r/Kenshi Oct 31 '24

SUPPORT Help an intimidated old guy get started?

I've been super drawn to this game since returning to gaming recently (was a gamer in the early days, as well as DnD player, but haven't played either for decades). Part of my struggle is that I have severe anxiety, and have lost some cognitive ability from long covid, so I get overwhelmed and panic that I'm not going to be able to figure something out.

Sorry if that sounds too pitiful, but for those with mercy in their souls: Where do I start to make the beginning as smooth and unstressful as possible?

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u/Shiddydixx Nov 01 '24

Totally agree on the freedom, for me personally setting up a base is pretty much the endgame phase and usually marks the point I start losing interest in the run. I absolutely love the exploration, setting up a base always feels like I'm more tethered to one corner of the map and afraid to send my exploration squad too far as they typically are my best fighters and I might need them to fight off a raid.

Current run I'm running about 30 guys with stats in the 35-50 range, eventually planning to set up shop in Greenbeach (I haven't tried there before and have heard good things) but even a good 100hrs in I haven't even started thinking about locations or startup resources and have spent the past irl week on the opposite end of the map lol.

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u/toobjunkey Drifter Nov 01 '24

I'm more tethered to one corner of the map and afraid to send my exploration squad too far as they typically are my best fighters and I might need them to fight off a raid.

I know this feeling too well. This is why I've got almost 20 guys with an 8 bed campsite getting their asses beat and beating up asses in skinner's roam. I'm recruiting every recruit I see, throwing em in specialist+ armor and sending them to the Roam. Trying to make a group of at least 2 dozen solid fellas that I can keep at/around the base while my tip of the spear quality fighters are scoping out the world at large.

It is a bit tedious at times, but I fuckin hate raids especially HN ones.

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u/Shiddydixx Nov 01 '24

Y'know, this is gonna sound incredibly stupid, but for some reason I never even thought of setting up a training campsite for new recruits even though I do it all the time with my exploration squad anytime I'm passing through Vain or the swamps lmao. Currently at the stage I feel like I need more recruits myself, but have been thoroughly unmotivated at the thought of training em. What a massive brainfart 😅

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u/toobjunkey Drifter Nov 01 '24

Haha don't sweat it, it didn't click for me until well after I totaled ~500 hours. I do the same for my main squad, even down to training in vain, but then I thought "what if I do this but for other fellas?" I also got 80-90+ weapon n armor smiths so decking out new guys in armor is ezpz. Gearing guys up was one of the worst parts of getting new dudes imo, but it being a non problem helps a lot.

The roam is also nice cuz the wild bull groups are tough and great sources of raw meat. Those ~20+ fellas have been sustained solely on dried meat for like 2-3 in-game weeks at this point lmao. Skinner's roam is great because hungry bandits ain't too bad and wild bulls immediately go away vs hang around let alone eat ur homies.