


This culminated in a post which now has over 6000 upvotes on the NieR subreddit showing footage of a never-before-seen area in the Copied City, with many concluding that it was far too elaborate to be a hoax and therefore must be some kind of developer stunt. Over the course of the next few weeks, sadfutago clarified their question by showing pictures, and later videos, of said church, and fan speculation began immediately. Two months ago, Reddit user sadfutago posted in a NieR: Automata subreddit asking how to access “the church”, causing a great deal of confusion in the process. In a now-inaccessible livestream from those responsible, modders DevolasRevenge, Woeful_Wolf and RaiderB revealed that the clips which shook the NieR: Automata fandom were created using modding tools previously thought to be impossible. In what has turned out to be perhaps one of the greatest trolls of the past few years, a group of NieR: Automata modders successfully fooled the entire NieR community into thinking that there was a secret church in the game’s Copied City area for multiple days.
