The fervor for Marvel Rivals is so sturdy that persons are prepared to threat their accounts to show Iron Man into Vegeta and Mantis right into a fishnets-wearing goth. There are such a lot of folks downloading customized skins and efficiency tweaks on NexusMods that Marvel Rivals is competing with Skyrim and Cyberpunk 2077 for having the preferred PC mods this month.
Anybody utilizing these mods can get banned as a result of they technically violate the sport’s phrases of use, which prohibit “cheats, automation software program (bots), hacks, mods, or some other unauthorized third-party software program”. In December, NetEase warned gamers within the Marvel Rivals Discord that modifying sport information “might result in surprising points,” after gamers found a method to tweak graphics settings not surfaced within the sport.
When requested whether or not it’s going to take motion towards gamers utilizing mods, NetEase advised Polygon, “It isn’t really useful to switch any sport information, as doing so carries the chance of getting banned.” Thus far, nonetheless, we’ve got seen no experiences of gamers getting punished for utilizing mods.
Proper now, the preferred mod is, effectively, a mod supervisor. Over 88,000 folks have downloaded person MerryJoyKey’s Mods Supervisor for Marvel Rivals to simplify the entire course of. Proper behind it’s a mod that supposedly improves the efficiency of the sport, with over 66,000 downloads. After which there’s Vegeta as Iron Man, a mod that does precisely what it says on the tin. The modder behind it, Leonaura, additionally turned Iron Fist into Goku. You’d suppose this might spark clips of those two battling prefer it was an episode of Dragon Ball Z, however mods are solely seen in your personal model of the sport.
Although Marvel Rivals has a wholesome variety of skins for a sport that hasn’t been out for greater than a month, the overwhelming quantity of beauty mods reveals persons are hungry for extra — even when there’s an opportunity they might get them in hassle. However I additionally doubt NetEase is ever going to show Luna Snow into Hatsune Miku, so somebody needed to do it.