Have now given up, read all the instructions, downloaded the correct versions , went on various forums, followed the advice.... Still doesn't work properly. Have better things to do with my time. I would have been happy to pay for a working version, but leaving it as free seems to be an excuse to say "what are you moaning about, it's free"
i have around 260 hours in the game now and i just recently got back into it and its still just as wonderful as i remember, my characters tend to somehow become master assassins every single time i try to play, i also end up being a plague to every city i stay in because i steal every single valuable they own.I'm slightly ashamed to say that i honestly don't know much about kenshi lore even after all this time, i could tell you some of the greatest places to grind stats and how to cheese your way out of just about anything, even if your legs get horrifically damaged and you find yourself tied to a fogman pole being eaten alive, i can get out of it with a little assassination, i can escape being chased by 6 beak things who are far far faster and far stronger than me. But despite knowing all of this, i came back and almost everything i found i knew nothing about. There is so much to explore, the kenshi map is around 300 miles long and 250 miles wide. It is absolutely massive, and despite the fact that on one of my playthroughs i had 5 characters running around the map for days and i still haven't explored most of it. I still don't know where most of the legendary meitou weapons are, i still haven't conquered most of the bandit bases, hell I've still never had a party strong enough to fight a city, although i got close once. (TLDR) Basically what i'm trying to say, is that the game always has more to offer. If your computer can handle it playing on high graphics is a wonderful experience, watching your character sprint through a beautiful world of suffering is a great feeling. Kenshi is undoubtedly a game of suffering, everyone but the top suffer (especially shopkeepers around me) and few suffer more than you, however that suffering is the only way to get stronger, and maybe one day when I, or you, suffer enough and train enough and become strong and knowledge enough. We can create an oasis, where the suffering ends.
The mouse is so sensitive that you have to have it on around 10% to make it playable, but when combat starts for some reason the program lowers the sensitivity even more so the character judders around on the screen. The very first action part goes as follows: Smoothly stand up from cover and shoot bad guy 1 with trank rifle. Jump over and move to bad guy & loot. Move into other room and hide from bad guy 2, crouch and move out to shoot with trank rifle, shoot, suddenly when move mouse nothing happens, then mouse view jerks to face wall, bad guy 2 fires at you, move mouse gently other way, brief glimpse of enemy as mouse jerks this was and that. Bad Guy 2 continues to fire while view jerks up, down and sideways. Move into cover with 2% of health left. Go into options and Adjust mouse sensitivity to 40%, move out of cover, aim for BG2 and shoot with pistol, BG2 dies. Mouse suddenly starts to swerve violently from side to side 180 degrees back and forwards as you move and try and look. Go into Options, reduce to 10%, can suddenly move again...... BG3 appears...repeat sequence until half way through. Stop. Uninstall game, write this review.
OK, I haven't played this but I saw the screen shots and the comments. Have any of the developers ever been diving ? The chance of being attacked by a shark when scuba diving is virtually nil. Rays - harmless, will swim away from you all the time. Also it says about using up your oxygen ? What ?! Scuba Divers do not use oxygen, they use compressed air. Breathing pure oxygen will kill you quicker than anything else. What kills divers is getting trapped or stuck and running out of air. If a creature kills them it's because they have trodden on or brushed against a venomous creature. Stonefish, Blue ringed Octopus etc this causes breathing problems or paralysis so your DV slips out of your mouth and you die. There were also some shots of a gun aimed at a shark...seriously ? The only ranged weapon that fires underwater is a compressed air powered harpoon or it's ilk. Firing a dart gun at a shark has virtually no chance of penetrating it's skin. I was going to get this game but it looks utterly inaccurate and would cause too much frustration.
What's wrong with the keyboard controls ? You can barely climb even on full throttle, any rudder movement is jerky and unresponsive, press the key - nothing happens, hold the key down and suddenly the plane leaps around the screen. After 20 minutes of flying 3 different missions I gave up. Not the nostalgia trip I was expecting
Controls are sluggish and for some reason the game is set to blur the screen every time you run or fight - why ? Do your own eyes blur when you run ? And the head bob switched on makes you feel sick. Also you are penalised for situations when you replay them e.g. the weapons you broke the last time remain broken but the enemies magically come back from the dead. It also drops you into situations you would not do. e.g. Crane mouthing off to 4 guys in a "safe" area with no weapons drawn, they suddenly attack you 4 on one. Running - the "parkour" is poorly designed, you can spend 6 or 8 attempts trying to simply jump onto something because you are not in the exact correct place. Encounters - there is one person trying to tell you information, zombies attack, you get killed by them because you were trying to hear the information, when you go and see him again he assumes he's already said his piece and won't say it again And the "headquarters" you are in is a block of flats. maybe a cool design idea but did anyone actually playtest this idea ? Talk to one person - run up 2 flights of stairs and round the floors corridors - talk to one person run DOWN 2 flights of stairs and round the floors corridors ad nauseum. What could have been a good idea poorly executed, you do have to wonder if this was play tested by actual players rather than the design team.
The funniest thing is the sad justifications in the reviews below that it is a good game. You (and anyone who plays this) are a bunch of saddo gamers who haven't a girlfriend, live at home with yer mum, are seriously overweight and have a serious BO problem. If you want a wank go to Redtube or Pornhub and get this softporn sad wanker game off GOG. Seriously GOG what are you thinking ? My kids look on here to download games.
