Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - July 22, 2022

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Mysterious gunslingers now often generate with wide-brimmed hats and woven tunics.
When you put extradimensional gemstones in a rock tumbler, you now get their extradimensional smooth varieties out.
Newly sentient beings with onboard power generation can now power Jacked equipment. This change won't apply to creatures that already exist in saved games.
Dangerous liquids that are out of phase or that you're flying over no longer prompt you with a movement warning in autoexplore.
The default option when prompted to confirm the deletion of a save is no longer Yes.
The flattened remains one occasionally stumbles onto in the salt marsh is now considered interesting.
A creature ceasing to fly in the same tile as a giant clam now uses the same behavior as walking into that tile.
Bep no longer minds if you use the rock tumbler in the Yd Freehold.
Hookahs can now be sealed. This change won't apply to hookahs that already exist in saved games.
Creatures no longer attempt to equip Templar phylacteries in their primary hands.
Very smart creatures no longer activate Templar phylacteries if the wraith-knight would be hostile to them.
When you attempt to move into a tile with an animated door that's locked, you no longer attempt to open them.
"Kin" is now recognized as a plural noun.
Removed some unimplemented mutations from various creatures.
The bonus item mod chance from equipping multiple copies of the Otherpearl once again stacks multiplicatively.
Added a message when selecting 'replay last character' and no valid last character is present.
Fixed a bug that caused the mental action cost reduction from Two-headed to not get applied.
Fixed a bug that made point-defense drones fail to fire at some thrown objects.
Fixed some issues with the tile display of walls in villages.
Fixed a bug that caused some named items to have their original item type described strangely.
Fixed a bug that made it so that if fungal infections were occupying two Hand slots, each would try to also occupy a Hands slot rather than sharing one.
Fixed a bug that made it so that a fungal infection occupying a Hand slot could also occupy a Hands slot that was not the one associated with the Hand slot.
Fixed a bug that caused an invalid detail color to crash the game.
[modding] All wall tiles have been updated to use DetailColor as their secondary color instead of BackgroundColor.

[ 2022-07-23 07:44:25 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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