First time through Wend

[The Old Bear]

Hard to believe this is my first time passing through here. pretty cool area, love all the different biomes in the game. All these hours and still finding new places to explore. Would like to here some experiences from players coming across things they didn't expect , found interesting or surprising.

[Rusted Cake]

Stobe. I expect pretty much anything, though I still found the rusting old scrap that is Stobe to be a tad interesting. How did it get there, how was it destroyed? Why does Phoenix smell of fruit?

Oh the questions.

[happy]

Go south west of ark,towards the mountain that separates ark from the reaver camp.
Something cool and unexpected there.

There is a big bay between the irontrail and purple sands.
beautiful and perfect base location.

I love the pits east, the first time I went I was stoked.

Purple sands is pretty cool too.

and 2 nights ago, with my 1K hours, I discovered berserker county, it's pretty weird.

In general, even in biomes you have crossed and traveled through a billion times, if you ever take a slight detour, like the next valley, another hilltop etc, you can end up realising that nope you do NOT know the biome at all, it even works in the borderzone, that goes to say.


The map, with its size and design is half of the game for me.
A biome is made of 2-3 seperate and distinct atmospheres, other games have given us the bad habit of considering" well yeah, I've been there, this is the snowy part, this is forest part of the game", kenshi does not do that, kenshi can surprise you with its richness, even after 1K hours

[Pyrrhus]

Once in awhile, you may find a skeleton to recruit in Wend. They usually travel alone, rare but look out for them. Their stats average in 20's or so.

[The Old Bear]

I'll have to check those places out soon. Happy, yes that is so true, not to mention the random choas that can happen between npc's. You will never have the same playthrough twice and will always find something new if you divert your course. Pyrrhus, yeah I ran into one (non hireable), he said " They saw me...." as I passed by lol.

[Tokamak Stellarator]

"cheaters run" I just don't understand why is it called like that , my guys were smart enough to go around and get safe to the "ominous place" it was not cheat!

[Pwnicus]

You know... I've not set foot in Cheater's Run. Might be the only biome I've yet to visit.

I was actually talking about the size of this game's map today at work. Not sure how K2 is going to work, if it's set 1k years before K1 it should be geographically the same world unless "whoa there cataclysm" changes everything. Looking forward to exploring it either way.