Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - December 11, 2020

201.56

Turbows now allow Strength bonuses to apply to arrow penetration.
Autoexplore and autowalk now open doors as a separate action before moving into the doorway.
Attack-nearest can no longer target adjacent enemies that you cannot see.
Auto-attack will now be interrupted if you cannot see your target.
Auto-attack and attack-nearest can no longer be used while confused.
Auto-attack and attack-nearest now produce movement/attacking in random directions if used while furious.
Smart use on an active force projector now deactivates it rather than prompting for a new deployment pattern.
Holographic plants no longer produce sap when attacked.
Rifle and pistol relics can now be part of sultans' histories.
You can no longer sacrifice biotech-based artifacts at the Sacred Well.
Lasing with Light Manipulation no longer has infinite range.
Mental Mirror will now properly reflect and terminate Sunder Mind on a failed penetration.
Sunder Mind damage now ignores phase.
Improved the composition of biome zone names in forgotten ruins.
Improved the road layout in Bey Lah.
Tattooing now uses the names rather than the descriptions of body parts.
Tinkers now properly repair certain rusted, broken, or damaged items, such as scrap.
Assigned tier values to various tonics, crystals of Eve, and arsplice seeds, fixing several related issues including sparking baetyls asking for them will no longer tend so much provide rewards dramatically out of keeping with their difficulty of obtainment.
Fixed a but where it was possible for curing glotrot to not work if you drank the Flaming Ick on the very last turn before you would have transitioned from having a sore throat to having full-on glotrot.
Fixed a typo in Herododicus's dialogue.
Fixed a typo in Frivolous Lives, Vol. I.
Fixed a pronoun in tomb inscriptions.
Fixed a bug making puffing Klanq on objects sporadically fail.
Fixed a bug that made resupplying clonelings with cloning draught only work if you did not have any cloning draught.
Fixed a bug causing color bleeding in some hero names.
Fixed a bug where the bonus MA of Mental Mirror was not being applied.
Fixed a bug causing Psionic Migraines not to unequip items on your head.
Fixed an exception when resisting Sunder Mind damage.
Fixed an exception when a creature was attempting to reload while wielding a geomagnetic disc.
Added "zonebuilders" wish to display the builders of the current zone & their parameters.
[modding] PopulationTables.xml now supports merging. elements with Load="Merge" attributes now support basic merge semantics, and elements now have Name attributes that can be used to either replace or, with Load="Merge", merge with the group of the same name in the base XML file.
[modding] The TinkerItem part no longer supports the field CanRepair; repairability is now simply a matter of the object being in a state that can be repaired.

202.14 - 'beta' branch

Added a new number-picker popup that supports directional inputs
Added prerelase input manager key bindings for journal screen management

[ 2020-12-12 06:53:00 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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