@John Wojakov I did my best to remove the cheese, but keeping people from stealing easily without just adding more bodyguards is really hard. @Константин I didn't even change racial characteristics. Most NPC spawns stats were randomized in a range that makes sense. Starving bandits can occasionally be high level.

"Hardcore Ultra Realism" You need to put that meth pipe down. I know you're used to seeing the big numbers every time your mom steps on the scale but just doubling the player health is not hardcore or real.

Am I a god now? Twice the health!? Why does a SINGLE skimmer claw cost the same as most gear!? Even high grade!? This is why you don't just mess around with numbers...

The mod makes the strongest of the world kenshi, well, just above average. SHEK'S are great warriors! They fight no better than paladins... Esato is a stone golem! The strongest warrior of the strongest warriors! About 10-20% better than just a soldier... This mod makes kenshi, which you were told about by gentle game journalists. This mod makes kenshi more painful and not more realistic. Literally raises the prices for treatment and stats for all bandits. Even hungry bandits, who are essentially a bunch of the same idiots as the player at the start, are now experienced fighters.

game removed alot of the vanilla starts?

I want a lot of money, good armor so that my people don't die suddenly, but stealing is for gays, what to do? right, **kneeled down** Oh great Okran, thank you for the light that you bring into our darkest ages, allowing us, homeless people from the allied cities, to do blacksmithing on the territory of the sacred nation, we are so grateful to the lord phoenix for these gifts!

is MCA allowed?

Hi, first I want to say this has been a very fun mod to play with. Really gives another experience.

I have one question. Does this mod stops the Shinobi Thieves from buying drugs? It says illegal goods -> NO!.

I am not sure why this is. And if possible, I would like to see if I can deactivate it modifing the mod in the FCS.

Thanks!

Thanks for the mode! Most of the changes are very nice. Many times pleasantly surprises, like "wow he makes real my own minds and more". I noticed only 4 flaws.
1) Bonedog pet is OP, deals 350 damage on day 60 and keep pumping. 2)100 Starving bandits attacking my base - most compicated raid ever, and it bugget, beacause part of them teleporting through town gates when stacking near.
3) Stealing from Armor King still as easy, as in vanilla. I robbed him may times without problems. Then no reason to build base, I dont realy need smith and dont need much money, its not worth suffering from 100 bugging bandits.
4) Armored rags and plate jaket looks like a joke, compared to ninja rags and dustcoat. Cover only 3 body parts whith 50-70% chance and have stat debuffs vs 5-7 parts coverege (inclube head) and massive buffs.
All other gameplay moments are impressive, realistic and very fun! Hope the best kenshi hardcore mode will take some edits in future, to become absolutly perfect.

got alot of hours with this mod, and in one of my playthroughs one of my guys, is 130 in medics skill. my garru has 106 toughness. And almost every dude in my squad has 90 strength thanks to mining.

i like those features, cause its somehow kinda balanced - healing is still slow for my master healer. My garru can still die, i mean one of my dudes who had top stats and wore specialist crab armor, died to a headshot from a regular beakthing because of the limited coverage, so i guess the extreme toughness isnt too op when the damage is also op.

Would be great if there was a slight economy tweak though, to make npcs buy stuff from me, i got like 8 shopping stalls full of masterwork armor.

Hello, can i make a patch for this?
Not sure if i can release the patch either.

Hello. just one minor adjustment i've seen about recruitment. cuz the blackdogs only ask you for 2,500 cats, while the other mercs and tech hunters cost 5k per day, i dunno about the cannibal hunter.

Thanks for the challenging mod!
I think, it would be great to split this mod into multiple smaller ones - each changing one aspect of the game.
Such split makes sense for 2 reasons:
1) It's apparent that some changes are quite controversial. I.e. not everyone happy with food consumption while sleeping. If there would be multiple small mods, then everyone could select what they want.
2) It would be easier to combine smaller mods with other overhauls. I.e. it would be cool to take just combat system from this mod and combine with UWE.

there is a specific mod that changes the stats of armor to be more useful, such as samurai armor having a +16 def rather than a -8 attack or def. which mod is it cause its the main one i want?

Also, as Ugaux says, enemies can get up like, 5, 6, 7 times after they get a beating, i tested this with an all 100 stats guy on a regular armored empire soldier, i beat the shit out of him 7 times before he finnaly started dying, and its not an isolated case, it happens a lot, you complain, before is a waiting on ground and recover simulation, now is extremely unbalanced and not realistic for sure. if you get beat up in real life, would you get up 7 times to get beat up again and again to die? i dont think so....

Good ideias, some stuff is better, i loved how expensive houses are, and some other little things, but mod is not balanced at all, if your goal was to make life harder, well, i think you achieve this, but dont say you aimed for realism because its not. There are better mods that give harder difficulty and more balanced, all the best.

So, i have watched your yt video explaining the mod, one interesting thing you say, the running speed was unrealistic, i agree, so you nerfed running speed, hivers have a little more but at 100 atletics, without anything on them, max speed is 20mph, Fogman are also hivers have 100+++ atletics stats that run up to 30mph, very realistic indeed :D

Good job bro

Some unique ideas from this mod I didn't think of, like the various Bed related tweaks.

But the system didn't convince me.
We end up with guys who get up 10 times before dying.
We're knocked out and we get our blood back in 3 seconds and we're off again.
And the life regen system is not good in my opinion.
In 1 hit you lose 100 points and for the regen you have to sleep and eat 5 steaks.
We end up eating hundreds of foods per day.
I didn't feel much difference between heavy armor or no armor.
I saw hungry bandits destroy paladins of the Holy Nations.
All weapons do almost the same damage.
The skills seem less important and we move really slowly.
Thanks for this mod and have a nice day

I played this mod and I have mixed feelings.
There are some systems that are really cool.
It's harder to steal items, with chests that are harder and NPCs that spot us in stealth mode.
The items have new prices and the economy is harder.
But other mechanics are really strange and I liked them less.
In terms of combat, the goal was to have hardcore fights with NPCs that don't get up 15 times and limbs that jump.

You should probably increase animals prices too, Bonedogs are ridiculously strong in vanilla, and extra with your mod, yet buying a Pup from a Nomad is barely 1.5k cats

This mod is for masochists and i love it.

@GoDaFoe I had the same problem, I have like 600+ mods installed and I just couldn't find this little mf in the huge list. So the mod is actually called "hardcok combat" for some reason, lol. Hope it helps.

they want 100k, omfg

how can i make money with this mod? i see only thiefing

Why can't I join the Shinobi Thieves?
i have 10k cats

If you feel Kenshi has lost its difficulty, this is an excellent mod for you. I've done two playthroughs, one where I killed all bosses but United Cities ones and another where I completed the challenge in full, and I can't recommend this mod enough. The lack of a 100% coverage helmet makes combat exceedingly deadly for your player characters, even if they are high leveled. If you do want to complete the challenge yourself, make sure to check the wiki for each boss to ensure killing them won't lock yourself out of other bosses due to world states. (Also kill King before the Queen of the South, or else King may not spawn).

L_M_T You are MAN!!! Thank you very much for providing a guide! I was able to edit the Protect Squad AI Goal on the mod it self and it worked! Thanks again!

I'm probably being dumb, and I also am subscribed to many other mods rn, but every time I subscribe to this one it says downloading then it doesn't appear on my mod list. I really want to play it

Yeah the combat system is so good. This mod is the reason I played Kenshi again after months hahaha

It seems its quite unplayable with mods which is quite sad

same issue here as stockholm

After reading the discussions. I can't make it work even with clean reinstall. Are there any other ways to fix the squad AI from being passive?

Is there a known issue about Squad AI not helping or attacking enemies? Setting Attack enemies on Job doesn't work as well. Or is this issue due to conflict with other mods?

Warning to peeps: This does not work well with all sorts of important mods. I experienced crashing because of Dialogue Overhaul. It makes modded armor unusable (even if they have a NCE patch), and it removes and makes changes to all sorts of things without telling you (removal of women from basically every combat faction...)

Pls make a version with only combat mechanicsl

Kaizo overhaul compatible?

does this work with uwe n gen mod

Can you remake this just with the combat mechanics?

Personally i love this mod, i like the healing but the bed x50 recovery rate (compared to x40 bedroll) wasn't worth 900c during my playthrough.
Slowly learning to mod though, so i changed it to x80 for myself.

I like the mod, but the healing in bad is just.... That should go into a separate mod. Other than that, escaping as a solo slave was actually fun, except occacionally the guards seen me, even when I had a blue eye icon during stealth.

How has a 1 kg food cube 60 nu. Max nourishment is 300, so from 1 to 300, I have to eat 5 kg of food, thats actually fatal overeating....

Can you make a version that only changes the combat? Thx

Combat changes are fun, although some weird choices here, mainly removing 99% of wamen...
also can anyone see how to remove the increased hunger while asleep in the FCS? dunno about you but ive never had a few huge meals while asleep...

looks interesting i have to try the torsolo start to see how far i can make it lol

I agree with Maggie. Ive been playing with this mod for 120 ingame days, and while it does make things very dangerous with the reduced armor coverages and especially the hunger mechanics, and while i love fast healing since it makes it actually useful to have an active combat engineer just building beds, houses, turrets while theres a fight lol, it makes for an interesting gameplay, but its not realistic.

However this mod i feel aims to put a stop to all the unnescasary amount of time wasted on waiting and micromanaging your characters doing strength training, being in a coma, getting beat up a bazillion times, by balancing it out with more dangerous combat, more meaningful food mechanics, scavanging being not so profitable etc. It basically makes the game less tedious but more hardcore.

Honestly? its not even all that hard. I took a beating got my toughness to a high degree. That was just one fight then when i went to nurse my wounds they instantly healed. I went back to fight again got my guard to a high degree again just one fight. Im still wondering what the challenge is when i can just solo everything. Needless to say i dont think the mod is as realistic as it could be and realism is where the difficulty should lie. I do not know how to fix this but ill do the challenge again when this mod has time to cook.

man the mod showing as hardcok in the mod loader is fitting

@Hana noob

Maybe you should include the No Map mod here? It just seems strange to me that the character knows the whole area at once.

"This overhaul should be used without any other mods, for it changes or rebalances almost everything in the base game" Is it possible to get a complete list of what this mod changes or does not change? There are a bunch of mods for rebalancing one or another mechanic individually and I'm really too lazy to test each one with this mod.

As @Ellepin said, this mod seems to be bugged and pretty much everyone is an men, very weird.
I guess this one is for the gays

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