Marvel Games and NetEase Games have announced the details for Season 1: Eternal Night Falls for Marvel Rivals, the new Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter that lets players assemble an ever-evolving all-star squad of Super Heroes and Super Villains battling with unique powers across a dynamic lineup of destructible maps from across the Marvel Multiverse.
The game’s first season will kick off on January 10 at 09:00 UTC and will introduce the Fantastic Four as playable heroes. Each three-month-long season of Marvel Rivals will be divided into two halves. For Eternal Night Falls, Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic will be released in the first half of the season, followed by Human Torch and The Thing in the second half.
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Season 1 will also feature three new maps, special events, and an all-new Doom Match game mode. Additionally, the Marvel Rivals Discord server has reached more than 2.4 million members, making it the largest gaming server on the platform.
What to expect from Season 1: Eternal Night Falls?
In Eternal Night Falls, shockwaves generated by the Timestream Entanglement sweep over and through New York City, leaving Doctor Strange lost in the Entangled Astral Plane. Although he is eventually rescued by Scarlet Witch, multiple pages of the Darkhold are scattered after his escape.
With Doctor Doom’s support, Dracula seizes his chance during Doctor Strange’s disappearance, tapping into the dark power of Chronovium to stop the moon. Without the sun to worry about, Dracula unleashes his legions to overrun the city. With New York City on the brink of supernatural collapse, the heroes turn to science for a solution.
Tapping into the fight are the Fantastic Four, all of whom carry their own set of skills for players to use to tackle the latest challenge in Marvel Rivals.
Here is the breakdown of the characters and their skills:
Invisible Woman (Strategist) – Cosmic rays altered Susan Richards on a cellular level, granting her the ability to generate impenetrable force fields and to make herself fade from sight in an instant. Despite her frequent lack of visibility, it has always been perfectly clear that Sue is the force holding her family — the Fantastic Four — together. After the Timestream Entanglement, the Invisible Woman has taken full advantage of her powers, using stealth to explore locations too dangerous for her fellow heroes, especially going on rescue missions for civilians trapped by the creatures of the night.
Mister Fantastic (Duelist) – Reed Richards has one of the universe’s most brilliant minds, but even a genius of his magnitude couldn’t have predicted the interstellar incident that bombarded his friends and family with cosmic rays, granting them extraordinary abilities. Mister Fantastic’s cellular elasticity allows him to stretch his body beyond all physical limits. But now he’ll have to stretch his mind further than ever to build the Timestream Reintegration Device and end this cross-dimensional crisis…
Human Torch (Duelist) – Teenager Johnny Storm joined his sister on the crew of an experimental space mission in hopes of visiting the stars. Instead, he became one, gaining powers and popularity as a member of the world-famous Fantastic Four. Able to generate scorching flames, Johnny is the hottest hero in town – the Human Torch. Since darkness fell on New York City, Johnny has been busy burning Dracula’s legions with flames brighter than the sun.
The Thing (Vanguard) – When Ben Grimm signed up to pilot an experimental spacecraft for his pal Reed Richards, he never imagined he’d return from the flight transformed into a monster. Even though cosmic rays turned him into the Thing, Ben still has a heart of gold beneath his rocky exterior. Since New York City plunged into eternal night, Ben has devoted himself to protecting his home from the monsters plaguing it.
New characters aren’t all that’s coming to Season 1
Season 1 will also feature an all-new game mode entitled Doom Match. In this mode, 8 to 12 players will battle on a single map, each belonging to a different faction, with all factions being hostile to each other. Players earn points by knocking out enemies, and at the end of the match, the top 50% of players, by default, will be considered the winning side.
Season 1 will also feature an all-new seasonal event: Midnight Features. Players can complete the seasonal activities to unlock limited-time rewards, including exclusive galleries, costumes, sprays, units, nameplates, and more! Also, starting January 11, Marvel Rivals is introducing brand new Twitch Drop exclusive rewards, including the Hela: Will of Galacta spray, nameplate, costume, and more.
Players will also discover a brand new Battle Pass, which features over double the content of the Season 0 pass. The Eternal Night Fall Luxury Battle Pass is loaded with 10 stunning costumes and their related content, such as sprays and emotes. The price for the Season 1 Luxury Battle Pass is set at 990 Lattice and players will receive 600 Lattice and 600 Units back by completing it.
The Marvel Rivals team has also designed a unique mechanism for Battle Pass and Chrono Tokens—ensuring that Luxury Battle Passes never expire and that Tokens purchased with Lattice are retained under certain conditions. Full details can be found in the Dev Vision 3 video and in the Dev Talk 09 blog post.
Thanks to invaluable player feedback and ongoing analysis, a number of hero adjustments will be made to improve how the Marvel Rivals roster is utilized in battle. Season 1 will see several balance updates, including enhancements to mobile-type Vanguards like Captain America and Venom to improve their ability to charge into a fight and protect their allies, while Wolverine and Storm will also see a boost in their capabilities, bringing them in line with the other powerful Duelists. Players can continue to get the latest updates on fixes and game balancing via the latest Patch Notes.
What is Marvel Rivals?
Marvel Rivals lets players assemble an ever-evolving all-star squad of Super Heroes and Super Villains battling with unique powers across a dynamic lineup of destructible maps across the Marvel Multiverse.
Our reviewer gave the new Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter a 9/10, writing, “Marvel Rivals is fantastic. Everything runs smoothly with a fantastic core gameplay loop. The characters are varied and a blast to use, with a play style available for everyone and a hero they love or can fall in love with. It takes a foundation people know and makes it its own.”
Marvel Rivals is available now on Steam, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series XIS，Epic Games Store and the official website.
