The Guardians of the Galaxy have seen more love than Marvel would have ever imagined since their 2014 film took the superhero genre by storm, so it would only be logical to show them some love with a map of their own. Star Lord’s celestial father was the antagonist in the team’s second adventure on the big screen, who they eventually defeated by setting off a bomb inside of his br
Another hero shooter that has enjoyed prolonged success is Team Fortress 2 , with the series being famous for starting the genre. **TF2 has nine classes, has a relatively small roster for a modern hero shooter, ** and doesn't get much attention at all from Valve, yet it still has some balancing issues. Having a balanced hero shooter experience will help Marvel Rivals shine in a genre known for having poor balance, but that becomes more difficult as the roster gets bigger, and Rivals is starting very big compared to many of its competit
Marvel Rivals already had excitement due to the popularity of the franchise, and it seems like that continued with the well-received closed beta. However, post-release content and balancing will play a huge part in the long-term success of the game. As Marvel Rivals ' __ chief competitor will be Overwatch 2 , which seems to always be on a rollercoaster of success, the comic shooter could siphon a lot of players if developed correctly. Until more information is known, likely before any announced beta or the game's full release, this is all that is currently known about _Marvel Rivals
"We honor the hero shooter by using superheroes, and we wanted to think about what we could do with that. Firstly, we started with the maps and environments . We want to make sure every map has its own destruction model," Chen s
Along with these 25, a good chunk of heroes has been predicted through datamining or hinted at through promotional material, including Doctor Doom, Wolverine, Ultron, and Vision . Overall, the list of potential characters that could be added is immense. The game already seems to be willing to use lesser-known/utilized characters, like Jeff or Hela, which is a good sign for the future. It will be interesting to see how frequently new characters are released after lau
And with the premise of Marvel Rivals involving different worlds colliding, the team could approach this in some very interesting ways. For example, merging a modern-day New York with the futuristic version inhabited by Peni Parker in 3
As long as Marvel Rivals receives continual updates from NetEase games, it will largely avoid the issues of Team Fortress 2 , since a lot of its balancing issues can be attributed to negligence from Valve. It also has the budget and creativity behind it to eclipse many other free-to-play hero shooters by default , such as Paladins and Pixel Gun 3D , along with one of the biggest IPs in the world to maintain interest. If the game is as fun as the playtest suggests, Marvel Rivals will kick off, but maintaining popularity will be the hard p
One of the cool tricks to Star-Lord is that his dodge is the same button as reload , which means that dodging also refills your blasters without having to take the full reload animation to do it. This great trick allows you to move out of the way of incoming damage and immediately fire right back at the head to take them d
With the Marvel universe as a setting, as well as **a hint of multiverses with both a Spiderverse map and two Doctor Dooms from different timelines ** , there is a wealth of characters that are yet to be announced to the roster. It will likely continue to swell as time goes on, and if the game does as well as many think it will, becoming not only a rival to Overwatch but its usurper, a League of Legends -sized roster might not be too far off. There are enough Marvel characters to do this, from the famous to the obsc
"We have a statistic model that helps us to deal with the balancing problem, and we run tons of tests to see whether these numbers need to be adjusted," Chen tells me. "We also have tests to manipulate what happens when beginner players use a character, and we have super good players in our team to replicate the pro playe
In-house testing isn’t the only way the Marvel Rivals team is dealing with data, though. Chen mentions recent betas "received like 100,000 pieces of feedback from players," something the team "will carefully consider to see whether they can help us to improve our ga
As a hero shooter, Marvel rivals Missions Rivals is entering one of the most competitive spaces in the video game market. In the last 18 months alone, Deadlock , Overwatch 2 , XDefiant , The Finals , and the disastrous Concord have all made their play for the crown, while stalwarts operating in a similar space, like Apex Legends and Rainbow Six Siege , continue to draw huge numb
For context, Overwatch 1 launched with twenty-one characters and was reasonably well-balanced at launch. This balance went out the window as more characters were added, leading to the infamous GOATS comp . GOATS comp omitted DPS, running three supports and tanks, becoming so dominant in competitive play that the DPS role became useless. Overwatch then added role queue to try to fix this, but by then, the balance of the game had been irreversibly damaged because of its still growing ros
