Our next feature arc, Creatures of the 7th Plague, is now in beta! Big picture, this arc includes the next quest in the main questline, significant updates to the UI and input, lots of new visual and sound effects, lots of performance improvements, and many gameplay changes. If you'd like to help us test it, right-click on Caves of Qud in Steam, select Properties, click the Betas tab, and switch to the 'beta' branch. Check out this thread if you want to post your feedback and get access to fast-forward wishes to help test the new quest. Note: previous saves won't be compatible with this beta. Live and drink, friends. Patch notes below.
NEW MAIN QUEST AND THE GIRSH NEPHILIM
UI AND INPUT
Several of these changes were merged in from the "input" beta.
- Added icons for every ability.
- Added in-depth, dynamic descriptions for many abilities (the rest to come).
- You can reorder abilities on the Abilities screen and they will also reorder in your hotbar.
- Your abilities are now automatically hotkeyed. You can change the hotkeys from the Abilities screen.
- Added hotkeys for scrolling through your hotbars (default ctrl+1 - ctrl+5).
- New ability icons also appear on the hotbar.
- Added the new ability icons to the old UI sidebar. They also now respect the order of abilities on your ability screen.
- Added new visual effects for several abilities: flaming ray, flame breath, teleportation, slammed, digging, and temporal fugue.
- Added new visual effects for several types of deaths: decapitation, transmuted, consumed, lased to death, and immolated.
- Added new visual effects for several missile weapons: all lead slug weapons, all arrows, laser rifle, chain laser, laser pistol, point defense laser, spitting seed plant, light rondure, flamer thrower, null ray pistol, and rocket launchers.
- Added new visual effects for several other creatures and items: aloe pyra, flaming vents, HE grenades, neutron flux, and hookah.
- Added new visual effects for throwing.
- Replaced the combat slash animation with a new one that has three grades of intensity for 1, 2-3 and 4+ penetrations.
- Added a new animation for bludgeoning damage.
- Added a new block animation.
GAMEPLAY
- Renamed the skill tree to Physic and reduced the initial purchase cost to 50sp.
- Staunch Wounds now simply improves your bandaging rolls, both in and out of combat.
- You can now use Staunch Wounds on your companions.
- Removed the Heal and Set Limb skills.
- Added a new skill: Nostrums. 100sp. INT 21.
- You can treat bleeding, poison, illness, and disease onset at a campfire.
- Treatments can be applied to companions.
- Some treatments require a medicinal ingredient.
- Added a new skill: Amputate limb. 50sp. INT 23.
- You can voluntarily amputate your own limbs.
- You can amputate your companions' limbs, if they are infected or equipped with unremoveable equipment.
- Added a new skill: Apothecary. 100sp. INT 25.
- Healing tonics you apply last an extra round.
- Renamed the skill tree Multiweapon Fighting and the skills Multiweapon Proficiency, Multiweapon Expertise, and Multiweapon Mastery.
- The bonuses to offhand attacks granted by Multiweapon Fighting skills now apply to all offhand limbs, except mutation-based weapons like Horns and Stinger. This now includes chimera limbs, as before, but also limbs granted by Multiple Arms and Helping Hands.
- Reduced the offhand bonuses from the three skills from (effective) +20/40/60% to +20/35/50%.
- Reduced the skill point cost. Each skill is now 150sp, down from 300sp.
- Natural offhand limbs and weapons wielded in offhand limbs now display their offhand attack chance in their descriptions.
- When you swap your primary limb, your old primary inherits the offhand chance of the new primary you swapped to. This was always the case but is now easier to track due to the offhand chance getting displayed in the limb/weapon description.
- Single Weapon Fighting. 150sp. AGI 17. You no longer make offhand attacks in exchange for mastery with a single weapon (toggleable).
- Opportune Attacks (free with skill) - Whenever you score a critical hit with a melee weapon, the cooldowns of up to two random weapon or shield skills are immediately refreshed.
- Expert Strikes. 200sp. AGI 19. Your attacks always penetrate one extra time.
- Weapon Mastery. 150sp. AGI 23. Whenever you make a melee attack, immediately make a second attack for free.
- Added new tiles and descriptions for each mutation variant. E.g., horns, horn, spiral horn, antlers, and casque now each have their own tiles and descriptions.
- Added new tiles and descriptions for Flaming Ray's ghostly flames and Freezing Ray's icy vapor.
- When you choose a variant during character generation, the appropriate tile and description are now displayed.
- When you randomly choose mutations during character generation, you can now get mutation variants.
- When you gain a mutation after character generation, you can now pick a variant.
MISCELLANEOUS
BUGFIXES
DEBUG & MODDING
- Improved the map editor UI.
- The workshop uploader now provides a native file picker for images.
- The workshop uploader now allows you to close the upload status screen after an error.
- The workshop uploader now allows you to elide hidden files from your uploads.
- The map editor now provides a native file picker for maps.
- Fixed a bug in the map editor that caused dragging the map to be scaled improperly.
- The mod manager now displays disabled mods as grey instead of red.
- GameSystems.FireEvent now supports all events fired on the player
- There is a new GameSystems class which provides public static helpers for raising an event on all game systems.
- Added string, int, float, list, and dictionary properties to Quest XML.
- ReflectDamage is now an IActivePart.
- Systems now support PlayerEquipped, PlayerActivating, and PlayerObjectAddedToInventory.
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- Caves of Qud - Linux [214.01 M]
- Caves of Qud - Pet Pack 1
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.
- OS: 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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