Kenshi

Become no one. Wander out of town. Get ass beat by slavers. Slavers get attacked by bonedogs. Everyone forgets about me. I wander the map until the slave tag wears off. Mine copper. Accidentally kite Dust Bandits back to town. Wear Gear. Mine copper until i can afford 2 more people. We all mine. Get our asses beat a lot. Found a small town. Outgrow it. Found a city. Industrialize armor and weapon production. Industrialize food. Outfit army. Fight vulture brontos. declare war. Somehow get so busy, you only use hemp in an industrial capacity. 10/10 would forget to smoke again.

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This game totally kicks ass. Im loving the freedom to do whatever. 91 hours in and im just about to start touching on the mods.

Gosh, I have such mixed feelings, but I do really love it. I've had Kenshi in my library since 2018 and have tried to connect with it multiple times. On paper, I should have loved it right away, but I kept bouncing off of it until about 2 weeks ago. Not sure what made me dive back in but I did and it finally clicked, with some caveats. In the games defense, I think a big part of that is because it took me too long. Kenshi is a completely unique squad-based RPG/RTS hybrid. If there is another game like this, please tell me, I can't find one. Which is incredibly surprising, considering how popular and well received this game has been over the years. If you can get into a good sanbox, this is one of the best, still almost a decade later. Especially with mods (which is a con imo, not a pro, but I'll get into that later). Don't like a faction? You can wipe them out entirely (or die trying). Wanna be a peaceful trader? Sure. How about a robot martial arts master? Sure, and actually, you're not the only one. Make your own town, or multiple towns? Well, let's just say, you can certainly try. Or maybe you want to dominate the entire world and enslave everyone? Well, actually you can't do that in the base game, even though the vanilla factions are mostly trying to do just that, but you can with mods. The combat is one of the coolest parts about this game. In most games that come anything close to being like this, combat is all numbers. Sure you might get to see your guys in full 3D hacking and slashing at eachother, but there's no rhythm to it. In Kenshi, every fight is like watching an action movie. When a character hits someone with a sword, you see and feel the impact. A successful block is shown visually similar to how you would see it in Mount & Blade for example, not just a static block animation but a block in the correct direction, even when being attacked from behind. Characters also dodge, get staggered, and with high skills can do crazy kick flips and other kung fu movie nonsense. It's awesome. It feels like a melee combat simulator more than a videogame in this way. Not only is the gameplay an original, but so is the set and setting. If you're a fan of the totally alien fantasy world of Morrowind, and/or the desolate post-apocalyptic hellscapes of Wasteland or Fallout, I think you will find a lot to love about Kenshi. On top of that, the combinations of Japanese culture, swordpunk, and futuristic tech is just such a unique idea. I'm a little mixed on the factions though, there are only really 2, arguably 3 or 4, that still exist, control a significant part of the world, and have goals & power to achieve them. Plenty of minor factions but they sit in holes doing nothing mostly, unless you carry their banner for them. And the factions that do have power and land are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and evil, no roleplay at or above Neutral morality will see you allying with them imo. Even if you do, frankly, without mods, the vanilla impact you can have on the world by siding with these factions leaves a lot to be desired. Mostly, interfering just makes everything worse than it already is. This is about where my praise ends. The game is about a decade old and it feels older than that. It is buggy as hell and you WILL need to consistently use devtools mid-late game just to continue making normal progress to fix bugs with pathfidning, characters disappearing, etc. The game starts out oppressively challenging and stays that way until you finally reach a tipping point at which time everything becomes pretty much trivial. And by the time you get there, you've learned enough about the game to know how easy it is to cheese your way to that point in subsequent playthroughs. The challenge of this game isn't so much skill or mastery of the mechanics but rather knowledge of how they work, which dampers replayability a bit imo. Which is a shame, because there are many different directions you could take a Kenshi playthrough, more than enough to warrant at least one New Game. On powerful modern hardware, performance is bad in late game. The way the world loads and unloads zones is basically broken and can't be fixed due to engine limitations. Basically, it's not well optimized, and mods can't fix that. You will experience lag in the late game. To make matters worse, the late game is mostly about base and squad management. The job system for automating characters is broken and incredibly buggy, which means you will need to do a lot of tedious micromanagement to keep things at your base running smoothly. Enemies from the massive late game raids will routinely bug through your gates and walls, so you end up playing defense more around game breaking bugs than the raid itself. This is really my experience with late game Kenshi in general. I feel like I am at this point fighting the game engine itself to reach a state of completion in my save file more than I am the game. Mods fix some of the issues with both performance and gameplay issues, and they also add to the complexity and make other things worse. It's a beautiful, ugly, unique mess. Maybe a lot of my critique is unfair for a decade old game. I'm just reviewing it for what it is right now. I'm sure Kenshi 2 will fix a lot of these issues. Definitely very excited for that game now.

不能补刀真逆天啊，想杀个人还得慢慢等他睡醒，来来回回砍个五六遍，我真吐了，这什么sb设定。 以及我千辛万苦帮助浪忍团拿下圣国后，我就tm拿了个2开币的木碗就跟我敌对了是吧，我就拿个碗tm全城的人吃饱了撑的满大街追杀我，好感直接给我干到负数，这tm能对吗给我气笑了真的

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Endless Challenges. Amazing game.