PC port is terribly optimised. Get it on console or just pass on it, because it genuinely is that badly optimised.
AFAIK the steam port requires a non-official patch to be properly playable, as it it has lag issues and glitches and the like. If that's been fixed I'm not sure, since the last time I tried PC version was a month or two after it was available.
I never heard of any lag when I bought it for friends. Though if there is any delay or jank, it's the proper NieR experience.
Maybe it got fixed finally? It's been a while!
As for the OP - don't ever assume you know what's going on in a Yoko Taro game or story. He will always find some twist to it to surprise you.
Yeah my nier automata worked fine, the only thing I had trouble with was streaming it.
I think that 2P and the White Chlorination particles are connected. I'm worried about the dwarf - Komogg I think? - who breathed it in. I'm worried about those implications and how the androids may be connected. Considering how Taro works, it'll be some off the wall bullkupo, but I have a feeling it's connected.
How, no clue. But considering the new raid location too... unless 2P is a White Queen-esque android/all of the androids that are dead and they're spreading the WCP by the flaking off of their skin etc. :|a
Now I'm going to be going nuts until I get more lore, ugh.