would reccomend you get some kind of dynamic world mod, for late game, but i cannot belive you are playing this game right after i also found this gold mine, love your content man😘💖
@@TheSocialStreamers yeah, the house with the statues you were looking at near the end was the house of the big guy himsels, holy lord phoenix (you were building him a statue at rebirth)
@@TheSocialStreamersblister hill us home to the emperor of the holy nation 😭😭. holy nation badically just racist and mysogynistic and sends evrrything except human men to slave camps
Slave start is actually a hidden easy mode. You start by lockpicking then improving your athletics and strength with night runs while carrying the chains. In the end you get beaten up in the morning for toughness. Do that for two weeks and you will be a beast.
@@Tom-oj7si And that's what I'm telling Child Protective Services when they come a-knockin'. You don't get it, I'm just toughening my kid up for the wild world out there!
It's also good for training skills like mining or farming, etc, that can be useful for earning money or building your own base, and since the guards never kill you, and feed you enough to stay alive, you can effectively grind these skills indefinitely, in completely relative safety.
glad you're starting kenshi but slave start is actually bonkers good, you don't need to feed yourself and you can grind insane levels in stealth/assassination/lockpick skills in safety
Laith - does slave start. Calls it a mistake Me: Does the slave start when I want to play easy mode. Benefits of the start: You don't need to seek out and find food. You get healed for free. You can grind out stealth, assassination, lockpicking, toughness, labor, strength and athletics. Shackles lower some of your stats which makes it easier to level up the stats it lowers. It is, perhaps, one of the best starts to learn the basic mechanics of the game. Wanderer is probably the best to learn the combat of the game. It starts you in an area with the "weakest" enemies of the game: Starving Bandits. (Just ignore the fact that player characters start with worse stats then the weakest enemies in the game) Rock Bottom is the most interesting start for learning the consequences of losing limbs by starting you with a missing left arm. Cannibal Hunter is the best start to learn how quickly you can go back to the main menu. Kenshi is a great game Laith. It takes time to learn but once you master it you will seek out more challenging things for yourself like downloading a mod that gives you a start with no limbs or a start in the Foglands or Ashlands. Also, if you meet a character named Beep. Hire him. Treat him well. Learn to love him. Beep is the unofficial mascot of Kenshi. He is beloved by the Kenshi community. If he loses limbs don't worry. If you give him cybernetic limbs it unlocks a new 'idle chatter' dialogue set for him.
You can slowly grind dodge, hand to hand and even melee atk, Def, if you smart about weapons I walked out of the rebirth ready for bug master with 5 slave start, it took me eternity but it's possible.
@@jackb.207 True but I wouldn't want to subject new players to the "creativity" of Kenshi players and the stupid shit we do to get stats faster/easier. Better to give them a gist on the benefits than a step by step on how slave start is the best start to become a martial artist. Personally, I prefer Rock Bottom for martial arts runs, if only because I can make God Hand references by doing so.
@@sonderistic7664 No, it really is the easiest. It gives you all the benefits of grinding specific skills without any of the risks inherent to Kenshi. To top it off, the Safe House just outside Rebirth always has enough food to get both your characters back to 300 Hunger. Combine both of those aspects and you can really run your characters just about anywhere depending on how much "free" xp you got while in Rebirth. While it isn't a head start per se, the amount of time you can invest into Rebirth can often bear more fruit than an equal amount of time spent in a different start.
Can't believe Laith is now playing my favourite sandbox game. Here's a funny thing you can do: go to a city in the south that's built entirely within a metal structure and open a big building in the middle.
Its interesting to see Laith figuring out how to escape Rebirth by training thievery, disguising, and going south. Every time I did it, I just trained stealth and ran out through the [exit he didn't find]. Playing Kenshi for the first time is a treat.
oh god that's so hilarious and fun to do. Sucks when you catch a harpoon to the head and die, though, because the guards are too busy dealing with all the chaos and can't come patch you up. @@wikidpsycokilla
How much are you talking about like how many cats do you make selling hash? I thought about doing it but didn't find any information telling me it was worth it
@@gareththompson1041If you take the hash bought from the Swamp to the Flats Lagoon marketplace, you can easily make 20,000 from about 5000 cats worth of hash. I remember making 2 or 3 trips and reaching 100,000 cats. Used the funds to start a city in the middle of the fog islands.
@@gareththompson1041hit 2 or 3 swamp villages, each village should have a vender for hashish and fish. Some general stores in will carry it as well, I wanna say you buy one unit for like 112 ish, and transport it to flats lagoon. One unit sells for like 680, and the city just south made of the old metal structure, I forget the name but they buy it for like 680 as well. I don’t remember the exact numbers but 1 unit is 500+ profit, and the two cities are legal so no trouble for smuggling.
@@gareththompson1041hit 2 or 3 swamp villages, each village should have a vender for hashish and fish. Some general stores in will carry it as well, I wanna say you buy one unit for like 112 ish, and transport it to flats lagoon. One unit sells for like 680, and the city just south made of the old metal structure, I forget the name but they buy it for like 680 as well. I don’t remember the exact numbers but 1 unit is 500+ profit, and the two cities are legal so no trouble for smuggling.
@@gareththompson1041I personally like sending two or three new guys if I’m gonna do it though, it does take longer but by the end should be at 40+ athletics from level 1,
My favorite start in the game. Lockpick/stealth/slave fight club at night. Train your strength/athletics/laboring during the day. Naruto run your way into the swamp and befriend cool ninjas
Honestly the fact you kept accidently likening slavery to a job makes me imagine that the characters got enslaved by following a "Job" advertisement that was just a slavers trap
Laith playing Kenshi?!? I’d never thought I’d see the day. I recommend downloading mods, especially that to increase skill learning rate because you can spend an incredible amount of real life hours to not get far in the game.
Jumper is still waiting dude, it's been 2 months. 😂 For real though, great video, I just picked up Kenshi on sale and wanted to check out a few getting started type videos before I jump in. This has got me hyped!
It’s always exiting seeing someone new to Kenshi. I really hope Laith continues with more of this. I can’t wait to see his reaction to stuff like Beak Things and realizing the holy nation was only the beginning.
Imma be real, this is not something I honestly expected on this channel! Kenshi is one of my favorite games of the century, and you got the *charisma*. this is magnificent 😂
"What? Did somebody escape? am i not the main character ?" Hahahaha laughting in Kenshi. NO! this is Kenshi you are NOT the main Character. I like this series so far!
You came out of that with really great skills, while they kept you fed and healed up. When you start off on your own, you're screwed if you get knocked down and out. Nobody is there to heal you, you just lay there and die, and sometimes when you think you're just going to make it, animals come along and eat you. This looks to be one of the better starts in order to start to build in the beginning, since they take care of their slaves. It took me a lot of time to naturally get my skills up that high, fighting tooth and nail for every scrap of food and bit of healing. I had lots of deaths and reloading.
Nooo... the lone shack is perfect for escaping. It is sponsored by the rebellion to give escapees a fighting chance. Lots of food, some basic clothes and even medkits.
When doing a slave start, I find that it's good to sleep during the day and use the night time for training. Train your stealth and strength at the same time, by carrying heavy shit, and then train your athletics by running around light. You can train stealth and thievery by going and stealing food. Get attacked in the morning so you can sleep and heal all day and be ready for action at night again. You can simply enter a cage whenever you want to and often the guards will just leave you there. It is a bit of a tedious start but then there's no better way to powerlevel your thief/rogue skills. I'm currently playing a slave start game and my char is a super ninja now with 95 stealth and it only took ~20 days. You can also level assassinations as well.
Laith.. being a slave in Kenshi is like daycare IRL. You get (some) food, you can train your (labour) skill and the guards protect you (from everyone excepte them). Try the "Torso" mod .. I promise you it will give you the perfect - most balanced Kenshi experience that you (n)ever wanted.
Kenshi is such a cool game hope you have fun with it. My personal favorites are the skeletons (sentient robots who need no food). Also could you please make a second part and free Jumper and discover the world, because that sounds fun. Its also no Laith video with alot of suffering on his part.😄
You actually shouldn't try to escape right away. Being a slave trains your skills during the day and at night you should be sneaking around and stockpiling food and gear. Also you can stealth bonk the guards, steal their gear, and walk out of the gate.
I started a character on the starwars mod with no limbs and a 500,000 bounty, crawled across the desert, stole some linbs and then got enslaved for an irl day, still enslaved, still picklocking other slaves
It's always entertaining to see a naive start. I had 3 locations on the map, I ended up going to the 2 most dangerous ones instead of the one with free shelter, food, beds, weapons and decent armor.
I watched you play for about 30 seconds and then immediately went and bought the game then came back and finished the video, QUALITY CONTENT mate keep it up 🖤🔥
As a player with over 5500 (not a typo, been playing since early development) hours in Kenshi, I congratulate you on your persistence. By now, you are learning why Kenshi has such a fanatical following. After this, you should try the cannibal camp start. I have never made it out with the entire group.
I remember my first Kenshi game. Didnt know what i was doing, somehow wandered to black dragon ninja tower and my tig biddy scorchlander wanderer was bleeding to death on the ground faster than i could realize what the heck happened.
Easiest way to escape is to find all the food you can. Food doesn't disappear from your inventory after guards beat you up. Then train athletics/lockpicking. Eventually you'll be able to out run the guards with an inventory full of food. The world is your oyster!
Wew. just died horribly in kenshi myself, and now there's this suffering to enjoy, glad you chose one of the easier starts because a lot of people get gatekept by early deaths
I love that he started as a slave on his very first game. Mine was wanderer. I got knocked out by bone dogs, then some slave traders found my unconscious body, threw some shackles on me, shaved my head and brought me to Rebirth. So in a way I did do a slave start on my first playthrough. The game is much much harder going solo and being weak and free in the world. Can easily die in this game.
"During his time here he's going to be beaten, starved and stripped of all humanity. Fortunately for him, I have experience in this as I live in England." As a Northerner myself, facts.
Last time I played at the slave, I just left my computer running and just remained a slave for about 8 hours (aka my work shift) then I was super strong from manual labor. Then I leveled my sneaking and lockpicking during the night and went back to slaving by day. Then I stole Holy Nation armor and sneaked out of the camp.
This is why Kenshi is neat. You are forced to learn and all it takes to change the WHOLE game is just a different start condition. I played this on my 3rd play-through and I think it took me 1 real world week to break free (possible because I cranked squads and raids and random camps to max) just to try it.
Slaves start Is easy if you played kenshi for some time and know what ur doing. But if you are new new this is hard af. When i first started out long story short i managed to escape made my way to the nearest city just to get enslaved since they were the same faction xD also tips for people trying this. The guard tower next to the materials machine has training dummy's for max level 5. Do this if you are planning to escape. Enter the building in daytime most of the time there are 3 guards in there 0 if you are lucky. Sneak and run up the stairs ( might get caught try again later or take of your shackles to increase your stealth ) the barrels with the dummys have most likely food in it ( once again chance of getting caught ) if you succeed stealing food just train on the dummys waiting for your hunger to go back to green to increase your running speed making escaping easier
as a long-time player of Kenshi, this video accurately represents EXACTLY what i also did the first time i tried the slave start. even the part where he waltzed straight into the capital of the entire Holy Nation and where the leader of said Holy Nation resides. *Blister Hill. Home to the Holy Lord Phoenix.*
Welcome to Kenshi, where suffering is a core mechanic and the only way to improve is by getting your shit pushed in. Time to build a squad and liberate poor Jumper by force.
I think 2 characters is better than 1 for beginners, basically you can have him working and getting money while the other one explore, also if something bad happen to the explorer, the other one can rescue him.
rebirth is suppose to be a hard start but its just a way to boost your stats freely. they feed you and treat any injuries you get. so you can get everything pretty high
I started as slave, saved two guys who join me, one died while me and the other guy escape. To escape I knock down a guard and took his clothes. It was a true adventure and now they're out for vengeance !
Slaves is actually a good start. You can grind early stats, you will never starve, and no one will kill and/or eat you. In my game, I took off my shackles, stripped naked, and walked out the front door. The less "slave" gear you have on, the less of a chance they will notice.
Want some easy training, get a large backpack and load it up with food and medkits and get yourself enslaved by the Holy Nation and taken to Rebirth. They will take all your gear, except for the backpack and whatever is in it. While enslaved you can train lockpicking by picking the locks on your shackles or cage. When you remove your shackles and put them into your inventory the guards are nice enough to provide you with another set which can allow you to easily train strength by encumbering yourself with a bunch of shackles while you walk around doing all your slave tasks. Train stealth and assassination by trying to knock out sleeping guards. Get your toughness and dodge skills up with free beatings from guards whenever you want one.
I love the idea that someone goes: “HERE, NEW SLAVE! If you ever get the chance to escape, let me mark something on your map!” And then foren going: “Tf, why has he marked a lone shack” And never critically thinking about it again
I played this start and did get great stats while in captivity. Just before my final escape attempt I decided to knock out the guards and switch their outfits to slaves including shackles and this was very satisfying. I ended up making most of the guards into prisoners by the morning and what a beautiful morning it was to see most of the guards screwed by their own rules. :)
I have watched so much kenshi content it felt weird not having wacky music blasting in the background. Hope to see more of you later, maybe a barrative with a focused goal
Shaving the heads of slaves was a way to identify disobedient slaves. Only the most loyal slaves were allowed to have long hair in many cultures. Long hair and a slave brand could be enough to let shop keepers give you supplies and put it on your masters "tab" to be paid later or on previously accrued credit. Slaves still weren't allowed to carry money so that was the catch.
I often start as the slaves and just dismiss the other person. I have once escaped Rebirth while my char was missing both of her legs. I love that start.
I love this, please continue this playthrough Laith! Would be great to see you gather an army to liberate Jumper later on! And perhaps even wage war against the holy nation :>
lockpicking 33% is your chance to pick it. not a timer. in all times before you said this at 28:16 it has been lower than 33% meaning it has been harder
I love Kenshi its great one recommendation for making a kenshi videos is maybe putting the soundtrack in the background if its too quiet, especially as the soundtrack is a banger
Here's the whole series of videos in this playlist! - th-cam.com/video/107N6jNrHpo/w-d-xo.html
would reccomend you get some kind of dynamic world mod, for late game, but i cannot belive you are playing this game right after i also found this gold mine, love your content man😘💖
I loved this video
Word of warning be mindful of the animals the beak things and spiders in particular are a hungry lot 😵
It's just for MEEE !!!!! 😄😄😄
Welcome to the community laith.
Laith: Escapes holy nation slave camp like a chad
Also Laith: Walks straight into the Holy Nation capital…
Hiding right under their nose.
i'm sorry the WHAT
@@TheSocialStreamersBlister Hill is home to Holy Lord Phoenix
@@TheSocialStreamers yeah, the house with the statues you were looking at near the end was the house of the big guy himsels, holy lord phoenix (you were building him a statue at rebirth)
@@TheSocialStreamersblister hill us home to the emperor of the holy nation 😭😭. holy nation badically just racist and mysogynistic and sends evrrything except human men to slave camps
Slave start is actually a hidden easy mode. You start by lockpicking then improving your athletics and strength with night runs while carrying the chains. In the end you get beaten up in the morning for toughness. Do that for two weeks and you will be a beast.
Works IRL too
@@Tom-oj7si And that's what I'm telling Child Protective Services when they come a-knockin'. You don't get it, I'm just toughening my kid up for the wild world out there!
@@rdrrr Some may call them "abusive parents" but i call them *pro kenshi gamers* !
@@rdrrrno sir, we’re actually Min-maxing! 🤣
It's also good for training skills like mining or farming, etc, that can be useful for earning money or building your own base, and since the guards never kill you, and feed you enough to stay alive, you can effectively grind these skills indefinitely, in completely relative safety.
"hes gonna be beaten starved and stripped of all humanity"
sounds like a tuesday in slough
Wait, this isn't COD?
glad you're starting kenshi but slave start is actually bonkers good, you don't need to feed yourself and you can grind insane levels in stealth/assassination/lockpick skills in safety
I prefer to start with 2 Shek & basically never stop fighting guards until you can literally john Wick your way out of the main gate as 2 turbochads.
Thought he’d come out the pit looking like Bane
Just a shame the Cage levels are so low in rebirth, after escaping I always go to Squin for additional lockpicking training. 😂
When I first started playing Kenshi, I went for the Slaves start for extra hard game. Turned out to be just Tutorial Heaven.
It’s only a good start if you already know what you’re doing, otherwise it’s torture.
Laith - does slave start. Calls it a mistake
Me: Does the slave start when I want to play easy mode.
Benefits of the start: You don't need to seek out and find food. You get healed for free. You can grind out stealth, assassination, lockpicking, toughness, labor, strength and athletics. Shackles lower some of your stats which makes it easier to level up the stats it lowers. It is, perhaps, one of the best starts to learn the basic mechanics of the game.
Wanderer is probably the best to learn the combat of the game. It starts you in an area with the "weakest" enemies of the game: Starving Bandits. (Just ignore the fact that player characters start with worse stats then the weakest enemies in the game)
Rock Bottom is the most interesting start for learning the consequences of losing limbs by starting you with a missing left arm.
Cannibal Hunter is the best start to learn how quickly you can go back to the main menu.
Kenshi is a great game Laith. It takes time to learn but once you master it you will seek out more challenging things for yourself like downloading a mod that gives you a start with no limbs or a start in the Foglands or Ashlands. Also, if you meet a character named Beep. Hire him. Treat him well. Learn to love him. Beep is the unofficial mascot of Kenshi. He is beloved by the Kenshi community. If he loses limbs don't worry. If you give him cybernetic limbs it unlocks a new 'idle chatter' dialogue set for him.
"Cannibal Hunter is the best start to learn how quickly you can go back to the main menu." XD🤣
You can slowly grind dodge, hand to hand and even melee atk, Def, if you smart about weapons I walked out of the rebirth ready for bug master with 5 slave start, it took me eternity but it's possible.
i think the only reason people say its "easy" is because there's no where to go but up in the start
@@jackb.207 True but I wouldn't want to subject new players to the "creativity" of Kenshi players and the stupid shit we do to get stats faster/easier. Better to give them a gist on the benefits than a step by step on how slave start is the best start to become a martial artist. Personally, I prefer Rock Bottom for martial arts runs, if only because I can make God Hand references by doing so.
@@sonderistic7664 No, it really is the easiest. It gives you all the benefits of grinding specific skills without any of the risks inherent to Kenshi. To top it off, the Safe House just outside Rebirth always has enough food to get both your characters back to 300 Hunger. Combine both of those aspects and you can really run your characters just about anywhere depending on how much "free" xp you got while in Rebirth. While it isn't a head start per se, the amount of time you can invest into Rebirth can often bear more fruit than an equal amount of time spent in a different start.
Lathe playing Kenshi? Finally, something to brighten up this boring-ahh Sunday!
It is an incredible game. I shall be playing more.
@@TheSocialStreamersshall is crazy 😂😂
@@TheSocialStreamers Glad to hear it, because it sure does look the part! I'll make sure to stay tuned in.
@@Segunda72 Is crazy is crazy
@@TheSocialStreamersyesssss😭😭
Can't believe Laith is now playing my favourite sandbox game.
Here's a funny thing you can do: go to a city in the south that's built entirely within a metal structure and open a big building in the middle.
This.....this is a great idea
With his stealth he can probably do it easily and let the guards take care of the friendly puppy inside 😊
Another fun idea: go to the southwest next to a small mountain and have a party with robot cosplayers.
@@stkosta2482 they are so friendly also, showing you their meat grinders
@@stkosta2482what are you talking about, there’s nothing but friendly human Greenlanders down there.
We need Part 2: Saving Jumper
Shes the middle child maybe shes trying too snitch
Its interesting to see Laith figuring out how to escape Rebirth by training thievery, disguising, and going south. Every time I did it, I just trained stealth and ran out through the [exit he didn't find]. Playing Kenshi for the first time is a treat.
For me it was stockpiling weapons, freeing and arming all the slaves and slipping out amidst all the chaos.
oh god that's so hilarious and fun to do. Sucks when you catch a harpoon to the head and die, though, because the guards are too busy dealing with all the chaos and can't come patch you up. @@wikidpsycokilla
I adore Kenshi, poured hundreds of hours in transporting hashish through the swamps and deserts to make fat profit.
How much are you talking about like how many cats do you make selling hash? I thought about doing it but didn't find any information telling me it was worth it
@@gareththompson1041If you take the hash bought from the Swamp to the Flats Lagoon marketplace, you can easily make 20,000 from about 5000 cats worth of hash. I remember making 2 or 3 trips and reaching 100,000 cats. Used the funds to start a city in the middle of the fog islands.
@@gareththompson1041hit 2 or 3 swamp villages, each village should have a vender for hashish and fish. Some general stores in will carry it as well, I wanna say you buy one unit for like 112 ish, and transport it to flats lagoon. One unit sells for like 680, and the city just south made of the old metal structure, I forget the name but they buy it for like 680 as well. I don’t remember the exact numbers but 1 unit is 500+ profit, and the two cities are legal so no trouble for smuggling.
@@gareththompson1041hit 2 or 3 swamp villages, each village should have a vender for hashish and fish. Some general stores in will carry it as well, I wanna say you buy one unit for like 112 ish, and transport it to flats lagoon. One unit sells for like 680, and the city just south made of the old metal structure, I forget the name but they buy it for like 680 as well. I don’t remember the exact numbers but 1 unit is 500+ profit, and the two cities are legal so no trouble for smuggling.
@@gareththompson1041I personally like sending two or three new guys if I’m gonna do it though, it does take longer but by the end should be at 40+ athletics from level 1,
The chances of laith picking literally himself on one randomise character is insane
My favorite start in the game. Lockpick/stealth/slave fight club at night. Train your strength/athletics/laboring during the day. Naruto run your way into the swamp and befriend cool ninjas
Honestly the fact you kept accidently likening slavery to a job makes me imagine that the characters got enslaved by following a "Job" advertisement that was just a slavers trap
They were slaved for not following the word of our lord and savior Okran, or being a women smh
Ow like in the middle east ;) :p
I came here expecting a silly gameplay of Kenshi and randomly I found the most beautiful kissed by angels dude wtf
This is the last game I expected you to play... also one of my favorites. Well done!
Laith playing Kenshi?!? I’d never thought I’d see the day. I recommend downloading mods, especially that to increase skill learning rate because you can spend an incredible amount of real life hours to not get far in the game.
"Is there anything else I rather get?"
"The book of the Holy Flame? No..."
*heh*
Jumper is still waiting dude, it's been 2 months. 😂 For real though, great video, I just picked up Kenshi on sale and wanted to check out a few getting started type videos before I jump in. This has got me hyped!
Thank you for playing this I love you
And I love you, random citizen.
@@TheSocialStreamers - A citizen of Metrocity?
It’s always exiting seeing someone new to Kenshi. I really hope Laith continues with more of this. I can’t wait to see his reaction to stuff like Beak Things and realizing the holy nation was only the beginning.
Imma be real, this is not something I honestly expected on this channel! Kenshi is one of my favorite games of the century, and you got the *charisma*. this is magnificent 😂
"What? Did somebody escape? am i not the main character ?" Hahahaha laughting in Kenshi. NO! this is Kenshi you are NOT the main Character. I like this series so far!
You came out of that with really great skills, while they kept you fed and healed up. When you start off on your own, you're screwed if you get knocked down and out. Nobody is there to heal you, you just lay there and die, and sometimes when you think you're just going to make it, animals come along and eat you. This looks to be one of the better starts in order to start to build in the beginning, since they take care of their slaves. It took me a lot of time to naturally get my skills up that high, fighting tooth and nail for every scrap of food and bit of healing. I had lots of deaths and reloading.
Nooo... the lone shack is perfect for escaping. It is sponsored by the rebellion to give escapees a fighting chance. Lots of food, some basic clothes and even medkits.
When doing a slave start, I find that it's good to sleep during the day and use the night time for training. Train your stealth and strength at the same time, by carrying heavy shit, and then train your athletics by running around light. You can train stealth and thievery by going and stealing food. Get attacked in the morning so you can sleep and heal all day and be ready for action at night again. You can simply enter a cage whenever you want to and often the guards will just leave you there. It is a bit of a tedious start but then there's no better way to powerlevel your thief/rogue skills. I'm currently playing a slave start game and my char is a super ninja now with 95 stealth and it only took ~20 days. You can also level assassinations as well.
Laith.. being a slave in Kenshi is like daycare IRL. You get (some) food, you can train your (labour) skill and the guards protect you (from everyone excepte them).
Try the "Torso" mod .. I promise you it will give you the perfect - most balanced Kenshi experience that you (n)ever wanted.
Honestly, the guy looks like Laith but as an E-Boy
bro tried attacking an armoured man with a sword, kenshi is a funny game
Laith playing the best game? Oh yes.
I thought I'd be frustrated by lack of understanding of mechanics. This was actually one of the most entertaining videos i've seen in a while.
Ever since I found out you were friends with simo I knew you'd try kenshi out eventually
Kenshi is such a cool game hope you have fun with it. My personal favorites are the skeletons (sentient robots who need no food). Also could you please make a second part and free Jumper and discover the world, because that sounds fun.
Its also no Laith video with alot of suffering on his part.😄
I’ve been literally praying for Lathe to play Kenshi, it’s my birthday miracle!
hes taken well to how grinding works in this, if nothing else. if its stupid and it works, it aint stupid
0:18 they look exactly the same bro aint no way
omg laith i've been playing kenshi since release, so good to see you playing this overwhelmingly underrated game
You actually shouldn't try to escape right away. Being a slave trains your skills during the day and at night you should be sneaking around and stockpiling food and gear. Also you can stealth bonk the guards, steal their gear, and walk out of the gate.
i love seeing laith play different games its nice to see this channel grow a bit
I started a character on the starwars mod with no limbs and a 500,000 bounty, crawled across the desert, stole some linbs and then got enslaved for an irl day, still enslaved, still picklocking other slaves
the lone shack north of rebirth is a slave safehouse - has food, clothes, weapons, medicine and beds for escaped slaves
“Was a slave… for the routine” just casual kenshi conversations.
Love to see you playing non-paradox type games
As a Moroccan, this is exactly where you belong
In chains or the desert?
Yes @@modernpirate988
It's always entertaining to see a naive start. I had 3 locations on the map, I ended up going to the 2 most dangerous ones instead of the one with free shelter, food, beds, weapons and decent armor.
Escaping rebirth kinda easy once you learn the way. It's always refreshing to see someone try first time.
I watched you play for about 30 seconds and then immediately went and bought the game then came back and finished the video, QUALITY CONTENT mate keep it up 🖤🔥
31:44 this needs to become a chanel meme
As a player with over 5500 (not a typo, been playing since early development) hours in Kenshi, I congratulate you on your persistence. By now, you are learning why Kenshi has such a fanatical following. After this, you should try the cannibal camp start. I have never made it out with the entire group.
You gotta go through the right of passage, play a full amputee start.
Subbed btw
I remember my first Kenshi game. Didnt know what i was doing, somehow wandered to black dragon ninja tower and my tig biddy scorchlander wanderer was bleeding to death on the ground faster than i could realize what the heck happened.
Easiest way to escape is to find all the food you can. Food doesn't disappear from your inventory after guards beat you up. Then train athletics/lockpicking. Eventually you'll be able to out run the guards with an inventory full of food. The world is your oyster!
Wew. just died horribly in kenshi myself, and now there's this suffering to enjoy, glad you chose one of the easier starts because a lot of people get gatekept by early deaths
I love that he started as a slave on his very first game. Mine was wanderer. I got knocked out by bone dogs, then some slave traders found my unconscious body, threw some shackles on me, shaved my head and brought me to Rebirth. So in a way I did do a slave start on my first playthrough. The game is much much harder going solo and being weak and free in the world. Can easily die in this game.
"During his time here he's going to be beaten, starved and stripped of all humanity. Fortunately for him, I have experience in this as I live in England."
As a Northerner myself, facts.
You'll never experience Kenshi if you didn't have your favorite character enslaved at least once
You can use the enslavement as a means to train. You work on your skills and then once you feel like you're in a good spot, you can try to escape.
Last time I played at the slave, I just left my computer running and just remained a slave for about 8 hours (aka my work shift) then I was super strong from manual labor. Then I leveled my sneaking and lockpicking during the night and went back to slaving by day. Then I stole Holy Nation armor and sneaked out of the camp.
This is why Kenshi is neat. You are forced to learn and all it takes to change the WHOLE game is just a different start condition. I played this on my 3rd play-through and I think it took me 1 real world week to break free (possible because I cranked squads and raids and random camps to max) just to try it.
"How come he can't get out? Is it Stockholm syndrome?" 😂😂😂
Slaves start Is easy if you played kenshi for some time and know what ur doing. But if you are new new this is hard af. When i first started out long story short i managed to escape made my way to the nearest city just to get enslaved since they were the same faction xD
also tips for people trying this. The guard tower next to the materials machine has training dummy's for max level 5. Do this if you are planning to escape. Enter the building in daytime most of the time there are 3 guards in there 0 if you are lucky. Sneak and run up the stairs ( might get caught try again later or take of your shackles to increase your stealth ) the barrels with the dummys have most likely food in it ( once again chance of getting caught ) if you succeed stealing food just train on the dummys waiting for your hunger to go back to green to increase your running speed making escaping easier
Its terrifying how much that character looks exactly like you
as a long-time player of Kenshi, this video accurately represents EXACTLY what i also did the first time i tried the slave start.
even the part where he waltzed straight into the capital of the entire Holy Nation and where the leader of said Holy Nation resides. *Blister Hill. Home to the Holy Lord Phoenix.*
Welcome to Kenshi, where suffering is a core mechanic and the only way to improve is by getting your shit pushed in. Time to build a squad and liberate poor Jumper by force.
You cant eat freddome must be a famous rallying words
This really came out right as I was feeling like playing Kenshi again.
I think 2 characters is better than 1 for beginners, basically you can have him working and getting money while the other one explore, also if something bad happen to the explorer, the other one can rescue him.
rebirth is suppose to be a hard start but its just a way to boost your stats freely. they feed you and treat any injuries you get. so you can get everything pretty high
you can get to the shack, but you have to go out the north gate, not down into the valley with the ruins.
I started as slave, saved two guys who join me, one died while me and the other guy escape. To escape I knock down a guard and took his clothes. It was a true adventure and now they're out for vengeance !
Nobody:
Laith: TODAY'S SUBJECT... SLAVERY ☕
We need to see a continue of this series, foren needs to work his way up the ranks!!!!!!
Slaves is actually a good start.
You can grind early stats, you will never starve, and no one will kill and/or eat you.
In my game, I took off my shackles, stripped naked, and walked out the front door. The less "slave" gear you have on, the less of a chance they will notice.
Laith: "I tried Kenshi for the first time and was immediately enslaved"
Kenshi players: "Oh, you got the good start!"
Want some easy training, get a large backpack and load it up with food and medkits and get yourself enslaved by the Holy Nation and taken to Rebirth. They will take all your gear, except for the backpack and whatever is in it. While enslaved you can train lockpicking by picking the locks on your shackles or cage. When you remove your shackles and put them into your inventory the guards are nice enough to provide you with another set which can allow you to easily train strength by encumbering yourself with a bunch of shackles while you walk around doing all your slave tasks. Train stealth and assassination by trying to knock out sleeping guards. Get your toughness and dodge skills up with free beatings from guards whenever you want one.
"There’s a lone shack I don’t think that helps"
Literally a safehouse for people that escaped from rebirth
I love the idea that someone goes:
“HERE, NEW SLAVE! If you ever get the chance to escape, let me mark something on your map!”
And then foren going:
“Tf, why has he marked a lone shack”
And never critically thinking about it again
@@TheSocialStreamers The more you know xD
I played this start and did get great stats while in captivity. Just before my final escape attempt I decided to knock out the guards and switch their outfits to slaves including shackles and this was very satisfying. I ended up making most of the guards into prisoners by the morning and what a beautiful morning it was to see most of the guards screwed by their own rules. :)
Love the luscious locks, Laith.
I hope to see this series continue
He looked so much like you that I actually thought you’ve edited it into the game somehow
this needs to be a series
I have watched so much kenshi content it felt weird not having wacky music blasting in the background. Hope to see more of you later, maybe a barrative with a focused goal
We need part 2.
Is there a part 2?
I don't see a part 2.
We DEFINITELY need part 2.😂
In Kanshi at first a toddler can beat you but 24 hours in you will be on the level of a city guard maybe.
Shaving the heads of slaves was a way to identify disobedient slaves. Only the most loyal slaves were allowed to have long hair in many cultures. Long hair and a slave brand could be enough to let shop keepers give you supplies and put it on your masters "tab" to be paid later or on previously accrued credit. Slaves still weren't allowed to carry money so that was the catch.
when I first picked this, I was enslaved for just over 60 in game days
Laith, you should start promoting the prequel: Kenshi 2, set in 1000 years before the first game. You wouldn't regret it.
You could have knocked the guards unconscious using the “assassination” skill.
I often start as the slaves and just dismiss the other person. I have once escaped Rebirth while my char was missing both of her legs. I love that start.
Was not expecting this, very cool to see! I'm surprised you didn't try to release other prisoners to start a riot with.
Would love to see more man. Still dying that the guy you randomed looks just like you 😂
cool to see non paradox stuff popping off. Well done mate
Ah kenshi one of my favourite games of all times, with surprisingly deep lore hidden under the surface
Thank you Laith. This is the reason I woke up today.
"That's right, heartbreakingly we got freedom... But you can't eat freedom" - Quote of the Year
I love this, please continue this playthrough Laith! Would be great to see you gather an army to liberate Jumper later on! And perhaps even wage war against the holy nation :>
lockpicking 33% is your chance to pick it. not a timer. in all times before you said this at 28:16 it has been lower than 33% meaning it has been harder
This is great, going to the capital of the people who enslaved you after escaping is a genius move!
A Nodachi is a two-handed sword normally associated with Samurai
I love Kenshi its great one recommendation for making a kenshi videos is maybe putting the soundtrack in the background if its too quiet, especially as the soundtrack is a banger