Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - June 16, 2023

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We made Kickback work with any missile attack and moved it under the Tactics skill tree.
Bilge sphincter bonuses are now considered "base".
Normality fields have a new appearance.
Reduced the difficulty of the save to avoid going prone from Rocket Jump.
Various items that provide saving throw modifiers now say what they are doing using more descriptive language.
Simplified some save modifier language involving forced movement.
Creatures are now much less willing to use special movement abilities to go to dangerous locations.
Slog is now more willing to enter pools of filth.
The Stuck effect from a grabber arm now ends if the grabber arm is destroyed or moved out of adjacency to the target.
Hints about location of the Ruin of House Isner found in books now use more sensible language when the hint is less than one parasang.
Fixed various cases of things being described awkwardly as sets. This fix will show up unevenly in existing saved games.
Fixed a bug that removed creatures' titles from restocking announcements and points of interest.
Fixed a bug that caused the messages for discovering a lair not to indicate the type of creature the lair owner is. Lairs in existing save games will not be affected.
Fixed a bug that caused several quests not to complete correctly if you had swapped bodies. More fixed quests to come next week.
Fixed a bug that caused crashes in some situations with stuck creatures.
Fixed a bug that caused the player's name to be rendered as "you" when items were named for them.
Fixed a bug that caused some maker's marks to cause strange text generation.
Fixed a capitalization issue with generated quest item names.
Fixed a bug that caused some exotic construction materials to be described as wet when they weren't.
Fixed bugs that caused brinestalk, sliced bop cheek, wild rice to be treated as plural.
[modding] Added a new part, ExcludeMods, that can be used like to prevent an item from getting specified mods it would otherwise qualify for. Exclude="*" will exclude all mods, though typically that would be done using .
[modding] Added AfterSecretRevealed, PlayerAfterConversation and PlayerEnteredCell events to IGameSystem.

[ 2023-06-17 07:20:15 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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