Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - May 26, 2023

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Gaslight chisels can now be used to engrave hard, inorganic body parts in a fashion similar to how tattoo guns can be used to tattoo soft, organic body parts. (Existing gaslight chisels in saved games will not receive this functionality.)
Digging while autoexploring or otherwise pathfinding now prefers somewhat to dig through softer walls.
When a selected target square for Jump is invalid, you are now asked to select it again rather than exiting the command entirely.
Village pets talk less like villagers now, and smart use brings up their interaction menu rather than immediately chatting with them.
Attacks now pass harmlessly through holographic walls, unless they are animated.
Reduced the weight (and thus gravity grenade damage when they slam into you) of conveyor belts.
Added some references to the Corpus Choliys and spray bottles in apothecary dialolg.
Non-player creatures can now use the following implants if they have them installed: matter recompositer, high-fidelity matter recompositer, inflatable axons, nocturnal apex, and stasis projector.
Non-player creatures wielding psionic melee weapons now unequip them if their target is immune to psychic attacks.
Non-player creatures wielding psychal fleshguns now stop trying to shoot targets that are immune to psychic attacks.
Improved the death messages for being killed by your Temporal Fugue clones and similar phenomena.
Fixed a bug where "Wait N turns" was waiting 1 extra turn.
Fixed a color inconsistency in village generated dialog.
Fixed a bug that prevented smart use on some objects from correctly bringing up their interaction menu when it was supposed to.
Fixed a bug that caused plural creatures to sometimes be referred to as a set of themselves.
Fixed a bug that caused some cybernetic implants to sometimes be described strangely.
[modding] Added an after-render callback to some displays that were not using it (especially Targeting displays).
[modding] Fixed a bug that caused XML files of failed mods to be loaded.
[modding] The unapproved mod alert now only displays when nothing else prevents that mod from running.
[modding] Generally standardized on use of The.Player over Core.Player.Body
[modding] Fixed several instances where UI screens (Skills and Powers, Status, etc.) were referencing The.Player directly instead of the object passed in to them.

[ 2023-05-27 07:11:30 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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