Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

The beta is here! Palladium Reef + New Character Creation

The beta for our latest feature arc -- Palladium Reef / New Chargen -- has arrived. The patch is unpolished but very functional; the full release is likely to come in the next few weeks. Here is an incomplete list of patch notes. NEW LATE-GAME REGIONS

Added two new late game regions: Lake Hinnom and the Palladium Reef.
Added a new village, the Yd Freehold, with several new NPCs.
Added new creatures: svardym hatchling, svardym jut, svardym scrounge, svardym eld, prism perch, white esh, quatravolt glider, trining lamprey, giant clam, reef hermit, plasma jelly, kaleidoslug, enigma snail, junk dollar, tongue tyrant, sultan croc, star kraken, galgal, and slynth wanderer.
Added a new side quest (partially implemented). It's up to you to figure out where to get it.
Expanded the Rainbow Wood and configured it to include dynamic sites like villages, ruins, and lairs.

CHARACTER CREATION AND UI

Entirely refactored the character generation sequence to be much more sensible, highly moddable, and use an all-new, responsive, fully keyboardable AND mousable UI.
Added nine new preset character builds. These are designed to help new players get started, but they're also fully customizable.
Added two new game modes (these were already live on the beta branch):
- Roleplay Mode - checkpointing at settlements
- Wander Mode - checkpointing at settlements, no XP for kills, bonus XP for discoveries, creatures begin neutral to you
Made several enhancements to the new UI.
[Modding] Added a new, highly-extensible data file, EmbarkModules.xml, that drives character creation.

NEW THINGS

Added new items: gravity grenade, plasma grenade, eigenpistol, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, light rail, hand rail, di-thermo beam, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, psychal fleshgun, step sowers, 3D cobblers, slip ring, gas tumbler, thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, chiral rings, tri-hologram bracelet, night-sight interpolators, precision nanon fingers, psychic meridian.
Added new cybernetic implants: tibular hydrojets, optical multiscanner, magnetic core, skin glitter, stasis projector, crysteel hand bones, and [redacted].
Added three new item mods: snail-encrusted, nanon, and fitted with beamsplitter.
Added two new liquids: algae and sunslag.
Added a new gas: plasma.
Added a new type of cybernetic implant merchant: gutsmonger. There's one guaranteed in the SE corner of the Stiltgrounds.
Added organ markets.
Added a whole bunch of new furniture.
Added a whole bunch of new tile art.

OTHER CHANGES

Made significant visual enhancements to the world map.
Gave several existing merchants cybernetic implants as wares.
Gunslingers now start with Akimbo instead of Weak Spotter, and they start with much more ammo.
Water Merchants now start with Short Blade.
Modified how plant-based cooking effects work.
Changed salt krakens behavior.
You can no longer disassemble non-takeable furniture.
Soup sludges now appear in dynamic encounters.
Added Omonporch and the Yd Freehold as landmarks.
Village ovens can no longer include psychal gland paste.
Morphotypes now show up in the character sheet.
[Modding] Added three new body types for clams, jellies, and starfish.
[Beta] Added a wish for late-game testing: reefjump.

If you're interested, come help us test! Our focus right now is on broad scale testing: big bugs, big balance issues, and big UI issues. Here's a thread for feedback. To access the beta: right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Live and drink, friends.

[ 2021-08-31 23:32:23 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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