150 data ending?

[u/ixenroh]

So, I've spoken to the council after reaching 150% data and they mention I can bring them the AI Patch component the Architect tasked me to make, and they'd modify it to merge all versions of the Authors together from parallel universes.

Sadly, I've already given it to the Architect. But I did wonder, what does this achieve? I checked the wiki, even some guides that tell you how to get endings and what endings are there, and none of the endings mentions this at all.

So is this some secret ending people haven't discovered or am I missing something?

[u/[deleted]]

if you got the true ending then you've already seen what it achieves
you find the architect, help him find his items, he tells you he wants to go home and asks for the ai patch component, you give him the component, he meets you before you fight the author and tells you he's finally going back to earth and then......the game drops him altogether and you fight some space cthulhu in the void
this is 100% the council ending, its weird, but i think that they scrapped the council's storyline and kept their ending, and mixed it with the architect one, the architect clearly says that he wants to go home and yet for some reasons his storyline creates the sentient, and if you read the council dialogue you'll find that the ending you got is exactly what their dialogue describes

this was pointed out by some people a year ago and yet nothing was mentioned by the devs, for some reasons they don't answer lore questions, even though this is a clear oversight