LAYER 8: FRAUD PREDICTIONS | ULTRAKILL 

PLEASE DON'T THINK I'M BEING IMPATIENT IN THIS VID, HAKITA CAN WORK ON FRAUD AT WHATEVER PACE HE WANTS TO! I KNOW GAME DEVELOPMENT IS HARD! you think Hakita's gonna be insane enough to put Non-Euclidean spaces in Fraud??? EDIT - Tbh I think Gabriel is actually probably going to be the final boss of Layer 9, I was going down the Dante's Inferno route without taking in to consideration Hakita's artistic liberties. Black Gabriel is real

I think that 7-S is gonna be a washing simulator

I'm scared of what people would do with Gabriel's arm...

bro was not cooking with this one. gabe is 100% gonna be in treachery. like. that's what he did. "Willful betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidy." thats what he did. like almost word for word.

gabriel is obviously gonna be treachery boss, hyping his big arc up just for him to be a regular layer boss and having the final boss be a random ass strong enemy would ruin his arc and the game finale tbh

Plot twist: He's listing everything he doesn't want to see because Hakita will watch this and do the exact opposite

7-S is gonna be mario party because of the violence it does to friendships

Personally, I believe that gabriel will be at the 9-2. He is the protagonist of the story, it would've been a waste of the character to NOT make him a final boss.

For 7-S, your idea is cool but unfortunately hakita said that making secret levels with completely different mechanics than the regular game (like 4-S) takes too much time so they're ditching that idea

Hakita would probably hype up Satan throughout the entirety of treachery, and then he's either too easy or instantly defeated by Gabriel, of which the actual boss fight with him begins.

I have a theory that god was killed, and his arm cut off. That arm was stolen, and hidden in fraud. The godfist, which would be so fucking cool, and would make sense for the act name. No idea what the godfist would do but it would be epic.

the egg's list of things that should be in fraud: 1. Tax evasion 2. 3. thank you for readin

7-S being “the canvas is yours, so take the brush AND PAINT THE WALLS RED, just clean it up before you leave tho” is funny as fuck

5:15 THE PART WHERE HE KILLS YOU

0:10 FRAUD: GABRIEL, BUT *BLACK*

I think that 7-s is gonna be a level that plays like the original doom because of how violent that game is and ultrakills inspirations

Not me thinking this was from hakita and fraud actually fucking dropped 😭

I think with utter certainty that Gabe will be the final boss. I think satan will appear, but I think he will be almost a background detail in goes fight. Like while you fight Gabriel, satans three headed body is just breathing laboredly.

oh no. The secret level could just be the backrooms.

I jokingly thought to myself that 7-S would just be fnaf, due to some of the secret levels being references to games, also you bring up some good points about this layer.

1:16 I feel like if that’s how ultrakill ends it’ll just be super anticlimactic it needs to be hell or Gabriel otherwise it won’t work

I had a terrible idea for an enemy that could be in fraud: Basically, a shape-shapeshifter. How it would work is it would start out as an approximation of a mannequin, but every once in a while ot would change form into a different enemy, inheriting that enemy's attacks, move set, and enrage thing (like if a cerberus died while one of these guys was out, they'd enrage upon becoming a cerberus). As for the appearance of this enemy, it would be an inky blob in the shape of whatever enemy it's currently mimicking, but with those weird theater masks but black and gold.

the arsenal update release and revealed that 7-S is a... [SPOILER] cleaning simulator! (also hakita made the blood physics realistic so it paints surfaces pixel by pixel and its so juicy like i want it in every level its so delicious)

just imagine the yellow arm is midas's touch, it would be kinda sick turning maurice into gold

in my opinion, gabriel is going to be the last boss, killing every major threat, holy or unholy. That includes satan. Feel like it'd be cool if the first half of the fight was against satan and when he gets mid health gabriel takes advantage and kills him, we get a cutscene and boom gabriel fight

7-S ideas: - RTS GAME!!! where you need to create units to war And 8-S can be troll level , you know , "Fraud"

The golden arm is most likely from gabriel at the final fight in 9-2 so that the player gets more incentive to replay the campaign and especially the prime souls

You might actually be spot on tbh

I mean, we havent got an update because hakita is now sticking fucking saws on shotguns.

I feel the yellow arm should be from the swordsmachine because every one after the prelude one is a fraud

Hate too say it buuuut hakita said satan wont be in there

those are some good predictions. lets see if hakita surprises the world with this.

I think 7-S will be a reference to 90's doom also that thing about the giants is interesting imagine just getting to the end of the layer just to fight 5 boss's at once (maybe with their own style of fraud), but most likely gonna be a miniboss or something like that

At first I imagined the fraud layer to look like a large metropolis with ads, posters, casinos and the like all over the place, but then you brought up the non Euclidean spaces part and honestly? Im convinced. Hakita did say he read House of Leaves before, so that’s probably another indication of what to expect.

imagine they do a double boss were Gabriel and v2 team on you "highly unlikely but an interesting thought"

There’s a lot to disagree with here: Satan appearing as a boss, let alone the final boss, is a terrible concept no matter how you look at it. There is exactly one mention (if you can even call it that) of him in the game as of now and it’s part of a mindless insult Gabriel throws at you during 3-1. There’s mention of Lucifer in 5-S, sure, but there’s nothing alluding to the possibility that Lucifer IS the devil in this game’s universe. Even if you want to make that connection between the two anyway just because it’s accurate to Christianity/Divine Comedy, that doesn’t justify him showing up to be the final boss. If this were to happen as you’re suggesting, all buildup to Satan as a character would have to take place either throughout Fraud, which would distract from your proposed Act 3 Gabriel fight, or it would have to take place entirely in 9-1, and one level could not possibly hold enough buildup to properly introduce a new main character, let alone one as important as the final boss. Furthermore, Gabriel is LITERALLY THE PROTAGONIST OF THE STORY. Obviously he is going to be what closes out the main game, and not an 11th hour reveal villain that went unmentioned for at MINIMUM 70% of the story. “You can’t just give the player a new weapon and have no future levels to use that weapon in.” Objectively not true. Action games, especially titles like Devil May Cry that directly inspired a lot of ULTRAKILL’s core design philosophy, have been giving players New Game+ only weapons as rewards for full completion for decades. ULTRAKILL itself is designed around replayability and weapon experimentation, so giving the player one last weapon to take back with them to earlier levels isn’t that far fetched. And if you really want to be stubborn about this and disregard its clear intent for you to replay it, there’s still P-3. You need to P Rank every level in an act to unlock its respective Prime Sanctum, so P-3 would have to come after the player gets the yellow arm regardless of what level they obtain it in. There’s absolutely no reason for the official game to use fan created content as inspiration for itself. It’s one thing to say that you like and agree with other fans’ ideas and concepts but to go so far as to say that they should become a part of the official game is going way too far. Hakita has been vocal before about how he doesn’t care about the game maintaining a 100% bulletproof canonical series of events because he believes everyone should be able to form their own interpretations about a piece of art. To say “I like this interpretation so the official product should be like it” is effectively a way of disregarding any other possible interpretations which not only discredits the creativity of the developers, but also sets up false expectations which can ultimately conflict with your thoughts on the final product. For the record, I don’t think illusion-based enemies or a black and gold aesthetic are entirely out of the question or even generally bad ideas, but to say that they’re likely to happen because they were used in a fan work is a terrible line of reasoning. Utilizing non-euclidean space in the layer right after 7-1 would just be redundant. That entire level’s shtick is being hard to navigate and messing with your perception, doing it a second time, let alone so soon after that one, wouldn’t have as strong of an effect. Arguing with your 7-S predictions might be pointless now that 7-S is out but we still have 8-S to look forward to so I still think it’s worth saying for any future speculation: It’s very unlikely we’ll see any gameplay styles that are drastically different from the normal FPS gameplay. 2-S was just text, which any competently made game can display just fine, and 4-S was a rare exception that was incredibly difficult for them to add. At most we can probably only expect a 5-S or 7-S situation where the gameplay remains the same but we’re provided with some kind of tool that lets us do something new. As much as I also wanted a fighting game level there’s just no way of anything like that happening.

7-S could maybe be a flashback mission where you can play as a early v1 model, roaming through destroyed cities.

I think Gabe will be the final boss, with Lucifer's giant body being the arena But I still believe we will get the final arm from him, to be used in p-3 and the cybergrind

the whole deceiving thing would be really cool with non-euclidian geometry tbh

Can you believe it! Brutal next week!

Little refresher to clear y'alls head: - 9-2's Final boss will be Gabriel as anything else would ruin his character arc. - The OG Swordsmachine died in 0-3, confirmed by Hakita. - Lucifer and the Devil both exist in Ultrakill, as Lucifer is mentioned in Testament 4 (5-S) and in 3-1 Gabriel says "You make even the devil cry!", though they are never confirmed to be the same entity. - Hakita has never deconfirmed an appearance of Lucifer. - Angels who were born in Heaven like Gabriel and Lucifer CANNOT become Prime Souls, as Minos Prime's terminal entry states a husk is needed, and Hakita confirmed that Heaven-born angels do not have an afterlife. Virtues and other unknown lesser angels can become Prime Souls due to having been humans before. - The most accepted theory for the golden arm as of now is Gabriel's yellow sword, Splendor. - Just because 2 custom levels have made a similar aesthetic for fraud that does not mean Hakita will follow suit. - We will NOT fight God, He is gone, and he has no reason to come back. Not only that, but if He was to come back, the game would be building up to it. - Do not even think of a character who isn't a Prime Soul appearing in a P level, as they are called Prime Sanctums for a reason. - Gabriel and V1 have no reason to team up against Hell. V1 wants blood, which Gabriel has, and nothing in the game so far points as to Gabriel knowing of Hell's sentience.

3:58 greed is calling

this is a really well edited video with really unique ideas, I love the non euclidean stuff

Finally, I've been waiting since layer 7 dropped for the community to start seriously hyping up for layer 8. Its gonna be a banger for sure

him: we havent gotten an update next day: oh really?

I don't have many idea's on what the actual levels will be like but I do have a few lore theories, and how they connect to Act 3's themes as a whole. In the Ultrakill lore theres 3 main "factions"; humanity, heaven and hell and I think each layer of act 3 is going to explore each faction in its lore and themes. Violence was all about humanity, giving us a heap of lore on the Final War and showing us what humanity was capable off with the Earthmovers. In the same regard I think that Fraud and Trechary are going to explore Heaven and Hell respectively. Fraud fits Heaven pretty well with how the concil have decieved the population of Heaven (Act 2 epilouge). I think we'll get some more Angel class enemies since the only ones we have right now are virtues and well... Gabriel. Maybe the boss of 8-4 will be an angel guarding the lowest layer of hell, probably not gabriel tho. Something else to think about with Fraud is 8-S will contain the final testament. The climax layers of each act are pretty light on lore outside of their prime sanctums but Treachery is going to be about Hell. As in Hell the living breathing entity. The "character" of "Hell" has been aluded to a few times now, most notably in the P-2 arg but also the "red text" that appears in a few levels (P-2 door, 7-4 book) has been speculated to be "Hell" speaking. 9-2 is almost certainly going to be Gabriel, he is the protagonist of the story and ending it with fighting him seems only right. As for P-3 we don't have a name dropped prime soul candidate as of yet but something to note is the censored name in the Minotaur's terminal entry. It has enough characters to fit something like King -something- (nimrod?) but the theory I subscribe to is that it actually spells out "Hell Itself". I like this theory because the way this censored character is characterised in the terminal entry ("Though its creator considered it beautiful, a personalized monument of death and despair") feels very inline with how "Hell" was characterised in the P-2 arg: "hell is alive. it breathes. it thinks. the entire area is a massive intelligent superorganism and it is harsh and it is cruel." "this is not an attack. this is not a defence. this is entertainment. this is an exhibition of death and cruelty and suffering for its own sake." The true final boss of ultrakill could be Hell Itself... maybe idk I'm not Hakita i'm just insane. Anyway sorry for rambling Ultrakill takes up a dangerously large part of my brain and I need to word vomit sometimes lmao.

i honestly think violence's secret is gonna be a luigi's mansion ripoff

the sequel to ultrakill better be called ultralife, a farming simulator about ascending the layers of heaven

Hakita just released a video of a Saw shotgun and at the final minute saying that he'll see if the thing releases the next week or not... hakita goat fr

Hakita confirmed that not satan nor god are going to be the final bosses if I rember correctly

"The final boss of Ultrakill is gonna be Satan." ignoring the word of god i see

"we havent gotten an update in a while now" Hakita took that personally

8s secret level should feature a portal gun. You know because of that non Euclidean stuff.

hakita said satan will NEVER appear as a boss

The second layer of each act usually teases a big enemy, and then has you fight it in the climax of the layer. Since V2 was no more, the earthmover took that place, so layer 7 acted as the "second layer" of act 3. So gabriel being in the second layer would make sense

imagine there's an update that lets you pay with ingame points to unlock the fraud layer and then it just makes you wait for the layer to be added anyway

Gold arm is definitely not from Gabriel because that yellow part is just Gabe's armor not his actual arm. It would probably be from a machine that we never saw yet

BBC GABRIEL

I don't think Gabriel's is going to be there, but idk how could we get the yellow arm

the ultrakill engine, whatever it is, is clearly built to graphically render non-euclidean spaces, and there already is a use of them in 7-2

I dont really understand the idea of ​​linking enemy abilities to the theme, no one on the lust layer is trying to seduce you

7:22 Gronf: Perhaps 7-S is an ULTRAKILL FIGHTING? Me: Hmm, I hope so. That sounds interes- Hakita literally this pucking instant: lmao, kalm librarbi

"Imagine how cool it would be to fight giants and titans in ultrakill" Corpse of king Minos and Earthmover: "am I a joke to you?"

What are you talking about layer 7 released like a week ag- WAIT

Hakita just posted a vid about the new shotgun red variant

bro greed is yellow

Since the update is out now, it makes so much sense 7-S is a cleaning level, since said "paint the world red", while we do the exact opposite lol

i love how 2 days after this drop we get an update

Judas is problay going to be a prime soul in the treachery layer

"Where the hell else you'll get a yellow arm?" Me: "Swordsmachine" Any other theories? Edit 2: Wow Friday the 13th red variant RAHHH

Bold of you to assume you can predict whatever shit Hakita's cracked out crazy ass mind can conjure

Imagine Fraud’s color scheme is sometimes black & blue, sometimes white & yellow just to screw with the player.

Damn the music is making me ascend like spongebob ong

okay so for this level, i actually don't think it's gonna be gabriel. All of the layers that you've fought gabriel of are all things that both gabriel and the machine could be accused of. Gluttony: the machine's endless bloodlust, gabriel's endless desire to punish and erect god's will Heresy: V1 kills many angels and defeats gabriel, gabriel fails to defeat v1 and is considered a heretic so it would make sense for him to be on treachery! after all, v1 kills its creators and its own kind, and gabriel slaughters all of the councilmembers.

"we havent gotten an update in a while now" (update then proceeds to drop no more than 3 days later

3:32 Corpse of king minos, leviathan, and the earthmover: are we jokes to you?

for 7-s i think its be cool if it was a slender-esque game obviously it has nothing to do with the theme of 'violence' but i just think itd be a silly idea considering what everyone thought of 7-3 during first time play throughs

Holdholdhold, did I hear, “rebellion” against god? 3:26

A really good theory I’ve seen from one of my good yt friends is that there is a possibility of a V3. My thought process is, perhaps like how hell took inspiration from the gutterman for mannequins, heaven could have taken inspiration from V1 and V2 to potentially stop V1, like a fight fire with fire situation. Another point my friend brought up in a short he made, if V1 is blue, and V2 is red, then making V3 yellow would not only knock out the primary colours, but also matches the planned and confirmed yellow arm. Finally, we’ve only gotten arms from V2, and it would only make sense that the only arms suitable for V1’s arm slot thing would be other V bot arms

ohhhhh there was a war for 7-s a war against my mental well being

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hakita said both god and satan will not be bosses

I truely doubt the final boss is going to be Satan, its likely going to be Gabriel again. And the layers seem to go "1st layer of an act is a Machine, 2nd layer of an act is a Denizen of Hell, and final act of a layer is an Angel, aka Gabriel."

It'll be cool if he adds non-Euclidean level design and a gravity distorter like some levels of serious sam the second encounter

ahem... Personally i think the the Fraud Boss would be a shapeshifting shapeshifter kind of thing where it hides as some object for a few seconds before going back on the attack and stuff. The Hand in my humble idea is a parry but only for projectiles, once it like.. parries a projectile the hand shoots said projectile until another projectile is parried, idk I'm just bored and felt like writing this :/

I remember when i made a prediction of the yellow arm, one person's idea was literally Gabriel's arm, who they called "Godfist"

I still don't know why everyone thinks that the yellow/Golden arm is going to be Gabriel splendor sword.

"His arms are yellow and where the hell else would you get the yellow arm??" The yellow V2 in the level: 🗿

I am pretty sure Hakita already confirmed that Stan will not be a boss in ULTRAKILL

Who said V1 is going to stop on hell? What If he is going to enter heaven next?

"imagine how cool it would be to fight giants and earth titans in ultrakill" 7-4:

Gabriel slaughtered everything in heaven out of hate. Without heaven, he can't live. He knows he will die, so probably he will be the last boss of Act 3, because fighting V1 is the only thing he can do, and also the final thing he has to do before he dies for good. It's a pride battle at this point.

Black Gabirel real

Am I still the only believer that the yellow arm is from a special swordsmachine we will fight in fraud? 😅 just me…

i really hope 8-s is gonna be a stealth mission, because we've had almost every genre of gaming in ultrakill, so stealth would be the last missing piece of the puzzle that is ultrakill.

Pov Gabriel is the main character of Ultrakill and the whole story was in V1’s perspective:

Gabe did kinda sorta kill the council, so I could see him in treachery, maybe end up regretting everything and decide that hell is a cruel and unjust punishment and that Minos was right at the end

If enemys start using illusions I'm going to call the update the schizophrenia update

Now that I think of it the climax of fraud might be one of the giants since they guard treachery not to mention that it could be another corpse of king minos were we fight the prime soul's corpse of this act

When has gabriel ever lied to us, how can he be fraud's last boss?