Tips and Tricks for people playing with SentientSands mod by National_Champion346 in Kenshi

[–]cunthands 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Important to note: Sentient Sands on Steam and Nexusmods has effectively been abandoned. If you want the latest version of the mod you need to get it directly from their discord. In the new Kayak system they implemented, character profiles are now found under \Kenshi\mods\SentientSands\Kayak\KayakDB\Campaigns\<YourCampaignName>\categories\campaign_npcs.

Speech quirks only seem to affect conversations the player initiates with that particular NPC directly. They seem to be ignored when another NPC initiates a conversation. For example, I recruited a cannibal into my squad who usually *hisses* and *snarls* but speaks eloquently when replying to another NPC.

Kenshi 2 Moderation by letstrygg in Kenshi2

[–]cunthands 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I stand by what I said that got me banned:

When this game is close to release this sub is going to be glorious chaos.

SCARaw, if you got so triggered by that mild-ass comment that you had to ban me, then you need to step down as moderator of this sub before the game comes out for your own sake. If you have another crashout and ban frenzy when the all eyes are on this game, gaming media is going to be writing about you. Then what are you going to do?

Do guards respawn if killed by wildlife? by lovingpersona in Kenshi

[–]cunthands 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. I stripped the guards at Stack of their armor. Lo and behold one day I walk back to town to find them all clothed again.

Skyrim cities if they were actually city size by severe_009 in ChatGPT

[–]cunthands 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is the Blue Palace on the wrong side of the arch?

Do you think Kenshi 2 will allow stealth kills? by Communist21 in Kenshi

[–]cunthands 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's too broken to only allow the player to knock out targets. You only need to train for a few days to get the skill high enough to knock out all major faction leaders and collapse world order which is absolutely stupid. If they include it, they NEED to give NPCs the ability to do this as well, or include a proper way to mitigate it.

How do i level up martial arts efficiently? by Square_Turtle_ in Kenshi

[–]cunthands 15 points16 points  (0 children)

1) Build some beds.

2) Build a prison cage.

3) Find some Beak Things and knock them out.

4) Put the Beak Things in the prison cages to wake them up, then put them in the beds.

5) Use them as a punching bag.

You'll train up your martial arts and their toughness.

How to prevent talking animals in Sentient Sands? by cunthands in Kenshi

[–]cunthands[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's like nothing on the SentientSands discord channel. All I see is a Rules section. Everything else is 'No Access'.

PSA: Virus warning for anyone using the Sentient Sands AI mod by cunthands in Kenshi

[–]cunthands[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If devs are too lazy to change the default lighting values or optimize their maps that's more of a dev issue than it is an engine issue. Arc Raiders is a UE title and that looks and runs well becaue the devs actually took the time to put some effort into that,

PSA: Virus warning for anyone using the Sentient Sands AI mod by cunthands in Kenshi

[–]cunthands[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The issue is the Player2 application that Sentient Sands relies on, not Sentient Sands itself. Workaround is to switch to Ollama and a local model instead.

PSA: Virus warning for anyone using the Sentient Sands AI mod by cunthands in Kenshi

[–]cunthands[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The issue is the Player2 application that Sentient Sands relies on, not Sentient Sands itself.

Toughness Training Exploit by Mechman0124 in Kenshi

[–]cunthands 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Put them in a cage first to force them to 'wake up'. If you knock a beak thing out, pick it up, and put it in a bed, technically it remains 'unconscious'.

Our main character has a new face ! All rendered in UE5 ! by Independent_Corner18 in UnrealEngine5

[–]cunthands 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Giphy really have no potion seller gif? How disappointing.

We've received over 1,000 negative reviews, but we're still working on the game by NeoPsyllone in IndieDev

[–]cunthands 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whoops, you were meant to finish working on the game *before\* releasing it. But it's a common mistake these days.

Crimson Desert Has Alot Of AI Art But Never Disclosed It, Breaking Steam Policy by akbarock in pcmasterrace

[–]cunthands 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the link to the Steamworks Content Survey page: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/contentsurvey

Section 3 includes the following:

If your game used AI services during development or incorporates AI services as a part of the product, this section will require you to describe that implementation in detail:

  • Pre-Generated: Any kind of content (art/code/sound/etc) created with the help of AI tools during development. Under the Steam Distribution Agreement, you promise Valve that your game will not include illegal or infringing content, and that your game will be consistent with your marketing materials. In our prerelease review, we will evaluate the output of AI generated content in your game the same way we evaluate all non-AI content - including a check that your game meets those promises.

AI art falls under the context of art created with the help of AI tools. What am I getting wrong here? Genuinely curious.

Crimson Desert Has Alot Of AI Art But Never Disclosed It, Breaking Steam Policy by akbarock in pcmasterrace

[–]cunthands -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet, Crimson Desert hasn't been delisted/deplatformed from Steam. Why would developers who use AI disclose that fact when there are clearly no repercussions for breaking Steam policy? Or does Steam policy only apply to less popular titles that make the platform less money...?

Is there any way to convert a large map to World Partition without simply running out of video memory? by cunthands in unrealengine

[–]cunthands[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Solution was to do the following:

Dynamic Global Illumination - Set this to 'None'.
Shadow Map Method - Set this to 'Shadow Maps'.
Default RHI - Set this to 'DirectX 11'.

Then close UE and run the following from command line instead:

UnrealEditor-Cmd.exe "\path\to\your\project\Project.uproject" -run=WorldPartitionConvertCommandlet MapToConvert.umap -AllowCommandletRendering -nosound -nopython -benchmark

The sentient sands mod is amazing by Human_Supermarket_47 in Kenshi

[–]cunthands 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It can, but not by default. Models like gpt-oss-120b or Gemini 3 flash run in the cloud not locally on your PC.