Kenshi Training Tutorial Pt1, Money Money Money, Thieving, Sneaking, Lockpicking and Assassinations

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  • čas přidán 11. 08. 2022
  • *IMPORTANT I say I start as "The nobodies" but I actually picked "The Freedom Seekers" make sure you pick the freedom seekers.
    Fair warning we exploit the game mechanics like crazy and this is pretty much cheating in many respects.
    To train fast you need to acquire a variety of tools, blueprints and equipment. The difficulty is in getting your hands on those tools early in the game, the easiest thing to acquire is money. Using Money you can give yourself several advantages. This video covers how you can power level skills that are very useful for taking shortcuts in this game. Namely Thieving, Sneaking, Lockpicking and Assassinations. All you need is an enemy Ninja with a busted leg.
    Credits song : The Emperor's New Nikes - DJ Williams
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Komentáře • 309

  • @kevinstanton3491
    @kevinstanton3491 Před rokem +334

    To be fair, if I saw a bull trying to sneakily walk through my store of electronics I would probably keep staring at the bull too.

  • @clbrans1
    @clbrans1 Před 11 měsíci +69

    The fact that you kidnapped and stripped a cripple to train skills on a "helpless" target, only to be forced to retreat when he started fighting back is why I love Kenshi.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před 11 měsíci +35

      You hear stories of people who keep prisoners around to let out and beat up, only for the prisoner to eventually get tough enough to beat up the players team and just escape.

    • @comatose1818
      @comatose1818 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@FrancisJohnYT yeah the xp they gain is also nice causes a back and forth, I usually end up killing them before that thpugh, after a trainee gains up to 50 in a combat skill I "initiate" them by making them kill their first target, that beimg the training "dummy"

    • @detectivewhocoulditpossibl6834
      @detectivewhocoulditpossibl6834 Před 3 měsíci

      @@comatose1818 hardcore stuff man. I like to use some sort of recruiting mod, usually the lore friendly one but recruit anyone if I'm feeling like an unbalanced playthrough. Then you recruit the training dummy after you're done with them and send them out into the wastes to prove themselves. This can honestly lead to some really interesting stories, especially when you see your former training dummy again in a slavemonger caravan.

  • @asureaskie
    @asureaskie Před rokem +127

    ...I have to admit, I never realized you could ally with the Gutters. You have taught me something wonderfully broken today, FJ, and I will immediately indulge in it.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +20

      In theory you could do the same thing with Bugmaster to become allied with the spiders as well, though it would cost a hell of a lot more as slaves are valued on there stats.

    • @mayday3025
      @mayday3025 Před rokem +13

      It’s also a way to Recruit Skeletons without mods. Drop ‘m down near a slaver, make HIM the bad guy. Then “free ” him and feel good about yourself. Works 40% all of the time!

  • @shyshai4448
    @shyshai4448 Před rokem +269

    Ironically, starting as a slave is also a good way to train up efficiently. You can do all the above exploits, but if you get caught, they will beat you up (toughness and combat training), lock you, and heal you up. The feed you just enough to not die, so you always have a malnutrition malus. Which, ironically again, is a good thing. The debuff to stats makes them level faster. It's absolutely free and also, relatively risk-free.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +84

      Oh we have some tricks we can break out to level up combat stats and toughness, I just wanted to ally with the beak things early so we could open up the map.

    • @ahmataevo
      @ahmataevo Před rokem +107

      @@FrancisJohnYT - Fun fact - the beak things in earlier versions of Kenshi could talk. One of the things they said was "Relax. Enjoy death."

    • @Pelelrt
      @Pelelrt Před rokem

      @@ahmataevo i would run like hell when a monster like that exist

    • @bencoad8492
      @bencoad8492 Před rokem +38

      @@ahmataevo lol why did they take that out thats funny

    • @Quoxozist
      @Quoxozist Před rokem +43

      Agreed, the slave start in Rebirth with the two characters is the best start in the game by far - spend every day running around fighting guards and every night sneaking around stealing and knocking out guards, you level so fast no exploits are required - by the end fo the second in-game week, you're stronger than most of the guards (all stats in the high 50's-low 60's) and have enough athletics to simply run right out the gate past them if you want...but also high enough martial arts skill from all the unarmed fighting to beat the shit out of every guard in the camp LOL. Personally I like to knock a few of em out and throw them in their own cages at night....their friends let them out in the morning, put shackles on them, and treat them like every other prisoner LMAO after a few days, most of the slaves are former paladins, and you can free all the other slaves.

  • @JackdotC
    @JackdotC Před rokem +77

    I would like to recommend anyone playing for the first time, do not do the things in this video. Play the game how it is meant to be played, at least in your first play through. Getting in over your head, learning just how strong your opponent is, and then coming back to kick their ass is the fun of the game. If you are strong enough to wipe out everything on your first try you lose a lot of what makes kenshi personal.
    When I made my first base, it was constantly raised by dust bandits, and they would occupy my building and kick my squad out. I would have to go and hire mercenaries to have them clear the base for me. After my squad became powerful we went out and wiped all dust bandits settlements from the face of the earth. Doing it felt personal, it was my revenge, rather than just to decrease dust bandits spawns.

    • @christianzilla
      @christianzilla Před rokem +3

      That's good advice.

    • @xXlizamaXx
      @xXlizamaXx Před rokem

      Francis pointed out this gets exploity fast, this comment is unnecessary as it is pedantic, there are a million more videos showing how to "properly" play kenshi. Worthless advice.

    • @runnergo1398
      @runnergo1398 Před rokem

      You said "do not do the things in this video" then told us what to do lol.

    • @sethiddings7293
      @sethiddings7293 Před rokem +1

      Agreed. You CAN break the game and just go on a big power trip. Just like playing D&D, you can min max your character and make yourself Godlike, most people try to do that when they first play, after awhile though you realize there's only so much fun in that. Past that it's about making a realistic character and stepping into their shoes to make a story. For that, Kenshi is an S tier sandbox.

    • @tooslow4065
      @tooslow4065 Před rokem +1

      better idea for any new players: you bought the game, play it any way you like to.

  • @salemprompthous3820
    @salemprompthous3820 Před rokem +11

    Allied with Gutters by day 11.... Usually takes me a lot longer, and I've never really utilized it by settling in Gut. Thanks for that great tip 😁

  • @maxxxhEdroom
    @maxxxhEdroom Před rokem +8

    If I ever play, I am definitely training a stealth thief bull. Don't care how difficult, that is now my primary mission in playing Kenshi,

  • @evanwarped5870
    @evanwarped5870 Před rokem +5

    "Having a reasonably fast stealth bull is pretty handy" not something I thought I'd hear today. 😂

  • @mattgrostick1499
    @mattgrostick1499 Před rokem +44

    I need a series of FJ tutorials for real life.

    • @hiredgoon4269
      @hiredgoon4269 Před rokem +9

      Come on now, everybody knows that you just gotta put yourself into prison and it's an instant acquittal.

    • @whoknows8223
      @whoknows8223 Před rokem +6

      I can assure you all of the tips in this video do apply for real life.
      Like getting yourself a bull to help you rob a shop etc. It works 100%

  • @ennou1236
    @ennou1236 Před rokem +28

    A couple of tips with thievery is that you can turn off certain lights to make the place dark and harder to detect you and, you can use multiple backpacks in your inventory and transfer those, just remember to put back on the right backpack before unpausing

  • @stryker1599
    @stryker1599 Před rokem +22

    While Frances does say to start as 'The Nobodies' you actually need to start as 'The Freedom Seekers'
    The nobodies spawns you in different locations and only leaves you with 5 people and not 6.
    I was wondering why it was not working until i made myself really watch the intro and not just listen.

  • @boast03
    @boast03 Před rokem +26

    When you are allied with Gutters, you can pickup a beak-thing. Now imagine everyone of your party is carrying one.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +9

      I tried doing that but could not pick one up, I was hoping to carry a few into some towns.

    • @boast03
      @boast03 Před rokem +6

      @@FrancisJohnYT thats strange. Maybe it was in sneak or non-sneak? I could do it immediately. Just walking up to one, long right-click, pick up.

  • @alecsealy6006
    @alecsealy6006 Před rokem +33

    Theres a really small robotics shop in mongrel, with only the robot shopkeeper looking over his supplies, if u manage to knock him out, his shop inventory is easily worth 100k+
    You have to wait for the shop to restock before you do the same thing again.

    • @whoknows8223
      @whoknows8223 Před rokem +10

      Oh yeah I just started few days ago and stealing from him regulary lol. Good tip on knocking him down

    • @JB-xl2jc
      @JB-xl2jc Před 8 měsíci +4

      @@whoknows8223 Kinda makes you wonder how all these Mongrel shops keep getting resupplied lol

    • @whoknows8223
      @whoknows8223 Před 8 měsíci +5

      @@JB-xl2jc they knock out other shopkeepers and steal their goods

  • @Morphinem
    @Morphinem Před rokem +10

    For the "Make Gutters allies" trick, it's more easy when ground floor cages are already full. The slave trader will just enslave the gutter man (3-4s animation) and move away. That's all. No cages interaction. After you buy the slave, the trader (or a guard) will do another short animation for "release". This last animation can be interrupted. Pick up/Drop and the loop starts again. It's not very long and cost something like 400k. I did it with speed #2. If the loop is done fast enough, the slave will never have time to wake up (he must not be awaken for the trick to work).

  • @JohnSmith-eu2dt
    @JohnSmith-eu2dt Před rokem +18

    Yes! Was hoping you'd show us how to ally the gutters! Love your style and these kinds of videos.

  • @bradmonk69
    @bradmonk69 Před rokem +11

    i'll have this on in the background so you get the watch time, but i wont pay attention as i actually want to play this game to its fullest. have a good weekend, francis.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +2

      Yeah we are not playing this the way it was intended, this is more of a on a repeat playthrough version.

  • @mcbrite
    @mcbrite Před rokem +7

    This is just what I needed! Not so much to copy the strat on my first playthrough, but to get a look into how the mechanics fit together... I always struggle in open world games if they just plunk me down, but don't give me ideas on what I'm even ABLE to do in their particular game world... - So I prefer watching something like this first and then my brain is brimming with ideas I would like to try, as I get into the game!

  • @PierreKT792
    @PierreKT792 Před rokem +10

    Oh man you got me laughing so hard with that Distracto-Bull ! Great video !

  • @joreecollins2336
    @joreecollins2336 Před rokem +5

    getting locked up and practicing lockpicking that was is my fav

  • @mariano_molina
    @mariano_molina Před rokem +6

    Yes, let the power of cheesing flow through you.

  • @Don-ds3dy
    @Don-ds3dy Před rokem +4

    The world of Kenshi is so freaking cruel and harsh, the game practically forces you to take up life of a criminal...but now thankfully I know how to do it right 👍

  • @yowlrdubz
    @yowlrdubz Před rokem +9

    Finally! This is the diabolical, mechanic-abusing guide I have sought 😈 thank you

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +7

      I made this guide because it was the one I wanted when I first started :)

    • @christianzilla
      @christianzilla Před rokem +2

      I hate using mods, so this video was just perfect. I may never use the intel, but I just love sitting on it... just in case.

  • @Liednard
    @Liednard Před rokem

    That's for the amazing tutorial, already did many playthroughs and watched many guides, still learned a ton, completely amazed you can ally Beak things!

  • @factandsuspicionpodcast2727

    Man, you are a life saver. Every time I start one of these games that require a PhD to get into I find that you have guides for them.
    Thanks to you I was finally able to get into Starsector and it turned out to be among my all time favorites.
    I'm hoping the same will be true of Kenshi.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +3

      I feel like Starsector and Kenshi are games that are not quite big enough to have decent tutorials for them. You have to spend hours reading old forum posts to figure out how to play them well. It's really a pity as they are great games and deserve more players.

  • @wirthiwirth7166
    @wirthiwirth7166 Před rokem +14

    This was interesting. All those stealing shenanigans reminded me of Divinity Original Sin and the infamous "bucket over shop keeper's head" exploit from Skyrim :)
    I really enjoyed seeing a few other games presented which I didn't really know before. Well I knew Starsector and have played it a lot before but you played it completely different. Maybe people like the idea of a random monthly "new" game you try out a bit. You could make a vote for those.
    Looking forward to the final episode and the Rimworld Ice Sheet challenge which I hope will be done without relying on the cannibal trait. Otherwise it would just be too easy.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +10

      Oh I'm going to try random pawn start, so no picking stats or traits. I'm sure the first dozen or so will die at least. But we should figure out how to survive... eventually.

    • @KainYusanagi
      @KainYusanagi Před rokem +2

      @@FrancisJohnYT Seconding Wirthi wirth's suggestion of a "random monthly 'new' game you try out a bit". I've loved both series immensely.

  • @NixHarpinger
    @NixHarpinger Před rokem +3

    Will love to check it out once I'm deep into my first play-through. But until then I'm gonna give it a like cos I'm sure you put in some effort. Will be looking forward to checking it out soon!

  • @redunicorngaming
    @redunicorngaming Před rokem +9

    I love the title "We are going to abuse game mechanics". Your humor just cracks me up 😂😂 I think I might play Kenshi, if I ever get over my Rimworld addiction 🙃 Got a like from me my friend 🙂

  • @villanex3708
    @villanex3708 Před rokem

    Man why i never find out about you the commentary is just perfect was worth watching 1h vid and enjoying

  • @chossachossa
    @chossachossa Před rokem +1

    first off, great video so thankyou for making good and relevant content. Second thankyou for not beggin for a like or a sub.... i swear youre the only youtuber that doesnt and that(and the content) is the reason ive subbed and liked. cheers mate

  • @SaneTrinity
    @SaneTrinity Před rokem +13

    you can always lock pick a cage, so starting with hardest one you can find is a god idea.
    @edit: damn that beak things exploits in a nice one, while i was aware you can use it to ally normal factions and recruit unlimited skeletons i was not aware you can ally gutters, just brilliant!

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +8

      Hummm that means we don't need to join the thieves guild that early. Makes things a bit more straight forward.

  • @Endgunner
    @Endgunner Před rokem +9

    Skeletons are king early to mid game, however late game, Shek are the best. The extra layer of armor they can wear makes their 125 hp go on longer then 200 hp and no/less armor.

  • @peanut211
    @peanut211 Před rokem +1

    After hearing all your woes of Beak Things, it feels so exhilarating to see you now breaking the game and making them no longer capable of laying a hoof on you.

  • @Tamizushi
    @Tamizushi Před rokem +5

    Delicious cheese. Delicious mozzarella. I love me some cheddar in the morning. I will eat all the brie, just all of it.

  • @doomcrowx11
    @doomcrowx11 Před rokem +2

    I have tried this start now 40 times, and 40 times it has started me in the Shenn Desert Waystation without fail.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +3

      Sorry about that.
      IMPORTANT I say I start as "The nobodies" but I actually pick "The Freedom Seekers" make sure you pick the freedom seekers.

  • @christianzilla
    @christianzilla Před rokem +1

    Easily the best Kenshi video I've seen. Couldn't believe my eyes. Nice!

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +1

      You can find pretty much all this info on the reddit if you do enough searching but I figured it would to nice to have it all in one place. It's crazy how quickly you can break this game.

    • @christianzilla
      @christianzilla Před rokem

      I appreciate the succinct video though. I have never thought to myself, gosh, I must go on reddit and research the crap outta this game... I just play them and occasionally trip over a video on CZcams about them. Thanks.

  • @mrvashbrazil
    @mrvashbrazil Před rokem +3

    I use the same strategy of leveling thievery, but I start as a slave. Loving your series that is giving me the same meaning I used (up thievery) but in an even more fun and different way. Use some mods for aesthetics, like Weapons Look metal, Dialogue Expansion, Let s talk, racial diversity, fixing clipping, better crop fixes, Hives and Canibal Expanded, Reactive Wolrd, Animation Overhaul, Race blood, sensible spider range and Dark UI

  • @qpAHT0M
    @qpAHT0M Před rokem +4

    you can reset 'stolen' flag from any items with Item Furnace for x2 profit. Or use item special container, like Boltbox for bolts

  • @Vampirspiegelei
    @Vampirspiegelei Před rokem +2

    Having a reasonably fast stealth bull is very handy!!!

  • @iumiforgot
    @iumiforgot Před rokem +3

    found out a way to cheese assassination skill. Just get an ally, probably any ally will do but I found this out with the skin bandits, allying with them allows you to try to stealth KO their leader (with a STUPID high assassination skill) and they will not agro on you, they say they will, but then just go back to reigning. Every failure gets you about 3-5 levels, and then you have the most powerful attack in the game practically max level.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +1

      You can do the same with the shinobi thieves guild, once you join them you can practice on them to your hearts content.

  • @clukskin
    @clukskin Před rokem +1

    entertaining and i really loved the outro too

  • @richard2mitchell
    @richard2mitchell Před rokem +3

    This is the type of video I love

  • @mickeh7298
    @mickeh7298 Před rokem +6

    Beak Thing nests in Vain are a gold vain. You just need 30 carry weight, 20 mph and a bull/garru.
    Find one close to a village, lure them in and you got a 100K worth of eggs, skin and meat.
    There are three villages close to Stenn Desert, so getting to them is not risky.

    • @ahmataevo
      @ahmataevo Před rokem +4

      The desert city bank restocks same frequency as vendors, for about 100K per thieving run. It can be hard finding vendors who can buy that many leviathan pearls though.

    • @sebastiangibson9671
      @sebastiangibson9671 Před rokem

      @@ahmataevowell tbf you can buy alll the scrap master high end stuff and then use the beak thing eggs to fund it making it a very quick way to get edgewalkr weapons

  • @barrett5229
    @barrett5229 Před rokem +1

    Incredible guide!! Only snag I’ve run into is not being able to find an animal trader

  • @ObscuriaDragunAed
    @ObscuriaDragunAed Před rokem +2

    That part where you got rid of your bounty by just walking into the prison cell reminds me of Otis from the Andy Griffith show; he was so used to getting arrested for drunk and disorderly he just would get shit-tanked and stumble into a prison cell and lock himself up until morning lol.

  • @JessWLStuart
    @JessWLStuart Před rokem +1

    LOL! Looks like you got to this "Perfectly Balanced Game" before the Spiffing Brit did! Well done!

  • @MonsieurBro
    @MonsieurBro Před rokem +2

    No idea if it's due to a mod doing something or pure vanilla Kenshi jank, but a great place to train stealth and other thief stats is the Exile Camp right below the Waystation west of Squin. For some reason they don't mind you sneaking around the camp, even in full sight, but will also attack you if you regular walk into the camp (or just quickly provoke them).
    From there, the game considers them all hostile (with the little red cursor on mouse-over), but they don't bother you if you're sneaking, leading to huge stealth gains. I did a bit of stand-up-fall-over toughness training with them too, since you can just hop in one of their beds, no problem, and then sneak out after you've finished letting them beat you up enough

  • @leoandersson24
    @leoandersson24 Před rokem +1

    What are the odds, i legit saw harp walk in to the bar at the way station as I was following ur video

  • @RanOutOfSpac
    @RanOutOfSpac Před rokem

    “Find yourself a cripple.”
    You got it boss!

  • @buzzip64
    @buzzip64 Před rokem +5

    How did I not know there was a Gutter faction?

  • @iriemk9543
    @iriemk9543 Před rokem +3

    I rarely comment on this tube here, but I feel compelled to say "Thanks a lot, FJ!" This is just the thing I would have wasted way too much playtime to figure out before I can start enjoying the game. Precisely how I abused FO3, FNV, FO4 and a slew of others. Thanks so much for making it easy on me, and darn the haters who think this is game-breaking abuse. I like game-breaking thiefly abuse^^. Awesome vid, keep it up.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem

      Thanks, I feel bad if all the time I spent learning a game goes to waste. Far better to share it with other people who end up on the same path, saving other people a bunch of time is what I would like everyone to be doing.

    • @iriemk9543
      @iriemk9543 Před rokem +1

      @@FrancisJohnYT Did you know that No-Face can be recruited afterwards? Drop him back on his island, he thanks you (I suppose for getting him out and bringing him "home", not the abuse you inflicted on him) and runs off, supposedly looking for his family - in one big loop around the Gutter. I suspect this would work after buying him/bailing him out just once, without the whole shebang, maybe this is another way to befriend Gutters. Will try on the next go around.
      Come back later, he recognizes you and you can talk to him, not much in terms of dialogue though. His stats are crazy good, like you'd expect if you seen him fight. Waaay better than any other recruit I saw on the wiki or found during the last few days of play. But you need to meet some pre-requisite for the recruit dialogue to show, otherwise he only offers you money and says he can't leave his family.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem

      @@iriemk9543 I never thought to try, that is a hell of a lot of effort to go through to recruit him though. 400k is a bit expensive. I assume their is a cheaper way?

  • @szerocools
    @szerocools Před rokem +3

    Now i understand why you didnt want to use Stealth on your last playthrough.

  • @opsude2162
    @opsude2162 Před rokem +1

    this is insanely good content

  • @TheJpf79
    @TheJpf79 Před rokem +1

    Trader starts of in Heng with an adult bull, it's in the middle of heft and that way station you start at in the vid.
    Can level the bull at the same time as your character. If its still a pup you can level it but need to wait until it grows so the stat modifiers comes off and you get your proper level.

  • @tylergreen4977
    @tylergreen4977 Před měsícem

    Bull with a thievery chance lmfao I love it so much.

  • @psigh8161
    @psigh8161 Před 7 měsíci +1

    about stealth power leveling, I have another method, not as safe but much quicker: enable lowest speed and follow a big group around, hungry bandits in skinner's roam are perfect (but fogmen are more fun :)). can you see those spikes in experience as you're leveling next to the cripple? I believe they happen every time you almost get spotted, with big chaotic groups getting stuck on terrain and doing U turns basically all your exp will come from those spikes, as soon as one of my newbie characters is quick enough to run from low level enemies I send them stalking hordes for ten minutes and they come back as master ninjas lol

  • @jasonfennell141
    @jasonfennell141 Před rokem +1

    FJ you are a Master at the game.

  • @theDigited
    @theDigited Před rokem +2

    Garrus can train stealth too, and run faster than bulls.

  • @spatrk6634
    @spatrk6634 Před 20 dny

    thievery and stealth are op.
    basically you steal, sell stolen goods in another faction town, and then if you find correct container you steal those items you sold right back and repeat.

  • @Pasta221
    @Pasta221 Před 10 měsíci +1

    your exploit just demonstrated monopoly and capitalism, everyone is out of money and you got all the money lmao, great video!

  • @K0YK
    @K0YK Před rokem +3

    The developers should watch this video and use it as a list of things to fix lol. Another fun thing you can do is the merchant start, you start allied with the merchant guild so while in a town you can literally pick up garrus from a caravan and loot their inventory while they are on your shoulder, without having to farm stealth and other skills.

    • @KainYusanagi
      @KainYusanagi Před rokem +2

      They're well aware of everything and left it in deliberately.

    • @EssDubz
      @EssDubz Před rokem +1

      @@KainYusanagi I think they just didn't want to spend the time debugging. Kenshi 2 won't have so many easily exploitable things I imagine

    • @KainYusanagi
      @KainYusanagi Před rokem +3

      ​@@EssDubz They spent years debugging, actually. A lot of idiosyncracies of the game are due to the engine, with some even being ascended memes that the playerbase embraced and didn't want fixed. Kenshi 2 is being built specifically to deal with most of them, at least the ones that are engine-based, since it's in a new engine (from OGRE to Unreal Engine 4).

    • @danielgriff2659
      @danielgriff2659 Před rokem

      @@KainYusanagi how soon? Cant wait for Kenshi 2... hope they drop the Holy Nation bs...

  • @ozanuguz3277
    @ozanuguz3277 Před 2 měsíci +1

    11:00 bro i wish you healed that poor guy

  • @rawheadrexx11
    @rawheadrexx11 Před rokem +1

    awesome vid

  • @elonmuskes4874
    @elonmuskes4874 Před rokem +1

    loving it

  • @queefedworm
    @queefedworm Před 11 měsíci

    I think you can do 1 frame assassination's attempts to make the process much faster, queue the knockout while you're close enough to do it, pause during the animation and do it again and over again, you can do like 5 attempts per animation. This only works if they refuse to agro on your which weirdly happened to me.

  • @breannathompson9094
    @breannathompson9094 Před 6 měsíci

    I have been way too nervous to steal as a robot with the stealth debuff but im trying it anyway now lmao. I do enjoy not needing to eat myself if i have the bull.

  • @yummi1739
    @yummi1739 Před rokem +3

    for assassination training. pls pin this or something
    you can on unpaused hold shift and spam right click and get like 30 attempts in 1 animation of an assassination attempt. overpowered as hell and you can knock out ppl even with 10% chance if u do it properly

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +3

      I have tried this but can't get it to work, does this require the waypoints mod or is this vanilla? Can you provide more details?

    • @yummi1739
      @yummi1739 Před rokem

      @@FrancisJohnYT
      czcams.com/video/wxhcoqw0V4E/video.html ive made a tiny showcase of what i mean because my brain is a mush and i cant explain anything with words

  • @sik3xploit
    @sik3xploit Před rokem +1

    "Skeletons are objectively better than everyone else." Yeah, and that's why they are hated by everyone too!

  • @YamiNoDaisuke
    @YamiNoDaisuke Před rokem +1

    "find yourself a cripple"
    Funny quote

  • @TexasViking_INFP-t_5w4

    Stealth bull is my new favorite protagonist

  • @raismin739
    @raismin739 Před rokem +2

    oh my god making beak thigs ally is so broken!! they are defenetely the most scary things on genshin and you can became ally with them?? wow

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +1

      Cant claim credit for figuring it out, was directed to a reddit thread. Feels totally broken as it makes traveling almost risk free.

  • @MegaSquiddie
    @MegaSquiddie Před rokem +5

    Stealth is easy you can do it faster if you go to the Swamped Lab South west of Shark the blood spiders stand on the other side of the locked gate can still see you and you just patrol back and forwards levels you 1-80 in about 2 minutes

    • @sebastiangibson9671
      @sebastiangibson9671 Před rokem

      Damn I’d already killed the blood spiders there but when I start a new playthrough I’ll try it

  • @trumplostlol3007
    @trumplostlol3007 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Leveling up athletics first will allow you to level up strength faster. When you run at a lower speed, it is more difficult to level up strength. I will run my "wanderer" from the Hub to the Stack to mine cooper there and recruit 5 people in 2 days by mining. Letting your guy carry more weight early on is not a good strategy. The best way to train assassination is to knockout the crippled guy and put him right next to the mine that you are mining. This way, you can mine and hit him continuously without losing your time. LOL I collect like 3 to 4 crippled guys to mass train my people while they are mining. LOL I am not an expert in this game. But I managed to figure out most of the things by myself. LOL

  • @a.retired.villain
    @a.retired.villain Před rokem +5

    What is the "or" key? You mention it several times and I'm not sure what you're talking about.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +5

      The R key on the keyboard, it tells your pawn to stop what they are doing. So if while paused you told them to say move somewhere by accident and you want to cancel that move as they are currently committing a crime, the R key stops them and causes them to stay where they are.

    • @a.retired.villain
      @a.retired.villain Před rokem +7

      @@FrancisJohnYT Thank you. I've been watching your stuff for years and this is the first time that your accent (I know you don't hear it, nor do I hear my own) has caused me any issues understanding.
      Keep up the good work!

  • @MrBentmonkey
    @MrBentmonkey Před rokem +1

    Grey Desert Waystation is generally speaking very busy, you can get all different kinds of bandits attacking the place which you can choose to help against and loot them for easy early cats. you can even buy and fix the tower to have a base of operations there. Its centrally located so you can get to most anywhere you want quite easily.
    Assassination, sneak and thievery are all broken at high levels the AI doesnt handle them well at all and you can just cruise through the game if you want, stealing all the cats ko ing all the bounties and "winning" the game in that sense.
    Armor plating makes for decent strength training material.
    You can ally with almost any faction using the free from slavery method. Free beak thing omelets for life.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +1

      Money printing is pretty easy this way for sure, it's not worth the effort of stealing beak thing eggs to sell, robotic repair kits are more valuable and more compact.
      I want to see how quickly we can get to the point of training 10 trainees up to level 80 ish is all the combat stats, I'm thinking strength is going to be the slowest one we level.

    • @charrali245
      @charrali245 Před rokem

      @@FrancisJohnYT Probably way too late with this reply but i read on the wiki that you can set a group member to block and then exile them or kick them from the group (sets them to drifters faction) and they will be stuck on block.
      Load the trainee up as heavy as possible, carry someone and use either the heaviest weapon you have for ultimate strength gain or go unarmed to power-train martial arts, dexterity and strength at the same time.
      As you train your ex-friend will be leveling his defence too so it scales with you to 100 if you are patient.
      Another version of this is to find a hostile skeleton and hope one of their legs falls off, put them in a skeleton repair bed and just beat them forever but this will be slower unless you plan on dragging Cat-lon or Tinfist to a repair bed minus a leg... Also works with iron spiders but that's janky and also slower than the block method as "sleeping" things only level toughness and no combat stats leading to slower xp gains as you become more powerful than they are.
      Or for the simplest and dirtiest version find a bonedog or similar, have it be put into a time out by some passer-by, carry it to a bed and hit it with blunt weapons for a morally bankrupt yet very successful training method that can level martial arts, blunt and pole arms (with staff) to the 80s in an ingame day or two, bonus strength xp if malnourished so keep hunger just above 100 and technically you will be getting the xp rates of someone at 30 str when you are at 100, have an arm broken for a further 33% decrease to effective strength for 33% bonus xp per strike.

  • @darthbrooks4933
    @darthbrooks4933 Před 12 dny

    “Gutters are now your allies.”
    Wait, what?!

  • @h.f.v.1428
    @h.f.v.1428 Před 7 měsíci

    The thief build is good becau7se you will never be without money, i make a char with that skills near lv 100 (except thievery that i know how to train now with this video), and my money making was only exploring ancient buildings, taking beak thing eggs and knocking out people with bounties (but that way is good you have more people with sneaking + strengh because you can find more bounties in the same place)

  • @sumdud2129
    @sumdud2129 Před rokem +8

    Now that the Kenshi playthrough is over, what's next?

    • @davidjr4903
      @davidjr4903 Před rokem +3

      Hopefully Don't Starve Rog or Darkest Dungeon 😊

    • @sumdud2129
      @sumdud2129 Před rokem +1

      I vote is on a darkest dungeon speed run on blood moon difficulty, see how quickly he can defeat the darkest dungeon.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +18

      I promised to do a Rimworld playthrough, was thinking of doing the Ice sheet challenge.

    • @davidjr4903
      @davidjr4903 Před rokem +3

      @@FrancisJohnYT Oooh nice, that was my fav type of playthrough when I last played RW even going as far as putting permanent winter and cold freeze and everything to lower the temp as much as possible especially starting with nothing or as close to it as possible, pro tip cannibalism is OP for that scenario as corpses don't spoil

    • @davidjr4903
      @davidjr4903 Před rokem +3

      @@FrancisJohnYT But I'd really love to watch you learn and master Don't Starve Reign of Giants and also Darkest Dungeon and other games cuz uve done a lot of rimworld

  • @grandfremdling3841
    @grandfremdling3841 Před rokem +1

    Nice

  • @ericmyrs
    @ericmyrs Před rokem +2

    Francis, we're not Irish, we don't have an Ó key :)

  • @WiseIdiot9
    @WiseIdiot9 Před rokem +4

    26:53 The or button? I can't quite understand what you said here. Apologies, can you clarify? Appreciate the video!

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem

      The "R" button, it's my accent and you are not the first to get confused 😃

  • @nedobedogaming8928
    @nedobedogaming8928 Před rokem +3

    Im just speaking for myself here but much prefer a let`s play, your last one was my favourite for years. would love an ultra modded series.....

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +5

      This is more of a reminder for me so that next time I play I have a video I can look at to refresh me on all the exploits.

  • @alig6245
    @alig6245 Před 8 měsíci +1

    wow man ur genious😂😂
    😅❤

  • @archangel8172
    @archangel8172 Před rokem

    I wounder now, can you make a thief bull? Train their thieving skills and just use their backpack directly afterwards?

  • @edgarasruksenas4911
    @edgarasruksenas4911 Před rokem +1

    Hi, please do RimWorld next. Multiple religion, have to accept all quests and all colonists :D you promised 400 colonists run and you are 200 short.
    Whit love form France 💕

  • @davidjr4903
    @davidjr4903 Před rokem +2

    2:50 "we've got ourselves a weiner" 😂

  • @MrEarlSwift
    @MrEarlSwift Před měsícem

    The funny thing is, leveling up your bull as the thief is meta.
    If you get caught the crime will have been committed by the bull, not your men, so the guards will dogpile the bull and beat the jesus out of it, but then will just leave because the bull cannot have a criminal record as an animal.

  • @LocalDiscordCatgirl
    @LocalDiscordCatgirl Před 5 měsíci

    There’s a legal way to double your money early. Head to Port South, buy everything from the slave materials shop, resell literally anywhere.

  • @annoymous88
    @annoymous88 Před rokem +2

    while Guts do not have patrols (outside of Beak Things), the United Cities and Traders' Guild will come around for taxes.
    the annoying part is they are well-equipped enough to deal with hordes of Beak Things, which is why I moved out of the area.
    Beak Things are endearing neighbors and sparring partners once you have a group of people around 30+ melee attacks, armed with naginatas. You can even set up some cheese by just hiding in buildings (since they won't break doors) and shooting them from the roof with harpoons.
    comparing to the Samurais and City Heroes come messing about.
    that said, you have allied with the Gutters, you can probably cross City Heroes off the list and just pay UC taxes so you can still trade with UC.
    last of all, I love the cheese you introduced in this video, especially the DistractorBull.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem

      According to a map I have the far right of gut is not on their land, but I have not tested so they may come looking for taxes still.

  • @santiagovallejo4518
    @santiagovallejo4518 Před 10 měsíci +1

    im having so so so so so much problems doing the gutters allies, idk why my slavers just let him (no face) wake up and he become a slave and follows me around whit out fighting the guards

  • @ryanmaris1917
    @ryanmaris1917 Před rokem +1

    If you just wanna earn or are at a point where you need to earn cats, going to the swamp buying drugs (hash) then traveling to the flat lakes city is really good for making money. You don’t need to worry about being caught smuggling and you can just sell the drugs for a 705% mark up. Once you have a few companions and animals you can clear out at the hash and usually all the cats from the stores you sell them at. If that happens you can head to Mourn, however there’s an increased risk of running into beak things. Luckily most of the Beal things you run into a fairly well feed and won’t try to eat you alive.

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem

      With max stealth and thievery you can clear out an entire city of money. Usually faster than the city can reset so you end up sleeping for a few hours until they get more money to steal.

  • @ardbug9577
    @ardbug9577 Před rokem +1

    I never tried the stealing thing so this is rather fun. I bought the house in Heft and it has 2 skimmers inside, lovely, and no mercenaries on the roof of the bakery, is there a particular reason that it has to be the merc captain or will any target do over there ?
    (edit) in fact I cant get the crossbow to do what you do at all, when I target the guy in the same chair as you my character just start running down the stairs, he has no melee weapon equipped and is on hold and passive ... was this fixed ?
    (edit 2) nevermind, Im an idiot, he wasnt set to range :D

  • @marius1741
    @marius1741 Před rokem +2

    would love to see you play some farthest frontier

    • @oaenek5993
      @oaenek5993 Před rokem +1

      Me too, but maybe when more is known about the game. I'd rather watch FJ play and explain a game he's mastered than see another Lets Play noob fumble around and miss obvious things in the game.

  • @knicechawt
    @knicechawt Před rokem +1

    24:40 so good at robbery he can do it in his sleep

  • @absolutelyfookinnobody2843

    The way to be allied or friendly with gutters I would definitely not consider an exploit with how much it cost lol

  • @akiamini4006
    @akiamini4006 Před rokem +2

    Bro . My playing dead dude gets up in the first attemp saying WTF and messes up the whole grind all the time. Is there any specific thing to decrease this accurance or im doing the entire thing wrong ? Please someone inform me

  • @TcSomers
    @TcSomers Před rokem +2

    Is there any reason you hold right click and select stealth KO instead of...just right clicking on them? There's no mechanical difference right?

    • @FrancisJohnYT
      @FrancisJohnYT  Před rokem +1

      I have had issues with misclicks in the past, I prefer to be real careful when it comes to stealth KO.
      But barring that their is no mechanical difference.

  • @DemocritusX
    @DemocritusX Před 5 hodinami +1

    Hmmmm...
    Okay you're progressing 100 times faster than I am doing (just got the game) but this is getting close to just editing all stats up in some save file.
    Not going to do all this - wanna get beaten up and enjoy the game as it's meant to be enjoyed.

  • @theplop
    @theplop Před 8 měsíci +1

    11:08 the showing off would have totally worked if it was night time

  • @louisbuss6068
    @louisbuss6068 Před 9 měsíci +1

    doing all that in 11 ingame days is insane... i did it in 57 xD

  • @theman4908
    @theman4908 Před rokem

    Nobody break the game like you do😆