Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 1, 2022

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Villages are no longer occasionally colonized by multiple versions of the same legendary creature, which lead to various issues.
The quest 'Pax Klanq, I Presume?' now completes after you do the important step and talk to Barathrum about it, even if earlier quest steps are still active.
Events that would create an open pit in [redacted] now open space-time rifts instead.
Meyehind and Liihart now aid Eskhind if you initiate a fight with her via dialogue.
'Do You Really Want to Die' prompts now function correctly in modes with checkpoints.
Fixed a bug that caused the key mapping option in the system menu to set a checkpoint.
Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when an open pit appeared in a pocket dimension that wraps back onto itself in a single screen.
Fixed a bug that caused some secrets to fail to print to the message log when they were revealed.
Fixed a bug that caused blank sultan murals to appear in rare circumstances.
Fixed an exception caused by malformed color codes.
Fixed a bug that caused manually dismissed proselytes to keep following you.
Fixed a bug that caused Pax Klanq and other legendary fungi to infect a different limb from the one selected.
Fixed a bug that caused Pax Klanq to spawn outside his hut.
Fixed a bug that made it possible for a galgal to run over itself, particularly when possessed by the player.
Fixed bugs in the interaction of space-time vortices with reality stabilization that caused confusing messages and inappropriate showers of sparks.
Fixed a bug that made your force bubble not move with you when you jumped. (This probably also will result in jumping interacting with other movement-triggered events that it previously bypassed.)
Fixed a bug that made hydraulics presses only compress objects that were placed in them, not creatures who entered them.
Fixed a bug that prevented the comm panel from taking data disks from the player.
Fixed a typo with a Paralyzing Stinger exclusion.
[modding]Added anatomies for motes, mirrors, and octohedra.

[ 2022-04-02 06:19:57 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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