Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - January 27, 2017

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

Cudgel Proficiency: You get +2 to hit with cudgels.
Bludgeon: Whenever you hit with an cudgel, there's a 50% chance to daze your opponent (-4 int, -4 agi, -10 movespeed) for 3-4 rounds. If you daze a dazed opponent, they're stunned for 1 round instead (cannot take actions and 0 DV).
Conk: Activated; cooldown 10. You make an attack with a cudgel at an adjacent opponent. If you hit, you automatically daze your opponent. If your opponent is already stunned, you instead knock them unconscious for 30-40 rounds (unconscious opponents wake up dazed when they take damage).
Backswing: Whenever you miss with an axe or cudgel attack, there's a 25% chance you make an additional attack. You can't backswing off a missed backswing.
Slam: Activated; cooldown 50. You make an attack with a cudgel at an adjacent opponent at +1 penetration. If you hit, you slam your opponent backwards up to 3 spaces, pushing other creatures and breaking through walls if their AVs are less than 10 times your strength modifier. Opponents who get pushed are stunned for 1 round plus an additional round for each space pushed. Opponents who are pushed through or against walls take extra weapon damage for each wall. Colossal opponents don't get pushed but are still stunned for 1 round. You can also use this power to destroy a wall or door if its AV is less than 10 times your strength modifier.
Demolish: Activated; cooldown 100. For the next 5 rounds, your chance to daze with cudgel attacks is 100% and Slam has no cooldown. To use Demolish, Slam must be off cooldown, and using Demolish puts Slam on cooldown.

Historic frills, toys, and gaws now fabricate legendary versions of creatures instead of normal ones.

You can no longer eat robot limbs, but you can disassemble them for scrap.

Added a new wall type, rock salt, for subterranean layers under the Great Salt Desert.

Added a new wall type, tangled mudroot, for subterranean layers under the jungle and salt marsh.

Gave legendary robots more robotic names.

Added a new tile for deep shafts.

Now when an ubernostrum tonic regenerates an arm, it regenerates the accompanying hand too.

You can now pick up bedrolls.

When a creature is damaged while sleeping, it now wakes up in a daze.

Stunned creatures now have 0 DV.

Electric snails now always leave corpses behind.

Fixed an issue causing creature lairs not to generate.

We made the map generation for creature lairs much more interesting.

Dismember no longer triggers if you don't have the dismember skill or a dismembering weapon.

Fixed some ruin maps not having the correct encounters based on their tiers.

You can no longer accidentally navigate to the message log resize buttons.

Skills that require certain weapon types now properly recognize natural weapons if they're of the right type.

Fixed several issues that sometimes prevented ruined areas from generating.

Fixed an issue that caused interacting with a baetyl to occasionally freeze the game.

Fixed an exception in generated histories that caused historic site map generation issues.

Fixed a rare error with missile weapons.

Reduced memory load by ~100MB.

Reduced starting save file size.

Shortened world generation time.

Shortened game object creation time.

Added a version number to the main menu in the new UI.

[modding] Limb and Head base object types are now settable with HeadBase and LimbBase tags. For example: . By default the base object for limbs is the Corpse object.

[ 2017-01-28 02:51:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Caves of Qud
Freehold Games

Developer

Freehold Games

Publisher

2015-07-15

Release

Indie Strategy RPG Singleplayer EA

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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