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Radroaches of Kenshi

Okran wept.

You know what the wasteland of Kenshi needs? Radroaches. Every wasteland needs them.

You know what the wasteland of Kenshi doesn't need? Sword-wielding, crossbow-toting Radroaches.

Or so i thought. Turns out Kenshi needs those too.

So here you are, oversized, flesh-eating cockroaches in two different flavors:

-animated from scratch feral radroaches with all the quirks and behaviors of animal NPCs

-bipedal radroaches with all the abilities and shortcomings of humanoid characters.

They come in large swarms, wield a diversified arsenal of weapons and will try to steal crops and eat bodies, often resulting in fights with local forces.

Being adaptable creatures, they have evolved a few physical attributes and behaviors to better adapt to each environment. While their limbs are weaker, their torsos are tough, and they don't need their heads to continue fighting. Most are unable to speak, however, and every other race will attack them on sight.

They are simple creatures. Approach them with some ration packs and some may decide to follow you expecting more food. Just don't be rude.
Healing them may also work.

NOTES

Roaches from custom starts will try to eat bodies, and may even obtain foul meat from them if they are starving.
To stop player roaches from trying to eat bodies, move them to a different squad.

Despite having six limbs, humanoid roaches will still be crippled and become sitting ducks if they lose a leg. Nothing short of altering the animations could change that. For this same reason, you can't play General Grievous by equipping a sword for each arm.

The special uncrippable head (Ganglion) does not immediately appear when starting a new character. Saving and reloading should fix this.

The wings appear invisible from below. Should have noticed that before making all those animations for the animal version. Whoops.

The little buggers will try to get to your crops by all means necessary. Guard them well and keep your gates under surveillance.

Yes it's the Fallout 4 radroach model pasted into Kenshi. Doesn't mean the roaches themselves are equally weak.

Feedback is always appreciated.

TO DO LIST

>Unique recruits with custom dialogue (beside Tiny Tim, I mean)

>More attack animations for the feral roaches

> Bosses

>More new weapons

>Infested settlements, World states, Town overrides,

>Need to actually watch Joe's Apartment. For more roach references