Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - May 31, 2024 - 'beta' branch

207.55 - 'beta' branch

Swapped tinkering and journal tab positions.
Added +/- and left/right category support to tinkering and journal entries.
Phasing now shows cooldown and duration.
Removed the extraneous grazer golem.
Tillifergaewicz is now a point of interest.
Twinning and trining lamprey can be villagers again.
Creatures no longer get saves vs. dreamcrungle gazes.
Replaced the 'Entomb yourself' achievement with 'Swollen Bulb'.
Gave the nephilim achievements real names.
Reverted an earlier change that allowed the nephilim achievements to be unlocked via pacification.
Reverted a change that made nephilim grow in strength when one was pacified.
Clarified the disease cure achievements only trigger when the diseases are cured via traditional methods.
Knowing the Cloaca Surprise no longer significantly slows down game loading.
Tinkering bitlocker items are no longer navigable.
Made performance and memory utilization improvements.
Guarded against some invalid text markup shaders causing crashes.
Improved performance when many active effects were in play.
Improved memory overhead and performance when saving/loading.
Fixed a bug that caused the low HP warning to persist after ending a game.
Fixed a bug that caused the zone you were entering to be frozen, making the game lock up.
Fixed a bug that caused creatures to sometimes attack things they were not hostile towards if they were the only prospective target left.
Fixed a bug that caused ongoing effects like explosions to sometimes persist after restoring a checkpoint or precognitive vision.
Fixed a bug that caused local achievements to lose their unlock date.
Fixed a bug that caused companions to not use some abilities when directed to attack neutral creatures.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the player object to be lost.
Fixed unlocking of the '0 for 2' and 'The Laws of Physics Are Mere Suggestions, Vol. 3' achievements.
Fixed a bug that allowed books to be read from non-librarian vendors.
Fixed some wigglyness in the layout of game object pickers.
Fixed a bug in the eventing system that caused high-cpu usage and out of control animation speed.
Fixed a bug in part nesting in list mode.
Fixed checkpointing and autosaves being affected by your move speed.
Fixed parts of zones being serialized twice.
Fixed several pieces of game state being serialized erroneously.
Fixed a save compatibility issue with dynamic village quests.
Fixed an error when some objects were garbage collected.
[modding] The basic fields of effects are now manually serialized. It's no longer necessary to call the base Write method.
[modding] Game state singletons can now handle any embark events that occur after their creation.
[modding] An error is now generated when a serialized type falls through to the deprecated binary formatter.

[ 2024-06-01 05:05:32 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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