Merry Christmas, TBOFJ fans! Firey Jr. has a gift for you.

After quite the few months of work, the PILOT EPISODE is FINALLY READY! Getting this out for Christmas took a tiny sacrifice... but it'll make the other episode releases look much better in comparison.

You can now experience the PILOT in its full glory.

But, why stop the gift there?

Part 1: Current post-PILOT progress.

During the waiting period for what was gonna be the PILOT trailer, I got to work on the porting from Clickteam to Godot for future episodes.

This, however, was done on the Soldier engine... and it became very apparent that this engine was NOT built for my tomfoolery.

Yeeeahhh, actually, I should phrase this better. This engine made me nearly rip my fucking hair out.

Accurate depiction of using this engine.

This, however, doesn't mean we've made no progress on the later episodes!

With the general amount of progress we had before moving off of Soldier's engine, I think Episode 2 was around 20% complete...? Not sure.

What this means, however, is that we have officially SURPASSED the original J.S. era in terms of progress. We are fucking unstoppable.

Anyhoo... that's about all! See you in 2026, and enjoy the pilot of The Ballad of Firey Jr!

...oh yeah. One more thing.

https://soundcloud.com/severe_voting_mistake/bitch-slap-firey-encounter-a

https://soundcloud.com/severe_voting_mistake/bitch-slap-firey-encounter-b

Part 2: DISC 3 / SEASON 3 will be a thing.

You're probably staring at those links and the playlist they're a part of in a fit of confusion, and I am too. Way back when I started coding this, my original vision was to have the normal fights and the Dust Mode fights and be done with this.

However... plans change, and because of those changing plans we finally have a return of HARD MODE! Hard Mode was only mentioned twice throughout ALL of Rigged Votes' lifetime, only being featured in Doom Era 1 and the original Polygon/Legacy era. Say hello to "EMBER OF ODIUM!"

How I intend to make Season 3 begin is still up to deciding... but for the moment we're just enjoying how we're getting just a tad more bit of Firey Jr. in the spotlight for once.

More details will be revealed soon enough.

Okay, have a great 2026! Make videos on the demo I really wanna see this get popular... :D