Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - January 19, 2018

We added legendary chefs.

You'll find their kitchens as new overland encounters.
Each kitchen contains an oven where you can sample the chef's dishes.
Chefs may share one of their recipes during the water ritual.
Each chef sells a personalized cookbook.

Canned Have-It-All no longer contains neutron flux. This means that cooking with canned Have-It-All no longer has the chance to cause critical gravitational collapse. The makers of canned Have-It-All realize this change to their formula renders their product in violation of advertising law, but "canned Have-Most-of-It" didn't do as well in market research, so they're willing to take their chances in court.

You can no longer cook on the world map.

You can now make camp any time there's no campfire nearby.

When you make camp, you're no longer asked to choose a direction until it's confirmed that you can camp here.

Campfire sounds now respect global sound settings.

You can now go up or down stairs via the Use command.

The glowpad merchant is now a member of the Consortium of Phyta, as intended.

Changed the colors of the witchwood tree and its bark.

Restored the option to automatically dissasemble scrap.

Added a new prerelease UI element for ability cooldowns. You need to enable the prerelease input manager to change ability selection bindings (Options > Controls > Prerelease: Use new input manager).

Added item costs to the prerelease trade UI.

Fixed the molting basilisk poison message being displayed when non-player characters were infected.

Fixed an issue with the popup message generated when you travel to a known lair or workshop for the first time.

Fixed an issue in the prerelease input manager that allowed you to use abilities even when they were on cooldown.

Fixed an issue that caused projectiles to apply their on-hit effects to the attacker if they didn't penetrate the defender's armor.

Fixed an issue that occasionally caused injectors to apply their effect even if they didn't penetrate the defender's armor.

Fixed an issue with sacrificing items at the Sacred Well where whole stacks of items were improperly consumed.

Fixed an issue that caused some liquid containers with cookable liquids to not appear in the ingredient selection menu.

Fixed an issue that allowed you to select zero-volume liquid containers as cooking ingredients.

Fixed an issue with food preservation that resulted in the wrong number of servings being preserved.

Fixed some issues that caused the wrong number of servings to be consumed while cooking.

Fixed an issue that caused stacks of energy cells to disappear from the trade UI when you tried to recharge them.

Fixed some additional issues with item stacks.

Removed some archaic statues to non-existent sultans.

Fixed the game thread not properly suspending when the game window went out of focus.

Fixed a memory leak that occasionally occurred if the game window was out of focus for long periods of time.

Fixed some spelling errors.

[modding] AmmoGeneric now supports a new field, SpecializedProjectileObject, that combines with the existing ProjectileObject field to allow AmmoGeneric-based magazine weapons to load several types of ammo. You use the new field to specify an ammo object whose behavior you want to mimic. For example, let's say you create two new ammo objects, each with the AmmoGeneric part. If you set the ProjectileObject field in both parts to "Projectile12Gauge", a gun that can load Projectile12Gauge ammo will be able to load both your new ammo objects. You can then set the SpecializedProjectileObject fields on both parts differently, say one to "IncendiaryBullet" and one to "ElectrifiedBullet". Now these new ammo objects will mimic the behavior of the IncendiaryBullet and ElectrifiedBullet objects respectively, and they'll both be loadable by guns that can load Projectile12Gauge ammo.

[ 2018-01-19 23:26:05 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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