10 AWESOME Beginner Tips For Kenshi (That I Wish I Knew Before I Started!)

Kenshi 1.0 Part 1 - Kenshi 1.0 Gameplay First Look Let's Play Playthrough - Kenshi 1.0 Tips Tricks Guide Walkthrough
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About Kenshi:
A free-roaming squad based RPG focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals.
Research new equipment and craft new gear. Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business. Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh desert. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors. Carry your wounded squad mates to safety and get them all home alive.
Kenshi Features:
Freeform gameplay in a seamless game world in the largest single-player RPG world since Daggerfall, stretching over 870 square kilometers. The game will never seek to limit you or restrict your personal play style.
Custom design as many characters as you want and build up a whole squad to fight for you. Characters will grow and become stronger with experience, not just in their stats but their appearance too.
Original take on the RTS-RPG hybrid genre. No "hero" characters with artificially stronger stats than everybody else- Every character and NPC you meet is potentially an equal, and has a name, a life.
You are not the chosen one. You're not great and powerful. You don't have more 'hitpoints' than everyone else. You are not the center of the universe, and you are not special. Unless you work for it.
Build a base where you can research new technologies, upgrade your defences and craft new gear.
Purchase and upgrade your own buildings to use as safe fortified havens when things go bad, or use them to start up a business.
Variation and possibilities of gameplay. Be good, be evil, be a businessman, be a thief, live in a town, live in the desert, travel alone, travel in hordes, build a fortress, raze a city. Devote yourself to freeing slaves, or maybe end up a slave yourself.
Dynamic, ever changing world. Support or hinder whoever you wish, or keep to yourself, the world won't stop moving. This is not just a "game", you are living and surviving in a simulated world.
Get captured by cannibals and eaten alive, or sold off by slavers and forced to work in the mines. These are not scripted events, just a regular part of this chaotic world that ruins your life by chance. Anything can happen, yet anything can be overcome if you have the strength.
Absolutely no Level-scaling. The world does not level up along with you, and the shops don't change their inventory to only items matching your level. At the start of the game almost everyone will be stronger than you, and survival will always be a struggle. The game won't hold your hand or help you when you're down.
Realistic medical system that affects gameplay. A character with a wounded leg will limp or crawl and slow the party down, wounded arms means you must use your sword one-handed or not at all. Severe injuries will result in amputees needing robotic limb replacements. Blood loss means you can pass out, and the blood will attract predators. A character’s stats are affected by equipment, encumbrance, blood loss, injuries and starvation.
Intelligent AI that allows for characters to reason and work towards long-term goals and desires. Squads work together and carry their wounded to safety. Characters can be setup to take care of micromanagement for you and run production in your base.
Aid or oppose the various factions in the world while striving for the strength and wealth necessary to simply survive in the harsh environment.
Koko on social media:
Twitter: / kokoplays
Patreon: www.patreon.com/kokoplays?ty=h
Twitch: / kokoplaysmb
Discord: / discord
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Official Kenshi website - lofigames.com
Kenshi on Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/23...
Outro Music: "Collide (Instrumental Version)" by Mikael Persson (Epidemic Sound)
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[@BUJANGJANGjhay]

my beginner tips..no matter what happens to you ingame as long as you didn't die..just keep going..try not to load on a previous save..your failures will only make you stronger..

[@KokoplaysMB]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger! I find this leveling system very rewarding.

[@Nixonitus]

Only time I really load is if something stupid happens. Good example'd be picking up a body at a gate, planning to sell to the local slavers, only to find out it was already captured, and so I committed a "crime".

[@adamorlowski4886]

@@Nixonitus Exactly!

[@DaniboyBR2]

Usually failures make you die in this game.

[@Nixonitus]

@@DaniboyBR2 Depends on the failures. So far, I've only had a total death of everything once. And that's mostly my fault for not having someone split from the group and sneak, so they could pick up all the broken corpses of my team. Failures otherwise make you stronger.

[@TheAnomaly330]

i'm 50hrs in and haven't even scratched the surface yet. great game

[@KokoplaysMB]

One could even call it amazing!

[@toyotaturbo504]

Yes!! Iv spent over 20 days in-game and still havent escaped rebirth, one of my guys did and now died, got caught by beak things then cannibals took me away without healing my serious wounds from beaks! That cannibal gang then ran into shek beserkers! and wiped clean!! Haaha I had serious injuries and died once all cannibals were killed :( , it happens still got one guy left as a slave but im slowly getting higher athletics and will make an escape any hour now.

[@prodsparkplug]

Around the same spot too, really is more in-depth than i thought when going into it!

[@walmartian]

i didnt get a proper self sustaining base until like 100 hours in.. not a complaint tho, 10/10. i went in blind tho.

[@Sublimnalxx]

@@walmartian Damn bro you have got to be the king of clickbait. Leagues above buzzfeed.

[@rogaldorn5486]

I think that will help me a lot, bougth this game yesterday and i love it. My first ever start was "Guy with a dog" , i was just wondering around trying out some mechanics and met an Imperial Guard who noticed that i am hungry...lucky me, beeing on the brink of starvation was considered a crime in the empire. They beat me bloody and broke my legs...then they ate my dog... Craziest first five minutes in a game i ever had and obviously i died shortly after. i love this game, and it hase a realy beautifull soundtrack.

[@Awaseme]

Here is some constructive criticism for your next tips videos: SHOW dont TELL. When you talk about prospecting just show a clip where you prospect its not that difficult. Also structure your video. You could put up a text on the video when you are at your next tip because right now it all feels blurry and its hard to follow when one tip ended and the next begun.

[@KokoplaysMB]

I've actually done quite a few tip videos where I did plenty of showing through clips as you said. But for this one, one just has to listen and it's fine.

[@Awaseme]

@@KokoplaysMB As long as you have alternatives with effort I dont mind. Maybe you didnt have time to edit this one I cant know that. But it seems you already know why some people criticize this one in perticular so just ignore my first comment :D

[@charlieinabox1164]

@@Awaseme While I agree, I have to consider the lack of up to date Kenshi content online currently. 100+ hours in and I haven't managed to move far from the Holy Nation without paying the price. I'm happy just to see relevant information available.

[@nanaa9074]

@@KokoplaysMB hmm lmao if said to have a problem with it dont say its ok, dont mind but working on the same boat is better.

[@mertarican5456]

@@KokoplaysMB mate thats the problem listening gets boring i mean if you dont care bout the viewers and just be helpfull then its ok 👌

[@Vikn01]

0:01 "Hey gays, I'm Koko..." How presumptuous

[@nikkan3810]

I like how "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" works literally in this game. My whole crew almost died 4-5 in a row cuz those beaky giraffes. Now they are freaking tough.

[@KokoplaysMB]

If you survive the beak things then you can survive pretty much anything :D

[@RoninMike-DR]

The beak things, but giraffe works too.

[@theysaidimasian9766]

Beak things are a pain in the ass, but its also very satisfying when you get to slaughter 3 of em at once

[@theysaidimasian9766]

@@RoninMike-DR i mean, theyre "official" name by lore us gutters

[@nikkan3810]

@@theysaidimasian9766 Are you playing fucking super sayian in this game lmao?

[@dr.fetish7829]

6:00 Koko: *talks about sneak and thievery* Koko: *says that if you are a proper person you not gonna do that* Me, who robbed 6 towns blind in the first 6 hours of the game: *sweats profusely*

[@tristanharris5902]

2 years later but I just started and already stole from 3 places, oops lmaooo

[@BudaKhan420]

my only beef with Kenshi is it's audibly a bit weak. Empty. But I love the music when it plays

[@KokoplaysMB]

That's why I bought the soundtrack on Steam and then edit it to my videos. It's not perfect but the music is good.

[@BunnyHoppin-]

You can increase the music frequency in the settings menu.

[@walmartian]

truth. i wish they would make sounds when they are set to taunt.

[@blacktemplar5970]

I literally just started playing this week....one of the best tips I can offer so far is.....use a dead body as a rucksack for a while it allows you allot more storage for looting and mining...works your strength and agility abit too i think

[@KokoplaysMB]

Corpses make for great backpacks indeed!

[@blacktemplar5970]

@@KokoplaysMB yeah tmit was just abit of an accident discovery too....I have been watching Mathas play Kenshi and I loved it so then I bought it over the weekend and holy crap its addictive AF

[@Bhethar]

OMG that is a genious idea! Thanks for sharing!

[@breeki9985]

Alright, its leg day! Everyone grab a corpse.

[@normalperson2637]

OH BOI LET ME PICK A HERETIC MYSELF

[@dohertyaaron]

"Hey, why are you sneaky-boy?" LOL.

[@iamfishmind]

You can make 150k one night in black scratch. First grind stealth and thievery, everyone knows how to do the stealth. Thievery best way to grind is steal a bunch of items, drop them all and steal them again, rinse repeat. Go to the Library in Black Scratch, hide opposite side from the stairs til closing times, wait for guards to change shifts. There will be one guard facing the door. Pick up a shit ton of the old books (worthless, mods that help you stack are valuable here), drop them all, steal them again, keep going til the steal chance is over 100% for the boxes. Steal all the blueprints, run to the closest town which is very close by (I forget the name), and sell all the books to the various shops. 150k cats every. single. time. And the library refreshes it's books often. You're welcome :)

[@Wombat_Astronaut]

Holy shit, thanks a bunch for this

[@fannwooket9419]

Zak D No the bank in Heng is way better, they have lethiathan pearls which sell for like 16k a pop

[@RoninMike-DR]

Trust me, using exploits to get ahead in this game is going to make it boring fast. That whole thing of being on edge and not knowing where you'll end up or how you're going to eat next is the meat of the game. You can just get on the FCS and debug menu to raise your levels to what you want with out so much grind.

[@shhfiftyfive]

big tip is to try to start leveling crafters skill asap, as it takes a long time to get them high tier to make best quality armor, weapons, etc besides doing research in an npc town (safety) i also get some crafting benches going and have them mass produce cloth bandanas or iron clubs. takes a bit of special storage, some workbenches, and some manual purchasing of fabrics, iron, etc from vendors. and manual selling of the insane amount of crafted bandanas required to level a crafter up. probably want several scorched race humans for armor smith/weapon smith, and w/e for crossbow smith, also robotics if you plan to go into skeleton limb crafting at a high end level with the peeler machine. you have to plan far ahead to be ready with skilled crafters for later game progression. crafting a single high end piece of gear takes a considerable amount of time, so it takes a long time for a single crafter to outfit an entire army.. more crafters is better.

[@GiantSavage117]

@Kokoplays MB On the Thievery tips, I have something to add. If you use the assassin skill to knock out the merchant and his/her guards without getting caught, you will be able to steal at 100% for everything in the store while they are unconscious. As soon as they wake up though it goes back to using your skill in thievery. Another tip, if you have a character with high stealth, assassination, athletics, thievery, and lockpicking, you have what I believe the Kinshi community calls a "Ninja". These units if used properly can be extremely powerful, even if their attack and defense skills are garbage. You can use them to take down whole cities without ever pulling a sword. They are the most effective at night, but can still be used during the day if your careful. I took down Tengu's vault with one ninja by going around knocking out all the samurai defending it and putting them in the cages on the top floor. One caveat though, its very hard to get your assassination skill up far enough to knock out higher skilled characters without failing many attempts. I skilled my ninja up fast by getting him enslaved and then repeatedly escaping, and knocking out all who stood in the way of my escape. When I failed at an assassination attempt, and I did often, I just got enslaved again, and started the process all over again. It took me three days and nights to get him skilled enough to escape without ever getting caught and have an assassination percentage in the high 80s for the more powerful slavers in the camp. Beware, this will make the slavers and traders guild mad at you, I have both factions at -100 because of my escapades.

[@KokoplaysMB]

I love the way assassination works, but as you said it's not that easy to level up high enough to be able to take down higher level enemies. Also, I'm pretty sure if you KO the merchant and pick him will never count as being there until you carry him so it should be 100%.

[@kazumablackwing4270]

Ninjas can get you some solid midrange units from the deadlands as well if you have the "reprogram skeletons" or "recruit prisoners" mods by going around to the ruins and knocking out all the skeletons at the ruins

[@ePilon100]

your kenshi content made me actually buy kenshi on steam instead of playing a cracked one, that never happens, you can officially be proud of being an amazing content creator - Piefruit certified

[@KokoplaysMB]

I'm glad you did, devs deserve all the support they can get.

[@1BuFo]

That doesnt make him good, it just makes you a dirty pirate xD

[@wavydavy9816]

I was babysitting my nephew a few years back (he was 2) and I heard him come down the stairs very slowly, so I hid behind the door to the kitchen and as he got level with the door I stepped out and whispered to him 'What, are you doing?' to which he replied (in all seriousness) 'Sneaking!' 🤫 He didn't get into trouble but I told him he needed to keep practicing to get his skill level up. I reckon he'll be ninja ready by the time he's about 7

[@KokoplaysMB]

Proper ninja, good story!

[@wavydavy9816]

@@KokoplaysMB Thank you for posting this. It's been really, really helpful. I got a house now and I've just started my research 🤗 Stay safe now 👍

[@rainmanslim4611]

Best kenshi tip. Just keep going. Your attempt at robery fails, you got arrested and enslaved? Just keep going. Dont reload an old save. Just. Keep. Going. Some of your folks will die, just keep going. You lose your fortune? Just keep going. Thats all you need. To just keep going. You'll learn as you go on and the fact is, the characters you made at the start will likely die. But do long as even just one lives, keep. Going.

[@KokoplaysMB]

This! This is exactly what makes Kenshi so fun!

[@ConnorArchibald]

Very helpful video. Thank you. Two tips, get a pop-guard for your mic and it would be amazing if you actually showed footage of you performing these actions while in game.

[@luth7050]

just made an empire of copper, iron plates and bars on my first run, having a gatehouse (2 doors, 1 corridor of death)with turrets on the wall will protect you from everything

[@luth7050]

shek warriors are powerful as fuck btw, shoot them individually

[@KokoplaysMB]

Double doors often bug out attackers unfortunately, so they just get stuck out there and wait to be picked off by harpoons.

[@luth7050]

for real? i see them running around and hitting both doors sometimes

[@luth7050]

btw thanks for the tip on watchtower had no idea you have range from there

[@PrimeNPC]

I love the rag tag look of your crew, some have peg legs and are wearing 1 shoe lol. Immersive post post apocalypse visuals

[@KokoplaysMB]

It's the Kenshi way :D

[@themudstar4999]

Thanx for the updated summary of help..... but I must add, there is a lot of help “out there” for kenshi..... like a lot

[@KokoplaysMB]

Well I guess I'm really bad at searching for it then. Hope this will at least help a bit.

[@fl333r]

"Dust bandits" "low level" Bruh I couldnt even beat 8 dust bandits with my 5 guys, one of whom is Kang with like 20 att and def lmao

[@KokoplaysMB]

A couple more fights like that and you'll be mowing them down. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger the Kenshi way.

[@the_wudarian]

@@KokoplaysMB i snuck into the main gaurd areas at night and trained my stats on the dummies works great! atk/def 15's immedialty starting the game

[@floyder99]

Getting back to kenshi after a long paus. Thank you for all tips in this video :)

[@KokoplaysMB]

Happy to help!

[@Rahburry]

This helped a lot! Thanks so much man!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Glad I could help.

[@casslane3932]

stealing is fine as long as you dont get caught......

[@KokoplaysMB]

Good point.

[@wulf8149]

I’ve stolen from the armour king before best feeling i’ve had yet playing this game

[@NikSem65]

Everything is legal while nobody sees it

[@wulf8149]

Никита Семененко haha yea

[@phoenixrising2609]

IRL too ;)

[@marcialpwns]

bounty goes away even when greyed out, ou simply just can see the actual timer if you are near a city from a faction that has a bounty on you, ive tested this multiple times on my solo thief campaign, i stole all the nobles in UC and when one eventualy catched me i proceded to HN to sell stuff i stole and let the bounty fade and steal from them

[@VermHat]

Explore ruins for good loot. There is a good crossbow on one of the east islands you can swim to. You can get at the very beginning of the game and use it till the end.

[@yofadhli]

also corpses can be duffle bag.

[@KokoplaysMB]

I love the way you think!

[@MrAKH820]

Brilliant! Just bought this game. Haven't even launched it yet. Have watched a little bit of footage online but wanted some tips.... this sir is GOLDEN ;)

[@phoenixrising2609]

Lol, nice tip there, makes sense too

[@Darkundeadhero]

just found out about this game. Looks fun, can't wait to get back home and play it.

[@KokoplaysMB]

It's pretty amazing!

[@VermHat]

Skinners roam is a good place to build a base. It has copious amounts of stone, copper, iron, wind (Energy), and 60% water. Its close to cities and the bandits are on the easier side. Only down side is it’s hard to grow veggies (still possible) and massive armies of hungry bandits roam the place.

[@shipwrecker37]

Do beak thing groups attack? I think they're in a neighboring area. That said.... I'm not sure if they intentionally invade bases like human enemies.

[@VermHat]

​@@shipwrecker37 Nope. Raids consist of just bandits and faction enemies. The Holy Nation is nearby, so make sure to have one human male in your group; they travel to your outpost in skinners.

[@boulbaggies1465]

Or produce large amounts if hash for ez money, have like 30-50 guys farming and processing the hash have another 10-20 mining... then have a main squad for fighting I usually have 50+ in this including my main 5 guys and I only recruit my race so sometimes it slows the recruiting speed haha but yeah it's good fun being able to run in towns and just flatten everyone

[@the_wudarian]

OR play the game for 200 hours and get good at it. oh wait same strat as yours.

[@shhfiftyfive]

another tip would be to medic all your enemies and random strangers you find, to level up your field medic skill.

[@TheOutsiderStudios]

I remember playing this back in '14 back in the early stages. I havnt played in a couple years I'd like to pick it back up agian.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Well worth playing I'd say.

[@Ivellios23]

I remember when they added base building, decided I'd have to try it again... but something came up and forgot about it. Got on a recent Kenshi kick, and glad did. Many hours of fun.

[@roach7191]

Looking forward to buying this as soon as it has sale

[@KokoplaysMB]

Good thing it goes on sale pretty much with every major Steam sale event.

[@peagames2002]

Another tip, although this video is rather old, or more like a trick. If you have a bounty on your head, and a certain city is being attacked by a huge group of people, and brought to police You can carry your bounty head to them, if their cells are full of attackers, they will drop your bounty person outside, since cells are full.

[@alejandroizaguirre1937]

I enjoy the format of the vid man :)... telling thing and a gameplay of anything in background works for me, its kynda inmersive and you can still pay attention to what are u saying.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks buddy!

[@Ojisan642]

This was helpful. Thanks.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Glad I could help.

[@shadk2559]

I made walls around my first outpost and set up turrets to build, then some black dragon ninja came, sat down in my house and started to build up my turrets, I managed to kill them but the game is hard xD

[@podcastportal2792]

This game looks crazy! Thinking about purchasing a copy. Loved the video!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Easily the best game of the last decade. It's a must buy!

[@podcastportal2792]

@@KokoplaysMB Have you heard of Dungeons & Dragons? You should try to get into it if you've haven't yet. Its great if you want tabletop games to simulate something like this game! :)

[@Phaedo82]

Great video! Thank you.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks for watching!

[@jimpitts5015]

Very rusty :)

[@BREAKCORE-DISSOCIATE]

Yay I don't have a pc but I still like watching these videos something about the real time strategy needed to stay alive witch peaks my interestlol can't wait to get my job so I can buy a of and try it out loln

[@KokoplaysMB]

It's gonna be worth it!

[@TimeBomb798]

Sounds like in this game, everything is legal as long as you 1 don't get caught or 2 too powerful for anyone to stop u :/, lmao, can't wait to play dis

[@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290]

Tip one: don't get eaten by beak things Tip two to ten: repeat tip one.

[@justinm4497]

My first character Ever is in your party!!! I started a char, and his random name was Dirt!!! oh dirt how i miss thee... we traveled the desert together..

[@KokoplaysMB]

Such a classic name :D

[@kura7432]

Pausing the game and looting a bandit playing dead, keep doing it over and over. it will raise your thievery super fast.

[@wildankautsar7148]

I really hope they make slow time button, sometimes I just want to enjoy the fight but there is too much happening..

[@KokoplaysMB]

Well I guess you can think of them as chaotic like a melee fight should be and then it makes sense you can't follow everything when it comes to big fights. But I agree with you, it could be great from a cinematic perspective.

[@wildankautsar7148]

@@KokoplaysMB anyway, is this game mod friendly? I mean like Mount and Blade where someone can make an immersive mod that it looks like a new game

[@ShadowMudkip123]

@@wildankautsar7148 I'm not a modder, so I don't know if it's easy or difficult to work on, but there are a lot of mods out there for the game. Most of them are optimization or quality of life mods though, so no complete game overhauls.

[@wildankautsar7148]

@@ShadowMudkip123 yes this game definitely have so much potential, just cant think enough what dev and modder can make the game better and more immersive. I hope they wont stop to keep updating Kenshi

[@TheFellHeart]

@@wildankautsar7148 there are tons of mods for this game so I'm pretty sure it's easy to work on

[@shinsei1565]

Pro-tip for newbies: Install some mods. But if you want to play vanilla, AT LEAST install the mod "General Modifications". It is a MUST HAVE. Read the mod description and you will know why. Unless you want a very tech advanced outpost where your settlers still extract copper manually... :v

[@KokoplaysMB]

I would advise against that. Gen Mod changes a ton of vanilla settings and can throw it out of balance. If you're a new player go vanilla but maybe grab Dark UI and 256 Squad Limit, but avoid Gen Mod.

[@shinsei1565]

@@KokoplaysMB Well, it makes the game more complex. Maybe a bit too much. But for me, i consider it a must have. I just played Kenshi 60 hours, like 20 vanilla and 40 with mods, and that one specific just improved everything for me. Anyways my interest on that mod is mostly Copper Drill, and there are one or two Copper Drill mods standalone in the Workshop, so, i recommend them. I just think General Modifications offers a way better experience playing Kenshi. Other mods: i recommend: "Recruitable Prisioners", "Enhanced Shopping Economy" (if you want to run your own business), "Shops have more items" (but this one has a downside: If you play as a thief, you will just swim on cats. Someone who want's a hardcore thief experience maybe should avoid this one). "Nice Map (Zones + Zone Names + Roads)". "Reactive World" for those who wants... that, a world with more reactions as you influence it. "More Names". "Racial Diversity". "New Weapons Dissemination". "Animation Overhaul Mod". Some cool mods: "Faces+" "Flashier Fight" (This one makes you capable of doing any weapon movement with any weapon. This might affect combat due to the game engine...) "Compressed Textures Proyect" (helps those who have an old PC setup like me) "Higher and Stronger random Bounties" (if you plan to roleplay as a bounty hunter, you can start exploring the outlands trying to find random guys with bounties from 1000 to 10.000 cats as far as i could see) "More Names" "Profitable Slavery" "Race Bloods" "+18 Female Body" "Bouncing Boobs". Cheers!

[@KokoplaysMB]

The main reason I don't like Gen Mod is it because it combines a bunch of good mods with a bunch of mods I don't really like and want in my series. I understand how it can be easy for a new player to just download that one mod and plug and play but I personally prefer to hand pick the mods that fit my playstlye. I still think trying out vanilla first and then browsing the Steam workshop is the way to go, picking new mods as you go to see what fits your playstyle.

[@shinsei1565]

@@KokoplaysMB completly agreed

[@Airmanmx1]

Learning techniques: auditory, visual and written. I agree with the other comments. Show them what you are taking about

[@cloudstrifeinadress7464]

This is like...the best game ever!

[@KokoplaysMB]

I agree.

[@silasmontgomery6982]

I feel dumb now I stealth KOed a hungry bandit during a dust storm and didn’t think to use him to raise my toughness

[@KokoplaysMB]

I'm sure there's plenty of hungry bandits out there just waiting to be captured :)

[@Fpinne]

I know I'm late to the party, but as there's a new patch out since April 15th, I wanted to add a tip here: Be a drug lord! Early on, with a few thousand cats in your pocket, a trader's backpack and some guys in the party (and perhaps a pack animal) you can go to the swamp, and invest as much as you can afford into cheapest hashish for around 135 cats a piece. (in pretty much every village in the swamp there will be a trader or two, selling fish and drugs.) Then make your way through the burning forest (watch the spiders there - they can be nasty if you and your dudes are low level) and into the region flats lagoon. In the middle of the flats lagoon, you'll find a pretty big town with the same name. Drugs are legal there, so the otherwise pesky guards won't bother you. You can sell your drugs there for a hefty 770 or so cats a piece. That way, I've made a fortune just with selling drugs, with only 5 untrained guys in my party!

[@randybobandy678]

I love this game but damn the camera controls like hot garbage

[@KokoplaysMB]

Yeah it's something you need to get used to.

[@noxusguy9735]

I would say UI is so trash , i think its too big

[@caiohomar1540]

I think you have great tips and a nice sounding voice, though I'm not a native speaker, I can understand perfectly what you're saying... But the way you recorded, a single take of a long monologue with everything crammed in and random footage in the background, just makes me lose the train of thought and rewind at every 3 minutes... I tried turning on subtitles to try and focus on what you're saying, but the unrelated gameplay in background with bright colors, the information overload with text and status screens, the frequent diction correcting, it's all *very* distracting from what you're trying to say and I just can't finish watching... Would be great if you summed up those ideas on a written guide!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@sziklamester1244]

I actually have 158 hour in Kenshi on steam and 1500+ on non steam version. I personally learning how to play the game properly and it is hard but I am currently making my fun with modding the game and I made some balancing stuff to make the life easier a bit but also harder in some part. No matter what you mod in kenshi because what you made the ai can also use it so it is a double edged sword. I am now making 30 person squads especially hivers and trying to make a new colony somewhere. Sadly not figured out how to make a hive hut because it is very terrain specific and well modding it is not that easy. At least I managed to make a well functioning one but when you trying to make a separate place and manage a city then raids and bandits will happens and most cases they will just rape your base unless you have turrets and well trained troops. In early game the best option if you want to play the normal campaging without modded starts is you try to sneak, steal because that gives you more money but also risky because you need to find a distant city where you can sell your stolen goods. The hard work and grinding is may be better in some cases but the wildlife and the bandits will find you no matter what you really want to do. My tip is trying to take some first aid, food and steal armor/weapons from knocked mobs then at least you have some protection. Use the city main halls or police stations and teach your attacking skill by using training dummies. This works until you hit the level 10 on melee attack after it slowns down drastically. Easier to learn the thievery, lockpick, first aid, engineering, science skills and the strength and athletic if you desire to swim then just take a loot of food in a backpack then swim in the ocean. This will helps you to master the swim ability which is often helpful if you are in regions where there are water. I also recommend to get first some bags because these helps you carry much stuff and reduce some weight on your back. The mod segment is your friend and if you feel you are not comfortable with modding then you can download more stuff which makes the life a bit fancier - not easier but it helps a bit.

[@sirskorge]

Good starting video.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks!

[@Craig_Murray]

I got crippled by a guard because I looted a bandit they had killed and it was classed as stealing...

[@KokoplaysMB]

Getting crippled just gives you an opportunity for some good prosthetics. Embrace your inner skeleton my friend!

[@grayfox6930]

@@KokoplaysMB holy nation! Open up!

[@MediHusky]

12:50 cargopants Sneaky chain I made that exact same mistake.

[@zhbux6cbn56]

damn im going to buy this game it looks so dope

[@KokoplaysMB]

It's great!

[@amjadken]

could you explain strength vs dexterity? I mean if I just want to use katanas then I don't need strength...or if I want to just use heavy weapons then I don't need dexterity. Or do I need both regardless of weapon choice?

[@KokoplaysMB]

I believe that heavy weapons rely on strength to do plenty of damage while lighter weapons rely on dexterity to hit more often. But if you're using light weapon and you have more strength you'll still do more damage and if you have a heavy weapon and a bit of dexterity, you'll be swinging just a bit faster. More of a stat is always better in this case.

[@amjadken]

@@KokoplaysMB so if I equip a heavy weapon and my attack stats are -ve, I'm guessing I need more strength to use the weapon effectively?

[@KokoplaysMB]

I hear a good way to level strength in fight is if you equip a heavy weapon and put your guy on block.

[@AeaHazan]

Dexterity is cut damage and strength is blunt damage. most weapons train/use both. katanas are the main exception.

[@AeaHazan]

also for heavy weapons you need twice the strength of the weapon weight to use effectively. ex. 12 kg plank need 24 strength to use effectively.

[@TheFanat23may]

Best beginners advice, f5 to quicksave, f9 to load back to quick safe

[@KnjazNazrath]

Wuss.

[@Logan-sf5ws]

Save scumming isn't the way to play this game IMO

[@jamieh4148]

Alt - F4 to rage quit.

[@wulf8149]

Prox Of Love let people play how they wanna play but they might have been joking too

[@pitiponk1]

Hammer to Harddrive to uninstall

[@sebayaben9]

thanks for the tips man. I have a question: how can you update your walls from lvl 2 to lvl 3? Apparently the game doesnt allow me to do it and i dont want destroy my currents walls and make new ones

[@KokoplaysMB]

Unfortunately you have to rebuild them and cannot upgrade. You need to research something like bigger/better building foundations and I guess that's the reason why you have to rebuild, the old foundations just can't handle the upgrades.

[@henryteja860]

for beginners tips save alot . save before leave towns,before fights,save after u get good loot

[@the_wudarian]

maybe my playthrough is glitched i found spots in stores wehre you can steal and not get caught.. i would sit there and steal and steal and steal till i got the item. i learned if noone is around you they wont be able to find you if you get caught. trick is you need to fail it once and see how they path and find the spot. the "spot" is an area that stays blue/yello when u get caught

[@insertname4032]

i never watched a video i just started playing and i only learned 2 helpful things playing and these are for combat lol

[@evoccs183]

very nice

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks.

[@high-cplays]

My beginner tips. Download the Recruit Prisoners mod and the Weight Bench mod and it makes the game 100x better.

[@lycon7000]

What are your graphic settings? Because somehow your game looks a lot better than mine!

[@KokoplaysMB]

I'm not sure.. everything on high? The biggest change for me was switching from fullscreen to windowed fullscreen, I know that helped.

[@skidutch3351]

Hey could you help me i am looking for a new pc that can run kenshi good and is not to expansive

[@Texas240]

If you have a net connection that's stable with low ping and good bandwidth, you might look into shadow gaming. shadow.tech/usen

[@romanisaac9053]

1st 5 minutes my entire party died to bone dogs. 10/10 would play again

[@phoenixrising2609]

That's the spirit

[@pleeep]

why you sneaky boy AHAHAH

[@K_Sol]

50 hours in and prayer day fucked me up outta nowhere! no idea what happened but on to the next

[@KokoplaysMB]

Today is a great day, for it is a prayer day!

[@flufflepuff4669]

Bookpack!

[@matthewgodwin6688]

I will stay hub until have enough stuff build new base otherwise bandits show up and it's very hard fight

[@marcusgodioso277]

Im kinda late ,but everytime i want tô play ,is as prisioner.i always end up dying escaping cuz of lack of medkit

[@KokoplaysMB]

Get your toughness up first, fight and get beaten by slavers until it's higher and you won't die. Also you can steal medkits from them.

[@bechirbenothman5453]

for toughness do acid dmg help you too?

[@candycetrickett3332]

No sadly, tested this yesterday with my torso solo character looking for a way to train toughness, I was repairing iron spiders and letting them basically kill me. I did this near the weystation in the grey desert

[@donottouch9110]

I started playing kenshi and I love the game it's hard to understand and the rewarding is amazing but I for whatever reason can't level up toughness I always die cause my character doesn't heal itself so when I make a new playthrough I buy more people wait in town training while I go mine and passout but question the advance settings in the beginning when choosing a path does raising the number of death make it harder to die or easier if so then that's my problem then

[@KokoplaysMB]

Easiest way to level up and survive if you're new to the game is to get enslaved.

[@donottouch9110]

@@KokoplaysMB I understand the leveling process what I don't understand is how youtubers survive getting beat up when there chest or stomach or head get -red numbers and your character doesn't get up

[@SuperCamelFunTime]

Jesus I waited so long for your to show something on screen related to what you were saying. This isn't worth the time if you're not going to show what you're talking about.

[@lord461]

Is it normal that when I zoom out the FPS drops all the way to like 40 even with a 2080ti i7 9700k ? This is on max settings.

[@KokoplaysMB]

Unfortunately optimization isn't one of Kenshi's strong suits.

[@dogerio]

40 Fps is a good number tho

[@lord461]

@@dogerio yea it's okay I was just worried abit that it went below 60 on 2080ti. Then again it's a blady good game so minor issues like this won't bother me for long.

[@dogerio]

@@lord461 Great games need great PC's : )

[@dervish6970]

I fucking love the Music in this game

[@KokoplaysMB]

It's awesome! I bought the tracks just so I could have it more frequent in my videos cause in game it doesn't happen often.

[@dervish6970]

@@KokoplaysMB lol i was literally thinking about buying the Tracks xD

[@jacobmosovich]

Can first aiding dying people get you a chance at gaining a follower? Idk how to find companions to pay for them among other stuff.

[@KokoplaysMB]

No. If you help a slave to escape they might decide to join you, otherwise you can people in cities and they usually want 3-6k recruitment fee and there's some unique ones that cost more or are free. You can also download Recruit Prisoners or Recruit Anyone mods which gives you an option to recruit people out of your prisoner cages.

[@toyotaturbo504]

Kenshi!!!

[@KokoplaysMB]

Can she though?

[@wither5673]

would you say the scelly boi's are good to start out with?

[@KokoplaysMB]

If it's your first start, then humans might be better because it gives you more options. A lot of people out there hate skelly bois.

[@chrisupaulsen4584]

very good game indeed. alot of bugs though :)

[@KokoplaysMB]

When you look past them it's just pure gold!

[@Drunk_Karen]

The second town I went to was completely abandoned. I had free rieng of the whole town I stocked up on allot of stolen goods.

[@phoenixrising2609]

Was it The Hub?

[@krokodilegrundee5101]

@@phoenixrising2609 nah sometimes places 6get wiped out by animals

[@joalfonsiuswolfenstein8386]

Kenshi need to add some of For Honor animation

[@KokoplaysMB]

I'm actually impressed with fighting animations when you think that this game has been in development mostly by one guy.

[@Drawfill]

Skeletons don't eat food... Cannibals don't eat metal. Free toughness, ima leave it at that. Kenshi is a lot less scary when your main dude has 100 toughness in the first week... ;)

[@kodojow22]

How can I get slaves? And I don’t mean like slave shops can I like go find some escaped slaves or just beat people or something and make them my slaves?

[@KokoplaysMB]

You'll need mods for that.

[@Texas240]

Vid starts at 1:12 -50 dkp for excessive "I like the sound of my own voice intro."

[@Dripularstein]

Hey hey people . Seth here

[@rustymustard7798]

Bootstraps start, i even did this from Rock Bottom with no mining. 1: Loot Shek ruins west of Squin 2: Sell loot, buy Wooden Backpack 3: Buy hash in Shark, sell hash in Strange Town, repeat a few times and any time your cats get below 100k then go do whatever you want, you're rich now. All that mining, shoplifting and petty theft, and scavenging smelly loincloths from starving broke bois is for simps and scrubs, go get them gangsta chunks like a real G.

[@Pikkiwoki]

If you don't wanna steal it's ex mine copper, then make a base and sling grog. ez pz.

[@the_wudarian]

makes base. gets raided twice a day. lose all people. guess you had to much grog before typing this

[@BBradshawProductions]

If you start out as a robot skeleton, you don't need food at all, however the Holy Nation auto hate you all the time, no matter what.

[@hancholo5137]

beginner tip if youre learning to play the game, load when you mess up lol

[@matthewtighe8222]

Just saying if you compile youre list of tips into like numbers or bullet points before the video it would make it more smooth instead of a whole video of rambling, however I didnt dislike your video amd I know I'm coming at this 2 years later because I'm just now getting kenshi but it might help you out to have a more orderly video amd chip down on some of those dislikes. Humans regardless of how messy, like order. Nice list of tips though thanks for helping everyone out

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thanks. When I made this video I never expected that many people to watch it, so I made it like that. If you watch any of my other tips videos they're all showing the actual gameplay footage that goes with the lines I say.

[@casslane3932]

but seriously iv made 60k in one thief run so id highly advise joining the shinobi thieves and going up as a thief you will never have to worry about money again

[@KokoplaysMB]

Thievery can be a very lucrative business indeed.

[@KI-hx5id]

but i am hero, hero shouldnt take others' belongings lol jk

[@casslane3932]

@@KI-hx5id what if its from the holy nation slaver racists if anything your liberateing their resources

[@casslane3932]

@@KI-hx5id its fine if there slavers or racist zealots.....or rude then its called liberating their goods....

[@KI-hx5id]

damn bro, you are too serious to response my comment I dont give a fkin shit about ideology in game, if there are a big chance for you to get money without risking nor making enemies, why i must suffer in game tho lol

[@gingercore69]

This game plus mount and blade fighting system... + vampire the masquerade bloodlines social skills would be the perfect rpg for me

[@KokoplaysMB]

Tbh I'm quite ok with not knowing how the hivers reproduce..

[@gingercore69]

@@KokoplaysMB yeah, didnt consider that sith my little joke... Lets not go that far

[@jacktheripper5112]

take this game slap abit more graphic and give it a 3rd person mode and bam you got ur self an awesome RPG it still is awesome but wouldnt mind these things :)

[@KokoplaysMB]

If you wan't better graphics check out Tsuki Reshade - www.nexusmods.com/kenshi/mods/217

[@MGoogle3146]

Anything new in 2020?

[@whocares397]

by the time this video was uploaded it is out of date ^_- jk

[@KokoplaysMB]

Maybe

[@LosEagle]

Sounds like lots of grind ..

[@KokoplaysMB]

Maybe