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Marvel Rivals Plans To Add A New Hero Every Six Weeks

Marvel Rivals might’ve come out right at the end of 2024, but so far it’s 2025’s big multiplayer-game moment, continuing to average hundreds of thousands of players on Steam alone, each and every day.

For now, it doesn’t seem like that momentum is going to slow down any time soon, pushed forward even more by the news that players can expect a new hero every six weeks, according to the game’s director Guangyun Chen.

In a recent interview with Metro, Chen dug into how developer NetEase is pacing out the release of new content, including adding new heroes. Each season will have two halves during which new content will be released, and each half will be the introduction of a new hero. A season will be three months long, so that means a new hero arrives every six weeks.

“Every season we’ll be rolling out fresh seasonal stories, new maps, and new heroes,” said Chen. “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.”

Beyond just the pacing of content and heroes, Chen went into how the studio is selecting which heroes to add as the game develops.

“Our choice of heroes will be guided by the overall gameplay experience or theme that we want to create for each season. So it’ll revolve around the season and right now, at post-launch, we have eight Vanguards and seven Strategists at launch.

The team believes that it gives the players a solid variety for tactical match-ups or team composition. Having more Duelists at the moment will definitely enhance the Duelist experience, letting players dive a little bit deeper into that aspect.

So lastly, big shout out to our community, as we’ve seen a lot of feedback as we look ahead to future seasons, starting with Season One, we would definitely keep this in mind when introducing new heroes, and we would want to make sure that everyone feels heard and excited.”

Source – [Metro]