Simply after season 1 began on Friday, gamers began asking within the Marvel Rivals Discord why their mods weren’t working. It seems the sport now scans by its recordsdata to examine in the event that they’ve been altered by a characteristic known as asset hash checking. Something it doesn’t acknowledge merely gained’t work.
“It’s attainable, though unlikely, {that a} workaround may be discovered and I’ll replace everybody right here if/when that ought to occur,” MerryJoyKey, the creator of the Marvel Rivals mod supervisor on NexusMods, wrote in a remark in the present day. They’ve postponed updates to their mod till an answer is discovered.
NetEase didn’t warn gamers in regards to the change, nor was it within the season 1 patch notes. The one assertion the studio has made about mods was on Wednesday when it informed kritikanews, “It isn’t beneficial to switch any sport recordsdata, as doing so carries the danger of getting banned.”
Thus far, there have been no experiences of anybody being punished. In response to the sport’s phrases of use, mods had been by no means allowed and will all the time get you banned, however that didn’t cease gamers from utilizing them anyway. Hundreds of individuals shared and downloaded mods on NexusMods in the previous few weeks, sufficient to compete with Skyrim and Cyberpunk 2077 within the record of the video games with the highest mods of the month. Customized skins based mostly on United States presidents Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama had been eliminated by the positioning as a part of its guidelines in opposition to mods “referring to sociopolitical points in america.”
It’s frequent for on-line aggressive multiplayer video games to take a tough stance in opposition to mods. In some instances, they will change the sport in a approach that provides gamers an unfair benefit, like eradicating geometry from a map. Marvel Rivals mods didn’t go that far and most of them had been pretty tame, however it’s attainable they might have gotten out of hand as time went on.
Now gamers should gown their favourite heroes the quaint approach and save up sufficient cash to purchase skins on the store. The period of Iron Man Vegeta and Iron Fist Goku appears to sadly be over.
