Marvel Rivals Season 2 Hellfire Gala Launches on April 11

NetEase has revealed season 2 of their hit online team-based hero game Marvel Rivals. The new season will go live on April 11 and is themed all around the Hellfire Gala, a one-time event in the Marvel universe where residents of Krakoa opened their land to the world to show off mutant culture.

Marvel Rivals Season 2 Breakdown

Here’s the full breakdown of what to expect from Marvel Rival’s season 2.

New Heroes - Emma Frost and Ultron

Season 2 will launch with the addition of a new Vanguard (tank) hero Emma Frost, a mutant that utilizes her telepathing and diamond abilities to bolster the front lines.

A month later, the game will be updated with Ultron everyone’s not so favorite robot. We don’t know much about him yet but many speculate he can either be another Vangaurd or a Dualist.

Costume Sharing and more colors for select cosmetics

When season 2 launches, players will be able to gift costumes and bundles to friends in their friends list.

Select costumes will also be getting new color options. Cosmetics mentioned to benefit from this is the Luna Snow Mirae 2099 cosmetic and Psylocke’s Vengeance cosmetic.

Team Up Changes

Season 2 will naturally come with new team ups and for the first time removal of some.

Here’s what’s changing and what’s added.

• Emma Frost, Psylock, and/or Magneto (New) - can team up form Mental Projection. Emma creates illusory clones of Psylocke and Magneto.

• Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch (New) - can share his arcane magic with Scarlet Witch to form Arcane Order, which transforms her right-click into a rapid-fire, long-range projectile that doesn’t consume energy.

• Captain America and Winter Soldier (New) - Winter Soldier can pounce forward and deal a shockwave pulse. Winter Solder and Captain America can then sort of clash together to cause more damage and apply a debuff to nearby enemies.

• Metallic Chaos (Scarlet Witch and Magneto) has been removed.

• Voltaic Union (Storm, Captain America, and Thor) has been removed.

• Psylocke has been removed from Dimensional Shortcut (Black Panther and Magik).

• Winter Soldier has been removed from Ammo Overload (The Punisher and Rocket Raccoon).

• Namor has been removed from Chilling Charisma (Luna Snow and Jeff).

• Doctor Strange has been replaced with Namor in Gamma Charge (Iron Man and Hulk).

Season 2 will also introduce weekly missions together with the usual daily missions and challenges players are accustomed to, changes to the competitive climb, a new map called Hellfire Gala: Krakoa, and a series of balance changes to change up the current roster.

Balance changes have not been release but expect it to drop in the next few days as we get closer to the launch of season 2. You can check the full dev video below.

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