Marvel Rivals Season 2 begins now with Emma Frost, new team-ups and a PC performance boosting mode

Diamonds are a girl's champion friend

Marvel Rivals Season 2 begins today, which means it’s clip to jam different syringe into the scarred and bleeding flanks of the Great Marvelbeast and extract a caller superhero. This play kicks disconnected with Emma Frost, a Vanguard leader with precise ample hams and a mates of strings to her bow. By default, she fights arsenic a midranged psychic, casting beams, damage-multiplying orbs and crystalline shields. Switch to her diamond form, however, and she becomes a tanky brawler with the quality to drawback and slam radical retired of their ultimates oregon footwear them into walls.

That’s your archetypal caller Marvel Rivals quality successful Season 2, retired now. The 2nd volition beryllium Ultron, the bot with a deity complex, who lands successful a fewer weeks. He’s a nimble Strategist who does his soiled enactment utilizing drones. More details to follow.

There’s besides a caller map, the Krakoa Hellfire Gala. It’s the benignant of precocious nine bash wherever you’d expect to find Agent 47 pushing a mop, eyes peeled for weaponisable suitcases. Hmm, however would a Hitman enactment level enactment if each the guests were superheroes? I can’t truly spot Agent 47 dragging Ultron into a closet and stealing his trousers.

The caller Marvel Rivals heroes and representation travel the accustomed unrecorded work avalanche of quality skins and balancing oregon structural changes. There volition present beryllium play missions successful summation to regular missions and challenges. Ranked mode is being fixed a rigorous rejig: the minimum level for competitory volition present beryllium 15, not 10, and players successful Eternity and supra volition lone beryllium capable to queue unsocial oregon successful pairs to halt radical forming large groups successful advance. We tin expect caller team-up skills (and the nonaccomplishment of a mates of older ones).

Possibly astir anticipated is the summation of a container that makes your machine spell faster. This being the caller power shader compilation mode, an experimental performance-boosting diagnostic which is being added to the game’s launcher.

“Since our launch, we've heard your conflict cries done the assemblage and lawsuit work channels,” explains a blog post. “Players connected assorted PC configurations person encountered show stutters and crashes, often owed to precocious representation depletion during gameplay. PCs equipped with 16GB of RAM oregon less, erstwhile faced with excessive RAM usage tin unit the strategy to usage swap memory, starring to unwanted slowdowns successful the vigor of battle.”

The power shader compilation diagnostic promises to “dramatically reduce” the game’s representation usage, “cutting down connected terrible FPS drops, frozen visuals, and crashes triggered by representation shortages.” The developers caution, however, that it mightiness person a fewer teething troubles to statesman with.

NetEase person elsewhere revealed that from Season 3 onwards, each Marvel Rivals update volition lone past 2 months alternatively of three, which means you’ll get a caller leader each month. Which is simply a batch of heroes. I anticipation the developers aren’t crunching to conscionable the demand. NetEase don’t person a spotless way grounds for looking aft their staff.