Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - October 2nd, 2020

201.45

Village quests no longer have the chance to ask you to find a location "with a parasang" of another location. Instead, they may ask you to find a location "next to" another location, in which case the two locations will be in adjacent maps.
Two-Headed no longer wakes you up from voluntary sleep.
You no longer see troll budding messages when you cannot see the troll.
Nerve Poppy is no longer called Numb on the character sheet.
Creatures without faces no longer get bloody noses.
Relic and extradimensional books now provide skill training on read.
While performing the water ritual, you're no longer offered to learn a skill's introductory power without being offered to learn the skill itself.
We made some changes to clonelings and clones.
- Clonelings now have a cap on how many creatures they can clone. If you're friendly with a cloneling, you can refresh their cloning capability by supplying a dram of cloning draught.
- Clonelings can now clone you.
- If a cloneling is in your party, you can now direct them to clone creatures.
- Clonelings in your party no longer wander around randomly.
- Clones created by clonelings are now worth half the base creature's XP rather than no XP.
- Clonelings now rarely cloning draught on death.
- Freshly grown clones are now uninjured.
We added new support to the prerelease input manager and fixed some bugs.
- Added a wait command.
- Accept now interacts with the selected object in the looker.
- Fixed interact nearby not working.
- Vendor actions in trade now work properly.
- Accept now interacts with the selected object in the looker
- Added Take All and Store Items keybinds for containers
Armor AV/DV averaging across body parts now rounds down.
Leather bracers have been singularized into a 1 AV single-arm slot "leather bracer".
Autoexplore now interacts with interesting objects before taking them. Example: you'll now read engraved items before taking them.
The attack nearest enemy command now counts enemies that are currently engulfing you.
The item picker dialog for spray bottles now shows any context for the listed items, like the body part they're equipped on, for example.
Lit torch tiles now display color variation in their flame part instead of their wood part.
Kindled flames and luminous motes now have tiles.
Reduced the number of novices of the sightless way that appear in various regions.
Panhumors now use their own correct tile instead of using the gelatinous frustrum tile.
Changed the appearance of putrescence to be distinguishable from slime.
Made some improvements to the behavior of pathfinding around potentially damaging gases.
Pathfinding now strenuously avoids aloe pyra and aloe volta.
You can no longer get unlimited data disks by repeatedly installing and uninstalling SkillSoft Tinker implants.
Made plurally gendered players correctly addressed in the second person in a number of contexts.
Made the popup to confirm switching a hotkey to a new ability show the old ability's display name, not its internal command name.
Improved ganglionic teleprojector's messaging when used on a square with no robots in it.
Fixed a bug that prevented Two-Headed's chance to remove negative mental status effects from working.
Fixed a bug where evil twins arrived without a popup message.
Fixed a bug that caused unpowered items with boot sequences to have their operational status treated as "booting" rather than unpowered.
Fixed a bug that disabled the floating text that appears when an item rusts.
Fixed some color formatting errors.
Fixed a formatting issue in the level descriptions of Sleep Gas Generation and Corrosive Gas Generation.
Fixed some typos in Sleep Gas Generation and Spontaneous Combustion.
Fixed a rare exception during world generation.

[ 2020-10-03 02:19:22 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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