Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - April 26, 2024

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Flaming tar pits are once again flaming.
Terrified creatures no longer charge.
Tumbling pods that are cult leaders now grant XP if they explode during combat.
You can now select stacks of items when donating books to Sheba or throwing artifacts down the Sacred Well.
You can now rename yourself in your original body or one your mind is stranded within.
The name for your saved game is now updated when you take a new name via stranded mind or otherwise.
Stilt Day Stilt pigs no longer open their pens.
Conjoined girshlings are now considered plural.
If you're standing next to friendly creature, you can use their culture when renaming your companions.
Clarified the popup message when you can't autoexplore the full map due to unusually dark darkness.
Goggles are now referred to in "pairs" rather than sets".
Gave thistle pitches a sell value.
Made Asphodel's description respect dynamic pronouns.
Added info about using the Alt overlay to the manual.
Fixed a bug that caused a popup message when one of your companions incurred extradimensional disappointment.
Fixed a bug that caused intact cryochambers to spawn on stair landings.
Fixed a bug that caused Neelahind to say the well has been poisoned by a previous accusation when the evidence did not match the culprit.
Fixed a bug that caused the 'Jeweled Dusk' achievement to unlock when you were not the target of the gemming attack.
Fixed a bug that caused the waking dreamers to always start one experience point away from leveling up.
Fixed a bug that caused temporary merchants to drop non-temporary wares on death.
Fixed a bug that caused 'Petals on the Wind' to be unfinishable if you had already started 'Find Eskhind'.
Fixed a bug that caused 'The Earl of Omonporch' delegates to spawn with and leave behind companions.

[ 2024-04-27 00:35:10 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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