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Caves Of Qud’s biggest update ever also has the best patch notesQaves of Cud
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I really haven’t givenCaves Of Quda fair chance. It’s a bizarre roguelike, an open-world exploration RPG, and a sort of sandboxy world simulation. A big reason I haven’t given it the time it deserves is because there’s so much to it that I fear I’d never come out again.
Fortunately, on Saturday its developers Freehold Games released its “biggest update ever”, the Tomb Of The Eaters. It’s a good opportunity to demonstrate how huge, detailed, and wonderfully strange it is.
Chief among that is a heap of new things to play with. 16 new cybernetic implants are available, including the “anomaly fumigator”, “anchor spikes”, and my personal YES PLEASE, a bionic liver. There are new items like “time dilation grenades”, a recalculation of movement speed to a linear percentage rather than quadratic, and swimming and pools of liquid have been rejigged to make swimming and wading more natural. There are a couple of new cooking recipes, and a new liquid called brain brine. Brain brine.
This is a game where you might wander off with a sword to fight fish mutants for the local village. It’s also a game with patch notes like “Spacetime vortices and rifts now deposit all objects that enter through them into a consistent destination zone (randomly determined per anomaly), rather than destroying non-player objects. Companions sucked into a vortex are unable to rejoin you until you find them.” It’s a blending of brutish low-tech looter RPG stuff with off the wall technology, a vaguelyMad Maxcrossed with Dune crossed withDwarf Fortressaffair. And now there’s more of it.
Did you know that:
It’s good news, and I don’t know about you, but I’d be near instantly sold on a game in which “Animating an object with Spray-a-Brain no longer causes every object of that type to be recategorized as a Creature.”
Honestly, you’d do well to have a look at thetwo-partpatch notes. It’s hard to pick a favourite. For alittle bitmore context, there’s also the amusing thought of FPS lover Big Matttrying it out for the first time. He does okay actually, but don’t tell him that.
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