Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - June 28, 2024

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Added many new sound effects for equipping items, reloading guns, and various other interactions.
Greatly improved the loading speed of sound effects, all but eliminating the delay when a sound is played for the first time.
Mouse movement now attempts to explore toward unexplored square you click.
The mouse right-click interact context menu now appears at the position of the mouse cursor instead of the center of the screen.
There's now a hierarchy of click actions. For example, clicking on an open door now moves into its square instead of trying to close it, though clicking on an open door still opens it.
Chimeras can now grow mouths, oral arms, and muscular feet.
Tinkers and artifexes now start with a wrench, and horticulturists start with a pestle.
You can now look at the contents of more bookshelves without angering their owners.
Arconauts, rhinoxen, Saad Amus, and Saad Amus clones should now wander more often (in the right contexts) rather than stand around.
Replaced scorpiock's unspecified stinger with a paralyzing stinger and lowered its mutation rank to 2.
Tweaked scorpiock's description.
The Mechanimist convert in Joppa is now considered interesting.
Non fresh-water liquids are now be ignored by general smart use actions.
Added faction icons for sultan cults and dynamic villages.
Added a new 'Adventure Mouse Quick Look' bind which shows a tooltip look instead of entering look mode.
Mutation points are now consumed after gaining a mutation rank, meaning Irritable Genome can no longer level something past it's maximum rank.
Removed Kyakukyan converts from dynamic encounters.
Burrowing claws, drills, and pickaxes now only use their dig damage against walls if its greater than a normal attack.
Swapped out the More Than a Willing Spirit Steam achievement icon.
Fixed a typo in the Bricks Can Be Thrown, Too achievement text.
Fixed a bug that caused Thah to give you an effectless asterisk. Affected saves will receive a 10-pointed asterisk when loaded.
Fixed a bug that caused popup width to be incorrectly sticky in some cases.
[modding] Fixed zoom in the map editor.
[modding] Folded in all the Spring Molting blueprints from Staging.xml into their respective XML blueprint files.

[ 2024-06-28 23:26:50 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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