Marvel Rivals is just under a few weeks away from launch and players are highly anticipating its release after a round of alpha and beta test phases that left them wanting more. With an expansive roster and a 6v6 free-to-play gameplay, the NetEase title is slowly shaping up to be the biggest release of the year.

Tending to the hype, we chatted with the game director Thaddeus Sasser recently about the game and its upcoming launch date.

However, ahead of launch, the devs have revealed the entire roadmap for the first couple of months for seasons which will bring plenty of new content and a storyline centered around a popular character.

Marvel Rivals to launch with Season 0 featuring Doctor Doom

Marvel Rivals’ Creative Director GuangGuang spoke in the latest video about the roadmap of upcoming content to the game post-launch. He began by informing players how Hulk was the first designed hero in the game during development and how the journey began from there.

Furthermore, he revealed that the game will launch into season 0, “Dooms’ Rise” which will only last a month, and seasons 1 and on will all be around 3 months each. The launch phase will feature Doom’s Timestream Entanglement and how it has resulted in the creation of 4 “chronoverses” — 2099: Techno-Dystopia, Present: Evil Strikes, Mosaic Timeline: Unstable Space-Time, and Collapsing: Even the Gods Die.

He further informed that Season 1 will begin in January 2025 and every season will launch with new content, heroes, maps, Team-Up Abilities, and maybe even new game modes. Moreover, 33 heroes will be released by the end of Season 0 and players will be able to play for free.

Adding to that, 8 maps for quick match and competitive as well as 1 conquest map will similarly be released by the end of season 0, plus a brand new practice range will also be added. Since season 0 is only a month-long, its Battle Pass will feature half the content and will cost half the price

Talking about servers, Guang announced that 3 servers in North America will be added — Oregon, Dallas, and Northern Virginia and additional servers in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia-Pacific will launch alongside. Players will be able to freely jump between servers where the tick rate is 60.

As players await the full launch of Marvel Rivals coming December 6, it’ll finally unfold if it is a worthy competitor to existing shooters like Overwatch 2 or if it’ll be just another Concord story in the gaming world.

Marvel Rivals

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  Platform(s):
  macOS, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
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  Genre(s):
  Fighting, Shooter