I followed your guide up to the point where I had to capture Cat-Lon... however, I got a lil'bit distracted by the fact that once you are allied with the gutters, you can pick up beak-things if you walk up to them. Just like you did with your bull-bag, you can pick these hyper-aggressive, ever-hungry beasts up and release them inside any buildings you wish. There is literally no one able to stop you from hauling 20+ of these beasts into Tengus throneroom and releasing them all at once. We ravaged Sho-Battai, Hevt and Hermelin with Heng next on my list. Give it a try, you'll make those fleshies weep
Thats interesting cuz when 6 Trader Guild taxers came to my base they wiped 10 Beak Things and took barely any damage aand here I was hoping I wouldnt have to pay :(
@@Voytek1985You don't have to pay the fee, but I suggest you build walls quickly after sending the Tax-collectors away, bc they will send Slavers after you for that. The patrolling beak-things will take care of these (and traders) while you hide safely behind the gates. Don't worry, your relationship to the respective faction won't be impacted as long as you don't join the beak-things in the fight. ProTip: loot the traders dead pack-garrus after they left for an steady supply of free goods, just don't get caught by any survivors
03:11 - the bluepLint you need 07:45 - our next port of call 10:30 - back to blackscratch 12:10 - robot city 18:35 - home again home again 23:10 - yo dawg, we heard you like exploits 24:26 - training dummy time 34:50 - why???? 43:32 - the last step 48:25 - however! 50:18 - the armor king 53:35 - exploiting dodge
I love the fact about kenshi that you easily can peel off limbs out of living characters, but you cannot volunteer to get them just cut off/swapped for robotics.
@@Cloudx44 i wanted my Beep to lose his limbs so I could replace them, but the lucky bastard never lost any! From Mongrel, Hub, and Foglands, standard settings and everything. Worst he got was a crippled arm that we patched up 😅 Really was looking forward to CyberBeep
@@lo-rez relatable, Beep has the strongest limbs out of my party despite being a hiver. I literally sent him hundreds of times to a bloodbath with rest of my characters waiting on hold to help when Beep is about to get killed. Never lost any limb haha
I remember when I started playing kenshi and made a squad where each person had a weapon until I realize martial arts are OP as fuck , Them I wonder around and recruit like 7 I think skeletons and made all of them martial artists , I didn't use a lot of special training tactics , most beating people up and wiping minor factions, Until the point I attack the Holy nation . What a massacre . i didn't know was possible to hit +300 in a 2 hit combo and dismember full plated paladins as if they are made of butter and snowflakes , I still remember the green soil painted red with the holy blood of my enemies and the capture of The holy nation overlord
i dunno I use armoured shek warriors with falling suns, I would love to test vrs a similar powered skelly unarmed. 1 shek can take out a whole city so long as they are not getting harpooned. I was even able to run in admag , attack the stone golem and his gaurds , lead them out of the city and defeat them all solo.
@Split Dimension na , your high tinfist hits for like 30. UA is blunt plate armor takes 80% 100tough takes more , that 300damage drops to like 10% or 30
I would still personally say weapons are better than MA in group fights because of how slow the animations are for advanced MA. You will get interrupted far more often when using MA and are much more likely to get locked into constantly dodging. Throw in a few ranged enemies and it'll be a slog. Mind you I tested this with a 500 stat character lol. When soloing towns, I would be taken out relatively often using MA, whereas I would almost never lose while using a heavy weapon or pole arm. Not to mention MA's incompatibility with most heavy armors. TL;DR: In a 1v1, MA is King In a 1v10+, Weapons are King In a 1vX, Ranged is OP
Thank you so much for this fun series! My favorite moment was when you instagibbed the Outlaw Farmer, imagining a kick that pulverizes a skull with surgical precision is a thought for the ages.
In Rimworld, a lot of "body modification" is left to the imagination. In Kenshi... *shudders.* Francis, remind me to align with you if there's ever a war. I don't want to go against you.
@@KainYusanagi I'm with @realityVeil there. I've watched every series FJ has ever done, and he is a) a master storyteller via video games and b) a monster to all who stand against him, and most who stand with him. Having said that, I'd still rather be on his side and pray for a massive reserve of painkillers and booze.
@@JaRyCu Nah, he's not. I watched all of his Rimworld series so i think i can say it. Definitely not with allies even after the second Yunners :) For me it's somewhere between 3-8% which is completely ok with Rimworld setting.
@@realityveil6151 FJ isn't evil, he's pragmatic neutral. If you're one of his, he'll do _whatever_ it takes to give you the best odds of survival and being useful. If you're the enemy (ie, you attack him first) he'll either bribe you, or _whatever_ it takes to make you a non threat. In a place like the Rim or Kenshi, that's the exact kind of boss I'd want to have. If you're a neutral, he just ignores you. Live and let live. By my standards, "good" is being nice to people you don't need to be nice too (neutrals, enemies, innocent bystanders) while "evil" is being mean to people you don't need to be mean too (neutrals, allies, innocent bystanders, you're own people).
Something random that not everyone knows, skeleton repair beds can be used on humans to stitch them up. no medic available to heal someone? just put it on a skeleton bed. You can train your whole squad by having a bunch of skeleton repair beds in a shrieking forest base, hordes of people endlessly beating you up
@@zagzyg2914 A 4x healing rate is nothing to sneeze at, though. It's not meant for super long term recuperation, really, but when we're looking at that tiny damage output? Yeah, way more than good enough.
Imagine if this was to the way to get tough IRL ... LMFAO ! Gettimg ypur self bitten by milions of ants would have been the meta ! 0 t0 100 reaaal quick !
for the toughness training, if i remember right only the first person to get up from playing dead can get the XP for getting up while enemies are around, anyone else around just passively gets up because an ally is in active combat, so your training method would want only one person. and even if you don't do it through a play through set up a base near the crabs without making them friendly, the crab battle events have great dialog. and yes when you get high starts martial arts gets super insane, 300+ damage hits and whatnot though they can get dodge locked in group combat.
This sort of thing is how I ended up making videos. Their is loads of great info out there on how to do all this stuff but it's scattered across 50 different videos and forum threads. Once you figure it all out why not put it all in one place for the next person and save them a bunch of time.
you dont have to open menu to assassinate, just click him while in stealth, then you can spam click assassination and try it like twice a second. @Edit: driving down stats via injury/robotic limbs/ missing limbs is an exception and slows down training instead of speeding it up, also using katanas is better for dex training. You dont need a base, just use unfinished paused weapon display to block exit of a building, and you can trap your training dummy in, and police outside. Thou i would not use Y shaped house for training, dummies glitch into a walls a lot in those.
One thing you are still missing: you can delete all stolen tags in the smelter or in the crossbow lcoker, all your skeleton repair kits only get half price as stolen. Of course, if you steal them all back, it does not matter. Only important when going to jail or when not stealing. Still really nice tutorial on how to make Kenshi easy. Later on you will make all kinds of restrictions to make it interesting again, see rhadamants Birth of a hive, he has quite some rules to make it hard again.
I did a playthrough the old fashion way and trained 4 skeletons up in the 90's plus gave them all top of the line limbs. As I'm sure you know, it takes a LONG time once you get to 85. I gave them Frag axes and they were doing 400+ damage and literally throwing enemies off the axe like 60 bodies away. Was so awesome! Really enjoyed these videos you made.
Hello Francis. I enjoyed the vid, thanks for posting. Who knew removing a leg made you go unconcious! You mentioned having a hard time training dodge so i'll throw in my 2 cents. The way I did this was to slap that samurai armor / legplates etc back on this should reduce your dodge by 90% (give or take). If your characters have 80-odd toughness like in this vid, I would set up a camp bed outside Cat-Lon's place in the ashlands, then run inside that Stormthrall dome that you so dilligently avoided. due to the frequency of weak hits that 100 stormthralls will land on you, and the debuff on your samurai gear, dodge skill should zip up into the 80's - 90's after a few Beatdowns > Rests > Repeats.
You can loot some first aids from em' to make them hostile, after the "waking up, suprised he got stolen from" attack them and they "retreat" while sleeping while agressive. Never done that in a city, might result in a bounty. 56:40 Martial Arts can knock off limbs in a heartbeat, their only weakness is mounted crossbows. Without the Attack Slot +3 mod they're near indestructable as long as no crossbows are nearby. Only splash damage Leviathans I have yet to take down with one they seem to ignore the dodge if they attack twice in quick succession.
Another random tidbit I noticed is that robotics skill seems to plateau in the low nineties from crafting robotics components / limbs etc but if you beat up those cleanser units in the ashlands, you can use robotics to heal them and their limbs have 2000 - 2500 hp so great way to powerlevel that skill. For some reason the skill still advances at normal speed from healing instead of getting exponentially slower to level from crafting - Currently have 120 robotics skill on my current playthrough. Edit: It just occurred to me that this may be possible to train Medical skill in this same way using leviathan, but I haven't tested this yet.
legendary, i almost want to buyt kenshi and kind of break the game and get someone up to the point where the can insta martial arts kill someone or have all their stats to 100
I'm currently doing this on my current playthrough. getting to 100 in the base stats seems almost impossible. - I'm stuck at 98 Str, toughness and perception while dex is still 93 as it seems a fair bit less reliable to level.
If you really want to drive stats down as low as you can, go to the hivers and buy the lowest grade limbs you can find. Multiple uses for those things. Cap off a freshly removed limb to stop bleeding out, excellent for training almost any skill, and since they're cheap, stick them on a captured paladin and watch the game ignore its own rules against robot limbs.
Ok so from what ive learnt playing the game and using this training method as well, it is possible to hit 3 enemies at once with martial arts, therefore leveling faster, you can also put sleeping bags on skeleton beds and normal beds for even more dummies. Another thing is that their melee defense and possibly dodge doesn't matter because they are not able to defend themselves and the difference dosent provide more experience.
also for training melee defense and dodge, what i did was to give the leg back to the training dummy and equip them with skeleton arms which are faster and more dextrous. I then give the dummy with assassin's rags to boost its melee and a weakest cut damage weapon (i used a rusty wazikashi). And i gave my own guy any armor that reduced melee defense like the holy armor and guardless katana, if any slots are free i fill them with any gear that reduces their combat speed. This causes the training dummy to be able to hit your guys far more and your guy wont get a chance to attack much. Another thing is that not turning on block mode is also good aswell as to not get the 20 point boost towards defense/dodge that reduces the xp
If you don't have to go through the ordeal of getting Cat-Lon and a skeleton bed, you can get your bootleg Cat-Lon by placing about 4 skimmers into a line of beds in the bar's roof and a lot more of training time.
The higher the defence stat on the enemy the faster you level, so the 100+ defence of cat lon means you can get to the 80s pretty quick. Doing that with spiders is possible but I'm not sure how long it would take, I tried with a bunch of a beak things and it took way way to long for my liking.
@@FrancisJohnYT hmm. Further testing required. I'm almost sure i was able to use bedroll at least once. But anyways, using bar beds turned out to be easier.
As an advice for new players. Do not use any of this exploits at least in your first playthorugh, it will ruin your fun. The idea of the game is to be very hard to advance in skills, creating stories while trying to level up, put yourself in danger etc. If you elimiate this the game is meaningless.
I want to learn this to skip the settlement management part of the game, don't get me wrong, I don't think that part of the game is bad, but is not the way I want to play the game.
Yet to find someone on TH-cam who doest Turn kenshi into a cheese cheat fest.everyone just wants to be a super Heroe... I dont see much fun in That, But hey its a sandbox so do what u want and play it has u like
Putting your chars In a prison pole in at fog islands make sure to have a fast mover holding back since things can get bloody really fast, but you go from 15 to 40 toughness in FAST, but like I said you need a back up to rescue you or even get 2 scout legs install them after your legs are gone and run Mongrel, I think it's best to keep 1 fleshy arm and make sure to escape and repeat. Going from 15 on a liver to 65+ only takes 1 go and both yer legs. Just checked it human Greenlander went from 12 to 46 losing both legs in about 2-3 seconds with about 15-20 fogmen chomping on em. The hit box for escaping can be pretty small for using escape so like I said good idea to have a backup.
FJ, when you hover the mouse over something and right click, it will do the displayed thing by default. So, you don't need to open the context menu every time. Meaning, when it shows a speech bubble, right click starts a conversation. When a knockout fist is displayed, right click will attempt a knockout. For Mad Cat-Lon, you can literally go in with 0 assassination, hide behind him, and spam right click. You will knock him out before his speech ends, and get up to nearly 80 assassination in those few seconds.
@@FrancisJohnYTi was in vanilla when i did that. Not even the dark UI mod. I remember seeing someone demonstrate it... i think it was Ambiguousamphibian, but not sure.
The peeler machine is a bit much, they say things while you are using it so not a big fan of having to watch it. But if you want all robot limbs it's really efficient.
While it gets style points, Cat-lon with his monologue and turning passive are more of a pain. A P30 from Black Desert works the same, are always agro, and easy to replace, and you can knock a leg off fairly easily. I've never had the police try to break in as he is never out of bed/cage, so I think they only trigger when an enemy actually starts fighting. Put master samurai set and best defensive stat rusted junk weapon on the dummy, and prototype samurai set on self, 1 prototype arm, and overload to very high levels, and you level dex, attack and martial arts super fast, and with dex 90+ your attack speed will be a lot higher for weapons training. For overloading I fill 2 garu backpacks with iron, then carry those in your inventory, and a traders pack full of iron or the 100kg traders pack on your back if you have it. I think I get close to 4 tonnes. Watch you have enough power for the skeleton bed as some towns get blackouts, so I put some small wind generators on the roof. Similarly, early trip to a hive village, and grab a knocked out gorillo or beakthing, and put them in one of the sleeping bags for rent there. They don't heal that fast, and it's pretty easy to kill them if you don't micro a bit and heal them, and replacement medical supplies can be short, but there are ample volunteers, and free lunch and hides.
If I was going to use this strat to build a team I would go out and hire say 20 recruits, most likely Scorchlanders. (Lower bleed rate, fastest heal rate and only race with bonus to Dodge learning) Then train them all up in one sitting on Cat Lon to get martial arts and Dexterity to 80+. Toughness next with the leg removal trick, then over to black desert for dodge training. I figure it would take 4-6 hours but you would then have a team of martial arts monsters. Though I suppose then you would have to train strength which would take longer than all the other training combined.
Baby animals are good for training martial arts, their stats are affected by a negative modifier but still count as their true number, so they’ll suck but you’ll get xp as if they were much more skilled than you. Crabs have a lot of babies in the nests so they’re usually good as long as you have good toughness already.
You can use training swords to boost your defense skills with no risk. You knock out your enemy and then swap out their weapon for the training sword. When they wake up youll just fight them until sleep or food is needed.
Best place to cheese your stats is mourn. the large structure in the middle has a giant white gorrillo inside with some of the highest stats in the game. Also has some beds to stick it in. Getting a full set of samurai armor, a few backpacks full of iron and a large backpack to properly gimp your MA stat will allow you to train all the way to 100 skill. Fighting bare handed with that equipment also trains strength, dex, and toughness. MA damage is based off of Strength, MA skill and Toughness. This gives you your base ma damage that then gets multiplied depending on the move that is performed. Healing the gorillo after each training session will level first aid. Eventually letting the gorrilo go free from it's bed prison to increase dodge and defense is the final phase of training. It's not a good way to play the game for your first run, but on run like 3 or 4 it's fun creating a single character that can wipe out any faction leader and their body guards.
Now I'm wondering if you can build in the swamp-desert spot used in the series and wall in some beak-things to be guards for when raids bust open your gate... or if you can just grab ones knocked out and relocate them to your own base...
WARNING: Just found a bug in my playthrough of the above and found that any game saves (auto or manual) while in combat with Mad-Cat can NOT be used or he will disappear. Probably best to get him to drop all aggro before saving to ensure a proper load.
Hey if there was an option to give them a glass of whiskey I would, also sedatives would be nice. But I think Kenshi wants us to be the bad guy, it does not give you the choice.
Man this is a breath of fresh air. Been watching a bunch of different guys on here playing kenshi and they make the dumbest decisions that i would never make and misunderstanding the game and rhe mechanics, fumbling around and it pisses me off, haha.
5:54 I normally just pick Savant up then you can 100% take everything although doing so immediately causes a skin bandit to take his place as leader XD
For stealing things, I usually bring 2-3 teammates (who have lower or no stealth or stealing stats). They just sneak right in front of the NPC's eyes in a different direction as distractions if that NPC is watching a chest or valuable storage. They can also haul excessive stuff for your main assassin character (I also bring a pack animal for stackable stuff). I emptied the entire scraphouse this way.
holy, now is time to train my squad up ehehe and once again, ninja are broken lol. but i discovered way too any things are broken in this game lol, martila arts doing crazy damage while pratically not having any weight around, so they can carry more staff around, a thank and a squad of crossbows is really juicy to look i kinda image the bodies that are left as tasty cheese for all the holes on them lol. still think stealing and selling is too broken tho... make getting things and money way too easy so it remove a good chunk of the game fun it's probably the one cheese i don't want to exploit too much and honestly an armor crafter white armor plate easily buyable on helf (the location you are doing the training) and there are a lot of iron plate too for crafting crossbows (general store and mechanical store sell both of those in large quantity and defenetely more than you can use). kinda curious if you can make robotics easily too, but they require steel too which there are not much of there, probably a base (on guts) is need for that (robotics is for cash and training robotics for limbs) btw. the ninja bull was completely worth it
Before watching this... i was actually embarrassed of my playthrough... exploiting slavery(being a slave).... backpack weight training... speed running... pick a fight and run away.... and a few other minor things.... but this ..THIS is pure evil Genius ... i actually feel better about my MINOR infractions..
1 year later but i wanted to tell you, i think you would know, you can train pretty good using king gorillo he has so much health and very hard to kill but catlon seems pretty good training dummy too
Oh King Gorillo is amazing. I put him in a building for training purposes in one game. While my main team was away the base got attacked and overrun, but the enemy would not leave they kept getting drawn into King Gorillos building and beaten down. King smashed all the attacker down and "saved" the base. Don't get me wrong we still lost people but non of the enemy got to live to tell the tale.
Defense is relatively easy to train, set the unit to only block and let an enemy equipped with a stick attack, dodge is the same but at higher levels it becomes so ridiculous that you can just "passively train" it by leaving the unit surrounded while you go do something else
In my testing in the scrapyard only Quin and Dack will actually spot you stealing or lockpicking so if you avoid their line of sight you can steal in front of the security drones
there is a way to run through the water that Twisted logic found, start to build a small shack (don't actually build it) in the water get in the shack then click on were you want o go, you will start to run along the bottom like a skelly!
@@FrancisJohnYT nope, just place the framework down, (the outline and door) no resources required. then enter the frame work, then get ready to run! and when you click on were you want to go, yo will start running out of the framework and through the water!
I mean there is a gorillo called the great white gorillo that thing has over 100 in stats if it doesn't it will by the time you are done with it there are normal beds that one can use if it gets out into the town it will wipe everyone out unless you get there with the intention to try and get power back on then the town will pretty much be safe but this gorillo with high grade armor if played correctly and slightly managed properly will boost your defense and dodge real fast and it is to me the best creature to level up your defensive stats safely the only thing I use that place for later on when you finally defeat it is either place it in a cage there is a small building with cages so you can easily get him back out and use him again but go out get some elder beak things and use them as training dummies I find they heal a little bit quicker then everything else plus once their toughness gets high enough they barely lose blood
@@FrancisJohnYT High tier bulls are indeed fun...but have you tried using the FCS to make them 100 years old? It doesn't do anything crazy. Trust me ^.^
Another great way to start is Slave: Rebirth This way oyu start with 2 pawns with an EXTREMELY easy and pretty effective way to train: Sneak Lockpick Assassination Athletics Stealing Toughness Labour And a somewhat nice way to train Strength on the side + you cant starve + you can go for daily knockouts without any risk of death + you start close to the Shinobi Village and Worlds End when you finally escape including a safehouse with some equipment + you can manage to escape with a dozen pawns xD
I don't know if you mean a video where or do the robing (listed below) or where I do the training. The training was just robbing a crippled person playing dead over and over again to grind up the stat. th-cam.com/video/NlpKKL4EGYw/w-d-xo.html
I find Dodge is pretty easy to level up if you strip down your people to nothing have high toughness and then go into the fog Island... They are really weak and they are very numerous which allows you to dodge really good.
Also there is a glitch/exploit where you can lay your people down on a bed to attract them... Also if you put a victim one of your people or one of theirs on to the deathbed Spike it summons a prince that has a $6,000 bounty on their head... You could just take the victim off and put it on off and put it on off and put it on and summon them all day long lol
Just so you know, know its been a while since you did a kenshi video, I love them btw, but No Face of the gutters no longer works rep by buying him from slavers, used over 500k, n never showed up on my faction list, keep up the good work
Weird, I have checked and their is no patch that fixed it. Did you make sure he was unconscious every time? Does not work if he is away when you buy him.
@@FrancisJohnYT think so, I'll have another try ma dude, was looking forward to open a huge fortress in beak area, oh n loooooooove the content, even the rim stuff, even though I don't even play it
Look up the goat yoga method for training toughness, alternatively keep fleshy arms on your guys and give them assassin rags while they punch the guy in crab armor for more afk toughness training
55:13, rimworld confirmed (?) The annunciation was poor and the auto captioning was no help. 55:56 Rimworld 100% confirmed! Pro tip: The original outro music fits the mood of Kenshi level 1. The outro music on 2x speed fits the mood of Kenshi power level 100.
People play dead when their are threats near them, of course you have to knock them down first. Also they will not play dead if any allies are fighting, they will try and get up and help their allies.
@@FrancisJohnYT Oh thanks ! Yea i actually past that point after more then trying a couple times XD thanks very much ! It turns out that i shouldnt have bandaged their legs LMAO . Just tell me how you manage to sell the stolen good in a cycle in the same city my man ? How is it that it gets past 56 percent ? Sorry ive watched the video a couple times fully now but i just cant guess what im doing wrong☹
@@akiamini4006 Are you levelling up your thieving skills? Assuming that is level 80+ you should be able to steal from one shop and then sell the goods to the next shop. Some shops have relationships so they are more likely to detect it. So it's a case of figuring out who's stolen goods you can sell to whom.
@@FrancisJohnYT thanks a lot bro ! Yeah it seems in big enough cities you can pull it off nicely . Just like the demonstration in Heft . BTW could you please provode other guides on how to grind the stuff that needed to get your character *ahem ahem cybernetic ? Really appriciated that
The very first thing you should train should be dodge with martial arts. The reason for this is that if you don't, it's incredibly hard to grind while using a weapon and can absolutely change the outcome of a fight. If you get staggered by a hit while using a weapon, then you roll on dodge NOT defence. By having food dodge, you can drive the enemy of an easy free second hit.
I would argue toughness is the most important stat, when you are tough enough you can tank so many extra hits it does not matter. Also once toughness is trained it makes training dodge and several other skills much easier and safer.
How'd you rescue your bull? :) I didn't think you'd get away with snatching one of the Thralls very easy. They (the thralls) sure can see well for having no head.
I know I'm super late to the party but the reason you couldn't attack with one arm wasn't because you can't, you just equipped it on the wrong side. Kenshi assumes everybody's dominant hand is their right. It took me a while to learn this personally because rock bottom got me trained to think otherwise.
I think I said it in the first video, getting into long brawls with dust bandits for hours and hours is fun the first one or two times, but by the third or fourth run though the game you generally like to skip though the early grind and get to the good stuff.
It is done, it was just all about learning how to train up totally broken characters as quick as possible. Allying with the beak things was also pretty nice.
when hiting catlon with martial arts ur strength also leveled up. If u over encumber the player character enough while carrying someone else this is the only way u can get 100 strength.
Habit, I'm terrible at remembering names to begin with. I don't mean I'm a bit bad I mean after 5 years in school with the same 60 people in the class I could only remember half the names. I learned to compensate and can now have totally normal conversations with people I have know for weeks and still do not know the name of. I always found it weird when people or comedy shows make a big deal of not remembering someone's name. It's pretty easy, "How are you doing", "you look well", "been a while" etc no names required. But I'm getting distracted. For characters in games I'm playing it's usually even worse. I can't remember if they are male or female most of the time as they are usually named after patrons. So anytime I get the gender wrong I hear about it in the comments, I get the genders wrong a lot. So for all the above reasons I just say "they" "them" "chief" "muppet" "what are your doing?" "muppet over here" etc.
how is it that the gutters ignore you? You didn't appear to be in stealth. Must be a mod as I am reasonably sure you can't "ally" the beakthings in vanilla. EDIT: I just watched the previous episode and saw you pull it off, so it obviously can (or could at some point) be done. That's crazy stuff right there. Gutter allies, wow.
Any plans to return to Factorio and do something like Space Exploration and/or Krastorio modded run? It looks super complex and right up this channel's alley. Also purchased Kensi just because of this series, I hope you're getting kickbacks!
I promised to do Rimworld next but after that I want to do a few more of these relatively short one off series. I like getting to tear into a new game and find all the fun stuff you can do with it.
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I followed your guide up to the point where I had to capture Cat-Lon... however, I got a lil'bit distracted by the fact that once you are allied with the gutters, you can pick up beak-things if you walk up to them. Just like you did with your bull-bag, you can pick these hyper-aggressive, ever-hungry beasts up and release them inside any buildings you wish.
There is literally no one able to stop you from hauling 20+ of these beasts into Tengus throneroom and releasing them all at once. We ravaged Sho-Battai, Hevt and Hermelin with Heng next on my list. Give it a try, you'll make those fleshies weep
Ohhh that's a hand way to carry around some extra firepower. I wonder how they would do against spiders.
Thats interesting cuz when 6 Trader Guild taxers came to my base they wiped 10 Beak Things and took barely any damage aand here I was hoping I wouldnt have to pay :(
@@Voytek1985You don't have to pay the fee, but I suggest you build walls quickly after sending the Tax-collectors away, bc they will send Slavers after you for that.
The patrolling beak-things will take care of these (and traders) while you hide safely behind the gates. Don't worry, your relationship to the respective faction won't be impacted as long as you don't join the beak-things in the fight.
ProTip: loot the traders dead pack-garrus after they left for an steady supply of free goods, just don't get caught by any survivors
Imagine releasing a gang of Elder Beak Things on your enemy's doorstep
@@Voytek1985 nothing stops the IRS
03:11 - the bluepLint you need
07:45 - our next port of call
10:30 - back to blackscratch
12:10 - robot city
18:35 - home again home again
23:10 - yo dawg, we heard you like exploits
24:26 - training dummy time
34:50 - why????
43:32 - the last step
48:25 - however!
50:18 - the armor king
53:35 - exploiting dodge
I love the fact about kenshi that you easily can peel off limbs out of living characters, but you cannot volunteer to get them just cut off/swapped for robotics.
In the fog you will find the truth.
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@@antonioantestonin1298 Beep? :D
@@Cloudx44 i wanted my Beep to lose his limbs so I could replace them, but the lucky bastard never lost any! From Mongrel, Hub, and Foglands, standard settings and everything. Worst he got was a crippled arm that we patched up 😅
Really was looking forward to CyberBeep
@@lo-rez relatable, Beep has the strongest limbs out of my party despite being a hiver. I literally sent him hundreds of times to a bloodbath with rest of my characters waiting on hold to help when Beep is about to get killed. Never lost any limb haha
I remember when I started playing kenshi and made a squad where each person had a weapon until I realize martial arts are OP as fuck , Them I wonder around and recruit like 7 I think skeletons and made all of them martial artists , I didn't use a lot of special training tactics , most beating people up and wiping minor factions, Until the point I attack the Holy nation . What a massacre . i didn't know was possible to hit +300 in a 2 hit combo and dismember full plated paladins as if they are made of butter and snowflakes , I still remember the green soil painted red with the holy blood of my enemies and the capture of The holy nation overlord
Yeah once you realize that fists are more powerful than the best weapons in the game it makes things just a little bit easier.
@@FrancisJohnYT and once you learn that you can go ham on immobilized targets(beds, etc.) to train it's even better
i dunno I use armoured shek warriors with falling suns, I would love to test vrs a similar powered skelly unarmed. 1 shek can take out a whole city so long as they are not getting harpooned. I was even able to run in admag , attack the stone golem and his gaurds , lead them out of the city and defeat them all solo.
@Split Dimension na , your high tinfist hits for like 30. UA is blunt plate armor takes 80% 100tough takes more , that 300damage drops to like 10% or 30
I would still personally say weapons are better than MA in group fights because of how slow the animations are for advanced MA. You will get interrupted far more often when using MA and are much more likely to get locked into constantly dodging. Throw in a few ranged enemies and it'll be a slog. Mind you I tested this with a 500 stat character lol. When soloing towns, I would be taken out relatively often using MA, whereas I would almost never lose while using a heavy weapon or pole arm. Not to mention MA's incompatibility with most heavy armors.
TL;DR:
In a 1v1, MA is King
In a 1v10+, Weapons are King
In a 1vX, Ranged is OP
Thank you so much for this fun series! My favorite moment was when you instagibbed the Outlaw Farmer, imagining a kick that pulverizes a skull with surgical precision is a thought for the ages.
I find it hilarious that it was the recruits first taste of real combat, all their training up to that point was beating on someone trapped in a bed.
In Rimworld, a lot of "body modification" is left to the imagination. In Kenshi... *shudders.* Francis, remind me to align with you if there's ever a war. I don't want to go against you.
Are you insane? If you align with him he'll put you in the skin peeler?
@@realityveil6151 Nah, it's just because that's the only option in Kenshi. If there was a surgical option he'd have taken that. He's not a monster. :)
@@KainYusanagi I'm with @realityVeil there. I've watched every series FJ has ever done, and he is a) a master storyteller via video games and b) a monster to all who stand against him, and most who stand with him. Having said that, I'd still rather be on his side and pray for a massive reserve of painkillers and booze.
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Nah, he's not.
I watched all of his Rimworld series so i think i can say it.
Definitely not with allies even after the second Yunners :)
For me it's somewhere between 3-8% which is completely ok with Rimworld setting.
@@realityveil6151 FJ isn't evil, he's pragmatic neutral. If you're one of his, he'll do _whatever_ it takes to give you the best odds of survival and being useful. If you're the enemy (ie, you attack him first) he'll either bribe you, or _whatever_ it takes to make you a non threat. In a place like the Rim or Kenshi, that's the exact kind of boss I'd want to have. If you're a neutral, he just ignores you. Live and let live.
By my standards, "good" is being nice to people you don't need to be nice too (neutrals, enemies, innocent bystanders) while "evil" is being mean to people you don't need to be mean too (neutrals, allies, innocent bystanders, you're own people).
Something random that not everyone knows, skeleton repair beds can be used on humans to stitch them up. no medic available to heal someone? just put it on a skeleton bed. You can train your whole squad by having a bunch of skeleton repair beds in a shrieking forest base, hordes of people endlessly beating you up
Not only that but it repairs robot limbs, too, so is way better.
I think it only works at sleeping bag levels for fleshy parts...
@@zagzyg2914 yeah it sucks at actually healing but patches you up. sometimes you just don't have a doctor lying around with high sneak etc
@@zagzyg2914 A 4x healing rate is nothing to sneeze at, though. It's not meant for super long term recuperation, really, but when we're looking at that tiny damage output? Yeah, way more than good enough.
Imagine if this was to the way to get tough IRL ... LMFAO ! Gettimg ypur self bitten by milions of ants would have been the meta ! 0 t0 100 reaaal quick !
for the toughness training, if i remember right only the first person to get up from playing dead can get the XP for getting up while enemies are around, anyone else around just passively gets up because an ally is in active combat, so your training method would want only one person.
and even if you don't do it through a play through set up a base near the crabs without making them friendly, the crab battle events have great dialog.
and yes when you get high starts martial arts gets super insane, 300+ damage hits and whatnot though they can get dodge locked in group combat.
playing this game for a week and your channel is the motherlode for me, so much knowledge in just one video
This sort of thing is how I ended up making videos. Their is loads of great info out there on how to do all this stuff but it's scattered across 50 different videos and forum threads. Once you figure it all out why not put it all in one place for the next person and save them a bunch of time.
you dont have to open menu to assassinate, just click him while in stealth, then you can spam click assassination and try it like twice a second.
@Edit: driving down stats via injury/robotic limbs/ missing limbs is an exception and slows down training instead of speeding it up, also using katanas is better for dex training.
You dont need a base, just use unfinished paused weapon display to block exit of a building, and you can trap your training dummy in, and police outside. Thou i would not use Y shaped house for training, dummies glitch into a walls a lot in those.
One thing you are still missing: you can delete all stolen tags in the smelter or in the crossbow lcoker, all your skeleton repair kits only get half price as stolen. Of course, if you steal them all back, it does not matter. Only important when going to jail or when not stealing. Still really nice tutorial on how to make Kenshi easy. Later on you will make all kinds of restrictions to make it interesting again, see rhadamants Birth of a hive, he has quite some rules to make it hard again.
Woot! More Rimworld! I enjoyed your Kenshi shenanigans, but Rimworld seems to just naturally generate better chaos/stories. Keep up the great content.
I did a playthrough the old fashion way and trained 4 skeletons up in the 90's plus gave them all top of the line limbs. As I'm sure you know, it takes a LONG time once you get to 85. I gave them Frag axes and they were doing 400+ damage and literally throwing enemies off the axe like 60 bodies away. Was so awesome! Really enjoyed these videos you made.
Hello Francis.
I enjoyed the vid, thanks for posting. Who knew removing a leg made you go unconcious!
You mentioned having a hard time training dodge so i'll throw in my 2 cents.
The way I did this was to slap that samurai armor / legplates etc back on this should reduce your dodge by 90% (give or take). If your characters have 80-odd toughness like in this vid, I would set up a camp bed outside Cat-Lon's place in the ashlands, then run inside that Stormthrall dome that you so dilligently avoided. due to the frequency of weak hits that 100 stormthralls will land on you, and the debuff on your samurai gear, dodge skill should zip up into the 80's - 90's after a few Beatdowns > Rests > Repeats.
You can loot some first aids from em' to make them hostile, after the "waking up, suprised he got stolen from" attack them and they "retreat" while sleeping while agressive. Never done that in a city, might result in a bounty.
56:40 Martial Arts can knock off limbs in a heartbeat, their only weakness is mounted crossbows. Without the Attack Slot +3 mod they're near indestructable as long as no crossbows are nearby. Only splash damage Leviathans I have yet to take down with one they seem to ignore the dodge if they attack twice in quick succession.
Another random tidbit I noticed is that robotics skill seems to plateau in the low nineties from crafting robotics components / limbs etc but if you beat up those cleanser units in the ashlands, you can use robotics to heal them and their limbs have 2000 - 2500 hp so great way to powerlevel that skill.
For some reason the skill still advances at normal speed from healing instead of getting exponentially slower to level from crafting - Currently have 120 robotics skill on my current playthrough.
Edit: It just occurred to me that this may be possible to train Medical skill in this same way using leviathan, but I haven't tested this yet.
legendary, i almost want to buyt kenshi and kind of break the game and get someone up to the point where the can insta martial arts kill someone or have all their stats to 100
I'm currently doing this on my current playthrough. getting to 100 in the base stats seems almost impossible. - I'm stuck at 98 Str, toughness and perception while dex is still 93 as it seems a fair bit less reliable to level.
If you really want to drive stats down as low as you can, go to the hivers and buy the lowest grade limbs you can find. Multiple uses for those things. Cap off a freshly removed limb to stop bleeding out, excellent for training almost any skill, and since they're cheap, stick them on a captured paladin and watch the game ignore its own rules against robot limbs.
Ok so from what ive learnt playing the game and using this training method as well, it is possible to hit 3 enemies at once with martial arts, therefore leveling faster, you can also put sleeping bags on skeleton beds and normal beds for even more dummies. Another thing is that their melee defense and possibly dodge doesn't matter because they are not able to defend themselves and the difference dosent provide more experience.
also for training melee defense and dodge, what i did was to give the leg back to the training dummy and equip them with skeleton arms which are faster and more dextrous. I then give the dummy with assassin's rags to boost its melee and a weakest cut damage weapon (i used a rusty wazikashi). And i gave my own guy any armor that reduced melee defense like the holy armor and guardless katana, if any slots are free i fill them with any gear that reduces their combat speed. This causes the training dummy to be able to hit your guys far more and your guy wont get a chance to attack much. Another thing is that not turning on block mode is also good aswell as to not get the 20 point boost towards defense/dodge that reduces the xp
I'm quite excited to see you tear this game apart and use every exploit possible. Keep up the great stuff!
If you don't have to go through the ordeal of getting Cat-Lon and a skeleton bed, you can get your bootleg Cat-Lon by placing about 4 skimmers into a line of beds in the bar's roof and a lot more of training time.
The higher the defence stat on the enemy the faster you level, so the 100+ defence of cat lon means you can get to the 80s pretty quick. Doing that with spiders is possible but I'm not sure how long it would take, I tried with a bunch of a beak things and it took way way to long for my liking.
@@FrancisJohnYT that's why it's called "bootleg" :D Spiders are ridiculously easy to aquire, too.
I tried putting spiders in bedrolls but they ended up being burrowed on restart and I could not attack them. Does it only work with beds?
@@FrancisJohnYT hmm. Further testing required. I'm almost sure i was able to use bedroll at least once. But anyways, using bar beds turned out to be easier.
funny thing is, there's a legit "bootleg Cat-lon", and his name is Spider Foreman))
As an advice for new players. Do not use any of this exploits at least in your first playthorugh, it will ruin your fun. The idea of the game is to be very hard to advance in skills, creating stories while trying to level up, put yourself in danger etc. If you elimiate this the game is meaningless.
What I do is that I create a brand new game, play it for a few hours to see how strong I can get in that amount of time and then repeat, haha
I want to learn this to skip the settlement management part of the game, don't get me wrong, I don't think that part of the game is bad, but is not the way I want to play the game.
Agreed.
Yet to find someone on TH-cam who doest Turn kenshi into a cheese cheat fest.everyone just wants to be a super Heroe... I dont see much fun in That, But hey its a sandbox so do what u want and play it has u like
But to those who need a break from the grind
“We could knock this guy out, but that seems mean.”
Not even five minutes later…
“We’re going to peel the limbs off our own people.” Haha!
Putting your chars In a prison pole in at fog islands make sure to have a fast mover holding back since things can get bloody really fast, but you go from 15 to 40 toughness in FAST, but like I said you need a back up to rescue you or even get 2 scout legs install them after your legs are gone and run Mongrel, I think it's best to keep 1 fleshy arm and make sure to escape and repeat. Going from 15 on a liver to 65+ only takes 1 go and both yer legs. Just checked it human Greenlander went from 12 to 46 losing both legs in about 2-3 seconds with about 15-20 fogmen chomping on em. The hit box for escaping can be pretty small for using escape so like I said good idea to have a backup.
"lying in bed and getting hit or hitting people that were lying in bed" made me laugh out loud.
FJ, when you hover the mouse over something and right click, it will do the displayed thing by default. So, you don't need to open the context menu every time. Meaning, when it shows a speech bubble, right click starts a conversation. When a knockout fist is displayed, right click will attempt a knockout. For Mad Cat-Lon, you can literally go in with 0 assassination, hide behind him, and spam right click. You will knock him out before his speech ends, and get up to nearly 80 assassination in those few seconds.
I have been playing with spamming right click assassination but can't get it to work right for some reason. Does it require the waypoints mods maybe?
@@FrancisJohnYTi was in vanilla when i did that. Not even the dark UI mod. I remember seeing someone demonstrate it... i think it was Ambiguousamphibian, but not sure.
War crimes aren't as cute in this game, but are just as effective. These tutorials are often how to war crime for fun and profit.
The peeler machine is a bit much, they say things while you are using it so not a big fan of having to watch it. But if you want all robot limbs it's really efficient.
While it gets style points, Cat-lon with his monologue and turning passive are more of a pain. A P30 from Black Desert works the same, are always agro, and easy to replace, and you can knock a leg off fairly easily. I've never had the police try to break in as he is never out of bed/cage, so I think they only trigger when an enemy actually starts fighting.
Put master samurai set and best defensive stat rusted junk weapon on the dummy, and prototype samurai set on self, 1 prototype arm, and overload to very high levels, and you level dex, attack and martial arts super fast, and with dex 90+ your attack speed will be a lot higher for weapons training. For overloading I fill 2 garu backpacks with iron, then carry those in your inventory, and a traders pack full of iron or the 100kg traders pack on your back if you have it. I think I get close to 4 tonnes.
Watch you have enough power for the skeleton bed as some towns get blackouts, so I put some small wind generators on the roof.
Similarly, early trip to a hive village, and grab a knocked out gorillo or beakthing, and put them in one of the sleeping bags for rent there. They don't heal that fast, and it's pretty easy to kill them if you don't micro a bit and heal them, and replacement medical supplies can be short, but there are ample volunteers, and free lunch and hides.
If I was going to use this strat to build a team I would go out and hire say 20 recruits, most likely Scorchlanders. (Lower bleed rate, fastest heal rate and only race with bonus to Dodge learning) Then train them all up in one sitting on Cat Lon to get martial arts and Dexterity to 80+. Toughness next with the leg removal trick, then over to black desert for dodge training. I figure it would take 4-6 hours but you would then have a team of martial arts monsters. Though I suppose then you would have to train strength which would take longer than all the other training combined.
Baby animals are good for training martial arts, their stats are affected by a negative modifier but still count as their true number, so they’ll suck but you’ll get xp as if they were much more skilled than you. Crabs have a lot of babies in the nests so they’re usually good as long as you have good toughness already.
Nice to see you enjoying yourself. Thanks for this playthrough.
"It's a stealth bull.
Oh god, what does it want?
What the hell does it want?" - Shopkeepers probably
You can use training swords to boost your defense skills with no risk. You knock out your enemy and then swap out their weapon for the training sword. When they wake up youll just fight them until sleep or food is needed.
That's from a mod.
56:30 that's basically like one of those boxing matches where one of them is just raining down blows then gets a chin tap and downed.
The Gutter rep farm exploit got me thinking... Can that same process be done with a Broken Skeleton to become allied with Ancient Ruins?
Best place to cheese your stats is mourn. the large structure in the middle has a giant white gorrillo inside with some of the highest stats in the game. Also has some beds to stick it in. Getting a full set of samurai armor, a few backpacks full of iron and a large backpack to properly gimp your MA stat will allow you to train all the way to 100 skill. Fighting bare handed with that equipment also trains strength, dex, and toughness. MA damage is based off of Strength, MA skill and Toughness. This gives you your base ma damage that then gets multiplied depending on the move that is performed.
Healing the gorillo after each training session will level first aid. Eventually letting the gorrilo go free from it's bed prison to increase dodge and defense is the final phase of training. It's not a good way to play the game for your first run, but on run like 3 or 4 it's fun creating a single character that can wipe out any faction leader and their body guards.
Let's gooooo :D
I was waiting for this so much x)
Going to eat something while watching :D
Now I'm wondering if you can build in the swamp-desert spot used in the series and wall in some beak-things to be guards for when raids bust open your gate... or if you can just grab ones knocked out and relocate them to your own base...
WARNING: Just found a bug in my playthrough of the above and found that any game saves (auto or manual) while in combat with Mad-Cat can NOT be used or he will disappear. Probably best to get him to drop all aggro before saving to ensure a proper load.
21:00 looks like he's been... disarmed!
That bug master fight was hilarious
At least your enemies get to die, your poor pawns get brutalized and reassembled at your whim. Not even a glass of whiskey.
Hey if there was an option to give them a glass of whiskey I would, also sedatives would be nice. But I think Kenshi wants us to be the bad guy, it does not give you the choice.
great! Lets see what will happen on the Rim
Finally Kenshi guides long enough to chill/sleep/relax/study to
Man this is a breath of fresh air. Been watching a bunch of different guys on here playing kenshi and they make the dumbest decisions that i would never make and misunderstanding the game and rhe mechanics, fumbling around and it pisses me off, haha.
Wacky-slashy time
5:54 I normally just pick Savant up then you can 100% take everything although doing so immediately causes a skin bandit to take his place as leader XD
Oh sneaky, will have to remember that for next time.
For stealing things, I usually bring 2-3 teammates (who have lower or no stealth or stealing stats). They just sneak right in front of the NPC's eyes in a different direction as distractions if that NPC is watching a chest or valuable storage. They can also haul excessive stuff for your main assassin character (I also bring a pack animal for stackable stuff). I emptied the entire scraphouse this way.
Have you tried the stealth bull approach?
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holy, now is time to train my squad up ehehe
and once again, ninja are broken lol. but i discovered way too any things are broken in this game lol, martila arts doing crazy damage while pratically not having any weight around, so they can carry more staff around, a thank and a squad of crossbows is really juicy to look i kinda image the bodies that are left as tasty cheese for all the holes on them lol. still think stealing and selling is too broken tho... make getting things and money way too easy so it remove a good chunk of the game fun it's probably the one cheese i don't want to exploit too much and honestly an armor crafter white armor plate easily buyable on helf (the location you are doing the training) and there are a lot of iron plate too for crafting crossbows (general store and mechanical store sell both of those in large quantity and defenetely more than you can use). kinda curious if you can make robotics easily too, but they require steel too which there are not much of there, probably a base (on guts) is need for that (robotics is for cash and training robotics for limbs)
btw. the ninja bull was completely worth it
Before watching this... i was actually embarrassed of my playthrough... exploiting slavery(being a slave).... backpack weight training... speed running... pick a fight and run away.... and a few other minor things.... but this ..THIS is pure evil Genius ... i actually feel better about my MINOR infractions..
None of the exploits are outside of the game mechanics, they are not bugs.
I may be a little bit lose on my definition of fair play.
1 year later but i wanted to tell you, i think you would know, you can train pretty good using king gorillo he has so much health and very hard to kill but catlon seems pretty good training dummy too
Oh King Gorillo is amazing. I put him in a building for training purposes in one game. While my main team was away the base got attacked and overrun, but the enemy would not leave they kept getting drawn into King Gorillos building and beaten down. King smashed all the attacker down and "saved" the base. Don't get me wrong we still lost people but non of the enemy got to live to tell the tale.
Defense is relatively easy to train, set the unit to only block and let an enemy equipped with a stick attack, dodge is the same but at higher levels it becomes so ridiculous that you can just "passively train" it by leaving the unit surrounded while you go do something else
In my testing in the scrapyard only Quin and Dack will actually spot you stealing or lockpicking so if you avoid their line of sight you can steal in front of the security drones
there is a way to run through the water that Twisted logic found, start to build a small shack (don't actually build it) in the water get in the shack then click on were you want o go, you will start to run along the bottom like a skelly!
Next time I'll have to give that a go, would need to keep the resources to build it on you through right?
@@FrancisJohnYT nope, just place the framework down, (the outline and door) no resources required. then enter the frame work, then get ready to run! and when you click on were you want to go, yo will start running out of the framework and through the water!
Goodness me that’s revolting. Nice work.
I mean there is a gorillo called the great white gorillo that thing has over 100 in stats if it doesn't it will by the time you are done with it there are normal beds that one can use if it gets out into the town it will wipe everyone out unless you get there with the intention to try and get power back on then the town will pretty much be safe but this gorillo with high grade armor if played correctly and slightly managed properly will boost your defense and dodge real fast and it is to me the best creature to level up your defensive stats safely the only thing I use that place for later on when you finally defeat it is either place it in a cage there is a small building with cages so you can easily get him back out and use him again but go out get some elder beak things and use them as training dummies I find they heal a little bit quicker then everything else plus once their toughness gets high enough they barely lose blood
if you make someone farm MA if you do it without deleting their limbs (gotta be a fleshie) they also lvl toughness a bit
You are the encyclopedia of Kenshi LOL. When are you planning to play the atelier sophie 2 game?
I didnt think the war crimes would compare to rim world. I was wrong 🤣🤣
51:10 I think you are supposed to sing that on the "Friendly neighbour, Spiderman" tune
I'd like to see a level 80 marital arts bull
Oh that is one thing I would have love to have tried, an army of elder killer bulls.
@@FrancisJohnYT I did that... But they eat SOOO much food.
@@yaemz123 I'd imagine its worth it especially if you have the food production for it.
@@FrancisJohnYT High tier bulls are indeed fun...but have you tried using the FCS to make them 100 years old? It doesn't do anything crazy. Trust me ^.^
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You need a second Bull to be the Bull Handbag named Louis Vuitton 🤣
What game are you planning to play next?
yea not my kinda game. looking forward for smth cool.
didn't he said rimworld?
@@raismin739 I'm not sure if he mentioned anything specific. Rimworld would be really nice though.
@@benjaminolsson2162 on the end before the credits
@@raismin739 Aah. I didn't watch this one since it's a tutorial.
Use assassination on the robot repair bed, no cool down,fastest skill to level.
The comment section is gold for someone who installed Kenshi just a week ago. What a deep game. Thanks for the tips.
there is so much cheese in this video i could make a sandwich out of it. niiice
Another great way to start is Slave: Rebirth
This way oyu start with 2 pawns with an EXTREMELY easy and pretty effective way to train:
Sneak
Lockpick
Assassination
Athletics
Stealing
Toughness
Labour
And a somewhat nice way to train Strength on the side
+ you cant starve
+ you can go for daily knockouts without any risk of death
+ you start close to the Shinobi Village and Worlds End when you finally escape including a safehouse with some equipment
+ you can manage to escape with a dozen pawns xD
Is there a video where you teach your bull to rob a bank? I love the kenshi!!!
I don't know if you mean a video where or do the robing (listed below) or where I do the training. The training was just robbing a crippled person playing dead over and over again to grind up the stat.
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I find Dodge is pretty easy to level up if you strip down your people to nothing have high toughness and then go into the fog Island... They are really weak and they are very numerous which allows you to dodge really good.
Also there is a glitch/exploit where you can lay your people down on a bed to attract them... Also if you put a victim one of your people or one of theirs on to the deathbed Spike it summons a prince that has a $6,000 bounty on their head... You could just take the victim off and put it on off and put it on off and put it on and summon them all day long lol
Just so you know, know its been a while since you did a kenshi video, I love them btw, but No Face of the gutters no longer works rep by buying him from slavers, used over 500k, n never showed up on my faction list, keep up the good work
Weird, I have checked and their is no patch that fixed it. Did you make sure he was unconscious every time? Does not work if he is away when you buy him.
@@FrancisJohnYT think so, I'll have another try ma dude, was looking forward to open a huge fortress in beak area, oh n loooooooove the content, even the rim stuff, even though I don't even play it
It still works, I tried it today
@@keir9708 yeah dude, thinknmy game had glitches out when I tryed, some city's was empty of NPC's
Look up the goat yoga method for training toughness, alternatively keep fleshy arms on your guys and give them assassin rags while they punch the guy in crab armor for more afk toughness training
"goat yoga method for training toughness" sounds like some sort of weird new age trend 😂
Will it be the competing empire led by the stunning empress Emilia?
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not the most a-peeling thing in the world
XDDDDD
Wlll. Cal lon jumped to the fifht dimension and isn’t in his place anymore, what can I do?
if you turn on block without having a weapon equipped your character will only dodge and never attack
it's a good way to train dodge if you have decent toughness
you know more about this game then i could ever hope to learn lol
Thx for kenshi, very happy for RimWorld
55:13, rimworld confirmed (?) The annunciation was poor and the auto captioning was no help. 55:56 Rimworld 100% confirmed!
Pro tip: The original outro music fits the mood of Kenshi level 1. The outro music on 2x speed fits the mood of Kenshi power level 100.
Hey man ! Please tell me in other situations how you can take the first step to have somewhat high level to play dead ?! Pleaaase !
People play dead when their are threats near them, of course you have to knock them down first.
Also they will not play dead if any allies are fighting, they will try and get up and help their allies.
@@FrancisJohnYT Oh thanks ! Yea i actually past that point after more then trying a couple times XD thanks very much ! It turns out that i shouldnt have bandaged their legs LMAO . Just tell me how you manage to sell the stolen good in a cycle in the same city my man ? How is it that it gets past 56 percent ? Sorry ive watched the video a couple times fully now but i just cant guess what im doing wrong☹
@@akiamini4006 Are you levelling up your thieving skills? Assuming that is level 80+ you should be able to steal from one shop and then sell the goods to the next shop. Some shops have relationships so they are more likely to detect it. So it's a case of figuring out who's stolen goods you can sell to whom.
@@FrancisJohnYT thanks a lot bro ! Yeah it seems in big enough cities you can pull it off nicely . Just like the demonstration in Heft . BTW could you please provode other guides on how to grind the stuff that needed to get your character *ahem ahem cybernetic ? Really appriciated that
The very first thing you should train should be dodge with martial arts. The reason for this is that if you don't, it's incredibly hard to grind while using a weapon and can absolutely change the outcome of a fight. If you get staggered by a hit while using a weapon, then you roll on dodge NOT defence. By having food dodge, you can drive the enemy of an easy free second hit.
I would argue toughness is the most important stat, when you are tough enough you can tank so many extra hits it does not matter. Also once toughness is trained it makes training dodge and several other skills much easier and safer.
How'd you rescue your bull? :) I didn't think you'd get away with snatching one of the Thralls very easy. They (the thralls) sure can see well for having no head.
Nice!
57:51 - great!
I know I'm super late to the party but the reason you couldn't attack with one arm wasn't because you can't, you just equipped it on the wrong side. Kenshi assumes everybody's dominant hand is their right. It took me a while to learn this personally because rock bottom got me trained to think otherwise.
Hey FJ, have you ever checked out Shadow Empire? Seems like a game that's right in your wheel house.
I promised to do Rimworld next but I would like to do more little relatively short series like this in the future, it's a lot of fun doing them.
@@FrancisJohnYT always love Rimworld. But ever since I started watching your channel I was like “oh man this guy has to play some Shadow Empire”. 😬
No link to part one and or the playlist
Well that kinda sucks
Bro the dedication is amazing and the video was very entertaining but doesn’t min-maxing kinda remove the fun of the game.
I think I said it in the first video, getting into long brawls with dust bandits for hours and hours is fun the first one or two times, but by the third or fourth run though the game you generally like to skip though the early grind and get to the good stuff.
40:45 If you watch the in game clock it takes him 3 minutes to swing that sword lmao
Will you ever finish this series?
It is done, it was just all about learning how to train up totally broken characters as quick as possible. Allying with the beak things was also pretty nice.
when hiting catlon with martial arts ur strength also leveled up. If u over encumber the player character enough while carrying someone else this is the only way u can get 100 strength.
What is the last game version for kenshi? I have 1.0.64! Is that the latest???
"We made ourselfs enormousment of money and used that to ally the beak things"
wai- wait a SECond!?
Btw, if you guys don't want to research/base or whatever. Fogmen eat people limb first... LOL
The only thing i hear Steal+rob+rob+rob+steal xd
Bro I love the vids but what's with referring to singular people as "they" and "them"?
Habit, I'm terrible at remembering names to begin with. I don't mean I'm a bit bad I mean after 5 years in school with the same 60 people in the class I could only remember half the names. I learned to compensate and can now have totally normal conversations with people I have know for weeks and still do not know the name of. I always found it weird when people or comedy shows make a big deal of not remembering someone's name. It's pretty easy, "How are you doing", "you look well", "been a while" etc no names required.
But I'm getting distracted. For characters in games I'm playing it's usually even worse. I can't remember if they are male or female most of the time as they are usually named after patrons. So anytime I get the gender wrong I hear about it in the comments, I get the genders wrong a lot. So for all the above reasons I just say "they" "them" "chief" "muppet" "what are your doing?" "muppet over here" etc.
@@FrancisJohnYT Fair enough LMAO. I still get lost in the town i grew up in. So far from it be me to give you hell over not remembering names XD
Too bad FJ friendlied the beak things. I just used them to de-limb my starting character. Her toughness went from 37 to 84.
Has anyone figured out how to prevent cat-lon from teleporting out of bed on reload?
It kinda sucks that the katana keeps its name but the macuahuitl gets called the fragment axe. At least it still sounds badass tho
Thanks to your comment, I finally understand, what a fragment axe is supposed to be. I never saw the weapon it was based on before
all those money and you still keep grogs in bulls inventory :D real bad man
Is their a part three?
Unfortunately no, the only other video I did was the bit on getting a bull to rob the kenshi bank.
how is it that the gutters ignore you? You didn't appear to be in stealth. Must be a mod as I am reasonably sure you can't "ally" the beakthings in vanilla.
EDIT: I just watched the previous episode and saw you pull it off, so it obviously can (or could at some point) be done. That's crazy stuff right there. Gutter allies, wow.
I was advised later that once allied you can pick up gutters, have fun dropping ten of them in a town.
@@FrancisJohnYT Hahaha. You are an evil genius.
Any plans to return to Factorio and do something like Space Exploration and/or Krastorio modded run? It looks super complex and right up this channel's alley. Also purchased Kensi just because of this series, I hope you're getting kickbacks!
I promised to do Rimworld next but after that I want to do a few more of these relatively short one off series. I like getting to tear into a new game and find all the fun stuff you can do with it.
I find the peeling machine, appealing.