What's the combat like?

[a1gundam]

I just found out about this game and I find it interesting. I see you can be anything you want. I want to be a bounty hunter or something similar but how the combat feels will be a factor if I pick it up or not. Is it like Skyrim? Or more rough like Elex? Is it something different than those like turn based? (not a fan)

[Pick up the Stolen Merchandise]

Look up kenshi review on YouTube my friend.

However, the combat is secretly turned based, however, turns is really based movement speed for attacks and defense. Combat is not like Skyrim to my knowledge, never heard of Elex.

First few seconds of this review will awnser you https://youtu.be/E5dVC15H4R0

[a1gundam]

Originally posted by War Medic:

Look up kenshi review on YouTube my friend.

However, the combat is secretly turned based, however, turns is really based movement speed for attacks and defense. Combat is not like Skyrim to my knowledge, never heard of Elex.

First few seconds of this review will awnser you https://youtu.be/E5dVC15H4R0

I'll look at the video, thanks. And yea I didn't think it would be like Skyrim. Just didn't know what else to ask as a basis to compare it to.

[MadArtillery]

It's honestly a bit of mix between rpg and rts so definitely not Skyrim. Watching the fights feels a lot like the old BioWare knight of the old republic as the animation really are lovely to watch with all the active blocking including directionality so having an elite fighter surrounded is twirls of blocks in all directions. It is mostly watching though, no abilities to activate or anything though the stats that make it up certainly have enough impact to really feel skill gain. Making the most of your 'units' and microing targets and movement can be pretty important in tough fights, especially as many enemies are hostile to each other. I love watching fights so I personally love it.

At its core kenshi is about beating the odds so expect to get beat down only to quietly crawl along after playing dead, healing your crew and repairing your machines to swipe victory over the would be victors taking too long in thier spoils. The jaws of defeat are always threatening to chomp down and winning anyway is absolutely exciting in ways most games can't even try to grasp.

[bunny de fluff]

There is one simple better way to find out more about this game than watching youtube : Download the free huge demo .

[~ Fabulous ~]

like pillar of eternity but without magic and activable skill

edit: thou unlike in PoE, in Kenshi weather effect and lighting play a very important role in combat and your limbs can be chop off

[a1gundam]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

There is one simple better way to find out more about this game than watching youtube : Download the free huge demo .

I didn't know there's a demo. I'll check it out.

[ChildoftheKoRn]

Its real-time. Combat can consist of a variety of weapons able to hit specific body parts and limbs with the aforementioned areas specific damage. You have stats to affect your damage, hit chance and resistance. You can micromanage to a degree, but its not necessarily required. Lastly you can have defensive, passive or aggressive "stances" you can use where your character will focus more on blocking/parrying, attacking or just ignoring combat.

If I had to compare the combat to other games, its loosely more like an RTS where dependent on your orders your characters will attack/block on their own. There are NPC's that are specific to bounty hunters that you can get jobs from, also bounties you can pick up from the stores. Hell if you want, you can make an army of bounty hunters. Just do not expect to start this game out the gate and kick ass, you need to lose a lot before you become formidable. Toughness is gained largely from losing fights, and thereafter you gain a little by simply being in fights, then eventually you'll turn into a badass. You can recruit more folks as you go along and make yourself a legion of bounty hunters to run as a group, or to spread out through the sandboxed land.

For this type of game, the combat was the most refreshing. I held off for a few years cause I though it was like X-Com, 4x or turned based, however it surprised the hell outta me. But if you're looking for something thats either more like Diablo 2, where usable skills are the biggest thing, or where micromanaging is a requirement, might not be for you. Hope the demo doesn't overwhelm you as the game is definitely worth $30.

[Raymond]

this combat is similar to rts game with physic simulators. The combat is mostly min-max stats and decision making.

[simmerdown]

On the subject of Combat, but not about what it is like... What are other games with combat like this? i have seen Pillars of eternity, and i saw in a sense Men of War 2 assault squad. In a sense you could say dawn of war 2 is like kenshi and it has some basic leveling. Are there any other games with the combat with an rpg element added like Kenshi?

[ATCF]

Combat in this game is all about landing hits, you can surround a LVL 60 guy with a few lvl 5 characters and then just try to hit him till you kill him by running in the opposite direction every time he tries to hit you by freezing time and giving a move order, it´s cheesing and unfair but so is the world of Kenshi where you beat 50 fogmen down and then another 50 attacks you when you are licking your wounds (freaking hate those guys with a passion)

[simmerdown]

I am refering to the auto attack, like an RTS. but in an RPG.

[ATCF]

Originally posted by simmerdownnull:

I am refering to the auto attack, like an RTS. but in an RPG.

Well it´s not like in a RPG, because you can get hit by a strike that was targeted to some other person and if it collides with your hitbox then you will get hit, even if you have 9 million defence, so sometimes it´s better to fight 1vs1 and not 3vs1 because a single strike could hit everyone around you :S

[ATCF]

Originally posted by ATCF:

Originally posted by simmerdownnull:

I am refering to the auto attack, like an RTS. but in an RPG.

Well it´s not like in a RPG, because you can get hit by a strike that was targeted to some other person and if it collides with your hitbox then you will get hit, even if you have 9 million defence, so sometimes it´s better to fight 1vs1 and not 3vs1 because a single strike could hit everyone around you :S

Oh and 1 more thing, it also has SOME RPG elements because i have seen a character dodge a hit, even if it clearly passed right through him, but that´s just luck

[angrytrex]

Kenshi is like a mix between Mount and Blade Warband and Rimworld.

[Gerustroncio]

Originally posted by angrytrex:

Kenshi is like a mix between Mount and Blade Warband and Rimworld.

Except the combat is NOTHING like M&B whatsoever... I still can't understand why people make this comparison, you only give the people the wrong impression..