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[Strange guy]

Which reminds me, has anyone made a list on what can be created from Masterful Butchery? I know you can get things from salt hoppers, cave crabs, albino apes and chitinous pumas, but is there anything else out there?

All types of jerky for one. I looked through the ObjectBlueprints.XML file and found a few additional things available, including knollworm skulls (but they are fairly easy to find without butchery), electric snail shell (helmet I think), and some other items that I believe are for crafting only.

[Smashness]

Okay, I have a problem. I just downloaded Caves of Qud, and when I open it, all the text boxes are blank. I can still go to different areas of the start menu, but never actually start the game. Anybody know what's happening?

[Micro102]

Not a clue. What OS are you playing it on? Try re-downloading it, might be some sort of corruption.

[Aquillion]

meh, ive always got the furthest with dual dagger/pistol builds, for some reason.

I think it's because dual-wielding requires lots of agility, and that means never missing, and never missing means you're a hell of a lot more effective all the time.

Note that there are enemies in the late game who absolutely require either extremely high penetration or some sort of attack that ignores armor entirely if you want to hurt them.

Vibroblades can handle it, but make sure you get something or you'll be in trouble when you reach Bethesda Susa.

[Aquillion]

I never live long enough to get any of these fancy new "cybernetics."

Can anyone give me a tiny spoiler about when they're available and what one of them may do? Can they compete with the epic power of good mutations? Do they work off of batteries (ugh)?

Spoilers ahoy!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They're very late game at the moment.  Unless you're doing things in an utterly bizarre order, you don't get them until you're almost done with the completed portion of the main quest.

Only one of them helps you in combat.  The others are minor benefits akin to one-point mutations.

Most of them aren't even remotely on par with decent mutations.  There is one exception, which will be obvious, but it has severe drawbacks and is only likely to be useful if you're rifle-focused...  also, it will be worthless if you depend on two-handed weapon styles.

The good news is that they don't rely on batteries or any other source of energy, ammo, or whatever.  They can all be used as much as you want, though for most of them this doesn't really matter.

[handofluke]

Hey everyone,
Unormal and I will be hosting a Hangout On Air for our new mobile roguelike/town sim hybrid in the works, Project Blockhead.

Join us on Saturday, Dec. 29th to check it out!

[Blaze]

I never live long enough to get any of these fancy new "cybernetics."

Can anyone give me a tiny spoiler about when they're available and what one of them may do? Can they compete with the epic power of good mutations? Do they work off of batteries (ugh)?

Spoilers ahoy!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They're very late game at the moment.  Unless you're doing things in an utterly bizarre order, you don't get them until you're almost done with the completed portion of the main quest.

Only one of them helps you in combat.  The others are minor benefits akin to one-point mutations.

Most of them aren't even remotely on par with decent mutations.  There is one exception, which will be obvious, but it has severe drawbacks and is only likely to be useful if you're rifle-focused...  also, it will be worthless if you depend on two-handed weapon styles.

The good news is that they don't rely on batteries or any other source of energy, ammo, or whatever.  They can all be used as much as you want, though for most of them this doesn't really matter.

Here's another hint:
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[Robsoie]

I have always wanted to give a try to Caves of Qud but always forgot about it, so many good RL to play so little time .

But i just did today and i'm really impressed how good it is, currently running a mutated guy just completed 2 quests and reached level 4 and i have a lot of fun.

It's so good that it just went by itself right in my personnal top10 favorites RL , can't believe i didn't thought of playing this seriously before.

Congratulations to the dev, it's a masterpiece.

[Valid_Dark]

Yeah, really it's a very well done RL, and it's a lot of fun.  Only complaint I have is it kind of falls of during endgame,  there isn't really an end and eventually you just run out of stuff to do.

Can I request that someone posts the updates / patch notes to the game in this thread whenever there is a new release like someone used to do. 
I don't know if they are still working on it or what, but i haven't played this game in a while, and if there is a new release that adds a lot to the game I'd really consider playing it again.

[unormal]

Yeah, really it's a very well done RL, and it's a lot of fun.  Only complaint I have is it kind of falls of during endgame,  there isn't really an end and eventually you just run out of stuff to do.

Can I request that someone posts the updates / patch notes to the game in this thread whenever there is a new release like someone used to do. 
I don't know if they are still working on it or what, but i haven't played this game in a while, and if there is a new release that adds a lot to the game I'd really consider playing it again.

I always post them here, we've just been working on our mobile rogue-like the last several months.

[unormal]

We'll be doing our live stream in a few minutes; come join us in chat at http://www.freeholdgames.com

We'll post a recording of the hangout afterwards as well.

[thepodger]

Is it possible to make arrows?  I am -always- running out of ammo.

[GoatSkinKiller]

I really enjoyed playing this a while back, always going True Human for my first ten or so characters. Finally had a good one going, and even managed to get up to level 17 before contracting glotrot.

I just recently started playing again, and I have been having enough of a blast to forgive the game for how annoying Glotrot is, although I am staying away from Gologtha for as long as humanly possible.

New character is a mutated human gunslinger with Precogniton, Pyrokinesis, and Time Dilation who picked up Wings and Force Bubble through random mutations. Really enjoying the survivability. Currently using twin carbide daggers for close range, and akimbo pistols for anything troublesome.

I had quite a few missteps while I was sorting this build out. The first three characters I tried died for really stupid reasons. The only one that really hurt was the one that lucked into some weird artifact=semi auto pistols really early.

So far, I've had some great fights with my evil clone, but the first one was the best. I was aimlessly wandering the salt, hoping for some XP in the form of Lairs, but finding a lot of nothing. My character sensed an evil presence, and it was showdown time. We took turns blasting at each other with fireballs before taking to the air for a slow motion John Woo gun battle.

I'm dreading running into him in any water-rich environment, though. I foresee steam death for everyone.

[Baijiu]

Aww man. This game hasn't been updated for awhile and I'm starting to get scared.... I think I'll get to play a new release of Dwarf Fortress before CoQ.

[unormal]

Aww man. This game hasn't been updated for awhile and I'm starting to get scared.... I think I'll get to play a new release of Dwarf Fortress before CoQ.

We're just plugging away on the new game.

We've got some social media going up, if you want to follow our progress:

www.freeholdgames.com
https://www.facebook.com/freeholdgames
(http://www.freeholdgames.com/index.php/caves-of-qud/)