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Rock Bottom: Wretched Kin Genotype
   
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Rock Bottom: Wretched Kin Genotype

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"Become a foul, desperate wretch, once a scion of the arcologies, cast out by thy kin for beginning to show signs of mutation. They kicked you out with nothing except a dirty toga, and a gentling mask forced onto your face as some kind of cruel joke. Better find some water soon."

I set out to create a mutant / true kin hybrid genotype with the goal to provide a suitably challenging start to players who are intimately familiar with Caves of Qud cheese strats, as having access to both mutations and cybernetics has the potential to scale to an insane degree in the endgame. Loosely based on the Kenshi "Rock Bottom" and "Rockiest Bottom" game modes. Along the way I found out I needed actual C# script to put what's in my brain into the video game, but I don't know how to write code, so this mod wouldn't have been possible without help from the glorious Princess of Evil from the Caves of Qud discord. In addition, character sprites were largely based on the Apotropaist from Mephril's CYF Expansion - Genecrossed mod, with their permission.

New in 1.1: additonal challenge mode subtypes! Try the Maimed start to get the real Kenshi Rock Bottom experience, or for those who live, eat, drink, and breathe pure nightmare, attempt CRUMPED MODE if you dare. Plus new and improved CYF support - install Choose Your Fighter to change your character tile to accurately represent the limbs you gain or lose using either the chooseyourfighter:change wish, or I think there's also an add-on mod called Magic Mirror which adds an in-game item to open the CYF menu but I have not personally tested that.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3032410975

Also if for some reason you're like "I like this mod but it's too difficult", or maybe "not difficult enough", you can navigate to the mod folder, go into the ObjectBlueprints folder, open up Genotypes.xml with notepad++ or another editor, and freely tinker with things like starting stat points / skill points / attributes and gains per level. It's all in plain text and very easy to edit. For more information check https://wiki.cavesofqud.com/wiki/Modding:Genotypes_and_Subtypes
In addition I give full permission for literally anyone to do whatever the hell they want with any of the files in this mod. Edit, steal, make patches if the game updates and requires it in the future and I'm dead, redistribute, upload a 1:1 copy of it if you want to. Fornicate the constabulary.

TW: Some slightly depressing text belittling the character in the character creator to reflect their low attributes and backstory, for example the description for the "strength" attribute is replaced with "You never were very good at sports". I intend it to inspire challenge but of course don't want to actually upset anyone who might have a bad response to reading that kind of thing.
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Frank  [作者] 9 月 19 日 下午 7:16 
@obsidious so making a new genotype is incredibly easy, it was about as complex as changing graphics settings in a .ini file. It's been enough time that I don't even remember 100% of what I did but the part where I had to get a coder involved to script stuff was when I wanted it to do custom things like start with missing limbs and behave the way I wanted in regard to tonics, there was easy things to set, something like ismutant=1 and istruekin=1 in the xml file, was simple enough but then they got truekin's stronger tonic effects so instead we just went with ismutant=1 and then the script removes limbs on game start and gives access to cybernetics machines
Obsidious 9 月 19 日 下午 12:01 
Ooo, I've been looking for a mod that allows access to both power systems but starting from a baseline of almost-mutant rather than almost-truekin like the Mechanimist Genotypes mod! Definitely subscribing!

Also, I mean to start modding when I can, and I am likely to start with XML and then learn to code: out of interest, where did you run into the issues with putting what's in your head into the mod without scripting? Thanks for making everything freely editable too!




@Proto, that's... actually really interesting, given the theming. I know that the Rogue Robot mod advises against using other chargen mods at the same time due to such problems, but I might actually try that.
Doowy 9 月 19 日 上午 10:54 
Forgive my slow, smooth brain; Just double checking. This type allows both mutations and cybernetics to be used correct? ...If so- totally understand the brutal start now.
Proto 9 月 9 日 上午 12:51 
Huh weirdly this presents mutations from the rogue robot mod when creating a character.
pururinze 6 月 6 日 上午 11:16 
Yes! this is what Im always looking for
twitch.tv/infinity_hs0 5 月 13 日 下午 2:19 
Cold mod idea
Veles 4 月 26 日 下午 12:55 
Great mod! One issue, though: (this is more stemming from my linguistic pedantry) in the description of the mod, it should say "thy kin" instead of "thine kin". Thine is simply a form of thy used before a vowel (think 'a' vs 'an').

Regardless, this feels like the closest thing to a "deprived/challenge start" mod that Qud has - keep up the good work! :praisesun:
esran2 3 月 22 日 上午 6:36 
Crumped chimera have a very difficult start, but honestly by level 12 they are already stronger than true kin. They eventually get stronger than mutants too, though that depends heavily on finding decent cybernetics. I got more powerful than I would have been as a mutant at around level 24 when I found motorized treads.

This is probably the most balanced mod for hybrid mutant + cybernetics, but personally I'd prefer a slightly easier early game, and fewer mutation points per level to avoid inevitably scaling to be the strongest. Maybe a restriction on cybernetics as well, though I'm not sure what would be fair.
Klomn 3 月 17 日 下午 8:41 
Thank you, this mod is so much more gratifying than Sifrah Terminal Hacking. I love that mod but this is exactly what I needed. Live and Drink!
Frank  [作者] 3 月 12 日 下午 10:32 
yes, "worse tonics" was a specific goal of mine with the mod lol