Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - July 16, 2021

201.113/202.73

Digging tools now work on rubble and boulders.
You can no longer clean things while frozen.
You are now asked for confirmation when loading ammo that's marked as important.
You no longer get popup messages for unlocking security doors during autoact.
In their requests, sparking baetyls now refer to cooking ingredients in terms of servings rather than sets.
The root knot is more friendly.
Added an option to control the 'press right to equip selected item' behavior on the Inventory screen. It defaults to on.
Fixed a variety of bugs related to primary limb selection becoming unset over serialization cycles
Fixed a bug that made autoexplore inaccurately say there was nothing left to explore when actually it was being sensitive to the presence of enemies, particularly when using clairvoyance.
Fixed a bug that caused dropping objects to exit the inventory screen.
Fixed a bug that made it possible to be a point of interest when dominating some creatures.
Fixed a bug that caused map generation in ruins to prefer to spawn sultan statues in the northwest corner.
Fixed a bug that caused psychic hunters to occasionally spawn on the world map.
Fixed a bug that prevented turrets who gained mobility through flight from flying in combat.
Fixed a bug that caused world generation to fail if you became loved by a faction before the game started.
Fixed the Bey Lah zone name appearing as "flower fields" instead of Bey Lah.
Fixed a bug in how electrical discharges are attributed.
Fixed a bug that caused the interact menu of [redacted] to persist through after you [redacted].
Fixed some text coloration issues when noting a location in your journal.
Fixed a bug that caused action queue inconsistences at the start of a new game.
[modding] You can now use placement hints for zone and party objects in faction encounters.

[ 2021-07-17 05:54:18 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

💰 Games on Sale 💰

GAMEBILLET

[ 5951 ]