Why there no guns or high tech weapons ingame?

[Avitus]

im wondering that only crossbows exist as ranged weapon.... i mean kenshi is not a world set in stone age, we have electricity and KI-Tech stuff like robotic limbs etc....

[happy]

for the same reason mining is only mechanical, even when automated: lack of some gunpowder component.

real reason being because it's cooler that way?

[Sir Laffsalot]

Originally posted by happy:

for the same reason mining is only mechanical, even when automated: lack of some gunpowder component.

real reason being because it's cooler that way?

I agree. And, if you look, they have low tech, even though they have electricity and robotics. They don't seem to have alchemy, most chemistry, fossil fuels, inert gases, or anything like that, so yeah, no high tech weapons or vehicles. I prefer it this way.

It's just like a novel I wrote where their electrical and electro-magnetism technology far outstrips our own. They don't have gun powder, but use rail guns (also they use swords, bows, crossbows, compressed air guns, and even something similar to laser tech). They also don't use fossil fuels and most inert gases.

[Mick]

I use two Gun mods,

Tanegashima

Direct Fire Gun.

There is another one called Gun manufacture which I didn't take. It just seemed to gimicky for this game. BTW, I have managed to find the Tanegashima gun in some bars and not the latter if that means there is a conflict between the two mods there.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

Kenshi is not earth, it is set in a different reality and space all together. so they developed differently.

but officially it's because this is primarily a sword combat game, and the Dev did not want guns. so there are no guns.