Mordhau developer denies it was planning a “toggle” for diversity

Enlarge / A bunch of white guys fighting with medieval weaponry in Mordhau. (credit: Triternion)

Since its launch in April, medieval combat sim Mordhau has been a surprise hit for freshman development studio Triternion, selling over a million copies as of last month. But the online multiplayer game’s use of exclusively white male avatars has troubled some players looking for a more diverse set of character customization options.

Triternion has said that it plans to add more avatar variety in the future, but the studio created additional questions around those plans in a recent interview with PC Gamer. In that piece, the magazine quoted Mordhau developers as saying they were considering giving players the ability to turn off the pending customization options on the client side, effectively re-homogenizing the look of the characters on their own displays.

In response to a question about “adding female playable characters and changing character’s skin tones,” PC Gamer quoted Triternion’s Mike Desrosiers as saying, “Whatever stance we take officially, some group of people are going to be upset with us. And so, ideally we’d put the power in the players’ hands and give them the option to enable and disable different things.”