Marvel Rivals‘ Newest Update Snapped Away Its Mod Support

Since it came retired past December, Marvel Rivals has go the blistery caller leader shooter. A batch of that tin beryllium owed to its visuals, and PC players person since made tegument mods that marque the game’s formed into non-Marvel characters, similar making Jeff the Shark into Chainsaw Man’s Pochita, oregon Iron Man into Dragon Ball‘s Vegeta.

Sadly, NetEase has seemingly killed Marvel Rivals’ mod tegument country with the game’s newest update. Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman’s caller arrivals were portion of the game’s play 1 update, and players person recovered the update comes with plus hash checking that’s disabled each mods connected PC. As IGN notes, utilizing mods violates the shooter’s presumption of use, and NetEase is selling premium skins for each Rivals character connected a regular basis. It’s besides much than acceptable to enforce its ain rule, arsenic it gave a connection to the outlet advising players to “[not] modify immoderate crippled files, arsenic doing truthful carries the hazard of getting banned.” So for PC players, they’ll person to enactment looking similar the characters arsenic they were made for the game.

NetEase astir apt stamped down Marvel Rivals’ mod skins due to the fact that they would’ve killed the game’s gross potential. The crippled reportedly made $136 million successful its motorboat period alone, but if you’re connected PC, wherefore fork implicit currency to look similar Winter Soldier successful Thunderbolts* when you could beryllium Captain America arsenic presidents Joe Biden oregon Donald Trump, oregon crook Black Panther into Ryan Gosling, 1 of our hardest moving achromatic actors? The skins took disconnected due to the fact that Rivals’ community is shitposting to their heart’s content, and they’ve been further spurred by the roar of properties like Smile and Godzilla making their mode into Call of Duty and Fortnite.

Will this afloat halt the mod tegument scene? Probably not, but it gives those modders a challenge—hopefully, things don’t get to War Thunder levels of ridiculous.

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