Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - October 27, 2023

206.11 - 'beta' branch

Added new cybernetic implants: grafted mirror arm and holographic visage.
Revised the design of stasis resonators.
Changed the Girsh water ritual liquid to cloning draught.
Added a new water ritual option to the Girsh nephilim.
Girsh nephilim now bleed.
Gave girshlings fangs.
Added a new butcherable to girshling corpses: girshling fangs, rank fangs, incadescent fangs, and zigzag fangs, depending on the corpse.
Added defanged girshlings.
We made more changes to the Gyre wights.
- Changed default Gyre wight reputation from -650 to 0.
- Gyre wights still consider nephilim cradles and their approaches holy places.
- Replaced glow-wight cultists of Agolgot and Bethsaida with gyre wights of Agolgot and Bethsaida, respectively.
- Added gyre wights of Rermadon, Shug'ruith, Qas, and Qon.
- Legendary gyre wights of a particular Girsh are more likely to share the cradle of that Girsh.
- Nephilim shrines now occasionally have gyre wights worshipping at them, and rarely, legendary gyre wights.
- Fleshed out Gyre wight descriptions, dialog, and legendary titles coming soon.
- Made gyre wight apotheotes have a hostile temperament.
Added a new tile for the nephilim circles of light.
Added a new tile for the Single Weapon Fighting ability toggle.
NPCs can now use healing foods like witchwood bark and urberries.
The chiming rocks at Eyn Roj and the glowing soft below it are now points of interest.
Leather whips can now be modded with some item mods.
You no longer switch targets to a clockwork beetle when one spawns.
Liquid collection now indicates the direction the liquid is being collected from, and the source if from a container.
You now receive a popup when non-trifling companions fall down a pit or similar terrain feature.
Fixed many issues with faulty zone generation. Canyons and canyon-like areas should be more canyon-like again.
Fixed a bug that made relics providing improved block not remove the effect when unequipped, quickly resulting in 100% blocking chance.
Fixed a bug that made some relics associate themselves with an incorrect historical period.
Fixed a bug that caused key delay to reset to the lowest value after existing and re-entering the game.
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause tomb stairs to spawn encased in walls.
Fixed an issue that would ocassionaly cause historic sites to not generate correctly.
Fixed an issue that caused pit ledges to render incorrectly after a serialization cycle.
Fixed a bug that caused multiple simultaneous throw animations to each require an individual keypress to animation cancel.
Fixed a bug that caused missile weapon penetration to be more limited than it should have been under some circumstances.
Fixed an issue that caused rapid flickering of the zone transition arrows.
Enabled opengl support for legacy OSX 10.3 systems.
[modding] The BleedingOnHit part now has a field Holographic that, if true, causes it to inflict holographic bleeding instead of regular bleeding, and no longer has a SelfOnly field, instead using its IActivePart scope configuration to control what it affects (with WorksOnSelf, WorksOnEquipper, WorksOnHolder, WorksOnWearer, and WorksOnImplantee supported).
[modding] Symbolic links are now be excluded from workshop uploads.
[modding] Populations within interiors are no longer be placed outside the bounds of the map.
[modding] ModTransmuteOnHit's description is now moddable via the DescriptionTerm field, and creatures transmuted into other creatures are no longer considered to have died.

If you're interested in modding Caves of Qud, come join the Caves of Qud Modding Jam: Monster Mash! https://itch.io/jam/caves-of-qud-modding-jam-1 It's a perfect entry point for new modders.

[ 2023-10-28 06:01:11 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

💰 Games on Sale 💰

GAMEBILLET

[ 5951 ]