What does one do in this game, just build a base?

mm yes shine that turd

Base building is the least fun thing to do, in my opinion. I prefer sending a small squad of 4-5 dudes out on adventures, getting by on loot and bounties (and the occasional fog head).

When you have a base though, it's only a matter of time until you're shitting out hundreds of thousands of catans and decked out all your dudes in E3 and masterworks, trivializing everything in the game.

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This is what I do:
>Go solo
>Use only a katana (with that one mod that increases the katana's stats because the base game's version is too underpowered)
>Walk from town to town
>Download the mod that makes it so that items you pick up give you almost NO money for selling them (so money is hard to get by)
>Download the mod that lets you bodyguard moving caravans
>Download the mod that lets you be a guard for settlements

Roam the lands. Be the ronin that is always gone at the end of the day, always on adventure. Always honing his skills with the blade. Doesn't talk to anyone. Occasionally helps the weak.

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>with that one mod that increases the katana's stats because the base game's version is too underpowered

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Acumulate power until you get into the Ashlands and wreck everything in there. After that, I think you are pretty much done with the game since there is no challenge left(well maybe leviathans)

Base building is an afterthought, not a main feature of the game. It's just there for players to have a place to rest and put their stuff in. The meat of the game is exploration and autism-lore.

the disgusting thing is the fat black outline, it was fun 15 years ago in one game, but its enough

Yeah, I loved Viewtiful Joe.

>The meat of the game is exploration and autism-lore.
No, that's the beginning of the game. There's no fun way to make any progress. The game is only enjoyable when you don't know what the fuck is going on. Not enough interaction can happen between players and factions to create more fun autism scenarios after the player learns the ropes, it's just stat grinding and base building.

I enjoy base building for 100 hours to get the group of 22 dudes together go do the adventures.

I have great aesthetic taste (definitely better than yours) and I find the game much more visually pleasing with cel shading.

i loved both base building and exploring

or XIII same year

That's a good idea. Alternatively you can become a martial artist and roleplay as some Kenshiro ripoff or even Kenshiro himself but personally I prefer to make my own OCs which tend to be a mix of different famous characters

Why disgust? I'm already limiting myself to one weapon. The katana is the iconic samurai weapon (inb4 lol they used bows irl). I'm not gonna play a samurai game if the katana is shit in it.

Because it's not shit. It's one of the strongest weapon types in the game, just below MA and heavies. The double attack instantly makes it better than sabres and hackers, and the katana isn't as unwieldy as the longer variants, while still superior in reach to the short variant.

The fact that you think otherwise makes you disgusting. If you want to make the game easy mode, at least just admit it. Then I might still have some respect for you.

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I was gonna mock you for not recognising the old /tg/ "Katana is underpowered in d20" meme, but turns out he was serious.

You're the first one I've met that tells me the katana isn't shit. The mod I downloaded only increases it's armor piercing stat, which is what everyone says is the main reason the katana is shit. It's supposedly useless against people with armour.

So either 99% of the people I've talked to don't know what they're talking about, or you're just plain retarded. I'm gonna hedge my bets here.

Make sure you get the faster dodging mod too then. MA is by far the worst weapon type in the game due to this glaring flaw.

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Just rewatch Seth

>using mods that do nothing but boost stats/make the game easier
Pussy

>The game is only enjoyable when you don't know what the fuck is going on
I have 1500 hours and beg to differ, I'm still playing

It's more like Dwarf Fortress in adventure mode. You CAN build a base, but sending your guys to go on crazy ass adventures is more fun.

>literally the only mod I mentioned that increases the game's stats gives the katana better armor piercing
Not to mention that I'm limiting myself to one weapon and one party member.

I don't get the penis measuring competition that you and are getting into. Do you guys even have reading comprehension or are you just pretending to be retarded?

Whoa now, didn't you hear some weapon types have drawbacks to go with their advantages? Who would ever use a weapon that might have not be better than everything else in the game when you could just mod away all the drawbacks?

>mods one of the best weapons in he game to be even better
>surprised people find him pathetic
You might be able to call the -AP% a problem if a single enemy in the game wore layered armor. As it is, you can't even find someone wearing all masterworks like the player can, and the fatest cat in the game wears heavily debuffed samurai armor.

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>giving a pure cutting weapon armour piercing
Get a mod that gives rags the same armour as heavy armour then faggot. Might as well go all the way if you're cheating to make your items over powered. Just activate god mode while you're at it pussy

Dude swapping to a high AP weapon takes so much skill. Like, I am literally the god of gaming because I can swap from my katana to a two handed weapon. The rest of you are fucking casuals compared to me, bow before your gaming god.

This is how pathetic you sound.

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>faggot faggot pussy
Whoah, timmy figured out how to swear.

>thinks just playing the game without cheating is being a hard core gamer
Must be hard being this pathetic

I've never seen someone get so mad that people called him out on straight cheating.

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>Thinks swapping weapons isn't hardcore
I bet you're a martial arts fag

Katana is superior to other weapons in that aspect. It can penetrate armor easily, as weapon of true warriors should:
youtube.com/watch?v=EDkoj932YFo

Were not talking about swapping weapons. We're talking about modifying the game stats in your favour. It would be akin to modding heavy weapons to be 0 weight, have bonus vs humans, and the double attack animation. Love hearing you try to justify cheating like it's somehow the normal thing to do lmao

I honestly don't see the issue. I'm already doing a solo run, which most people don't do, and I downloaded a mod that makes looted items have no value, so money is hard to come by. But give the katana class 15% higher AP, and I'm pathetic cheater.

It's just a dick measuring contest, that's all. People don't get that I don't want to go around swinging maces in a samurai game.

>But give the katana class 15% higher AP, and I'm pathetic cheater.
yes

Fine, if you guys are gonna call me a cheater then so be it. I'm not even gonna argue anymore. Bottom line is, I don't want to swing maces around in a samurai game. Deal with it.

Bottom line is, you want the game to be easier for you then it is by default so you cheat. At least you're not in denial anymore.

Also I just found out that the mod I was using not only increases the katana's AP value by 10%, but in turn takes 4 defence points from the sword. Here it is, from the mod page:

Katana:
Defence: 0 from -4
Armor Pen: -20% from -30%

I created a dojo in the middle of the grey desert for robots
My band of skeleton martial artists would train all day and then patrol the wastes at night. Small groups would be sent across the continent to train against the toughest foes in the world
Good times

>b-but weapon swapping
Jesus Christ, I'm starting to think you just haven't played the game vanilla once and built up this narrative of how it might be. Why do you think switching from a 60 katana skill blade to a 15 sabre skill blade against a 20% cut res UC samurai is to the player's advantage? The -30%AP just makes the npc have 26% res instead. You deal 45 instead of 50, "oh no, bet swap to my low skill sabre to do 25 damage instead?!" Anyone who's played longer than 2 hours just sticks with their favorite weapon through thick and thin. The game is already too easy for that level of min-maxing.

The fact that all this is above your head, that you can only form an opinion that "99% of other people told me", means you aren't even qualified to have a voice in the matter. Stop posting. It's disgraceful.

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Dude I'm playing the game on baby mode because my katana has 10% more AP, and gives up 4 defence points because of it.

I'm literally a baby.

Katana has -4 defence in the base game retard. I love how you're now admitting you've never even played the base game and have just always cheated so you don't even know the vanilla game stats lmao

I'm not gonna read all that shit. Read the thread if you think I'm a baby.

No, just pathetic, but your manner of posting and defending your mod is starting to convince me you might be.

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>Dude I'm playing the game on baby mode because my katana has 10% more AP
yes. Just give yourself 10% more armour, 10% more health, %10 lower bleed rate, %10 faster health recovery, and %10 to strength, dexterity and toughness too while you're at it. Sure you'll come up with an excuse that it's not cheating too.

You mean read the part where you didn't know the katana has -4 defence in the base game because you've never played it?

Ok, fuck all of you then.

Starting a new playthrough. Only mod: looted items provide no value. I will not tolerate being called pathetic by the kenshi community.

Why is everyone in this thread salty about how some guy mods his single player game?

Also I will still go solo and stick with just the katana. Same as before.

10% Ap difference is not big enough for me to put up with being called pathetic. I'm still sticking with the mod where looted items don't sell for anything because I want money to be hard to come by.

You can cheat in a single player game all you'd like. He just called out for it and did not take it well. The correct response is what you're implying, that it's fine to cheat in your single player game if you want to. The incorrect response is somehow pretending modifying game stats in your favour isn't cheating

>Also I will still go solo and stick with just the katana. Same as before.
I'm proud of you for deciding to play without cheating, but still hilarious you think the katana isn't one of the best weapons in the game by default. You're now acting like using one of the top 3 weapons is a challenge run lmao

Then I rescind all my previous statements, you manly assed nigger. To make one final comment, sticking to one weapon isn't really a limitation due to the weapon type skill and how long it takes to grind up skill. It's the smarter way to play.

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If it is, great. If it's not, whatever. I picked the katana to be a ronin-type of warrior, like in samurai champloo.

>Use only a katana (with that one mod that increases the katana's stats because the base game's version is too underpowered)

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Don't be a bitch. He's already going to give it a try. As least it's not crossbow cheese.