Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - March 17, 2023

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The Barathrumites now offer the choice between a masterwork carbine and a masterwork chain pistol upon completing a certain quest.
Companions who can technologically generate force bubbles now respect being told not to.
Dawning apes are now more convincingly considered robots.
Added spitting slugs back to regional populations.
Cages now have a new tile and can be entered.
Faundren villagers are now docile by default.
Made some improvements to liquid freezing.
- It now takes a larger, more sensible volume of liquid to freeze into large rock walls, for those liquids that freeze into rock.
- Freezing containers of convalessence no longer obliterates them.
- Creatures in the same tile as a liquid that freezes into a solid wall now become stuck.
- Creatures that become stuck from a pool of liquid freezing under them are now immediately freed if the pool melts or is destroyed.
Being stuck is now included in creatures' display name, like sitting or lying down.
The stuck effect now displays more information about what you're stuck in.
When you talk to Sparafucile during A Call to Arms, you no longer reference equipped items you don't actually have equipped.
Turbow and linear cannon now have appropriate tinker categories for the purpose of SchemaSoft implants.
Added a heavy weapons category to SchemaSoft.
Changed the tile and color for fossilized remains.
Short display names for liquid pools no longer display the number of drams in the pool.
Achievements based on equipping things now only trigger if the item is equipped properly.
Food no longer typically has 'equip' as its default action.
When navigating to a point of interest that's a creature, you now more reliably go to that creature's new location if they move.
Fixed a bug that allowed item duplication when twinning and trining lampreys made new lampreys.
Fixed a bug that caused the Non-Locally Sourced achievement to be uncompleteable.
Fixed a typo in the message displayed when something falls on a creature.
Fixed some grammar errors in tomb inscriptions.
[modding] Conversations now support negated versions of the IfHasBlueprint and IfWearingBlueprint predicates, IfNotHasBlueprint and IfNotWearingBlueprint.

[ 2023-03-18 07:42:48 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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