Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - November 27, 2020

201.53/202.11

Tonic injectors now have an interaction command available for applying them to others.
The fitted with filters mod now protects from critical failures on gas saves, the same as gas masks and vinewood sap masks.
You can no longer force-feed creatures luminous hoarshrooms by attacking them while wielding one.
Droid scramblers are now more reliable.
Several NPCs have returned to Kyakukya.
Various stat drain effects now cause the defender to get angry at the attacker.
Infiltrate can no longer be used on the world map.
The description of mechanical wings now refers to "corroded bronze", not "rusted bronze".
Improved a variety of object placement mechanisms to better account for placement hints and object types.
Timecubes are now colored so that they look like cubes rather than discs.
Added a new skill wish: "skill:name/id", e.g. "skill:Hobble", "skill:strapping shoulders", "skill:Dual_Wield_Fussilade".
Aquatic monsters will no longer prefer to spawn on a closed liquid volume like a waterskin.
Maps are now more similar when generated in the same world seed (though still not identical in all cases)
Fixed some minor map errors in Bey Lah, Barathrum's Study and Tomb.
Fixed Stinger tail remaining even were you to lose the mutation.
Fixed a bug causing roads and rivers to not properly remove terrain.
Fixed some bugs causing relic chests not to be placed.
Fixed some issues causing excessive memory use.
Fixed "you are stopped by ..." message spam.
Fixed some minor typos.
[modding] The 'options' node name in options.xml is no longer case sensitive
[modding] Updated the default Mods.csproj created from the mod toolkit.
[modding] New AddToPopulation function in PopulationManager to merge in new entries adjacent to a sibling.

[ 2020-11-28 08:39:40 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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