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 way of its recordsdata to examine in the event that they’ve been altered by way of a function 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 at this time. 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 advised gamerlifemedia, “It’s not beneficial to change any recreation recordsdata, as doing so carries the danger of getting banned.”
Up to now, there have been no stories of anybody being punished. In line with the sport’s phrases of use, mods have 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 checklist 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 have been eliminated by the positioning as a part of its guidelines in opposition to mods “regarding sociopolitical points in america.”
It’s widespread for on-line aggressive multiplayer video games to take a tough stance in opposition to mods. In some instances, they’ll change the sport in a manner that provides gamers an unfair benefit, like eradicating geometry from a map. Marvel Rivals mods didn’t go that far and most of them have been pretty tame, nevertheless it’s attainable they may have gotten out of hand as time went on.
Now gamers should costume their favourite heroes the quaint manner 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.
