Kenshi: Mount and Blade meets Rimworld, meets three other games

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Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

2 mods that vastly helped with performance and crashing that aren't on the workshop
- Downsampled/optimized textures (manual install/pick and choose what you want - make sure you back up your original *.dds textures like with an xcopy command) https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/113
- Less Foliage and Rocks (I use the 4x option) https://www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/54

Another habit to develop is to press ctrl+shift+f11 to fix navmesh issues when you're wandering the world and hit a zone load (loading bar on top right corner). Shift+f12 -> Fix Stuff helps too.

I have 122 entries in my modlist and haven't had any crashes after installing the optimized textures and gameplay is generally much smoother.

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 09:34

Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

Mongrel because of beep and fog friends :angel:

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# ¿ May 2, 2021 19:18

Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

any location near in the center of the map is dull

gotta go to the coastal regions for the threat of being eaten or skinned alive

# ¿ May 7, 2021 17:59

Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

https://steamcommunity.com/games/233860/announcements/detail/2999939903833917404

kenshi 2 river raptor render

game's 40% off for the weekend as a part of steam's open world sale

# ¿ May 28, 2021 00:18

Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 01:46

Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

KirbyKhan posted:

Thinking about reinstalling. I've played this game with "blood and sand" mod collection, "genesis" mod overhaul, and a constellation of my own vanilla plus mods (like kaiso and reactive world). I'm thinking about getting back in.

I looked around the new landscape and it looks like the Starwars Kenshi mod actually whips. Like it looks so good and is perfectly tuned to my Star wars sensibilities (I haven't consumed poo poo since 2003 Clone Wars Cartoon and KOTOR). Im gonna review my previous posts to maybe reconstruct a mod constellation.

This is an up-to-date mod collection I've been using
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822248814
except with Reactive World instead of Kaizo. I love Kaizo, but have played it to death in previous years

For overhauls you want UWE as a base then you choose 1 of Kaizo, Reactive World, or Living World and their respective UWE compatibility patches. Stay away from Genesis (too all or nothing) and GenMod (outdated and features folded in to other overhauls)

# ¿ Jan 29, 2024 17:58

Gyoru: Jul 13, 2004

Power Walrus posted:

Thank you for this! Those performance patches are incredible. Unfortunately when I installed the mod pack, I keep getting messages about sub-races missing models, and I encounter invisible NPCs.
Would you say that UWE/Kaizo are changes enough? I've played Genesis a bunch, but I feel like it adds too many extra things and the balance feels a bit wonky.

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/2142406806/7134317381881397585/
Invisible NPCs sounds like a load order issue or incomplete download of the larger mods like UWE. Steam workshop doesn't sort mod load orders especially if you subscribed to the entire collection at once. The Kenshi launcher's mod list sucks too and puts new items at the end of the mod list. I usually open \Kenshi\data\mods.cfg in a text editor (np++) and sort things that way.

UWE is a content expansion. New factions, more realized main factions, new races/subraces, mechanics like fishing, etc.

Kaizo: new world states, new factions, a lot of warring/fighting everywhere. Author has been MIA for years, but the mod is still well regarded.
RW: new world states, but mostly player initiated. Shidan is still around and active.
LW: similar to RW, but goes a step further with factions like UC being able to take over the world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kenshi/comments/18e9jo5/comments_and_reviews_about_the_genesis_mod/
Genesis is a ~~mess~~ collection of mods from different authors many of whom aren't working on it anymore. I think Genesis stopped development at some point a year or two ago and had to restart with new people. UWE is a single vision from a lone mod author who already had well-received expansion mods before folding those into UWE. TL77 contributed to Genesis at some point too.

load order guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1850250979

vvv lore friendly collection isn't sorted at all

Gyoru fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Jan 31, 2024

# ¿ Jan 31, 2024 23:02