Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - March 4, 2022

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Wings and functional flight equipment now provide their overland travel bonuses regardless of whether you enable flight (you are presumed to always be flying in overland travel if you are able to).
Relics with the ability to dismember now decapitate independently of the wielder's Decapitate skill, similarly to serrated weapons, with twice the chance to do so that serrated weapons have.
Grenades can no longer be detonated on the world map.
Large boulders now render above doors.
Fixed an issue with the gamepad ability selection not activating some abilities properly, such as sprint.
Fixed a snippet of dialog with Indrix that indicated the wrong direction to travel.
Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to report Eskhind's death to Neelahind or Hindriarch Keh.
Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot multiple [redacted] if you managed to move them into the same zone.
Fixed a bug that caused Trailblazer and Wilderness Lore to have twice the effect on travel speed they were meant to.
Fixed some cases where lots of furniture would end up stacked in a single cell.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause halls in some areas to be blocked by statues and boulders in a way that would block off access to stairs.
Fixed a bug that caused the stairs to the liminal way to sometimes be encased in walls.
Fixed a bug that caused NPCs in villages to spawn in unreachable voids.
Fixed an issue that caused a variety of rare strange behavior, such as swimming through dirt paths.
Fixed an issue with double articles in the names of some historic sites generated in some terrains.
[modding] GameObject.Explode() can now take an optional argument List Hit that will be used as the tracking list for what objects the explosion has affected.
[modding] The 'placeobjecttest' wish is now more robust when wishing for invalid blueprints.

[ 2022-03-05 04:38:09 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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