FOR NON-ENGLISH VIEWERS Here is the text that appears on screen. (To easily translate) 0:00 to 0:12 Cat-Lon will only attack you if one of two things occur -He finishes his monologue (6 hour cooldown) -In self preservation (When attacked) As his speech has a 6 hour cooldown I ran into his dome and then saved + loaded the save. This is to prevent the Stormthralls from joining in. I need to cancel our attacks until one lands as one hit will kill us. Thankfully I only had to cancel one attack! 0:12 to 0:18 Mod created to spawn here with 20 combat stats and this equipment 20 Combat stats character Skeleton Smith MKI Naginata Assassins Rags Wooden Sandals 0:18 to 0:28 The attack we are using is Cut Left It is used when close to a unit by... Polearms, Sabres and Katanas Cut Left both hits and recovers incredibly fast. In my personal opinion it is the best weapon animation in the game. 0:28 to 0:37 As Sabres have short reach they are prone to using Heavy Downcut V2 (Overhead swing) after using Cut Left so they are less reliable for this. All weapons use this attack animation when a target is far away from them. It's not a great animation in a 1v1 fight. 0:37 to 0:58 Katanas are even worse as although there are two with 25 reach they will use Downward combo when a unit is at medium range (Aka after a cut left) Maybe one day I'll make a weapon guide... A tierlist sort of video. If anyone is interested in that. Or something similar. I hate you so much Downward Combo... Why must you be so bad? 0:58 to 1:09 If the opponent is at far enough away (But not too far away) a Polearm user may use Heavy Swing. If Heavy Swing is used here... We die. Heavy Swing hits very fast but has a pretty horrible recovery time. As in it takes a while after hitting a unit to attack again or block. (AMAZING vs groups) Just not good here. 1:09 to 1:26 What is happening here is that by using Cut Left with around (From my testing) 0.99x to 1.05x attack speed, we can land an attack at almost the exact time his stagger animation ends. If we were to attack too slowly he would be able to block easily due to the skill difference. If we were to attack too fast we would hit him while staggered (Which will not stagger) which would allow him to escape the stunlock. Around 1.06x Attack speed is too fast so I pause to remove my Wooden Sandals so we don't attack too fast! 1:26 to 1:48 DISCLAIMER This took 5 attempts to pull off. In the first attempt I failed because I did not remove my Sandals at 1.06x Attack Speed which led to death. The other 3 were because Swiff decided they wanted to use Heavy Swing which was followed by taking ~230 damage. Incase it isn't clear 230 damage kills people. 1:48 to 1:58 I wanted to show this off but didn't want to spend an eternity trying to record my voice for it so figured I'd just use text. Hope that doesn't inconvenience anyone. 1:58 to 2:11 (End) The music used is Fertile from the Kenshi OST at 1.13x speed to fit Mods I had enabled... -Redone UI - Clean Grey UI -Nice Map [Zones + Zone names + Roads] -Flies Are Muted -The mod shown earlier I also use the following fixes by Scaraw on Nexus Mods... -Optimization for Nvidia GPU -Kenshi Performance Fix -Engine Mesh Updater -PSO Thanks for watching! Also to add if anyone wants to mods I used in this video from Scaraw they are here... Optimization - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/804 Kenshi Performance Fix - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1216 Engine Mesh Updater - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1212 PSO - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/950
As a new(150 hours) Kenshi player I'd love to see an in depth guide to weapons and their usage not just min maxxing but general usage. My 20 man attack squad is an equal mix of HW, Kats and MA with 2 Polers and 1 Sabre guy.
If Chris sees this, he might very well decide to bring back 0 stagger for low damage again in Kenshi 2. xD Back in the old days there was no light stagger animation. So if you received damage below the stagger threshold you'd actually not be affected by it at all (outside of the damage itself), allowing tough or heavily armoured characters to just tank the damage and keep swinging through the hits.
Imo it would be a good idea to maybe add different staggers for certain bodyparts. Like longer ones for head hits, maybe less for your arms who knows. It would help prevent stuff like this from happening. That being said I love poise in games. I remember in Darksouls I could just facetank everything in Heavy Armour (Except Magic...) while swinging my sword and it made the game a cakewalk. Would be cool if Toughness or armour would increase the threshold to not be staggered.
trying to achive similar effect i downloaded no light stagger mod but characters still tried to block hits from other enemies which interrupted attack animation. maybe this will work as i want if character used same behaviour as animals with no blocking and attacking only, with some kind of agressive state opposite to blocking, which i think is a great idea for mod but i have no skills
@@FrankieWuzHere As long as the threshold for no stagger is pretty low, personally I think it would be better to have no stagger for very low damage, compared to what we have. It would also hard counter the crossbow cheese for many enemies unless you actually had good equipment already. I never felt the game was too easy back when we had no stagger anyway. But, we also didn't have high tier armour. One single amour set had specialist, and everything else had at best high, for most the best was standard. This would obviously change things drastically. Kenshi 1 actually has the capability for part-specific staggers. Just wasn't really used all that much, would have been good if used well. But for instance, the stagger were you almost fall to the ground, that's a stomach only one.
It would be great, considering how silly can be a battle of one melee heavy armored chad against 10 marksman who deal near zero damage but still win all thanks to this bs staggering animation. #nostaggerforkenshi2
Hey mate, one question: What make Soldierbots Special? I've heard you say more than once that Soldierbot are strong in some sense, but I just don't see how. I suspect that there has to be some form of hidden stat or ability that is not clear shown in game. Anyway, thanks for your videos; they really have help enjoy Kenshi a lot more.
Okay so! 1) To start things off basic Healrate. A unit will heal (healrate)% over 22 mins of gametime for stun damage and bandaged health. If they are robotic then they heal 250x their healrate for bandaged health. Skeletons have a healrate of 2.0. So with 200 health they recover 2% of 200 or in other words 4 stun health every 22 minutes (Not accounting for the small amount of wear damage) and 1000 bandaged health. Soldierbots have a healrate of 3.0. So 6 stun health and 1,500 bandaged health every 22mins. If in a repair bed that becomes 48 stun damage and 12,000 bandaged health. In other words as a soldierbot in a repair bed it takes aroind 91.666... mins to heal to full health from 0. 2) Vision range mult Skeletons and Scorchlanders have 1.25. Soldierbot has 2.0. This affects how far the race will see on their own. Like if they are a turret guard/crossbowman how likely are they to see someone to fire at. 2.0 is further than any ranged weapon can even reach. Ever see the sniper towers? The dudes in those have 2.0 vision range it is why they can notice enemies from so far away. 3) Hit chances. (Head/chest/stomach/leftarm/rightarm/leftleg/rightleg) Scorchlander = 80/140/140/80/60/80/80 Skeleton = 80/140/80/80/60/80/80 Soldierbot = 80/140/140/80/60/80/80 Chest/stomach share a debuff slot so if you take 100 dmg in your chest and another guy takes 50 in their chest and stomach the dude with 100 in their chest loses twice the amount of stats. You want to have an enemy stomach/hit chance as it also decreases the relative chance to be hit in the head overall. There is also a thing called hitmult which when struck multiplies the chance to be hit in that bodypart by X amount. X Drains by 1 over 27.5 mins and goes up by 1 each time you are hit in combat. So a Skeleton if a skeleton is hit in their chest they are much more likely than for instance a Soldierbot of being hit there again. (Relatively) Jusr woke up so sorry for any typos!
Yea the overhead. Ahhh the overhead. Thankfully i equibbed all characters with polearms so taking down this beakthing should be easy. No why are you all using the overhead you get too close NOOOOO
*Solo character using a Nodachi with 90 attack, defense and dexterity surrounded by High Paladins* I know! I'll use my flashy attack that hits once unit at a time and leaves me open to a counter-attack! Every single time... I hope in K2 we get the option to change attack styles like prioritize faster attacks or AoE or single target.
Yo cree la Orden meitou heh cada uno usa un arma diferente especializado al nivel 90 cada uno en su respectiva arma, a los que se pueden poner en secundaria usan ballesta y hasta el momento todos me la pela alv jajaja
Would it help to write up the text that is in the video so that people can run it through a translator program? On my phone the translator app that I have can translate by just facing my camera towards some text so that's usually what I use.
@@FrankieWuzHere First of all, thank you for your answer, you are very polite. If it’s not difficult for you, it would be very good if the description of the video included the text that is in your video. Moreover, you can write about this in the title of the description, for example: “Video text in the description.” Yes, it’s convenient to use a translator on a smartphone, but what to do if you’re watching a video on this smartphone?
@@FrankieWuzHere I use the same software, a good method would be to add a solid background to the text on-screen. This way the software can recognize it instantly, plus the user doesn't have to keep going back and forth to match up the (what appears to them as gibberish) to the subtitle in the description.
Very good point I never thought of! Later on when I get some free time I will add the text in somewhere. I believe my title is too long to add it there but I can pin a comment maybe for people to see it? I'll figure it out later on. Thank you for the suggestion!
FOR NON-ENGLISH VIEWERS Here is the text that appears on screen. (To easily translate)
0:00 to 0:12
Cat-Lon will only attack you if one of two things occur
-He finishes his monologue (6 hour cooldown)
-In self preservation (When attacked)
As his speech has a 6 hour cooldown I ran into his
dome and then saved + loaded the save.
This is to prevent the Stormthralls from joining in.
I need to cancel our attacks until
one lands as one hit will kill us.
Thankfully I only had to
cancel one attack!
0:12 to 0:18
Mod created to spawn here
with 20 combat stats and
this equipment
20 Combat stats character
Skeleton Smith MKI Naginata
Assassins Rags
Wooden Sandals
0:18 to 0:28
The attack we are using is Cut Left
It is used when close to a unit by...
Polearms, Sabres and Katanas
Cut Left both hits and
recovers incredibly fast.
In my personal opinion
it is the best weapon
animation in the game.
0:28 to 0:37
As Sabres have short reach they are
prone to using Heavy Downcut V2
(Overhead swing) after using Cut Left
so they are less reliable for this.
All weapons use this
attack animation when
a target is far away
from them. It's not a
great animation in a
1v1 fight.
0:37 to 0:58
Katanas are even worse as although
there are two with 25 reach they will
use Downward combo when a unit is
at medium range (Aka after a cut left)
Maybe one day I'll make a weapon
guide... A tierlist sort of video.
If anyone is interested in that.
Or something similar.
I hate you so much
Downward Combo...
Why must you be so bad?
0:58 to 1:09
If the opponent is at far enough away
(But not too far away) a Polearm user
may use Heavy Swing. If Heavy Swing
is used here... We die.
Heavy Swing hits very fast
but has a pretty horrible
recovery time. As in
it takes a while after
hitting a unit to attack
again or block.
(AMAZING vs groups)
Just not good here.
1:09 to 1:26
What is happening here is that by using Cut Left
with around (From my testing) 0.99x to 1.05x
attack speed, we can land an attack at almost
the exact time his stagger animation ends.
If we were to attack too slowly he would be able
to block easily due to the skill difference.
If we were to attack too fast we would hit him
while staggered (Which will not stagger) which
would allow him to escape the stunlock.
Around 1.06x Attack speed is
too fast so I pause to remove
my Wooden Sandals so
we don't attack too fast!
1:26 to 1:48
DISCLAIMER
This took 5 attempts to pull off.
In the first attempt I failed because I did not remove
my Sandals at 1.06x Attack Speed which led to death.
The other 3 were because Swiff decided they wanted to
use Heavy Swing which was followed by taking ~230 damage.
Incase it isn't clear 230 damage kills people.
1:48 to 1:58
I wanted to show this off but didn't want
to spend an eternity trying to record my
voice for it so figured I'd just use text.
Hope that doesn't inconvenience anyone.
1:58 to 2:11 (End)
The music used is Fertile
from the Kenshi OST at
1.13x speed to fit
Mods I had enabled...
-Redone UI - Clean Grey UI
-Nice Map [Zones + Zone names + Roads]
-Flies Are Muted
-The mod shown earlier
I also use the following fixes by Scaraw on Nexus Mods...
-Optimization for Nvidia GPU
-Kenshi Performance Fix
-Engine Mesh Updater
-PSO
Thanks for watching!
Also to add if anyone wants to mods I used in this video from Scaraw they are here...
Optimization - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/804
Kenshi Performance Fix - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1216
Engine Mesh Updater - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/1212
PSO - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/950
Why are you so perfect? BTW is love to see that weapon tiers video
defeated by a not-so-starving bandit with a long stick... definitively a skill issue
As a new(150 hours) Kenshi player I'd love to see an in depth guide to weapons and their usage not just min maxxing but general usage. My 20 man attack squad is an equal mix of HW, Kats and MA with 2 Polers and 1 Sabre guy.
would love to see an in-depth guide about weapons. also appreciate your detail and honesty. that admit it takes multiple times.
Please make a "bis weapons, armour" and "best combinations of armour in different points of the game and how to get them" guide. Cheers!
If Chris sees this, he might very well decide to bring back 0 stagger for low damage again in Kenshi 2. xD
Back in the old days there was no light stagger animation. So if you received damage below the stagger threshold you'd actually not be affected by it at all (outside of the damage itself), allowing tough or heavily armoured characters to just tank the damage and keep swinging through the hits.
Imo it would be a good idea to maybe add different staggers for certain bodyparts. Like longer ones for head hits, maybe less for your arms who knows. It would help prevent stuff like this from happening. That being said I love poise in games. I remember in Darksouls I could just facetank everything in Heavy Armour (Except Magic...) while swinging my sword and it made the game a cakewalk. Would be cool if Toughness or armour would increase the threshold to not be staggered.
trying to achive similar effect i downloaded no light stagger mod but characters still tried to block hits from other enemies which interrupted attack animation. maybe this will work as i want if character used same behaviour as animals with no blocking and attacking only, with some kind of agressive state opposite to blocking, which i think is a great idea for mod but i have no skills
@@FrankieWuzHere As long as the threshold for no stagger is pretty low, personally I think it would be better to have no stagger for very low damage, compared to what we have. It would also hard counter the crossbow cheese for many enemies unless you actually had good equipment already.
I never felt the game was too easy back when we had no stagger anyway. But, we also didn't have high tier armour. One single amour set had specialist, and everything else had at best high, for most the best was standard. This would obviously change things drastically.
Kenshi 1 actually has the capability for part-specific staggers. Just wasn't really used all that much, would have been good if used well. But for instance, the stagger were you almost fall to the ground, that's a stomach only one.
It would be great, considering how silly can be a battle of one melee heavy armored chad against 10 marksman who deal near zero damage but still win all thanks to this bs staggering animation.
#nostaggerforkenshi2
Are there a mod for this?
the master schooling the masses again ! good to see another amazing Frankie video.
Thanks for the compliment and comment! :)
I can't wait for the weapon tierlist soon with your opinion on it.
0:54 please make a weapons tierlist!
unbelievable that you keep discover new stuff in Kenshi, great vid
Even after so long I am still learning stuff everyday as I've said before haha. Thanks for watching and commenting!
this is hilarious, great video
Cool trick. I wouldn't use it myself but this is actually very neat :)
you are the Beast!
Excellent video!
Thank you! :)
Hey mate, one question: What make Soldierbots Special? I've heard you say more than once that Soldierbot are strong in some sense, but I just don't see how. I suspect that there has to be some form of hidden stat or ability that is not clear shown in game. Anyway, thanks for your videos; they really have help enjoy Kenshi a lot more.
Okay so!
1) To start things off basic Healrate. A unit will heal (healrate)% over 22 mins of gametime for stun damage and bandaged health. If they are robotic then they heal 250x their healrate for bandaged health.
Skeletons have a healrate of 2.0. So with 200 health they recover 2% of 200 or in other words 4 stun health every 22 minutes (Not accounting for the small amount of wear damage) and 1000 bandaged health.
Soldierbots have a healrate of 3.0. So 6 stun health and 1,500 bandaged health every 22mins. If in a repair bed that becomes 48 stun damage and 12,000 bandaged health. In other words as a soldierbot in a repair bed it takes aroind 91.666... mins to heal to full health from 0.
2) Vision range mult
Skeletons and Scorchlanders have 1.25.
Soldierbot has 2.0.
This affects how far the race will see on their own. Like if they are a turret guard/crossbowman how likely are they to see someone to fire at. 2.0 is further than any ranged weapon can even reach. Ever see the sniper towers? The dudes in those have 2.0 vision range it is why they can notice enemies from so far away.
3) Hit chances. (Head/chest/stomach/leftarm/rightarm/leftleg/rightleg)
Scorchlander = 80/140/140/80/60/80/80
Skeleton = 80/140/80/80/60/80/80
Soldierbot = 80/140/140/80/60/80/80
Chest/stomach share a debuff slot so if you take 100 dmg in your chest and another guy takes 50 in their chest and stomach the dude with 100 in their chest loses twice the amount of stats. You want to have an enemy stomach/hit chance as it also decreases the relative chance to be hit in the head overall. There is also a thing called hitmult which when struck multiplies the chance to be hit in that bodypart by X amount. X Drains by 1 over 27.5 mins and goes up by 1 each time you are hit in combat. So a Skeleton if a skeleton is hit in their chest they are much more likely than for instance a Soldierbot of being hit there again. (Relatively)
Jusr woke up so sorry for any typos!
Que coño haces aqui chamo XD
thank you! very helpful
This is unrelated but what do you find to be the best one-handed weapon? Short-cleaver? Longsword?
Longsword in my opinion. I can explain more later on if you are interested.
now do it at a modded 10x speed so I can type "frame perfect sandal removal" in the comments
I'm curious how easy this was, could you start a new game then go grab a pole and do it from the start?
Well you would need around 20 att/dex with the stuff I used to pull it off. I made a mod to start there with those items/stats but yeah you can.
Yea the overhead. Ahhh the overhead. Thankfully i equibbed all characters with polearms so taking down this beakthing should be easy. No why are you all using the overhead you get too close NOOOOO
*Solo character using a Nodachi with 90 attack, defense and dexterity surrounded by High Paladins*
I know! I'll use my flashy attack that hits once unit at a time and leaves me open to a counter-attack!
Every single time... I hope in K2 we get the option to change attack styles like prioritize faster attacks or AoE or single target.
Obligatory comment.
Yo cree la Orden meitou heh cada uno usa un arma diferente especializado al nivel 90 cada uno en su respectiva arma, a los que se pueden poner en secundaria usan ballesta y hasta el momento todos me la pela alv jajaja
the text on the video is convenient for only one thing - if you want no one except English speakers to watch your videos
Would it help to write up the text that is in the video so that people can run it through a translator program? On my phone the translator app that I have can translate by just facing my camera towards some text so that's usually what I use.
@@FrankieWuzHere First of all, thank you for your answer, you are very polite.
If it’s not difficult for you, it would be very good if the description of the video included the text that is in your video. Moreover, you can write about this in the title of the description, for example: “Video text in the description.” Yes, it’s convenient to use a translator on a smartphone, but what to do if you’re watching a video on this smartphone?
@@FrankieWuzHere I use the same software, a good method would be to add a solid background to the text on-screen. This way the software can recognize it instantly, plus the user doesn't have to keep going back and forth to match up the (what appears to them as gibberish) to the subtitle in the description.
Very good point I never thought of! Later on when I get some free time I will add the text in somewhere. I believe my title is too long to add it there but I can pin a comment maybe for people to see it? I'll figure it out later on. Thank you for the suggestion!
@@kinokpk I have added the text in a pinned comment with timestamps. Thank you for the suggestion!