Utterly Mad

I'm reinstalling Kenshi. What is my life...

Kenshi is much better now, development went from "Not much" to "Frantic" in the space of a year.

It looks kinda like a mount and blade type thing. I might have to give that one a look too.

Last time I played kenshi, I found it to be ball achingly boring. I spent two hours walking across a vast, featureless desert. I recorded an hour long video for my friends and they had the politeness to sit through it, watching as miles of nothing went by and the only sound was me moaning and swearing into the mic out of boredom and the throbbing agony in my testicles.

It looks better now. Still doesn't seem to have ranged combat though. From what I remember, it's dev has no intention of ever implementing ranged combat except for platform mounted turret crossbows.

So, now comes the time to see whether their fuckups in CDDA take another three months to fix. :V

And then you release your fixed version to us.

Last time I played kenshi, I found it to be ball achingly boring. I spent two hours walking across a vast, featureless desert. I recorded an hour long video for my friends and they had the politeness to sit through it, watching as miles of nothing went by and the only sound was me moaning and swearing into the mic out of boredom and the throbbing agony in my testicles.

It looks better now. Still doesn't seem to have ranged combat though. From what I remember, it's dev has no intention of ever implementing ranged combat except for platform mounted turret crossbows.

Quote from: Random_Dragon on September 02, 2016, 05:53:21 pm

So, now comes the time to see whether their fuckups in CDDA take another three months to fix. :V

And then you release your fixed version to us.

Yeah they added a new map, and the new map is gorgeous.

So I just got SOMA and Town of Salem out of a Humble Bundle, with some other shit I'll probably give away on Reddit one day.

Huehuehue. So, this odd sequence of events inspired some silliness from me. Basically, bandit camp had travel blips spread out already, as if something spooked them before I arrived. First thing I encounter is a bunch of zombie turkeys. I make mincemeat of them, while my crippled ally manages to catch up and...bop one with his crutch, before I pulp it. Then the first bandit I see apparently has finally heard about me, and unlike the last bandits I've encountered immediately fires on me. So I kinda just run straight at him and fuck him up.

"Fan out, hold the perimeter! Stink of death's in the air, revenants are afoot!" The bandits scattered, roaming the area around the camp, patrolling for signs of undead wildlife. The first to see anything was a crossbowman, spotting a small number of animals, flesh rotten and torn, seeming to take no notice of the human just within the treeline.

"Found 'em. Naught but some game that's gone bad." called the brigand, knowing at least one other archer was following just within earshot. No danger to them unless they wandered close enough for failing eyes to spot them.

But his attention was soon drawn to something that burst out of the woods, spotting three figures approaching fast. Two he could tell were shorter than a man, vaguely frog-like. Creatures from one of the nearby villages. One had little more that a makeshift crutch in hand, the other wielded what seemed to be a blowgun.

But the third was human in size, appearance obscured by all manner of carved bones, chitin of some sort worked into crude leggings, helm carved from what looked like the skull of a large avian, covering a reptilian snout. With a simple stone spear, this figure rushed in, effortlessly carving a swath through the undead wildlife. The crutch-bearing amphibian was the only other to even reach the fray before the whole flock was put down, impaling some overgrown bird through its nearly skeletal torso, fixing it in place for the reptile to finish it.

"We got savages! Three of them, one of them's...no. It can't be..." The bandit panicked. He'd heard about the two of that went south, stirring up trouble in one of the primitive villages. They never returned. Word went around of someone from a faraway land, clad in the bones and hide of legendary beasts, having swept the whole south of the continent in his hunt.

First sign of civilization the lizardman found in miles, and it had to be on the day a few humans were harassing them. He loosed a quarrel to no effect, the reptilian effortlessly closing the distance, blocking the only other shot he'd manage before he was bowled over. His attempt to raise hue and cry was quickly silenced, run through by a knapped shard of flint on a stick, a primitive weapon that had killed beasts far larger and tougher than him.

The hunt was on.

So a wrap up of the last three hours of playing kenshi. As I've said, and as Perigrin pointed out, development has happened. The featureless desert is gone and it is replaced with an interesting, if somewhat unattractive, landscape of lush grasslands mingling with rocky badlands dotted with twisted metal hulks.

Gameplay wise, my first action was to mine some iron ore, which I traded for some dried meat. My next action was to pick a fight with a small round raptor critter. The raptor critter pushed my shit in and I ran away. I ran all the way out of the region and into the aforementioned rocky wasteland. I stole a shitton of food from some farmers and sold it to a holy empire armor dealer. I then spent the next hour getting beaten about the head and shoulders with metal rods. I very slowly limped my way back to the base to heal up, when I was ambushed by a pair of dogs. When I came to after that, I pulled some new clothes off the body off an escaped slave and treated my wounds only to find that my right leg and left arm were mangled beyond use. As of the moment I quit, I've made a partial recovery and have gone back to the farm I robbed to see if I can steal more stuff and to see about using it as a launching point for making my own mark on the world.