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by shrimp_emoji 2595 days ago
Caves of Qud is my favorite roguelike, hands down. It's like a mechanically-streamlined Crawl with fantastic writing and worldbuilding.

I'm 400 hours in but I still haven't beat the main quest. (But I also suck.)

>The setting is a lot like Gamma World, or if you don't know what that is, post-apocalyptic Dune but with more pulp sci-fi (and chrome).

Or a grittier, LSDier Adventure Time
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logicprog 2595 days ago
> Or a grittier, LSDier Adventure Time

Oh boy, that's actually a fair description!

Any tips I should know about? I haven't even been able to complete either the watervine or the copper wire quests.

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shrimp_emoji 2591 days ago
Play Truekin. They're the best "meta" class; mutants are essentially hardcore mode. Truekins have higher base stats and won't aggro Templar when encountering them. I play with the same Ibul Praetorian build (code "AGOPPOHG11") exclusively, which I think is the easiest base class of the truekin classes. I named it Roland, after the Borderlands char. :3 (Ironically, though, I never use Deploy Turret; it's not that good outside of killholes.)

(As IRL) I only got as far as I have because this build is so inherently great: you start with great gear, a sweet desert rifle, you got blocking and sword skills for when the enemy closes in, and I take a focus on tinkering, which is one the most interesting gameplay aspects and quite powerful if you're smart/lucky (find good schematics and can afford them).

Red Rock and the Rust Wells should be a breeze with it. On other classes, they can be nightmarish.

Also, another tip: there's a convenient shortcut to Red Rock somewhere in Joppa. ;3 (I didn't discover this until embarrassingly recently.)

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mruts 2595 days ago
My favorite strat is taking domination and beguil. And then I choose my pokemon and level them up into a ferocious swoll monster.
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jdormit 2595 days ago
This is hands down the best way to play CoQ. And it really speaks a lot to the depth of the game that you can play the whole thing hopping from mind-controlled character to mind-controlled character and the gameplay just adapts...
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logicprog 2595 days ago
Muwahahah! Perfect. I'll try that next time I play.
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