Uncovering Ancient Weaponry To Defeat My Enemies - Kenshi Hardest Start Ep. 2

howdy welcome back to kenchi last time you saw girth he was just a lowly torso crawling through the iron Trail 1 billion cats in debt and hated by every major faction in the two weeks since then we've grown borrowed supplies borrowed weapons and became a master tactician in outmaneuvering our enemies you all gave me some great feedback in the last video so today we have a list of things to accomplish first things first thank you to those who recommended Burn's Tower as having a free skeleton bed to use that's the Target for today all of my limbs are damaged so I want to get that addressed before moving on to anything else from there I want to focus on combat pairing an eagle's cross with our speed should make for some pretty devastating attacks and I know just a place to train that at the third goal for today is simply to research and expand our little Outpost to do that I'll need books and lots of them with that let's get into it burns Tower is located in the northern portion of the floodlands it's a bit of a hike but with two Scout legs I should be able to make it there in a day almost immediately the journey went sideways while I do have the ability to just Forest Gump straight through these guys it's way more fun to practice my 360 no scopes on them with my junk bow now obviously I'm outnumbered here but I can still use that Pat Tilman method of letting their own Bowman fire rounds into the backs of the other [Music] Bandits that's not the only effective method though see sometimes you can even get a little lucky and have some Escape servants come Waltzing in splitting the dust Bandits into two smaller groups after watching them destroy each other for an hour or so girth snuck back in to finish off the stragglers I really only need one to pull this off so I kidnapped the strongest Bandit I could find and brought him back to base where I started mining iron as long as that camp doesn't despawn I can place the Bandit in one of the sleeping bags and then fill this backpack with iron which I can use to weigh me down while I practice beating the [ __ ] out of this guy this should give me a ton of martial arts strength and dexterity XP if I do it right but time will tell the Bandit's injury is getting worse though and I don't have any medical supplies to heal him with so I headed back to the nearby Rebel basee to steal some since my stealth is so high I was basically able to just walk in take what I wanted including an eagle's crossbow and walk out without issue with the dust bandit in a recovery coma I returned home and continued mining that lasted for about an hour until a small Shea war party made their way up to the mountain side there's not really anything I could do here girth is too underleveled to really stand a chance I mean his best weapon is a dinky little crossbow used by roaming Bandit groups I used this as an opportunity to work on toughness allowing them to quite literally Pummel me into the dirt until they'd had their fill girth isn't doing too hot though his right leg is practically useless in its current state and he's one big shot to the stomach away from a complete Hardware shutdown since I can't run I just continued mining I figured there's not really anything else I can do right now it's either work on Gathering more iron or focus on research and since I'm still several days worth of research away from unlocking a skeleton bed I decided to mine girth was fortunate enough that no one really bothered him over the next day or so allowing him to mine up a few dozen iron and store it in his research bench until we had a need for it I can't use the Bandit Camp sleeping bags since the camps are just crawling with Bandits so I snuck back into the rebel camp that evening hoping they had one sitting around unfortunately I was spotted almost immediately and was only able to loot the shop counter and a nearby Barrel running away with some books causing the entire Outpost to chase after for me with a ninja's hot on girth's tail I did the only thing I could think to do in this situation and ran straight into a dust Bandit Camp causing a fight to break [Music] out this only kind of worked as two or three of the guards turned to face the dust Bandits leaving two to continue chasing in me along with a smaller Squad of dust bits in Pursuit after making it back to base I tried helping the dust bandits in the fight only to end up in a 1 V one against a guy wielding one of those Japanese paper fan things as his weapon only instead of paper it was razor sharp [Music] steel naturally as soon as one group of dust Bandits were defeated the Outpost was assaulted by a dust Bandit War leader while they sat there shouting at girth he engaged the ninja guard to be honest I'm not sure how this guy is still alive he's got like 15 bolts lodged in him two of them being direct head shots even with the dust Bandits sitting there and the ninja fight going on a group of hungry Bandits apparently felt the need to insert themselves into the frey as well I tried to kite them through another group of dust Bandits which took care of the Ninja guard but only really [ __ ] me over even more since now there were like 50 Bandits attacking me [Music] with girth incapacitated I'm not really sure what happened to the Bandit I was carrying I'm assuming he just ran away regardless we're still alive and able to sneak away once I made it back to the camp I found a dust boss dying near the iron node when I entered my shack though I found the entire war party of dust bits just idling around miraculously I was able to sneak around them grab some bandages and save the dust boss keeping him as my new training dummy as the sun rose on day 16 I ran back to the hub to see if I could find a sleeping bag there luckily the bar was in the middle of assaulting a group of hungry Bandits and I was able to sneak by everyone including the bar counter for a shitty Katana that I could use to power level with at this point the only place that I know for sure has a sleeping bag is the travelgood shop and squin so I dropped off the dust banded at the shack locking him inside like he was Gypsy Rose and set off for [Music] squin the raid was incredibly easy like always since my stealth is so damn high I can practically walk down the middle of the street without worry from the travel goods store I was able to walk away with two sleeping bags some medical supplies in case I needed them in the future and a ton of books while on my way out I figured I should stop at the armor shop to see if I could find some Samurai armor as well since I read that a decent set will help you level your combat skills much [Music] faster I was able to find some leg plates and armor to use but unfortunately I can't continue stacking shitty helmets or boots since I can't equip them I can however work on lockpicking here though since the shopkeep doesn't seem to notice me standing behind him you know I was worried this was going to going to happen but when I made it back to the shack the dust boss was gone this has happened to me in other playthroughs as well so I should have known better and it's not the end of the world by any means though like there's still a whole dust Bandit Camp below me that I can just pull guys from not to mention the constant assaults taking place in our little Camp regardless I placed the sleeping bags almost touching each other this way I should be able to kidnap two Bandits and there's a chance I can hit both of them at the same time doubling the XP I would gain in order to kidnap dust Bandits though I'll need a higher assassination level since mine is sitting at a whopping [Music] [Music] one I was able to get it up to 15 before girth was spotted this actually wound up leading to a fight between dust and hungry Bandits so I sat back and watched hoping at least one dust Bandit would get taken out and as it turns out I didn't have to wait too long as two dust Bandits were dropped and forgotten about while one was plain dead the other was merely crippled so I knocked both of them out and brought them back to my [Music] base this was a huge pain in the ass since as soon as one was inside the other Escape so I ended up beating both of them into Comas until I could position them properly oh I also moved the sleeping bags inside so that I could lock the door that way even if they woke up and ran I could knock them back out before they fully [Music] escaped I could have placed both in the sleeping bags but if I carry one of the bandits my weight shoots all the way up to 276 which keeps me above that 90% an encumbrance threshold to gauge how effective this is my martial arts is currently six my strength is 16 and my deck is 17 all right let's try this [Music] out all right this isn't going nearly as well as I thought it was going to go I tried to switch things up by equipping a shitty Katana and that seemed to help a little but still not what I was [Music] expecting I managed to do some Tetris styled Inventory management which got me all the way up to 346 weight so I tried that for a while to see if it improved my results I think the biggest hold up is the fact that they just go unconscious so fast I don't know this whole set setup is just super Jank and it's not really doing all that much in terms of results but I figured I'd give it a full in-game day and see what I could do with it I did manage to kick one of the Bandit's legs clean off of his body which for being honest it's pretty [ __ ] sweet but it did more harm than good it it was still cool to see happen though since we're down to just one Bandit while the other is missing a limb and unconscious for the rest of the day I a lot of my time was spent kicking this doofus in the stomach and then putting him back in bed until he woke up before repeating the [Music] process during one of these fights the dust Bandit quite literally phased through the wall and just started walking away and I didn't want to piss off Jesus so I just let him go accepting my fate just kidding I hunted him down and fought him but with a shitty Katana until he was practically dead and then dragged his corpse back to the shack that evening another raid came I left the Bandit with a missing leg since he was still incapacitated but took the other one and moved further down the hill where we continued training in peace once the raid party left I went back to the shack to find the crippled bandit in practically full health I mean obviously he could be better off but he's almost all green right now this is huge since I kept kicking them in the chest to knock them out so the play may be to actually get rid of a leg or two and then leave them resting in the bed that way I can Farm them without risking an escape whenever they were both in comas or needing to recover I'd simply work on Research effectively killing two birds with one stone I need a bigger building for a T2 research bench so I laid blueprints for one though I doubt I'll get around to it this episode considering we've spent almost all of it just [ __ ] around with Bandits instead of actually getting anything done this right here is what I was going for if I line up just right I can hit hit both of the bits at the same time so far I've been able to get my strength up to 23 decks up to 30 and martial arts up to 19 not Amazing by any standard but still decent progress by day 19 I was getting bored of this admittedly so I did one final training session and then set out for Flats Lagoon if you're wondering why Flats Lagoon well they have a ranger shop there and I can raate it to stock up on some bolts before heading out to train my crossbow skill I just now realized I've been doing my objectives in reverse order but it'll honestly probably work out for the best since I can hit up Burn's Tower at the end and can completely heal up along the way to Flats I came across another way station so I made a quick pit stop there to see if they had any bolts that they weren't planning on using Well turns out they did but they have this weird tradition of launching them through your skull and limbs instead of just letting you borrow a few [Music] packs regardless I was able able to escape with around 900 regular bolts that I can use at least I thought see regular bolts can be used with the normal crossbows but Eagle cross crossbows require long bolts meaning I effectively took a dozen bolts to the head chest arm and leg for literally nothing girth wasn't out of the fight yet though one of the guards plank had chased him for Miles initially I thought this would be a great trial run to see just how far we've progressed but poor girth never stood a chance he got absolutely decimated I actually don't even think he landed a shot for like the first 45 minutes of the fight it was that one-sided he ended up Landing a coule shots throughout the fight but ultimately was left rebooting in the [Music] sand on the bright side he's a skeleton and skeletons are able to fully heal to an extent allowing girth to be back on the Move by late afternoon and arriving at Flats Lagoon by Nightfall [Music] [Music] I also love that girth doesn't swim he simply sinks to the bot B of the water like a pug and then jogs across the floor truly a spectacle to behold unfortunately I forgot that since every faction in the game has a minus 100 rating with us they like to greet girth with a harpoon to the skull every time they see him how thoughtful of them anyway I was able to break into the ranger shop and grab three sets of long bolts which gives me a total of 150 of them ideally I would have liked to find way more but considering they were about to put me on the casting couch I'm just glad I got out alive well almost one of the guards chased me for a considerable distance but I have bolts now so let's try them [Music] out this bow hits like a [ __ ] bus it only took four bolts to put this sh down allowing me to snag some armor and a new Katana off of him in the process anyway I think I know of a place where I can gather more ammo without having to raid cities like this every time throughout the night I stumbled over an Armory ruin which had some skeleton eyes that I thought were cool but otherwise had nothing of value to me welcome to sniper Valley home to some of the most vile creatures in all of Kenji random skeletons roam these lands with eagles crossbows hunting anything they can find and I just came across one of their outposts as it turns out this is a police barracks a bit underwhelming though considering there's nothing here regardless it's a prime location to fight some sniper Bots and walk away with a few extra bolts and maybe a stronger bow if we're lucky nearby I found an old Empire Supply Outpost girth isn't skilled enough to pick the lock but if the Russians have Ted anything it's that brute force can usually do the trick the loot in here is incredible I managed to find a model Edge type one blade iron club inside along with some ration packs that seem to be arguably the best food in the game while I was checking the place out I was almost caught by this guy his name is just three question marks but he's from the Second Empire and his stats look to be mainly 80s or '90s meaning I don't want to [ __ ] with him it wasn't until I snuck upstairs that I saw it though a Masterwork Eagles [Music] crossbow it's got a higher maximum damage by about 30 points and about 22 M of its max range and has a max reload time of 1 second shorter than the bow I have now all in all this thing could very well be one of the most powerful weapons in the game in the right hands that being said immediately after I grabbed the bow I dipped out the last thing I want to have happen was a potential one shot just because I overstayed my welcome and got caught off guard just to the east of that Outpost lies a much more Sinister one I like to call this place Skinwalker Ranch it's home to a group of skeletons who wear human flesh to pretend to be humans it's owned and operated by a man known as Savant these wannabe meat bags are a perfect candidate to try out this new boan unfortunately as soon as I started firing off rounds a group of Legion Scouts approached and started shooting at both the skin Bandit and myself not 100% sure who they're affiliated with or if they have any affiliation at all but I'm not planning on asking them first though I need to deal with this freak with the skin Bandit de I healed up and turned my attention to the legion Scouts I don't believe they have Eagles crossbows so I have the range Advantage there well in the middle of the shootout girth was ambushed by a patrol of skin Bandits knocking him unconscious and allowing the legion Scouts to retreat gert's right arm is completely destroyed and his leg isn't too far behind at this point I think it's safe to say I need a skeleton bed and fast the only problem well Burns Tower is damn near across the entire map to make matters worse as girth was walking to safety he was ambushed Again by both the legion Scouts and the skin Bandits luckily we were able to somewhat recover and continue our journey back home originally I was planning to farm Leviathan for some easy crossbow XP but given the current predicament I think I just need to focus on reaching Burn's Tower before any more unexpected surprises come our way near midnight I came across a group of scavengers seemingly having defeated a sniper bot and black guerillo I chose to wait until they left the area then looted the sniper bot for anything of value there was another Lane nearby but both both were stripped clean further along the hill I found a scavenger healing his teammate so I knocked him out it looks like these guys carry bows that use heavy bolts which is something I've never used before in Kenji if girth was in a little better condition I probably would have taken a bow and tried him out but given that we're in a Do or Die mode I don't want to risk anything around 1:00 a.m. on day 21 I'd made it back to the police barracks and decided to hide out in one of the buildings until gert's leg was healed up enough to run again this is going to take a while though since I'm just sitting here waiting for it to slowly tick up there's no bad or anything that'll help it recover faster I've just got to be patient I'm just spending a good 12 hours or so just sitting around staring at a wall gert's leg was healed up enough for him to run again at close to full speed of course that's before you take into account the amount of [ __ ] we have stored in their backpack which is slowing us down considerably our right arm is healed up enough to use again though which I didn't think was possible without a skeleton bed but I'll take it that being said we have some friends with us I swear if it isn't big black gorillo beasts it's killer goats did I mention they run faster than me too to compensate I had to shed weight starting with the old Eagle cross when that wasn't enough I started dropping bolts and repair kits until I was finally able to gain the upper hand and slowly begin outr running them even with that though the goats proceeded to chase me for a good 3 or 4 hours by around midnight on day 22 I'd made it all the way back to Flats Lagoon this is steady progress and I'm getting girth up to 28 M hour after moving his weapons to his backpack instead of carrying them on his person we still have a ways to go but we're covering ground fast by Sunrise we made it through the swamp and onto the plains of the Border Zone and by 8:30 we'd made it back to shits Creek after spending a few hours playing Tetris with the research badge inventory I finally sorted my gear and set off for Burn's Tower the path to it will take us through the heart of the holy nation Empire so I can only imagine this will be a delightful trip funny enough instead of taking that route girth went off course and ended up taking a detour all the way into the fog lands I'm not sure what possessed him to go this route but it was a nice trip down memory lane you know if a nice Tri is witnessing pale Hiers cannibalize their enemies they even tried to attack girth but luckily he's got that Masterwork bow that on-shot these demons I mean he can also run damn near 40 m hour so I'm sure that helps as well a lot of this journey felt eerily similar to The Escape I'd made as a measly torso just a month prior passing through obedience was unsettling to say the least it feels more like a graveyard for ancient mechs than anything the entire landscape is littered with these extraordinarily massive skeletons is All Laying half buried in the Sands then you finally get out of there only to be greeted with these floating robot squid things that look like the Droids that Anakin and Obi-Wan land on when they're fighting on Mustafar the regions in keni continue to amaze me the more I explore the map it's truly remarkable just how much lur is jam-packed into the surrounding scenery along the road I found this abandoned tower that had some loot in it too aside from the ancient science books I managed to also find some locked weapons crates and chests on the second floor that I spent most of the rest of the day attempting to lockpick one of which was holding a higher quality Ninja Blade that I kept for myself there's a safe here that girth isn't skilled enough to pick yet so we'll have to come back to this one day in the future but for now it's on to Burns unfortunately Burn's Tower wasn't abandoned I mean that should be obvious considering the guy's name is burn and this is his Tower normally this wouldn't be that big of a deal but he was immediately hostile towards me and I'm not playing around anymore for this may have been the first circumstance where girth was in complete control of a fight from start to finish I mean he barely took a hit after about an hour of fighting girth finally dropped burn but offered Mercy after seeing he wasn't a real threat to him we even repaired him and saved his life considering his chest was practically caved in that being said as soon as burn was able to he stood up and charged girth again [Music] this fight went about the same with the end result being burned lying in the mud slowly fading into nothing this time however there would be no mercy and girth left burn to die as he headed into the tower I spent a good hour or so just looting the skeleton repair kits from all these bins slow slowly working my way up to the second floor where the research bench sat that was when I was struck with an idea if the research bench is powered by the wind turbine I could effectively Farm burn for some easy combat luckily he wasn't dead yet and girth was able to kidnap him and bring him inside the tower everything was going according to plan until I set him down and then he literally phased through the floor disappearing into the void seriously I have no idea what happened to him he just sunk into the floor and I never saw him after that [Music] oh I came all this way it'd be a shame to let this skeleton bed go to waste thank you all so much for watching I know this one was a little all over the place but I'm having a lot of fun just exploring the map and discovering places like this if you have anywhere you'd like girth to travel to next or anything you'd like to see girth attempt feel free to let me know down in the comments and I'll see what I can do also apologies for the raspy voice I've been dealing with a fun thing called acute bronchitis for about a month now but I'm slowly getting back to myself until next time I appreciate you all stay safe and thanks for stopping by

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Length: 28min 26sec (1706 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 23 2024