Marvel Rivals followers have been having a area day with mods earlier this month. However final week NetEase shut the celebration down in a season one replace. Now, a workaround has surfaced to convey again every thing from healthful Chainsaw Man mod for Jeff the Land Shark to very NSFW 19-inches of Venom overhaul, at the least for gamers keen to danger getting their accounts banned, or doubtlessly messing up their gaming PCs.
Should you haven’t been enjoying Marvel Rivals on PC or aren’t updated on the modding scene there, followers have been creating all kinds of add-ons for the favored hero shooter because it launched final month. These embody every thing from mods that attempt to optimize framerate efficiency to, uh, costume modifications for Psylocke, Squirrel Woman, and others. The most well-liked mod of throughout on NexusMods merely turned Iron Man into Dragon Ball Z’s Prince of all Saiyans.
However NetEase put the kibosh on the Marvel Rivals modding black market in its season one replace final week, which launched asset hash checking, a flowery method of claiming that the sport was now checking to ensure no rogue components have been being loaded into the sport when gamers booted it up on their PCs. RIP GTA San Andreas’ Massive Smoke as Punisher and CJ as Winter Soldier.
Naturally, it solely took a number of days for followers to discover a workaround. As Dexerto notes, there are primarily two methods for bypassing Marvel Rivals’ new asset hash verify. The primary incorporates the modded recordsdata immediately into the sport’s .pak recordsdata quite than individually by means of a mod supervisor. It’s a a lot greater hoop than most gamers will need to leap by means of, but it surely works.
The second methodology is a little more easy, however requires a really beefy SSD. It seemingly revolves round unpacking and repacking recordsdata rapidly sufficient to skirt the brand new checks, and comes with the chance of overheating your PC in consequence. “You possibly can simply extract the pak recordsdata like a zipper and run them unpaked,” reads a brand new how-to by prafit1111 over on NexusMods. “The issue is, the sport is loading 50,000 recordsdata versus 1 so this may be fairly problematic even on the quickest SSDs. Utilizing an answer like this might even make your SSD die sooner.”
Plus, even in case you don’t corrupt your recreation set up or kill a chunk of your rig, persevering with to fiddle with mods nonetheless dangers completely shedding entry to your account and all of the cosmetics you’ve already bought or unlocked. “It isn’t advisable to switch any recreation recordsdata, as doing so carries the chance of getting banned,” NetEase lately advised IGN in a press release. However hey, I assume some issues are price doubtlessly getting hit by the Marvel Rivals ban hammer, like wiping your entire enemy crew as Pochita Jeff.
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