Caves of Qud (ROGUELIKE) - coming December 5th

[Fenix]

Funny that the latter also went full SJW crazy too.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

 

[buffalo bill]

REGULAR UPDATE
POSTED
Sat, September 18
Feature Friday - September 17, 2021

202.80

• Added a new kind of fauna: bop sponge.
  
• Added new butcherable and harvestable consumables: bop cheek and tongue twist.
  
• Added three new cooking effect domains: rubber-based, powerful rubber-based, and tongue-based.
  
• Added three new ingredients: congealed rubbergum, sliced bop cheek, and fermented tongue.
  
• The Yd Freehold now has a signature dish: Tongue and Cheek.
  
• Svardym no longer rain down on the Yd Freehold.
  
• Added a prerelease input manager binding for "move to point of interest".
  
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: twinning lamprey, trining lamprey, reef hermit, junk dollar, enigma snail, and plasma jelly.
  
• Having the equipment rack cybernetic implant no longer prevents you from receiving a certain achievement.
  
• You no longer receive a certain achievement earlier than is appropriate just by being repeatedly dismembered.
  
• Billowing conch of the Aji can no longer produce plasma.
  
• You can no longer use the following items and abilities on the worldmap: hologram bracelet, Force Wall, Light Manipulation, Time Dilation, gas generation, and Spinnerets.
  
• Generated villages now interact more robustly with their surrounding terrain.
  
• The trip back from [redacted] now works more consistently.
  
• Fixed an error when a creature with no back grew wings.
  
• Fixed the worldmap tip displaying too soon (during world generation).
  
• Fixed incorrect pronouns in the description of sultan crocs.
  
• Fixed a zonegen error in the Yd Freehold.
  
• Fixed a rare exception that prevented the ability manager from opening.
  
• Fixed an issue causing "BoxColliders does not support negative scale or size." spam in the message log.
  
• Fixed an issue that would prevent [redacted] from carving murals if interruped by a serialization cycle.
  
• [modding] Fixed populations being replaced instead of merged.

 

[TwoEdge]

The maxim: "A game is never finished, just abandoned" has never been so true. Modern funding solutions and market perception allow developers to extend their deadline indefinitely, as is the case here.

Personally, I don't mind, I usually decide when a game is over long before the endgame is near, and find it nice to discover it has been improved if I decide to pick it up again. Game endings suck, anyway, with few exceptions.

 

[lightbane]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Did you miss that time when the dev of Dwarf Fortress added trans-sexual dwarves and was very aggressive to anyone that criticized that idea?

 

[V_K]

Modern funding solutions and market perception allow developers to extend their deadline indefinitely, as is the case here.

It's a roguelike. It has always been that way with roguelikes. Nethack has been in continuous development since 1987, UnReal World, since 1992, ADoM, since 1994 (with gaps). Qud is very, very young by roguelike standards.

 

[TwoEdge]

Modern funding solutions and market perception allow developers to extend their deadline indefinitely, as is the case here.

It's a roguelike. It has always been that way with roguelikes. Nethack has been in continuous development since 1987, UnReal World, since 1992, ADoM, since 1994 (with gaps). Qud is very, very young by roguelike standards.

Indeed, plus it's now a profitable development model.

 

[lightbane]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Did you miss that time when the dev of Dwarf Fortress added trans-sexual dwarves and was very aggressive to anyone that criticized that idea?

Here's proof:

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/trans-and-inter-sex-dwarves-are-coming-to-your-fort.126742/

https://archive.fo/c4nO5

 

[Joggerino]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Did you miss that time when the dev of Dwarf Fortress added trans-sexual dwarves and was very aggressive to anyone that criticized that idea?

Here's proof:

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/trans-and-inter-sex-dwarves-are-coming-to-your-fort.126742/

https://archive.fo/c4nO5

What the fuck

 

[Fenix]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Did you miss that time when the dev of Dwarf Fortress added trans-sexual dwarves and was very aggressive to anyone that criticized that idea?

I did.... I guess, those two brothers will become to sisters soon, like sisters Vachovsky. honk honk bitch

 

[buffalo bill]

REGULAR UPDATE
POSTED
Sat, September 25
Feature Friday - September 24, 2021

202.82 - 'beta' branch

• Flawless crysteel gear is now a bit rarer.
  
• Zetachrome gear is now much rarer.
  
• Added new creature descriptions: giant clam, ixlthyxl, tongue tyrant, star kraken, and galgal.
  
• Added new item descriptions: thermo cask, high-energy thermo cask, and psychic meridian.
  
• Gorged growths now dehydrate and crumble apart after a while.
  
• Updated Burgeoning plant-summoning tables to be better distributed and include more plants, particularly late-game plants.
  
• Added some polish to the Hydropon.
  
• Warden Une now has appropriate equipment.
  
• Palladium struts are no longer takeable.
  
• Made several enhancements to [redacted].
  
• Irritable Genome's message now includes the mutation that was affected.
  
• Eater's flesh and luminous hoarshroom now counts as mushrooms for the purposes of triggering cooking effects.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused pits and chasms to drop you into solid walls.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused objects to be placed on top of pits, leading to excessive build times as multiple zones were built.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused zone transitions to happen rapidly every time an object was swallowed by a vortex.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused gas generation to continue after transitioning to the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused visual effects like torches to sometimes persist after teleporting to another zone.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused geomagnetic disc to sometimes bounce to neutral and friendly creatures.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villages or village outskirts to build over Pax Klanq's hut.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused villages to use the wrong liquid type when building pools and rivers
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Seek the Heart of the Rainbow" quest step not to complete upon reaching the correct zone.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the minimap to share the message logs opacity setting
  
• Fixed a bug that caused subtype tile detail colors to not be properly set
  
• Fixed the pluralization of pneumatic pistons, anchor spikes, palladium electrodeposits, and tibular hydrojets.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

This is one of the best games ever made, and if you're wasting everyone's bandwidth whining about the devs' politics that you will never see in the actual game itself, you are the entire reason this site is a laughing stock.

that's interesting because

playing this was kind of fun but then I had to speak to the developers self insert fursona Queer Girl to progress the main quest and lost all hope for the game. wishing to get killed by anthropomorphic creatures soon to end this nightmare.
my funniest death so far was being sucked into a teleporter vortex by an unseen caster then immediately charged and murdered by a rhinox in the first turn

Wow this game is woke can't wait to play it!

 

[Lacrymas]

At least you can complete all those roguelikes which have been in development for 30 years.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

s that you will never see in the actual game itself

Feature Friday - July 27, 2019
Caves of Qud - AlphaBeard
2.0.186

• You now get a popup message when one of your followers dies, with some exceptions for temporary or swarming followers.
  
• Added some conditional dialog to Yurl.
  
• Added the framework for certain dialog options to reveal secrets in the Gossip and Lore tab of your journal.
  
• Increased the specific heat of all objects.
  
• Extremely hot objects now cool off a small percentage of their heat instead of a low, flat amount per round.
  
• Phase cannon and swarm rack turrets now start with much less ammo.
  
• Excluded some offensive words from generated text results.

wait until you find the gender-neutral plant people that refer to each other as 'xer' and 'xerself'

And the worst offender of all is how slow the development has crept the further insane the dev has gotten.

 

[Fenix]

And the worst offender of all is how slow the development has crept the further insane the dev has gotten.

You should excuse them - it takes a long time to kiss every opressd negro boot and carry gasoline for them.

 

[buffalo bill]

REGULAR UPDATE
POSTED
Sat, October 2
Feature Friday - October 1, 2021

203.83 - 'beta' branch

• Added all new tiles for most missile weapons.
  
• Added new items: kaleidocera cape, kaleidocera muffs, kaleidocera krakows, enigma cone, and enigma cap.
  
• Added a new book: The Murmurs' Prayer.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following items: night-sight interpolaters, tri-hologram bracelet, slip ring, precision nanon fingers, step sowers, 3D cobblers, gas tumbler, chiral rings, eigenrifle, eigenpistol, light rail, hand rail, spaser rifle, spaser pistol, space inverter, arc winder, high-voltage arc winder, psychal fleshgun, di-thermo beam, and sharpened polyp.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: slynth residents and wanderers, all the wild svardym, Geeub, Krka, Tillifergaewicz, Rokhas, and Warden Une.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following terrain objects: coral polyp, palladium strut, coral and palladium strut, swollen bulb, and coral pit.
  
• Build Library is now functional.
  
• You now autosave when you reach a checkpoint in Roleplay and Wander modes.
  
• Gorged growths who are members of settlements no longer crumble apart.
  
• Farmed bop sponges are no longer always ripe.
  
• Generated villages now have accurate descriptions on the world map.
  
• Night-sight interpolators now work like other kinds of night vision for the purpose of perceiving [redacted].
  
• Using the sit interaction on a chair that's in your inventory now places the chair on the ground and sits on it, rather than silently failing.
  
• Recycling suits can no longer (uselessly) get the recycling mod.
  
• Added a popup confirmation for targeting yourself with a geomagnetic disc.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Regeneration to regrow your tongue while you were still affected by glotrot.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused ubernostrum tonics to remove glotrot without the cure.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Light Manipulation's lase ability to fail when targeting a creature with mental mirror.
  
• Fixed a perfomance issue caused aquatic or wall-walking creatures in your party trying to pathfind to you.
  
• Fixed a grammar error in some messages when companions were swallowed whole.
  
• Fixed conversation choices getting resorting when you revisited a node.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Golgotha and Bethesda Susa to not build properly.
  
• [pets] Fixed a bug that caused You, but Mechanical not to inherit your anatomy.

 

[azimuth]

"How slow the development has crept"? What the actual fuck are you talking about? This game is getting weekly content updates and has been for years. It's actually amazing to me that the lead dev is so committed to this project because he's very rich several times over from previous successes in his career, Qud being only the latest one.

"Self insert fursona Queer Girl" is one character in a massive game. I doubt you'll even live long enough to meet her. She'll occupy your screen for maybe a minute. The fact that this is some kind of trigger for you shows how central you are to the decline. Do you even like RPGs?

They have another huge expansion in beta right now. It's one of the best RPGs on Steam. If you don't like it for political reasons, you're a fucking idiot.

 

[Fenix]

Yeah, 1 @, yeah 1 minute, mmmmyeah... part of main quest, 1 minute yeah...
Also, piece of feces in a soup mean whole soup is a shit.

 

[RhodokMasterRaceOfficial]

I do have to wonder, seriously, if it's actually the developers themselves that are ultra pozzed, or if it's just their newest cohort of writers and all of the community managers. You have good intentions and you let these people slip in, and before you know it you're not even driving the train any more. You can't get off at that point without being forced to abandon your passion project. It's obviously not about the money or company reputation, because business actually improves when you openly tell these people to fuck off. In that respect, I'm sure they do believe most of that crap. At least up to a point.

Even then, there really isn't that much woke stuff in the game at all, which is why I question if the devs themselves are actually suffering from late-stage TDS, or if they're just trying to look that way because they know they'll be #MeToo'd if they don't. The thing about ultra woke people is that they are absolutely incapable of keeping it in their pants. If they ever endeavour to create anything, there will not be a single pen or key stroke made in the process that was not deliberately and overtly Marxist.
The game itself, in a vacuum, is apolitical. In Caves of Qud, you don't even get forced to pick your pronouns at character creation which would be a minimum for woke games. The only real offenders from memory are the self-insert queer fursona and those plant/mushroom people calling themselves "xir/xirself". Even the latter kind of makes sense, although if I was the writer I would use "they/them" for the plants (if I was forced to put something there) because they are words that can actually be pronounced by ordinary people.

I think the major flashpoint that brought all this crap out was how their psycho community managers handled the Putus Templar. That drama has probably already been covered in this thread (i cbf reading 27 pages). But, if that never happens, maybe we never find out how bad it really is aside from some devs posting #BLM on their twitter profiles, which most game devs do anyway. We certainly wouldn't have found out by actually playing the game.

Azimuth is still a fucking cuck though.

 

[lightbane]

We certainly wouldn't have found out by actually playing the game.

They banned Tsseth while he was covering the game and promoting it for them, and they began whining about how said video would attract the "wrong kind of buyers". By this point, anyone would find out quickly. These guys also may be responsible behind an attempted doxx against Tsseth.

 

[Fenix]

Mmmmyeah, those marxists, they are like communists, only not so much...

 

[buffalo bill]

REGULAR UPDATE
POSTED
Sat, October 9
Feature Friday - October 9, 2021

202.85 - 'beta' branch

• The new quest Landing Pads is now fully implemented start to finish.
  
• Added a new music track for Rainbow Wood, Lake Hinnom, and Palladium Reef.
  
• Fixed a major OSX hang on startup.
  
• Character generation screens now have hotkeys.
  
• Added arsplice hyphae to the subterranean reef.
  
• Added a new description, name color, and eat message for arsplice seed.
  
• Reduced the damage on-high voltage arc winder and the overloaded variants of both arc winder and high-voltage arc winder.
  
• Added new dialogue for gutsmongers.
  
• Added a new description for star orchid marble.
  
• Electrobow has a tile again.
  
• The Esper morphotype now has the right icon in the character creation UI.
  
• Turrets mounting blood-gradient hand vacuums are now called blood-gradient vacuum turrets.
  
• Baetyls no longer request nanon-modded items.

 

[Sotomonte]

Well, tried first run.

Leave the town on my way to the first quest.

My character is stoned to death by some kind of monkeys.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Is there a cow level in COQ? Moo! Or a goat? Nyaahh!

 

[buffalo bill]

REGULAR UPDATE
POSTED
Sat, October 16
Feature Friday - October 16, 2021

202.88 - 'beta' branch

• Added new descriptions for the following objects: starmchair, sofa, multicabinet, chalkboard, marble steps, glass hydraulic pipes in the Yd Freehold, and fulcrete with square wave.
  
• Thermo casks are now considered artifacts.
  
• Night-sight interpolators now have a trade value.
  
• Svardym storms now last longer and eggs drop a bit less frequently.
  
• Lithofex gaze is now more visible in the reef.
  
• Crab cherubim and mechanical crab cherubim now have claws.
  
• Clarified that precision nanon fingers' 3X boost to crit chance applies only to base crit chance.
  
• Clarified that the fitted with filters mod only protects against harmful gases if you're breathing them.
  
• Creatures now render over clams.
  
• Clarified in the description of giant hands that it applies to all weapon types.
  
• Clarified in the description of Akimbo that it applies to all missile weapon types.
  
• The glass pipes in the Yd Freehold are now lacquered.
  
• Greatly improved performance when a large party of creatures is on screen.
  
• Swapped the tiles for Teleportation and Teleport Other.
  
• Minorly improved input performance.
  
• Minorly improved erformance when transitioning to or traveling on the world map.
  
• Fixed a bug in the alt overlay that revealed the tile of unidentified artifacts and disguised creatures.
  
• Fixed a bug in the alt overlay with the Yd Freehold's appearance.
  
• Fixed an bug that caused crashes during zone builds.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused empty "pool" objects to appear in zones.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused you to be unable to speak with Otho if he was selected for the resolution of the Landing Pads quest.
  
• Fixed several issues with variant selection on the Choose Mutations screen.
  
• Fixed a text error in slynth settler's dialogue.
  
• Fixed a typo in Mental Mirror's description.
  
• Fixed a typo in trining lamprey's description.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when transitioning to [redacted].

 

[buffalo bill]

REGULAR UPDATE
POSTED
Fri, October 22
Feature Friday - October 22, 2021

This is a release candidate for Monday's launch.

202.89 - 'beta' branch

• Added a new book: In Maqqom Yd.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following creatures: Mak, Goek, and Bep.
  
• Added new descriptions for the following objects: display breadboard, sewming machine, kiln, rock tumbler, lathe, glass printer, glass furnace, mannequin, light sculpture, brain sculpture, unfinished sculpture, painted column, painting, mushroom case, harp, rectangular bells, and hammered dulcimer.
  
• Added a new sound effect for the start of a svardym eggsac storm.
  
• Added a new sound effect and visual effect for someone nearby plucks a coral polyp.
  
• Refined most of the new content's ASCII.
  
• Made some changes to the ASCII worldmap.
  
• Added authentic stats for all the new furniture.
  
• New furniture now appears in dynamic villages.
  
• Made tier 6 bits a little more common.
  
• The prerelease input manager now lets you rebind the cancel action.
  
• Additional jumps triggered via cooking effects are now messaged better.
  
• Pathfinding now avoids hostile junk dollars.
  
• Goek now teaches Tongue and Cheek via the water ritual.
  
• Bep now identifies artifacts.
  
• Rummaging creatures, such as arconouts and svardym scrounges, no longer rummage as villagers.
  
• Slynth wanderers are now a bit more common.
  
• Slynth settling in the mopango hideout now cluster in a safer location.
  
• Slynth settlers are now docile, like other villagers.
  
• Legendary soup sludges are now be more easily distinguishable from normal ones.
  
• Removed some extraneous and fragile piping infrastructure from the Yd Freehold.
  
• Getting from the current cell now prioritizes takeable items over liquids.
  
• Missle weapon targeting now has a bindable context menu.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a checkpoint to be created after the game had stopped and then overwrite your primary save.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Mental Mirror to be very unlikely to reflect mental attacks.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused bonded companion cherubim and soup sludges to spawn without their party leaders or factions set.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused soup sludges to only render their first four liquid colors.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused errors when soup sludges spit algae or sunslag.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Thah to choose a faction that no longer loved you when resolving the Landing Pads quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Joppa's opening story popup to give incorrect info.
  
• Fixed a bug that confused Joppa and the ruins of Joppa in certain contexts.
  
• Fixed a tile color bug with semi-automatic pistol.
  
• [modding] AllowedMutationCategories defined in Genotypes.xml now supports a comma separated list of included/excluded categories. E.g., "Physical,Morphotypes" = only physical and morphotypes; "*,-Mental" = everything but mental.
  
• [modding] Added a context menu to objects in the map editor for adding a part without the need of a new blueprint.
  
• [modding] Fixed a boot crash when defining duplicate conversation nodes.