Bro I’ve been playing Kenshi for 3 years and didn’t know that the last running option was to make all of them go the same speed as the slow guy

just wanted to point out that you can knockout in stealth mode any npc with the drifter tag without alerting the guards and if you fail the guards knock them out for you . extremely easy start with little to no danger and usable in any city.

Great to see some active kenshi content creators in 2023! Don't let the critics get you down, Keep it coming!

Items that you can scavenge from the shack in The Hub regenerate (randomly) every day or so after you clear them. Low price items to sell and sometimes food

While it is a single-player game and people should play it whichever way they choose to, for beginners I don't think messing with the hunger rate is something that should be encouraged. While it can seem tedious at times in the beginning, the game feels a little more immersive when you have to worry about feeding your characters and it encourages base building to have a sustainable source of food production. For 1+n playthroughs where you just want to try a certain build/ideas and don't want to have to worry about eating, sure, go nuts. But for 1st time playthrough, playing the game the way it was intended would be my recommendation. Just my 2c.

Really good up to date info for this game. For anyone playing it new. I recommend just playing it and figuring it out your first(or second, maybe third) character. Dont feel pressured to push one character to its limits. Explore. Not just the map, but game mechanics. Then when you feel comfy for your early game, come back and watch this video. Try to test these things with a test character you have just for figuring out the kinks. Then watch this guy's next video. Then spend the next 360 hours trying to master it mwahahaha. Trust me though, it is fun. Lastly a cool tip. Guards dont search Goats. So yes you can smuggle "whatever" in your goats.

Cant wait for the next episode, just picked up the game and I've had a blast so far Evan though I'm lost as a dog 99% of the time the other 1% I decided to mine copper 😂😂

Hey great video! Very helpful for me as a new player, looking forward to your content. Easy to understand and very helpful highlighting of the details your talking about, thanks heaps

This is the guide I needed 2 weeks ago. Thanks for your accessible tutorial!

I was mining and a bunch of giant mutant bugs attacked me

Your vibe is awesome. Thanks for learnin' me!

Thanks for your video, after several hours to play Kenshi I learned again !

This is the best kenshi beginner tips video I've seen!

I was able to get into a game and honestly I’m super stacked now just from building a base my first play through. it’s just about using mercenaries correctly to grind in the early game and setting up somewhere for easy trade runs. And once I got walls and crossbows the grind was easy af for good gear

Better tip: Don't use the match speed option instead have everyone follow the slowest member. Match speed has resulted in a split party and the loners getting picked off often enough I recommend against it. Following the slowest member will have everyone follow the leaders pathing instead of making their own. Side note if attacked on the path the leader may keep running past the fight.

Weight of the weapon is only a factor insomuch as how much encumbrance it puts on you.. The stats are actually grown from the damage types and amount of damage from weapons. Use one like the polearm, and both your str and dex will increase when you swing it and connect. All Cut = dex, all blunt = str. This is why falling sun is roundly considered the best vanilla weapon, once you get the STR to swing it at full combat speed.(88 i think). Polearms/Heavy Polearms are arguably the best starter weapons and can carry you to end game...both damage types, huge reach, not really heavy and armor piercing.

I like to use the copper node over by the rebel base to the east of the Hub, because i find that more enemy patrols go through there and you can see them coming, and you can sell goods and use the Shinobi guards there for defense.

Here's something I did as a kenshi beginner that made the game twice as approachable without necessarily making it easier. I turned the hunger timer all the way up so my characters hardly ever have to eat, and then balanced that out by self-imposing a rule on myself that I would never make a single coin by just mining ore and selling it. The lure of the mines is really strong for me as a new player because it's free money without hardly any risk, but I found myself having to resort to it constantly just so I could by food for my squad. With this setting and that self-imposed rule, I could focus on discovering better ways to make money and get food that are more fun than just watching my guy whack a stone for hours.

Great vid👌

Fantastic video

Got Kenshi 3 days ago, started following it on KZfaq maybe 10 days ago; yes I knew all the basics, painfully obviously from the tutorial tooltip popups and reading. ..

Thanks! Just saw this game for sale in Steam and decided to bite. This video is helping a lot!

Chance of stealing isn't dictated by stealth, but by thievery. Thieving from container has a chance of you getting caught, stealing things on tables and such is always at 100% success rate: steal those to train. Kenshi can be finnicky, and sometime characters don't seem to pathfind right or just starve themselves to death with food in containers. Use CTRL+SHIFT+F12 to fix pathfinding issues. The "move at the same speed" button has the very deprecable habit of spreading your group all over the map if you don't stay there watching them, so use it only if you're doing just that. If you move a group and want to do other things than babysitting it while they travel, make all "Follow" order the slowest member: it can still fail if they encounter hostiles, but it's more consistent.

I once have had build a 'stock' room in the hub where you put downed bandits inside to heal and be a bloodbag, the goal is to train my martial artists hero there. What a weird savage farming scheme. XD

I'd like to see a story arc of one character to show off some of the possibilities this game holds

iirc with the attack slot thing - stuff like Leviathans CAN have more than one attack them at once, but well… very dangerous

My favorite spot for wanderer start actually Hive Village next to the hub, for one purpose collecting skin from Baek Thing, and train armor crafting skill with that. Btw you can't out run baek thing so beware of situation first before baiting them to hive village, Baek thing can become good partner for training MA in early game but only with other hive hit that baek thing if not you will die. For new player of kenshi, you want to know how OP Martial Arts are? With strength 94, And Though 97, and Martial arts 80, dodge 80++, you can solo elder Leviatan(HP over 5K for each limb) with proper technique(Movement and position technique), for other weapon that will be hard unless in team battle. oh yeah, high level MA really graphic more than any else weapon when against bandit.

Amazing vid make more kenshi noob content please! 💪🗿🙏

You should get more subscribers... Your videos help me to understand the game a lot cause i hate using mods and make the game too easy😂😂

The subscribe button did the thing!!!! :0

gr8 vid v helpful

Played the game back when we only had the Holy Nation territories, today I learn about group running. I've always just had my squad run to a short distance place to see who the slowest

i like the background music

Just got this game. Wasn't sure what start to do. I picked the 5 guys one. Figured more people to fight if I get in trouble. I wasn't sure what to do when I started the game, so I roamed around for awhile. Then my dudes were getting hungry. I saw nothing to fight, until a pack of goats roamed by.... I got my ass handed hard lol. Death by goats, would play again 10/10!

I play solo. My first goal is to buy a house and have a second character literally mine for their whole life. Passive income encourages me to explore and learn combat.

Just got the game

I remember setting the hunger need to the lowest value cause I thought it's multiplying how fast are you getting hungry.. ah sweet old days.. :D

helpful

"Reduced hunger gain is not a big deal early in the game" meanwhile me who doesn't have any food day 2

I finally tried to get check out the hype of this game and I can’t even move the character properly

huh.. its good to know I never stood a chance at winning a single fight early on .... I've died so many times and been knocked out so many times ... and the weapons ... good to know what weapons I should be using or trying to use.. this game is really hard to get into .. especially when you lose every single fight .. and still dont understand why guards keep randomly attacking me though .. when I try to go into a building .. or if i stand next to a shop thats closed to wait for it to open .. then they just randomly start attacking me ... and what armor should you try getting early on? to give you a better chance at surviving ?? light medium or heavy?

You don't need to pay for the bed at the bar in the hub, as the abandoned building that you loot has 2 beds

I cant believe there are 62K views on this niche game

Personally I think that the Hub is a bad starter town, you have only 2 bars (1 inside and 1 outside) near the town with very little cats available, that is why I tend to move directly to Squin, loads of iron and copper, but also 2 bars and several stores, one of which sells backpacks.

Oh man, seeing all the things i modded out of the game makes me sick a bit. But its so much easier on the micromnanagement. When I see the unstackable items, I'm know why I modded it :D

1:10 in or so. I'll give some pushback on 'Food Early'. In the early game, Food is Money. In the Mid to Late, since you are growing it, Food is Time. Now to be fair, Time is Money... I go bang on Rocks for an hour to Sell the Ores to buy the Food. But the idea with Farming is it is more efficient, I'm not needed to be doing the action constantly, just see to the upkeep here and there. So I can Farm... AND go bang on Rocks for an hour. And now I have Food, so I don't have to turn that Ore into Food, that Ore can turn into other things that advance me. So in the Early Game, on Default Hunger, if you aren't bringing in the Money you aren't Eating. Everything revolves around making enough to eat... and a lot of food is EXPENSIVE.

I just bought the game and about to start my first game. I am hoping to learn it, it does look complicated and i unfortunately have 2 x extreme brain damage so i am not the smartest tool in the shed. But i am going to give it my best try.

Good content, clear explanation, and easy to listen to and follow. You have a great voice for tutorials, too. Only recommendation I'll make is to not beg for likes or subs. You did so three times in the video and it's a bit of a turn-off. I know you're trying to grow the channel, but just keep making good content and it will stand on its own. That being said, liked and subbed.

Eager to see the next one. Because it's GONNA happen, a guide on what to do when the slave traders get you would be nice. I spent three days locked in prison of the Holy Nation (my character was a filthy woman!) and was VERY lucky to escape. Still unsure how I pulled it off, but am now stuck with what seems to be a permanent 30k bounty for escaping...

BLOW YOUR NOSE

I appreciate your help but the in game tutorial explained most of this stuff all ready and let's be honest most of the stuff I kenshi I quite self explanatory

Are you the guy that speedruns every game?

Gonna put some corrections/opinions of some stuff in the guide as I watch it if I find any I mean. 1:05 Highly recommend not touching default settings or you will not really experience Kenshi. Just opinion on this one... 1:23 No race is actually better at fighting. The only exception is health which is another story entirely. No one is better at crafting/farming. They just level the skill faster. A Shek with 80 Farming will obtain the same crop amount and at the same speed as a Greenlander. 1:33 Greenlanders are a rough starter race to their bleedrate of 1.0. All other humanoid races have 0.9 and below. Scorchlander is the "best" starting race other than Skeleton. Faster healing, less hunger rate, lower bleedrate etc... Opinion ofc on this one. 1:53 How healthy they are is the bar above your health to the right. That just lists their current state. Normal, dead, unconscious etc... 2:17 Blood is another "health" category on its own. So technically 3. 2:25 If an arm goes below 0 it is useless. Until your legs reach your KO point you can still limp. You do lose them when hit below -100. Not just a chance. They are lost. 2:38 Not too big of a point but head/chest/stomach are called vitals. Critical is when you have over 100 cut damage in a body part. Might confuse new players. If they go below -100% hp then you die. No chance, just death. 2:45 Both arms need to be damaged, or one below 0 health in order to have a stat debuff. Legs need to go below 55.6% max health to effect movement speed/swimming. Dodge is affected based on Toughness level. 2:55 You can reach 30 characters without mods through recruiting. 3:30 I don't know of any buildings with 5 floors... I could be wrong though. 5:11 Kinda... Block doesn't affect damage taken though. Just defense/dodge level. So, you can better block attacks. 5:48 We can't pickpocket. Only NPC I can think of atm is Red who can do that. We can just assassinate and stealth off them or steal off sleeping characters. Sneaking skills is pretty vague. 9:26 I won't say anything... 12:53 Kinda. Toughness is primarily leveled through getting up when playing dead though. Levels VERY slowly otherwise. 12:58 The damage to go unconscious for vitals is always below 0 health. That never changes. You might be confused with going into a coma? 13:05 Seen this a lot. Dex XP is weapon Cut dmg / (Cut dmg + Blunt dmg) it has nothing to do with weight. Str xp with weapons is how much str you are off from being able to use it. (Blunt dmg x 40 = Str needed) If below 20 str required the xp is 110%, if at or above the level it is 10%. 13:21 Units who are fleeing can be attacked by multiple characters at once no matter the attack slots. 13:56 I uh... Am a little confused... Light weapons aren't a thing. Heavy weapons are just that... The class. I don't understand what you mean. 14:08 Disagree massively. It gets strong pretty early on. Around 25/30 it starts to shine. 14:14 It's Blunt dmg x 40 not weight. The formula is either blunt x 40 or weapon weight. Whichever it the highest value... And Sabres are extremely light compared to Polearms/blunt weapons. 14:46 Turrets aren't an enemy type and unsure what you mean by defenses. Except for certain weapon multipliers (Like Katanas mostly having -40% robot damage) a certain type of dmg doesn't perform better or worse than another. 15:02 Blunt damage adds almost no time to unconscious timer... Cut damage/blood loss does that. 15:06 No. It does not perform better vs those races. Depending on the weapon one might do better vs certain armour types. Some armours in the game have more blunt resist than cut. Important to remember that even though many armour pieces do have more cut resist than blunt resist that damage that is resisted is turned into blunt damage. Except for the top tier armour this results in more damage or almost equal damage taken from cut. 15:41 To be clear they multiply your healrate by that value. So, a camp bed isn't +400%, it is x4, bed is x8. To add the rebel bar nearby is free to sleep in. And the hub 1? camp bed lying around near a building you can sleep in for free.

I bought Kenshi for 3 years and i still don't know how to play it lol

How much martial art skill i need to survive with my fists ?

Sabres and hackers do not require twice the strength, only the heavy weapons do. Sabres and hackers are not heavy weapons the information in the video is just flat out wrong, you can check the wiki for all strength requirements for every weapon in the game for example the Foriegn Sabre at Meitou (highest strength requirement) is only 12 strength to wield. Only the weapons belonging to heavy weapons have high strength requirements. Those weapons are the Plank, Fragment Axe and lastly the Falling Sun. Moreover the whole "light weapons" thing is also a debunked myth as even the falling sun can be wielded with 12 strength if its rusted junk quality so early on almost all weapons are viable moreover the only weapon i would avoid is anything blunt as blunt weapons are mostly trash in kenshi unfortunately

I'm more than certain at this point that the vast majority of KZfaqrs that claim to be experts on kenshi are just liars and pretenders. Rhadamoron screwing up work orders and not realizing why his characters are getting attacked by the npcs at The Hub. Multitudes of mistakes that were so numerous and on top of that he ignores feedback. Giant egos and unjust attitudes that have little understanding of all the functions of the fcs. There still actually isn't a thorough fcs tutorial that covers it well. You have to go beyond "the basics" or your not much help.

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Wrong! Martial arts is the best thing to start with (although terrible) because it is the most effective way of training dodge. Once your stats go up it's harder to train dodge because battles are shorter due to you dealing more damage. The first thing you should use on a new toon is martial arts for this reason.

game is kind of weird, and awkward. I'm trying to like it =/

in game tutorials🤢 KZfaq tutorials 😏

Came looking for a real beginner guide since the game has no tutorial and tells you basically nothing. I came out of this video still knowing basically nothing. Is the goal of the game explained? Nope. How to get a quest? no way man. How to use an item? idk man. How to initiate a combat? wait there's combat? Where should I try to go after finding the bar? beats me. how do i get started on a build? no clue. what should i have done in my first hour? idk man just loot some items. What reason is there to invest in thew long term of this game? hahah like and subscribe. Are you really gonna make me watch the only other kenshi beginner guide on youtube thats 1hr48mins for some reason? Just to learn how to exist in the game? I got the game on sale 10 years late and i still feel ripped off

Helpful tutorial. Unfortunately, it's 's a crappy game. I fell for the fake reviews on steam and hypes. First, you can't look around using your mouse. You have to hold shift to look around or holding the w and e key. That alone completely ruined the game for a simple sand box game. Second, there is no quest. I get it, the game want you to created your own adventure. Guess I want to do first? Stealing. Got caught with nobody around. So stupid mechanic lol. Third, graphic looks like poop. This explain why we can't tell between a rock and ore. I came from Atomic Heart. Playing this game downgrade my enjoyment. It's created stress instead by figuring why it's so hard to look around using the mouse. Update The no quest part is either lazy on the developer part or they want us all to become criminals. This game is the only game that make me feel depressed. I'm trap in an empty town that have nothing to do. Stealing get you beat up. Going out to a vast world of emptiness. I wonder if all the positive reviews are fake, created by the developers. They spend all their time writing a review instead of inventing quests for us 😅

What's wrong with this beginner guide -reducing hunger rate to make newer players get used to easy mode settings -greenlanders do have drawbacks such as: -being the most likely race to bleed out -having no attribute/combat skills multiplier only shared with skeletons which are overpowered, as well as being vulnerable to acid Both of these matter a lot when starting - immediately focusing on stats, its just one way to play in a sandbox -encouraging mining which is basically sitting around PUSH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON x3 COMBO so many times i read people quit because they think they should be mining to make money most of the time -encouraging passive play which slows down toughness gain the most important stat in the game next to athletics -while attack slots work count for melee weapoins crossbows dont so you can gank up on someone with 30 crossbows some of the very popular mods will increase attack slots also -grouping light weapons and heavy weapons ??? when one of the classes is heavy weapons, even if you do that polearms are somewhat in the middle -discouraging martial arts, its a hell at the start sure but a really good way to train especially for beginners are interested -wielding sabres early is very realistic early on in the game if you carry your friend to savety for 1 night or do the awful mining until you have a full backpack its likely you got some strength of that enough for a basic sabre, hackers are not much worse the 40kg memes are from high end weapons only at which point you could consider training up for it -Blunt wepaons are light because ??? they still use a lot more strength than sabres -the cutting damage meme has you confuse unarmoured targets with humans / people/animals(its true for this since they never have armour!) even then polearms have great armour penetration - if you are confused against armoured targets you want either blunt damage or armour penetration only one lacking here is katanas really -"against turrets or defenses" gonna assume you mean skeletons and robots and not doors and turrets since those are objects, what you want to say here is armoured targets -going back on that statement with blunt damage as they were laballed light weapons earlier in the video this is conflicting info within a very short time of videotime but correct just mention armour penetraion on weapons also -attribute section didnt mention strength increases carry weight or dexterity increases weapon swingspeed as well as block speed -how about mentioning experimenting and exploring over sitting in the hub -half of this video is the in game tutorial but worse more of an opinion thing here getting enslaved can be pretty good early on you get fed and healed for free while you can fight your guards over and over and train lockpicking another one is mods, performance enhancing mods could have been mentioned kenshi runs like shit and has long loadtimes For everything you NEED to know it surely didnt mention importance of speed or KO point of toughness the thing that will kill a character if left alone knocked out If you really want to be another mediocre noob friendly SMASH THAT SUBSCRUBE guide channel make a follow up video or edit this one to correct your missinformation at least

graphics so bad

Nah. I dont cheese the game. i just play it as is and experience what ever happens my way. I dont cheese games. im not american.

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i have thousands of hours in Kenshi but these are still fun to watch