Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 22, 2022

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The Joppa Zealot is now much louder.
Improved the travel direction selection for the Joppa Zealot's particle effects.
Description text for Wilderness Lore: Rivers and Lakes now correctly describes the skill.
Slynth no longer leave behind human corpses.
Kaleidoslugs in the Yd Freehold now belong to the Yd Freehold faction.
You can no longer cross into [redacted] from outside the [redacted].
Made some clarifications in the help description of the Strength attribute.
Containers that occupy multiple tiles will now be moved together, and break if forcefully separated.
You will now be presented with a list of containers to open if several occupy the same tile.
Cybernetic implants are now described as such when specified in baetyl demands and similar contexts.
Pathfinding now more studiously avoids giant clams.
Fixed a bug that caused odd behavior from armor averaging when some of the body parts involved had 0 AV/DV and others didn't.
Fixed some cases where a lot of watervine or brinestalk would spawn in the same tile.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Joppa Zealot's particle text effect from displaying.
Fixed a bug that caused some liquids not to appear is valid cooking ingredients when they should have.
Fixed a typo in the names of recipes that use cloning draught as an ingredient.
Fixed some incorrect grammar in sultan tomb inscriptions.
Fixed a typo in the Tongue & Cheek recipe effect description.
Fixed a bug that caused the spreading of Klanq in the vicinity of the Six Day Stilt to only function within the cathedral.
Fixed a bug that allowed you to loot destroyed containers with the Open action.
Fixed a bug that caused the AI behavior of some movement and retreat related abilities to malfunction.
Fixed a bug that caused furniture to rarely spawn stacked.
Fixed a bug that increased world map lag.

[ 2022-04-23 07:02:47 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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