Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - March 10, 2023

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Gaze and light-based attacks are now blocked by vantabud and vantabloom darkness.
Spaser rifles now deal plasma damage instead of light damage.
Phase cannons and decarbonizers now deal disintegration damage instead of light damage.
Plasma damage now has its own death message.
Nerfed psychodyne helmet.
Added several new wall descriptions.
Added an Ego requirement to [redacted].
You now need to be adjacent to a creature to perform the water ritual.
Primordial soup no longer cools into shale.
Removed an outdated version of cryokinesis from ice frogs and gave them Freezing Ray.
Star kraken no longer excrete quasi-real starch and lignin.
It's no longer possible to deal negative damage.
Dromad traders now politely pretend to be fooled by the disguises their customers wear.
Made further adjustments to make creatures prefer not to use non-weapon equipment as improvised weapons.
Messages displayed for taking zero damage now say "no damage" rather than "0 damage".
Added rules text for what camel bladder does.
Accomplishments based on eating something no longer complete if you fail to eat the thing.
Pyrokinesis and Cryokinesis can no longer be activated on the world map.
Cooking effects triggered by drinking freshwater no longer trigger on the world map.
Added a basic description to Rebuke Robot ability.
The heads of high-level robots now more consistently contain high-level bits.
You now get an appropriate message when you attempt to shield slam a target you can't reach because it's playing.
You now get an appropriate message when you attempt to shield slam a target who's out of phase with you.
Twinning and trining lampreys now spawn with the same effects in place that the lamprey spawning them has.
Fixed various bugs that caused the allegiance of twinning and trining lampreys to behave strangely in some interactions of their spawning behavior, Proselytize, Beguiling, love injectors, and/or cloning.
Fixed a bug that caused Disintegration, Light Manipulation, and Stunning Force not to benefit from Two-Headed.
Fixed a bug that allowed you to eat a luminous hoarshroom at no action cost if you did it through thethe overlay UI inventory view.
Fixed a bug that caused agolmaggots to lack any natural weapons.
Fixed a bug that made non-companion creatures sucked through spacetime vortices create action queue inconsistencies.

[ 2023-03-11 09:24:02 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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