Kenshi Shek's Conquest - The Exodus // EP2

thank you for tuning in to kenshi shex conquest episode 2 the exodus [Music] wow this sand is aggressive yeah i just wanted to show you the blood loss mechanic so with with that blood loss mechanic had i regained consciousness before i dipped below zero i could have patched myself up and not gone into a recovery coma i'm sure there will be better opportunities to show this more clearly in the future oh boy here comes a western hive caravan they're about to harass me not in a bad way the western hive is actually some of the nicest faction in but they're very pushy uh for traders they're i love their their conversation lines so you're about to see that all right come on i remember the first time i had a hive caravan like this accost me i guess is the best way to say it it kind of freaks you out because these guys are very fast you cannot run them oh he's not accosting me oh yeah danger no hive come back don't go into the mist human horn i like how he doesn't even realize that like i'm uh i'm shaq he just calls me human horn the mists are cursed cursed if you go in you'll never come back out unless you have a hive lantern with you so he's trying to hock his hive lantern and um okay how much 2500 cats uh i'll pass and then he says you're being stupid this is a special unique item and i'm just gonna say just leave me alone already he's gonna say we won't let you die give me money and i'm gonna say no means no you're going how rude uh okay and i'm gonna not draw my sword because that would be stupid i'm gonna do the third option which is not to respond and now he's saying i insult his queen and now he's saying i should die but he's not killing me he's just waiting for me to trade the good thing is um he has an economy arm a left arm yeah i'm sorry uh trader backpack you're gonna have to wait i'ma buy your arm so if you're wondering why i'm buying this arm uh well it's because i need it thunk and there it is my beautiful economy left arm it's absolutely terrible but it's better than having no arms [Music] so thank you i guess and then i'm also going to despite its remarkable markup uh actually yes i'm gonna buy one of these uh repair kits so this repair kit if my prosthetic arm takes damage i can't heal it with like uh with you know a basic first aid kit i'm gonna have to heal it with um i'm gonna have to heal it with the authentic skeleton repair kit because it's not non-organic but now that obviously set my um my money back even further but i'll probably not save up for that big backpack i wanted so progress let me let me quick save just in case this version of reality is is more kind than the last one does the new arm improve mining time strangely not it does help me uh like with one arm you're not gonna be able to carry a body or anything like that so um this helps me level up my strength and and wield two two-hander weapons and things like that i'm not gonna be able to wield the two-hander weapon well because the other thing the arms does here is it uh is it if we take a look at my oops my stats it lowers my ability for a lot of things like dexterity and crossbows lock picking thievery etc but hey it's better than nothing all right let's go try to sell what we've got and see what we can afford before trying to push off okay uh well a thieves backpack is just not in the cards for us can't afford that who are you what is this he's in a recovery coma well don't mind if i do thanks for your pants oh and you have a staff here that you dropped holding a left alt will show you items around now holding left out will also show you items in the town and also highlight the signs as you can see the signs are are lit when i'm holding left out but um you can't just steal anything so if you take a look all that red stuff that belongs to something if it didn't belong to anyone it would be gray so even the staff i picked up belongs to the vagrant or the outlaw farmer around there but like he ain't gonna fight me for it he's unconscious so there's you know there's some some things are safe safer to steal than others i'll put that one all right my moon speed is still terrible another thing i could do with this starving vagrant is pick them up and use them for strength training which wouldn't be terrible because then i wouldn't be constantly encumbered so now that i have the second arm you'll see that i have a slave on my back and my strength xp is high this is a good way to increase my carry weight and i'll do a little bit of mining to encumber myself with some copper as well yeah an organic backpack a locally sourced organic recyclable backpack and i'm almost at the strength xp max if i just got a little bit more encumbered could i go sell him um no he he belongs to a slave trader already i could try to turn him in to the police precinct but um he's honestly probably more valuable as a backpack it's as dark as that that is all right so there we go uh so if i take a look at my stats here my strength leveling up because i'm carrying around copper in my inventory and the dude on my shoulders and this will increase my carry capacity as a as a result allowing me to haul more stuff which will be useful so see the strength xp it was 50 now it's 48 it's because uh i'm getting accustomed to carrying this and and you'll see it consider uh continue to drop as i become better and better at carrying a body on my shoulders environmentally friendly yeah i'm supporting the local economy as well by carrying a slave on my shoulders all right strength at four max carry weight went up from like 17 kilograms to uh to 19 already let me mine up a little bit more copper and continue to to level up my strength and my uh athletics early game kenshi if you're wondering is a brutal grind like i was saying at the start of the stream you are nobody and you start off weak and it takes a lot of effort to become not weak so this is what that effort looks like it is stat grinding like this now there's ways to do this a little bit more efficiently maybe like if i had a large heavy weapon and i was fighting in some sort of um duel in a brawl that with someone on my shoulders that's probably the some of the best xp how grindy is it compared to uh zomboid comparable it's comparable now there are unlike zomboid well that's not entirely true zomboid has some exploits to be able to xp grind even faster too like using shotguns to grind uh shooting is very very you're level shooting very quickly that way uh and there there's some exploits in this game like that too like there are training bags that i could train at inside the shinobi thieves guild which would allow me to build up my my melee attack you know very rapidly oh are they taunting me oh yes please do it please do it i would love for some more city hero loot all right let me see if i can't uh bait these idiots into a fight grab their stuff because that will fund my exodus come on yeah oh wow bye bye now bye you morons so they got one hit on my leg but it's not enough to slow me down or stop me oh wow so here was a really good demonstration of the power of where uh where is the crossbow oh here it is um this harpoon here manned by this guard just hit this dude for 203 instantly killing him with a shot through the chest the uh the sort of mounted man turrets are nothing to scoff at they are freaking scary oh also uh the nadachi on this hero boss was better than the the one i had on me so uh upgrade and i fully stripped that hero boss and um there's going to be a very small period of time where i can loot them so i gotta even though i'm bleeding right now a little bit to my leg i want to make as much money as i can so i'm going to actually sell all of my clothing [Music] and i'm going to put the nadac on the ground because no one's going to pick it up i'm just trying to empty out my my inventory as much as i can so i can take everyth oh got caught stealing well i don't care so i could take everything oh there's a so this got caught stealing is the the city heroes catching me stealing um which i don't care about because they're it's not like they're conscious to stop me so that's why i just keep trying to steal so there's my dadache stuck into the floor and i now have 5k which is enough for that backpack i had eyeballed all because some racist idiots wanted to uh tease me love it all right that seems to be all the armor and loot that i can grab um all the other city heroes i guess got thrown into the clink so let me patch up my um my leg here grab my my dodgy and uh yep oh they think they own that that's awkward i should have dropped that outside time to leave the town i think now the trouble is uh the harpoons i need to get clear the harpoons quickly how fast am i 17 miles an hour non-encumbered this isn't your nadachi leave me alone so see how they're like outrunning me but not really swinging on me all right let's go ahead and run south oh they did hit me oh and the head too that's rude all right so they're moving at 20 19 and 16. so the one moving at 16 i'm gonna be on our run it's not thieving oh yeah okay so here's a good opportunity i might be able to ditch the guards if they yeah here we go if they start fighting a skimmer they're gonna stop fighting me fight the skimmer so now the only one chasing me is the 16 mile an hour dude who uh i can lose i can get a pretty big a head start on run away from the faster ones now i just have to make sure not to run into too many skimmers i'm a way out of town and they'll eventually give up but here i have a bounty for theft i'm gonna stop a second and try to heal my head oh did they stop chasing me i don't see them anymore so yeah maybe we lost them so if i mouse over this bounty i am wanted for theft at all united cities but only to the local factions so if i leave united city territory uh nobody's gonna care about that the um the bounties and the the the bounties are not universal you can definitely skip town and be fine uh these are mountain man hunters i gotta stay away from because they're gonna want to enslave me and we are making our way out of the desert which is a ridiculously large desert yeah i should have left that nadachi outside where it wasn't owned and not dropped in the tavern my bad how long does the bounty last if you sometimes bounties will have um time periods this bounty specifically doesn't seem to have one um it could be forever but i doubt it will be it's usually just like a week or something and what i'm doing is i'm just sort of scanning the horizon for who's out here make sure they don't run into a group that will want to do me harm staying clear of them so like outlaw farmers might try to mug me for my food manhunters might try to enslave me if i just give everyone a wide berth they'll they'll leave me alone hopefully another thing to note is um [Music] you can look like a slave so if you dress up in like slave clothing you can easily be mistaken for a slave and then people will try to enslave you as a result so you got to be careful not to not to dress like a slave not to be naked or something like that because uh then just increases your chances if you steal the entire uniform of an enemy you can also disguise yourself as that enemy which may or may not be something you want to do so like i could hypothetically steal all of the clothing of the united city's guard and try to pass off as a guard but other united cities guards are going to see through my disguise more easily because it will be obvious that i don't look like one of them [Music] all right at this point i'm going to start heading west rather than south i want to uh i'm going to take a kind of a dangerous tact out of this death so here's slave traders and more slavers god everyone's a sleeper here get me the hell out of slave territory more slavers a little rock finn just wants to get away from it all is eating automatic it is as long as you have food in your inventory or in your backpack it's automatic and then you can actually set it up uh where is it maybe it's in i forget where it is but you can set it up that um it's in a squad you can set it oh it's an ai here we are you can set it up that uh the food in your backpack is shared amongst all the people all this all of your own people around you as well so if one person has a backpack full of food it can be shared if you go into uh ai here what are you more outlaw swordsmen all right steer clear them and i am running low on food the shack do eat a little bit more than other species because they're bigger they've higher calorie needs and anyone that knows this map well knows that uh there's not a lot of easy ways to get east to west so let me pause and just explain for a second uh most of the oh don't pan like that most of the east to west roads here are sort of guarded so there's akron shield that is a bit to the north and then there's like the black desert city to the south the black desert city is going to do a number on my feet and i'm going to go that route because going north is dangerous so i'll explain this area is heavily patrolled by the holy nation and the holy nation would attack me on sight for being a non-human the only way for the holy nation not to attack you on sight is if i was being escorted or if it looked like i was being escorted by um a greenlander a male a male human of lighter skin that's the only way that they wouldn't necessarily just shoot me on site um the problem with going south is the black black desert here is highly acidic and my feet are going to like melt off and acid rain so there's not a lot of good there's not a lot of good uh ways through this desert it is the struggle bus and then over here there's also these iron spiders which are insanely strong and try to kill everything that comes close to them so they're slow i just have to outmaneuver them but the trouble is this acid rain is melting my flesh off and i'm not gonna be able to take it for very long so what i'm trying to do is to get to uh shelter as fast as i can so i don't end up just dying like anakin into the lava how do i get okay so here's the path to get down and i essentially just want to head west as fast as it can now there if i was wearing shoes this would have been a little bit easier but i just sold them all to try to afford the trip so what i'm trying to do is to get to the black desert uh city in order to uh in order to well the black desert city is really south of me so i i'm just running to the other side of the uh this black desert here before my feet fall off can you get struck by lightning you can and you can well not so much by lightning but you can get uh lasered some of the some of the biomes or some of the some of the area on this map has like sun beams deadly lasery sunbeams and you can absolutely just get wrecked by those it's very funny when it happens it's unfortunate but it's it's quite funny all right so i'm traveling out of the united cities territory and into the holy nation territory which isn't any better but i just need i need to get out of this acid rain i believe even though you see it raining uh because i entered the skinner's rome yeah i'm out of the acid rain and my body isn't melting away now there are there's armor and stuff like that you can wear to protect your yourself from acid and not all not all species suffer acid like skeletons don't care which is why they made a home there and straight ahead of me is the holy mines which is a slave camp that the holy nation have set up for slaves to mine things and leave this will say uh going near there is a bad idea now i am traveling towards sort of safer territory ish i'm kind of a long way off but i'm trying to get to a place where i'll be able to survive more easily and that comes with the experience of knowing the map kind of well yeah the kenji world has no chill you're absolutely right byron has no chill all right what's up ahead of me holy servants okay yeah avoiding them if i get too close they're going to chase me and right now my feet are kind of melty and here's bad teeth i'm going to want to steer clear of bad teeth bad teeth is a holy nation empire and and if you want to know how i know that well from experience but you can also it's not letting me mouse over it you can also sometimes mouse over it and and just check uh-oh and these guys are dust bandits the dust bandits are um some of the easiest people to kill but not alone and he's trying to boss me around right now so let's let's skip town they're not very fast and in fact the dust bosses if you manage to knock them out uh the local authorities will generally accept them for a bounty but i'm in no condition to be able to take them on so as i roll up on this uh this holy mine i have to make sure that they don't have any uh they don't have any [Music] harpoons as i run by because they're you know they're just as they're worse than dust bandits tldr everybody's trying to kill me oh god look at this dust bandit crew chasing me down there's a lot of them i thought that drawing them through the holy mines would um have the holy mine guards break off and chase them not me but nope yeah i can't mouse over because i haven't technically visited yet correct so i'm your bad teeth and i'm gonna want to head uh sort of this way ideally so i'll cue up that movement now they're still chasing me and this is obviously why uh movement speed is king because if you can't outrun them is bad news still chasing me run rockman run oh boy so the problem here is my swimming skill sucks and they caught me because of it so i'm gonna have to be more cautious about dipping into the water here because right now my uh leg is not good all right chance yeah all right i chanced a a moment to patch it up but the problem is uh i'm slower and they're both doth's bosses why are they both thus bosses dear lord yeah i have no chance to be able to defeat them in um in combat i think they're just gonna knock me out again uh all right i'm unconscious yeah i think that here is yet another all they wanted to do is like steal my food but um i don't think i'm able to ring gig consciousness so i'll just have to load yet another auto save oh god coffee does not look good all because of a single misclick so when you're um when you're below zero and you try to regain consciousness you'll be in a recovery coma and without the ability of someone to patch you up you just sort of slowly bleed out and get worse and worse and worse so you'll see that i'm in critical and then sooner we'll say i'm dying we'll just load the uh the last one that's kind of long ago i'll load the skinner's rome why am i auto saves not auto saving and yeah low toughness will have you bleed out even faster exactly all right again uh a wider berth around the uh the dust bandits would be good i'm just gonna have to f5 i don't know why my autosaves are just not working um yeah i'll just put it down to every like uh three so not iron man style no no [Music] i could do iron man style but i would i i should address that it would be possible for me to do iron style but it would be very very very boring kenshi is a game of risk and chance and danger and to play it very safe is very snooze-worthy so iron man style is possible but it's it it would be tragic for entertainment's sake i'll put it that way um playing it too you know it's the game is remorseless and playing it too safe is is dreadfully boring [Music] um there's other ways to play iron man style but um as check you start and as rock bottom you start off with so many disadvantages of not being able to run away from anything and not having another arm um so i've obviously played iron man's dial before uh in previous youtube series but not as someone that couldn't outrun uh anything so if i really wanted armand style you know the way to do it would have been to run laps around shobatai until my athletics allowed me to outrun you know maybe like 23 miles an hour but that would take three hours of doing laps or something like that because if shaq top out at uh 25 miles an hour to try to get up to 23 miles an hour would mean my athletics would need to be somewhere around the 70 or 80 range which takes just a massive amount of running all right so that's a holy nation patrol right there stay the heck away from them we also are going to want to stay away from shack or stack rather not shaq this that's a holy nation city for now and they built the city into the bottleneck of the mountains so we're gonna have to go around the mountain what it made me for is to try to get down to the hub and then get down to some of the um some of the other check cities not to do trade but to try to recruit i don't have a lot of money on me so i'm gonna have a limited ability to recruit people but even if i can add one more person and we start to do laboring i double my income by doubling the amount of people that i have mining and then it does mean that i have to feed two people instead of one so it's not just pure profit but it's a start will my legs recover yeah they'll recover very slowly but they will recover they could recover faster if i slept in a bed in the hub so here uh one of the things i could do in this bar is to rent a bed upstairs and that will allow me to recover a little bit more quickly [Music] okay none of the check in here want to be recruited well let's run to bed so i can get my legs all the way back [Music] so 50 cats with the bed rental and when you're laying in a bed your recovery rate quadruples [Music] so you can see the leg and the leg hp and the chest hp going up there's also a lot of uh sort of garbage around here that you can grab and sell as well the stuff that isn't redlined means it's uh it's not gonna net you a lot of money but it's something that wasn't uh ambient noise just then that was part of the soundtrack that was music and that sound song was just particularly loud octuples yeah tuples in beds quadruples in sleeping bags that's why i rented a bed i could have squatted in one of these sleeping bags here uh but it would only be times four not eight that's right okay we're healed i don't think there's really anything worth looting uh in these ruins another thing that you can do is you can buy these ruins they're for sale and you can then build in them which is actually might be the first iteration of the base i set up but what i really want to do is i want to try to recruit so i'm going to head down to squin uh which is the closest check uh city in hopes that i can add to my roster what's my favorite game soundtrack i don't have one this soundtrack's pretty good but it's not something you would ever listen to without playing the game because it's too it's lacking melody and it's more just like atmospheric won't i still get caps for pieces of junk uh yeah but not even worth the effort of labor maybe like five caps per piece of junk whereas you could do that all day long and basically not make a penny so this is the first check city that i've entered just a reminder uh we are not to do any trade in these cities i'm just here to try to recruit so i'm not even going to buy anything from them just looking if there's other check to be added so here's oren outcast how about earning yourself the loyalty of a check warrior what's the catch uh they want to be hired for 3 500 cats she does and yeah sounds like a fair deal all right now we have a raffle going on so i'm gonna not name her just yet uh i can always rename her at a plastic surgeon later on i'm not gonna change the way she looks and we have doubled our squad size [Music] now unfortunately she called herself a warrior but i'm immediately going to put her to work as a as a minor and for the giveaway here let me uh reset the eligibility i know i just hit the timer i'm going to unhit that timer to actually have it properly reflect if you're a subscriber of mine and you want oren to be named after you just type something to the chat to be eligible so take a look at her stats here she starts off with a horse chopper uh wooden sandals which actually will make her faster those are the shoes that make you faster and what i'm doing is i'm just sending her out here to mine a small copper resource while i explore the town further uh here's leaf he wants 6k cats i don't have that kind of money but it's good to know spade three thousand cats i don't have that much money either swift six thousand they're an engineer so yeah there's a lot of people to be recruited here none of those that i just talked to are um story characters there are some uh and if you check the rules you'll see there are some that i will not rename um like kang or ruka who are uh unique i'm not gonna be r raffling them off for names they'll be keeping their own but all of those were default aramid is another random here's rain the giant not a random and ribs another random so let's talk to these guys see what they cost 6k cats shield thanks for the gifted sub akamar thinks three sub byron thanks for the gifted sub u.s soldier as well and zoland oh so many so three kitkats ribs three uh six kitkats and then rain is 7.5 k and won't do a scent cheaper and it's insulted that i even asked she's uh she's reign is um uh has pretty high uh combat stats for compared to many other potential recruits so we do have uh potential recruits here but i have no money and as a requirement of the series i don't do any sort of um i don't well i don't work for or won't trade to the check kingdom i'm just looking for recruits from here um so what i'm going to do is spend a minute mining a little copper uh with oren and rackvin and oren's going to get a new name soon but we're going to get a little copper and just just bail on this down yeah rukfa rukra is free and she's best early game um but she's not here i can go looking for her but she's obviously not in this town i'm going to have oren come help rakvin over here because this uh this copper node can have two workers and the last one i could only have the single and we'll have uh 100 guardians nope these are slave mongers never mind should have checked closer but uh the shec do patrol this area pretty heavily more expensive doesn't always mean better stats uh and when you talk to them they'll tell they'll tell you straight up what they're good at so they might be good at engineering or medic or something like that uh but generally speaking more expensive does mean skilled doesn't necessarily mean better combat stats though do i have to worry about the loyalty of characters no not really so we have 1700 cats and we have no food well i have one dried meat that i'm going to give to oro no oran doesn't need it yet so in terms of stats oren has a little bit higher strength negative toughness a little higher decks more weapon skills generally more skilled than rackfin but uh much much slower due to a lack of uh athletics but she does have um she does have uh wooden sandals on which raises her her movement speed so she's actually going to be able to run um rockfin here and there we go here's the raffle so good luck and blizzard blizzard 2000 you are the lucky winner of oren i can't rename her just yet i have to go see a guild plastic surgeon uh to be able to rename her but uh congrats uh just uh tag me for what kind of name you want so i know so right now what i'm doing is just building up a little bit of a copper that i can run back to either the hub or on nearby uh trade opportunity there's also way stations nearby that i could go to to sell in order to be able to afford some more recruits once i have a decent squad size i don't know maybe like six to ten something like that really depends on the members of the squad i'll start to try to pick on um dust bandits for combat skill leveling up our ability to fight well i bothered joining the shinobi thieves um no i don't think so it would be safer if i did because if you join the shinobi thieves shinobi thieves will help to heal you if you're unconscious or whatever and obviously their training facilities are awesome but just for the sake of the challenge uh i won't whoa i did not notice them those dustbands just wandered on by and didn't even pay me any attention okay should i should chuck around me a little bit more is there work outside the hub to cut down travel time yes there is i was just here so i'm going to grab the copper here there are other nodes mining is pretty easy mining and you know theft are pretty easy ways pretty safe ways to make money in this game theft is obviously faster and mining is slower but then mining will also build up your um your laboring skills which can be useful later on when you're trying to build a colony um because when you're trying to build a a settlement uh you're going to want laboring skills to be able to produce iron and building materials and the like is there a limited squat size there is yep 20. you can mod it and increase your squat size but uh 20 by default all right so rockfin go pick up oren or blizzard and soon to be named blizz blizz and we're going to run back to the hub i'm picking up oren for strength training i'm trying to get rockfin a little stronger and then if anything comes up to mess with us i'm gonna drop oren drop all the ore and bolt this here as you can see is raising that strength up which is going to allow us to carry more it's very very important for sec to check to do this because most of the shock weapons are massive and heavy and require a lot of strength to wield properly oh but there are a dust bandit camp here that i'm gonna wanna uh steer clear of [Laughter] if i drop her um it's less efficient it's far far far less efficient to train unless you're carrying someone so we can really really only train one at a time if i dropped here neither of us would be training strength so it's better if one of us is training strength rather than none of us that makes sense and [Music] yeah my strength is really climbing fast as a result and here's yet another dust bandit camp for us to skirt around all right what is the current goal uh yeah i gotta update that um recruit a squad of six plus i'll say arbitrary number to be sure but a squad of six plus any any fewer than five members and unless you're really well versed in combat uh you're not gonna fare well in combat situations even six plus might not be enough but that's a pretty good start because as you can see there's how many dust bandits are here like maybe 20 right like i that is too many for even six people to go after yeah that strength is is going up now my max carry weight is 26 kilograms i think we started at like 16 kilograms and i'm not even getting full uh strength xp now despite the fact that my inventory is full of copper and i'm carrying someone i'm not gonna buy a house and squint that would be against the rules [Music] but buying one in hub yeah probably [Music] unfortunately they don't have cheap food here uh so a lot of a lot of my um money i just made went straight to food what am i trying to do is uh bait the dust bandits into a bit of a fight so we both move at 18 miles an hour and if i could drag these dust bandits uh towards the city guards not that hub actually has guards it kind of doesn't that would maybe be a bad idea let me let me not do that i think what i'm gonna do is uh try to build up my wealth to 6k so i can hire two more 3k recruits so let's look for uh nodes for us to to prospect in mind so if hit the prospecting skill and go to iron i can see the iron nodes and go to copper see the copper nodes so it will sort of show me roughly where copper can be found so like it's saying that there's copper around here um having trouble spotting it i'll do that prospecting again alright so there should be copper there it is thank you for watching kenji checks conquest and a special thanks to all of you twitch subscribers and patreon patrons for allowing content like this to exist if you have any feedback for me 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Channel: Rhadamant

Views: 68,400

Keywords: Kenshi, Let's Play, Roleplaying, Shek, Twitch, Tutorial, Vanilla

Id: 1e37AnI4FtE

Length: 50min 27sec (3027 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 09 2021