Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - December 23, 2022

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We made some balance changes to the [redacted].
- Metachrome weapons no longer have a penetration cap.
- Vastly increased tortoise [redacted] Carapace rank.
- Vastly increased cragmensch [redacted] AV and strength.
- Removed the malus for installing cybernetic implants as the hamsa of the [redacted].
- Gave oddities a new body.
Faction delegates should behavior a little more cordially during the Omonporch negotiation.
Spark ticks are now considered arachnids.
Night-sight interpolators are now considered metal.
Made camel bladders a little more common.
You no longer rifle through trash (and spend the action cost doing so) while charging through it.
Tweaked Triple-Jointed description.
Holographic trees now appear more rarely in village farms.
Plucking coral polyps while confused now displays a confused name for the polyp.
Followers no longer Slam themselves constantly.
Fixed a bug that caused hexagonal crystals to always appear magenta.
Fixed a bug that caused the sidebar to hide while pressing Shift and entering text.
Fixed a bug that caused natural equipment to be damageable.
Fixed a bug that caused some dynamic locations to not properly trigger checkpoints.
Fixed a bug that caused the numpad workaround for the MacOS13 Unity bug to not register entries in some menus.
Fixed a typo in pet Ercolano's description. Redeem this pet again to get the fix.
Fixed a body bug with the pet Recall Star. Below are some additional notes from the Moon Stair patch.
- You can now delete recipes from your journal.
- Syphon Vim no longer affects inorganic creatures, as indicated by its rules text.
- Modern UI text input boxes now escape & and ^ color formatting codes. The new color formatting style (e.g. {{color|shaders}}) still works.
- Fixed another bug that made point-defense drones fail to fire at thrown objects.
- Fixed a bug with controller targeting.
- Fixed a bug that caused the next command to be ignored after you used the Move to Zone Edge command.
- Fixed a bug that caused creatures to not use Slam.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the game to freeze on the Freehold Games loading screen due to errors loading mods.
- Fixed a bug that caused build codes with selected gender or pronoun sets to fail to load correctly. This should fix errors with the last character option during character creation.
- [modding] Added additional logging for ObjectBlueprints.XML errors: missing inherits and missing tag.
- [modding] Made the hateReasons and likeReasons on XRL.World.Parts.GenerateFriendOrFoe and GenerateFriendOrFoe_HEB public.

[ 2022-12-24 07:37:38 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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