Infinite Receives Unexpected Update

Okay, let’s dive into this whirlwind called Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, a blast-from-the-past game that just decided to update itself out of nowhere. No kidding, we’re talking a total shocker. So, you know how this all kicked off in 2017, right? Seems like a lifetime ago, but here we are, catapulted back into the spotlight years after everyone got comfy thinking it was a closed chapter.

Picture this: Ultron and Sigma (yeah, from the Mega Man X series) kind of mesh together into this creepy entity called Ultra Sigma. What were they thinking? Good ol’ Marvel and Capcom characters — Iron Man, Captain America, Dante, and Chris Redfield — join forces to save the day, naturally. But the whole reception was, meh, lukewarm at best. Maybe it was the graphics, or the lacking roster — no X-Men, seriously? That still bugs me. Anyway, now it’s back in the limelight and not for the reasons you might expect. Or maybe precisely those reasons if you’re a bit cynical.

Here’s the kicker: in this digital age of “blink and you miss it”, Capcom tossed a whopping 35 GB update our way. No smoke signals, no carrier pigeons. Just, bam, there it is! Found myself reading about this on a random Steam thread where someone was like, “Is this update for real?” Next thing you know, social media lights up like a pinball machine. So, folks are scrambling, trying to wrap their heads around why Capcom would bother without any patch notes. Honestly, it’s been since, what, January 2018 since they last fiddled with it. Just fixing bugs back then!

Then comes the juicy conspiracy stuff. Some are theorizing about Unreal Engine doing its usual shuffle with enormous updates — reinstalling the whole shebang. Others, though, whispered it might be Capcom trying to undermine the Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite and Beyond mod. Who’s to say? Pretty ironic when the mod’s been this magnet pulling players back into the game. But, hey, YouTuber Maximilian Dood assures us the mod’s surviving this chaos, with a hotfix looming ominously in the wings. It’s a bit of a theater, honestly.

Fans are holding their collective breath, wondering what Capcom might say — or won’t say. The devs rarely update without a campaign of hype, so this could just be a wild goose chase. Amidst this, the mod is amusingly growing in fame, somewhat embarrassing to the base game. Go figure.

And in this digital circus, it’s all these minor, somewhat hilarious happenings in a gamer’s world that bring old titles like this back to life. Ain’t nostalgia a weird, wonderful beast?