NieR: Automata's fake secret level is finally playable as a mod
NieR: Automata's infamous fake secret level is finally playable, thanks to a mod.
Yoko Taro and Platinum Games' action RPG recently made headlines when a player uploaded a strange clip of himself accessing a hidden area in the game's Copied City level. No one else was able to replicate the act in their version of the game.
After days of keeping the community in shambles over the alleged secret, the level was finally revealed by a group of modders to be a demo for an upcoming mod tool.
The hoax has now been turned into reality via an actual mod that players can download and install for the PC version of the game.
The NieR: Automata church mod, as it is called, is a long-awaited release from the group of modders who gripped the community with one of 2022's biggest gaming mysteries.
The mod is essentially a roughly hour-long tribute to Yoko Taro's previous projects, NieR: Replicant and Drakengard 3, which feature impressive and groundbreaking modding techniques.
The entire saga began when Reddit user u/sadfutago uploaded a short clip of himself accidentally stumbling upon a secret door in Nier: Automata's Copied City level. This took him to a hidden church area that presented its own cutscene and visuals, which were never seen before in the game.
Many players hypothesized that the secret was just cut content that did not make it to the final game. Meanwhile, others believed it to be some sort of elaborate hoax by the user.
Even Yoko Taro himself acknowledged the incident and posted a vague tweet about the secret.
However, it was later revealed by a group of modders that the entire section was a prototype for an upcoming mod tool for the game.
The secret level is now available for players to experience for themselves, thanks to a
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