I find 'grinding' skill levels rather pointless not to mention extremely boring. efficiency of execution, for example farming, or success chance in chance based challenges, for example lockpicking or assassination, or the speed of respective actions, for example labouring or engineering, or It just means it will take this character longer to reach epic levels than, for example, a Hive Worker. Even if your Hive Prince has negative attitude towards labouring (racial modifier of -20%) it doesn't mean it will not become a pickaxe master after a month of hard labour in the stone mine.

Any character can do anything and become good at it in time. There are many skills available, governing most actions a character can undertake, however at this point we shall not delve into detail. Most top warriors in the world have their respective attributes at around 85-90 mark. Perception - governs efficiency of ranged weapons and is trained through the use of such.Ĭonsider attributes of 1-30 as weak, 30-60 as adequate, 60-90 as strong, 90+ as epic. The path to glory leads through suffering. You train it by being beaten within an inch of death and recuperating afterwards. Toughness - is basically damage resistance, since the 'hit points' remain constant throughout the gameplay. Increases through fighting unarmed or with light weapons. Dexterity - governs damage dealt with lighter weapons / unarmed combat and certain aspects of fine manual jobs. Increases naturally through hauling heavy loads and fighting with planks. Governs damage dealt with heavier weapons and carrying capacity. Strength - does what it says on the tin. There are four attributes to every character. Both are increased through use and not through un-related experience re-distribution. There are no arbitrary 'classes' and the game will not prevent your thief/scout from wearing heavy armour.Įvery PC has a set of attributes and skills. Their mugshots appear in the bottom-centre of the GUI - this is where you overview the situation 'at a glance' and where you select your active character.Įvery character you control has a full range of actions available to them. You can have many controllable characters. This is your medium to interact with the world through your actions. This guy in the centre of the screen with a tag over their head is your character. It offers some money to start with, a reasonably safe location to get to grips with the game and does somewhat limit the aggro of looking after a bunch of noobs. In essence, you should treat Kenshi as a real-time strategy game in terms of controls, and you'll be fine.įor the sake of simplicity, I will assume you have started a 'Wanderer' scenario for your first try. Shift + Right-click-and-hold - will add the targeted interaction into a 'job list' of currently selected character. That way you won't accidentally knock the shopkeeper out whilst training your stealth. Learn to use it often, perhaps even more often than simple right-click. It is used to access inventory of resource nodes, knock people out, dismantle things etc. Right-click-and-hold - brings out an additional interaction menu.

The icon changes to represent default action on hover over the desired feature, item or character. This is somewhat intuitive and defaults to 'operate', 'pick up object', 'talk to', 'attack', 'go to sleep', 'sit down', 'build', 'aid' or just simply and plainly 'walk to'. Right click - issues default interaction order to currently selected character. Useful to inspect those bandits over yonder or to check if the building you're about to enter is privately owned or open to public Left click - selects player characters / NPC and features such as buildings and items. Mouse controls can be somewhat confusing as well. there is more but this should suffice for starters. It's your second best friend after the spacebar Use it often Īlt key - for highlighting scattered items and signs. Learn basic keyboard shortcuts - they are not very well explained in the manual. Play around with basic controls, learn how to move the map around, get used to camera angles. Press spacebar to pause the game and familiarise yourself with the GUI layout.

and you ended up dumped somewhere with not a clue of what to do next.Īnd that is the beauty of it! Kenshi might be unforgiving but at least it will not railroad you to the happy-ending (tm).įirst, let us get some rock-bottom basics out of the way. you bought the game, installed it, went through initial options, chosen your character based on whichever feature you liked the most.

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