Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - December 15, 2023

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Gave Mayor Haddas better mental stats.
Gave turrets the Strapping Shoulders skill.
If you Bask on the world map, you no longer immediately become hungry upon leaving the world map.
Altered the colorization of fungus-ridden creatures to make them more distinct from legendaries.
Spotted shagspooks and dandy caps are now diggable.
The Otherpearl is now referred to using the definite article more often.
Clonelings' second pair of arms is no longer made of flesh.
Cragmensch and glittermensch now leave behind large boulders on death even when burned to death.
Mechanimist pilgrims who aren't converts now also carry the Canticles Chromaic, occasionally.
Changed a reference to two-weapon fighting in the multiweapon fighting description.
Added a message for getting teleported by an infiltrator.
Took Single Weapon Fighting away from Crowsong.
Fixed a bug that made phase-adaptive scopes malfunction in conjunction with geomagnetic discs.
Fixed a bug that prevented gemstones created by transmutation of extradimensional creatures from being bartered.
Fixed a bug that made autoact not describe or indicate why it was being interrupted in some circumstances.
Fixed a grammar error in third-party Time Dilation activation messages.
Fixed a bug that caused legendary templars to be incorrectly selected as psychic thralls.
Fixed some misconstruction in desalination pellet messaging.
Fixed love tonic description to match its real save difficulty.
Fixed a typo in the description of monad.
Fixed a typo in the message when you tried to slam a flying creature.
Fixed a bug that caused companions of vehicles to be forced neutral when the pilot died or exited the vehicle.
Fixed a bug with capitalization in the revelation of rumors about Rainwater Shomer.

[ 2023-12-16 09:12:30 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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