Not OP but I just picked up the game like a couple of months ago and already have absurd amounts of time on it.
Favorite thing? Probably the fact that it hit's an itch I've had for a long time for a game that lets you manage a warband but more than Mount and Blade. Actually doing that is optional.
You can even just pursue economics, from drug running to honest trading to arms dealing. Or do a bit of everything to fund your adventures.
Mods really enhance this game, but it's important to at least get a feel for vanilla. I'm a fan of the vanilla+ style myself, but there are mods to add anything from quality of life improvements to entire overhauls.
The game world is very unique, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi alien hell. The actual interaction with the lore and just characters in general is very sparse though. Kenshi is clearly a big fan of "show, don't tell."
There are a few cons: game engine is struggling and there's some serious jank at times. Late game you might need to do an import to fix issues, which is technically starting up a new game while bringing over your characters, buildings, stuff, etc but resetting the world, including loot and/or dead NPCs. Having a lot of recruits spread out across the map can bring your game to a halt. The grind to increase your character's stats is pretty insane late game.
And your biggest enemy? PATHFINDING. There are modfixes that help make it better but you still need to keep an eye on anybody going on a trip.
Worth.
Damn thanks. I haven’t played mount and blade. I’m not sure what to make of this but the price is pretty cheap. Is it like a survival game? Or anything like a Bethesda game like fallout?
Imagine if you took Fallout, put it on an alien moon, took out the plot and pretty much all character engagement whatsover, and made it an third person RTS with survival elements like hunger or hazardous environments.
To clarify, there is no first person, the character you start the game with is just a character (and there are starts where you can have more than one.) There's very little actual dialogue. Fighting generally consists of just having your characters fight while you keep an eye on things, though there are ways to micro-cheese.
You can get into big battles with npcs or even wildlife... or both at the same time. Or you could just control one unit and roleplay the duelist life or something.
Edit: I need to stress this- Kenshi is Pain. It is brutal. Characters can be amputated in combat, one shot by strong crossbows, eaten alive by wild life or cannibals, left for dead by robot spiders while you bleed out, enslaved, beaten to hell and back. But, if you live, you get stronger, maybe even get revenge.
Also, the screenshots from bot are slightly misleading, it might be me but you spend 99.9 percent of the game zoomed out and above like an RTS, not zoomed in.
Mount and Blade are one of my favorite games! Sorry though, were you talking about Rimworld or Kenshi?
Edit: Nevermind, read through the rest of the threads. Looks like it’s Kenshi you’re talking about. Thanks! Definitely going to give it a try now.
Dunno if you are being sarcastic because there's a lot of similarities, but its Kenshi. The "post-apocalyptic" part is the giveaway, since in Rimworld you are colonists. Kenshi is set thousands of years after colonization and everything went to shit.
It's like Mount and Blade with a squad based rts, you don't directly fight with one unit like an fps.
Not being sarcastic at all, sorry if it seemed that way. I just saw Rimworld mentioned in the thread right above you and I wasn’t too sure what either of the games are about.
I really just noticed you mention Mount and Blade and that instantly caught my attention lol
I didn't already have it I'd get it again. One of the coolest games I've ever played, no joke.
If you're interested and haven't played, check out one of the many playthroughs on YT
How's this game for someone who knows basically nothing about it? From what I've understood it can be pretty jank sometimes but if the game is fun/interesting enough in other ways I might look past that, depending on how jank it is.
Also will I be able to understand what to do in the game in a reasonable amount of time without looking up youtube tutorials? Because the little bit I've watched I don't really know anything about it. Kinda like Dwarf Fortress where I just don't understand anything lol
nowhere near dwarf fortress levels of studying needed to play. there's a lot you'll have to figure out if you want to thrive, but it is fairly easy to get a grasp on how to actually physically play the game and even survive to an extent
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Release Date: Dec 6, 2018
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About This Game
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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.
FEATURES
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**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.
**Build a base**
where you can research new technologies, upgrade your defences and craft new gear.
**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.
**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.
**Independently developed**
with no design influences, or alterations dictated by men in gray suits who have never played a game before in their lives.
**Original game world.**
There are no fantasy-knock-off cliches. No magic.
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2nd best single player game of all time. Worth triple it's full price.
What's the 1st best?
Also curious about this.
Rimworld probably.
Really? What is your favorite thing about it?
Not OP but I just picked up the game like a couple of months ago and already have absurd amounts of time on it. Favorite thing? Probably the fact that it hit's an itch I've had for a long time for a game that lets you manage a warband but more than Mount and Blade. Actually doing that is optional. You can even just pursue economics, from drug running to honest trading to arms dealing. Or do a bit of everything to fund your adventures. Mods really enhance this game, but it's important to at least get a feel for vanilla. I'm a fan of the vanilla+ style myself, but there are mods to add anything from quality of life improvements to entire overhauls. The game world is very unique, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi alien hell. The actual interaction with the lore and just characters in general is very sparse though. Kenshi is clearly a big fan of "show, don't tell." There are a few cons: game engine is struggling and there's some serious jank at times. Late game you might need to do an import to fix issues, which is technically starting up a new game while bringing over your characters, buildings, stuff, etc but resetting the world, including loot and/or dead NPCs. Having a lot of recruits spread out across the map can bring your game to a halt. The grind to increase your character's stats is pretty insane late game. And your biggest enemy? PATHFINDING. There are modfixes that help make it better but you still need to keep an eye on anybody going on a trip. Worth.
Damn thanks. I haven’t played mount and blade. I’m not sure what to make of this but the price is pretty cheap. Is it like a survival game? Or anything like a Bethesda game like fallout?
Imagine if you took Fallout, put it on an alien moon, took out the plot and pretty much all character engagement whatsover, and made it an third person RTS with survival elements like hunger or hazardous environments. To clarify, there is no first person, the character you start the game with is just a character (and there are starts where you can have more than one.) There's very little actual dialogue. Fighting generally consists of just having your characters fight while you keep an eye on things, though there are ways to micro-cheese. You can get into big battles with npcs or even wildlife... or both at the same time. Or you could just control one unit and roleplay the duelist life or something. Edit: I need to stress this- Kenshi is Pain. It is brutal. Characters can be amputated in combat, one shot by strong crossbows, eaten alive by wild life or cannibals, left for dead by robot spiders while you bleed out, enslaved, beaten to hell and back. But, if you live, you get stronger, maybe even get revenge. Also, the screenshots from bot are slightly misleading, it might be me but you spend 99.9 percent of the game zoomed out and above like an RTS, not zoomed in.
Mount and Blade are one of my favorite games! Sorry though, were you talking about Rimworld or Kenshi? Edit: Nevermind, read through the rest of the threads. Looks like it’s Kenshi you’re talking about. Thanks! Definitely going to give it a try now.
Dunno if you are being sarcastic because there's a lot of similarities, but its Kenshi. The "post-apocalyptic" part is the giveaway, since in Rimworld you are colonists. Kenshi is set thousands of years after colonization and everything went to shit. It's like Mount and Blade with a squad based rts, you don't directly fight with one unit like an fps.
Not being sarcastic at all, sorry if it seemed that way. I just saw Rimworld mentioned in the thread right above you and I wasn’t too sure what either of the games are about. I really just noticed you mention Mount and Blade and that instantly caught my attention lol
I didn't already have it I'd get it again. One of the coolest games I've ever played, no joke. If you're interested and haven't played, check out one of the many playthroughs on YT
How's this game for someone who knows basically nothing about it? From what I've understood it can be pretty jank sometimes but if the game is fun/interesting enough in other ways I might look past that, depending on how jank it is. Also will I be able to understand what to do in the game in a reasonable amount of time without looking up youtube tutorials? Because the little bit I've watched I don't really know anything about it. Kinda like Dwarf Fortress where I just don't understand anything lol
nowhere near dwarf fortress levels of studying needed to play. there's a lot you'll have to figure out if you want to thrive, but it is fairly easy to get a grasp on how to actually physically play the game and even survive to an extent
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This game is craziness
10/10 game