Just Wanted to Vent About Swamp

[sorcus]

♥♥♥♥ the Swamp.

I go in with my group of 5 low-mid tier dudes, and about 30 seconds in, I get ambushed by a ♥♥♥♥ing GIANT group of Swamp Ninja Genins, who I would be able to fight off with a dash of difficulty if it weren't for the equally massive group of Red Sabers coming from the complete opposite direction!

About a minute in to the fighting and some micromanagement later, my skeleton and my sissy of a human go down. By this point the Red Sabres and Genins have done a number on each other, as I have to them as well. Ideally, my remaining fighters will survive based on my tank going in to Block and Taunt mode. It is at this point, through the humid fog and thick swamp vegetation, a sizable group of blood spiders joins the fray! This brings me to pull at my hair in distress and flee to the Steam Kenshi forums to vent.

I didn't know hell could come under the guise of moss and fog, but this game has shown me its many forms, and eagerly but patiently waits to reveal me more.

Update: Hired 5 groups of mercenaries to rescue my comrades and cleanse the swamp.

[EvilNecroid]

welcome to kenshi lol

[SmallGespenst]

Originally posted by EvilNecroid:

welcome to kenshi lol

the swamp is... unsafe, like Florida(obviously including Florida Man)*Australia*10, like the "capital city" of the swamps just sort of gets roving packs of blood spiders, that's just a thing that happens. there's a reason the swamps have hemp farms everywhere and it's not just because it's a lawless pit.

[Raymond]

I like how op thinks mercs gonna save his squad from the blood spider lol.

[Rusted Cake]

You can never cleanse the swamp, it is what they call a "green hell".

Tip 1: Due to the swamps being a very dangerous area with plenty of water that impedes movement, it is best to enter it at night. Sure it will be even harder to see danger BUT it will be just as hard to be seen.
So you can easily sneak about in the dark to avoid the warring gangs & roaming animals.

Tip 2: If during the day, stick to dry land & avoid walking through water unless you have to.
Spiders can easily trap & kill your people by hiding in the water to ambush them.
Sticking to land will also make outrunning the warring gangs easier.
Harder to shoot a running target than one who is stuck swaying through mud.

Tip 3: The swamp capital is named "Shark" & is at it's core.
It is ran by multiple gangs & mobsters.
If your unlucky they may sometimes start fighting one another, don't get involved.
The largest gang "the hounds" usually wins during any riot.
Expect local merchants & mercenaries to die during such times.

Edit Note: Btw I live in southern US & yea swamps are pretty unpleasant to visit heh.

[Aggrobiscuit]

Pay close attention to the things your squad says to each other when entering a new region.

[Endgunner]

This is why you need one guy who can use heavy weapons XD

[andy-scull]

And that's why I never set foot into swamp until my speed is high to outrun the ninjas. And then I only come here for cheap hemp, riceweed, gohan.
There is a way to run through swamp without getting into water so my runners are relatively safe. Though even in Shark there are sometimes blood spiders attacks I have to be wary of

[Beep!]

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

Pay close attention to the things your squad says to each other when entering a new region.

Oh hell yeah. Just yesterday I was traveling east. I had never been that way before, and wanted to check it out. Crossing Shem, as I get near Verge, I see death rays falling from the sky.

Ruka: This is Verge, where Gutters go to hunt spiders.

Adi: Gutters?

Rane: She means Beakthings.

Ruka: Yeah, Beakthings.

Me: Death rays, Beakthings, Spiders.... No thanks.

I turned around and went back to The Hub.

[bunny de fluff]

There are some clothes and hat items to protect you from the fire up to a whopping 120 percent or something. One day you will go back there, for Agnu if nothing else.

[Rhah]

I like the swamp, so far its best environment i been to in the game.

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Rhah:

I like the swamp, so far its best environment i been to in the game.

Between the constant rain, raptors destroying the crops, spiders attracted to the raptors corpse, ninja in different colors, that place is awesome

[SmallGespenst]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

Originally posted by Rhah:

I like the swamp, so far its best environment i been to in the game.

Between the constant rain, raptors destroying the crops, spiders attracted to the raptors corpse, ninja in different colors, that place is awesome

The Swap: more ninjas then a Naruto convention, and at any time there is always a spider within ten feet of you, and it wants to eat your guts.

also if the game could handle it the swamp would be even more terrifying, you ever heard your characters talk about spiders attacking from the trees?

[Rhah]

oh I liked that conversation maybe it was tied into the one about creatures living in the trees and ambushing from trees. the area is just beautiful done not just with mobs that can push skills at a nice pace, but the visuals and imersion is very nice.

[General Nuclear]

Sorry to hear man. Someone should really have warned you about the swamp. I useally sends out a sprinter scout before going to a area.

[cdplayer906]

Originally posted by YariMurai:

I like how op thinks mercs gonna save his squad from the blood spider lol.

just wait till he gets to shark and either gets trapped there or gets mobbed by blood spiders in the wash of the city(which will also happen if he gets stuck there lol)