I just finished playing it for the first time. I played for around 5h. This happened: 1. I lost my doggo fighting another doggo :'c 2. I grind for 4h iron to get 3 companions, weapons, and gear (never thought about stealing) 3. I decided to buy as much food as possible and leave town 4. I accidently entered holy nation and half of squad is female 5. Some guy at the store talks to me and asks about the holy book 6. I didn't have the holy book 7. I died 10/10, would play again.
@@ashwinnmyburgh9364 me too, I walked outside those gates and opened my map, as I was looking around for something interesting and suddenly I was surrounded
Pro-tip #524 : You can provoke the 3 drunk thugs in the hubs bar, then flee and let the ninjas guards kill them (the guards won't aggro you). You can afterwards loot the 3 thugs and sell their gear for an easy (and approximately) 8k cats (depending on what you sell / what you want to keep for yourself). EDIT : Doesn't work anymore :'/
Some more helpful advice for new players... Pro tip: once you have two or three companions in your party you can actually distract guards and shop keepers with your friends while your character steals them blind behind their back. Another pro tip: if you start a farm, creatures will come and devour your crops. Wall in your farm (and your farmers ..lol..) With no gates, enemies will not attack. You can inventory swap all your farm goods and wares you want to sell over the walls. Related Pro tip: Keep a squad of warriors outside the walls to transport and sell goods. Keep a squad of labourers inside the walls to grind away and keep the supplies and money coming in. Keep your training structures outside the walls so you can quickly train up new recruits while keeping your economy safe within your sealed up base. Build as many wheat farms as you can fit in your walls. Make and export grog for profit. Try to steal research from armor and weapon shops instead of buying it. It's very expensive and they leave it lying around in containers. If for some reason your walls get breached, hide inside a structure. Close and lock the door. Eventually the raiders will leave. Carry a copy of the flame with every character. It may get you out of a bad situation. Keep one character outside the wall of your base to pray with the priest when he comes. Don't piss off the Holy nation until you're stronger.
"Another pro tip: if you start a farm, creatures will come and devour your crops. Wall in your farm (and your farmers ..lol..) With no gates, enemies will not attack. You can inventory swap all your farm goods and wares you want to sell over the walls. " By enemies dont attack do you mean the raids wont even trigger? Because if so thats amazing.
"With no gates, enemies will not attack." Actually just tested, enemies can and will destroy walls of your base to get in if the AI pathing cannot find a gate.
Most of that comment is outdated though. I suspect they havent played the game in a while because 1. enemies can and will destroy walls to get into your base, 2. enemies can and will destroy the door to get inside a house you are hiding inside and the rest is just him saying how broken stealing is - which is accurate.
Hint for this special city: there's a thief's guild building. The guard offers you to join the "Shinobi" for 10k but you can walk in for free. Get up to the 1st floor where you find training equipment for melee (2 puppets), lockpicking (2 chests) and assassination (single puppet). You can start training and the thiefes will tell you to stop ("This is for private use only/Only for guild members"/...). You can continue training until you get a 2nd warning ("I told you to stop!/What's wrong with you?/ #just a blank grey banner#) - then stop and the person who gave the warning will leave the room. When he's out of sight you can continue training. If the person who warns you is the only one with you in the training room you can make him go away after the 2nd warning and you'll end up all alone in the room for a few moments. That's the time you can even steal stuff from the thiefes 😊 That way i raised my stats for melee (there's a max. level for training like this), lockpick (currently 11) and assassinate (currently 9). You also get some extra money for the stolen goods.
Ofcourse you can do that, too. It's just one of many ways to go. Did some mining as you said but i discovered that nearby settlements have well equiped shops and that i could make a huge profit selling e.g. stolen robot repair kits for 4k each while copper sells at ~220 each. As i'm new to the game i'm not familiar with the allies system yet and didn't want to ally with thiefes right away from the start. Just wanted to save the 10k, went in and tried using their equipment and stay a "free" man. Now the 10k are peanuts for me 😊
@@mikek.692 i know I’m super late but u just explained how i died just bought the game and i kept dying up there and i kept missing the warning lmao i just said to myself when i get strong in taking the whole hub
Also if they find out you steal, they'll never do business with you again. And trust me, sometimes that sucks because the economy on there is real. The Hub trader has only 1000 caps to spend when you have a lot of merchandise to sell, you can't go to the Outpost because he refuses to trade with you. You'll have to run all the way to Squin to trade.
Great video my man, just bought the game and i was completely lost on even what to do or how to start out. this feels like one of those games where you have to know how to properly start out so that you can flesh the game out otherwise you would be super lost on even what you can do, I.E Mount and Blade
I bought this game when it first got into alpha, played it a good amount back then, but dropped it because of school. Honestly, I didn't expect it to ever come out of alpha, but I was really taken aback when I saw dozens of "Kenshi" videos pop up over the last couple of months.
I just got the game and was wondering what the fuck was happening and how to get better. Seven minutes in he gets chased by a group of bandits, runs into a bar, starts a fight between the bandits and the people in the bar, runs away, then "Right now I'm running for my life, that's good because it's training my athletics stat". What have I gotten myself into?
really want to get into this game but almost everytime i start to set up hunger kicks in or i get attacked and then if i survive that, i cant then get any materials to build
My start is to kite animals into city guards. Found the area around blister hill is good for river raptors but the city to its south is perfect for bulls. Once I got my town started, vegetables for food and wheat straw for grog which goes for over 1000 cats a piece. Very easy to accumulate 100k in an hour with grog.
Ik I’m late but if you attack a drifter and run and he is in pursuit then the guards will start a war with the drifters (usually the guards will lose with certain mods) but you can loot them and make so much so quickly..
Great tutorial. Sorry if it was mentioned already, but another way to earn good money is scavenging. Follow a group of bandits, from afar, until they confront another group and wait till they kill each other. Grab their stuff and sell it. Kenshi is awesome!
Looting is probably the easiest way to start and survive. Getting lock pick and stealth up is key as well as athletics. Picking up items from tables/shelves and putting them down (and repeat ad infinitum) increases thief skills pretty quickly and is easier than looting from containers. Break into shops at night and steal everything you can and move to another town to sell. Food is the hardest thing to come by. Once you get some high level thief skills, survival becomes much easier. Running away is the best thing you can do most of the time until you get a decent squad of at least 4 people. Soloing is possible but not until you get really high stats. My best squad of 6 has stats over 50 in str, dex, toughness, and higher than that in melee, defense, and weapon skills and I still have to run from some battles because it's easy to get overwhelmed. Kenshi loves to swarm enemies at you. I killed over 30 beak things in the Crater and had to run for my life because waves would just keep coming. Just when you think you're good, something will come along and beat you down. Survival is tough in Kenshi! Good vid!
@@frankgrimes2679 is it normal that the game doesn't need to be installed? Like extracted the files and it can launch straight away...is that normal? I'm trying it out aswell and will buy it asap i think...
One time fee. There are mercenary parties you can hire that cost by the day though. Use these guys when you need to deal with a bandit problem near a base or you want to lead an attack against a difficult location. They're really expensive.
Savescumming is never the way to go :( What is the point in playing a harsh and brutal game if you are just gonna wipe away the consequences whenever something goes wrong? If you wanna be a thief then be a thief but take the consequences if it goes wrong.
It's a viable option for people who prefer a quicker game of Kenshi. The beginning is the roughest/harshest part of the game and that strategy speeds it up pretty quickly for those who aren't interested in that initial difficulty spike. Players who abhor savescumming probably wouldn't do it in the first place anyways.
@@Sinehmatic That is all well and good but as a beginners "guide" it doesn't actually guide you on how to properly play the game. It is an exploit nothing more or less and belongs on a video about exploits not one about a generic guide.
I want to purchase this game but I know I'll need a lot of help and have infinite questions, I'm not too familiar with discord but if there are people that can help on there, please send me a link to people that are actually willing to help a noob out :)
Guides for normal games: Alright it's 10 minutes in, I have done the first quest, this is exciting Guide for Kenshi Hi it's 10 minutes in, I'm running for my life and that is great!
when all those bandits came rushing inside the city i laughed , when they all came rushing inside the tavern i was laughing out loud , when they didnt stop there i was crying in laughter
Slavery is not a mechanic in the base building aspect of the game. Its original intention was to be an obstacle. You can buy slaves, but they only have a small chance to join your party officially. There are mods, however, that allow you to craft shackles and simulate the feel of slavery if you so choose.
@@TheStreetMan awesome man, thanks for the answer :) can i add a mod to my already existing game maybe if u know? or i have to start a new one? btw awesome videos bro , keep it up :D
@@SoFasT99 You can, though I recommend importing your save game from the main menu. You still carry over the progress, dead npcs, etc. that you want via the checkboxes. Importing refreshes the game world beyond that though.
Overall i learned nothing i didn't interpret from the game's description and youtuber lets plays. I was hoping to learn what stats mean, how to do things, but no i wasted nearly 17 minutes. Title is misleading, it should be "Quick Rundown of Kenshi's Core Themes"
everything is great about this game except it literally hurts my eyes, its just so god damn bland looking, haven't really found much for mods either to help improve colors
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"Well, right now I'm running for my life" 10/10 would watch again.
The best part of a beginners tutorial is when the guide is saying “oh shit”
I just finished playing it for the first time. I played for around 5h. This happened:
1. I lost my doggo fighting another doggo :'c
2. I grind for 4h iron to get 3 companions, weapons, and gear (never thought about stealing)
3. I decided to buy as much food as possible and leave town
4. I accidently entered holy nation and half of squad is female
5. Some guy at the store talks to me and asks about the holy book
6. I didn't have the holy book
7. I died
10/10, would play again.
10/10 would crusade again
The true question is, did you meet Beep?
did you play again?
- 7 minutes in the game
- bandits trying to kill or kidnap you....
After a *whole* 7 minutes? Pro-level ....
mine is first 5 seconds
@@WiseOwl_1408 I was literally attacked by a massive band of bandits just at spawn lol
@@ashwinnmyburgh9364 me too, I walked outside those gates and opened my map, as I was looking around for something interesting and suddenly I was surrounded
Pro-tip #524 : You can provoke the 3 drunk thugs in the hubs bar, then flee and let the ninjas guards kill them (the guards won't aggro you). You can afterwards loot the 3 thugs and sell their gear for an easy (and approximately) 8k cats (depending on what you sell / what you want to keep for yourself).
EDIT : Doesn't work anymore :'/
Oh yeah, that's actually a great thing to do. Did that so I could get 2 recruits and speed up the mining process. Saves a lot of time.
You can also pick up a free companion by listening to the guy in the hub bar's story about that banshee
your a genius my friend !!
The guards just aggro to me with the thug lol
@@stevensedtal7002 that guy died to a random thug stabbing him in the stomach and running away ._.
You have a...very pleasant tutorial voice. I like how effortless and informative this all was. As youtubers go you're a natural!
Some more helpful advice for new players...
Pro tip: once you have two or three companions in your party you can actually distract guards and shop keepers with your friends while your character steals them blind behind their back.
Another pro tip: if you start a farm, creatures will come and devour your crops. Wall in your farm (and your farmers ..lol..) With no gates, enemies will not attack. You can inventory swap all your farm goods and wares you want to sell over the walls.
Related Pro tip: Keep a squad of warriors outside the walls to transport and sell goods. Keep a squad of labourers inside the walls to grind away and keep the supplies and money coming in.
Keep your training structures outside the walls so you can quickly train up new recruits while keeping your economy safe within your sealed up base.
Build as many wheat farms as you can fit in your walls. Make and export grog for profit.
Try to steal research from armor and weapon shops instead of buying it. It's very expensive and they leave it lying around in containers.
If for some reason your walls get breached, hide inside a structure. Close and lock the door. Eventually the raiders will leave.
Carry a copy of the flame with every character. It may get you out of a bad situation.
Keep one character outside the wall of your base to pray with the priest when he comes. Don't piss off the Holy nation until you're stronger.
all i hear is "pro tip: become a feudal lord"
"Another pro tip: if you start a farm, creatures will come and devour your crops. Wall in your farm (and your farmers ..lol..) With no gates, enemies will not attack. You can inventory swap all your farm goods and wares you want to sell over the walls. "
By enemies dont attack do you mean the raids wont even trigger? Because if so thats amazing.
"With no gates, enemies will not attack." Actually just tested, enemies can and will destroy walls of your base to get in if the AI pathing cannot find a gate.
This one comment was more useful than the whole video,and it only took me 1 minute to read
Most of that comment is outdated though. I suspect they havent played the game in a while because 1. enemies can and will destroy walls to get into your base, 2. enemies can and will destroy the door to get inside a house you are hiding inside and the rest is just him saying how broken stealing is - which is accurate.
Hint for this special city:
there's a thief's guild building. The guard offers you to join the "Shinobi" for 10k but you can walk in for free.
Get up to the 1st floor where you find training equipment for melee (2 puppets), lockpicking (2 chests) and assassination (single puppet).
You can start training and the thiefes will tell you to stop ("This is for private use only/Only for guild members"/...).
You can continue training until you get a 2nd warning ("I told you to stop!/What's wrong with you?/ #just a blank grey banner#) - then stop and the person who gave the warning will leave the room.
When he's out of sight you can continue training.
If the person who warns you is the only one with you in the training room you can make him go away after the 2nd warning and you'll end up all alone in the room for a few moments.
That's the time you can even steal stuff from the thiefes 😊
That way i raised my stats for melee (there's a max. level for training like this), lockpick (currently 11) and assassinate (currently 9).
You also get some extra money for the stolen goods.
or just sell some copper, get 10k ez and then get the membership. They're good allies to have regardless.
Ofcourse you can do that, too.
It's just one of many ways to go.
Did some mining as you said but i discovered that nearby settlements have well equiped shops and that i could make a huge profit selling e.g. stolen robot repair kits for 4k each while copper sells at ~220 each.
As i'm new to the game i'm not familiar with the allies system yet and didn't want to ally with thiefes right away from the start.
Just wanted to save the 10k, went in and tried using their equipment and stay a "free" man.
Now the 10k are peanuts for me 😊
@@mikek.692 i know I’m super late but u just explained how i died just bought the game and i kept dying up there and i kept missing the warning lmao i just said to myself when i get strong in taking the whole hub
My favorite mod has the rock bottom start. You're starving in the middle desert with no equipment and you lost an arm.
Thats all I've done in my 30 hours and 40 restarts
Rock bottom is not a mod start
The desert is unironically a great spawn. Lure bugs into town guards: sell the claws, smoke the meat to eat.
Why is it most games that aren’t triple A games usually have a lot better content... oh yeah because the developer actually tries
Also if they find out you steal, they'll never do business with you again. And trust me, sometimes that sucks because the economy on there is real. The Hub trader has only 1000 caps to spend when you have a lot of merchandise to sell, you can't go to the Outpost because he refuses to trade with you. You'll have to run all the way to Squin to trade.
Great video my man, just bought the game and i was completely lost on even what to do or how to start out.
this feels like one of those games where you have to know how to properly start out so that you can flesh the game out otherwise you would be super lost on even what you can do, I.E Mount and Blade
Agreed.
'e.g.', not 'i.e.'
I just popped open mount and blade and played it amazingly well, or well decent
Subbing for the personality. Love when my guide has to say "oh shit" in the teaching process, that and your voice is A+
I bought this game when it first got into alpha, played it a good amount back then, but dropped it because of school.
Honestly, I didn't expect it to ever come out of alpha, but I was really taken aback when I saw dozens of "Kenshi" videos pop up over the last couple of months.
Same
Thanks for this - the guards casually hauling the bandit's corpses out and the survivor at 13:51 is a great touch to the game
8:28 “right now I’m running for my life.......... and that’s a good thing! It’s training our athletic skill
When you’re watching this and you don’t own kenshi
the secret ingredient is crime
how are you doing one year since this comment got posted?
Can anyone help me peel some potatoes?
The merchants guild might be able to help you with that.
theres a really nice group of skeletons that can help you out with that
ruclips.net/video/eN01M_xWi2g/видео.html
Hey, hey, people.
Great tutorial. It's to the game's merit that even a literal tutorial playthrough involves a spontanious bandit attack lol/ Thanks man
More of an overview, but exactly what I was looking for.
I find very funny how you improvise your comments as you played. Loved it. I m learning a lot
I just got the game and was wondering what the fuck was happening and how to get better. Seven minutes in he gets chased by a group of bandits, runs into a bar, starts a fight between the bandits and the people in the bar, runs away, then "Right now I'm running for my life, that's good because it's training my athletics stat".
What have I gotten myself into?
really want to get into this game but almost everytime i start to set up hunger kicks in or i get attacked and then if i survive that, i cant then get any materials to build
Play a skeleton. They don't starve, but holy nation hates them
Me: *Someone who played kenshi for almost 500 hours now.*
Also me: "Interesting"
Thanks for the video tutorial! Loved the way you explain. Keep it up!
My start is to kite animals into city guards. Found the area around blister hill is good for river raptors but the city to its south is perfect for bulls. Once I got my town started, vegetables for food and wheat straw for grog which goes for over 1000 cats a piece. Very easy to accumulate 100k in an hour with grog.
I'm currently in a recovery coma
This was informative and hilarious lol. I lost it when they flooded the bar.
Ik I’m late but if you attack a drifter and run and he is in pursuit then the guards will start a war with the drifters (usually the guards will lose with certain mods) but you can loot them and make so much so quickly..
Great tutorial. Sorry if it was mentioned already, but another way to earn good money is scavenging. Follow a group of bandits, from afar, until they confront another group and wait till they kill each other. Grab their stuff and sell it. Kenshi is awesome!
So ive made quite a bit of cats and im still weaker then a training dummy could anybody tell me how to get an ok melee skill level easily?
Looting is probably the easiest way to start and survive. Getting lock pick and stealth up is key as well as athletics. Picking up items from tables/shelves and putting them down (and repeat ad infinitum) increases thief skills pretty quickly and is easier than looting from containers. Break into shops at night and steal everything you can and move to another town to sell. Food is the hardest thing to come by. Once you get some high level thief skills, survival becomes much easier. Running away is the best thing you can do most of the time until you get a decent squad of at least 4 people. Soloing is possible but not until you get really high stats. My best squad of 6 has stats over 50 in str, dex, toughness, and higher than that in melee, defense, and weapon skills and I still have to run from some battles because it's easy to get overwhelmed. Kenshi loves to swarm enemies at you. I killed over 30 beak things in the Crater and had to run for my life because waves would just keep coming. Just when you think you're good, something will come along and beat you down. Survival is tough in Kenshi! Good vid!
7:56 LMFAO!!!! YOU LOST TOTAL CONTROL MY DUDE
Hey... my man....calm down a bit, yeah?
Yo don't kill my vibe, man.
Thank you for the good start, hired someone and immediately became thieves, and unconscious. No regrets.
Can we get a late game tut?
Thanks for the video. Been looking at this since it hit release, your video is pushing towards a buy.
I pirated it to test it out and its really great. I'm gonna buy it soon
@@frankgrimes2679 is it normal that the game doesn't need to be installed? Like extracted the files and it can launch straight away...is that normal? I'm trying it out aswell and will buy it asap i think...
@@sireugenethunderfuck9229 Yea, its normal. just run the .exe
Did yall buy it?
@@krischurch3763 i tried it out for free, then bought it asap...amazing game worth soo much more than the asking price
What happened to this channel? These videos are great!
I found a good start job is just to loot all the bandits city gaurd come across. Then help the guards fight to raise stats
What is a save scuming?
Save the game then reload to get the outcome you want. If it doesnt happen on the first reload it wil in the next 20 reloads😅
Next time you invite ppl to pause to look at the different beginnings, try staying on each option for more than a millisecond.
Is hiring people a one time fee or do I have to pay them weekly?
One time fee. There are mercenary parties you can hire that cost by the day though. Use these guys when you need to deal with a bandit problem near a base or you want to lead an attack against a difficult location. They're really expensive.
sounds like slavery with extra steps...no wait, no extra steps, just slavery
Perfect companion to my first game.
That barfight made me insta buy this game
why did he have mroe races to choose from then I did?
Mods. I made a video on that. Check it out!!
This game in the warhammer world could be fun
Starting to regret doing the five-man team starter
>skeketons, who don't eat, have a lower bleed multiplier and can fist bandits right out of the gate, are a liability
It's true. I kneel, Chad.
Savescumming is never the way to go :( What is the point in playing a harsh and brutal game if you are just gonna wipe away the consequences whenever something goes wrong?
If you wanna be a thief then be a thief but take the consequences if it goes wrong.
It's a viable option for people who prefer a quicker game of Kenshi. The beginning is the roughest/harshest part of the game and that strategy speeds it up pretty quickly for those who aren't interested in that initial difficulty spike. Players who abhor savescumming probably wouldn't do it in the first place anyways.
"The way" is subjective plain and simple. Let people play however tf they wanna play
@@Sinehmatic That is all well and good but as a beginners "guide" it doesn't actually guide you on how to properly play the game. It is an exploit nothing more or less and belongs on a video about exploits not one about a generic guide.
Nah I don't feel spending countless hours just to grind around, I wanna have some fun since I bought the damn thing
I want to purchase this game but I know I'll need a lot of help and have infinite questions, I'm not too familiar with discord but if there are people that can help on there, please send me a link to people that are actually willing to help a noob out :)
Kenshi has a reddit subreddit, they'd probably love to help.
Great video, Thanks a lot !
11:49 joke's on you I am into that shit
Guides for normal games:
Alright it's 10 minutes in, I have done the first quest, this is exciting
Guide for Kenshi
Hi it's 10 minutes in, I'm running for my life and that is great!
Wait there are quests? 😐
O wait i need to learn to read😂
If you need a guide on how to play kenshi you are doing it wrong period chose start create character start the game and let the magic begin.
This is not a quick guide or a beginners guide. It's a soft recommendation to the game.
Kenshi: Running Simulator
day one as a wanderer...
got robbed and enslaved and ran away on the same day
Good info for us nubs, thanks!
6:35
Bandits were definitely not in the plan of this video.
i just started getting into this game, and i gotta admit i've never heard of save scumming till i started playing it and looking up guides and stuff
Pssst'
Save scumming isn't real
@@Zopporillo but thats not what the guides say
when all those bandits came rushing inside the city i laughed , when they all came rushing inside the tavern i was laughing out loud , when they didnt stop there i was crying in laughter
Can i have my own slaves to build my base or mine iron for me??
Slavery is not a mechanic in the base building aspect of the game. Its original intention was to be an obstacle. You can buy slaves, but they only have a small chance to join your party officially. There are mods, however, that allow you to craft shackles and simulate the feel of slavery if you so choose.
@@TheStreetMan awesome man, thanks for the answer :) can i add a mod to my already existing game maybe if u know? or i have to start a new one? btw awesome videos bro , keep it up :D
@@SoFasT99 You can, though I recommend importing your save game from the main menu. You still carry over the progress, dead npcs, etc. that you want via the checkboxes. Importing refreshes the game world beyond that though.
u are awesome
those bandits really wanted his ass ROFL
Overall i learned nothing i didn't interpret from the game's description and youtuber lets plays. I was hoping to learn what stats mean, how to do things, but no i wasted nearly 17 minutes. Title is misleading, it should be "Quick Rundown of Kenshi's Core Themes"
Thankis
Hobs was in there man you could of had two miners made money faster
everything is great about this game except it literally hurts my eyes, its just so god damn bland looking, haven't really found much for mods either to help improve colors
I mean, it is a dreary dystopian future
Who watches this and is like “ damn I gotta watch a youtube video because I’m so scared to play a video game “ “tell me what to do”
You?
Devon Garrison nah I haven’t used a guide. I’m currently hunting Inquisitors near my base next to Blister Hill fool
@@sealrk19 Then what are ya doing here ? Go protect yo shit. Fool.
More clueless than scared but yeah you're right, that'd be me.
#1000 subscriber. Smd
when he's your valentine
Put speed on 1.5. Thank me later.
No.
5/10 Shit and boring!
Time to go back play Outward.