Marvel Rivals’ first full-fledged season kicked off last week, bringing a host of new content, including, among other things, two new characters in the form of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman.
That, in fact, is the cadence at which you can expect new characters to be added to the game every season, according to NetEase Games.
Speaking in an interview with Metro, game director Guangyun Chen explained that NetEase intends to add two characters to Marvel Rivals’ roster with every season.
Specifically, the plan is to split every three-month season into two halves, and to release a new hero at the end of every half. “Every season we’ll be rolling out fresh seasonal stories, new maps, and new heroes,” Chen said. “We’ll actually be breaking down each season into two halves.
The length of one season is three months. And for each half of the season, we will introduce a new hero. We just eventually want to continue to enhance the experience, and, you know, keep everyone excited in our community.” That would mean Marvel Rivals will have added eight additional playable characters before the end of this year, assuming it doesn’t add any new characters until Season 2 kicks off in April (since Season 1 has already added two heroes).