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Caves of Qud (ROGUELIKE)

lightbane

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It will never end. At this rate Dwarf Fortress will be done first. Funny that the latter also went full SJW crazy too.
 

buffalo bill

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REGULAR UPDATE
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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

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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.
 

V_K

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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

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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.
 

Retardo

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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?

Urissa is wearing an artificial dick made of elf bone. It is engraved with masterfully designed image of Ubup Oakseduced the orc and Cequova Gulftells the Monstrous Animal of Suicide the elf by Urist McStoner. Cequova Gulftells the Monstrous Animal of Suicide is shooting Ubup Oakseduced. Ubup Oakceduced is screaming. Cequova Gulftells the Monstrous Animal of Suicide the elf is screaming. The atrwork relates to the shooting of the orc Ubup Oakseduced by the elf Cequova Gulftells the Monstrous Animal of Suicide in Spiderydogs in the Reclusive Crest in 51. It is decorated with goblin leather. It is menacing with spikes of adamantium.
 
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Joggerino

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buffalo bill

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REGULAR UPDATE
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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.
 
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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
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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

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Pathfinder: Wrath
At least you can complete all those roguelikes which have been in development for 30 years.
 
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Codex Year of the Donut
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.
 

buffalo bill

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REGULAR UPDATE
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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

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"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

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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.
 
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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

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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.
 

buffalo bill

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REGULAR UPDATE
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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.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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

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