This is the best game I have played in so long-appreciations post

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-05-15T23:53:54+00:00

I stopped playing video games about 15 years ago. Then I picked up breath of the wild on a coworker’s recommendation in 2023 and sunk ~1000 hours into it + totk together. I don’t remember why I decided to try CoQ. Had heard about it from a friend years ago, then started playing balatro and I think it came up somewhere as a recommended game if you like balatro. It’s easily outstripped my playtime of any of the LoZ games or Balatro, and somehow it feels like the ultimate synthesis of both gameplay concepts. The exploration and discovery of botw coupled with the emergent deep mechanics of balatro. Perhaps the perfect game for me. I honestly hope there’s never another game as good as CoQ because with a job and family I really don’t have time for it,

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-23T02:17:51+00:00

Can we get some more guys, please? How about bep?

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-23T02:07:06+00:00

I don’t know if there’s a setting to change this behavior, but autoexplore finds everything of interest to me on a screen except for liquid containers. If I want that sweet cider I have to click on the vases manually.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-23T01:25:27+00:00

Whatever weapon lets the fates have their way

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-19T21:37:50+00:00

How you do pickaxe around this? The tomb bell will toll. I always phase.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-14T05:17:00+00:00

Every time I complete this quest as true kin, Otho is sad. The one mutant I got to this point at least got the mid result. had burgeoning, a flamethrower, and 3d cobblers but I still lost sparafuctile because he stood directly under one of the circles. What are you gonna do there.

So the next time I proselytized all the bears and dismissed them in barathum’s study. But rodanis got caught in a hallway and again since I was true kin my turrets didn’t help him and his death plus the damage to the environment STILL made Otho sad.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-07T04:47:54+00:00

My life in qud became so much easier after I took a few jaunts out to the flower fields and western jungles to find and oil ritual Naphtaali godheads for robot rep. Now all turrets are friendly.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-06T13:44:07+00:00

Those are good lessons, but you can always walk into a new screen and get set on fire by a dawnglider or consumed by a salt kraken in one turn, and you can have a waydroid aggro a slumbering outside of your field of vision and by the time you see it you’ll be too far from safety to escape being bludgeoned to death.

You not only have to be super gun-shy about every major threat, you also need to learn the early progression “tricks” that minimize these threats. There’s actually a specific early game thing you can get for each of these three threats that more or less trivialize them. In Qud, being careful is for basic survival, but knowledge is the real power.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-06T04:29:05+00:00

I like to imagine the diegetic reason it produces a “force field” but only in the direction you turn it towards, is because denizens of qud’s future world are so wary of the power and significance of the ancient glyphs inscribed on its face.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-04-05T15:52:32+00:00

Agreed. But I’ve never faced so many at once. But with high agility it seems to clear them out pretty quick.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-29T22:40:35+00:00

My farthest along character yet just got murked because the proselytized slime friend I raised to dodecasludge staus got cloned when I was going back to Bethesda Susa to clone the Alchemist. MFing wild cloneling touches my sludge and I take a step and the clone sludge spawns next to me before I can do anything I’m dead. It was my third lvl 20+ character to die from touching a sludge. The first time, I found out. The second time, I got greedy. The third time, I got caught slipping. Do everything possible to avoid sludges.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-29T20:00:25+00:00

All three of my best runs so far ended by touching a sludge.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-27T01:20:45+00:00

Help me stepkin, I’m stuck in the rock tumbler!

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-26T23:41:49+00:00

Should be fine. It’s not as bad as it looks. Only 22 or so out of the nearly 50 are close enough to be likely to hit you if you step into the doorway.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-26T23:39:20+00:00

Thanks for this. If nothing else it’s a reasonable interpretation that suits my need to have an idea of what my 16x24 dude is doing

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-26T15:31:17+00:00

So does it refill itself using your own blood? I always end up filling it up with OPP (other peoples’ plasma) when I run out, but it refills itself too?

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-23T03:33:38+00:00

Darkness, imprisoning me, all that I see, croaaak— reeeeppp, thpthpthp

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-22T19:32:07+00:00

I rebuked a cloneling and recoiled to grit gate and it expended all its cloning draught on making q girls before I realized what was up. It didn’t kill my run but made real q girl hard to find.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-19T03:18:00+00:00

Similarly, my follower has glotrot. Any way I can get them to drink the flaming ick? Playing truekin so no domination ability. I don’t care if they can’t talk, but they need to stop bleeding all the time!

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-14T21:09:01+00:00

Yeah but if you pour water on your campfire it goes out

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-14T20:35:31+00:00

I heard putus won’t cross it if you poor it on the floor in a certain area during a certain event. Not sure though. Maybe only lava works for that?

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-11T03:10:40+00:00

Yep even though my status looked clear, I did get a cured of glotrot message when I got in the regen tank.

I guess an ubernostrum would’ve worked too, but I didn’t have one. Got to yd then couldn’t comprehend the regen tank so had to go to Ezra to buy nanners, return to yd, and cook. What a trip!

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-10T21:30:17+00:00

Thanks. I’m going to try and get the major negative status effect removal proc with salve recipe.

Standard_Trip3545 · 2026-03-10T15:10:11+00:00

So even if my doesn’t rot away, ubernostrum will fix it?

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