Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - March 22, 2024

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Added new visual effects to throwing axes and geomagnetic discs.
Poison-tipped spears are now thrown with the pointy end towards the target.
Throwing axes are now categorized under Thrown Weapons.
You are no longer required to die permanently in order to unlock the achievement 'Jeweled Dusk'.
Motorized treads can no longer rust.
There's now a popup message when you or a companion has a stat drained by a creature for the first time.
Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented popups from being displayed when equipment was removed by a pulse field magnet.
Fixed a messaging oddity when losing the use of dependent limbs, such as hands.
Fixed a bug that caused trails on thrown items to render over their sprite.
Fixed a bug that caused your average armor to not be recalculated when regenerating limbs.
Fixed a bug that caused dismembered limbs of named creatures to be referred to with an article.
Fixed a bug that caused dismembered limbs to not inherit the article of the creature they were dismembered from.
Fixed a bug that caused the "worn around wings" slot to lose its name after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
Fixed a bug that caused you to permanently lose your beak after eating the Cloaca Surprise.
Fixed a bug that caused your disguise to disappear in completely dark areas.
Fixed a bug that caused graffiti to sometimes not change the foreground color of a tile.
[modding] Added several configurable parameters to throwing visual effects: e.g. speed, arc, rotation, trail, color, etc.
[modding] The ending transparency of projectile trails can now be set with a full-length RGBA value, e.g. '#77bfcf60'.
[modding] Fixed a bug that caused transparency on custom projectile trails to be overriden.

[ 2024-03-23 00:25:20 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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