Getting Started With Caves of Qud - Official Beginner Tutorial by

[@TheMidnighttea]

I want to bring up on topic of movement and UI -- this game is playable on controller! And more playable than you'd think, even though a lot of the nuanced controls involving holding one or more triggers plus a face button. But this makes Caves of Qud uniquely one of the best hardcore traditional roguelikes easily played on the Steam Deck, without use of a virtual keyboard or smudging your screen.

[@Branpanman]

I want to echo this sentiment 💯 I have dozens of hours in Qud on my Steam Deck and once you get the nuances figured out it’s such a cozy experience

[@rostbot2885]

So true! Finally I can just stay in bed and play Qud, as I am supposed to.

[@Shonucic]

I was surprised to find the controller controls are more comfortable than the keyboard ones!

[@johanmaru777]

18:30

[@johanmaru777]

18:30

[@Hemux0]

I did not need this tutorial, as I have played this game for the past 6 years or so. And yet? I watched it all, just because I love this game so much, and you guys did an amazing job in this video. A game that oozes so much love and passion deserved my ~20 minutes. So glad for this 1.0. Masterpiece.

[@chrism3562]

Huzzah for the 1.0 release! It's been an amazing journey so far, and we're just getting started! Live and Drink friends.

[@WarrenCBennett]

I bought it. Wooooo

[@grogpod_roguelike_podcast]

Moon and Sun, friends!

[@GoodCharless]

Thank you Kitfox & SBPlaysGames ! I am totally in love with Dwarf Fortress, Caves of Qud and Ostranauts. Can't wait for Streets of Fortuna !

[@FBracht]

What is Streets of Fortuna?

[@KitfoxGames]

​@@FBracht Streets of Fortuna is a game currently being developed by Kitfox! It's a free-roaming sandbox RPG where you play as a citizen living out your life in the fictional city of Fortuna, which is a procedurally generated world inspired by the real life city of Constantinople circa 500 AD.

[@Kazmahu]

As someone so new I looked this video up, there's one piece of wisdom I'd like to share: make friends with the left alt key. When held, it blanks out the map and color-codes all visible creatures according to hostility. Particularly while you're still learning to "read" the game's visual style this is an extremely useful way to actually notice the weird creatures barrelling toward you.

[@kyledavidson8712]

This was my best aha moment stumbled upon accidentally.

[@brandontrumble4911]

Great Video! I loved your style of teaching and you're funny af!

[@HeroKamui]

This game saved my life, I've been playing since 2018

[@snow_cap]

Please tell me your story.

[@micahpickering]

I would love to here your story! Hopefully you're doing better now!

[@kyledavidson8712]

Awesome. Funny how random things at the perfect times can be such an incredible boon. Keep on keeping on friends 👍

[@lolsenkoko8762]

dude tell us the story!°!!!

[@Daemonworks]

Great seeing SB over here~

[@NIL0S]

These tutorials are sweet.

[@internisus]

Great tutorial. Perfect mix of information and humor. I already have Qud, but I’ll also be exploring your channel now, SB. I see from your playlists that you have great taste in games.

[@50mm_]

Congrats on v 1!! I've been playing for years, but will start a new run today.

[@braindamage_eclipse]

Great intro. I don't have a lot of time in the game yet, but I'm relieved to know that I'm not the only one that immediately started stealing everything not nailed down. Got busted by those windowed/open "walls" a few times too. :D

[@braindamage_eclipse]

Follow-up: got my first character to level 5 and completed some of the Joppa quests! That's a huge win, this has really opened up the game for me.

[@Stolen_skeleton_tf2]

This is a rare exception When "weird" is not only in the ideas But actually, is In a good way Like old fantasies that loved to experiment with weird lore and rules

[@StagRPG]

This has been super helpful. I bought it yesterday and suddenly it was hours past bedtime. Love it! 🙏

[@AegixDrakan]

I cannot overstate how important having an escape plan or three is. The first time I had a character survive past Red Rock was a gunslinger with both a force field AND teleportation. When something can kill you in Qud, it's almost certainly got a very good chance of doing it. Respect everything.

[@tangentric]

Congrats on release - love Qud!!!

[@nate2729]

Big ups been waiting a minute for this 1.0

[@JohnLucPicard98]

Congrats on the full release! Can’t wait to play it after work today!

[@Jihon83]

Hell yeah, my girl SB is a great teacher!

[@zazander732]

Great video, SB did an amazing job. Gratz on 1.0.

[@frcid]

Thanks for the tutorial, for new players like me seems daunting but this masterpiece deserve the effort

[@Branpanman]

Congrats on the massive 1.0 release!! This is such an achievement and literally brings a tear to my eye… one of the greatest games ever made

[@Laikafan02]

Before I forget, here’s some stuff the games official wiki recommends you do as well: • go to the northwest to get a Issachar rifle, this is identical to the musket statwise but it has a capacity of 6 • kill snap jaws in red rock and in the hills surrounding the northeast of Red Rock to get studded leather armor, leather boots, a leather cap, and boarskin/leather gloves gloves to get 6 Defense value (DV) this is the bare-minimum if you want to survive the early game. • invest in cooking skills ASAP, you can get buffs like thirsting at half the normal rate and extra HP, among others like beneficial mutations. • there is a pair of mechanical wings in the swamps surrounding Joppa, although the location of these is completely random and not set. • if you complete all the quests available in Joppa, you get a Recoiler (AKA a device that lets you teleport to a location) that goes to Joppa Live and drink, friends.

[@MeanderBot]

Congrats on 1.0!

[@SCREENDOORONSUBMARIN]

Good comedy and information! Thank you

[@wiegraf9009]

Yay! Thanks SB!

[@tryptamigo]

i love SB. great choice.

[@lukeharrell3637]

I love that he talks about the theft mechanic in Joppa. I always felt like it was such a great way to get a headstart.

[@amabel_holland]

SB is a she, actually. ♥️

[@joshcarpenter400]

Oh ya, the first time I played I sole some copper nuggets from a chest in someone's house. The locals then saw me and beat me up. Good times

[@ThatTomCats]

Great info, started playing today.

[@Flakka-]

Considering this game and after 30+ mins of looking around, im happy it doesn't seem as intimidating as rimworld or dwarf fortress to get into. Excellent tutorial.

[@Kivalt]

Caves of Coq here we go!

[@brendensaur893]

The tinkerer can repair your rusty items!

[@modnarer]

This feels like the classic M.U.D. servers i ust to play20+ years ago

[@Laikafan02]

1.0 release! The beauty! My stomach is in stirs!

[@Hippiespeedball]

Thanks so much. Been wanting to get into this for years but Joppa already gave me anxiety.

[@EHAmos]

This was the first game I ever played where I had to look up hours of tutorials and die dozens of times just to figure out the basic controls and idk what happened but I fell in love instead of getting pissed off, happy to see it finally hit 1.0!

[@smackhead]

You should be glad you weren't born 20 years earlier than you were then heh - Nethack, Angband and hell even Rogue were much *much* harder. In modern time even ADOM is a lot harder. This game is easy - but it's great - which is why I'm here as it was linked in the release notes and wanted to see how they showcased it to newcomers.

[@EHAmos]

@smackhead different times, different mindset. I have tried Nethack and Dwarf Fortress, I just don't have the will to keep playing those lol. But if those games were the Pinnacle of RPGs and there were not many other options I would be more than thrilled to play them! You're right, I am lucky to be alive in an era where we have so many great RPGs to choose from!

[@smackhead]

@@EHAmos Oh if you want RPGs there were heaps back then as well - from the Wizardries to Eye of the Beholder to a Bards Tale. Wizardries were the toughest - which is why I chuckle when kids (and believe me I don't use that term in a derogatory manner.. I'm old so anyone under 30 is a kid heh) say 'souls like'. Dark Souls was easy in that it was like a dance; an initial difficulty until you learn the moves then it's second nature. Wizardry would make most gamers today top themselves :) Though as you say - different times, different mindset. You get achievements for a loading a game these days which is right up there with participation trophies for simply showing up lol

[@EHAmos]

​@smackhead I'm 33 lol, but I grew up poor so I wasn't able to get into gaming untili was already an adult so I missed out on a lot! One of these days I'll have the time to go back and play all the stuff I missed!

[@smackhead]

@@EHAmos I'm in my early 50's heh (Gen X) I wish I was still the young spring chicken you are :) I'm sure you'll enjoy some of the older more challenging games now you've made you're first step - it's addictive. Take care mate and all the best.

[@Twistshock]

Are we able to sever the thread of prophecy like in Morrowind by yeeting an essential main quest NPC?

[@Drekty]

I can't decide if I will like this game or not. I am very on the fence of buying it, but great work finishing it.

[@Drekty]

Well I ended up buying it, I do like it! :D

[@AegixDrakan]

I already know how to play, with 50 hours in the game, and I'm still watching this just to make sure I didn't miss or forget anything. XD

[@Haze_E1]

wooo for 1.0 live and drink!

[@BrazilianAnarchy]

TODAY IS THE DAY. LIVE AND DRINK.

[@nosouponhead]

What are the controller controls?

[@bootnoot8696]

Has this been provided a licence by the Merchant’s Guild?

[@nickdiaz2997]

On controller, is there a way to see what items that are part of traders do?

[@irislemon3474]

yay, go SB!!

[@easibroeasibrode6381]

Es un gran juego. La comunidad está deseando el idioma español, teneis pensado hacerlo?

[@MacGamingRevolution]

GZ y'all!

[@jakeout]

This is a great intro, I kinda wish there were a steam deck version, it contains a lot of references to keyboard keys, which ultimately doesn't help me!

[@falcon5190]

So, how do I install mods on GoG Kitfox Games? Care to give us a tutorial for that?

[@KitfoxGames]

You just need to drop mods in your Mods folder directly!

[@falcon5190]

@@KitfoxGames Thank you for the advice. Tried it and it worked fine. Glad to see mods work on GoG version as well.

[@tricky2917]

Is this coming to consoles? I kind of retired to those things. ^^;

[@illkurok]

Live and drink friends!

[@barabararossa]

Tutorial says to set up my camp next to a beetle. Tutorial doesn't say HOW to setup a camp. I search for help for the tutorial to learn how to execute tutorial step of setting up a camp... 10 out of 10

[@BoredTruckn]

I bought this almost entirely because of the review Seth did. I didn't actually read anything on the store site or even know that 1.0 was literally minutes from release. I bought the 'Early Access' and play the tutorial about 20 minutes before 1.0 came out. I exit the game cuz I had other stuff to do after I did the tutorial, and it was already updating. I was really surprised to realize it was the 1.0 release.

[@abe19876]

Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch; I was there when it was written

[@chrisderhodes7629]

I died.

[@godlessgod6609]

Ahh water

[@tonywtyt]

I'm not understanding why a screen can have so much unused real estate, yet they choose to use a small font that makes more difficult for a visually impaired user. I'm please that allow for user to be able to adjust this. I currently find it hard to invest so much time with so many details of game play when there's a high probability of dying, thought the environment of the game sounds interesting... I''d probably have to play in a mode that's more about discovery and less about battle.

[@KitfoxGames]

Did you take a look at adjusting the settings in the menu? SB covers that starting at 01:55 Sounds like you'd be interested in Wander Mode where most enemies are not hostile to you and is focused more on exploration of the world.

[@Apoch86]

I'm sorry... but you sound exactly like the "What shape does the triangle go in? That's right! The square hole." guy hahaha

[@celerypaints5360]

I really hope the game will have an ending in 1.0. Have not picked this up yet due to no ending of a 'run'

[@KitfoxGames]

Good news! The 1.0 release does add a proper ending to the game (in fact there are actually multiple endings you could get).

[@RootVegetabIe]

Thanks but where's the "milk" button I need to milk other characters thanks

[@xPumaFangx]

F

[@guilhermewhite7274]

COQ

[@kyledavidson8712]

AU VIN

[@trufantom21]

What is this crap?

[@BACHUGANCIKOMANIA]

Your "tutorial" doesn't work since your character doesn't have enough money for a musket at the beginning.

[@PaithanMycerinus]

ah another roguelite, adding artificially inflated complexity and playtime for years.

[@dotdot5906]

You guys could make a discount bigger than 15% at very least for the game's release bruh

[@Rawnblade1213]

i mean they've been saying for many months now there would be a steep price increase with release

[@KhaziirEverflight]

or you can actualyl pay them what they are worth, and not behave like a penny pinching entitled brat.

[@pestoman7069]

Man you are pathetic lmao You dont have $26 to spend?

[@dotdot5906]

​​​​@@KhaziirEverflightmany of my favorite games do sales up to 50+%. This game (and dwarf fortress tbf) only ever does 15%. What is 15%? If I wanted to buy the game full price I would buy the game full price. In fact, I would probably buy Coq 2 years ago if not this.

[@dotdot5906]

​@@KhaziirEverflightyou guys aren't special enough and neither are you some elite gaming maestro only producers. CDDA is out there costing zero dollars zero cents, are you there yet?

[@jeremyjohnson7676]

This game is satire right? And what's even more satire is the price. $4,99 would be perfekt but even that would be too much because for $5 you'll get a AAA game in Sale. But the most funny thing about that "GAME" is, that it was supposed to come out in 1985 for the C64. Seriously.

[@pestoman7069]

ah we found a middle schooler. Fun! Keep playing Fortnite lil buddy

[@gospelofrye6881]

This comment is satire right?

[@bene9644]

@@gospelofrye6881 idk if he got us or he is a middle schooler

[@kyledavidson8712]

ESL bait at its finest.