WWAATD Anniversary + Gladiator's Revenge: Preview #3 + release date!

Dear Aspirants!

Time for another preview on Gladiator's Revenge as well as a release date reveal! Hint: it's very soon!

Today marks the anniversary of We Who Are About To Die! 2 years ago today I released my 7-year-solo-dev project. It was an absolutely life-changing experience. Since then, we're now a game studio -- over 15 people have worked on the project by now, and we've added countless features and refinements to the game.
Special thanks to the core teammembers: Lino & Yosha who have now been working hard on the game full time for over a year and a half now. Show some love in the comments everyone! <3
Here's a (very condensed) list of highlights from the EA development so far:

* Content Update v0.16: Desperate Politician, Blacksmith's apprentice, map variations, new gear, new weapons
* Content Update v0.17: Godly gear, many items, combat and physics refinements
* Combat Controls Update: Third Person Mode, Controller Support, Throwing Overhaul, Lionslayer difficulty, Smart Shop, Items
* Anniversary Update: Godly tier items Map variations, updated blocking system, combat tweaks
* The Spectacles Update: Animation overhaul, AI overhaul, Audio overhaul, Survival, Bosses, Tournaments, Field battles ..., New map, new gear
* Content Update v0.45: Field battle update, new faction, new gear
* Champion's Journey: 50+ Random Character Traits, Timeline, Weight overhaul, Skill overhaul, New maps...
* Gladiator's Revenge: Veteran Aspirant, Condemned, Localisation into 11 languages, overhauled tutorial tips (loading screen), new items and units, ...
* ???

It's been an incredible journey, and we're deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to shaping the game into what it is today (because you really, really have), and what it will become in the future!

Gladiators Revenge: Preview 3

New Backstory: The Condemned

On top of the Veteran Aspirant, Gladiator's Revenge has a second new Backstory! The Condemned. The condemned is a challenge backstory which you must first unlock.
To unlock it, you have to first win a backstory to unlock Lionslayer difficulty, and then win a backstory on Lionslayer.

The Condemned is simple: you start with no equipment, no skills, no gold or fame, no perks whatsoever. On top of that, legacies don't work, patron's dislike you from the start, negative events are more likely and you get only neutral and negative traits. Lastly, you can only play it on Lionslayer difficulty.
The win condition is to simply survive for a certain amount of weeks. Good luck!

For the fans out there, this is partially inspired by Soulslike "Wretch"/"Deprived" type characters!

New Equipment!

The Gladiator's Revenge Update brings an array of new content, featuring items inspired by classic gladiators. Expect to see more variations of flails, tridents, and claws, along with a wide selection of new shields.

New Unit Types!

Of course with all this new gear and lore we added unit types to the game as well!
The 3 Veteran Aspirant subclasses, Myrodonian, Dormorian and Terantian now also show up throughout the entire game as enemies.

In the game so far we had a generic "Worthy Aspirant', 'Professional Aspirant", the old "Myrodonian", and other gladiators like the 'Aspired'. These are now replaced & expanded, so "Worthy Aspirant" is split up into the 3 new classes, each having a Worthy variant. We also have a Professional, Champion and Aspired variant, totalling 12 units. On top of that, we have added a new unit called a Bonecrusher. (mid-late game iron armor, heavy mace)

NOTE: some of this equipment is work in progress.

Gladiator's Revenge When?!

I'm glad to announce Gladiator's Revenge is going live November 23rd, along with a Daily Deal and discount of 2 weeks following it!

Closed testing and Language testing LIVE NOW!

Thank you for all the Testers who responded last time to the call for testers!
A first closed test is going live today on the Closed Test branch

Want to help? We can use any kind of tester - we are still missing some testers especially for Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean and Japanese. If you can help out and want earlier access to this update, please consider joining the closed test!

If you speak any of the new languages fluently or have a good eye for bugs & balance (playing in English) please join our Discord (http://discord.gg/8PEutcdwf5).
Language testing applications can go in the channel #loc-test-application write that you want to help & on which language(s). Regular closed testers can apply in #closed-test-application

Here are the languages again:

French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Thank you!!
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Thank you for your support these past 2 years, from the bottom of my heart! <3<3

As always,
We who are about to die salute you!

Jordy