Marvel Rivals has been off to a high flying start since it was released, and with some brand new heroes coming, there's always a reason to be excited.
Now, Season 1 is nearly here, NetEase have gone ahead and released the official patch notes for the new season.
Here's what you need to know.
Marvel Rivals Season 1 Patch Notes: Buffs, Nerfs and More
Season 1 is going to be released on January 10th, 2024, and the following patch notes will be pushed live during downtime.
Heroes and Costumes
- Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman join Marvel Rivals!
- New Costumes: Mister Fantastic - The Maker; Invisible Woman - Malice!
Maps and Modes
- Explore the new Convoy map - Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown.
- Prepare for the thrilling arcade mode (Doom Match) and its map (Sanctum Sanctorum): 8-12 players will engage in battle, with the top 50% emerging victorious.
- New feature: In Convoy and Convergence, both sides can transition to the next spawn room sometime after the attacking side completes the current target.
- Enhanced feature: During the loading phase of a Quick Match, you can now view the Nameplates of both sides.
Season & Store
- Unlock a dazzling shiny new Battle Pass featuring 10 brand new sets of heroic costumes!
- Embark on the first thrilling half of the Midnight Features Season Event!
- Dive into the latest Twitch Drops event, featuring rewards such as the Hela - Will of Galacta costume. (Stay tuned for official announcements for specific times)
- We have revised the refresh times for various in-game content. Beginning with Season 1, the unlock time for daily missions, the availability of new items in the store, and the start time for most events have been adjusted from 7:00 (UTC+0) to 9:00 (UTC+0).
- Additionally, we have optimized the mission types and removed some of the more challenging ones.
Ranked
- Introducing the Celestial Rank, a tier above Grandmaster and below Eternity, consisting of 3 divisions.
- Rank Reset: based on your final Season 0 rank, ranks will be demoted by 7 divisions. For example, if you ended Season 0 at Platinum I, your Season 1 journey begins at Silver II.
Tournaments
- Newly added automatic follow function for tournament sign-ups: Faction members can opt to follow the captain on the sign-up page. When the captain/coach initiates or cancels the sign-up process, following members will automatically confirm. Please note, this feature, once activated, is effective for the current season only.
- New faction reporting function: Report factions for perceived misconduct in the same tournament within the past 90 days.
- New spectating channel: Chat in real-time with fellow rivals while spectating the same match.
- When spectating, the target player's hotkeys and crosshair settings will be prominently displayed.
- New setting option: Block all active invitations and faction join requests.
General
- Streaming Mode: In Settings - Social, new settings have been added under the social setting allowing streamers to conceal their name as needed (only effective locally; other players in the same match can still see it).
1.2 PC
Graphics and Settings
- Enhanced and optimized graphics settings for improved performance:
· New: Added a new "Off" option under "Anti-Aliasing".
· New: Included a "Performance" option for "Model Detail".
· New: Integrated a new "Off" option under "Global Illumination".
· New: Added a new "Off" option for "Reflection Quality".
· Optimization: Adjusted and optimized various parameters within the graphics settings.
- Mouse Settings: Under Settings, the Keyboard - Combat category now includes new settings for mouse smoothing and mouse acceleration, enabling customization as required.
- Support Intel® XeSS 2: With Intel® Xe Super Sampling 2 (XeSS 2), experience faster, smoother gameplay with higher image quality and a more connected playing experience with Intel® Xe Frame Generation (XeFG), Intel® Xe Low Latency (XeLL).
2. Fixes and Optimizations
2.1 All Platforms
General
- Resolved numerous issues related to notifications.
- Rectified various text errors.
Maps and Modes
- Solved several terrain issues causing characters to become stuck or move to unusual locations. Such issues will continue to be monitored and addressed. We have also added a "get unstuck" feature: if a character is stuck in terrain for a specific duration, you can now control it to return to the spawn room.
- Fixed various issues including floating broken objects, collision errors, etc.
- Fixed various map sound problems.
- Resolved an extremely rare issue where overtime couldn't be triggered or wouldn't end.
- Also resolved an exceptionally rare abnormal draw occurrence issue.
Heroes
- Corrected minor movement ability discrepancies for certain heroes (like Doctor Strange and Magik) at both low and high frame rates.
- Addressed occasional malfunctions with, or inability to use Wolverine's team-up ability.
- Fixed occasional incorrect resets of Winter Soldier's ultimate ability.
- Fixed an issue where the Winter Soldier's ultimate ability would sometimes fail to hit targets within its range.
- Corrected instances where Iron Man's ultimate ability would sometimes pass through Hela during her ultimate ability.
- Resolved occasional synchronization issues for Venom and Spider-Man after swinging and wall-crawling.
- Rectified a situation where Rocket Raccoon, while on Groot's shoulders, could irregularly place Battle Rebirth Beacons (B.R.B.) in abnormal map locations, trapping teammates after revival.
- Fixed occasional camera irregularities after Loki transformed into certain characters during his ultimate ability.
- Fixed a visibility issue that could sometimes occur when Adam Warlock/Mantis/Star-Lord were in soul form within the mist on Wakanda maps where they couldn't see or be seen by others.
- Rectified instances where Squirrel Girl's ultimate ability could get stuck on specific terrain.
- Fixed occasional damage loss in Rocket Raccoon's primary attack.
- Addressed irregularities and occasional failure to end Wolverine's Feral Leap, along with occasional abnormal behavior.
- Resolved instances where Luna Snow's ultimate ability occasionally failed to heal teammates.
- Fixed occasional sound irregularities that could occur after being consumed by the Jeff the Land Shark's ultimate ability.
- Addressed various ability sound and voice errors for several heroes.
- Optimized the playback rules for hero ability voices during combat to reduce auditory confusion.
2.2 Console
- Resolved an issue where after console matchmaking, teammates on Xbox were incorrectly shown as muted on other platforms, necessitating manual unmuting to remove the status display.
- Rectified instances where for some heroes, when the Field of View changed, the auxiliary sight intensity and crosshair sensitivity did not adjust accordingly.
- Resolved an issue where certain button settings were not taking effect as intended.
- The global focus switching algorithm has been optimized for smoother overall operation.
We will continue to vigilantly monitor game bug issues and fix them as fast as we can. We also have another patch with new content in the works! Be sure to follow our socials for all the latest news!
Some other hero changes are noted below.
Hero Changes
- Hela
- HP reduced to 250
- Faster damage falloff
- Hawkeye
- Now takes 2.5 seconds to fully charge bow
- Winter Soldier
- Increased HP to 275, and gets an additional 40 HP from his abilities
- Wolverine
- Increased HP to 350
- Captain America
- Increased HP to 675 and increased Ultimate movement speed
- Storm
- Overall DPS buff
- Projectiles move faster
- Namor
- Squids shooter faster
- Moon Knight
- Ultimate circle radius increased
- Squirrel Girl
- Her Ultimate now hones onto enemies, and moves faster
- Cloak and Dagger
- Their Ultimate now has four dashes
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