Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 21, 2023

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We made some changes to geomagnetic discs.
- They no longer bypass walls or doors.
- They no longer have unlimited range for reaching their initial target.
- They no longer target the same creature twice in a given throw.
- They no longer rely on the thrower's vision to find targets.
- Their base charge use is lower.
- Their charge use is now asserted on every bounce.
- When disabled due to lack of charge, they now fail to activate and are not thrown.
- When targets are out of phase with them, they now attempt to hit the target and fail, rather than refraining from the attempt.
- Previously, when used by NPCs, they would use the NPC's strength bonus for the to-hit calculation rather than agility bonus if the strength bonus was higher. They no longer do this.
- Deft Throwing and parabolic muscular subroutines now improve their chance to hit.
- Their appearance in flight is now that of their tile.
- Seeing one in action now identifies it.
- Fixed a bug that made them fail to target some hostile creatures who had not yet noticed the player.
The move speed penalty from equipping heavy weapons is now surfaced as a status effect, Hampered.
You can no longer open or close doors if you are unable to move your extremities.
Creatures with no hands or hand-likes can no longer open or close doors.
A chronology entries is no longer recorded for trying to rename a companion who already has a proper name.
Unidentified thrown weapons no longer autoequip to the thrown weapon slot.
Equipment, inventory, and some companions now persist when an object is glitched via warm static. ((Beguiled/proselytized creatures will still lose interest if new body can't support them))
Reduced the number of "target temperature reached" messages issued by transkinetic cuffs.
Improved the journal verbiage when you learn a secret that's known by a faction but not the faction you learned the secret from.
Improved the grammar across many spots in text generation.
Fixed a bug that caused Spread Klanq quest steps not to complete after a save/load cycle.
Fixed some situations where inanimate objects would become targeted during a multi-weapon ranged attack.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused you to fall in love with quest-related statues or statues created by lithofex gazes, even if there was no reason to love them.
Fixed a bug that caused pure warm static to not glitch objects its container shattered on.
Fixed a bug that caused the inventory or equipment screen to be rendered blank when you glitched yourself via warm static.
Fixed a bug that made fungal infections not operate properly when occupying left/right/upper/lower body parts. This fix won't affect existing fungal infections in saved games.
Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quests steps requiring an item not to complete in some circumstances, like receiving the item as a gift during the water ritual.
Fixed a bug that caused dynamic quest steps requiring an item not to complete if you already had the item in your inventory at the start of the quest.
Fixed a bug that made in-place disassembly of energy cells slotted into sockets often fail if you had other energy cells that could stack with that one in your inventory.
Fixed a bug that caused [owned by you] to appear on sold items if you had stored them in a container at any point prior.
Fixed a grammar error in some sentences involving compacted bone matter.

[ 2023-04-22 08:27:20 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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