Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - May 5, 2023

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The watervine farmer calling now starts with bonus reputation with the Farmers' Guild.
Ticking vents are now limited to spawning 30 clockwork beetles in total.
Fungal infections on hands now display their stats as melee weapons.
You now fall to the ground if you lose your wings in-flight.
Gave equimaxes double-muscled.
Creatures are now more willing to attack force fields and plant growth and, sometimes, dig through walls to reach an enemy.
Gigantic creatures now break most beds and chairs they attempt to sleep or sit in.
Certain liquids are now converted to other liquids if they react with a desalination pellet.
The target selection prompt for stasis and force projectors now refers to a field rather than a wall.
You can no longer enter the [redacted] if you do not bear the Mark of Death.
The bit cost of item modifications is now in part based on the base item's tech tier instead of its general tier. This mostly has no impact, except that it's now easier to mod recoilers even if they port you to late-game locations.
When a creature is pushed or pulled due to an effect that propels them through the air (e.g., Slam, gravity grenade), they no longer interact with liquid pools they pass over.
Pariahs in pariah groups no longer exhibit extremely antisocial behavior like leaving trash trails and swallowing things whole.
Attempting to sleep on a bed or sit on a chair with a neutral creature in its square now swaps positions with the creature, if possible, rather than asking if you want to attack them.
Added new descriptions for several creatures.
Removed an outdated version of Electrical Generation from electrofuges and gave them the newer one.
Improved some suboptimal grammar in tombstone messages.
Fixed a bug that occasionally made exploding items explode multiple times.
Fixed a bug that allowed you to complete quests with temporary items.
Fixed a bug that caused permanent clones of narratively important NPCs to flag the original as dead when the clone died.
Fixed a bug that made geomagnetic discs not overloadable.
Fixed a bug that prevented NPCs from reloading some missile weapons.
Fixed a bug that made the fists installed by fist replacement cybernetics persist after the implant was removed.
Fixed a bug that prevented the player from automatically equipping a torch on game start.

[ 2023-05-06 07:39:50 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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