Oct 31
Dead World: La Argentina Muerta - Milanesa Studio
- Fixed a bug that prevented the first mission of Gino's Journey from continuing
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In honor of Halloween, a bright and joyful event, I suggest we talk about death—not about our death, but about the Mistress who embodies one of the fundamental forces of Midian.
But first, let’s start with something more grounded.
The final re-balance we’re working on is causing changes in the text—and significant ones at that, especially in card and item descriptions. Just imagine the volume of those changes! I mention this only to remind you that the re-balancing process is well underway and it’s steadily drawing to a close.
When we were personifying death, our main source of inspiration was dualism. If there are Primordial Spirits symbolising life, there should also be a Mistress of Death—for counter-balance and the unity of opposites.
It is easy to understand the nature, meaning and purpose of the Spirits’ existence; to do so, it’s enough to have a general idea about pantheism. The spirits are the divine origin of all that exists in Median, they’re both the weavers and at the same time the fabric of reality itself.
Meanwhile, grasping the nature, meaning, and purpose of death is not only hard, but also harmful in itself. Death servants have been pondering these questions for centuries without reaching a consensus. And if we are able to now easily find the answers, does it mean that all death servants were stupid? No, that doesn’t make sense.
But we are still free to muse.
We could search for the essence of death in the law of energy conservation. The Primordial Spirits couldn’t appear out of nothing. For a pendulum to start swinging, you first need to apply some force to it. After that it will necessarily swing in the other direction. The Mistress is precisely the other side of the pendulum. Right?
The meaning of the existence of death may lie in dialectics. If all phenomena in the world develop and change through the interaction of opposites, then without death Midian couldn’t evolve and reach the final goal of its existence.
What’s the purpose of the Mistress? This is the most important and complicated question that death servants grapple with. But we’ll set the lengthy musings aside for now and focus on service.
Are you willing to risk your life for a chance at immortality?
Are you a scholar, painfully aware that one lifetime isn’t enough to make your great discovery?
Are you a mage, just a couple of centuries short of achieving absolute power?
If so, the path of serving the Mistress is open to you. You can invent your own reason — she doesn’t care.
To become an acolyte, you need a special amulet made from the thumbs of right hands. Any death servant will make it for you, or won’t—that’s for the servant to decide alone, but you can try to persuade them.
Now let’s suppose you’ve got the acolyte amulet. The next step is to—on the first day of leaf fall—go to any death idol. If you’re the only one to show up, count yourself very lucky because there’s only one opening. But most likely a whole group of contenders will gather around the idol, and you will have to kill each other until there’s only one of you left. That person will become the servant of death.
Basically, you don’t have to do anything more; you’ve already earned at least some kind of immortality. When your body dies, you’ll rise in the form of a ghoul, find yourself a cozy crypt and feed on corpses. You’ll no longer be in danger of starving to death, but hunger will haunt you, and you will need to eat a lot.
But do your ambitions go further than a ghoul’s fate? If so, then you will have to offer sacrifices and await the attention of the Mistress. She will certainly get in touch with you and wish for something special from you.
Fulfilling her wishes, you will sooner or later turn into a lich, build an army of skeletons and zombies, and you’ll be undead happily ever after. It would be better to not attract the attention of the firebrothers, but let’s see what happens.
Whoever doesn’t fulfil a Death's wish will be turned into a wight, a submissive slave, bound to one place until a brave hero in shining armour delivers them from eternal suffering.
Skeletons and Zombies
Unlike wights, zombies and skeletons aren’t enslaved. They’re puppets, the remains of people and animals misused by someone.
You shouldn’t mistake undead zombies for zombies of the Rotten Bog, they only look alike (although it makes no difference for the firebrothers). But that’s a complex matter, and we’ll leave it for later.
Happy Halloween!
🎃 Happy Halloween, dear community! 👻
As the leaves fall outside and darkness settles over the tunnels, it’s time for a small but exciting DevLog Halloween update! 🦇🚇
Today, we’re taking a look at a feature many of you have been curious about: coupling with the Battery Locomotive AL1! ⚡
The AL1 is equipped with a Scharfenberg coupler, which makes coupling in-game pleasantly simple.
Just slowly drive up to the desired vehicle – for example, the LB6 wagon – and the connection will automatically lock into place. The system engages on its own, just like in real life.
To supply power to the LB6, you’ll need to manually attach a power cable between the AL1 and the wagon.
This cable transfers electricity so the wagons can be properly powered.
It’s a classic touch of realism – you’ll need to connect it yourself to complete the setup.
When you want to uncouple the locomotive, the process is just as realistic:
Inside the cab, there’s a button to release the coupling mechanism.
After that, simply disconnect the power cable to fully separate the locomotive.
Only then is the AL1 ready for its next task – whether it’s shunting duties or coupling to another vehicle.
This feature offers a first glimpse into the level of detail and mechanics behind the upcoming Battery Locomotive AL1.
More exciting functions will be added in future updates – so stay tuned for new information about the AL1 and its role in the game! ⚡
Until then, we wish you a spooktacular Halloween and lots of fun exploring the tunnels…
Who knows what might be lurking down there in the dark... 👀🎃
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The demo for The Ballad of Bellum has now been updated to Demo Version 1.1.1, which is the Halloween update🎃 This update a few more settings to the settings menu, as well as other QOL addition and other bug fixes.
Demo Roadmap
I'm planning to release a short demo roadmap soon with some things I'd like to add to the demo before I continue working on the rest of the game.
Alright, here's the patch notes:
Additions and changes:
Added object markers to any object that can be targeted. The marker will pop up when the object is close by.
Increased throwing speed for all liftable objects.
Reduced the main menu camera movement from 25 to 10, and changed the option to change in the settings menu from a slider to a enable / disable switch.
Added a setting to toggle camera shake.
Added a setting for changing what monitor to play on 💻
Added so that display and monitor settings are loaded while in the splash screen.
Slightly increased the collision mask for the sword.
Added so certain objects, like pots, bushes, and other interactable objects will be deleted if the player spawn inside them, like when restarting the game for example.
Highroost Village has been decorated, all point lights will have a random color, and fog is permanently on, to celebrate Halloween!🎃🍬
Bug fixes:
Fixed a bug where the game would crash after binding keys due to a false variable.
Fixed an issue where smooth normals were not calculated correctly for world models.
Fixed a bug where it was not possible to reset keybinds back to the default bind with the reset button next to the keybind widget inside the settings menu.
Fixed an issue where the player would move slower diagonally, and appear to move slower up and down due to the camera angle.
Known issue:
General performance issues across the demo.
An issue with the dialogue system where you sometimes have to press twice to progress.
Moving the game to a different monitor while in window mode with the new setting for changing which monitor to play on won't scale the game window properly.
Sorry we found more bugs, so more delays on the development of the Roadmap features, but while my brother is busy fixing them, I made more bamboo pieces.
Diagonal and support pieces will be up on next update, then I will add railings, more support pieces and If I have time circular parts.
Next week we should finally get some progress on custom difficulty options for Sandbox (including some cheat-like options like infinite stamina and building materials)
The Halloween special is now alive.
Play the open playtest during Halloween weekend and give feedback.
Just enter Request Access and you are automaticly free to play.
Have a look at other Streamers Lets plays and try to escape the Sanatorium too.
