Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - July 1, 2022

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Creatures can now shank.
"Skills and powers"" are now just called "skills".
Droid scramblers are now considered metal.
Gave droid scramblers a commerce value.
Gas breathing mutations are now affected by the gas tumbler.
Mushroom cherubim now have more appropriate idealized features.
Mechanical urchin cherubim now have idealized features that match non-mechanical urchin cherubim.
When a creature is cloned via cloning draught or by a cloneling, the clone no longer carries over graftek grafts.
You can now select several artifacts at once to throw down the sacred well.
Added missing "molten wax drop" object.
Conveyor belts now have 64,000 HP, down from 250,000 HP.
Added a user interface option to disable most tile-based flashing and animation effects.
The same sound can no longer be played more than once in a single frame. This fixes several issues with sound volumes.
Unequipping the [redacted] via [redacted] of a [redacted] now angers [redacted] similarly to as if you had used [redacted].
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the stairs created by spiral borers to override the generation of normal stairs.
Fixed a bug that caused recharge sounds to sometimes play too loudly.
Fixed a bug that caused buggy dialog options like "MISSING_QUESTION" and "MISSING_ANSWER" to appear in village immigrants' dialogs.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible for 1-pound metal items to become coated with liquids.
Fixed a bug that caused the majority of encounters on the world map to become undiscoverable after reloading the game.
Fixed a bug that caused followers who end up on the world map for some reason to crash the game.
Fixed a bug that caused followers joining their leader from the world map to pass time as if you, the player, were traveling.
Fixed a bug that caused stingers to appear in the inventory.
Fixed a bug that caused krakens to fail to change their behavior in any way because of being terrified.
Fixed a bug that caused precognitive visions gained via sphynx salt injectors to continuously ask if you wished to return to the start of your vision.
Fixed a bug that caused unequipping the [redacted] to leave permanent attribute modifiers behind.
Fixed a bug that caused some sets of strange tubes to not be treated as plural.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused game state to not reset after reloading.
Fixed a bug that caused single-size penetration dice to explode infinitely.
Fixed a rare bug that caused the game to freeze on the Freehold splash screen.
Fixed a soft lock when speaking to Pax Klanq without Q Girl's climber blueprints.
Fixed a frequent crash caused by an interaction between temporal fugue and force bracelets.
Fixed errors in Kah and Nacham's dialogue.
Fixed some typos in polished gemstone descriptions.
Fixed a typo with rectangular bells.
[pets] Gloaming no longer respawns on the world map, forestalling a possible crash.

[ 2022-07-02 06:43:39 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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