Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - September 22, 2023

204.106

You can no longer deploy wire strands on the world map.
You can no longer deploy wire strands that are rusted or broken.
Creatures can now only vomit once every three turns.
Creatures in stasis can no longer be dismembered or decapitated.
Learning Kickback now enables NPCs to fire missile weapons at point-blank range if they did not previously do so.
Neelahind now knows how to use the shield she carries.
The cragmensch and glittermensch capacity to extract boulders from their own bodies is no longer visible via techscanning.
Chiral rings equipped by someone in stasis no longer dismember adjacent creatures.
Autoexplore now chats with sparking baetyls that you have not yet spoken to.
Pathfinding now goes to slightly more effort to avoid being next to pits.
When unlocking a door with a security card that is in a stack, the stack count is no longer displayed.
Creatures can no longer start flying while overburdened or while engulfing another creature.
Engulfing now forces both the engulfer and engulfee to land if they were flying.
Fixed a bug that caused NPCs who equipped a piece of armor in place of a worse piece of armor then become enthusiastic to equip the worse piece of armor as an improvised weapon.
Fixed a bug that made trading for very low value items free.
Fixed a bug that made being submerged prevent beginning to swim or wade.
[modding] Updated Harmony to version 2.2.2.

205.65 - 'beta' branch

Fixed a bug that prevented 'find a relic' dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
Fixed a bug that prevented 'find a relic' dynamic quests from immediately completing the find step if you currently posess the relic when you get the quest.
Fixed a bug that prevented 'find a specific item' dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
Fixed a bug that prevented 'interact with a specific item' dynamic quests to stop working if you swapped bodies.
Fixed a bug that caused the first step for site-finding dynamic quests to not complete if you found the site before you acquired the quest.
Fixed a bug that caused Temporal Fugue to have no cooldown.
[modding] Improved the map editor UI.
[modding] Fixed a bug in the map editor that caused dragging the map to be scaled improperly.
[modding] Systems now support PlayerEquipped, PlayerActivating, and PlayerObjectAddedToInventory.
[modding] GameSystems.FireEvent now supports all events fired on the player
[modding] There is a new GameSystems class which provides public static helpers for raising an event on all game systems.

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[ 2023-09-23 06:05:48 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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