Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - July 31, 2020

200.81

Trolls now know how to swim.
Clicking a tile with a hostile creature now attacks the creature instead of attempting to speak with it.
Gave rainboweave cloaks lower DV but a chance to refract light-based attacks.
Added a new status effect, Wakeful, that gets applied for 3-5 rounds after you wake up from involuntary sleep. While wakeful, you can't fall asleep.
Item naming now allows apostrophes.
Baetyls no longer request the Billowing Conch of the Aji.
Long blade stances now respect your restrictions on companion ability use.
En garde! now takes Lunge and Swipe off cooldown when it activates.
You no longer have the option to decline being moved by a factory arm into a deep shaft.
Penetrating radar now reveals hidden objects that can be discovered by searching.
Messages for spotting hidden objects now include directional information.
Missing skill prereqs now cause entries on the Skills screen to be grayed out, like they are for unmet attribute requirements.
Pathfinding now goes to much less effort to avoid many types of liquids and some types of gases.
Skills that require a weapon of a given type to be wielded in the primary hand now accept weapons wielded in the first hand if your primary limb is not a hand, such as for animals whose primary limb is often their face or foot.
Fixed a bug that caused hyper-elastic ankle tendons' behavior to be excluded from their description.
Fixed a bug with stacking that resulted in permanent MA / DV loss.
Fixed a bug that caused suspensors to not work properly on equipped items.
Fixed a bug that caused ceremonial vibrokhopeshes to repeatedly reboot while you travelled on the world map.
Fixed a bug that sometimes made it impossible to interact with companions.
Fixed some bugs that caused various types of cloned creatures to not be hostile when they should have been.
Fixed some bugs that disabled the escape teleportation used by some relics, extradimensional items, and chaotic cherubim.
Fixed a bug that caused books to be unreadable from the prerelease equipment screen.
Fixed a misattribution in Lase messaging.
Fixed a typo in sultan history.
Fixed a bug that made Saad Amus very lazy.
[modding] Liquids' ObjectEnteredCell method now receives the relevant ObjectEnteredCellEvent as its second argument. The version that receives the GameObject moving as its second argument is still called for compatibility.
[modding] WishCommands should now properly be loaded/unloaded with mod changes.

201.6 - beta

Creatures that try to keep their distance from you now may now decide to take other actions, such as defend themselves directly, when they fall below 50% HP.
Evil twins now reconsider their equipped items when they spawn.
Stage layouts wider than 1080p now letterbox correctly.
The look dialog is now only dismissble via Space or Esc.
Mouse movement now paths through non-hostiles if necessary to reach your destination.
Rhinox charge now respects phase and flight.
Fixed a bug that caused books to be unreadable from the prerelease equipment screen.
Fixed a bug that caused books to continue to render in the background even after you exited out of the read book screen.
Fixed a bug where hitting Esc from the Save Build prompt would save the build with no name rather than backing out of the menu.
Fixed the "restore defaults" button on the prerelease control mapping screen improperly clearing all keybinds.
[modding] Added native support for Harmony 2.0.2 patches in mods (https://github.com/pardeike/Harmony). harmony.PatchAll() is called after mod assembly compilation, applying all mod-defined harmony patches.
[modding] Upgraded the C# compiler to Roslyn.
[modding] Errors and warnings generated by the mod compiler now include the associated filename and line number.
[modding] The "playerwho" wish now properly allows turns to tick.

[ 2020-08-01 05:35:32 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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