. And dust bandits have these ragged plated skirts with plated helmets and the chest armor, that only cover one breast, they usually also carry those cleaver-like sabers
@@PandaHands also I didn’t realize you could switch to different people views until I watched this. I was really annoyed trying to figure out how to split up my party to do separate tasks. My laptop gpu can barely handle it though
@@gabrielortiz-larrauri4890 im glad I could help out, the game is a bit laggy when you swap no matter what so keep that in mind I think its just the engine that the game was made on
Head to mourn, go to the big lab in the middle of the town, force the gate then close it, send one by one of ur squad to fight the white gorillo and get ur ass beat a bunch of times, the gorillo wont eat u and u can easily run away once ur character gets beat up, repeat the same thing, build up ur resistance, ur melee attack or martial arts, after that u will be able to solo a group of bandits easily
The Great White Gorillo is truly a god of cheese training; if you put it in a bed while agroed you can train martial arts on it all day long, and it just lays there and takes the beating.
this reminds me of my first experience lol, you can set one guy to haul your mined loot and they'll train up their athletics while being productive you can also have him set in stealth mode while doing his daily cardio since stealth still gets trained even if an NPC detects you because it still accounts for the other ones that dont but it wont pump up athletics , up to 3 people can mine big iron nodes, ngl I use to think mining was the only way to early game this poverty sim but thievery was actually ok so long as youre ok with save scumming but this game loads like ass especially with mods so getting beaten and captured by the cops is a good way to train toughness so long as youre not in United City or Holy Empire territory because youll get enslave if a slaver group is in town and empire peeps i think will enslave you outright and send you to Rebirth. the other caveat is if you get caught by the shop owner youre permanently blacklisted by them so youll be better off robbing residents first, other than that playing as a skeleton and fighting animals is a great way of getting stronger because animals dont eat robot people so long as you can repair yourself with skeleton repair kits after every beatdown session with them, getting a character beaten to near death almost always pumps up toughness to atleast 20-30 and theyll get back up, the best part of this game is travelling around the world and piecing the story for yourself, it definitely believes in world building as a story medium and it works, theres a lot of weird shit to see, 150 hrs in i havent even seen half the things and Ive only ever beaten Bugmaster on an old save
I wanted to play as a robot person probably next time, Im going to give your comment a few read-backs later I'm sick rn so my brain is no processing well rn
There is a lot less pressure to cheese if you just halve NPC squad sizes in the settings, because then you would need only need to keep track/micro 4 characters instead of 8 in the video, but fights will still be at the same difficulty. The easier micro will make player input have more of an effect in combat than just grinding stats or recruiting even more unmemorable characters
@@critiqueres so get a cage "obtain" a bandit or villager and train my fighting spirit on them got it, also do you mean stealth is that good or stealth is that bad
@@PandaHands stealth is so stupidly good it makes it too boring and easy "Stealth ninja weeb" builds are typically considered gay, same as crossbows While it is true that ""training dummies"" are effective, they are once again gay. If you want to minmax them tho, you steal a big white gorillo from Mourn (by using hit and run cheme with a crossbow), put it in a bed and hit it with a rusty pipe repeatedly. You will have a full army of legendary swordsmen in no time. As a nice addition, when you are done - you could leave a healed gorillo in the center of a mourn, so city guards could "train" to. Or rather, a gorillo could train on them Ofc I have never tried any of that myself, heard it from a friend *ahem*
Start preferably with a hiver(they are FAST)sell some junk, earn about 10000 cats and go to the swamp on the west south part of the map(its the green part). There's a gang called the Hounds. You can join them by talking to a guy in a bar and then talking to their leader. Then complete their entry task by hauling drugs to the Flats Lagoon, the part on the South central by part of the map(it's the yellow part, and watch out for murder giraffes). Now you can run to and back from Flats to the Swamp to sell bunch of weed to get rich. If you're feeling a bit bored you can go over the mountain to a bit north east part of the Flats to rob the "empty" drug labs(watch out for security spiders). Its a good start before jumping into some serious shit.
The dust bandits will kill you, and a group of them is stronger than starving bandits. if you can out run them do so, but if you can not just stand and fight, if you can lead them to the gate guards at squin or such like you did then fight even if you get knocked out, the gate guards should heal you.. it will be a good way to train, also you need to be beaten down to get your toughness up. more your tough states are , the harder it is for your characters to get KOed, some will even fight till they die. The border zone is also the low tier easy location to start. Also if you want Kenshi to be harder for stealing and so forth, The Universal Wasteland expansion, or if you just want more variety the Genesis mod is worth a check from base kenshi. but both mods do not work with one another. Genesis is a large collaboration of mods from the workshop in one single mod. The UWE mod makes stealing harder by having more observant guards who will beat you up as soon as you stealth, and other things.
I started my 2nd play through and almost immediately got griffin from stack for 9k he has 20 in defense and combat and 20 in all weapons it’s been a big help
Yea this game makes you want to cry in the corner Beak things Beak things Beak things Plays with mods Blood beak things with 2000 health and crack speed 😵😵😵😵☠️☠️☠️
Crazy how you can somehow make a random game, that I've never heard of, so interesting with this new editing/narrating style. Great work as always. Unbelievable how good and professional this videos are, even though you started making vids like this 1-2 months ago. Respects for that 7:32 ; 12:12 Peak Moments xD Btw have you continued playing Lies of p? If yes, how is it going?
@@upgradz326 thank you that means a lot truly, I'm trying my best and I'm glad they are entertaining hopefully we can get some replay value in there soon, also no I have not continued lies of p yet
Train dodge and martial arts if you can try and get block up too you toughness will level up naturally also put heavy items in a bag and get your characters to run around with them on the back
@@PandaHands sorta if you take way the weapons and tell them to block they will stop attacking but will exclusively be on the defensive which means with a sword they will train block but with empty hands they train dodge
martial artist is the best route!! u get a big bonus indoors and from sum armors.(like +12 from armors and +8 wehn ur inside. aka immediate flying kicks) also it scales with toughness, str, and dex. Also hardest city to takeover imo is mongrel. a city in that foggy area. Good luck.
@@PandaHands yea! one marital artist run of mine ended up better at katanas because of his dex that built from all the dodging and flying kicks n stuff. once u get better try to do a perm death run. thaa way it was meant to b played!
To be perfectly honest, Kenshi isnt nearly as difficult as people make it out to be. After a short time into the game, you are able to outrun just about anything. You can then cheese the game to have the city guard deal with your pursuers, if they are persistent enough to not let you off. Once you get within 25-30 stat range, you start rolling the world (with a few exceptions), and you just start snowballing from there. First its some dust bandits, then some ninjas, reavers, then skin bandits - the train cant be stopped. You then meet one of the games baddies (bosses), and since the dev made the baddy impossible to beat in conventional means - you use crossbowmen to take the baddy down a peg (or your dog, which can easily take down Cat-Lon in a 1vs1, if trained properly). Game done, case closed. What makes Kenshi stick out among the other games is... **normally** in RPGs you start out weak, but strong enough to beat the weakest of foes, while in Kenshi you start out weaker than the weakest foes. Thats about the extent of the games difficulty - your "early game" is artificially extended. Otherwise you would start rolling everything from the get go, like in (all?) other RPGs. EDIT: to not make this comment too depressing - heres a punchline to a joke from one of the games bar patrons: "... so then ive asked for her hand, and she told me to go look for it."
from what i have seen I 100% agree with you that, that is where the difficulty of kenshi comes in, I don't think its a hard game at all I just think its a slow game and that is not a slash at the game just my opinion, I do think it is a good game however in terms of RPG games I think its unique in its whole but I do prefer others my favorite probably being outward
I got back to playing Divinity original sin 2 after your early video and am downloading this one now... which I never played or was interested in before.... be very careful with what you make me play next please
@@PandaHands Also, I don't think it could be youtube material but there's a lil game called exo one which is kinda fun... you're a ball and you bounce in different planets.... I'm not good in advertise but take a look anyway
@@PandaHands lol I never not played a game because I couldn't afford it but I did multiple times buy games that I played one piece version just because I genuinely liked it (specially if it's from a small studio etc)
I love kenshi I start a whole kingdom with five settlements and was at war with the holy nations for half the time they in slave half my people killed the others and took over my whole kingdom and killed my pack bulls
@@PandaHands the only one who made it was my city Karal andor and it like ten people who just got killed by like packs of bone dogs later but it was fun
ngl idk what you are saying, clickbait no challenge also no like of failed at that bad, I did not advertise it as such at least in a crazy way (was my first time playing, the challenge was just playing the game for me lol) sorry if you did not enjoy the video, have a great day tho
The reason i get bored of kenshi so quickly is the fact you mostly need to cheese the game, not fun, i was hoping there was a mod to add starting skills but never found one that isnt a 0-100 dice roll mod, also actual qust would be cool to add, like the bounties are mostly end game stuff except that one fleeing prince that was pretty hard to beat but its just one guy instead of a full game but you still had to go to that blue region full of beak things, here hoping kenshi 2 fixes the issues
Ahhh Kenshi, when you finally get a warrior that can solo an entire squad of bandits it's satisfying.
its 100% a goal of mine we will see when that happens lol
ah yes, kenshi, a game where the way to progress is to litterally get yourself beat over and over by non lethal enemies until you grow strong enough to beat them instead
@@Hiltwa really do feel the burn of that, I'm glad I didn't only suck and the game is just like that
I once explained Kenshi's setting as a:
Sims in a Post-Post-Post-Apocalypse setting on an abandoned Space Desert Colony, inspired by Mad Max, Japanese Feudal Myths, Eastern Europe shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the daily life of Brazilians living in the Favelas.
@@BlondieUA-cam I might use your comment as inspiration for my next kenshi intro, that is gold
@@PandaHands Haha thank you, I feel honoured.
Post post not post post post but i dont think our characters could get any worse off anyway 😂
Mate you kinda nailed it took a print of your comment to use any time someone ask me what Kenshi is like
I've never seen anyone do well in Kenshi without totaly cheesing the training mechanics. Your editing of these videos is great btw, really fun and great flow.
@@freddyrico1989 I might need to get some of that cheese going lol, glad you enjoyed the video
It's literally easy to do, the reason you haven't seen it is because those people need to cheese cause they suck at the game.
@fearrogue thank you I appreciate that deeply
I think the game itself is at fault for that, the earlier levels make you less than useless, and the intended training methods take forever and are simply not fun.
Like spending my first 30 to an hour of playtime staring at a pixel hitting a copper node that I can't even afk because there's a chance that pixel might get eaten by a dog if I don't pay attention only to get a measly 30 lvls of str is not fun, instead you can tie an animal to a bed and punch with with a full inventory to get the same 30 levels in a couple seconds and go out to actually do the fun stuff...
Some skills are worse than other, but I think strength, martial arts, dodge, and toughness are probably the worst ones to level up properly, which sucks because excluding martial arts and dodge the others are mandatory if you want to actually get anywhere in the game
@@Talulah_Artorius ye i mean I understand why people cheese its just because it saves crazy time
Bone dog: viciously growls and barks at hungry bandits
This guy: BOAR
yo.... I have no excuse im a bit stupid sometimes lol
have a medic with bandages hide away when you take (and lose) a fight with starving bandidts, after the loss sneak medic in and heal up, repeat until you are tough enough to win than move up to slightly stronger enemies. anything that doesnt kill you makes you stronger
that was an idea I was wondering about, glad to hear it works to an extent
My first game of kenshi had me immediately get sent to rebirth, only to train my unarmed combat to the point that i could 1v10 the guards, and could pick almost any lock in the game. I spent 0 time doing anything base building in that game, just became a ninja solely dedicated to revenge. Killed the entire holy nation with just hands, absolutely fucked up the holy pheonix too
I remember my first game of kenshi. Made friends with ruka and decided to leave stein only to get jump by a pack of hungry bandits 100 yards past the gate and left to bleed out on the road after they beat our asses, all within 4 in game days. Next game I decided to try the "hardest" start and did rock bottom only to find it easier as spawning in the United Cities territory turns out to be a good source of income if you can make it to one of the cities since they're constantly attacked by bandits and the local wild life which you can then freely loot for cash.
@@michaeledblom9164 i feel like all of us share a close first experience it brings us together lol, anyway looting others kills for free money is always a Win lol
The best advice for this game is to train athletics and wear heavy armor. Once you get your first couple doods, have them run from one end of the city to the other. You can pause the game then hold shift key and right click on multiple different locations for them to walk to. Now they will walk to each spot, minimizing your input for this training. You get even less micromanagement necessary by enabling Sneak and setting the run speed of everyone to the walking emoji. Athletics xp is not dependent on your actual speed, just the weight load of the character. You can match or be faster than most early game bandits at ~18mph.
Heavy armor may sound lame and reduce your damage and speed, but at the end of the day surviving longer in a battle means more combat xp. Reducing the cut damage type means your characters are more likely to get up to bandage their wounds instead of continuing to bleed out and die.
I hated this game my first hour because everything was faster and stronger than my character, but once I understood athletics training and the power of early game armor, the game felt a lot more fair. Now I have like 300 hours and love starting a new save.
@@mrmcgreedy_5349 thank you for the tips I need them ngl, also I'm glad you found a love for the game
1. Brother you gotta do some roleplay at kenshi its the best to create your story .
2. you gotta slap a lot of hungry bandits before you can do anything in the world
3. get some bodyguards if you wanna explore, you can sell their loot or equip your ppl when they die
@@batznben it was my first time playing I had no clue what was going on, bodyguards is an amazing idea I didn't think of it, but I now know how many you get as well ty for the tips :D
Kenshi is one of those games where you have to beat your head against a brick wall until it crumbles to dust under your thick skull... and where you have to stay aware of the locations and what is within them in order to stay alive. I wish you luck in your future journeys in this game, because this video was quite entertaining.
thank you thank you, my skull can be very thick so ngl I will probably have fun sending 8 people not very trained into a losing fight over and over till they can do it lol
That is actually a TERRIBLE idea in the context of town guards and slavery; your characters do not level quickly enough to bridge the gap from 15 to 50 in the span of a few fights, and you're more likely to die than to succeed. If you want to escape from slavery, your best bed is to just run, preferably while the guards are asleep or busy dealing with other escapees.
@@phoenixofthechorus I see i see, what would you say the best way to train a character is for a poverty sim player such as myself
@@PandaHands You need to go after enemies of a similar level to your own party, really. It'll take multiple battles to train up, but once you stop getting much experience from combat- say, about five to ten levels above them- you can move on.
@@PandaHandshot take but even without cheese this game is not as hard as it's made up to be, you just need to be careful and logical aboit your actions, which is very different from a lot of games where you have multiple lives or make risky decisions with no consequence.
Kenshi is hard yet so cheesable, just crossbow kite, steal and assinate your way to victory.
the more I read and see the game it seems like cheese is just the normal way to play, so I got some learning to do
@@PandaHands That and fooling around in the Forgotten Construction Set.
@@Varinki I have been messing with it a bit I have only changed stats not sure what else you can do with it yet
@@PandaHands You can do all kinds of things with it. New character starts, new towns, custom weapons and save editing.
I made a town override for Brink where if both Lady Tsugi and Valamon are gone the town will be taken over by the Tech Hunters rather than fall into ruin.
There is a lot of info and tutorials on how to use it on the Kenshi Wiki.
yet to try crossbow kiting but yes, stealing and assasination is op. Mpney go brrr. (but money also go brr from my copper mining and my dustwitch production)
this is the most high quality video i have seen from a youtuber under 1000 subs, keep it up, you earned yourself a sub
@@Snirby1629 thank you man I appreciate it I'm doing my best, glad you enjoyed the video truly
Kenshi is the only game I have played for 24+ hours straight
oh shoot I could not do that ngl, that game was fucking me up, however, I understand the appeal much more now so maybe I can soon
In Kenshi you have to get beat up to get better.
I can see that now, its a hard world to live in truly
aint that real life too
@@andyzg268 depends on the context but yah ngl
We oldtimers called it "grinding". You gotta get dem numbers up by banging your head against a wall (aka hungry/starving bandits) until its not your head anymore that breaks but the wall. There are of course secret and forbidden ways to speed up the 'gettin dem numbers up' game, but i say do it the right way. At least on the first run.
I enjoyed the video very much, never watched any Kenshi related content, but this video was entertaining
@@davidclavijo6192 I'm glad you enjoyed it, these videos making me sweat now days
@@PandaHands i can realice teh amountof work you put into this one. and is very apreciateted
Kenshi is a post post post apocalyptic world (based on what we can learn in game).
Going as a lone warrior and getting your ass kicked over and over until I could solo a swarm of dust bandits made me feel like Sisyphus finally getting the boulder to the top, only for it to not roll down.
just the other day I was thinking about my first solo wanderer starts way back, and how awesome it felt the first time you survived a full group of dust bandits. peppered with dozens of arrows sticking out your body AND skull, still barely standing against those 2-3 last bandits staggering around you just as exhausted, one of your arms broken in several places and flopping around uselessly while 11 bandits lie in the pool of their own blood. then you get a couple of lucky hits and are the last one standing. bleeding to death, limping, broken, covered in arrows you faint on the way to nearby city and bleed to death. welcome to kenshi.
I thought you had 100k subscribers or higher, high quality videos dude, nice job
@@Growlerrrr maybe someday man, thank you so much that means a lot
Truly no happy endings in this game, more truth has never been spoken. And god i love this game. Awesome video and love your editing take my sub!
@@philippl.49 I appreciate it, any yah it was a fun first playthrough although there was much pain I understand the love and hate for the game I'm on the love side tho 100%
Great video! Love the editing style, very similar to reggie and slippin’s style.
@@prottum thank you, I appreciate that, love those 2
Since a few people are dropping their first time stories and some mild advice here's mine:
My first time playing the game resulted in a 50 hour playthrough, the reason being, I started as a skeleton. they no need food, have double the limb health and are much more resistant to damage. The only downside to them is that they require an expensive repair kits or a special bed to heal themselves (although for whatever reason sleeping in a regular bed will also heal them at a slow rate). This lone wanderer called Chadicus moved place to place never really settling in one spot and often finding themselves in ancient and dangerous locations. They, like many novices, weren't very skilled at anything but got that speed up from all the walking. Moving to the south then up into the holy nation, ran from the paladins ended up in big desert then moved north into cannibal territory.
this is where I learned how cheesy the game is. Normally loosing a fight to the cannibals' means getting dragged into the deeper region and getting cooked... literally. However, they will leave robots alone once defeated, and have mediocre stats (but come in packs of 20-30). So I ended up training Chadicus in the way of many weapons, eventually using heavy weapons and cutting down hundreds of cannibals at a time.
I want on a rampage eventually pulling up to their bases, capturing and selling their leaders, and eventually decided to get into base building. While a personal base is nice, it time consuming and costly. And depending on where you are, a verity of mf's will pull up, from tax collectors to priests with armed escorts or gangster looking for hand outs. In the end despite having about 3 skeletons, each one more than capable of putting entire hoards to sleep, it was a frustrating struggle that had me bail on the save.
that sounds like a nice intro to the game, although it did not 100% go how you wished but... kenshi am I right
Rule 0 of kenshi. Getting your ass kicked and surviving is always a W.
@@The24thWight super true, I was playing trying to get beat up and ofc I can do that well but I was dying every time so living after is the key
Great editing. This channel deserves to blow up may the algorithm bless you🙏🙏
@@Haubits77B thank you i, must pray 2 fold for the gods of demonization,ad revenue and Mr.beast
Bro, the way to make your guys stronger is to let them get their butts kicked, and knocked out, then get back up. Toughness is the definitive measure of combat strength.
Oh god, 10 seconds in, and all I know is he raw dogged Kenshi. Welcome brother, you will be ok.
@@eshannumin as much as I welcome kenshi, kenshi does not welcome me,
Great video. You've earned yourself another sub. Great gameplay and editing, this channwl is promising.
thank you thank you, im doing my best
bold of you to assume i need to simulate being poor.
this made me laugh really hard... I feel the struggle
my brother in christ you sound almost exactly like seth green
For an "easy" or easier strat start as a skeleton, steal some repair kits, give him the medic job and then run to the foglands. Cannibals don't like eating metal
one of the keys to success in Kenshi is high toughness, as it reduces incoming damage, increases healing and lowers the KO point so you can stay in the fight longer. Toughness is trained by getting beaten down, but there is a huge one-against-many toughness training bonus you can get by forcing your character to stand when they are playing dead. To best take advantage of this you want to try to solo the biggest groups of hungry bandits you can find; hungry bandits because they wield sticks which only do less-lethal blunt damage (watch out for their leaders who have sabres), and because they can be found in great numbers in Skinners Roam.
Strength is also easy to train simply by carrying around a backpack full of iron ore; the more encumbered you are the faster strength goes up. Strength will increase damage dealt (exactly how much depends on the weapon), and is necessary to wield heavier weapons or to wear heavy armor without becoming encumbered.
The third important stat is dexterity which is trained both by fighting with martial arts, or a light weapon that does cutting damage; dexterity will increase both attack and block speed.
There are mods that add training equipment for strength and dexterity, but toughness can only be trained by repeatedly getting beaten to unconsciousness.
thank you that is some useful info it will definitely come in handy think you
Ahh yes kenshi the game where you get to play in a fantasy world but you are not the chosen one not even a side character you are just a pathetic npc with barely any skills and the only way to the top is to get beat up
im ngl this is beyond real and sometimes getting beat up is hard
I once had a bounty target and was running him to the nearest city and got attacked by beakthings, I had to reload at least 30 times before I could keep my bounty from running away or getting eaten alive
Suggestion: you need a crossbowman. Thats literally it
note to self, range is probably good (ngl I have not tried it I probably should)
The fact that getting your ass beat is a core mechanic in Kenshi really tells you everything about what kind of game it is.
For the uninitiated, I'm not joking, your Toughness stat which dictates your damage resistance scales based on how many times your face ate dirt, late game tactic of character training basically involves giving them the best and toughest metal armor, handing them a stick that does no damage and sending them head first into a group of bloodthirsty bandits, bonus points if the bandits manage to cut off arms or legs, because that is a good thing.
@@daisukeakihito9832 you have to get hit hard and a lot to hit soft and sometimes... We love kenshi
Can remeber goong on a long trip into beak thing territories. My men fought for hours slaying beast after beast, sometimes my men were left aa heaps of barely breathing steaming meat, the hunt was a success and no one was lost but they moved ar a snails pace back home having almost tottaly destroyed limbs. This was before i got my first Skeleton and I had a human "Patch" who i trained as a martial artist. Patch became extremely powerful able to kill a Elder Beak Thing with nothing but his bare hands. I setup in the mide of the Fog Islands were i discovered how to train toughness. It involves allowing yourself to be captured and having half your body eaten by the monsters.
@@jamesspencer1997 kenshi is so brutal, all the stories are so messed up, it's cool tho
@@PandaHands I don't know.if they need to make a second one but I'm looking for that next big thing! A mod I have to download and try out. Since I played it for a while I become op rather fast. You just gotta grind out mining for copper to sell for food and just get your ass beat for a bad stretch. Once you get to were your making food cubes the camps will run themselves. I build in the very center of fog islands no one once even got thru to fight me, instead stuck on a fog man pole and ate. And the frog men would die before they got my front door. Even built a small base outside Lord Phenoix place and eventually had him in chains. If ya know of any killed good mods let me know. I need to get back into it but been thinking of making a mod adding a faction The Monks of So HI, they show up in mass at yer base and make ya farm hash, or kill you.
@@jamesspencer1997 So Hi Monks sound funny af you should do that 100%
The best thing about playing kenshi is that you're not some all powerful plot armor protagonist.
Mistakes get punished harshly and you gotta be tactful.
One of the best games ive played by an indie dev
@@wesleyhughes4852 did not see this comment I 1000% agree and it makes the story more impactful especially because success is not at all guaranteed
@@PandaHands no worries panda I know u do your best to reply to most comments, anyway bro always enjoy you doing more kenshi, it's always a good time ♥ 👌 🔥
@@wesleyhughes4852 im cooking up a new kenshi video rn, don't tell anyone tho lol
Install kenshi re lets you speed up the game to 15x. Also getting knocked unconscious is a good way to train stats espeically if u get up with enemies around.
Once your characters are fast enough (wooden sandals improve speed and can be found on starving bandit leaders) try smuggling hashish from the swamp to a certain strange city or the empire if you have money for bribes.
Alot of lore can be discovered by exploring the map so dont spoil that for yourself
yah I need to do the get my ass beat and have a medic method, the more and more people say it the more and more it sounds like a good idea ngl
If the ladder is broken, its not really rung.
I'll see myself out...
Idea, begin the true martial journey by getting a metric ton of cheap ass bandages, food stored at your base in Squinn, leather armor only (no shoes to train your warrior sole), rustiest of weapons (the ultimate weapon in kenshi is the rusting blade katana) and then just throwing everyone at anything that looks remotely hostile in the border zone (not Vain or anywhere with beak things)
@@matthewmeyer1470 me being sick is making my stupidity stronger, but I mean sounds like a good idea to me just have a medic that doesn't fight so he can pick everyone up after they get beat down
I usually grind new unit's strength up to 50, athletics up to 80 and attack up to 15 on training dummy before even letting them out to the world😅 there they train on 1-on-1 fights with weakest opponents to gain their initial combat skills. Mind that some fractions are hostile to each other, Kenshi has a big learning curve, that's true, but the atmosphere of the game is amazing and quite unique
Shift + right mouseclick allows to set tasks for the unit, trader's backpacks allow to stack resources, well, there's a ton of manuals all over web
yah the big thing I have to learn is how to power level my people to make them worthy of air lol
Great video of my favorite game. Hope to see more, have a good weekend bro!
thank you, you as well
"HOGLONGS" ??? lol Nice vid.
I did not notice till the video was uploaded lol
Looting trade guild caravans. ~70 000 cats per caravan.
Had 30 max ppl squad. Everyone with master armor / weps.
Eventually took out that guy in ash lands with 2 chars. Beastmaster was more difficult due spiders and narrow alleys.
how do you go about training all those characters
Constant battles while exploring. Few scouts with robotic legs as archers/medics.
3 mil cats in cash and another 3 on gear.
It was 250~ hrs save game tho.
truly the kenshi experience
bro just hire mercenaries
@@Kekatronic do you get one or a pack of them? Also yah that was an idea but I was like surely this is enough... Nope, next try tho I will find some
@@PandaHands you get the whole team
@@danielscharer8203 that changes everything I wish I knew that
@@PandaHands you can also stack them by having multiple mercenary squads follow you
Here is my strat
Hire a couple of mercenary groups and a wooden backpack
go to a beack thing nest in vain
Put your character in passive and steal all the eggs you can fit
run and don't look back
Profit
Those eggs used to cost like 6 thousand but got needed to 2k
They are still hella profitable as hell
😂😂😂😂 as he said: "Success was already in our hands."
I was like: "Nope😊😊, you won't even manage to get there 😂😂"
Hope to see more of your suffering)
@@Kumuam_Muhammad-Amin more if my pain is around the corner
4:44 two in fact
target starving bandits first, these are dust bandits :D dust bandits are much beafier.. they are the next step once you feel like starving bandits don't pose a challenge to you anymore.
@@marekkrumlovsky2943 ngl did not even know the difference thank you I should look at the names more
@@PandaHands No worries man. It is quite easy to recognize them once you know what to look for. Starving bandits are only in rugs with only rusted sticks (but that also depends on mods that you have), and are extremely thin, because well.. they are starving :D. And dust bandits have these ragged plated skirts with plated helmets and the chest armor, that only cover one breast, they usually also carry those cleaver-like sabers
2:22 so on point ngl
I hired meow too. I liked the name so much I didn’t even change it. I’m sure a lot of people did this too
@@gabrielortiz-larrauri4890 I like the name as well ngl, I was kind of slandering their name for no reason lol
@@PandaHands all good, keep doing what your doing
@@PandaHands also I didn’t realize you could switch to different people views until I watched this. I was really annoyed trying to figure out how to split up my party to do separate tasks. My laptop gpu can barely handle it though
@@gabrielortiz-larrauri4890 im glad I could help out, the game is a bit laggy when you swap no matter what so keep that in mind I think its just the engine that the game was made on
@@PandaHands it’s just enough jank to be loveable but not enough to be unbereable
Head to mourn, go to the big lab in the middle of the town, force the gate then close it, send one by one of ur squad to fight the white gorillo and get ur ass beat a bunch of times, the gorillo wont eat u and u can easily run away once ur character gets beat up, repeat the same thing, build up ur resistance, ur melee attack or martial arts, after that u will be able to solo a group of bandits easily
@@aduckcalledyesnt6257 training by exposure the kenshi way, ty for the idea I will test it out 100%
The Great White Gorillo is truly a god of cheese training; if you put it in a bed while agroed you can train martial arts on it all day long, and it just lays there and takes the beating.
@@AbnerHolsinger I have written so many jokes for that exactly lol, it's the cheesiest thing I have ever done in a game
Mods are your best friend I roll with only like 9 to improve the vendors cats and higher squad caps with training dummies.
I will look into them for the next time I play 1000%
always makes friend with a gorillo or two 🤣
@@Zaki_Arx they would be good and helpful friends
this reminds me of my first experience lol, you can set one guy to haul your mined loot and they'll train up their athletics while being productive you can also have him set in stealth mode while doing his daily cardio since stealth still gets trained even if an NPC detects you because it still accounts for the other ones that dont but it wont pump up athletics , up to 3 people can mine big iron nodes, ngl I use to think mining was the only way to early game this poverty sim but thievery was actually ok so long as youre ok with save scumming but this game loads like ass especially with mods so getting beaten and captured by the cops is a good way to train toughness so long as youre not in United City or Holy Empire territory because youll get enslave if a slaver group is in town and empire peeps i think will enslave you outright and send you to Rebirth. the other caveat is if you get caught by the shop owner youre permanently blacklisted by them so youll be better off robbing residents first, other than that playing as a skeleton and fighting animals is a great way of getting stronger because animals dont eat robot people so long as you can repair yourself with skeleton repair kits after every beatdown session with them, getting a character beaten to near death almost always pumps up toughness to atleast 20-30 and theyll get back up, the best part of this game is travelling around the world and piecing the story for yourself, it definitely believes in world building as a story medium and it works, theres a lot of weird shit to see, 150 hrs in i havent even seen half the things and Ive only ever beaten Bugmaster on an old save
I wanted to play as a robot person probably next time, Im going to give your comment a few read-backs later I'm sick rn so my brain is no processing well rn
There is a lot less pressure to cheese if you just halve NPC squad sizes in the settings, because then you would need only need to keep track/micro 4 characters instead of 8 in the video, but fights will still be at the same difficulty. The easier micro will make player input have more of an effect in combat than just grinding stats or recruiting even more unmemorable characters
@@adamkennedy934 that is a really good idea and I had no clue that was an option
You got one thing wrong in the intro. Kenshi is not hated. We love to have our limbs hacked off and our characters to die to funny girrafes
@@rankovasek1987 true, death is just natural selection, and the loss of limbs is just the opportunity for upgrades
Go to cannibals planes, the best place to place a base
@@bonniecarente2450 noted, I just need to not get eaten
Controlled coma is the way to be strong(ish)
Also use stealth to completely ruin your experience
@@critiqueres so get a cage "obtain" a bandit or villager and train my fighting spirit on them got it, also do you mean stealth is that good or stealth is that bad
@@PandaHands stealth is so stupidly good it makes it too boring and easy
"Stealth ninja weeb" builds are typically considered gay, same as crossbows
While it is true that ""training dummies"" are effective, they are once again gay. If you want to minmax them tho, you steal a big white gorillo from Mourn (by using hit and run cheme with a crossbow), put it in a bed and hit it with a rusty pipe repeatedly. You will have a full army of legendary swordsmen in no time. As a nice addition, when you are done - you could leave a healed gorillo in the center of a mourn, so city guards could "train" to. Or rather, a gorillo could train on them
Ofc I have never tried any of that myself, heard it from a friend *ahem*
@@critiqueres I would never use an overly strong or broken mechanic thank you for letting me know $_$
@@PandaHands 🤝
Start preferably with a hiver(they are FAST)sell some junk, earn about 10000 cats and go to the swamp on the west south part of the map(its the green part).
There's a gang called the Hounds. You can join them by talking to a guy in a bar and then talking to their leader. Then complete their entry task by hauling drugs to the Flats Lagoon, the part on the South central by part of the map(it's the yellow part, and watch out for murder giraffes).
Now you can run to and back from Flats to the Swamp to sell bunch of weed to get rich. If you're feeling a bit bored you can go over the mountain to a bit north east part of the Flats to rob the "empty" drug labs(watch out for security spiders).
Its a good start before jumping into some serious shit.
@@DLarus08 Ooo thank you that is a nice and detailed way to start I will give that a try soon
You just earn my sub ❤
I am glad I could give you a video you enjoyed that much, welcome along for the ride
The dust bandits will kill you, and a group of them is stronger than starving bandits. if you can out run them do so, but if you can not just stand and fight, if you can lead them to the gate guards at squin or such like you did then fight even if you get knocked out, the gate guards should heal you.. it will be a good way to train, also you need to be beaten down to get your toughness up. more your tough states are , the harder it is for your characters to get KOed, some will even fight till they die. The border zone is also the low tier easy location to start. Also if you want Kenshi to be harder for stealing and so forth, The Universal Wasteland expansion, or if you just want more variety the Genesis mod is worth a check from base kenshi. but both mods do not work with one another. Genesis is a large collaboration of mods from the workshop in one single mod. The UWE mod makes stealing harder by having more observant guards who will beat you up as soon as you stealth, and other things.
@@Voidlessghost thank you that is some good info I will give him those mods a look after I break the game once or twice with stealth
I started my 2nd play through and almost immediately got griffin from stack for 9k he has 20 in defense and combat and 20 in all weapons it’s been a big help
haha great video again! kenshi is kinda hard, just cheese the f out of it xD
im in my offline learning arc while I'm sick ngl
I love the name Meow. lol
@@kitkami it's a good name ngl, I was there for the slander lol,BUT for a warrior idk
I've listened enough, and I hope your career doesn't advance any further sir.
@@dunclenoriosethetortoise1951 ummmm ok, any criticism? Also how polite thank you sir
the only playstyle in this game is the sniper crossbow
its a hand held balista that one shots most ppl regardless of your skill with the weapon
Yea this game makes you want to cry in the corner
Beak things
Beak things
Beak things
Plays with mods
Blood beak things with 2000 health and crack speed 😵😵😵😵☠️☠️☠️
crack speed killed me yah beak things are hell
More kenshi pls
@@smurfmianz4527 more to come, I just have to not be sick lol
almost 1k panda!!! 👍
@@JorginhoSilveiro we almost there Wooooo
level up thoughness to 80+ for each char you get, dust bandits are easy to grind level toughness.
get ass beat till beat harder got it, got to get beat to... ummm beat lol
Crazy how you can somehow make a random game, that I've never heard of, so interesting with this new editing/narrating style. Great work as always.
Unbelievable how good and professional this videos are, even though you started making vids like this 1-2 months ago. Respects for that
7:32 ; 12:12 Peak Moments xD
Btw have you continued playing Lies of p? If yes, how is it going?
@@upgradz326 thank you that means a lot truly, I'm trying my best and I'm glad they are entertaining hopefully we can get some replay value in there soon, also no I have not continued lies of p yet
Funny game, great video :)
Train dodge and martial arts if you can try and get block up too you toughness will level up naturally also put heavy items in a bag and get your characters to run around with them on the back
@@samurai_downunder4590 is dodge just getting attacked and it will train?
@@PandaHands sorta if you take way the weapons and tell them to block they will stop attacking but will exclusively be on the defensive which means with a sword they will train block but with empty hands they train dodge
@@samurai_downunder4590 thank you that is super useful I appreciate that
just watched my first ever kenshi vid and it was banger
Hell yah im glad it was :D
martial artist is the best route!! u get a big bonus indoors and from sum armors.(like +12 from armors and +8 wehn ur inside. aka immediate flying kicks) also it scales with toughness, str, and dex. Also hardest city to takeover imo is mongrel. a city in that foggy area. Good luck.
@@Washashumgalord I will definitely train and send a martial arts champion out into the world soon
When a martial artist is able to rip off limbs with one hit, then you know you are ready for everything !
@@SceptiKalmannsSandbox that sounds cool AF ngl
@@PandaHands yea! one marital artist run of mine ended up better at katanas because of his dex that built from all the dodging and flying kicks n stuff. once u get better try to do a perm death run. thaa way it was meant to b played!
@@Washashumgalord were you using just one character or a band of kick men
do a slave start or hive exile next
@@pedromaia1187 that is a good idea I might mix that in with what I'm cooking up
To be perfectly honest, Kenshi isnt nearly as difficult as people make it out to be. After a short time into the game, you are able to outrun just about anything. You can then cheese the game to have the city guard deal with your pursuers, if they are persistent enough to not let you off. Once you get within 25-30 stat range, you start rolling the world (with a few exceptions), and you just start snowballing from there. First its some dust bandits, then some ninjas, reavers, then skin bandits - the train cant be stopped. You then meet one of the games baddies (bosses), and since the dev made the baddy impossible to beat in conventional means - you use crossbowmen to take the baddy down a peg (or your dog, which can easily take down Cat-Lon in a 1vs1, if trained properly). Game done, case closed.
What makes Kenshi stick out among the other games is... **normally** in RPGs you start out weak, but strong enough to beat the weakest of foes, while in Kenshi you start out weaker than the weakest foes. Thats about the extent of the games difficulty - your "early game" is artificially extended. Otherwise you would start rolling everything from the get go, like in (all?) other RPGs.
EDIT: to not make this comment too depressing - heres a punchline to a joke from one of the games bar patrons:
"... so then ive asked for her hand, and she told me to go look for it."
from what i have seen I 100% agree with you that, that is where the difficulty of kenshi comes in, I don't think its a hard game at all I just think its a slow game and that is not a slash at the game just my opinion, I do think it is a good game however in terms of RPG games I think its unique in its whole but I do prefer others my favorite probably being outward
Smuggle drugs from the swamp to flats lagoon easy money and good training
@@lorenzocosta6119 I'm going to use this very soon
I got back to playing Divinity original sin 2 after your early video and am downloading this one now... which I never played or was interested in before.... be very careful with what you make me play next please
@@FabricioCdaSilva looking for the most expensive game I can find lol, glad I can get you back into some of these games
@@PandaHands I'm brazillian my friend... Piracy runs through my veins instead of normal beta blood lol
@@PandaHands Also, I don't think it could be youtube material but there's a lil game called exo one which is kinda fun... you're a ball and you bounce in different planets.... I'm not good in advertise but take a look anyway
@@FabricioCdaSilva you know what I'm not going to say that is good or bad what I will say is is enjoy the and my wallet is running low as well so...
@@PandaHands lol I never not played a game because I couldn't afford it but I did multiple times buy games that I played one piece version just because I genuinely liked it (specially if it's from a small studio etc)
I love kenshi I start a whole kingdom with five settlements and was at war with the holy nations for half the time they in slave half my people killed the others and took over my whole kingdom and killed my pack bulls
@@patrickdixon3512 Jesus
@@PandaHands the only one who made it was my city Karal andor and it like ten people who just got killed by like packs of bone dogs later but it was fun
Build mining group. Travel in packs.
you should play moonring
@@ihavealemon4687 I saw this game a few weeks ago it looks interesting ngl I will probably give it a look
Challenge runs are always better when its not just "Can I X wtih Y?" clickbait.
ngl idk what you are saying, clickbait no challenge also no like of failed at that bad, I did not advertise it as such at least in a crazy way (was my first time playing, the challenge was just playing the game for me lol) sorry if you did not enjoy the video, have a great day tho
1kkkkkk🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@Rkyv WOOOOOOOO
Venezuela mi patria querida :(
I MISSED IT, F@CK
different time zone its hard bro, ngl if there was a leaderboard you would far surpass anyone you chillin' bro
@@PandaHands Alr, loved the video
Who hates kenshi if you do you are going to hell jk
First 🫡🔥
Lose more fights
The reason i get bored of kenshi so quickly is the fact you mostly need to cheese the game, not fun, i was hoping there was a mod to add starting skills but never found one that isnt a 0-100 dice roll mod, also actual qust would be cool to add, like the bounties are mostly end game stuff except that one fleeing prince that was pretty hard to beat but its just one guy instead of a full game but you still had to go to that blue region full of beak things, here hoping kenshi 2 fixes the issues