Caves of Qud (tuxdb.com)

Feature Friday - September 13, 2024

207.99

Added the rest of the activated ability descriptions.
Added several more descriptions for creatures and items, finishing a full pass.
Added icons to the pet selection menu during character creation
You may now cook with objects from adjacent cells (eg, open bodies of water).
Inanimate objects that are on fire or being attacked will no longer be too distracted to allow you to place objects on or in them.
Clicking on zone transition arrows now walks you to the edge of the screen instead of taking a single step.
The pet Frondzie now more reliably uses it's taunt whenever you are in combat.
Fixed the "NoCombat" tag used on various pets.
The pet Ercolano should be properly animated now.
The lairs of legendary girshling should now be populated with more girsh creatures rather than random creatures.
Added a verification step when saving the game to ensure it was written to disk correctly.
Gave decarbonizers turret bodies rather than hover robot bodies.
Fixed a bug that caused the Precognition vfx to get stuck or not wait until the zone was rendered before animating.
Fixed a bug that caused companions to have the incorrect water ritual liquid.
Fixed a bug that caused creature opinions to temporarily be ignored after a save was loaded.
Fixed a bug that caused multiple redundant popups to appear if your precognitive vision was about to run out after you already chose to return.
Fixed a bug that rarely caused you to die after choosing to return to the start of your precognitive vision.
Fixed a memory leak when choosing to not return to the start of your precognitive vision.
Fixed a bug that caused cloned abilities to never come off cooldown.
Fixed a bug that caused Ultra Fire to not have a cooldown.
Fixed a typo in the Empty the Clips activation message.
Fixed some typos in worldmap messages.
[modding] Added a 'clearcooldowns' wish that can be used in some cases to resolve issues with non-ticking cooldowns.

[ 2024-09-14 03:19:10 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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