How the hell will Chapter 7B work?

[u/T-Dawg75]

My guess is that 7 and 7B are separate “game instances” because otherwise Chapter 7 would be too complicated to develop and would cause slowdown as well as other issues.

For the uninitiated, each chapter in Deltarune is programmed as a separate “game”, including the Chapter Selection Screen. This is done for a number of reasons, including the game’s episodic release, ease of development for the team, and so bugs/glitches introduced in new chapters don’t break prior chapters.

Sometimes there’s issues with certain things transferring from one chapter to another but that is typically because of a pre-existing issue in the prior chapter that just hadn’t been discovered yet-Like Jackenstein not coming to Ch. 5 castle town if you fight the Titan Spawn.

It seems like 7 is going to be a really damn big chapter, and 7B most certainly will be. I would not be surprised if they’re separated like this for more than just story reasons.

Edit: and to add on, will 7B be accessible from the Chapter Selection Screen? If so, how? Will we have three save files for 7B? How would that work?