Personality of Charakters

[Headhunter]

Is the feature of personality of Squad members and NPCs ingame working? See this in the Kenshi Wiki. Unique charakters have personality like crazy or honorable ect.

If yes, how it works? It is a dialog thing?

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

its in.

[Squamousness]

Yeah like Neko said. Also I've been making mods and stuff and I found that you can create custom faction dialogue using the FCS. It seems rather tedious having to write a line in for every interaction but I'll probably tackle it eventually.

[Headhunter]

Do NPCs/Unique Chars and Squad members act and talk difficult, because of the personality?

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

they have their own dialog tree.

[Headhunter]

ok, thank you, good to know.

[Shidan]

Yes it's working. And yes it's a dialog thing.

Certain dialogs are locked or unlocked based on personality type. One example would be the famous "Cannonball Plains" one. To start that, the character that starts it must have the "Dumb" personality type.

I'll post a full conversation that includes several personality triggers as another example. Very minor spoilers about Mongrel. For simplicity each character will have a number as their name, 1, 2, and 3. Personality type will be listed after that.

1 (Smart): The fog islands of Mongrel
1 (Smart): Only the most desperate ever come here
1 (Smart): Refugees from the Holy Nation, hoping to lose their pursuers to the Fogmen...
2 (Fearful): Wait, Fogmen? What are Fogmen!?
3 (Brave): What, you scared? Hah hah!
2 (Fearful) I ain't scared! Shut up!

This example requires a Smart character to trigger at all. Then there is an interjection by a Fearful one if you have one. There's also an alternate one there for a Crazy one. After the Fearful one goes a Brave character can interject. Or alternatively a Hiver can, providing some background on the Fogmen.

Hope this helps you, and others, understand the personalities a bit better! :)

[Headhunter]

This is really cool! I will look out for unique charakters with different personalitiy´s for all dialog options. Thank you for explanation.

[Headhunter]

I have another question about personality. Some unique charakters have own personalitys.

But whats with the charakters from game start you chose, or 700 c recruits / recruited slaves or prisoners. Someone knows how this work? Become these different personality too?

[Shidan]

Mostly it's random. But there are cases where they are restricted to certain ones.

For instance, the doctor recruits will pretty much always be smart. While bandits can't be honorable, and only rarely smart.

[Headhunter]

And if they become a random personality, is it the same from this point, or every single reaction or answer random?

[Shidan]

They are assigned the personality the first time they spawn. So it will never change afterward.

[Headhunter]

Good to know! Thank you!