Everything We Know About the Upcoming Funkin' Update! 

FNF feels like it’s gonna be the next Pizza Tower, as in a small dev team getting backed by a passionate community, taking a few years to develop the game to the fullest, and then releasing it as an amazing high quality experience.

It's a unique scenario in which the devs can't show many updates on the actual game, because there will immediately be mods lol

I just cannot wait for this update, if it wasnt for all the unique mods that have been made in the past 2 years, most people probably wouldnt even remember what fnf is

The fact that Phantom Arcade is working on a character creator and wants to be as intricate as Soul Caliber has me excited! Quick question, does that mean we can play as those Character creations?

Base Game FNF has an un-replicable energy that all mods lack. It feels so pure and full of passion

honestly, i feel like fnf is another omori situation. fun passion project gets made and becomes extremely popular. kickstarter comes up for full game version of it. kickstarter gets even beyond what was needed. after a couple years people start to think the devs took the money and ran. in reality the devs were trying their hardest to make the best game possible. game becomes even more popular than the original project.

I always love videos like this because it always really annoying when people say or think that this game is not gonna come out or make one of those infamous "yall are never getting this game" tweets because there has been so much stuff that has been released that shows that they are still working on this game so videos like this are always amazing to see. All that aside I can't wait for this update. All of the stuff shown for it so far has been amazing. To the awesome erect remix's, the amazing art and comics phantom arcade has made, and all the stuff we have seen from the pico/7.5 week, all of it has been top notch stuff. I also really like the blog posts they have been doing this year as well as not only does it give the community small updates as how the update/game is going but also give the devs a place to shoutout mods/fanart they find amazing, which I really like as it shows them interacting more with the community which I always find nice to see. Overall this is looking to be an amazing update and while it is taken a while to come out, I just known it will one hundred percent be worth the wait. This was a really amazing video as well which I hope will show people that this game is still being work on and be worth the wait.

It's nice to see details about this, I'm tired of everyone saying they just took the money and ran

Hopefully this will get people to realize that the game isn't dead and the devs didn't actually run away with the Kickstarter money like some people have been saying. I am so excited for the update to drop when it's ready

I like the idea of Uncle Uearest for Week 8.

3:05 i love how like literally most people who don't have twitter don't know why you mentioned sticky notes or put perry the platypus in the corner of the screen lmaoo great video as always dark!

good to see you again!!! was literally just thinking of the next FNF update lol, so seeing all the news we have now is awesome to hear. cool video :]

Its been awhile since I've fallen out of the fnf community but this video definetly made me consider looking for a cople new mods and just being more patient with the base game so thank you.

thank you SO MUCH for this video. This is honestly such a breathe of fresh air to watch and really makes is apparent that the devs LOVE what they're making, and i can fully respect that.

15:35 I do remember seeing a build of Darnell week where his laughing animation was used in his eponymous song for when he goes “ah-ah-ah-ah” So I think this animation is gonna be used in the middle of the song for that line, similar to tankmans ugh animation

14:00 in that same stream, phantom arcade said that the update HAS to release this year and also said its not a promise and more of a goal.

I was kinda mad at first about the game not coming out in April. But overtime I’ve realized they’re actually trying to come out with a good game that lives up to the hype that died off and it actually takes a good amount of time to make a game. (Especially since they’re such a small team and not a triple A game)

I’m so glad that there’s actually some information on FNF. I’d basically lost hope that we were gonna get something. This is absolutely amazing, and I’m so hyped to see when the full game drops.

One thing that you didn’t mention is that in a recent stream, phantom arcade said that the update is going to be 100% releasing this year

fire video, loved your theories at the end too :)

I have a theory. Boyfriend probably lives somewhere in Pennsylvania. Well because Newgrounds is headquartered outside of Philadelphia, PA & Week 3 takes place in Philadelphia so they might live around there.

i do so much research into fnf and i know everything you can know about what we've seen for the next update, and you have, unlike most other youtubers when talking about the next update, have actually gone over practically everything to every detail and i can only thank you for actually going over EVERYTHING we've seen so far. One thing i think though is the animated icons phantom arcade made i THINK are used when the enemys icon is changing from normal to their dead icon, so it smoothly changes instead of just changes. also id like to say erics leak showing the new health bar movement and seperate vocals, in the pause menu it also now shows the artist with the song in the pause screen. also one old thing eric once showed was a shader test in the base game, but this was super long ago before i think ninjamuffin brought up eric being on the dev team like last year. Also my assumption is week 8 will be hank since we know hank has been planned, and now cassette girl likely is not going to be in the game, and i think we are finally getting the battle mode which was long ago cut from the game and it seems now the unused "combo" sprite from the ludum dare version of the game will be back in the game under the combo number sprites as seen from the very original week 8 leak on the now hidden newgrounds link

I can’t wait for the update, everything sounds amazing! I love FNF, not just the mods but the base game. I played it over and over when it was new and it’s held a place in my heart since. I’m sure this’ll be an amazing experience no matter what the devs do.

My god when the world needed him most he came

When you said "due to recent circumstances, cassette girl is likely not even in the game anymore" I was like "oh god what's happened" and I still don't know, please enlighten me

Here are the time codes for everyone! I put them here so you don't have to! The leaks: 00:44 What's actually coming: 3:21 Additions to the engine: 5:50 Production itself: 8:40 Extra facts: 12:46 Theories and guesses: 14:00

Haven’t even played Fnf since early 2021 and I’m genuinely excited for this new update for the game. The mods def carried during quarantine and to 2022

This made me excited about the game again. I hope we see something soon.

Love all the details we know so far. I can’t wait for the update and I hope the FNF crew is doing well.

IMAGINE AN OFFICIAL EDDSWORLD WEEK??? BC EDDSWORLD STARTED ON NEWGROUNDS?? :O

Valve fans will know all about the "building an engine before the game" process and the wait time attached to it

I hope this update makes the game super popular again. I miss when the only thing people would talk about on the internet was this game.

Another thing PhantomArcade said on stream was that the update HAS to come out this year, even if it's on December 31st.

I literally love FNF, so this is so great to hear. Been playing since a few months after it came out, this is legit awesome!!

this extremely helpful and well put together! Hopefully the people commenting on how we get "no news" about the game can shut up now lmao

At this point I dont care when the full game comes out The moders have made this game so enjoyable already I feel fnf could survive many more years on just the modding community as a whole

Man, I love this video and I keep coming back here to watch it again since it came out I can only say congratulations Darknebolian for the great work on the research and the video itself. And well... Now that we have a new teaser for the game, perhaps we are close to seeing how accurate their predictions were, hopefully quite a lot

5:25 I Personally Think That These Animations Are From The FNF Health Bar's Heads When The Character's Doing Better Or Worse Than Their Opponent

Man, every time I see something related to FNF base I feel a very strong nostalgia, I was part of this community from the beginning and saw it grow, so the official launch of the game is going to be something very exciting actually lol.

very cool video, you did your research pretty good too (btw sry my bad english). for me, being realistic, i think its likelly a release around october/november for the final update, phantomarcade said that the update will come before the end of the year afterall

Interesting idea... Bf recording while DD and MM try to sabotage him... Looks like i need to beef up my animation ;)

I was thinking about making a video like this. Good thing I wasn't far into making it, cause this video is way better than I can do rn.

If Funkin' comes out on Steam, it's most likely gonna get Workshop support. (Doubt it though because it costs $100 to upload a game to Steam apparently)

THANK YOU. There's other people who make videos like ""What HAAMPPENED To FRIghtAY NighT FUNKINN!!"" and they show that they do not know what they are talking about. I was never too interested in fnf but I wanted to know what happened to it since I hadn't heard of it after the kickstarter. You showed me that there have been updates and that the project is still alive and shows me you put care and effort into your uploads. Thank you

Nice to see you again Darknebolian!

Hey dark it's nice you back and hope you come back with mroe hot fire facts on mods and this is a way to comeback so welcome back and this video is great for anyone needing to catch up with the main game development

Oh man im glad this popped up in my recs randomly. This was very helpful! I mostly only pay attention to the mod scene, so its cool to see this much info on the base game! Fnf has occupied a quarter of my brain power since the begnning of 2021 (jesus christ) when i saw fanart of week 6 and memes about whitty when he was the only oc mod out there. I was avtually super confused when i experienced the game the first time because..i thought...whitty was in the game lmao....maybe he'll get a cameo one day, who knows. As for resourcing the fandom community, i know theyve picked some musicians, but i also think it'd be cool if they maybe considered hiring some of the animators? It sounds like theres a ton of workload on that end, so idk. Hiring Zero or the animator who did Baddies' art would be super cool, but who know. Either way i'm super hyped for the next update!!

As a geometry dash player waiting for 2.2, i can wait for the full friday night funkin

I love Fnf, me and my friends where planing on making a small, not that good, mod for the game, but the sprites are to big and excel the pixel limit. If anyone can help, that would be great. ( please tell us how to shrink the sprites but keep them the quality there at now)

One thing I hope will happen with this update will be fixing the week order, like putting week 2 where it's meant to go after week 4

heard "give a little bit back" on my cassette copy bc i didnt know how to restart it and i was popping off! Can't wait for the full release whenever it comes out!

thanks for the update, without the kickstarter updates I just assumed nothing was happening lol

6:23 I was thinking about this the other day. Nice to see I’m not the only one

ive gotten out of fnf, but the fact that Hideki Naganuma, a guy that's working on the erect remixes, is the SAME GUY that made the music for Jet Set Radio, AND Sonic Rush, which both have banger soundtracks. I'm excited to hear the erect remixes.

Rip the C Girl week. Probs really frustrating working hard on a week like that for the artist to get outted as a creep

Glad its still alive , and thanks for the information!

Nice to see ya again, Darknebolian! Lendon is the goat, ngl

We are definitely getting it this year

Glad to see ur back after 4 months

I still remember when the new grounds website broke cuz of w7 release. I wish it can release in early 2024 or this year

I swear if we get this updaate before Deltarune chapter's 3&4

11:50 a bit of context to this rumor, it's heavily speculated saster is going to be working on thorns erect, and thay they SUPPOSEDLY outed themselves in a VS Mouse Server. Take that with a grain of salt tho.

some ppl are like oh the creators dont show us anything about updates and are mad. but if they showed anything ppl would make mods out of it already

I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU I'M SO GLAD YOU UPLOADED

Pico, Tankman, Hank and Cassette girl were promised to be playable characters

PA said the update is going to be release THIS year, like even tho there no actuall release date but PA is confident about his statment

I pray to god that the kid friendly mode gets better so that when I get kids, when the game comes out in 20 years I can play it with them because I love the music as a musician.

Darkenboilan came back stronger than we through

I’m from the future. Weekend 1 is out (Week 8) and it’s absolutely awesome

Happy to see you back man

if fnf week 8 releases october, then it will be more of a better month because in october we get, sonic superstars, geometry dash 2.2, fnaf movie and mario wonder, more idk but thats all I know

You finally upload a vid after a long time😊. Edit: Can you make Nonsense v2, it’s a suggestion so it’s alright you don’t want to.

What happened with Cassette Girl? Did some drama happen to her creator? NEVERMIND FOUND OUT--

Ok great now knowing we werent just left in the dark lol. Also i can understand not all songs being given erect remixes, i just hope the songs that dont get a remix arent exactly very important or that the song is so good it dosent need a remix.

Darkenbolian is back also this channel’s vids are cool :D

love your content man

8:17 when I hear this information, I imagine a picture of senior pelo's small OC teaching tankman to say his lines in Spanish written on a whiteboard. 😅

11:50 and also apparently they have been blacklisted from base game for leaking a song

Before we get a sign of if the game is actually coming out until then we have our imagination of playing the game and seeing what the game could be like.

The most valuable bit of information from this video I got is that BF constantly chokes trying to scarf down Gogurt.

It's cool to have you back!

The monkey testing photo might be a reference to monkey go happy, an old flash game

I am so happy to see this video that someone is encouraged to talk in detail and not say what happened to fnf and give them false information and make believe that they escaped with the money hahaha nonsense It's that I always knew and I never stopped thinking that they kept working and better quiet to have more comfort and be free of possible new sub leaks ❤️

Imagine the game comes out after years of development and it’s just a fan-made remake of Parappa the Rappa

I cant wait for this because ive kinda been tired of the mods they were so good but i dont know but i got bored of it

The next update sounds like it's gonna be awesome and great video on everything you know about the next funkin update bolian also welcome back 👋✨️❤️

2:25 seriously people need to stop using distrokid this happens all of the time to artists I like that use distrokid. The auto generated label names are really dumb and I've seen countless articles, threads and videos begging people not to use distrokid and just use anything else.

I just hope the update comes soon. It has been awhile.but I still have faith

FNF Week 8 is the one thing that I've been waiting for, for 2 years straight. I never left FNF hanging, no I was there in these 2 years just waiting. It's now December 15 and Week 8 is FINALLY happening sometime in this month since PhantomArcade confirmed that this update will come out in 2023, even if it's at December 31 2023 11:59:59.999999999999 blah blah whatever, he days it is coming out IN 2023. And he says that if it dosent come this year, it will NEVER come

I actually thought you were making a new imposter V4 video

This is good to hear.

Hey, I was just wondering, would you ever do 10 things about mods like vs LongeSoloEver or vs RetroSpecter? I'd definitely like to see those, but if it's not something most viewers want then yea, I get it

I remember finding this game 2 years ago, and back when all the fake week 7 leaks were coming out

thx for making this

Ayo when you will make video about vs Nonsense V2?

FNF idea: What if there was a boss battle that if you sing right you attack with your mic and damage the boss's healthbar and if you don't hit dodge notes, your healthbar goes down, and you die, and the song is a looping track with 2 sections (1 normal, and the other one a pinch mode like Sonic Advance)

the subtitles are broken btw

5:42 Bruh, anyone gon' talk about that😭

What mod is the one used in the background of Thorns in this video?

casset-girl probably won't be introduced in the game because of what they found out about the character's original