Marvel Rivals Season 1 Is Now Live, Check Patch Notes

Marvel Rivals Season 1: Eternal Night Falls is now live featuring Dracula and his undead legion seizing control of New York City. Let’s dive into the thrilling details of this update below:

Marvel Rivals Season 1: Patch Notes

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.

Marvel Rivals Season 1 and 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.
Additionally, devs 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).

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).

Marvel Rivals Season 1: Console Updates

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.

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