Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 14, 2023

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Quests to recover historic relics now include the name of the historic site in the quest text, in addition to the name of the level the relic is on. This does not necessarily mean the location of the historic site is revealed when you get the quest, though.
Leeches are no longer implied to produce chitin.
Spitting slugs now spit salty acid that evaporates over time.
Tweaked the artifact identification messaging.
Using an unidentified tonic now indicates that you have identified it with a message.
Large lists of pickable items with similar names now have a consistent sorting order, rather than items sometimes moving around in the list as you navigate it.
Colorless generic brooding puffs no longer appear in fungal sites.
Tree cherubim now equip their cherubic bark in the right place.
Non-player creatures who use Teleportation are now subject to its accuracy limitations.
Companions with force bubbles active no longer attempt to pathfind right up next to you, pushing you around.
There is a new companion interaction available, direct to change follow distance, that lets you direct companions to follow close by, at medium range, or far away.
Inanimate objects that are brought to life can no longer be brought to life a second time.
You can no longer activate the Flume-Flier of the Sky-Bear when wielding it is a weapon.
Gave the sizzling effect on liquid containers a more informative description.
Fixed a regression that allowed you to get infinite chrome keys from Otho.
Fixed a bug that caused physical transformations to incorrectly increase the base rank of other mutations.
Fixed a bug with generated village history text involving worshipped sultans.
Fixed a bug that prevented unlocking the Mutagenic Mastery achievement.
Fixed a bug that caused the Cloaca Surprise to give you an extra tail.
Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to leave the current screen when possessing a creature with a party leader.
Fixed a bug that caused corpses and other objects to become targets after killing a primary target with akimbo pistols.
Fixed some grammar errors in damage messages.
Fixed a pluralization error when learning crafting recipes via the water ritual.

[ 2023-04-15 07:21:22 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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