Alright so today I was trying to get my custom crosshair code working in Marvel Rivals, right? You know how it is, you find a cool code online or tweak one yourself, plug it in expecting laser precision… and bam. Nada. Zip. Crosshair looking like it decided to take a vacation. Annoying as hell.
Okay, So I Started Poking Around
First thing I did? Double-checked the darn code I copied or typed. Muscle memory sometimes betrays you, or maybe you grabbed it from some shady forum post.
Copied it again, pasted it exactly where the settings tell you to put it. Hit save. Jumped into the training range. Still nothing. Just the default weird little dot thing. Ugh.
The Usual Suspects Didn’t Work
Thought maybe the game just needed a good old restart. Force-quit it, relaunched, prayed. Nope, crosshair still playing hide-and-seek.
Checked the game files through Steam. Right-click > Properties > Installed Files > Verify Integrity… Watched that little bar crawl. Files were “all good,” apparently. Restarted again. Still just the basic boring pointer.
Feeling pretty frustrated at this point. My buddies are asking why my aim sucks today. Real helpful.
Time for the Deep Dive (And The Dumb Mistake)
Started scouring more forums, Reddit threads buried pages deep. Saw a guy mention something about the exact formatting. Like, is that code surrounded by quotes? Did I accidentally leave a space at the end?
Went back to my crosshair settings. Looked real close at where I pasted it. And there it was… I swear I’m usually careful! Somehow, I’d left a single extra space after the closing quote mark. Like this: `”crosshair_code=…” ` instead of `”crosshair_code=…”`.
Deleted that one stupid, invisible little space.
The Sweet, Sweet Victory Ding
Hit save. Loaded into practice again. And boom! There it was! My beautiful custom crosshair, finally showing up!
Felt kind of dumb for missing something so small, but man was it a relief. That tiny little space character completely broke the whole thing.
So Yeah, Double-Check Your Punctuation
The main takeaway?
- Copy carefully. Don’t trust your typing if you can copy-paste reliably.
- Watch those spaces! Before, after, in the middle… get rid of any extras that shouldn’t be there.
- Check the quotes. The code usually needs to be inside quotes in that input field.
- It’s probably not the game. Before reinstalling or yelling at support, quadruple-check the code string itself. It’s almost always a typo or a formatting hiccup.
Hope this saves someone else the 45 minutes of troubleshooting I went through over a freakin’ space bar!
