Marvel Rivals AMA

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Marvel Rivals Team
Recap

The Marvel Rivals team held an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on December 4, 2024, at 7 PM PST on the official Discord, gathering questions and providing interesting information about the game as we gear up for the global launch of the game! Let's find out what's to come and more, in this session.

Marvel Rivals Team

Marvel Games:

Danny Koo - Executive Producer
Dan LaDuca - Senior Art Director
Dakota Maysonet - Creative Development Manager

NetEase Games:

Guanggaung - Creative Director
Jinghua Duan- Lead Narrative Designer
Dino Ma - Art Director
Zhiyong Feng - Lead Combat Designer
James - Community Manager

Recap

Art style largely driven by Dino Ma's vision
New season every 13 weeks
Further confirmation of heroes (specifically plural) coming each season
Steam Deck support confirmed for launch, with some minor cutscene glitches that are actively being resolved in collaboration with Valve
Every character has a team-up ability, and future characters will not launch without a team-up ability. This is central to the game's design
The team is committed to implementing cross-progression, but this will not be ready at launch
Pick rate, win rate, and other statistics coming to the website in the near future
No plans to implement a public API, but it's not off the table completely if that's something the community really wants
The community is encouraged to keep giving feedback through all available channels (the official Discord, in-game, etc.) and a feedback portal on the official website will also be implemented in the near future
Hero mastery system confirmed, players can earn a new HUD icon for each character and customize the KO streak effect
Winter Festival event confirmed for Season 0, keep an eye out for an upcoming announcement
Ranked confirmed for Season 0
A player's rank will decay 2 tiers between seasons
In addition to in-game reporting, player reporting bot going live on the Discord within the week to help facilitate player reports for cheating, AFK, etc.
Zhiyong says that having a large amount of Duelists helps facilitate diversity of playstyle between teams
More Vanguards and Strategists coming, Season 1 name-dropped specifically
Each season, the in-game Gallery will feature a new magazine that characters can unlock which tells the season's lore outside of the character's stories
Season 0's magazine, Dooms' Rise, features 7 cards that tell the game's backstory, and starts with the origin of the timestream entanglement and the two Dooms
In addition to this, the ongoing lore will be told through in-game cutscenes and incidental dialogue between characters
Sue Storm teased in the answer to a question about lore
Additional lore chapters for characters will unlock as they are involved in the ongoing narrative
No set schedule for balance patches at this time
Marvel Rivals Champions tournament confirmed for Season 0
The team is hoping to continue fostering the competitive side of the community, and they're eager to see how it grows and hopefully one day develop an eSports scene
New "big bads" teased beyond the two Dooms as the ongoing narrative twists and turns
Gifting system coming "eventually"
No plans for role queue, the belief is that it defeats a lot of the core design principles of the game
Under 1% of matches to date featured "imbalanced team compositions"
No "anti-heroes only" restriction on villains coming to the character roster
Uniqueness is an important element in character selection; similar characters are unlikely, and the value in premiere skins that lay these characters over top of existing ones (example given: Beta Ray Bill over Thor) is questioned when compared to applying that same workload to a different task
Other sets of similar characters (examples given: Agatha and Wanda, Peter Parker and Miles Morales) will never be considered for such a scenario as they are just too different
The team is aware of potential server issues Day 1; the entire team are on standby at launch to quickly resolve any emergencies and have been working tirelessly to prevent this scenario
A mysterious tease for something new will be coming 1 hour before servers open