Developers often hide secrets in their games, and it can sometimes take years for players to uncover them. This has proven to be the case for NieR: Automata, as a new secret was discovered nearly four years after the game’s initial release. Hacker Lance McDonald discovered the secret, which allows players to go to the last of the game’s endings after defeating just the first of its bosses. According to McDonald, this is an intentional code put in by the developers, as opposed to a hack or a glitch. Apparently, discovering the code took “hundreds of hours of reverse engineering” to discover.
I found a cheat code in NieR Automata that allows you to skip to the last ending immediately after killing the first boss and unlock the bonus modes. I’ll do a full video soon. It’s not a glitch, it’s an actual cheat code hard-coded into the engine. @yokotaro pic.twitter.com/FtuNPovq6F
