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[General Nuclear]

Everytime i load the game i keep seeing pictures of diffrent looking skeletons and bones dogs then the ones i see in the game.

Are those planned to be added later on in another update or are they just really rare npcs that i have not found yet?

Also i keep seeing the skeletons with capes are those too a rare item in the game i have not found yet for the backpack slot or are they just a scraped idea? because it would have been fun to have those for the ones that like to role play.

[nDervish]

From the general look of that image, I'm pretty sure those are just concept sketches and have never been developed into playable content.

I don't know whether there were ever plans to fully develop those concepts into content, but, at this point, the dev has said he will not be developing any further content for this game (no DLCs, new features, etc.), so they will not be appearing unless some ambitious modder decides to take it upon himself to do so. While the available modding tools are very limited in some aspects, there is enough there to create new races or new appearance options for existing races.

As far as the skeleton capes, that wouldn't be terribly difficult to mod as it stands. The first modded tweak that I did was to allow skeletons to wear headgear (had to give my skellie an Ashland Hat!) and that allows them to wear hooded cloaks, too. You do get a little weird clipping because the models aren't meant to go together (which is why they don't get headgear by default), but it works reasonably well.

[yippeekiay]

When I first saw these I was disappointed as I knew they weren't in game. Can't understand why they were added at all.

[Bedelguese]

Originally posted by yippeekiay:

When I first saw these I was disappointed as I knew they weren't in game. Can't understand why they were added at all.

Just to tease players with what could have been. Would have liked the weird spiky star headed Skeleton, but my favorite was the one whose head looks like a giant heart.

[XheadshotX]

sure you could make a mod to make your own caped skeleton though :)

[General Nuclear]

Originally posted by nDervish:

From the general look of that image, I'm pretty sure those are just concept sketches and have never been developed into playable content.

I don't know whether there were ever plans to fully develop those concepts into content, but, at this point, the dev has said he will not be developing any further content for this game (no DLCs, new features, etc.), so they will not be appearing unless some ambitious modder decides to take it upon himself to do so. While the available modding tools are very limited in some aspects, there is enough there to create new races or new appearance options for existing races.

As far as the skeleton capes, that wouldn't be terribly difficult to mod as it stands. The first modded tweak that I did was to allow skeletons to wear headgear (had to give my skellie an Ashland Hat!) and that allows them to wear hooded cloaks, too. You do get a little weird clipping because the models aren't meant to go together (which is why they don't get headgear by default), but it works reasonably well.

Just talked with someone that have been watching the progress of kenshi since the start on. and they said that the devs have never stopped working on kenshi and they highly doubt that they have any plans to stop working on it nither.

Turns out kenshi was the first ever early access game to hit steam and that the dev team are extremely small.
And they have always had a extremely slow progress when it comes to updates due to the small size of developers working on it, as in a new update only every three years apart slow.
But they do however use a lot of player made mods in their updates to save time which i respect.

So i would like to see a link to a page were it says that they have completely stoped working on it before drawing any conclusions on that.

[nDervish]

Originally posted by General Nuclear:

So i would like to see a link to a page were it says that they have completely stoped working on it before drawing any conclusions on that.

There is a pinned post in this very forum titled "Updated Roadmap".

In that post, by "Koomatzu [developer]", the final paragraph reads (emphasis mine):

LUXURY FEATURES
We’ve seen some confusion amongst the community about luxury features and optimisation upgrades coming. Just to clarify, we will not be adding any more features or engine changes to Kenshi. Fortunately we were able to add a few luxury features before release including crawling combat, unarmed combat, dismemberment, blood and ranged combat. However no more luxury features will be being added.