Nier fans finally have the answer to the church mystery
It’s a mod.
After the Nier: Automata community went through a good 96-ish hours of pure, high-octane gas trying to figure out if a heretofore undiscovered church was a mod or an Easter egg or an ARG put together by Yoko Taro and his merry band of weirdos, a trio of modders has come forward and admitted it was a mod.
“We have been loving all the discussions and theories — it has been an amazing journey,” reads a statement from the trio. “It has been inspiring to see the community come together after so many years, it has made all the hard work well worth it.”
The mod represents an impressive technological advancement for the Nier: Automata modding community, which in and of itself makes the entire “hoax” worth it. Browsing Reddit and Twitter, it seems the majority of the community isn’t upset about being had but, rather, impressed that the modders were able to masterfully create something so seamless that it was visually indistinct from the game itself.
“Whoever created this is able to do things in the Nier: Automata engine that no one has ever publicly shown themselves to be able to do before outside of Platinum Games,” tweeted Lance McDonald, aNier modder and data miner.
The fact that the church is a mod also doesn’t take away from the experience the community had while exploring the mystery. The memes, threads, and content that came out of this energized the community; it gave them something to cheer for.
Before the revelation, the Nier community remained glued to Reddit and Discord, hanging onto every post from user sadfutago. Shortly after their initial posts revealing the church, sadfutago returned as the character 9S to explore more of the area. There’s a chest only that character can open, and when sadfutago
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