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A new game-skipping cheat code has been discovered in NieR Automata by Lance McDonald!
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If he releases the video would it be considered spoiler? I haven't started this game yet just started Persona this game is next on my backlog
It does. Just like it does fake corpses of other players. You can disable the online component and it's how I played the game.
Quite a few modern games have very well hidden codes left in them, even ones you would never expect to. By reverse engineering I found a cheat code in Detroit: Become Human that turns your character into a playable pidgeon lmao. But it requires setting your system clock to a specific date PLUS the Konami code
It could potentially be faked either way like you say, but as it stands, doing it offline is like 100x more difficult.
He doesn't get the actual source, that's the text that programmers read and write. A compiler is used to turn source code into actual machine language, which is what he has (after applying console level protection removal hacks).
Lance here, is using tools to convert said machine language into something vaguely human readable. It does not have the names and labels and commentary that you get with source code. The tools can identify some common components, and the reverse-engineer can annotate, and improve the decompilation process iteratively, but it requires some particularly impressive talents and skills to be developed. I used to do this back on the ZX Spectrum to remove copy protection, and hunt in vain for infinite lives, but that was on a 40 year old machine. Tools are better now, but games are also much much bigger.
Massive respect here.
Someone above just said when you do it offline, it fakes it. So I guess it's equally as difficult.
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I would assume it's somewhat "faked" even online just because it wouldn't really work otherwise...
Like my assumption is the names + messages are all real. But it would only make sense to fake the "someone's ship dying = they won't ever show up for someone else" bit, because to keep the numbers up enough to do that for real you'd need a significant % of players to beat it without anyone getting destroyed.
When you say faking it are you talking about
the bit where other players' deleted save files are used to help the main player trying to complete the finish the game? I assume there is some trickery going on there cause i dont believe for a moment that there are more people out there sacrificing their precious save game they poured hours of gaming into than there are people who actually manage to reach the end. I figure it's symbolic.
For some weird and unlucky reason my internet happened to cut out right as i got the end of Nier Automata and i was bashing my head against a brick wall trying to finish it. Couldn't work out what was going on. I did some searching to see if i was missing something and realised that the only reason the game was so difficult is because it lost its online connection and everything that supposed to happen at the end didn't as a result. I restarted my xbox, tried one more time and completed it straight away with "the help".
I wonder what they will do in 10 years time when they want to switch off the online component of Nier Automata? Maybe they have an update ready to push that will change things to enable offline completion.
Sidenote: The whole ending to Nier Automata and everything leading up to it is one of my favourite things in gaming. Well done Yoko Taro!
The official Japanese Nier Automata PR account has also confirmed that yes, this was indeed the "final secret" and they weren't joking about that, damn lol
I tried twice :( I did finish the first nier, but except for the music nothing really made me want to continue the sequel.
Silent Hill 2 does, you can even get a mini-map or save anywhere via button inputs.
I think their excuse is that they plan to charge us for a remaster.
To be fair, that's about the lowest level answer he could've possibly given for how he figured it out. It's only slightly more meaningful than replying "a whole lot of work". I'm sure we'll get a real explanation eventually once he's written up about it or made a detailed video.
Considering where this skips you to, no, this would not allow for that.
the ending here deletes your save file, so you can't go back and do anything. My guess is this allows for people to beat the game if/when servers go offline, even though I'm pretty sure the game "fakes" the online component a bit.
Since this is lacking for almost every other thing he's found in games, unlikely.
Unlike the first Nier, this one actually gives you a choice of if you want to do that.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like this unlocks the trophy shop. Maybe I didn't load the correct chapter, but the "Strange Resistance Woman" is not selling trophies for me.
However, 15 story achievements do pop once you finish doing this.