Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - March 1, 2019

2.0.168.0

Tinkering messages are now cleared about which bits you need and which you have, and the list of bits you have is now presented in a consistent order.

The game version is now displayed in relevant UI messages such as when a game fails to load.

You can now order allies to stay put or follow you (via the Look UI). Staying put only stops them from following you around; they still move to defend you, themselves, or other allies.

You can now order companions to move to a location (via the Look UI). They prioritize this command over combat.

You can now give orders (via the Look UI) to your companions' companions.

You must now be adjacent to companions to give them items via the Look UI.

NPCs are now more willing to engage adjacent targets when they can't find a way to move toward their preferred target. They will attempt to hack their way back toward the preferred target if possible.

You can now exchange water containers with your companions.

Leather whips now latch onto opponents when they hit.

Madpoles now use a different mechanism for latching onto their opponents.

Thirsty NPCs now sip water if they have it.

Autodrink now treats equipped water containers the same as containers in your inventory.

Autodrink now shows you the source of the water you are drinking and its remaining volume.

Autodrinking with glotrot can once again contaminate water containers.

Tinkering messages are now clearer about which bits you need and which you already have, and the list of bits you have is now presented in a consistent order.

Slugsnouts are now willing to attack at point-blank range.

Fixed a bug that caused legendary companions to sometimes not attack after you commanded them to.

Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented valid saved games from loading.

Fixed some typos in the Templar squire description.

Scrap no longer rusts an entire stack at a time.

In most cases, like items with status effects like bloody or rusted now stack with each other.

Being frozen or stuck in a web no longer interferes with your equipment becoming unequipped due to effects like rusting or the contraction of a fungal infection.

[modding] GamestateSingletons used in mods are now properly called.

[ 2019-03-02 03:48:00 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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