Marvel competitor referred directly to an overwatch hero in his code

Marvel -Rival is condemned to be compared forever with surveillance. It is a team -based shooter with heroes, and some of these heroes happen to have a lot together with them in surveillance. Netease never said directly Marvel Rivals' Code confirms that someone in the development team knew exactly what kind of game he made.

This line described a hero in Chinese as a “soldier: 76 replica”, which is a direct reference to that surveillance Character. Nobody should see it, but thanks to a group of Marvel -Rival Data Miner, we know that someone wrote it there before it was patched out.

“[NetEase] I deleted it in newer builds, but it has been stuck in my head since then Marvel -Rival Is that 'surveillance Clone 'for many people', said Visceral, one of the data miners, compared to igamesnews over DMS. “Was pretty silly when I stumbled over it.”

Viseral is part of the group that runs X0XLEAK on XA popular account that is regularly found in the game of the game – often before Netease officially announces it. Whenever a new update comes out, the team dipped with custom tools to see what has been added.

With these tools you can see all the things that the developers hide in the files of the game, such as character models, maps, textures and lines of text. “If you only have your play folder through click, you don't give anything,” said Viseral. “So you need either custom/homemade extraction scripts or third -party software to access the actual playfulness.” And then you need to know what you have to look for.

X0XLEAK has evidence that is pointed out several unannounced heroes come to Marvel -Rivalincluding Blade, Daredevil, Phoenix and Professor X. Sometimes these are only names that were written in the code, but sometimes they are Complete lists of skills, team-ups and language lines. Nevertheless, nothing you have found is real until Netease says.

Marvel -Rival The executive producer Danny Koo said in one IGN history about Data Miner At the beginning of this year that heroes go through a lot of iteration before they are published. “So there could be some information in the code, and it could mean that we have tried these instructions and you may appear or not appear in our future plans,” said Koo.

Koo does not recommend avoiding the game's files, but also does not seem to be particularly important from Data Minen that stick their hands in. As with any live service game, it will happen whether you want it or not.

We contacted Netease via the soldier: 76 Find and data mining and will update this post when we hear again.

“To be honest, I think Data mining is a net positive for the game,” Stella, another member of X0xleak, told igamesnews. “In reality it keeps people excited and with what occurs, excited and busy.

Everyone can learn to date with free tools online, said Visceral, but it requires some skills to check the juicy details. When they found A Mention of daredevil They didn't post in the files until they were sure it was legitimate. “We took the time and ensured that it was the right hero, translated the same sentence with 10 different translators online, compared official Chinese writings of the hero in question. Let several independent native speakers translate the Chinese text to ensure that it is 100% the right hero, and at the end he became Daredevil,” they said.

“There are also things that we do not talk about on X, like every single hero who has so far has language lines because they cannot be healed (like anti -healing of surveillance), There are no signs of a single hero, now or in the future to do something like this, ”Matfacio from X0XLEAK told igamesnews.

Although X0xleak has over 45,000 followers on X, it is not paid for it. They do it because they love the game and want to share what they find with other fans.

“I enjoy seeing how the developers implement new functions, which design decisions that are on it and how I can use some of the information in the game to help players,” said Stella. “I think how these games are built as the most fun part. It is a big problem to solve the puzzle for me.”

“I think to do really solid reports about something that you have to be passionate about, otherwise it will be a nuisance,” said Stella. “We would not have past games that we are not passionate about. Netease has done great work to solve the scene.”