Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - July 9, 2021

201.110/202.70

Added a new item mod, overloaded, that can be tinkered or found on a variety of electronics, including most energy weapons. Overloaded items have increased performance but draw extra charge, generate heat when used, and have a chance to break relative to their charge draw.
Overloaded laser pistols are now normal laser pistols with the overloaded mod applied.
You can no longer repair items in combat, generally.
The micromanipulator array implant now lets you repair items in combat at an action cost of one turn.
Added new dialogue for crab farmers, leech farmers, cat herders, snail farmers, goat herders, amoeba farmers, beetle farmers, and schematics drafters.
You can no longer enter yourself if you are a piece of enclosing furniture such as an iron maiden, a regeneration tank, or a psionic sarcophagus.
Spray bottles can now be manually sealed and unsealed.
Ganglionic teleprojectors now cost less charge to activate but have a per-turn cost while active.
Nulling armors, ontological anchors, and items with co-processors no longer consume charge on the world map.
Added the option to set a custom autosave interval for zone transitions (Options > Automation > Automatic save on zone transition).
Cases where chairs, beds, and enclosing furniture move or are picked up while someone is using them are now handled properly.
Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to never spawn if you abandoned your original body.
Fixed a bug that caused AI to continuously reload their magazine and liquid-loaded weapons if they also had an empty energy cell socket.
Fixed a bug that caused visible damage you were responsible for not to be printed to the message log unless the recipient was adjacent to you.
Fixed a bug that caused creatures to continue to display as enclosed when the furniture that was enclosing them was destroyed.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to end prematurely when targeting a companion.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to not play its sound or visual effects when the target died.
Fixed a bug that caused Sunder Mind to print its damage message after the target had died.
Fixed a bug that made the walk command attack a wall you arrive at if you have a digging capability active.
Fixed an exception when cancelling aggression.
Fixed a bug that caused VSync to stop functioning when the game window was resized on Linux.
Fixed some missing spaces in preacher sermons and generated book text.

[ 2021-07-10 04:43:15 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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