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Feature Friday - January 13, 2017

We revamped the Long Blades skill! These are the new powers. Check them out in game for the stat requirements and costs.

Long Blade Proficiency. You gain access to two stances. Aggressive stance: While wielding a long blade in your primary hand, your long blade attacks gain +1 penetration but -2 to hit. Defensive stance: While wielding a long blade in your primary hand, you gain +2 DV.
Dueling Stance: You gain access to dueling stance. While wielding a long blade in your primary hand, you get +2 to hit.
Lunge. Activated; cooldown 15. Aggressive stance: You lunge through one empty space at an opponent and make an attack at +2 penetration. You must move through the empty space. Defensive stance: You make an attack at an opponent then lunge backward 2 spaces. Dueling stance: You make an attack at an opponent at +1 penetration. The attack is guaranteed to hit and penetrate at least once.
Swipe: Activated; cooldown 15. Aggressive stance: You make an attack against all adjacent opponents. Defensive stance: You push all adjacent creatures back 1 space and attempt to trip the ones that are opponents (strength save; difficulty 30). Dueling stance: You make an attack at an opponent and attempt to disarm them (strength save; difficulty 25 + your Agi modifier). The attack is guaranteed to hit and penetrate at least once.
Improved Aggressive Stance: Your penetration bonus in aggressive stance is increased to +2, but your to-hit penalty is increased to -4.
Improved Defensive Stance: Your DV bonus in defensive stance is increased to +3.
Improved Dueling Stance: Your to-hit bonus in dueling stance is increased to +3.
En Garde!: Activated; cooldown 100. For the next 10 rounds, Lunge and Swipe have no cooldown.

Added some variety to sultan birth events.

Changed the map generation algorithm for overland ruins to be based on the much better historic site algorithm.

When you get the Quills mutation, you now always start with 300 quills.

Fixed a bug causing you to occasionally get less than the documented 80-120 new quills when you level up Quills.

Removed stray '^k' characters from most descriptions.

Gave Pax Klanq a little more HP.

Empty bookshelves are now visually distinct.

When you have a target selected, your target's health estimate is now displayed on the left side of the top status bar.

Historic sites and other dynamic areas are no longer generated on top of important static locations.

When you left-click on an object, you now move up to that object and interact with it instead of trying to swap places with it.

Fixed the overlay conversation UI not respecting variables or random-option dialogs.

Fixed several issues causing failed map builds.

Fixed some issues that caused the middle levels of Grit Gate to not generate.

Fixed some spurious tooltip popups when changing screens.

Give artifact' dialogs are now mouseable popups.

Greatly reduced memory usage during map generation.

Added an overlay system menu.

Added a button for the system menu.

Added support for look mode in the overlay UI.

Added an option to disable blood splatters under Options > Debug.

You can now bind a key to trade while using the overlay UI.

Added better support for navigating options with the keyboard.

Added the ability to escape from several choice dialogs such as 'manually equip' and Klanq infection.

Fixed a bug that caused your character to lose Unstable Genome before you manifested all your mutations.

The minimap no longer blocks clicks.

Fixed a display issue when backing out of a trade in the overlay UI.

Fixed some graphical effects disappearing after loading or thawing a zone.

Fixed the ability descriptions cutting off before the bottom of the window on the ability screen.

[ 2017-01-14 03:23:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Caves of Qud

Freehold Games Developer

Freehold Games Publisher

2015-07-15 Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer EA Tags

Game News Posts: 439

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Overwhelmingly Positive (7325 reviews)

http://www.cavesofqud.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Caves of Qud - Linux [214.01 M]

Available DLCs:

Caves of Qud - Pet Pack 1

Caves of Qud is a science fantasy roguelike epic steeped in retrofuturism, deep simulation, and swathes of sentient plants. Come inhabit an exotic world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Decide: is it a dying earth, or is it on the verge of rebirth?

Who are you?

Play the role of a mutant indigenous to the salt-spangled dunes and jungles of Qud, or play a pure-strain descendant from one of the few remaining eco-domes—the toxic arboreta of Ekuemekiyye, the Holy City; the ice-sheathed arcology of Ibul; or the crustal mortars of Yawningmoon.

You arrive at the oasis-hamlet of Joppa, along the far rim of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert. All around you, moisture farmers tend to groves of viridian watervine. There are huts wrought from rock salt and brinestalk. On the horizon, Qud's jungles strangle chrome steeples and rusted archways to the earth. Further and beyond, the fabled Spindle rises above the fray and pierces the cloud-ribboned sky.

You clutch your rifle, or your vibroblade, or your tattered scroll, or your poisonous stinger, or your hypnotized goat. You approach a watervine farmer—he lifts the brim of his straw hat and says, "Live and drink, friend."

What can you do?

Anything and everything. Caves of Qud is a deeply simulated, biologically diverse, richly cultured world.

Assemble your character from over 70 mutations and defects and 24 castes and kits—outfit yourself with wings, two heads, quills, four arms, flaming hands, or the power to clone yourself—it's all the character diversity you could want.
Explore procedurally-generated regions with some familiar locations—each world is nearly 1 million maps large.

Dig through everything—don't like the wall blocking your way? Dig through it with a pickaxe, or eat through it with your corrosive gas mutation, or melt it to lava. Yes, every wall has a melting point.
Hack the limbs off monsters—every monster and NPC is as fully simulated as the player. That means they have levels, skills, equipment, faction allegiances, and body parts. So if you have a mutation that lets you, say, psionically dominate a spider, you can traipse through the world as a spider, laying webs and eating things.
Pursue allegiances with over 60 factions—apes, crabs, robots, and highly entropic beings—just to name a few.
Follow the plot to Barathrum the Old, a sentient cave bear who leads a sect of tinkers intent on restoring technological splendor to Qud.
Learn the lore—there's a story in every nook, from legendary items with storied pasts to in-game history books written by plant historians.
Die—Caves of Qud is brutally difficult and deaths are permanent. Don't worry, though—you can always roll a new character.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 20.04. Ubuntu 18.04. and CentOS 7
Processor: 1GHz or faster. SSE2 instruction set support.Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
Storage: 2 GB available space

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