Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - August 19, 2023

204.101

Burning trash now sometimes releases gases.
Added several new descriptions for various foods.
NPCs are a little less eager to use Temporal Fugue when facing foes much, much weaker than them.
Sparking baetyls now take items directly out of your inventory if available. Important items are exempted and items on the ground will be taken first.
Sparking baetyls no longer request food cubes or Ekuemekiyyen greens.
Qudzu and pricklers now use the color of the wall behind them as a background color, like jilted lovers and livid creepers. Existing qudzu and pricklers in saved games will not be affected.
Made some adjustments to make wall-clinging creatures show up better on similarly-colored walls. Existing wall-clinging creatures in saved games will not be affected.
Falling rocks now affect the player's companions as well as the player.
Earthquakes in surface areas no longer inflict damage from falling rocks.
Being killed by falling rocks now has a case-specific death message.
Asphodel no longer ceases being hostile after a while if you invoke the Chaos Spiel.
Strip flies and modded companions can no longer rob tomb reliquaries without consequence.
Gave Rodanis Y a treaded body plan.
Clarified the description of the masterwork item mod.
Improved messaging when strip flies steal items from companions.
Improved messaging when companions attempt to loot tomb reliquaries.
Fixed a bug that caused cooking effects triggered by phasing out to process before the subject had finished phasing out.
Fixed a bug that made hidden inventory objects show up in lists of items to equip.
Fixed a bug that made sparking baetyls take less than the number of items they were asking for when provided with more than that number.
Fixed a bug that made the move speed buff from Wings sometimes display with way too many significant digits.
Fixed a bug that allowed becoming terrified to exempt you from being immobilized by stasis.
Fixed a bug that made the text =Name= appear in murals depicting you naming an item.
Fixed a bug that made autoexplore continue pathing into walls when you were temporarily phased.
Murals depicting you naming an item now use the item's short display name.
[modding] Multiple skillsofts affecting the same skill now interact correctly.

205.59 - 'beta' branch

Updated help with dynamic keybinds.
Added a new VFX for arrows.
Many performance improvements.
Fixed several issues with key re-binding.

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[ 2023-08-19 08:17:07 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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