Marvel Rivals game director talks about game’s future and upcoming changes

Since its release, Marvel Rivals has been doing well as per their popularity and player count. The developers do not plan to stop any time soon. In a recent interview, Game Director for Marvel Rivals, ‘Guangyun Chen’, talked about what they are cooking future updates.

On top of a fun gameplay loop, live service games require a steady flow of content to keep players invested. Chen revealed that the entire content for Marvel Rivals Season 2 is already prepared. The development team has already drafted Season 3 and 4 with the content currently under ‘intensive development’.

“We have invested a lot of resources into developing upcoming content, including new characters, new maps, new modes, and more. The content for Season 2 is ready and set to go. The designs for Seasons 3 and 4 have also been completed and are currently under intensive development! Overall, everything is progressing smoothly,” Chen said, speaking to PC Gamer.

Balance changes incoming to Team-up abilities

Marvel Rivals introduced an interesting concept of Team-up abilities, where characters who have synergy in the actual lore can take up a combined attack together. Hulk can throw Wolverine like a ball, Rocker Racoon can ride on Groot, Storm and can create a fire tornado with Human Torch, and more.

Needless to say, not everything is balanced considering the game is new and there are a lot of characters in Marvel. The game director also admits this and previously said that balancing every aspect is not the ultimate priority, however, some much-needed changes are coming to Marvel Rivals in order to make the game feel more fun rather than frustrating.

“Team-Up skills are dynamic. Starting from Season 2, we will introduce new Team-Up skills with the seasonal update and adjust some existing ones. Together with seasonal overall balance adjustments, this will create a new combat environment and experience for the season,” the game director added.

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Esports organizations gearing for Marvel Rivals

NetEase already has plans to expand the Marvel Rivals Esports scene and a large-scale tournament is yet to come, things have kicked off. As of now, multiple invitational tournaments are taking place across all regions. Recently the EMEA invitational concluded featuring popular esports orgs like OG, Luminosity Gaming, and Virtus.pro.

Matches across other regions are also currently ongoing featuring more popular names in esports, including Shroud’s team from the NA region competing for a prize pool of $100,000. More teams and large-scale Marvel Rivals tournaments are expected if the game continues to keep its popularity.