NTE Player Identifies Mint's House From a Split-Second PV Shot
The incident shows how deeply some players engage with NTE's open world, treating a 20-second PV scene as a geolocation puzzle and proving the game environment is detailed enough to make such identification possible.
Reporting from 2 sources: Automaton, Inside.
A player of Perfect World Games' open-world RPG NTE: Neverness to Everness identified the in-game location of character Mint's apartment from a brief scene in the version 1.2 update PV, then entered the room and shared screenshots. The discovery drew thousands of likes and retweets on social media.
On June 28, Perfect World Games released a PV for NTE's version 1.2 update 'Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine Nights,' scheduled for July 8. In a roughly 20-second segment showing the protagonists gathered in an apartment room playing a board game, the camera lingered on Mint, leading some viewers to speculate the room was hers. User Necko on X matched the brief outside view visible through the window to a specific apartment in the northeastern New Holland district of the game's open world. Necko visited the location, found Mint's room with its balcony window open, and posted comparison screenshots that matched the PV's interior and exterior. The post received over 4,000 likes and about 600 retweets as of the time of reporting.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.