juggalo baby coffin posted:

so i did a the Rock Bottom start as a skeleton, which i guess made it a little easier (although it was brutal until i got good enough at stealing to get a robot repair kit). i spent the very early game stealing and getting beaten up over and over and over until i built up the toughness and athletics to actually outrun anyone. I got enslaved like 6 times in the united cities and broke out every time.

then i found the robot monks who thought i was their master, and using them i built up my robotics skill (from fixing them) and my combat skills (from helping them) until i could hold my own against basic stuff.

tragically the robot monks all died during the Siege of Heft where, as a non-combatant medic, i somehow acquired a great deal of samurai armour and swords to sell for money.

the ensuing bounty and arrest from all the blatant thefts from dying men led me to flee the UC and go west, to the cannibal plains. it was there that I would train my martial arts abilities, hacking down hordes of cannibals with my sabre, then putting the sabre away and kicking the turds out of the wounded and dying cannibals.

i got my rear end kicked basically 1000 times, but my super high robotics skill from repairing a whole crowd of robots after every fight let me keep repairing myself hundreds of times from a single robot repair kit. the cannibals could put me down, but i would be back up again before they were done bandaging their own wounds.

i ended up with something crazy like 128 points of wear damage to my chest, giving me less chest hp than a regular human, and thats when I decided to return to civilization and bring terror to the slavers of the world. i found my first target on the way to the black desert city, where i was going to heal up on the cheap skeleton beds.

A holy nation fort called Narko's Trap, with an ominous large ancient lab next to it. I wanted to know what was in the lab, which had been locked from the outside with several gates, but first I had to deal with the paladins.

initially i was too weak in martial arts to take on multiple paladins at once, so I would pick off those who strayed from the fort, mercilessly kicking off their limbs:


eventually i was captured by them after aggroing too many paladins, but little did they know that was exactly what I wanted. By taking me indoors they had given me a hefty +8 bonus to my martial arts, while giving themselves a penalty from their giant weapons.

using the ancient art of kicking rear end until my rear end was kicked, then healing on the floor (if you click on yourself to heal while you are still unconscious, your dude will heal themself while playing dead. the ai also does this all the time so it isn't cheating), then kicking more rear end, i freed all the poor prisoners in the wretched fort and put those holy nation shitheads where they belong:


several of the paladins did not survive due to me kicking their front directly out of their back using fly-kicks, killing them instantly. martial arts seems actually really good at outright killing dudes. it was good that they died though, because I was out of cages.

there were some stragglers to deal with, so I went full sicko mode on some cripples (maybe they are right that skeletons are evil?)


then i escorted the prisoners to safety, and NONE OF THE FUCKERS OFFERED TO JOIN ME. so ungrateful.

anyway, then I used karate to kick down the gates to the ancient lab, then used karate to kick open the door, then used karate on a security spider inside, who turned out to be much better at karate than my poor skeleton. I will return with a vengeance.

tl;dr - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yYS0ZZdsnA

Angry Lobster posted:

Been fiddling with the recruitable prisoner mod in my last run. Not used it that much because it's pretty busted if you recruit powerful people early on, and that's not even counting unique npcs.

Ko'd a lone merc from the mercenary guild in the great desert, he asked me for 20k, stats in the mid thirties, not bad. Then I took the opportunity to kidnap a samurai gate guard in Heft, attributes and skills in the mid to late fifties for only 15k, so good, she's been my best fighter for a very long time. I forgot about it and just recruited the usual special recruits in bars until recently. Roaming the Cannibal Plains I found a couple of wandering Tech Hunter skeletons and recruited them because robots are cool.





They are a steal for 20k a piece, why I'm bothering to train useless wankers when I can otherwise build a death robot army?

Blade Runner posted:

Nice to meet you, Tinfist

juggalo baby coffin posted:

im gonna have to pick a new gimmick

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Day 21. Prison Break. As soon as midnight falls over the camp, both of my units get to work. One unlocks every cage on the high-security guardhouse, the other starts undoing every prisoner pole on the yard. Many are too scared to leave, some run off as soon as they're freed. The yard is simple work, but time consuming. The rooftop is a much more dangerous gamble - everyone is going to need to sneak down the stairs, past two sleeping guards. The first prisoner bolts immediately, this makes a good distraction while I undo the rest of the cages. All but one stay in their cage. I peek downstairs to check if the guards had chased the prisoner out of the barracks. They haven't. Both of the guards are dead on the floor. The prisoner I freed stands above them, having stolen both of their swords, and killed them both dead. He leaves - I don't think to chase him. My units are now dressed as the dead guards, escorting the six prisoners who have joined us to freedom. We make it a few feet out of the gate before the guards realize what's going on and give chase. We sprint away. We get almost a hundred feet from the slaver camp when two of the prisoners are cut down. Just as planned. The guards stop their pursuit, tending to the wounds they've inflicted. They've given up the chase. The remaining six flee into the Orkan's Pride. Three decide to go their own way. The last remaining free man joins our group, all three in perfect health but severely malnourished. Our quest for food begins, as does our new life.

Vakal posted:

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Is there a better way of powerleveling Martial Arts than constantly getting my rear end kicked by the slavers or alternatively grinding my assassination skill very high so that way I can knock out the slavers, fill their inventory with shackles, and beat them in a cripple fight

E: okay doing the thing with the shackles actually seems to work pretty well, but here's a fun follow-up. Apparently you can enslave the guards just by kidnapping them while they're sleeping and putting them into a prison cage...can you then recruit the high stat guards by busting them out of slavery? Or do they remember how the whole thing went down

juggalo baby coffin posted:

blood helps the reefer grow

Cardiovorax posted:

What is it about this image that makes me think I should be playing some Skrillex right now?

Babe Magnet posted:

Dareon posted:

Probably reminding you of the mission in Farcry 3 where you're torching the weed fields and they decided to license one of my top five least expected collaborations.

Babe Magnet posted:

That Guy Bob posted:

I wonder if we can cause the Empire's fall.

Cardiovorax posted:

If it's anything like the first game, then the Second Empire will already be in the process of falling and splitting up - the general gameplay structure just doesn't really work if there's a single world-spanning empire that runs everything and polices itself properly.

CommissarMega posted:

The Second Empire was only a couple or so centuries behind 'present-day' Kenshi. 1000 years ago? Hoo boy, this is for deffos First Empire stuff. That said, we already know the First Empire was an interstellar, or at least spacefaring organization- we might be playing its first settlers on Kenshiworld.

CommissarMega posted:

The Second Empire was only a couple or so centuries behind 'present-day' Kenshi. 1000 years ago? Hoo boy, this is for deffos First Empire stuff. That said, we already know the First Empire was an interstellar, or at least spacefaring organization- we might be playing its first settlers on Kenshiworld.

Babe Magnet posted:

Yeah it's gonna be great

My wishlist is improved animations (specifically any kind of hand animation at all for 90% of the game's animations lol), a more varied map (which is going to be a shoe-in since we're going to see what a lot of places looked like pre-hosed) and increased mod support. There's so much I would like to do with mods that are a gigantic pain in the rear end or just aren't possible.

Cardiovorax posted:

On double-checking, the Kenshi wiki says that the Second Empire happened at least 3000+ years ago and the First Empire was many thousands of years even before that, but I'm really not sure how well-defined the setting even is, so I'm not going to argue.

I really don't know what the point of a Kenshi game on an unsettled world would be - the entire fun of it comes from messing around in a place full of dozens of factions and oodles of clutter to dig through and appropriate for yourself. It wouldn't really be very conducive to what at least the first game tries to be, anyway.

Jack2142 posted:

I dunno my impression from the little bit of lore I have read so far is the first Empire is older than a thousand years, and that it has been a long time since the second empire fell.

Cardiovorax posted:

When it comes to historical accuracy, the world of Kenshi has the in-setting advantage that all skeletons are literally thousands of years old and many of them remember every single thing that happened to them since the time they were manufactured, even just accounting for the ones that never reset their memories.

The Empires just did a lot of crazy horrid poo poo that they'll refuse to tell anyone about, for fear of people repeating that part of the past. The general timeline is probably pretty well-established, though, simply because a sizable part of the population was actually there for a lot of it.