Race Rebalance – 【Kenshi】

Rebalances all of the Vanilla playable/recruitable races with the overall goal of making the lesser used races more appealing along with making CERTAIN RACES (i.e skeletons) a little less overpowered.

Made mostly according to my personal tastes and views tried to keep it in line with vanilla balance as best as I could.

Changes below:

Greenlanders:
– No changes, basic bois stay basic

Scorchlanders: Scorchlanders to me come off as what would be the go to stealth experts along with their crafting expertise my change is to reflect this making them better assassins over olympic sprinters.

– Changed athletics proficiency to Assassination, no other changes.

Shek: The Shek and their entire culture value combat and their ability as warriors despite this unfortunately they tend to be overshined by the sheer power of Skeletons, hopefully these changes can make it so the definitive combat race of Kenshi can really shine in what they are supposed to.

– Limbs health increased to 150, chest health 200
– Combat Move speed changed from 1 to .9
– Bleed rate changed from 0.9 to 0.5
– Hunger rate changed from 1.25 to 1.35
– Max blood changed to 300
– Decreased proficiency in Engineering
– Decreased proficiency in Dexterity changed to Perception
– Increased proficiency in Athletics
– Increased proficiency in Melee Defense
– Increased proficiency in Heavy Weapons

Skeletons: Oh boy the big one, we all know skeletons are the best at just about everything in this game. My intention isn’t to nerf them in the ground just give them more definitive weaknesses that a player needs to actually consider when taking them now. The skeletons are old long lived machines who more often than not try to avoid people my changes try to reflect that.

Oh and if your wondering about the martial arts change, metal fists and tinfist that is all.

– Combat move speed lowered from 1 to 0.8
– Overall speed lowered from 110 to 100 (They will now be the slowest race overall)
– Decreased proficiency in Dexterity
– Decreased proficiency in Medic
– Decreased proficiency in Cooking
– Decreased proficiency in Farming
– Decreased proficiency in Stealth
– Increased proficiency in Martial Arts
– Increased proficiency in Crossbows
– Increased proficiency in Friendly Fire
– Increased proficiency in Toughness
– Vision range increased from 1.25 to 1.5

Soldierbot: Agnu is the only Soldierbot you can get in the game as far as I’m aware at least maybe they can be randomly recruited either way as the name implys they are combat oriented skeletons my changes try to reflect both that and their vanilla rarity.

– Decreased proficiency in Medic
– Decreased proficiency in Cooking
– Decreased proficiency in Laboring
– Decreased proficiency in Science
– Increased proficiency in Perception
– Increased proficiency in Toughness
– Increased proficiency in Martial Arts
– Vision range increased from 1.25 to 1.5

Hive Soldier Drone: My favorite subrace, I hope I didn’t go overboard but these guys are supposed to be the soldiers of the Hive literally born for it. I felt like they needed more to go properly toe to toe with the Shek and Skeletons. LONG LIVE THE HAMMERHEADS

-Head Health changed from 200 to 300, chance of hitting changed from 80 to 70
-Stomach hit chance changed from 60 to 40
– Right arm hit chance changed from 40 to 80
– Chest Health changed to 150
– Given Dust and Gas Immunity
-Heal rate changed from 1 to 1.5
– Removed decreased medical proficiency
– Increased Melee Defense proficiency
– Increased Polearm proficiency
– Vision range decreased from 1 to 0.75

Southern Hive Soldier Drone: Good luck finding one of these guys, only one change from the normal to make up for the fact they don’t have a decrease in perception like normal soldier drones.

-Head Health changed from 200 to 300, chance of hitting changed from 80 to 70
-Stomach hit chance changed from 60 to 40
– Right arm hit chance changed from 40 to 80
– Chest Health changed to 150
– Given Dust and Gas Immunity
-Heal rate changed from 1 to 1.5
– Removed decreased medical proficiency
– Increased Melee Defense proficiency
– Vision range decreased from 1 to 0.75

Hive Worker Drone: Ah Beep we all love a good cyber beep don’t we? Let’s make Cyber Beep both hopefully easier to attain and stronger after the fact shall we? Huh? Theres other worker drones?

– All limb hit chance increased from 40/80 to 100
– Head health increased from 125 to 150
– Head hit chance lowered from 80 to 60
– Stomach hit chance lowered from 60 to 20
– Chest hit chance lowered from 140 to 60
– Given Dust Immunity
– Toughness proficiency changed to Perception
– Vision range increased from 0.5 to 0.75
– Combat move speed changed from 1.2 to 1.3

Southern Worker Drone: Like their other southern brothers these guys are rare to find, I tried to add some changes that would make them slightly bulkier than their normal counterparts as well as a little bit faster to give some uniqueness to their rarity..

– All limb hit chance increased from 40/80 to 100
– All Limb health increased from 75 to 80
– Head health increased from 125 to 175
– Head hit chance lowered from 80 to 60
– Stomach hit chance lowered from 60 to 20
– Stomach health increased from 75 to 80
– Chest hit chance lowered from 140 to 60
– Chest health increased from 75 to 80
– Given Dust Immunity
– Vision range increased from 0.5 to 0.75
– Combat move speed changed from 1.2 to 1.3
– Overall max speed increased from 140 to 150

Hive Prince: I love these guys but I’ve always felt they’ve been the weakest race overall, we are told these guys are smart and they aren’t nearly as stick like as the worker drones so lets build on that and make them just a little less squishy I say.

– Head Health changed from 80 to 100
– Stomach health changed from 80 to 100
– Right Arm chance to hit increased from 40 to 80
– Chest Health increased from 80 to 100
– Athletic profieciency changed to Engineering
– Lockpicking proficiency changed to Robotics
– Stealth proficiency changed to Friendly Fire
– Toughness proficiency changed to Smithing Bow (No other race has this boost idk if its lore friendly but it feels fitting to make the prince a bit more special)
– Strength proficiency increased from 0.8 to 1

Southern Hive Princes: Same mentality I took with the Hive Soldier Drones frankly a bit more bulk.

– Head Health changed from 80 to 100
– Stomach health changed from 80 to 100
– Right Arm chance to hit increased from 40 to 80
– Chest Health increased from 80 to 100
– All limb health increased from 80 to 100
– Athletic profieciency changed to Engineering
– Stealth proficiency changed to Robotics
– Thievery proficiency changed to Smithing Bow (No other race has this boost idk if its lore friendly but it feels fitting to make the prince a bit more special)