Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - December 17, 2021

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Equipment with power switches, such as ontological anchors, night-vision goggles, and ninefold boots, now grasts you an activated ability for toggling their power.
Creatures that are immune to being damaged are now also immune to being dismembered.
Jewelers and gemcutters now have guards.
Corrected resonance grenade damage to non-structural objects in the grenade description.
Frog cherubim now correctly belong to the frogs faction.
Regeneration tanks now tolerate impure convalessence mixtures as long as they contain at leats 100 drams and the mixture is at least two-thirds convalessence. Regen tanks in existing saved games won't be affected, though.
Regen tanks now properly regenerate tongues even when they're the only body part you lost.
Creatures no longer attempt to use Disintegration against enemies they are out of phase with.
Gave the [redacted] sapient plant properties.
You can no longer [redacted] before starting the Tomb of the Eaters quest.
Added the arcology names back to the true kin caste selection screen.
Cooking effects that identify all artifacts on the local map now identify implanted cybernetics.
Fixed a bug that caused variables to occasionally display in the names of village factions.
Fixed a bug that caused hologram bracelets to have infinite range.
Fixed an issue that occasionally caused invalid text to be generated after leaving a zone with an object you were lovesick for.
Fixed a bug with temporal fugue clones and other temporary objects that prevented zones from unloading, degrading performance.
Fixed an issue that occasionally caused out-of-date copies of your body or your followers to return from [redacted].
Made the text color consistent across hyperbiotic object names.
Fixed a wrong identation in Corpus Choliys.
Fixed a bug that made sower's seeds considered inorganic and eligible for donation at the sacred well.
Fixed the pluralization of 'moments in time chosen arbitrarily'.
Fixed a pluralization issue in dynamic quest text.
Fixed a rare bug that caused saves to fail to load.
Fixed a bug that caused your [redacted] to fail to generate properly.
[modding] Made the 'sheeter' wish more robust.

[ 2021-12-18 09:47:47 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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