Caves of Qud -

[AmbiTron]

Caves of Qud is a great game that recently received a boost in popularity from a SsethTzeentach video found here it is a roguelike with deep complexity and a bunch of fun, random shit. Figured it could use a thread if anyone wants to discuss it here.

Oh, also the dev literally put his fursona girlfriend in the game and the 'official' discord community will litcherally shake if you misgender them which is amusing, but still a great game.

Anyone else playing or have played it?

 

[Rusty Crab]

Scanning through it, getting Dwarf Fortress vibes. I've always been interested in games like that but lack sufficient amounts of time and autism to play them properly.

When you say 'fursona girlfriend', do you mean "girlfriend's fursona" or "fursona that is a girlfriend".

Though, knowing furries it's probably a fursona "girl"friend.

 

[AmbiTron]

Scanning through it, getting Dwarf Fortress vibes. I've always been interested in games like that but lack sufficient amounts of time and autism to play them properly.

When you say 'fursona girlfriend', do you mean "girlfriend's fursona" or "fursona that is a girlfriend".

Though, knowing furries it's probably a fursona "girl"friend.

From what I have seen, it is his own fursona that he would probably fuck if he could. A giant cybernetically enhanced bear woman, essentially. The game is honestly not nearly as hard as Dwarf Fortress. I really enjoy games with high complexity or depth so I've played Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi, SS13 etc and I'd say this game is on the lower end of difficulty in comparison. You will certainly die a good number of times and need to make a new character pretty quickly, but once you've found your limits you're mostly fine. I've only been playing it for a few days and I've found a good balance of safety and exploration.

The community is something else. They unironically call Sseth and his fans evil alt-right crypto-fascists simply for laughing at jokes like "africa shit country". It's pretty sad, but I think there is an unofficial Discord where they're less whiny. I don't usually join such things anyway, unless I need to ask questions. Community aside the game is an absolute joy and the Sseth video does a good job of explaining how cool it can be. If you've ever enjoyed roguelikes or like the idea of delving into infinitely deeper and more difficult dungeons while playing a character who is mutating and growing an extra arm or the ability to breathe fire every few levels, you'll like it. Just need to spend a bit of time learning to not get shit on.

 

[Nom Carver]

Yeah the developer is a complete sperg. They freak out when they learn somebody has pirated the game yet they support communism. Then again people like him are almost a dime a dozen when it comes to indie games. Glad to hear the game itself is good though.

 

[Rusty Crab]

From what I have seen, it is his own fursona that he would probably fuck if he could. A giant cybernetically enhanced bear woman, essentially.

So what you're saying is: it's bear computer.

 

[AmbiTron]

Yeah the developer is a complete sperg. They freak out when they learn somebody has pirated the game yet they support communism. Then again people like him are almost a dime a dozen when it comes to indie games. Glad to hear the game itself is good though.

Indeed, give it a try if you're able. Should be able to find a repack or something pretty easily so as not to fund the sperg. Hmm, maybe I should look more into the dev. Could be threadworthy.

 

[JuanButNotForgotten]

They freak out when they learn somebody has pirated the game yet they support communism.

Communism doesn't work that way. However, I'm sure that developer doesn't know how it works either.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

The developers are turbo-commies and even other commies have called them out in Sseth's video.

 

[Dang Dirty Troons]

Caves of Qud shortens to CoQ. OP plays CoQ = OP confirmed as faggot.

 

[AmbiTron]

Well, considering the dev I suppose calling CoQ gay isn't farfetched but that's fine by me, as long as it's fun. Started a playthrough as a mutated human, and instead of choosing mutations I decided to give myself the evil twin debuff for extra character creation points. (Spawns a clone of you at random that will try to kill you with all your own items and abilities) and five unstable genome(33% chance when leveling up to get a new mutation) and I ended up getting 5 very powerful mutations(on top of the mutations I would already be getting through leveling up), leaning mostly toward psychic which is fine as my build is ego-based. I have since grown two heads, extra arms and feet and a beak. I'm basically a hideous beakfaced many-limbed mutant with world-shattering psychic abilities that can control time or manifest ice and fire.

One of my companions is a sentient baboon(all creatures that aren't robotic can mutate, especially if they're a follower and nearly anything can be a follower) who breathes fire, is covered in an organic carapace armor, has four arms and can spit slime. He wields four axes and regularly leaves limbs lying all over the god damn place after having a literal chimpout. My other companion was a psychic stalker that came to try and take my mind(psychics get uniquely hunted based on how strong they are because psychic stuff can be pretty OP) and instead of letting it hunt me I walked up and dominated her mind and made her my slave. I fed her a recipe I learned from a giant slug so now she is a giant psychic slug that spits rivers of acid, can clone herself a bunch of times, teleports around and generally does badass psychic shit. Oh and of course we all have badass guns courtesy of me who is a rather physically weak but intelligent tinker.

This game is fucking great. No playthrough is ever remotely the same, I highly recommend unstable genome as a morphotype for character creation. The results will always be different but you can always make it work with knowledge.

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

Yeah the developer is a complete sperg. They freak out when they learn somebody has pirated the game yet they support communism. Then again people like him are almost a dime a dozen when it comes to indie games. Glad to hear the game itself is good though.

Yeah most game devs are degenerates in some way nowadays. That goes double for mod devs.

 

[Nom Carver]

Yeah most game devs are degenerates in some way nowadays. That goes double for mod devs.

It all comes down to time dedication. The only people who'd be capable of pouring that much time into a project, especially a free project like this game more than likely has autism or something similar.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Yeah most game devs are degenerates in some way nowadays. That goes double for mod devs.

Im in a few modding discords and can confirm that 99% of them are uber autists , this is less of a issue in big projects though since those have the work more divided.

 

[Flabba_Wabba_Jabba_Noonga]

Someone's been watching Sseth.

 

[Shoggoth]

Someone's been watching Sseth.

Obviously, it's in the OP
I recently got into the game and have no idea what I'm doing. Great times