Marvel Rivals’ Latest Replace Snapped Away Its Mod Assist

Because it got here out final December, Marvel Rivals has turn into the recent new hero shooter. A whole lot of that may be owed to its visuals, and PC gamers have since made pores and skin mods that make the sport’s solid into non-Marvel characters, like making Jeff the Shark into Chainsaw Man’s Pochita, or Iron Man into Dragon Ball‘s Vegeta.

Sadly, NetEase has seemingly killed Marvel Rivals’ mod pores and skin scene with the sport’s latest replace. Mr. Unbelievable and Invisible Girl’s latest arrivals had been a part of the sport’s season one replace, and gamers have discovered the replace comes with asset hash checking that’s disabled all mods on PC. As IGN notes, utilizing mods violates the shooter’s phrases of use, and NetEase is promoting premium skins for every Rivals character regularly. It’s additionally greater than able to implement its personal rule, because it gave a press release to the outlet advising gamers to “[not] modify any sport recordsdata, as doing so carries the danger of getting banned.” So for PC gamers, they’ll have to remain trying just like the characters as they had been made for the sport.

NetEase most likely stamped down Marvel Rivals’ mod skins as a result of they might’ve killed the sport’s income potential. The sport reportedly made $136 million in its launch month alone, however for those who’re on PC, why fork over money to appear like Winter Soldier in Thunderbolts* when you might be Captain America as presidents Joe Biden or Donald Trump, or flip Black Panther into Ryan Gosling, certainly one of our hardest working white actors? The skins took off as a result of Rivals’ group is shitposting to their coronary heart’s content material, they usually’ve been additional spurred by the increase of properties like Smile and Godzilla making their method into Name of Responsibility and Fortnite.

Will this absolutely cease the mod pores and skin scene? In all probability not, but it surely offers these modders a problem—hopefully, issues don’t get to War Thunder ranges of ridiculous.

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