Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - February 26, 2021

201.71/202.30

Renamed miasmatic ash to osseous ash.
Added a new gas type: miasma.
Black ooze now vaporizes into miasma.
Green goo now vaporize into poison gas.
Brain brine now vaporizes (at very high temperatures) into confusion gas.
When your Toughness changes while you are wounded, your HP now maintains the same proportion to your max HP.
NPCs are now more urgent about extinguishing themselves when on fire.
Grenades no longer display their thrown weapon penetration and damage stats.
Ubernostrum tonics now properly cure both major and minor biological debuffs.
Hyperbiotic beds and regeneration tanks now cure minor biological debuffs.
The Broken status effect no longer applies to things that cannot reasonably break.
Penetrating radar no longer recolors your non-radar field of vision.
Ice humors now correctly lower your temperature on hit instead of raising it.
BaseSludges no longer appear in dynamic encounters.
Made the description of long blades' critical hit effect more accurate.
Passing by a walkway no longer generates a message in the message log.
Creatures and plants expected to inhabit water are no longer subject to the flashing blue visual effect for 'wet'.
Sheba Hagadias's name appears correctly now when she spawns as a miner.
The message from autodrink now tells you the source of the water you drank.
When consuming liquids from a nonspecific source, as with autodrink for example, you will now prefer to drink from renewable sources
Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from wandering around the Six Day Stilt.
Fixed a bug that prevented Clairvoyance from seeing through vantabud and blood darkness when you had direct line of sight to the area.
Fixed a typo in the description of Psionic Migraines.
Fixed some capitalization inconsistency with 'Sightless Way'.
[beta] Fixed a bug that caused Sheba Hagadias to always spawn as a breathbeard.

[ 2021-02-27 07:50:14 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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