Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

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Disassembling single-bit scrap once again shows the bit that is obtained.
Putting items in a chest you are carrying no longer attempts to describe the location of the chest.
The trade screen no longer requests confirmation when putting important items in containers unless the containers are owned.
Ancient bones and tar-encrusted bones now have more bone-like tiles.
Dynamically generated compound words are now a little easier to read.
Fixed a bug that caused equipping too many Otherpearls to cause an integer overflow on the chance to drop extradimensional items.
Multiple Otherpearls now stack their chances to drop extradimensional items linearly rather than multiplicatively. Ex: equipping six Otherpearls now multiplies the extradimensional item drop chance by 30, not by 15625.
Fixed a bug that caused turret tinkers to sometimes build a turret in the tile they were occupying.
Fixed a bug that caused fungal infections on the hand to be incurable.
Fixed a bug that caused fungal infections to disappear when applied to anything but a hand.
Fixed a bug that caused you to sometimes start in the ruins of Joppa when selecting a generated village start.
Fixed a bug that prevented you from being able to jump into clams.
Fixed a bug that prevented dynamic villages and their respective factions from being generated.
Fixed a bug that made phase-conjugate and phase-harmonic grenades fail to perform their phase effects if detonated using the 'detonate' interaction.
Fixed a bug that made harvesting a stack of witchwood wreaths render the rest of the stack unharvestable.
Fixed a bug that made falling down while flying trigger Quantum Jitters.
Fixed a bug that allowed Amnesia and memory eaters to override the effect of air current microsensors until you left the zone and returned to it.
Fixed a bug that caused uninstalled gun rack implants to generate phantom copies of themselves in your inventory.
Fixed a bug that caused Force Bubble forcefields to be partially destroyed if active at the very edge of the world.
Fixed a bug that prevented block sounds from playing properly.
Fixed some grammar errors in tombstone text.
Fixed a dynamic pronoun issue in tomb mural text.
Fixed some dynamic pronoun issues in creature description text.
Fixed a capitalization issue with Rainwater Shomer's name.
[modding] Updated the HighScores.json format to store more information for easy access.
[modding] HitSounds now have a default 135ms delay, which can be overriden by the HitSoundDelay int property. The delay is specified in MS.
[modding] Added BlockSound and BlockSoundDelay tag/property support to shields.

[ 2022-06-11 06:07:19 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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