Marvel Rivals Season 2 Ushers in the Age of Ultron With Hellfire Gala Theme and Emma Frost

NetEase Games has decently welcomed each Marvel fans to Marvel Rivals Season 2’s Hellfire Gala, revealing a wardrobe of what appears to beryllium caller outfits and possibly adjacent a fewer caller playable characters.

The developer published a trailer today, showing disconnected however the upcoming superhero enactment volition shingle up the meta travel April 11 portion yet bringing an extremity to months of speculation astir what Season 2’s taxable volition be. There’s inactive overmuch to beryllium unveiled, but for now, it astatine slightest confirms the contented volition so halfway connected the Hellfire Gala storyline, with X-Men regular Emma Frost and robot ruler Ultron playing cardinal roles successful its trailer.

“Once a year, this sovereign Mutant land opens its gates, welcoming some person and rival alike to signifier a brighter future,” an authoritative statement for Marvel Rivals Season 2 says. “Now stranded successful the twelvemonth 2099 by a raging temporal storm, the destiny of Krakoa hangs successful the balance, its ecosystem suffering from unsafe chronal energy.

“Can a nighttime of glittering festivities bring unity implicit good eating and dazzling conversation? Who among the attendees possesses ulterior motives oregon solely seeks to party? And who is the uninvited guest?”

Emma Frost is Marvel’s diamond-plated mutant and a unit to beryllium reckoned with, and she's been expected to articulation the roster for a while. The X-Men rep was archetypal teased erstwhile NetEase mentioned a mysterious gala successful an in-game Gallery Card successful precocious February. For the keen-eyed fans who noticed it, this was each but confirmation that Emma Frost would beryllium a playable quality successful Season 2.

Ultron, meanwhile, was teased agelong earlier Marvel Rivals broke onto the leader shooter country precocious past year. While it is imaginable the metallic villain could beryllium small much than this season's Dracula-like figure, he's past owed for a proper, playable introduction.

April 11 volition spot Season 2 footwear unfastened the doorway with caller heroes, skins, modes, and more, but 1 question is already starting to excavation its teeth into the Marvel Rivals community: Where is Blade? Marvel’s infamous Daywalker vampire huntsman was mentioned clip and clip again passim Season 1 and adjacent managed to popular up in-game successful much than 1 instance. Many believed the leader was a fastener for Season 2, but the assemblage is increasing acrophobic present that Blade appears to beryllium a no-show astatine the Hellfire Gala.

She looks large but proceeding that we aren't getting leaf yet is inactive chaotic since the lore was kinda mounting him up https://t.co/Egxrf1p2ZU

So where’s blade

Still, Marvel Rivals Season 2 is inactive poised to bring the project’s biggest update since archetypal revealing The Fantastic Four for Season 1 successful January, and Blade could ever get aboriginal successful the future, possibly adjacent successful Season 2. For much connected however NetEase has turned Marvel Rivals into the powerhouse it is today, you tin work up connected wherefore immoderate players believed Marvel was planting fake leader leaks. You tin besides larn much astir an April Fools’ update that gave Venom the powerfulness to twerk.

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