Well-known monster hunter group sparks controversy for using mods in racing videos


Individual behavior affects the entire team.

Team Darkside (TDS) is a video creation team that is widely known among domestic and foreign players of Monster Hunter. Its Youtube channel has more than 658,000 subscribers, and its official account at station B also has about 268,000 followers.

TDS’s videos cover a wide range, including outfit recommendations, a collection of funny clips, and a lot of serious racing videos. The team has gathered a number of elite players from all over the world, which makes their videos highly watchable.

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Especially in the videos of cooperative hunting, several team members output monsters in an orderly manner, the movements are highly synchronized, and the operation is smooth and smooth, which is affectionately called “militarized hunting” by fans of station B.

“当你狩猎1000只黑龙之后” “After you hunt 1000 black dragons”

However, it was in a racing video comparable to “militarized hunting” that a core TDS member carried the rest of the team behind his back and used a mod that modified game data.

The member involved is Peppo, an Italian taiko player. On July 10, Peppo teamed up with three Japanese Taito players who were not from the TDS team, and cooperated to defeat a Sky Comet Dragon, which took only 1 minute and 44 seconds. Afterwards, the four players uploaded a video recording the hunt on Youtube in their own name.

Peppo wrote in his Youtube video intro that he used a mod “in this speedrun” to modify the damage value of the part of the tachi move Kamui Iai.

图源百度贴吧@汉沽 Image source Baidu Tieba @hangu

Kamui Iai is a new move in “Monster Hunter Rise: Dawn”, and it is also the main output method of Tachi in the current version. This move allows the player to consume all the energy in the air blade slot, and after the energy is fully charged, the player can swing a triple slash with increasing power.

561/1500/2419,图源与Peppo组队的日本玩家Fu 561/1500/2419, picture source Fu, a Japanese player who teamed up with Peppo

The third knife does the most damage, but it doesn’t make sense if it doesn’t hit. Peppo’s mod adjusts the damage coefficient of the first two knives of Kamui Iai to zero, to prevent the damage of the part from causing the monster to straighten and retreat, which in turn causes the third knife to swing in the air.

Peppo thinks this is a “nerf” to Taito, but it actually increases the overall output. In the eyes of many monster hunters, this has nothing to do with weakening or strengthening. Using modules to modify data violates the racing rules and constitutes cheating.

Previously, Peppo accused racing players on the PC platform of modifying the game and cheating, and strongly demanded that the racing video should be marked with the game platform at the beginning of the video. Now that players see that Peppo is also modifying the game data, it is inevitable to take this opportunity to ridicule his “double standard”.

“PC端竞速玩家:不怎么看运气,存在大量作弊者” “PC side racing players: don’t think much about luck, there are a lot of cheaters”

“请不要当个混蛋,把游戏平台标出来” “Please don’t be a jerk, mark the game platform”

Due to some public relations disputes outside the game, Peppo’s modification of the data has aroused much stronger repercussions in the domestic community than abroad.

On July 10th, Peppo uploaded a video on station B for the first time, and Tianhuilong racing was his third video on station B. In the video introduction of the Bilibili version, Peppo did not indicate the fact that he used the mod, and did not complete it until some players questioned.

图源百度贴吧@汉沽 Image source Baidu Tieba @hangu

TDS’s official account at station B reposted Peppo’s video in a dynamic form, and the entire team became the target of criticism from players.

On July 12, the manager of TDS, the German player Chris, used the official account of Station B to issue an apology statement in both Chinese and English, saying that Peppo’s behavior was “without the consent of the team”, the team did not know in advance, and strictly opposed this Revise.

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Regarding the fact that there was no clarification in the initial video introduction of station B, TDS explained that Peppo “forgot”, and immediately added the instructions for using the module after discovering and reporting it. On July 13, Chris responded to some of the players’ questions, and clarified again that Peppo did not “secretly hang up”. His fault was that he forgot to add the same statement to the video at station B.

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Chris admits that the mods used by Peppo should never be used in a speedrun, and Peppo apologises for his mistake. Chris would not allow such a thing to appear on the main TDS channel, but also made it clear that the mistake of one member uploading a video on a private channel does not represent the attitude of the other members and the entire team.

Even with Chris’s clear answer, the suspicion that Peppo or TDS deliberately altered the video’s intro to confuse the public remains. And from the beginning to the end, only Chris stood up to apologize, but the players felt that it was Peppo who should apologize most.

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Peppo has not given any apology in the Chinese player community so far, although he has reasons for not personally apologizing. A tweet in 2020 stated that he did not know Chinese, and he always used English titles and profiles when uploading videos on station B.

However, Peppo gave a string of English-language replies on his Discord channel, which quickly came to light. Peppo himself did not express any apology in the reply, which contradicted Chris’s statement; part of the wording used in the reply exacerbated the players’ distrust of Peppo and TDS.

Peppo’s reply basically copied the video intro that was previously used on Youtube. He stressed that his use of the mod is “completely transparent” and that there is no “maliciousness” behind it, even if the mod is essentially a “nerf”. He said the hunt was not about beating or competing for other people’s hunting records, so he didn’t think there was anything wrong with him. But for some reason, he still didn’t give up the word “speedrun” at the beginning of his reply.

图源B站@张小帅开始玩太刀 Figure source B station @张晓俊 started playing too sword

Peppo said he was “very disappointed” with the Chinese community. In another Discord reply, he explained to the players who asked that TDS only made the above-mentioned apology statement at Station B because “only the Chinese community has overreacted.”

“只有中文社区反应过度”,图源Reddit:u/muhwyndhamhp “Only the Chinese community overreacted”, source Reddit: u/muhwyndhamhp

The same reply also mentioned that Peppo was not affected in any way by the incident and remains a member of TDS. He’s currently working on a video aimed at “deeply” explaining the “technical part” of that mod, rather than apologizing to anyone.

Before the deadline of this article, the related videos on station B have been deleted, and the videos on Youtube have been modified for private enjoyment, which is no different from taking it off the shelf. Of the three Japanese players who worked with Peppo, two players kept the video, and only one player explicitly mentioned in the video introduction that he used the same mod, but none of them were implicated in the incident.

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Under the news of TDS’s apology at Station B, a large number of players asked TDS and Chris to take substantive punishment, such as expelling Peppo who modified the data from the team; some players used Discord chat records as evidence, accusing TDS of deliberately covering up Peppo and treating Chinese people differently. player. TDS and Chris have yet to give further responses, and there is no follow-up on the situation.

Although TDS emphasized that personal behavior should not be elevated to the team, Peppo, as a core member of TDS, took the lead in modifying the game data, which will definitely cast dust on the authority of the video for the entire team racing. No one wants to see the content creation team that has contributed a lot to the “Monster Hunter” player community destroyed, and the players’ “overreaction”, just hope that TDS will strictly implement their entertainment video in the past issue of modifying the game data. out promise:

“We strictly oppose the practice of modifying injuries in racing videos or other competitive games.”

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