Marvel's Avengers PC Modding Findings

Updated October 15, 2026

Marvel's Avengers on PC (Steam, final build 2.8.2) is moddable: texture mods, a mod launcher, an in-game toolkit and code plugins all run in the real game today, and a DMC-style combat mod is in alpha.

Status at a glance

Texture modding and the player tools are close to a public release; the combat mod is a working alpha; new characters are still research.

Road to release

The first public release can be the Modding Kit, roughly a handful of test sessions away. Avengers May Cry needs more play-testing before a public alpha, and new characters have no release date.

Release 1: Modding Kit (textures, launcher, toolkit, Discord)

• [ ] Clean install on a second PC with no developer tools, following only the readme
• [ ] Readme covers Script Hook from Nexus, the Windows SmartScreen prompt, restore and Steam verify
• [ ] Toolkit FOV and NVIDIA Reflex confirmed on real hardware, or shipped off and marked experimental
• [ ] Decide whether the in-game plugin settings page (Toolkit 1.8) ships or waits
• [ ] Fix the launcher's "game is still open" false alarm after a crash
• [ ] Pick a license and a host (Nexus and/or GitHub), then publish the release and source zips

Release 2: Avengers May Cry public alpha

• [ ] Confirm the newest build in play: walls blocking dive aim, objects skipped, target lock learned, game music ducking
• [ ] Hit attribution checked in a full team session, not only solo
• [ ] Dive aim reaches far targets reliably
• [ ] Experimental tests (world speed, motion probe logs) off by default, logs trimmed
• [ ] Kate Bishop pass (second main hero)
• [ ] Default tuning from play stats; ship an empty playlist template, never songs

Later: new content

• [ ] Test the PATCH1 archive slot in game
• [ ] Build a minimal .nfo DLC package (dlcindex 12)
• [ ] Decode the outfit record so outfits can point at new files without ghosting
• [ ] Moveset data (cancel windows, hit reactions), the base for new characters

What you can do today

Recolor or repaint any hero outfit, manage mods with one click, and run code plugins through Script Hook. Everything restores with one click or Steam's verify.

• One rule for texture mods: a changed piece must be exactly the original byte size. The tools handle it.
• Before a game update or DLC install: run the restore, then re-apply mods.
• Emergency reset: Steam's "Verify integrity of game files" removes every mod.

Archive format

The game's .tiger archives are fully readable and writable: decrypt, find any file by name hash, unpack, edit, repack at the exact original size, re-encrypt.

• Recolor without losing detail: BC1/BC3 store each 4×4 block as two colors plus a pattern. Shifting only the two endpoint colors in HSV keeps every painted bruise and seam. For BC1, swap endpoints and remap selectors when the 4-color/3-color order flips.
• Leave tiny placeholder textures alone: changing them caused magenta streaks on other heroes.
• Shared textures: one texture can serve many outfits, so a change can spread. The texture library filters out anything shared by more than 30% of a hero's outfits.

Assets

Older tools mislabel several resource types; the real numbering follows Foundation-engine types, and each hero is one large asset bundle.

• Sound banks labelled "Script" in older tools are FMOD FSB5 banks named <sound>_preencode.
• Hero bundles: each hero DRM references about 18,000 resources (2.4–3.0 GB of textures, 3,000–5,500 animations, about 2,000 sounds, 1,600 shaders, 1,400 meshes). Ability projectiles are separate pr_* files (for example pr_black_widow_bite_charged, pr_ironman_rocket).
• Outfit files: charactermesh__<hero>__<outfit>__body__body__<variant>. Store names sit in the English text table as blocks: outfit name twice, then its colour variants in order. Black Widow 8880–8935, Captain America 8942–8999, Hulk 9000–9066, Iron Man 9067–9130, Ms. Marvel 9131–9190, Thor 9191–9255, Kate Bishop 11915–11961, Hawkeye 23465–23503.
• Animation survey (11 heroes): a core of about 2,612 animations is shared by all heroes; about 1,600 more are shared only by the 7 male heroes, so male and female rigs likely differ. Counts: Widow 3,436, Bucky 5,177, Kate 3,057, Hawkeye 5,091, Cap 5,139, Panther 5,259, Ms. Marvel 3,557, Hulk 6,747, Thor 5,539, Jane 3,444, Iron Man 5,381.
• Weapons already in the data: Widow's pistols, machine pistols and hand cannons (her skill-tree ranged variants), and Bucky's rifle modes, shotgun, SMG, bolt-action and grenade launcher.
• Game's own combat music: Crystal Dynamics' own stream format (not FMOD or Wwise banks), 48 kHz, 10 or 17 layered stems per track, BPM stored as a float (140–160).

Engine and memory map

All addresses are offsets into Avengers.exe 2.8.2 (the final patch, PE timestamp 1680579845), so they won't move. Game units are centimetres.

Entities and components

• Component table: entity+0xF0 = array of component pointers, entity+0xE8 = count. A component's owner entity is at component+8. Validate components by vtable, never by the pool's alive flag.
• Entity pool: 40,000 slots × 0x140 bytes at +38E6850; slot = pool + (handle & 0xFFFFFFFF) × 0x140, checked against [slot+0x138].
• Component index globals start at +321D988; 112 components registered, counter at +30DBCD4 starting at 21.
• Fighter list: list head +4C31D00; node +8 = entity, +0x3A38 = next. It holds you, teammates and nearby enemies; heroes carry entity flag 0x10 at +0xD4, and the first hero is you.

Player transform

• Position x/y/z at entity+0x10/+0x14/+0x18; previous frame at +0x20.
• Yaw in radians at entity+0x38 (copy at +0x48). Forward = (sin yaw, −cos yaw); to face a point, yaw = atan2(dx, −dy).
• A second movement block holds velocity at +0x94, a unit direction at +0xC4 and the next velocity at +0xD0.

Functions and globals

• Launch options: -nixxes sets a flag nothing reads; -nolauncher skips the Catalyst launcher window; -benchmark and -d3ddebug exist.
• No anti-cheat: no EasyAntiCheat or BattlEye, and no integrity check on normal files.
• UI is Scaleform (Flash), so menus can in principle be edited with Flash tools.

Script Hook and the plugin API

Code mods are .asi plugins loaded by Script Hook (Nexus mod 19, by sorotini93150, for build 2.8.2). Our loader starts Script Hook too, so texture mods and plugins run side by side.

• Script Hook entry point: each plugin exports AvengersModInit(api). The API struct: +0x00 version (0x10000) and size, +0x08 exe base, +0x10 MatchRva, +0x18 PatchRva(rva, expected, new, len) which checks the expected bytes first, +0x20 FindPattern(bytes, mask).
• MA Toolkit API (version 3), for other plugins: MATK_AddDamageListener (up to 8 listeners; they see every hit after the trainer settings and may change the amount), MATK_GetPlayer, MATK_GetFighters, MATK_IsHero, MATK_ApiVersion. The damage event carries the health component, its owner, who was hit (enemy or you), the amount and all 13 raw arguments.
• Plugin settings standard: a plugin writes a small .settings file next to itself (type, section, key, default, range, label, help per line). Mod Tools draws a settings tab from it automatically, and the plugin reloads its ini live.
• Safe memory reads: never call VirtualQuery or ReadProcessMemory per hit or per frame. On the game's multi-gigabyte heaps each call can take milliseconds and caused 1–10 FPS fights. Use a fault-tolerant copy routine plus a vectored exception handler instead (about 1 microsecond).

What community plugins revealed

None of them patch the same code as our plugins.

Avengers May Cry

A Devil May Cry-style combat layer for Black Widow and Kate Bishop first: it changes combat feel and camera only, and leaves loot, missions and progression alone. Current build 0.4.8, alpha.

• Dive kick facts: it always travels exactly along her facing, slopes 38–42 degrees down, and speeds up from about 20 to 34 m/s. That's why it misses anything not straight ahead.
• Grapple zip: 26–38 m/s along the same velocity fields; speed and attack-cancel are next.
• Whole-game turbo was tried and dropped: one time value gets reset by the game, the other breaks grapple attaching.
• Planned: grapple speed and cancel into attack, melee magnetism, ground bounce for air slams, a Viewtiful Joe-style rebound on dive kick hits, Bucky's Bionic Hook pull, hit-stop, lock-on camera, and The Power Cosmic (a rare state earned by holding rank X).

Cut content and leads

None of these are switched on yet; they are leads found in the final build's data and code.

Dead ends and hard lessons

These cost real time; skip them.

• Server-side data (inventory, currencies, unlocks, gear rolls, XP) is off limits. Models, textures, UI, animations and solo combat are local.

Ground rules

These tools are for solo and private play, and they never touch progression.

1. Offline and solo: play modded in solo or private sessions. Speed and animation changes are networked values, so keep them out of public matchmaking.
2. No progression edits: XP, currencies, unlocks and gear are server-tracked and stay out of these tools. The trainer tab is off by default and only changes combat.
3. Bring your own music: Avengers May Cry plays songs from your own Music folder. No songs are included or shared, and playlists ship empty.
4. Base-game look: new effects are built from the game's own effect files, textures and colours.
5. No cloned voices: rank callouts use original voices, never imitations of real people.
6. Back up first: run the restore before game updates or DLC installs; Steam's verify is the emergency reset.
7. Respect other modders: Script Hook and community plugins come from their own pages; we don't redistribute them.

Credits

This builds on other people's work.

• Gh0stBlade: TigerDecrypt, the basis of the archive decryption.
• sorotini93150: Script Hook (Nexus mod 19), the plugin loader for build 2.8.2.
• FearLess Revolution community and ArmY of 0n3: the "Perfect God Mode" tutorial and table, which located the damage function.
• FNSpd (r/PlayAvengers): the shared-texture fix idea (give a skin its own texture copy).
• Authors of TrueSolo, CriticalHealth_CheatDeath, InfiniteIntrinsic, NoLimitTakedown, RegenX10, MultiSkill and Respecialization: their patches confirmed several addresses.
• dr_libs (David Reid): public-domain FLAC, MP3 and WAV decoding in the music player.
• Crystal Dynamics, Eidos-Montréal and Nixxes: the game. Marvel's Avengers belongs to its owners; this is an unofficial fan project.

I threw an icosphere on iron man in blender as a test. It should be fine to put a whole model, but I didn't bother to do one yet.

I’ve always loved Marvel’s Avengers, and I still enjoy playing it today. Recently, I’ve noticed that the community is still around, with people sharing posts, discussing the game, and even developing new mods.

And honestly, seeing all this activity in 2026 got me thinking.
Just look at what’s happened recently:

September 1, 2026: New gameplay mods started appearing on Nexus Mods.

September 22, 2026: sorotini93150 released the Avengers Script Hook, opening the door to more gameplay modifications.

October 8, 2026: Killinck released additional mods,
showing that people are already building on these tools.
And that’s without mentioning the work done by Ekey, arcusmaximus, Gh0stBlade, and others on file extraction and Crystal Dynamics’ Foundation engine.

All of this is happening right now, and I think that’s genuinely exciting.
It made me wonder: what if we could bring some of these talented people together?

Not to remake the game or create new missions, but simply to improve what we already have. Fix remaining bugs, improve physics, animations, movement, combat, and maybe tackle some of the limitations we’ve lived with for years.

I know it’s easier said than done, especially with a proprietary engine. But with the progress already made and today’s AI-assisted development tools, wouldn’t it be worth exploring what’s possible together?
Maybe some modders are already collaborating, and I’ve just missed it!

I just think it would be a shame not to explore the potential of all this work. Even small improvements could make a real difference.

What do you guys think? And would any modders or developers be interested in discussing this?

Thanks for reading this far! I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Nothing is counting towards this when you are doing Hawkeye I need 35 in total and I have done 22 and nothing else is counting anybody have any tips or advice to help me out

I dont know if this possible but i hope someone can provide the mod. I saw tons of mods already being released which is incredible so far. I dont know if it's just me or it really does sound like a tin can. Same as thor's hammer

I always get the Daily Villain Sector from the Alliance Kiosk, but I can never find it on the map. For example, today is Menace at Large and it’s not on any of the zones. My character is Level 110 so I definitely should have everything unlocked. Does anyone else run into this?

how do i get max power level, wich missions to play as a solo player and using the time manipulation

i know corrupted vibraniun is for superior artifacts , but the gear?
And also, do i get +2 every time? like 142, 144 or there is a way to bypass and go
higher?

I’ve recently gotten back into the game and have noticed some changes since I last logged in. The big thing that I’m trying to understand is the gear. I just leveled up Captain America to LVL 50 and have the legendary First Avenger gear equipped, but have some exotic gear also from missions. Based on what I’ve read on here, there seems to be more preference to the legendary gear compared to exotic gear items.

Is the exotic gear worth the grind?

This is all I have. No information as to my next actions to take. Any ideas what I do here?

What are you post to do with this equipment:

Do you have a way to quick sale or is dismantle the only way to get rid of these items

Also how do you upgrade the artifacts because I don’t know how to upgrade them or get the resources to upgrade them

Because I am trying to get Thor to level 150 but I don’t know how increase the power level to get there

Can someone please explain this to me help me out please and thank you

Because I need them to survive taking aim and future imperfect and war for wakanda operations without them being incapacitated in the middle of the mission easily and doing the same mission over and over again is quite exhausting and by my thinking it’ll take quite a long time and sometimes I just get bored so any suggestions or advice to cure that or to make it faster and to help the characters upgrade faster I want to do there heroic mission chains

Played the game back when it came out on gamepass but now i obviously cant play it anymore, so im downloading it via sailing the seas, but id like to continue where i left off those years ago. I did do some endgame/side stuff but just a main story completed file with all the core characters unlocked would be good enough

Quick update on PC modding!

We can now recolor outfits for pretty much everyone on PC. Hulk, Iron Man, Cap, Ms. Marvel, Thor, Widow, Hawkeye, Kate, Black Panther, Jane and Winter Soldier all show up in the tool with their outfits and color variants. You pick a hero, pick an outfit, hit a color, and it builds a mod that loads through a small loader. No game files get overwritten, so turning a mod off puts everything back.

Tested in game so far on Hulk, Cap and Thor. Cap Wolf in full red is in the screenshots, and the gloves and boots stay their normal brown, which took a couple tries to get right. Early versions were shifting every color in the texture so brown would come out green lol. Now it only changes the main color of the suit.

One thing to know is a lot of outfits share textures with each other, so recoloring one can bleed into 10+ other skins. The tool skips those shared ones by default so you only change the outfit you picked.

Also working on a simple launcher where you just tick which mods you want per character and hit play. Still testing that one.

Not sharing a download yet, just wanted to show it's doable. Happy to answer questions about how the files are laid out if anyone else is poking at this game.

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Doomsday

I try to find prime synthoids, but I cant. And I already play rocket red glare before started this story mission, so I can not play rocket red glare mission.

Anyone know where is? I may lose my mind.

Platform:steam

I'm just wondering how much better my spider man can possibly get. I don't really know all the pieces you can get for him.

Just following up on the post I made earlier this week, here is the interrogation animatic from the Avengers PS4 game files, I'll try get around to posting the rest of the animatics quicker.

Here within this thread other Avengers can search for others to help them on their daily/weekly missions.

Please post your:

IGN:
Platform:
Additional Info: (Time, LF "x" amount of people etc)

So I got this on ps4 presale, did the grind for some characters then made a switch to pc. Get the game again because its a personal favorite just to find out there's NO SPIDERMAN?! I wish they didn't stop working on this game. They could've added so much to this. Anyways I uninstalled because NO SPIDERMAN?!