Tex plays Caves of Qud (again)

[@ragnarrocksoft9096]

"Lets be reasonable, this is a setting of hardship" *proceeds to steal everything a peasant has in his home*

[@Jonnyg325]

Their hardship, not mine

[@scottmacgregor3444]

Yes, that is indeed a hardship.

[@toddkatz9700]

Ain't not rest for the wicked.

[@a.gravemistake3061]

"This is a setting of hardship. Pet the cat."

[@Archangelm127]

"Here lies so-and-so, thrown off a cliff by bears." That is the most metal epitaph I've heard in years. Maybe ever. Holy sh!t.

[@RandomB13]

"The Joppa is my home, yes" "Welcome to the oasis of Joppa" This village is a phonetic treasure to a foreign ear

[@Feonir44]

"If you don't know what a dram is ask your whisky drinking friends." Th...that's you Tex.

[@Jason-fv4rg]

I think of Qud as post-post apocalypse. The apocalypse happened and the world was destroyed so far in the past that no one knows exactly what happened. The Earth is burgeoning, populations are growing again. There's a dominant sense of promise and hope where most post apocalypse stories wallow in fear and despair. It's one of the most unique settings for a roguelike, or any video game I've ever played.

[@michaelbaker8284]

So its sort of a retro90s kenshi?

[@Jonnyg325]

​@@michaelbaker8284setting wise yes, gameplay wise very different

[@klaeljanu]

On the topic of the world falling and no one knows what happened. This happened after the fall of the Bronze Age. A lot of the Greek myths, like the Cyclops, were in part formed because people living in the ruins of the Bronze Age cities didn't believe that people built them. And so they created things that could.

[@jeremyszpicki491]

Theirs an entire god damn series of novels including sickass wizards N shit about this.

[@bradpotts1747]

@@jeremyszpicki491 do tell

[@HamsterOfWrath]

"Four armed gun toting plains drifters death leads to mutant immolating Baboon with pyrokinetic mind powers" was something I didn't know I was missing in my life.

[@blackraptor311]

Just finished reading Jack Vance's Dying Earth series. I was amazed how much I have forgotten since the first time I read it.

[@thomascollette6322]

Vance does NOT get enough recognition. He was damn near as influential as Tolkein on modern fantasy. The entire magic system of D&D was based on his work.

[@e-train765]

Ahhh, 5am content from Tex 😌

[@ArthurMasterofLance]

I love waking up at 1am. Tossing and turning waiting to find something to lul me asleep. And then boom. 3 am. Tex's sultry voice comes up with caves of Qud. Thanks for the one hour of sleep before my 10hour work day. Hats off to The Legion!

[@DaltonAcosta_AmarasStory]

Tex, we need another one of these. This game and your voice go perfectly together.

[@derekburge5294]

Everytime someone mentions Gamma World, it brings a smile to my face. Great game.

[@DaltonAcosta_AmarasStory]

Ah Tex, how soothing the voice of a wise man in a forgotten library.

[@Winterydee]

"Jonny Four Guns", more like Jonny Four Arms, Two Guns and Dead!

[@dojojojo2348]

I am so glad that this video came out when it did. Perfect for recovering from stomach flu. Keep bein you Tex.

[@lornbaker1083]

A little hint for everybody. Pick Mutant for your first play through. Take claws Because it can dig through concrete. And take acid and spikes. Because it gives you an Area of effect and Also a direct damage debuff application. Essentially, you're making a mutant that is a acidic hedgehog. It won't be much good in a fight at the first. But it is basically able to borrow directly through anything. So you can literally just run out of any room by kool aid man-ing out the wall. It is great for exploration in the early stages, which allows you to get ahold of a lot more than what you would normally get if you didn't have those mutant bonuses that allow you to dig through Solid stone. Which will help you in the long run as you End up with far more resources to craft things. And some of the best stuff, the Tech gear that's hidden away in chambers that normally you need to find Some sort of key hidden Or protected. But with this build. You can quite literally walk four steps to the left of the door and burrow through the wall. The acid hedgehog build. It's one of the best starters that you can do for a mutant. Alternatively, you can pick. Multiple limbs. Buff yourself on defense. And put an axe in every hand. Now you are literally a walking guillotine Just always be sure to aim for the head. Also I am very happy tex gave a mention to gamma world. It is in my opinion Is a highly unappreciated masterpiece. I can't think of any other game where you can literally be a pile of Kittens in a trench coat That work like a cohesive hive, And also have the ability to phase shift Once a day. It was originally created by tsr the original makers of dungeons and dragons. , It was meant to be a Spin off. It did use the same system, so if you want to throw your Dungeons & Dragons team into Something more wacked out in the standard fantasy You would go to gamma world. However it did not. Sell as well because I don't think people really enjoyed at the time the concept of the outright and If genuine lack of sanity let a lot of the module concepts basically Had as this was a time before what I now call in my opinion gonzo style. So it fell by the wayside. Until Wizards of the coast released fourth edition and realized that they had the licensing to it, but they weren't using it. So they created a new gamma world. Using the fourth edition system. The base game play in the book. It is really tight mechanics. But the fact is, this occurred. During a time when Wizards of the Coast were really heavy on the whole. We want to make every single game that we have just like magic The gathering. So they did this stupid thing. Where you had to buy actual physical booster packs to get cards, which had information on mutations or special weapons that you wanted to use. Which made no sense whatsoever in terms of how can a player be able to enjoy what they want to do if they have to spend real life money to constantly try to get the actual card that gives them the information of what they wish. This kind of like how playtime poppy tried to hide the lower behind n f t's It didn't go over well despite the Fact that the novels that were released were wonderful. And also the actual game play Mechanics in the book were tight. It was because they tried to turn the fact of leveling up your character, meaning you had to buy a bunch of booster packs that destroyed the entirety of the series. Even to the state wizards of the coast has no intention of redoing anything with gamma world or rebooting it or rereleasing it or anything. Which is very deeply depressing to me. Because it gave me a different alternative. before I discovered gamma world I was only given these options for rpgs. It's gonna be fantasy or cyberpunk. Until I encountered gamma world. I never thought that there could be a good post. Apocalypse RPG game. That would fully accept and thrive on the concept that once the post Apocalypse happens every single thing. That you consider to be normal, goes up and goes out the freaking window. The funniest part is in the. Fourth edition book they genuinely state that the reason for the existence of the post apocalypse It is because of a misuse of Is a certain Super collider system. The result caused all perspective and possible realities to merge into one single reality. And According to the book the current year is called six monkey slap slap But the main reason why it fell. By the Waysides is because it demanded the player and even the g m to buy these booster packs So they could stack what was essentially the Rewards. Enormous Dungeons & Dragons. The Dungeon Master determines how much gold and What magical weapons you get. In gamma world, it was based on basically pulling cards from a deck, so you would get a random selection of mutations and weaponry. Now normally this would come from the g m deck . But if you had gone out and bought the booster packs and had a specific character in mind, you could have your own deck present which you would draw from, which would be stacked obviously with stuff That would specifically help your character. The g m deck even in the initial box Was designed more as a catch all Rather than a specific reward set. Which again, this is just A absolutely terrible business practice for a Table top rpg. It forced people to pay money. In order to get cards so that way, they could actually get the stuff that they wanted in game. That's some old b******* as we used to say it back in the Old neighborhood

[@Dr-Weird]

Wait...wait... You had me at six monkey slap slap

[@RayJackson88]

What the hell is a rant?

[@kingdoom9601]

Probably the best post I've seen on youtube, honestly.

[@Disgruntled_Dave]

You had me at "acid hedgehog kool-ade man." I must try this game.

[@MesaAufenhand]

...you should start doing KZbin video essay business

[@AtomicHombek]

Gamma Word. Bioborgs. Having a Tyrannosaurus Rex fire nukes at a frost breathing giant penguin is awesome.

[@madcat998]

i think Johnny Four Guns dying before he was even able to wield four guns was truly devestating.

[@hombreg1]

Never been this early on a video. Remarkable!

[@deeddude]

"Not good. Not bulletproof." - What a line...

[@swiftdraw]

Can confirm, Jim Adler still is running commercials with his "big, BIG HAMMER!"

[@chrischase2508]

i have never heard of this game, and this was amazing. funny shit

[@russellpilon4390]

Love it when you play Qud Mr.Tex!

[@csours]

What's my job? I'm a bulletproofer.

[@redmenaceuk]

You should verse audiobooks my friend, for your voice sooths and transfixes me. Live and drink, water brother. The narrator from Bastion springs to mind.

[@Mechabang]

Hey, hey, people, Sseth here..

[@Morec0]

​@@bullet8096Honestly have to agree. Which is a shame his stuff was great for a while.

[@Von_Langstein]

My friend just lost his run to a big guy that had 6 arms, most likely more? and big axe's. Well every hand had a axe, and every hand threw those axe's at him all at once. Pink mist, ladies and gentlemen.

[@cataleptickraken3197]

ouch. jotun, who parts limbs. his ranged dismembering attacks are no joke

[@whatwhat7119]

That's why you use all your extra mutations on the carapace. Infinite scaling armor to prevent anything other than vibro weapons. The first few have to go into horns or claws though.

[@CaptainBanjo-fw4fq]

Thanks Tex. This looks like fun. Also, been really digging the space asshole you’re playing on the Red Faction Phil streams.

[@thecandymann145]

jesus christ that voice, it is like listening to a cognac barrel that fell on hard times and started eating gravel. deep, rocky, reverbing... occasionally clearing into a higher pitch accent.

[@Von_Langstein]

Heck yeah, good surprise to start the morning 12hr with

[@mrmackie-qp6lr]

I,v been watching you play this game for a few years now lasting 20 minutes is a big improvement for you it also shows how good guns are in this game.

[@TheBallisticzero]

Cool! Glad I'm first to comment, perks of moving to Alaska I guess

[@BillNyeTheBountyGuy]

The Like button, while formidable, is not bullet proof.

[@johntrotter7372]

Dark tower reference, nice.

[@ZypherOfShadows]

Mmmm 3 am Texicus. And it's Cud?! Lovely! Although I do feel for ya, Tex, as a fellow being with Insomnia.

[@phoenixrq9139]

I love Gamma World!

[@America_Yea]

This is perhaps one of my favorite games of all time.

[@isaacstandley730]

I was playing an esper. I had looted multiple named ruins and retrieved artifacts that boosted my ego. I was 8n Ascension and soon I would be farming the hunters for further ego boosting. But I decided to travel to the banana groves so that I could reverse engineer some artifacts. Unfortunately one of the trees I stood under was not as peaceful as it brethren and in a single turn dealt 100 damage smote me before I could react. Such is the way of qud

[@Hit_by_a_Parked_Car]

“Hey hey people.”

[@grimos6490]

HURRAH! THE GLORIOUS DOOM OF THE WORLD! You're character sounds like a deranged gunman, just, ALL THE GUN ALL THE HEART AND ALL THE HANDS TO DIG WITH!

[@NexPaciscor]

God bless, this is in my top 3 Rogulikes. Angband, Qud, CDDA, the holy trinity.

[@ethandye8764]

i needed that

[@Cynidecia]

Caves of Chud

[@qwe095]

The baboons haunt me to this day!

[@chippitheaccentguy8018]

Excellent.

[@whatwhat7119]

I used to run multi leg and ranged weapons since nothing could hit you but now i run multi arm chimera for 8 vibro blades hitting 3x each or claws and strength stacking for instant kills on all low armor things. When you hit 14 times on something because it failed a roll you get stupid damage

[@Jetstoanywhere]

I was just about to ask if you knew book of the new sun. Crazy...

[@richardhole5301]

Nice!

[@CubeMasterTV]

Yo Tex, have you played Cogmind? As a connoisseur of mechs and ASCII-art based games, you might enjoy it

[@TheDarkkilla12]

Every time Tex talks (no pun intended), I feel like I’m sitting at home and just popping on the TV and pointing at the screen going ‘Hey, that show I like is on.’ And just enjoy it, chaos and all.

[@SkillZgetKillZ]

tons of people have started posting right when I get off work

[@caminator77]

Hey Tex, been drinking to preface this comment. been a while since I've watched you but damn you have a nice voice. would love to see you play or discuss the Fear and Hunger games. anyway good to see a vid from you and hope you're taking care. much love

[@wilhelmschmidt7240]

Looks like a great game, I might have to check this one out when I am done with my current game. Give MoonRing a go, a friend of mine worked on the music and it is a good time.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

It's a shame you didn't get two heads, because you could have said "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum and chew bubblegum."

[@SirRazorback]

Do you guys have a guide set up anywhere to teach folks 'how to stream a game'? I just got Xenonauts and was thinking about doing live stream sessions, but I don't know how very well.

[@fuzztsimmers3415]

google it man

[@razorka1293]

cool

[@jeremyszpicki491]

oh shit. What a cross over

[@bigmonkey1254]

Where can I find this song at the end credits?

[@GretchenDawntreader]

I can't tell on the tiny interface, doing a lot of shooting, I see Reload but is there ammo, or is this like some games where reserves like ammo have a refill rate?

[@newbaggett]

I think you injected the baboon with the hulk honey instead of yourself.

[@thedeadwookie25]

Crave my cudd

[@Zlorthishen]

Please try Cataclysm Bright Nights sometime

[@bluewolf194]

Will you be making a Kenshi video at some point?

[@ShagShaggio]

Woo

[@SatansPooper]

but what happened after you dropped your space fact in chat?

[@ermacorsomething]

Where is the discord Tex

[@allones3078]

I wish this game would get a overhaul like dwarf fortress

[@КириллШилихин]

Guns = good

[@dan89156108]

Not bulletproof though.

[@ZolecPalec]

This is such a weird game.-

[@markskarr2257]

Caves of Qud is a great game.

[@xxxm981]

Ah yea that game is very cool, i remember something about the devs being ...... special

[@NIL0S]

Wat the dog doin?

[@austinclay8622]

You know Tex, you should read The Snipe's Lament. Your tone would lend to the tone well.

[@p_serdiuk]

F for the fact that it's built with Unity

[@maxrobe]

A) So in 2015 the author didn't have a time machine? B) He apparently already converted it to Godot - in 14 hours.