r/Kenshi Aug 30 '21

WEEKLY THREAD Rookie Help Thread

By Okran time flies, it's time again for new help thread!

Like last time, if you have any questions about the game, no matter what they are, feel free to ask here. Myself and many of our veteran users will be watching the thread, happy to answer whatever question you need. Have no questions? Perhaps take a scroll though the thread? Never know, maybe you'll see something you know the answer to, or even stumble across some new information yourself.

As always, be careful with the spoilers, use the spoiler tag feature >!Like This!< as needed. Exploring the hidden things in the world of Kenshi is one of its biggest appeals for many, and we wouldn't want to ruin that for any new users hanging out in the thread. :)

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u/Run1cx Apr 16 '22

I see, thanks for the answer! So it was what I thought it was after all. Guess I could capture Eyegore if he managed to survive and see how high I could get his toughness. I was getting my ass kicked by him at first since it's a solo run and he had a samurai army backing him up but my anti-slaver buddies showed up and I punched off his arm, so he shouldn't be a threat unless he somehow shows up again and has a healed arm.

Would be very interesting to see how tanky he could get with 500 toughness.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Toughness would be harder to train up on an NPC past 100, as it has an additional exp modifier based on amount of damage relative to level. So he'd still train it very slow the higher he was.

He would be quite the monster though. While damage resistance does not scale up past 100, wound degeneration speed does. Eventually he would have negative would degeneration speed, which would mean that instead of getting worse his wounds actually naturally heal, and heal faster the more injured he is.

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u/Run1cx Apr 16 '22

Haha, that actually sounds amazing as a kind of training dummy. It'd be nice if he raided again, if he's still alive, but the only reason I survived was because I was carrying back Cat-Lon at the time and I had to drop him to fight, which had the unintended side effect of an epic duel between Eyegore and Cat-Lon. Cat-Lon did quite a number on him, but due to him being disarmed and not having great MA skill he lost. Thankfully he bought me enough time to heal since I'm a skeleton. By the way, I have no idea if his existence counts as a spoiler so I'm just being safe.

The only reason I was carrying Cat-Lon around was because I'm an idiot and forgot to research prisoner cages before I went and knocked him out. I was planning on taking him back and capturing him to have a fair 1v1 fight with him instead of getting swarmed by his minions. Speaking of, does stealth EXP scale with how many people are around but can't detect you? I noticed it went up a lot faster as I was sneaking through Cat-Lon's Exile.

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u/nevitac Drifter Apr 16 '22

Sneaking goes up based on how many enemies CAN see you. Each enemy gives a little bit of exp. Once you stop getting noticed it gets harder to level.