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So, there was a new update released for Undertale yesterday (August | So, there was a new update released for Undertale yesterday (the 29th of August). And it's a pretty big one, adding a whole bunch of new lore and story to the game. You might have noticed people going a little crazy when it first dropped, a couple of people doing 10-hour streams to discover all the secrets in real time and whatnot. And a lot more people who were simply totally and utterly confused about what other people were tweeting about out of context. And who can blame them, when all the Undertale updates we've been getting recently only brought relatively minor changes compared with the complete bombshell we got this time? Good times. This update has gotten many nicknames in the day and a half it's been out, including the "True Update", "Omega Update (Undertale, not Homestuck)" "{{caps|Core}} update", "Hopes and Dreams update" (given how well it fulfilled all of ours), and "Tundra Eel update" (you'll have to read all the way to the bottom for context on that one). | ||
To see any of the things that are about to be described below, you will need to have Undertale version 1.036. On desktop, you want to look for the "data.win" file and open it in a hex editor, while on Steam, you should be able to find the version number under "Properties". This is the version that released shortly after all the datamining warnings were replaced with the string "{{caps|He is}}". (No, I don't know what "he is" or what "he is" doing either. Yet another of those conundrums only Toby would know the answer to.) | To see any of the things that are about to be described below, you will need to have Undertale version 1.036. On desktop, you want to look for the "data.win" file and open it in a hex editor, while on Steam, you should be able to find the version number under "Properties". This is the version that released shortly after all the datamining warnings were replaced with the string "{{caps|He is}}". (No, I don't know what "he is" or what "he is" doing either. Yet another of those conundrums only Toby would know the answer to.) | ||
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Undertale update! Don't name yourself Kris...
So, there was a new update released for Undertale yesterday (the 29th of August). And it's a pretty big one, adding a whole bunch of new lore and story to the game. You might have noticed people going a little crazy when it first dropped, a couple of people doing 10-hour streams to discover all the secrets in real time and whatnot. And a lot more people who were simply totally and utterly confused about what other people were tweeting about out of context. And who can blame them, when all the Undertale updates we've been getting recently only brought relatively minor changes compared with the complete bombshell we got this time? Good times. This update has gotten many nicknames in the day and a half it's been out, including the "True Update", "Omega Update (Undertale, not Homestuck)" "Core update", "Hopes and Dreams update" (given how well it fulfilled all of ours), and "Tundra Eel update" (you'll have to read all the way to the bottom for context on that one).
To see any of the things that are about to be described below, you will need to have Undertale version 1.036. On desktop, you want to look for the "data.win" file and open it in a hex editor, while on Steam, you should be able to find the version number under "Properties". This is the version that released shortly after all the datamining warnings were replaced with the string "He is". (No, I don't know what "he is" or what "he is" doing either. Yet another of those conundrums only Toby would know the answer to.)
So, with that, this post will be digging into the "True Update" or "Tundra Eel update" in depth to cover everything that's been found in it — or at least, everything that's been found so far. With everything that's happened, it's vaguely possible Toby could come back after this with another teeny little "Sans' picture" update just to mess with us. He's always pulling that kind of thing, so you never know.
The first thing that's important to note is you can't see any part of this update on a normal playthrough. You will need to edit your save file by opening it in a text editor in order for the new story to actually be unlocked. There are a few different edits you can make to ultimately get to the same place. I will go through each one of them in what I think is the likely order they are supposed to happen in.
One way is to begin is to open file0 and change your position to room 272, "room_water_redacted". There are some subtle changes to this room in version 1.036. You aren't prevented from entering it through the "dogcheck" screen. The game checks if room 272 was the first room it loaded on startup, and only if it is, you're now allowed to enter it. The room looks pretty much the same as it ever did, with the mysterious covered object. But this time after you talk to it, another dialog box pops up after a few seconds with the string "wrongnumber=666666666666666666666666666666666" filling it infinitely and spilling all over the screen. It seems to stop doing this after exactly 6 seconds, freeing you up to go south to the sound test room. From here, it is perfectly fine if the game crashes. As soon as you talk to "redacted", your current undertale.ini will be modified with the new variable value wrongnumber="6666666.000000".
Another way to begin is to edit undertale.ini to change your fun value to any number between 2 and 39, or simply change nothing and boot up the game if you got an appropriate value normally. This will lead to you encountering the wrong number song in Snowdin. In version 1.036, this event is slightly different, and instead of stopping Frisk with the text "(Ring, ring...)" it plays a particular phone keypad tone seven times, a brief ringing, and then shows the dialogue box asking for "G—". If you were playing the game for the first time, you might not notice anything was strange. But if you listen closely to the keypad sound, you will notice it is playing the number "666-6666". If you then go into undertale.ini, you will find a line which says wrongnumber="0.000000". You should then change this to wrongnumber="6666666.000000". (If you mistakenly input the number as wrongnumber="666666.000000", don't worry, as that will work just as well.)
Once you have the wrong number, the second step is to start a new game, and name the fallen human "Kris". You will not see any feedback on the name screen, as if nothing is different. But when you actually get into the Ruins... well, you might not be prepared for what happens next. There are certain reasons that you've been seeing memes going around telling you "don't name yourself Kris" or taking the caption "when you name yourself Kris" and putting some blown-away expression or picture of utter horror next to it.
(Note: you can safely change wrongnumber or your player name at any time before you get just a bit past the final door of the Ruins and first run into Sans; the game only checks for what these two variables are set to currently. You cannot run into Sans. The first moment you talk to Sans without having wrongnumber set, the game will add a flag to file0 indicating that you are not playing the True Update. So if you want to play it, make sure you've set your player name to "Kris" and wrongnumber to "6666666.000000" at some time before Sans makes it onto your screen.)
As to why you have to name yourself the name "Kris" in particular... nobody really knows as of right now. This was only found by datamining the game. There are already a few different theories going around, such as that Kris is one of the many dead humans that fell into the Underground before Frisk, perhaps some ninth human that was erased from existence and became a Goner, or that Kris somehow represents Frisk's "true identity" that they once were and then forgot. As to the actual reasoning behind each of these theories, we will have to get into the meat of the update to even begin to cover any of that. Who knows, maybe Frisk actually could be Kris. My favorite out-there theory is that Kris is some kind of metaphorical representation of the act of playing the game, such that when you suspend your disbelief and enter the world of Undertale it's somehow reflected in the metaphor of this unknown Kris person entering the Underground and turning into Frisk. [1]
Also... I don't know where else to include it in this post, but people in a reddit thread messing around with every possible anagram of various characters and concepts within Undertale accidentally discovered a website called "deltarune.com". Right now, this site only contains a very low contrast image concealing the text "Three heroes appeared to banish the Angels heaven". Could this be a second game? Or have people simply mistaken some other random game website for one made by Toby? Toby has not said anything about it for the moment, so for now it's up to you to decide. [2]
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Footnotes
- ↑ One question that's worth asking amidst all this is: If "Kris" is not just a passing reference to something in the extended Undertale lore, and is actually meant to be read as the name of Chara, how does this interact with the fact that Chara _is_ the character we play as? Did Kris die? Why is this important for us to know? Why can we name Kris something else once they die? Is Kris a representation of us anyway? Is the metanarrative of Undertale supposed to be that we are Kris, but we died and ended up in the Underground able to control Frisk? Is Undertale our afterlife? Did we die and become forgotten and become replaced by the world of Undertale including a new protagonist and everything as Kris' punishment for a choice they made? Is Kris an Undertale character who is effectively playing Undertale? Does Kris embody the idea that if we momentarily imagine Undertale was real and it was the place you go when you die, you only end up inside Undertale as your afterlife if you are a certain kind of person who is then the kind of person that Undertale as a game is aimed at? The more I think about "Kris" the more this little easter egg drives me mad.
- ↑ Another popular theory that's been going around is that Kris is going to be one of the main characters of "Deltarune", along with the mysterious "Suzy". But that's just like. Really? There are always those theories that feel like they're doing nothing more than picking up the tiny scraps we've been given and desperately trying to fit them into the puzzle. We have no idea that Suzy has anything to do with the "three heroes". And who would the third main character be? Asriel? Goner Kid? That funny hunched over bird? Now, I have heard some people toss out "Chara" because of the strange way they hang over the narrative, and I have to agree, Chara is really weird. But I've also seen some interesting arguments that Chara and Kris might be the same person. So I don't know. Maybe Chara will be returning in Delta Rune, either as Kris or as that mysterious third person. Maybe Chara and Asriel will be starring in Deltarune together, but Suzy will have nothing to do with it? I don't know if we can have any idea at this point.