The first season of the free hero shooting competition “Marvel Rivals” “Eternal Night Falls” was launched on January 10th, with Mr. Marvel and the Invisible Woman from “Marvel 4 Superman” joining the heroes first. The game created a wave of online craze for the game and set a record of the highest number of players on Steam since its launch.
The “Eternal Night Falls” season is based on the Eternal Night event in Manhattan. The blood moon is stationary in the earth’s orbit, causing tidal, magnetic and climate disasters. The new event tasks need to be carried out on the new map “Eternal Night Empire: Midtown”. At the same time The first season of the battle pass “Dark Book of Darkness” has also started.
With the revision of the first season, the first one to become a topic in overseas communities was the Invisible Woman. The original basic-style tights were already very attractive to players. After the launch of the season, the malicious uniform style, its high-cut design of the combat uniform and the perky buttocks Sparking heated discussion, Invisible Woman’s own support skill Guardian Shield can also withstand the ultimate moves of many heroes.
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“Marvel Confrontation” was revised in the first season and became one of the few service-oriented games in recent times. It had a peak of 640,000 online players on Steam alone, surpassing the peak of 480,000 players in Season 0.
Looking at service-oriented games in recent years, the highest number of players online is mostly when the game is launched into early access or when the server is launched. However, “Marvel Confrontation” can reach new highs again after the first season revision, which shows the popularity of its community fans. Still solid.
Of course, after the addition of Mr. Marvel and the Invisible Woman, memes about the two heroes also began to ferment on the Internet. For example, players deliberately used Mr. Marvel’s “flexibility” to collide with the Invisible Woman to express the sweet interaction between the couple. , or deliberately create ambiguity between Namor and the Invisible Woman (related to the comic plot).
Although Marvel heroes themselves have a huge basic market, why the hero design of “Marvel Confrontation” has become the current favorite of overseas players has also become a topic of discussion. On the one hand, some people have reviewed that the character design of European and American games has tended to be conservative in recent years. On the other hand, they believe that Asian development The team is not influenced by Western culture.
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— Marvel Rivals News (@MRivalsHub) January 10, 2025
The first season of “Marvel Rivals” “Eternal Night” is scheduled to be officially launched on January 10 at 1 am PST.