Hello everybody! Me and DTLG Team wish you a happy new year. Thank you for being with us for so long. We have some very important news for you!

HARDMODE

Yeah, let's talk about HARDMODE. A while ago, our team had made a decision: we didn't want hardmode to just be DTLG but more difficult like it was in the old Demo 2.

As many of you know, hardmode Sans had some new different designs (they were shown exclusively in our discord server, join it to see more stuff and talk to the gigachad team members!)

Here are those designs for 3 phases:

However, not much progress was made with those sprites before we decided to scrap them (yeah, as sad as it is, it's time to say goodbye to blocky gigachad Sans) and take hardmode even further...

Introducing... DUSTTALE: THE GENOCIDE'S END!

That's right! The new DTLG hardmode will be much bigger and better - a three-part game featuring more locations than just the last corridor, having 3 unique battles, and not only against Sans! We'll also expand the lore a bit, including the m̴y̷s̸t̵e̸r̶y̵ ̴o̵f̷ ̷ s̴̲̀ó̸̼m̶̜͆é̴̼t̵̛̯h̶͖͊ḯ̵̹n̸͔̈g̸̙̈́ f̸̘͐r̵͈͗ó̷̫m̸͉̊ ̸̮̀t̸̹̿h̸̦̿ȇ̶̥ ̶̫͝ḑ̷͠á̷̧r̷̟͌k̷̟͒...

Uh... What was I saying?.. I suddenly forgot...

Oh yeah, new content!

The progress is going really smoothly, as the new battle engine is basically complete.

See that for yourself! Take a look at this preview of the Snowdin Battle! (Quite fitting for the new year's special, am I right?)

Here you can see some amazing new sprites from Sotwound, hear a banger battle theme by Fazzy and check out my new battle engine! (btw, the dialogue is 100% oficil!1!1)

Also, check out Everlasting Slaughter, a new OST piece made by Kaito (previously known as Twix):

Keep in mind that all of the visuals from this OST video are scrapped and won't be used in the final game.

And this is all that we can show you for now. Keep in mind that we'll take our time to make this project as great as we can. It will take a long while.

As for the HARDMODE DEMO, the team hasn't made the decision yet whether we'll release a demo or just wait until the full game, but don't worry, we'll let you know about our plans whenever this is settled!

Thank you for reading. Have a fantastic year!

- MaxHardcore and DTLG Team