3C3C1D119440927 - what does it mean?

[Tregarde]

By now we all know the title of the upcoming DLC, and what comes with it. But one thing that has me curious is that cryptic name for it.

NieR: Automata takes place sometime in the year 11,945. Looking at the title the digits in the DLC could be referring to 11,944 September 27th.

Could something have happened roughly a year before Automata?

But the real curious part is the "3C3C1D"

Any guesses?

[Big Boom Boom]

3 costumes for 3 characters, 1 has a D***

[Davoodinator]

1944 09 27 is probably the CEO's birthday

3C3C1D1
i duno. looks like hex code for something.

ill break it down later and extrapolate

maybe the whole thing is hex

[Davoodinator]

ok i cyber snooped a little on kenichi sato. seems like he isn't 80+ years old.

[Aemony]

Do we know that the DLC will actually make use of all three Apologetic Machine doors? I remember reading from the Reddit thread that they mentioned on stream specifically the Forest Zone door, which was also the one they were seen entering.

Because if it only makes use of a single door then it's possible that the 1D refers to 1 Door.

[Aemony]

11944-09-27

NieR: Automata takes place 11945-03-10. So the final part of the DLC name is most likely a timestamp in the history of the game maybe? That would place it about 6 months before the start of the game, which would explain why it is playable using 2B as well. Maybe the DLC or the follow-ups will include additional story content in the form of a mission where 2B is forced to kill 9S one time?

Edit:
It makes it also possible to "solve" to it as something like this:

3Characters
3Colosseums
1Death
11944-09-27

Huehuehuehue, 9S going to die again!

[lpnlizard27]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

3 costumes for 3 characters, 1 has a D***

ROFL

You, ... i like you.

[Maldito]

Originally posted by Aemony:

11944-09-27

NieR: Automata takes place 11945-03-10. So the final part of the DLC name is most likely a timestamp in the history of the game maybe? That would place it about 6 months before the start of the game, which would explain why it is playable using 2B as well. Maybe the DLC or the follow-ups will include additional story content in the form of a mission where 2B is forced to kill 9S one time?

Edit:
It makes it also possible to "solve" to it as something like this:

3Characters
3Colosseums
1Death
11944-09-27

Huehuehuehue, 9S going to die again!

That's ingenious! Thanks! :D

[Wander Away]

3C is hexadecimal for the ascii character '<', and << in C++ is the stream insertion operator.
1 is ascii for start of heading, D is carriage return (enter key/new line, however you want to think about it). Either that or 1D for group separator.
119440927 is most likely the actual "heading" of the message, and is analyzed by people above.

[Yore Bewbies]

119440927 is a date.
"09/27/11944", which is a date from a collaboration music video called "Deserving of Life" by Amasarashi. The date is directly referenced in the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNKk3fPed8

[SkacikPL]

Originally posted by Yore Bewbies:

119440927 is a date.
"09/27/11944", which is a date from a collaboration music video called "Deserving of Life" by Amasarashi. The date is directly referenced in the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiNKk3fPed8

One of colosseum rewards is said to be an item from this music video.

I'd bet it's the 2B doll but that'd make it somewhat useless ingame.

[XeidiDent]

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

1 has a D***

And that one is not 9S.

[Chami]

Originally posted by XeidiDent:

Originally posted by Big Boom Boom:

1 has a D***

And that one is not 9S.

Of course, its in Kaine's costume :)

[K.o.K]

NO
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PATCH


it's easy to understand

[RiO]

Originally posted by Wander Away:

3C is hexadecimal for the ascii character '<', and << in C++ is the stream insertion operator.
1 is ascii for start of heading, D is carriage return (enter key/new line, however you want to think about it). Either that or 1D for group separator.
119440927 is most likely the actual "heading" of the message, and is analyzed by people above.

The 1D ASCII group separator control code is meant to separate data tables in very old database systems stored on serial storage.

If we ignore the fact that we're intermingling hex representation of ASCII character codes with literal numeral characters for moment, then "3C3C1D119440927" can read as a group of "<<" followed by a group of "119440927". "<<" probably just means "far before" here and the group separator is used as a kind of reading pause.

In other words: "Far before -- on 09/27/11944"

Another option is that 3C3C1D is a control code for code diffing, where << means insert from right (new) to left (old) and >> would mean the reverse. In that case the title would stand for "insert at 09/27/11944"

[Big Boom Boom]

Originally posted by ch4mi:

Originally posted by XeidiDent:

And that one is not 9S.

Of course, its in Kaine's costume :)

Hot.