Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - May 24, 2024 - 'beta' branch

207.49 - 'beta' branch

Added 40 achievements. They are visible from the in-game achievement manager (Main Menu > Achievements) but are not yet active on Steam or other platforms.
Added a system menu button to the top-right of the main play screen.
Added UI sounds for selections, some popups and picking targets.
Added an option for to disable interface sounds.
Added an option to disable text particle effects (Options > General > Use Text Particle VFX).
Renaming crysteel and zetachrome items no longer takes away their paperdoll shader.
Clarified Ruin of House Isner rules text.
You are no longer always stranded in waking dreams.
Gave eyewear mods a tinkering icon.
Improved the layout of the comparison tooltip.
Improved equipment drag and drop indicators.
Improved performance when wearing a lot of equipment.
Greatly improved memory overhead.
Multiple attempts are now made to delete save games that are in use by another process.
Added additional safeguards and debugging for player duplication.
Fixed Yurl having way too much ammo.
Fixed a bug that could look you out of Argyve dialog between knickknack quests.
Fixed an issue causing strange items to appear in your inventory as a result of showing comparison tooltips.
Fixed backswings being able to trigger additional backswings recursively.
Fixed a bug with liquids creates via warm static.
Fixed some item duping bugs.
Fixed a bug that would rarely cause the paperdoll equipment and inventory to vanish.
Fixed a bug where some scrollers wouldn't accept page up or page down.
Fixed an error when attempting to revisit a zone that was missing from the zone cache.
Fixed some bugs in the Mechanimist convert dialog.
Fixed objects attempting to enter the pool multiple times.
[debug] Added several creature modifier wishes: fungusfriend:*, qudzusymbiote:*, slimewalker:*, slimespitter:*, kindlethumbed:*, firethumbed:*, convert:*, mechanical:*.

[ 2024-05-25 00:57:08 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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