Robot that scraps with everyone to distract himself from the existential dread of being a robot in a decayed ruins of a civilization is probably my new favorite LARP.
-Creates a very OP character -Challenges the strongest NPC in the game -Wins and kidnaps him -Trains with him for a bit -Drops him near the sea and gives him his sword back -Refuses to elaborate further -Leaves Madness
the mad Cat-lon will destroy all life and enthrall all the skeletons though. That's why when he was free again it utterly shocked me, Warlockracy was one action away from saving the world of kenshi... at least from one threat albeit significant lol
I'm shocked that no one mentions this but the Bug Master would not allow that to happen and he's gathering an army to face him. @@КириллКонстантинов-ф1в
Sneaking into a bandit camp Knocking out bandit leader Dragging him to a secluded place Waiting for him to wake up Once he wakes up you go "you are awake, we spar now" This is SUCH a robot thing to do
I think I met Chris Hunt or at least one of his team members about a decade ago at an indie game dev hangout in Bristol, England. I remember having Kenshi described to me and thinking it was unworkably ambitious for such a small scale indie development. I've seldom been so pleased at being so wrong. Kenshi is a triumph of indie game development.
Holy shit, me too! I remember hearing / possibly speaking to him myself, a very long time ago. The aspect of all of it really appealed to me and I seriously considered asking if I could join his group hahaha. Never happened, but I'm very happy with the result we got. Can't wait for number 2!
that's an amazing story, and it is absurdly true. Can't believe what one man pulled off here, even with getting help later but just think about how primitive gaming was when he started Kenshi. He had an insane ambition and fought against reality itself to make it happen - just took a long ass time.
Kenshi 2 is in development. They're using Unreal 4 now, instead of the OGRE Engine. The OGRE Engine was responsible for a lot of the performance issues and instability, so hopefully the game will be much more polished out the gate.
Its gonnantake another 10 years, and the longer it takes, the better it will be, so I can be patient. But man... its literally rhe only game ive ever had hype for. (Actually, stalker2, but)
26:58 That is almost word for word dialogue that will sometimes happen between starving bandits and a player squad of only skeletons. After your skeleton yells at the bandits they don't eat and don't have food, the hungry bandit leader will say "...Oh." And then de-agro and walk away dejected.
Despite having no narrative I fucking _LOVE_ the world building in this game, it's so detailed and deep, so alien, there's so much stuff hidden everywhere in books, dialogue, the scenery... Oh god, the scenery, there's some epic grand scale regions in this game that can't help but make you be in awe... There's nothing quite like it. I love this game, one of my favorites.
Ah yes, Kenshi. The attempted surgery simulator. (No seriously, the first time I defeated a bandit and he wasn't dead yet, I kept healing him up, then attacking him again, repeating the process until I FINALLY managed to cut off one of his limbs. It takes so much effort to dismember a character!!)
Warlockracy, as a recent viewer, I want to thank you for being a youtuber. Your videos are some of the few I genuinely enjoy. I have great respect for a channel the size of yours giving longer, detailed videos for your, YOUR, audience and not constantly "following the algorithm", selling creativity for success. I hope your channel lives long, have a very good.
I can't tell you how many hours I've sunked into this game. Its worldbuilding is my favorite out of any RPG in the last decade. Really looking forward to Kenshi 2 when it gets released.
@@aaaaahhhhh9885 YES! do you know how many hours our esteemed yet mysteriously private OP Questionable? has in Kenshi? I have been biding my time trying not to think about this but I catch myself nervously looking at my clock ticking away the hours without an update nor nary a whisper of a hint of time accrued. I try to distract myself with politricks, VR and even some beautiful womem but my mind can't help but obsess about knowing how many hours Questionable? has played in Kenshi and why the hell he cannot tell me!
One of the things with Kenshi is that, despite being difficult, the game gives you freedom to tweak your adventure however you want via it's modding tool: the Forgotten Construction Set, which is probably one of the most user friendly modding tools i've ever seen. The game isn't afraid of you making customizing your own experience if you want to, unlike Dark Souls and the like, which force you into a specific mind set.
Which is ok, certain games, like certain sports, should not be for everyone. So I hope the souls franchise never bends the knee to those who demand easy modes.
My favorite moment ever playing Kenshin was when I spent 3 hours trying to escape prison and the second I finally escaped I realized my right legs health was going down horribly so I died like 2 minutes later lol
Binged all your videos on a bored night while working. Can't believe I only found you now. Your reviews+playthrough, combined with your wit, is just great. Keep up the good work.
idk why but your "What are we doing...." moment had me in tears. Like that was what was running thru my head when I played this, you sort of just wander around and LARP as a post-apocalyptic weeaboo wanderer. It's quite comfy actually.
@Fart So what exactly? Poor modeling tools? Rendering sucks and takes too long? Script is unreliable? Data lick? Dog reguarly eats your Torwue project?
found this channel because of the fallout 1 mods and i have to say it's the most interesting content i found this year! nice work you're doing here, if you keep at it i think you can go big cause the content is really well done and unique.
I stumbled across your channel with your video on Tamriel Rebuilt, I have found all of your videos to be thoroughly entertaining and often find myself re-watching them. Your humour is simply fantastic and the presentation of these videos always reels me in. It's always a good day when Warlockracy uploads and I look forward to all your future works!
"He's like the beak-thing equivalent of US. He barges into town, eats all the guards, then eats all the townspeople, and then just leaves through the front gate, never to be seen again." Absolutely sublime.
Loved this game and the review. The latter half of the challenge disappearing is my issue with it, but my only issue. I'm typically a lone wolf or small group kind of person with these sort of RPG's. Massive management is a turn off and it makes me rather play something like CK, so I end up never making a town. Just a single home where I drop things off/rest at most. Also you can't drop a Neverwinter anecdote, then I'll want to see your take on it. It's one of my most revered RPG's!
Kenshi is probably the best worldbuilding I've ever seen, and I'm not talking just about games but including things like Dune and Tolkien. The lore divided in very small and sparse tidbits tackles not only the history of the world but how different factions write, view and interpretate its history, and it is done in a very concise manner (the longest book is 3 paragraphs long, most of the story is unveiled through very short item descriptions and through characters barking and bantering, and there's a lot of environmental storytelling). It's incridebly similar to morrowind in that aspect, except it doesn't abuse textual exposition (the many long books and scrolls in the game).
I really like how this video was made. It functions both as a review and a display of the game's main strength: roleplaying + personal experiences in a sandbox world.
I'm in endgame in Kenshi right now. I've killed most of the minor bandit factions, and allied with the Shek. I've got a Shek princess on my squad, who's currently undergoing training to raise her stats to something passable. I've got a platoon of heavily-armored dudes with top-of-the-line mech limbs, and a platoon of sniper archers that support them. Who ain't bad in melee either because of the whole 'secondary weapon' business. I've allied with the Flotsam Ninjas and am fighting the Holy Nation. I'll join up with the Anti-Slavers and fight the United Cities later, after training my last 3 recruits. Then it's time for the Ashlands. Cat-Lon. 30 cyborgs (well, 26 and 4 upgraded robots) against an endless swarm of headless clients and the Mad Cat. And if I ever feel like coming back to Kenshi, I'll import a save, do another lap of the Ashlands, and gather a second copy of the endgame Meitou blades for another character.
some lore notes: Kenshi is actually post-post-post apocalyptic the skeletons were built by the 1st empire. after it fell to civil war, the technology required to build skeletons was lost. all of them are thousands of years old, and while the game mentions they occasionally wipe their memory, it's also implied through dialogues with the 2nd in command of the mechanists that the memory wipes are a lie they tell humans to absolve themselves of what happened during the reign of the 2nd empire (see: description of general Jang's CPU). mad cat-lon was definitely the leader of the 2nd empire. he admits it during his monologue, and i believe it explicitly states as much in the description of his CPU. also, those headless skeletons wandering in the Ashlands are his thralls. he removed their heads to prevent them from thinking for themselves as punishment for their "treason." it's worth noting cat-lon was driven insane during his reign as emperor of the 2nd empire due to trying to manage humans. he was not the monster. also the shek are likely descendants of the "enforcers," a group of humans genetically modified by the skeletons of the 2nd empire to serve as protectors against pirates and cannibals. also the bugmaster resides in arach, watchers rim is just the rim of the crater of arach. finally, that body of water you mentioned is called an ocean. non-lore fact: when u take people's weapons away, you end up training your attack skill vs their dodge skill rather than their defense skill. that's why cat-lon and the dust king weren't very good training dummies.
I never got around to finishing my playthrough in this. I was trying to explore and do everything and probably got around 3/4ths done with exploring the map. Also didn't get around to overthrowing the Holy Nation or United Cities. At least I had a lot of fun making a nice settlement in the Fog Islands I'm proud of. Maybe someday I'll try to go back to Kenshi to wrap everything up in it, just hard to find the time for all the games I have yet to play though.
Fun fact: The soundtrack for Kenshi is actually very short music bits put together by the game and what plays depends on several factors such as player actions/decisions, location, and possibly the faction in charge of the region.
I am 600 hours into my Kenshi playthrough. 0 cheese, permadeath and everything at 1x speed. I thought I was crazy at first to attempt it. I thought I would not follow my own rules. Instead I forgot there is a speed button. I have become completely enthralled and immersed. I have watched good men bleed out. I have watched my entire squad downed and almost all of them perish, eaten alive or enslaved. All at 1x speed. Still, the save continues and at least 1 person has always survived. I still have 1 original character who is now a deadly martial artist and has survived years in the wasteland of Kenshi on permadeath. He also has infamy and a permanent 127k bounty. Even Beak Things tremble when they see him.
I love the concept of your character. A robot that kidnaps notable leaders of areas just to fight them in the woods for months and then leaves them alone. Just to learn how to Fight Good.
When I play I actually install mods that expand on the party features, and also ad AI scripts to assigns people in a particular squad as patrolmen. after increasing unit capacity to around 200, I built a fully sized city with patrolling guards, crossbowmen mounted on every wall, a farming community with a flowchart of tasks that continually produced and supplied food to all of my residents, and so on. this civilization was established by my main party of 5 who I started the game with. they were all very different in build as I wanted to experience a lot of mixed combat styles, the best one ended up being my martial artist by far, but the heavy armored tank was almost as useful. they were who I considered the founders of the town, who I used to explore the game, take on most mid level challenges, and eventually became the core of my production, skills, and research teams. I also wanted to have that lone samurai experience so after I was sufficiently happy with my automated town and completed all the research, I recruited the unique skeleton named Burn from his tower, and assigned him to his own party. While my ~150 of my pawns operated their lives and fueled my wallet, Burn went on a great journey as my new main character to achieve absolute godhood, similarly stripping his limbs and using my swathes of wealth to purchase top tier limbs of the absolute highest quality, costing 100s of thousands of cats cumulatively. Using black hole magic, I stacked inventory upon inventory of iron ore into a backpack and marched for weeks on end around the Shek kingdom to increase strength. Using a rusted slab of metal roughly proportional to a cars bumper, I slowly clubbed leviathan after leviathan to death, maximizing his heavy weapons skill. I took the mad Katlans greatsword, the meitou falling star, capable of dealing the largest damage numbers per swing of any weapon in game, and finally after dozens of real hours of training across the entire expanse of kenshi wastelands, I led my party of 5 up the steps of the holy empire to battle the waves of the holy guard. Meanwhile Burn, my samurai master, took on the holy lord Phoenix. I made certain my stats at least matched his before attempting this, because I had decided that once I launched my attack, that was it. iron man mode from there, It was a known suicide mission, my assault on the city was the conclusion to my hundred hour long journey, regardless of the outcome. I did the bare minimum of micro , just set my characters loose to finally prove themselves in their greatest fight. I simply watched held my breath. I wont say how it ended in my own game, but the feeling I had during that 10 minute long struggle was unlike anything else ive ever felt playing a video game, driven the very real threat of being able to "lose" when youve worked so long and hard to overcome an arbitrary challenge you set for yourself without really understanding what it would take to accomplish in the first place. every action up till then had been enjoyable as character improved and numbers grew, but this made it all feel like a payoff. like you said, you didnt feel like you really beat the phoenix, even though he was surely humiliated by a shameful death. Thank you for a great video on one of my favorite games.
It is actually very much possible to sneak by the robotic spiders guarding those sealed labs. You just need absurdly high stealth. Had a character like that in my first playthrough.
Never really got that into the skeleton gameplay. Though I preferred to start as a slave. Training daily, barely alive, but rapidly growing. Within a month in that time had hardened a lowly slave into a master thief. Unfortunately while strength and toughness were high the character was absolutely green in combat. But hey at least said character systematically imprisoned all the prison guards.
I just found this game on Steam having no clue what it was. I read the description and bought it immidiatly at 40% off. Then I came and watched your video. You got me pumped to play it with your awesome naration. This is the first video I've seen of yours but I love the way you told your character's story. I'm hitting the subscribe button. You earned it in spades.
Hello from RUssia, Dear Friend! Place that gave birth to many fallout mods that you are so enjoy playing (or not). I want to thank you personally for this video - through you i have discovered Kenshi and now its my one of the most played and loved games of all time! Wish you all the best in life and good luck! p.s. - they are making KENSHI 2 but with TEAM and on UNREAL ENGINE now - meaning, it wont take 12 years to finish and it will be way more stable and diverse in possibilities game!
Base-building is the real endgame of Kenshi. Create your own town and develop your own resources while defending it from the outside world. I don't think trading is in the vanilla game but there's a mod for that, as well as other things you may want for your base.
Have you heard of the sea dog games there a series of old Russia RPGs about being a pirate and people don’t talk about them enough. the second one was rebranded as pirates of the Caribbean and some of them were published by Bethesda Softworks (and some of the morrowind and oblivion voice actors are in it I know male imperial from morrowind is in the first one)
I like how the later half of the video is just Warlockracy trying to become General Grevious and Samurai Jackbot Oh and kidnapping Robo-Caesar... I guess
Kenshi rules and reins, lost my self. I remember my first steps, I was mining like crazy, I show a goat, attacked, the goat broke both my legs in 3 seconds, I crawl for an eternity, passed 2 days on an abandoned bed, almost died from starvation. I love this game !!!
I remember when I first played Kenshi. It was so engrossing. I could listen to the soundtrack for days, especially the first track. I'm so excited for the sequel. ;~;
I have a suggestion, if only because it's more 'retro' in design: Cruelty Squad, a weird, ugly looking immersive sim. That being said. I just found your channel a week ago and ams already converted. Am looking forward to more of your stuff in the future.
The "ninja run" is a tv trope from the 60s. Not at all unique to Naruto. It was meant to stylize momentum for the use of weapons as Ninjas were supposed to be more fluid that the Samurai. Running with like that with a weapon in hand and hitting your opponent made for a more dynamic scene than running with the weapon above your head or just on the side in a "normal stance". So yes it does look stupid if it is done without a weapon ...
You haven't nearly reached Kenshi's most difficult challenges. You haven't had your outpost attacked by Eyegore and his samurai army or raided the southern hive queen's HQ, to name a few.
I've played Kenshi for about 700+ hrs now, and what I love about it is that you'll never get the same run with a solo/duo/trio or single digit parties. It's always changing. The town system tho is wonky. Mods somewhat alleviate this. My favorite run was having Beep become the strongest warrior ever
I think kenshin needs a way to trigger changes in politics, power and demographic shifts, or something like an invasion, something that changes the dynamic
I'd reccomend the "Lost in the Ashlands" mod if you want to actually see the factions raid one another. It also has a start where you're a Pit Fighter and you fight to make ends meet. Only drawback is that these raids only occur in Cities you're in and they have a propensity of making your time in those cities rather short. Still reccomend it though!
On my first playthrough now, went Holy Blade. Been having an incredible amount of fun so far, I bought the game yesterday and already have a companion and two animals following me. Currently running copper from the nearby deposit to the town, all while rebuilding a destroyed longhouse I recently purchased. Enough bandits come by on occasion to the point where my character now has adequate combat experience. Overall, things are going really well and I've barely left Squin.
Enters room, effortlessly ganks the final boss npc, trains stats a bit, gets bored, leaves the boss alive and armed and fucks off. Real kenshi moment right there
The true joy of kenshi starts when we stop thinking about optimizing game economics and stats. When we just stop caring about being the strongest possible and just roleplay the character, that's when we truly start feeling how cool this world is. There isn't that much stuff to do after a couple hundred of hours though. Still, Kenshi 2 is under development. I'm eager for it.
Solo playthrough is a mark of a chad. Save scumming is also a mark of a cuckold. Great vid again Warlock, when the hell will you make a discord so I can shitpost with you about Kenshi?
Playing this game has got me thinking that, in a lot of ways, the skeletons are the true villains of the story. Semi-repentant and remorseful villains, but villains nonetheless. Like post WW2 Nazis that never age, and have an eternity to reflect on what they have done. No new skeletons can be created, not since before the old empire, meaning all the currently existing skeletons are the same ones that were involved in, and directly complicit in the downfall of Kenshi and the cataclysms. The near genocide of all of humanity. You were right to kick the shit out of Cat-Lon. The game strongly implies that skeletons as a whole may be directly responsible for both major cataclysms, and are engaged in a cover up to suppress knowledge of their role in it (it's implied that the reset doesn't actually wipe their brains, it's just a cover story), and hold back humanity's technological progress (whether maliciously, or to prevent another apocalypse, hard to say), leaving the moon of Kenshi in a static tech state and downward spiral. In a lot of ways, the Holy Nation and the Bugmaster are the way they are because of this. The shek definitely, as they were engineered as enforcers of the second empire, but ended up taking their genome-programming and dialing it up to eleven without the guidance of the second empire. And in a lot of ways, these factions are correct in their anti-skeleton views (except the HN anti-women part, haven't found out what's up with that yet.). Broken people in a broken world. This game is suprisingly deep.
Hey man just wanted to say that i just found your channel and it's amazing! Please keep up the good work and also play kenshi again but with a group! :D
As someone who usually takes the base-building, having 30 recruits option. - The Martial Arts path is definetely the OP and best way to play Kenshi. For some reason they decided that 1 NPC with a 50 martial arts skill is equal to 15 mid-level npc's with swords. I think Kenshi's combat system doesn't help this fact since it's only ever going to be a maximum of 3v1. (with the 1 being as strong as 15.) - I think that fact that you just stumbled upon Martial Arts, and in combination with you being a Skeleton which means you can reboot and don't bleed out easily makes for the game being more accessible. the most annoying part of Kenshi is playing any flesh-race, as early on they lose legs, arms, and stay in coma's for minutes of real-time, not to mention the logistics of carrying food, buying equipment so they don't lose arms and legs. but then it really just comes down to again, training martial arts, just with more logisitical issues. you minimized a lot of the potential Logistical issues by just choosing to play as a Solo skeleton. The inaccessible parts for your build are the more "RTS-like" elements, which you're forced to avoid by being a stealth-based solo character. Such as the mentioned Ancient ruins, which contain a lot of the components neccesary for base building and the technology tree. But I don't think Kenshi really does a great job at It's more RTS-like elements, considering the fact you managed to capture Catlon (the strongest NPC in the game) and walk him outside for a nice solo fight. This game really had potential to have civilization-like world changes with it's RTS-like elements, but it fell short. Hoping Kenshi 2 achieves this
Been watching Kenshi videos all morning wondering why this game feels so familiar, and watching your video it hit me - this is fucking Morrowind. Somebody finally made Morrowind again. God bless you weird Kenshi guy.
10:43 aaaah that Miyazaki! I wondered when the cozy Ghibli Studios Miyazaki influence would show up 😆😅 I guess "Nausicaa and the valley of the wind" is mostly desert, just like this world.
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Robot that scraps with everyone to distract himself from the existential dread of being a robot in a decayed ruins of a civilization is probably my new favorite LARP.
You just game me an exicenal crisis
@@Tigermanprevatt4498 me too hav exicenal crisi s
This is just the plot of wall e
Change scraps with to yells at and you’d be talking about muggy.
This isn’t live action so….
-Creates a very OP character
-Challenges the strongest NPC in the game
-Wins and kidnaps him
-Trains with him for a bit
-Drops him near the sea and gives him his sword back
-Refuses to elaborate further
-Leaves
Madness
ANIME!
the mad Cat-lon will destroy all life and enthrall all the skeletons though. That's why when he was free again it utterly shocked me, Warlockracy was one action away from saving the world of kenshi... at least from one threat albeit significant lol
@@КириллКонстантинов-ф1вhis cpu is too fried for him to be a threat to anyone
@@КириллКонстантинов-ф1в He wont succeed
I'm shocked that no one mentions this but the Bug Master would not allow that to happen and he's gathering an army to face him. @@КириллКонстантинов-ф1в
Sneaking into a bandit camp
Knocking out bandit leader
Dragging him to a secluded place
Waiting for him to wake up
Once he wakes up you go "you are awake, we spar now"
This is SUCH a robot thing to do
Ah, you’re finally awake
It just works.
@@frankenstein6677 16 times the size
I think I met Chris Hunt or at least one of his team members about a decade ago at an indie game dev hangout in Bristol, England. I remember having Kenshi described to me and thinking it was unworkably ambitious for such a small scale indie development.
I've seldom been so pleased at being so wrong. Kenshi is a triumph of indie game development.
Holy shit, me too! I remember hearing / possibly speaking to him myself, a very long time ago. The aspect of all of it really appealed to me and I seriously considered asking if I could join his group hahaha. Never happened, but I'm very happy with the result we got. Can't wait for number 2!
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I would say it's a triumph.
I mean you weren't wrong. It is absurdly ambitious. They just managed to pull it off against all odds.
that's an amazing story, and it is absurdly true. Can't believe what one man pulled off here, even with getting help later but just think about how primitive gaming was when he started Kenshi. He had an insane ambition and fought against reality itself to make it happen - just took a long ass time.
Kenshi 2 is in development. They're using Unreal 4 now, instead of the OGRE Engine. The OGRE Engine was responsible for a lot of the performance issues and instability, so hopefully the game will be much more polished out the gate.
Won't lie, second I heard of Kenshi 2 I immediately popped a chode.
what kind would it be?
@@jmgonzales7701 what?
@@jmgonzales7701the kind ur mom would play
Its gonnantake another 10 years, and the longer it takes, the better it will be, so I can be patient.
But man... its literally rhe only game ive ever had hype for. (Actually, stalker2, but)
7:37 No Kenshi playthrough is complete without accidentally causing a civil war in Shark.
My bandit gang has been using shark as the only city we can trade with lol
I'd never even considered making the gangs fight each other lol
26:58 That is almost word for word dialogue that will sometimes happen between starving bandits and a player squad of only skeletons. After your skeleton yells at the bandits they don't eat and don't have food, the hungry bandit leader will say "...Oh." And then de-agro and walk away dejected.
That's a hilarious touch.
Despite having no narrative I fucking _LOVE_ the world building in this game, it's so detailed and deep, so alien, there's so much stuff hidden everywhere in books, dialogue, the scenery... Oh god, the scenery, there's some epic grand scale regions in this game that can't help but make you be in awe... There's nothing quite like it. I love this game, one of my favorites.
The lore is amazing
>be beak thing
>walk into town
>eats all the inhabitants
>refuse to elaborate
>leaves
**being eaten alive!!!!**
What a chad.
hahahhhhahaha
Sigma thing
Relax, embrace death.
Ah yes, Kenshi. The attempted surgery simulator.
(No seriously, the first time I defeated a bandit and he wasn't dead yet, I kept healing him up, then attacking him again, repeating the process until I FINALLY managed to cut off one of his limbs. It takes so much effort to dismember a character!!)
Hopefully not with a rusty bat, but with a nice looking -nodachi- scalpel.
The Horse chopper swords are exceptionally good at removal of limbs from bandits I’ve noticed
@@stuglife5514fr I'm currently using falling suns and the amount of limbs that fly during combat is glorious.
I love how your reviews are stories. It's just the most interesting format. Fantastic work like always!
Warlockracy, as a recent viewer, I want to thank you for being a youtuber. Your videos are some of the few I genuinely enjoy. I have great respect for a channel the size of yours giving longer, detailed videos for your, YOUR, audience and not constantly "following the algorithm", selling creativity for success. I hope your channel lives long, have a very good.
I can't tell you how many hours I've sunked into this game. Its worldbuilding is my favorite out of any RPG in the last decade. Really looking forward to Kenshi 2 when it gets released.
You can tell me if you wish - if playing on steam just have a glance at hours played. I'll be waiting.
Kenshi 2 is comming? Fuck I can't wait.
@@idnintel are you still waiting?
@@aaaaahhhhh9885 YES! do you know how many hours our esteemed yet mysteriously private OP Questionable? has in Kenshi?
I have been biding my time trying not to think about this but I catch myself nervously looking at my clock ticking away the hours without an update nor nary a whisper of a hint of time accrued. I try to distract myself with politricks, VR and even some beautiful womem but my mind can't help but obsess about knowing how many hours Questionable? has played in Kenshi and why the hell he cannot tell me!
One of the things with Kenshi is that, despite being difficult, the game gives you freedom to tweak your adventure however you want via it's modding tool: the Forgotten Construction Set, which is probably one of the most user friendly modding tools i've ever seen.
The game isn't afraid of you making customizing your own experience if you want to, unlike Dark Souls and the like, which force you into a specific mind set.
Which is ok, certain games, like certain sports, should not be for everyone.
So I hope the souls franchise never bends the knee to those who demand easy modes.
Did not expect this, I thought it was going to be Morrowind or Enderal. But Kenshi is very good
My favorite moment ever playing Kenshin was when I spent 3 hours trying to escape prison and the second I finally escaped I realized my right legs health was going down horribly so I died like 2 minutes later lol
I've been playing Kenshi since 2018, and I cannot wait to see what they do with Kenshi 2. They could do so much more with the Unreal Engine.....
Binged all your videos on a bored night while working.
Can't believe I only found you now. Your reviews+playthrough, combined with your wit, is just great. Keep up the good work.
idk why but your "What are we doing...." moment had me in tears. Like that was what was running thru my head when I played this, you sort of just wander around and LARP as a post-apocalyptic weeaboo wanderer. It's quite comfy actually.
Ah yes, the Torque engine. The only flaw of Age of Decadence, but JEZUS WHAT A FLAW!
What's wrong with that engine? I am not fumiliar with it.
@Fart So what exactly? Poor modeling tools? Rendering sucks and takes too long? Script is unreliable? Data lick? Dog reguarly eats your Torwue project?
found this channel because of the fallout 1 mods and i have to say it's the most interesting content i found this year!
nice work you're doing here, if you keep at it i think you can go big cause the content is really well done and unique.
I stumbled across your channel with your video on Tamriel Rebuilt, I have found all of your videos to be thoroughly entertaining and often find myself re-watching them. Your humour is simply fantastic and the presentation of these videos always reels me in.
It's always a good day when Warlockracy uploads and I look forward to all your future works!
"He's like the beak-thing equivalent of US. He barges into town, eats all the guards, then eats all the townspeople, and then just leaves through the front gate, never to be seen again."
Absolutely sublime.
Loved this game and the review. The latter half of the challenge disappearing is my issue with it, but my only issue. I'm typically a lone wolf or small group kind of person with these sort of RPG's. Massive management is a turn off and it makes me rather play something like CK, so I end up never making a town. Just a single home where I drop things off/rest at most.
Also you can't drop a Neverwinter anecdote, then I'll want to see your take on it. It's one of my most revered RPG's!
One of my favorite games of ALL time. Well-done video, adding this one to a playlist.
Kenshi is probably the best worldbuilding I've ever seen, and I'm not talking just about games but including things like Dune and Tolkien. The lore divided in very small and sparse tidbits tackles not only the history of the world but how different factions write, view and interpretate its history, and it is done in a very concise manner (the longest book is 3 paragraphs long, most of the story is unveiled through very short item descriptions and through characters barking and bantering, and there's a lot of environmental storytelling). It's incridebly similar to morrowind in that aspect, except it doesn't abuse textual exposition (the many long books and scrolls in the game).
Playing skeleton have it's perk, you won't get hungry or tired just don't forget to repair your body from constant punishment
I really like how this video was made. It functions both as a review and a display of the game's main strength: roleplaying + personal experiences in a sandbox world.
Your channel is criminally underappreciated
WARLOCK, ENHANCE AND PLAY THE SCORCHING WINDS EXTENDED.
I'm in endgame in Kenshi right now. I've killed most of the minor bandit factions, and allied with the Shek. I've got a Shek princess on my squad, who's currently undergoing training to raise her stats to something passable.
I've got a platoon of heavily-armored dudes with top-of-the-line mech limbs, and a platoon of sniper archers that support them. Who ain't bad in melee either because of the whole 'secondary weapon' business.
I've allied with the Flotsam Ninjas and am fighting the Holy Nation. I'll join up with the Anti-Slavers and fight the United Cities later, after training my last 3 recruits.
Then it's time for the Ashlands.
Cat-Lon.
30 cyborgs (well, 26 and 4 upgraded robots) against an endless swarm of headless clients and the Mad Cat.
And if I ever feel like coming back to Kenshi, I'll import a save, do another lap of the Ashlands, and gather a second copy of the endgame Meitou blades for another character.
No settlement building? that's a huge chunk of the game though. Also, have you ever thought of making a vid for Kingdom Come: Deliverance?
Clearly a man of taste. Ive tried and failed many runs but one time....I started a Hash empire
Kenshi one of my fav games to lose track of time in. Amazing work as always, looking forward to more videos!
The most criminally underrated channel on RUclips.
some lore notes:
Kenshi is actually post-post-post apocalyptic
the skeletons were built by the 1st empire. after it fell to civil war, the technology required to build skeletons was lost. all of them are thousands of years old, and while the game mentions they occasionally wipe their memory, it's also implied through dialogues with the 2nd in command of the mechanists that the memory wipes are a lie they tell humans to absolve themselves of what happened during the reign of the 2nd empire (see: description of general Jang's CPU). mad cat-lon was definitely the leader of the 2nd empire. he admits it during his monologue, and i believe it explicitly states as much in the description of his CPU. also, those headless skeletons wandering in the Ashlands are his thralls. he removed their heads to prevent them from thinking for themselves as punishment for their "treason." it's worth noting cat-lon was driven insane during his reign as emperor of the 2nd empire due to trying to manage humans. he was not the monster. also the shek are likely descendants of the "enforcers," a group of humans genetically modified by the skeletons of the 2nd empire to serve as protectors against pirates and cannibals. also the bugmaster resides in arach, watchers rim is just the rim of the crater of arach. finally, that body of water you mentioned is called an ocean.
non-lore fact: when u take people's weapons away, you end up training your attack skill vs their dodge skill rather than their defense skill. that's why cat-lon and the dust king weren't very good training dummies.
I never got around to finishing my playthrough in this. I was trying to explore and do everything and probably got around 3/4ths done with exploring the map. Also didn't get around to overthrowing the Holy Nation or United Cities. At least I had a lot of fun making a nice settlement in the Fog Islands I'm proud of. Maybe someday I'll try to go back to Kenshi to wrap everything up in it, just hard to find the time for all the games I have yet to play though.
the only channel I've got my notifications on for... Hoping for more Elder Scrolls stuff too!
Soon
Fun fact: The soundtrack for Kenshi is actually very short music bits put together by the game and what plays depends on several factors such as player actions/decisions, location, and possibly the faction in charge of the region.
I am 600 hours into my Kenshi playthrough. 0 cheese, permadeath and everything at 1x speed. I thought I was crazy at first to attempt it. I thought I would not follow my own rules. Instead I forgot there is a speed button. I have become completely enthralled and immersed. I have watched good men bleed out. I have watched my entire squad downed and almost all of them perish, eaten alive or enslaved. All at 1x speed. Still, the save continues and at least 1 person has always survived.
I still have 1 original character who is now a deadly martial artist and has survived years in the wasteland of Kenshi on permadeath. He also has infamy and a permanent 127k bounty. Even Beak Things tremble when they see him.
I love the concept of your character. A robot that kidnaps notable leaders of areas just to fight them in the woods for months and then leaves them alone. Just to learn how to Fight Good.
I love your stuff the mixture of comedy a playthrough and a review its great
Your intro and outro will forever be my favorite kenshi media
When I play I actually install mods that expand on the party features, and also ad AI scripts to assigns people in a particular squad as patrolmen. after increasing unit capacity to around 200, I built a fully sized city with patrolling guards, crossbowmen mounted on every wall, a farming community with a flowchart of tasks that continually produced and supplied food to all of my residents, and so on. this civilization was established by my main party of 5 who I started the game with. they were all very different in build as I wanted to experience a lot of mixed combat styles, the best one ended up being my martial artist by far, but the heavy armored tank was almost as useful. they were who I considered the founders of the town, who I used to explore the game, take on most mid level challenges, and eventually became the core of my production, skills, and research teams. I also wanted to have that lone samurai experience so after I was sufficiently happy with my automated town and completed all the research, I recruited the unique skeleton named Burn from his tower, and assigned him to his own party. While my ~150 of my pawns operated their lives and fueled my wallet, Burn went on a great journey as my new main character to achieve absolute godhood, similarly stripping his limbs and using my swathes of wealth to purchase top tier limbs of the absolute highest quality, costing 100s of thousands of cats cumulatively. Using black hole magic, I stacked inventory upon inventory of iron ore into a backpack and marched for weeks on end around the Shek kingdom to increase strength. Using a rusted slab of metal roughly proportional to a cars bumper, I slowly clubbed leviathan after leviathan to death, maximizing his heavy weapons skill. I took the mad Katlans greatsword, the meitou falling star, capable of dealing the largest damage numbers per swing of any weapon in game, and finally after dozens of real hours of training across the entire expanse of kenshi wastelands, I led my party of 5 up the steps of the holy empire to battle the waves of the holy guard. Meanwhile Burn, my samurai master, took on the holy lord Phoenix. I made certain my stats at least matched his before attempting this, because I had decided that once I launched my attack, that was it. iron man mode from there, It was a known suicide mission, my assault on the city was the conclusion to my hundred hour long journey, regardless of the outcome. I did the bare minimum of micro , just set my characters loose to finally prove themselves in their greatest fight. I simply watched held my breath. I wont say how it ended in my own game, but the feeling I had during that 10 minute long struggle was unlike anything else ive ever felt playing a video game, driven the very real threat of being able to "lose" when youve worked so long and hard to overcome an arbitrary challenge you set for yourself without really understanding what it would take to accomplish in the first place. every action up till then had been enjoyable as character improved and numbers grew, but this made it all feel like a payoff. like you said, you didnt feel like you really beat the phoenix, even though he was surely humiliated by a shameful death. Thank you for a great video on one of my favorite games.
It is actually very much possible to sneak by the robotic spiders guarding those sealed labs. You just need absurdly high stealth. Had a character like that in my first playthrough.
Never really got that into the skeleton gameplay. Though I preferred to start as a slave. Training daily, barely alive, but rapidly growing. Within a month in that time had hardened a lowly slave into a master thief. Unfortunately while strength and toughness were high the character was absolutely green in combat. But hey at least said character systematically imprisoned all the prison guards.
Oh boy, yeah….Phoenix seems to have some absurd bonuses against skeletons.
Ogre, only one game I know I’ve played on that engine, Jack Keane.
Love your editing style as you make more videos! Always entertaining
Your content is awesome and I'm ashamed I haven't found you sooner. Good shit yo.
I just found this game on Steam having no clue what it was. I read the description and bought it immidiatly at 40% off. Then I came and watched your video. You got me pumped to play it with your awesome naration. This is the first video I've seen of yours but I love the way you told your character's story. I'm hitting the subscribe button. You earned it in spades.
I could never enjoy a game like this but i gotta say i LOVE the art style/aesthetics the world looks amazing
Hello from RUssia, Dear Friend! Place that gave birth to many fallout mods that you are so enjoy playing (or not). I want to thank you personally for this video - through you i have discovered Kenshi and now its my one of the most played and loved games of all time! Wish you all the best in life and good luck!
p.s. - they are making KENSHI 2 but with TEAM and on UNREAL ENGINE now - meaning, it wont take 12 years to finish and it will be way more stable and diverse in possibilities game!
Loved this video, and it's criminally under viewed! You've got a new subscriber!
Base-building is the real endgame of Kenshi. Create your own town and develop your own resources while defending it from the outside world. I don't think trading is in the vanilla game but there's a mod for that, as well as other things you may want for your base.
Have you heard of the sea dog games there a series of old Russia RPGs about being a pirate and people don’t talk about them enough. the second one was rebranded as pirates of the Caribbean and some of them were published by Bethesda Softworks (and some of the morrowind and oblivion voice actors are in it I know male imperial from morrowind is in the first one)
I think I might pick this up for myself, looks interesting
I definitely recommend it lot’s of different play styles and steam workshop
Take the High Lord Pheonix. Remove his limbs, and replace them with robot limbs. He's now an apostate to his faith.
Kenshi is easy one of my favorite games of all time. It's nice to see it here in your channel.
I like how the later half of the video is just Warlockracy trying to become General Grevious and Samurai Jackbot
Oh and kidnapping Robo-Caesar... I guess
Kenshi rules and reins, lost my self. I remember my first steps, I was mining like crazy, I show a goat, attacked, the goat broke both my legs in 3 seconds, I crawl for an eternity, passed 2 days on an abandoned bed, almost died from starvation. I love this game !!!
my kenshi review:
Its like The Sims, but with combat, while in a desert. Also some japanese theme going on.
I remember when I first played Kenshi. It was so engrossing. I could listen to the soundtrack for days, especially the first track. I'm so excited for the sequel. ;~;
Just learned about this game, and it’s one of the most interesting worlds I’ve ever seen. Definitely will check this out
One of the best ways to play Kenshi. No mods, vanilla, it never gets old. Throw some mods in.... oh my the spicy endless hours one can have.
I have a suggestion, if only because it's more 'retro' in design: Cruelty Squad, a weird, ugly looking immersive sim. That being said. I just found your channel a week ago and ams already converted. Am looking forward to more of your stuff in the future.
tbh you need to be more popular, love your vids homie
I wish there were more games like Kenshi. Truly an indie masterpiece. Can't wait for Kenshi 2
Holy this was amazing. Found a new channel I like
The "ninja run" is a tv trope from the 60s. Not at all unique to Naruto. It was meant to stylize momentum for the use of weapons as Ninjas were supposed to be more fluid that the Samurai. Running with like that with a weapon in hand and hitting your opponent made for a more dynamic scene than running with the weapon above your head or just on the side in a "normal stance". So yes it does look stupid if it is done without a weapon ...
Should've visited Mongrel as well. Cause you haven't met the most strongest warrior in the game.
Amamake is robot Fist of the North Star. Perfect anime protagonist.
13:40 the slavers didn't steal your sparring partner, amazing plot twist, subverting expectations
You haven't nearly reached Kenshi's most difficult challenges. You haven't had your outpost attacked by Eyegore and his samurai army or raided the southern hive queen's HQ, to name a few.
I've played Kenshi for about 700+ hrs now, and what I love about it is that you'll never get the same run with a solo/duo/trio or single digit parties. It's always changing. The town system tho is wonky. Mods somewhat alleviate this. My favorite run was having Beep become the strongest warrior ever
another fantastic video warlock! your doing amazing work man
I think kenshin needs a way to trigger changes in politics, power and demographic shifts, or something like an invasion, something that changes the dynamic
Well, if you abduct and/or kill leaders the other factions do make moves on the other. Very rudimentary but fun.
I'd reccomend the "Lost in the Ashlands" mod if you want to actually see the factions raid one another.
It also has a start where you're a Pit Fighter and you fight to make ends meet.
Only drawback is that these raids only occur in Cities you're in and they have a propensity of making your time in those cities rather short. Still reccomend it though!
Can't wait for kenshi 2
"You don't belong in the human world, not even the humans do"
Describes Kenshi perfectly.
my favorite homeless crackhead simulator
On my first playthrough now, went Holy Blade. Been having an incredible amount of fun so far, I bought the game yesterday and already have a companion and two animals following me. Currently running copper from the nearby deposit to the town, all while rebuilding a destroyed longhouse I recently purchased. Enough bandits come by on occasion to the point where my character now has adequate combat experience. Overall, things are going really well and I've barely left Squin.
This game is what all my D&D campaigns aspire to.
Awesome.
Enters room, effortlessly ganks the final boss npc, trains stats a bit, gets bored, leaves the boss alive and armed and fucks off. Real kenshi moment right there
The true joy of kenshi starts when we stop thinking about optimizing game economics and stats. When we just stop caring about being the strongest possible and just roleplay the character, that's when we truly start feeling how cool this world is.
There isn't that much stuff to do after a couple hundred of hours though. Still, Kenshi 2 is under development. I'm eager for it.
Solo playthrough is a mark of a chad. Save scumming is also a mark of a cuckold. Great vid again Warlock, when the hell will you make a discord so I can shitpost with you about Kenshi?
Playing this game has got me thinking that, in a lot of ways, the skeletons are the true villains of the story. Semi-repentant and remorseful villains, but villains nonetheless. Like post WW2 Nazis that never age, and have an eternity to reflect on what they have done. No new skeletons can be created, not since before the old empire, meaning all the currently existing skeletons are the same ones that were involved in, and directly complicit in the downfall of Kenshi and the cataclysms. The near genocide of all of humanity.
You were right to kick the shit out of Cat-Lon.
The game strongly implies that skeletons as a whole may be directly responsible for both major cataclysms, and are engaged in a cover up to suppress knowledge of their role in it (it's implied that the reset doesn't actually wipe their brains, it's just a cover story), and hold back humanity's technological progress (whether maliciously, or to prevent another apocalypse, hard to say), leaving the moon of Kenshi in a static tech state and downward spiral. In a lot of ways, the Holy Nation and the Bugmaster are the way they are because of this. The shek definitely, as they were engineered as enforcers of the second empire, but ended up taking their genome-programming and dialing it up to eleven without the guidance of the second empire. And in a lot of ways, these factions are correct in their anti-skeleton views (except the HN anti-women part, haven't found out what's up with that yet.).
Broken people in a broken world. This game is suprisingly deep.
This is all just a theory though. I am still working my way through the game.
Everytime i look at that game I get a starwars galaxies vibe.
Hey man just wanted to say that i just found your channel and it's amazing! Please keep up the good work and also play kenshi again but with a group! :D
Interesting that your robot's name is Amamake, which is the name of a system i live in in Eve Online
As someone who usually takes the base-building, having 30 recruits option. - The Martial Arts path is definetely the OP and best way to play Kenshi. For some reason they decided that 1 NPC with a 50 martial arts skill is equal to 15 mid-level npc's with swords. I think Kenshi's combat system doesn't help this fact since it's only ever going to be a maximum of 3v1. (with the 1 being as strong as 15.) - I think that fact that you just stumbled upon Martial Arts, and in combination with you being a Skeleton which means you can reboot and don't bleed out easily makes for the game being more accessible.
the most annoying part of Kenshi is playing any flesh-race, as early on they lose legs, arms, and stay in coma's for minutes of real-time, not to mention the logistics of carrying food, buying equipment so they don't lose arms and legs. but then it really just comes down to again, training martial arts, just with more logisitical issues.
you minimized a lot of the potential Logistical issues by just choosing to play as a Solo skeleton.
The inaccessible parts for your build are the more "RTS-like" elements, which you're forced to avoid by being a stealth-based solo character. Such as the mentioned Ancient ruins, which contain a lot of the components neccesary for base building and the technology tree.
But I don't think Kenshi really does a great job at It's more RTS-like elements, considering the fact you managed to capture Catlon (the strongest NPC in the game) and walk him outside for a nice solo fight. This game really had potential to have civilization-like world changes with it's RTS-like elements, but it fell short.
Hoping Kenshi 2 achieves this
seriously a truly masterpiece of a game. sadly VERY underrated. i wish more ppl knew it so it could get better funds.
Been watching Kenshi videos all morning wondering why this game feels so familiar, and watching your video it hit me - this is fucking Morrowind. Somebody finally made Morrowind again. God bless you weird Kenshi guy.
17:59 "kenshi likes to punctuate the wasteland aesthetic with the color red"
Yes and that red color is often your blood
Kenshi is truly a masterpiece.
been waiting for this!
You should do a kenshi playthrough series , with your narration it would be a fun watch
10:43 aaaah that Miyazaki! I wondered when the cozy Ghibli Studios Miyazaki influence would show up 😆😅
I guess "Nausicaa and the valley of the wind" is mostly desert, just like this world.
This game gets away with a lot just because the whole setting is so fucking cool and emergently generates stories
Im glad that Christopher Walken has decided to have a gameplay channel