An 7.2-7.5 Speculation

[Cleretic]

So, my speculation is that he is M6 or M7, fighting him again for whatever reason with another Beast Soul (or his soul corrupted by the regulator usage?). I haven't spotted anything that could be the Beast Form of our Fenrir catboi, so I assume he's M8. (Also because he has this 'blazing' light in his intro art and the M8 song from the Mount Yoshi-P showed accidentally had a few 'blazing' in the lyrics.)

EDIT: I retract my Statement, my brain sorted the Mecha Guy into Occult Crescent but watching the trailer super slowly in 4k made me realise it's the catboi. So, the order of M6 to M8 remains a mystery to me, but I assume Brute to be number 4.

I've had a thought that's somewhere between 'prediction' and 'wouldn't it be cool if', that the second leg of the Arcadion could ramp things up by killing one of the recognizable characters and exploring how the regulator memory-erasing affects people on a wider scale when faced with someone on a level of celebrity.

I was thinking about either Wicked Thunder as most likely, or Honey B. Lovely for the maximum player gut punch... but now that I think about it, Brute Bomber would work really well for it; he's already proven to be most likely to turn up for a rematch, letting that moment happen around a big fight, and it kinda seems like we might be building up Mecha Catboy as his friend which would be an important extra element.

I'm not 100% sure if that part of the regulator system is working anymore since 7.1, but if it is, we could be building to that.

[rxantos]

If I had to guess.
More of the writers pet: Wuk Lamat.
More homogenization of jobs.
More homogenization of dungeons.
Less fun.

[Shookbeast]

It is interesting that Calyx/Preservation are calling each floor a “solution” though. He does end the current patch saying he’s arrived at an answer and wants to pose a new question. Perhaps that entails more floors being built?

[mallleable]

Kinda revising my Necron fan fiction prediction. I think what might happen is that something is gonna cause Calyx to expedite his plans, and he activates all 5000 Neo Regulators while muttering something about the heavens and hells, and dusts them all. Everyone. Everyone's aether, everyone's souls, everyone's memories get sent to Living Memory all at once causing it to overload, and create an anomaly. Memoria. Calyx is pulled into Memoria to his surprise. So we fight though Memoria, and while the structure extends upward, the top of it extends into the Aetherial Sea where we fight Calyx as the last boss the dungeon. After defeating him, he admits that this devastation was not his intention, and he was used, and that the confluence created an entity that is a threat to the Aetherial Sea, and the lifecycle. 'Life cannot evolve if there is no life to begin with, go stop it hero.' And he blips out of existence. We fight Necron.

[Carin-Eri]

Not exactly speculation per-se, but I do hope that the Living Memory map gets repurposed. I mean, we could assume that it is a factor in whatever Calyx has planned but guess we'll have to wait and see.