Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - May 12, 2023

204.72

Added a remappable command for interacting with your companions (defaults to Ctrl-C).
Items being gigantic no longer uses up one of their three modding slots.
Improved the artifact identification messages shown when you permanently come to understand an artifact you temporarily understand due to tech or bioscanning.
When a weapon can only penetrate a maximum of 1x, the penetration arrow icon in its display name is now black.
Offhand attacks from your stinger now always apply their venom.
Palladium electrodeposits are now destroyed on removal, and their Intelligence bonus, when applicable, now counts toward skill requirements. (Existing implants in saved games will not be affected.)
Becoming hungry no longer interrupts autoact. Becoming famished still does.
Items marked to be treated as scrap no longer continue to be treated as scrap if they become unidentified.
Brinestalk gates and iron gates no longer occlude vision while closed.
Popups from pulsed field magnets ripping things off your body now require you to press space to dismiss them.
You no longer get a chronology entry for visiting a generated village if it's the village you started in.
Gave glowsphere and silver rondure more appropriate tiles.
Made the gigantic chassis plate metal.
Made wavy doors metal.
Improved the sort order of liquid containers.
Fixed a bug that caused named items to include superfluous details about their state in their descriptions.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Find Eskhind" quest to start when Eskhind was slain.
Fixed an issue where pressing a movement direction multiple times could cause one press to not register.
Fixed a bug that made nulling melee weapons not necessarily eligible for the Jacked mod.
Fixed a bug that made autoexplore unable to swap positions with animated doors that the player was unable to unlock.
Fixed a bug that made some remote sensing effects carry through inappropriate colors to the tiles shown.
[modding] The PortableWall part now supports a field DeployingWhat for controlling the text the field picker displays.

[ 2023-05-13 09:00:58 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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