Kenshi - That's What Kenshi Said
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ม.ค. 2020
- Kenshi is a game about trying to survive in a cruel world that doesn't care about you, so let's collect some trash, earn some cats, and maybe one day we can settle down on our own farm...
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Say it together now. Full Series. Full series. Full series
Full series
FULL SERIES
FUHL SEEREES
Full series, dood!
*rain dances on full tilt*
FULL SERIES!!!
FULL SERIES!!!
FULL SERIES!!!
FULL SERIES!!!
FULL SERIES!!!
"OK Admittedly, this looks like the place you'd die in a horror film, cause this is where the spiders ambush you"
- Jon 2020.
He's not wrong.
... I just realised I called it by mistakes. Yes.
Anyone wants the Gilligan's Cut (spoilers?)
44:22
52:21
its not _that_ bad, just have some strong walls between you and the horror
I was cackling so much when he said that. I was all like: "Now cue the Blood spiders!"
At least he hasn't experienced that cute little habit blood spiders have yet. You know, the one where they nom on you while you're still alive...
Oooh, Kenshi. I can't wait to see how Jon's perception screws him over here.
I know right, itll be perfect
Yeah, this game seems super difficult
Dad Ee this game really wants you to to look out for enemies so you don’t get ambushed by people you don’t see and Jon is essentially blind this will go great
If you claim you got this game and it's mechanics on your first or second try, you're a liar.
5Andysalive who are you talking to?
Does Guy with a Dog start
Me: "Oh no."
... I was hoping the dog might be useful...
@@ManyATrueNerd Bonedogs are ridiculous in a fight. Once they're adults that is. 😂
Yup. You spawn with a literal newborn puppy
With the stats to match
@@ManyATrueNerd Bonedogs are stupid strong my guy
@@ManyATrueNerd The dog is not the issue, you spawn in a literal warzone, Bast is where the two largest factions, The Aristocratic slaver United Cities, and the Theocratic xenophobic and misogynist slaver Holy Nation, fight each other, and both of which will kill you as soon as they see you. Because the United Cities hates poor people and you spawned with nearly 0 cats(currency) and the holy nation will attack you because you don't have their bible on hand. The Sheks for all their focus on how great and powerful they are are in fact one of the friendliest factions, because they don't attack any specific species or gender unless they are a criminal.
Nerd: The green area is going to be a beautiful, lovely place
Me, knowing he is in the swamp: Oh dear god...
Me, knowing he's playing Kenshi: ...
its been 2 years and I am back here to request a much needed livestream or mini series for Kenshi.
This game is meant for you. Stick with it its arguably one of the best games of this decade.. easily.
Most kenshi players would run away, but Jon payed for mercs just in time.
Frickin Perfect
Love this game
most people would just have the bar beat them up and save the cats.
"You're not the Grey Warden" So DA:O is still in you head Jon
Start #2
Jon: No dog, but...
Me: No dog, but you do have a thousand cats... 😂
Ah yes, the police force who reside in their Thieves tower dressed in ninja robes and are labeled “Shinobi thieves”.
This will be glorious
It's worth mentioning you can adjust the difficulty. Like the - as usual - exaggerated hunger.
Also Jon has barely scratched the surface.
Not to mention the hordes of mods.
27:00 -- "This game, kind of like Skyrim..."
You mean modded to within an inch of its life? Yes.
Is that my favorite game I see
Ah, you're new to it
You have negative perception
This is going to be Fun
lmao, one of my favorites too, he's gonna have a fun time getting used to kenshi. Let's see if he rage quits.
@@simonegreysmith2225 I think he can tough it out, as long as he meets beep
@@jidk6565
The free recruit characters are the most interesting.
A proper posse, each having unique character dialogue and remarks.
3 humans (former Holy Nation sentinel seeking the truth beyond holy lands + one drifter claiming of dying of illness who wants to verify a legend + one nomadic wanderer who is interested in roaming and exploring the whole continent)
1 Shek (Disgraced Shek Warrior charged with desertion after surviving a losing battle with no survivors by falling unconscious from her wounds)
1 Hive Worker (slowly gaining self-awareness and independence, enthusiastic at doing anything and doesn't know what money is)
1 Skeleton (waiting for the day it ceases functioning, but decides to take one last adventure even if everything is already seen thanks to long synthetic life)
There are other ones, but most of the rest require payment and some require some non-monetary hurdles. 1 other "free" character is probably the most difficult "quest".
Does negative perception mean you sometimes miss things that you allready new were there?
Oh, this has got to be a series. One of my all time favourite games. Jon, we love to see you suffer, please do us the favour...
Oh Jon please make this a series! This is possibly my favourite game of all time, steep learning curve and punishes failure terribly with dismemberment or death... should be a blast!
Many A True Nerd: Monster Factory Edition.
I eagerly await the day that Jon plays this game again
Same
@@benk50000 we are still waiting. Truly this is the darkest timeline
I don't usually get to "Jesus, Jon, what have you done??" In the first five minutes lol
There is actually some super interesting lore to explore if you go the tech-hunter route. It's definitely worth exploring.
I like to think that the game is about slowly build plot armor
@The Mine Beak things stop being a problem once you have about 40 in stats. Your character will be able to block most of their attacks at that level. You can kill them with even lower stats if you micromanage your characters and make them move away when the beak thing attacks.
@The Mine yeah tell that to my martial Artist, and i mean yes you can still be killed by things, but only if you are silly.
@@jinhong91 have you encounter the Elder beak thing. I have 5 chars at 50s and they barely survived against one elder lol
The Mine negative, your use of negative is having a negative impact on me
I think the message here is something like "high risk doesn't always mean high reward" or something like that
"We don't need cups"! There is a Diogenes joke there somewhere.
On the off-chance that you do a series. Here's some tips:
1. Thieving is easy mode. Stealing from shops can make you rich, is the quickest way to getting high-grade equipment, and will solve your hunger problems. It used to be even more broken. If you want to play normal mode, don't be a thief. Just a looter.
2. If you build a specific storage unit (e.g copper storage for copper) and then set up the appropriate job, you will auto haul resources to your storage. This also works for farming and crafting.
3. Some characters can be recruited for free. If you choose the right dialog options.
4. Outnumbering an enemy isn't as useful as you might think. Outnumbered characters will default to splash damage.
5. Enemies are attracted to player outposts like flies. A few bedrolls won't attract them. A single well will alert every nearby faction to your presence.
6. Picking up characters is OP. You can smuggle allies, carrying drugs, into cities, prevent an ally from being arrested and keep an enemy helpless by picking them up.
7. If you need money, and fast, you can turn in your allies for their bounties and then break them out of jail. Don't do this too often. It makes the game too easy.
8. You're never as ready to start your own settlement as you think you are.
9. Broken limbs will heal. Dismembered limbs can be replaced. Don't be afraid to lose a fight with a humanoid. Be afraid to lose a fight with an animal.
10. Tech Hunters will actually heal you if they find your unconscious body.
11. Kidnapping a hungry bandit is a great way to have a free punching bag and can help you get on the bottom rung of the combat ladder.
12. Research is the most solid form of progress. You can get killed, enslaved or be invaded by an enemy faction and have everything basically reset. But, so long as you still have one playable character, you can recover and you can recover faster with more research completed.
13. There is no end point to this game. Set your own goals. But, speaking from what I know, there is a character that exists as a final boss of sorts. They live in the most dangerous area in the game and no faction has been able to get a foothold in their domain. Let alone reach them.
14. Good luck.
Who do you consider the final boss? Cat-Lon? Im no Kenshi pro but ive sunk a few hours in and it seems like a lot of the end game foes are about on the same level. There a bunch of NPCs with 100s in combat skills, but knowing Kenshi there is probably some 200 skill ultra chadbot in a cave somewhere ready to yeet you into the void for walking within 100 yards of him.
@@greybayles7955 If there's any 200 skill characters. I've yet to find them. But, by terms of lore and where you find Cat-Lon, it seems like he's built up as the final boss. I've kidnapped the holy phoenix and carted him around the holy nation for shits and giggles. But Cat-Lon is always awake and always has his army at his beck and call. Unless you have ridiculously high stealth stats, you have to fight him and his army and its hard just to get your army into his area.
@@Joseph-cq3ij Damn i was just going off his wiki page, ive never actually tried goin after him. Im more of a "systemically exterminate both Holy Nation and United Cities to see what happens" kind of player.
There are no 200 skilled characters. Wingwam is the highest skilled recruit with 50-ish skills. Cat-lon would be the "final" boss, but setting your own goals (whether it be systematically taking over all Holy Nation towns, or liberating all slaver towns, or taking over a section of the map, or whatever) is really the best way to go. The beauty of the game is that you will never have quest marker or directives, instead you must forge your own path. Sometimes you won't know what that is when you start a play through, but it will likely organically occur. For example, I had a play though where the only characters I could initially find were Shek females and the Holy Nation were constantly on my ass. It evolved into a large group of only Shek females called the Valkyries whose sole mission was to crush the Holy Nation and hand their territory over to the Shek. It wasn't planned, but it was perfect.
cat-lon is my smith and my end game is to get all the fancy carpets from the nobles. there is no one with100+ skill in vanilla only the hive king i guess.
Make this a series!
When I looked up kenshi due to my recently resparked interest, I did not expect to find you having just made a video.
But I'm bloody glad I did.
3:30
And you went straight Dan. This is perfection.
RE: Stacking items - some containers allow stacking, some do not. The base inventory does not, but some (not most, but some) types of backpacks do, notably the trader's pack. However, the packs that allow stacking tend to have higher combat penalties.
RE: Holy Nation being the bad guys - yes. However, arguably most of the game's factions are the "bad guys", so it's all relative. At least Holy Nation doesn't eat you for breakfast.
RE: Growing crops - so, what you need to be aware of is that there are three different biomes for different crop types (arid, green, and swamp.) Some crops (like rice) can actually be grown just fine in the swamp. However, greenfruit requires "green" biome. It's not always intuitive what kind of biome is where just by looking, but there is a prospecting feature to tell you the suitability of the current area, and what kinds of resources are in the vicinity.
RE: Swamp raptors - they're mostly herbivores...
I know this is a 3 year old comment, but something I would like to add about growing crops is that it's probably a bad idea to start building a base early game unless you have a lot of people and want to turn the game into an RTS game. Placing anything outside of the camping tab creates an outpost which then attracts raids no matter how big it is. Raids in kenshi are frequent and brutal early game. They will require your best units to always stay at the base to defend it unless you can afford to pay mercenaries to protect it at 1,000 c per day. In short, building an outpost early game will lock you to that location on the map and really hinder your ability to explore. You don't really need farming for food unless you have a very large squad. If you want a place to live, buying a house in a city is generally a better idea early on for small squads. You can still build infrastructure in a city to do research and be able to train trade skills like smiting to generate income to buy the food you need. Copper mining alone can easily produce enough income for feed a moderate size squad and there are a number of cities with copper just outside the city, close enough that you can still automate them bringing the copper to storage containers in your house. Since most cities have guards, you don't have to worry about protecting your property and can safely explore with your full squad to scavenge for certain things you need for research tree progression. If you want to play the game as an RTS and make a base in the early game, I would recommend picking the freedom seekers start as it it gives you everything you need to start out including one starting character with "decent" combat.
i played Kenshi long time ago, you dont need a compass, you can just like, click on the map to move
Use the icon on the lower left to choose the speed your party walks, there is a setting that forces everyone to walk the same speed.
Don't build a base until you get a crew of about 8 and they all have most of their stats at 10 or higher.
To build a defendable base you will need to research walls and build city walls around your base.
In order to research you should buy a home in one of the city's and build a research project table in it.
In the same building you can build a ore chest and anyone assigned to mine will automatically fill it.
Early on you can get most of your food from wild dogs and herbivores.
You can stack items and generally make your inventory larger by equiping a backpack. Not all backpacks let you stack items but most do.
You can join the shenobi thieves who will defend you in that town if you pay a small fee. They also sell backpacks
I know, I love Hub. Nice little town to set up in at the beginning and there's farmland within reach if you hoof it for shelter fast enough when the fecal matter hits the rotary impeller device.
We should recommend a modlist for Jon just in case he wants to make a series out of this. I'll start with a couple, feel free to add your own suggestions as comments:
Essential:
lets talk
256 recruitment limit
sensible spider range
attack slots x5
Non-essential but ideal:
Hippity Hoppity You are now my property
recruitable prisoners
reactive world
crucifixion (ave true to caesar)
I'd argue that reactive worlds is 100% essential
@@thebystander6762 I will accept that argument
those are the bare necessities, but i'd also recommend either searching through the workshop and just picking up some shit you like or going for a mod pack like blood and sand so they behave together nicely. especially nice for cities that don't get enough love int he base game, like the hub.
Mods just break the game
I wouldn't say attack slot x5 is essential. It's something you mod in if you think combat is too easy.
Love this, thankyou for the video, would love to see a series, you've only barely scratched the surface
Yes! I love this game and I love that you're playing it! Plase make this a series.
It's been 4 year now. I'm not even sure how many times I've re-watched this video. I can't express how much I want a full series of this or at least a live stream.
That village where he mined copper is called Hub. It's an awesome place and if Jon had gone on the other side of the town, out the entrance near the bar, he would have found two decent sized copper deposits, and a road with enough water and fertility he could have set up a farm right there. I've actually recorded fifteen episodes of a run where I did just that, ending in me going south into Shek territory with 20,000 Cats, and hiring an entire squad's worth of Shek companions as bodyguards.
Granted, I started with the small group setup, rather than as a single person.
Im so SO happy to see you play this Jon, I've been a big fan of Kenshi for a long time and never see any big channels playing it, so seeing you play made me happier than I can describe! Please, make this a series, once you start to get a feel for the game and what it's capable of I know you'll have a GREAT time with it!
Its about time this game made an appearance on the channel
Please for all of Okran's grace make this into a series
"This looks nicer down here!" Yeah...Anyone who plays this knows what's down there...Nice isn't a word I would use...
Please do another episode Jon. Watching you learn this beast of a game is an absolute joy. Reminds me of back when I first started playing it! (Which was rife with lots of dying)
Wait, am I seeing this wrong? Jon playing _Kenshi?_
*Yes, yes, yes!*
I have only watched 4 seconds and I will watch it all- I just wanted to thank you for playing this game. I was a little late for this one and I noticed that a lot of videos from other TH-camrs for this game trailed off about a year ago, sadly. There is so much to do and explore in this game and that is BEFORE you even start modding.
I'm so happy you're playing this!
Oh Christ. I literally just booted up my save after a while and now I find out Jon’s playing this?
one of my favourite games of last year hope you make more.
I love that you are covering this game. I only discovered it a couple of weeks ago and have already put 70+ hours in. From a husband and dad of 3 and a full time job, that's life destroying! Love it!
Kenshi is actually more fun to watch when someone first experiencing it than a pro player playing it slaying everyone so easily ! Thx for the upload =) , I hope more experiment videos would come soon ^_^ and that was a good run for Gecko and Logan .
Amazing game man. super fun video!
More please and thank you.
Brilliant..we need a series of this on our desk yesterday
I'm so happy :)
I've been waiting for a TH-camr I like to play this and now you ARE!!! Thank you SO much :D
Nathan's Sandbox did an excellent series or two, highly recommended.
It's finally happened! Thanks for taking the time on it Jon!
Just started this game about a week ago myself, and have been thinking "I really hope Jon covers this at some point." Great minds my friend!
I know it is a bit buggy and you have to be a little more RP since there aren't really quests, but I think it would be a great series!
Oh my gawd yes I was so looking forward to seeing you try this game!
I have been waiting on you to discover this game for soooo long! Please make a recurring series!
I love watching this despite how much it hurts to do so. Learning pains are gonna be fun to watch however, cannot wait for him to find a specific group of "smoothskins"
This might make a really nice live-stream. Love the content as always 😊
Jon, please make this a full series
Kenshi! My favorite torture game! Please, full series! This game has SO MUCH to build upon!
I've been wanting to see this game but waited for you to cover it. It may be on my to buy list if I like what I see.
Glad you started this jon from medieval 2 to fallout now this all the greats keep it up 👍
This is literally my favorite game right now, I would be ecstatic if you made this a series
Having waited 2 years for more.. PLEASE Jon play more Kenshi! There's so many ways to play it, albeit rpg squad-based combat simularor never fails (much).. great vid :)
PLZ A SERIES
more pls this was amazing
You know that we (some of your fans) are still waiting for your Kenshi series xD becuase realy you are one of the best game commentator/storytellers on the youtube =)
Thanks for giving this a try. always wanted to play it myself.
I'd love to see a full series of this game!
You better not eat dog Jon.
Ok. I have seen dog. You can eat it. Or he can eat you.
Why does *EVERYONE* make an abomination of a character the first time they play this game?
Zeta Omega because it’s fun
Cause they can?
i always ask the same question XD
This is actually the ONLY thing I associate with this game. No idea what else happens in the game, just that you can play as Otto Sump.
@@mudcrab3420 "Truth be told i havent beat the character creation screen yet"
RETURN TO THIS!!!
RETURN TO THIS!!!
What a Hilarious Presentation of Kenshi :-D Well done
I would love a livestream of this
Time to peel some... "potatoes"...
Yeaaaaaah...South East has a nice robotic fries restaurant and everyone is happy...Right?
Jon, please do a full series. I got into Kenshi a short while ago myself and I have to say the game allows for a lot and although it's a learning curve it is one that makes it possible to feel connected to your characters and what they've gone through
It will kick your ass because you're not special but it will also make you feel genuinely fullfilled when you overcome an obstacle or progress where you want to
I had to start my current game 9 times just to get a base going and not get overrun each time and now that I've gotten there I will honestly say it feels like my Ironclad Keep (which is now recognised as a city due to it's size and economic production strength) feel like home, a battle hardened fortress and a place where I can feel safe in the wasteland. M characters all have their tasks and the strength they built up as a group makes me always smile when I see the base. An undeniable monument to the strength of the reforged, even if we're one day driven out, they can't take down our home, our place and I will rebuild and reclaim that place
Kenshi is the kind of game where it's hard but fair and because of it's difficulty each victory is earned and makes you want to push further
If you ever decide to play Kenshi again, here's a couple things to help:
Get beaten up in safe ways: The only reason Logan and Gecko died at the end is that you hadn't leveled up their toughness so they bleed out very easily. Getting knocked down and having some patch you up in the early game is important. When you had your mercs fighting the dust bandits you should have put your people front and center to take hits and become tougher.
Take the "survival" aspect of the game quite seriously. When you do set up a base, the game will not be fair. Without spoiling anything, do what you have to do to survive. There are plenty of ways to bounce back.
When your people become more experienced at fighting, note that they are becoming more proficient in the weapons they are using. Pay attention to what weapons they are good at (racially), and what armor could work well with those weapons. Kitting out a character isn't necessarily straight forward if you aren't familiar with the game. Any build can work with any race, but it's not always optimal.
Happy to provide a lot more help but I want to stay spoiler free.
Thats why hungry bandits are armed with clubs
polishlinks In my play through of Kenshi. I made a house that was empty, put a cell in there and held bandits, and skeletons and such to fight and level up my people. It was like a little dojo.
finally jon plays this game!!! i requested this a little bit months ago its such a good game.
YES, I've been waiting!
YES!! I've been trying to suggest this for *ages*!
YESSSSS PLEASE MAKE THIS A SERIES PREFERABLY MULTIPLE SERIES BUT JUST ONE IS GOOD ENOUGH JUST KEEP PLAYING THIS GAME PLEASE!!!
glad to see you play this
im watching this for the second time. when i first watched it when you dropped i got invested in the game. but not till about a month ago. youve gotten me into tons of games and i thank you for that. also i didnt get the classics joke but will research till i get it lol
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Hey Jon I would really like this as a series
I’ve waited so damn long for this
My life has been complete with this video.
Woo! I remember Nerd3 doing this years ago. I'm so glad Jon is playing it too.
Ian Miller that was only 11 months ago, time is wierd
@@jamiesmith3396 ...WHAT. How has time passed that quickly?
*sobs in existential terror*
Please make this a series Jon,I loved watching it and I'm sure some people would agree with me
It's great to see Jon play some older games. First DaO livestream. Now this. I can only be hopeful for Valkyria Chronicles for that Turn based strategy Xcom lite itch.
That player portrait is killing me! 😂
Full series this is my favorite game beside new vegas I swear on my life john
Please make this a series!!!
oh man this game oh this will be fantastic
I love this game, this would be a good series
Please make this a series Jon!!
Thank you Jon
Thanks John. I watched this a few days ago, was impressed, was going to ask for more but changed my mind. The thanks is purely and sincerely for doing this, the showcase and all your showcases. There's been a big emphasis on modding and it's distracting from new/obscure development. I kinda miss the really awful ones but this approach is far more important I reckon.
Trimarchios picture at the bottom is extremely haunting! Especially considering the duration I have stared at it for.
Would love a series in this!
Oh man I laughed so hard . So glad I watched this one!
40:30 Haha Well Done escaping that Death Trap and coming out to the Good!!
Thanks, now I want to play this...
I can't believe I've never seen this game before, I must have!
Jon you can actually right click on the map with your people selected and they will go there. This way you don’t have to keep orienting yourself!
Also items become stackable once you have a backpack. Garrus (pack animal thing) are good for this
The shinobi guild mostly keep to themselves but if you join them you can fence any stolen goods without worry
There is something precious about watching someone playing Kenshi for the first time :)