Marvel Rivals Tokyo Game Show Interview

Summary

Marvel Rivals uses Marvel IP to stand out in the competitive hero shooter market.
The team prioritizes balance in hero abilities, leveraging data and player feedback.
The game focuses on PvP gameplay with no plans for a story mode, telling stories through multiplayer modes.

As a hero shooter, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel Rivals is entering one of the most competitive spaces in the video game market. In the last 18 months alone, Deadlock, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Overwatch 2, XDefiant, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Finals, and the disastrous Concord have all made their play for the crown, while stalwarts operating in a similar space, like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rainbow Six Siege, continue to draw huge numbers.

With the full backing of the Marvel IP behind iﷺt, though, NetEase Games is confident that it can crack the market in a big way.

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I spoke to lead game designer Guangyun Chen at 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tokyo Game Show, and he s🌸hared the team’s plan for success, the power of the Marvel license, and their ideas for future cha🌱racters.

Entering A Competitive Market With The Marvel IP

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“The first thing we want to show is our specialty. We have the Marvel IP𓆏. We are under the Marvel storyline. We have over 85 years of Marvel history, and we have countless heroes and maps,” Chen tells me when I asked if the team was concerned about the space it would soon launch in.

Whi𝓀le it’d be easy to sit back and be complacent with such a gigantic IP, the Rivals team wℱants to extract everything it can to make its game stand out.

“We honor the hero shooter by using superheroes, and we wanted to think about what we could do with that. Firstly, we started with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the maps and environments. We want to make𒉰 sure every map has its own destruction model,” Chen says.

“We also put a lot of thought into the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:team-ups between the heroes, based on their history with Marvel. We have popular ones like Groot and Racoon, but we also hav𝐆e new ones like Venom giving his powers to Penny Parker, which will add more fun to the gameplay.”

Every hero has their parallel universe. And the heroes from different universe🌠s can join our gam🧜e.”

Chen also feels like the hero’s individual powers offer differentiation from Rivals competitors, telling me, “The ideology behind our design is to make it fun for players, and we ♈use the Marvel IP to do this. For example, Spider-Man can fly, and Doctor Strange can open porta𒊎ls. These are all recognizable things from the Marvel universe that we’ve added to the game.”

With full access to Marvel’s history, including its comics, the MCU, and previous games, Chen confirms that NetEase still has 168澳洲幸运5☂开奖网:more characters♏ to reveal ahead of launch. But it’s not just the most well-known heroes that will be coming to Rivals, with the director saying, “Every hero has their parallel universe. An💧d🦂 the heroes from different universes can join our game.”

With confidence clearly flowing throughout the Marvel Rivals team, I asked Chen if there was any fear that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:what happened to Concord could ha𒐪ppen to their game. His answer was simple, “No, we’re confident with our game.”

The Need For Balanced Heroes

The key to a successful hero shooter is balance. Making a mechanically sound game is great, but if your charact🌃ers aren’t balanced, it’s probably not going to doཧ too well. Marvel Rivals is no different, something the team is well aware of.

“We have a statistic moܫdel that helps us to deal with the balancing problem, and we run tons of tests to see whether these numbers need to be adjusted,” Chen tells me. “We also have tests to manipulate what happens when beginner players use a character, and we have super good players in o𝓀ur team to replicate the pro players.”

In-house testing isn’t the only way the ♏Marvel Rivals team is dealing with data, though. Chen mentions recent betas “received like 100,000 pไieces of feedback from players,” something the team “will carefully consider to see whether they can help us to improve our game.”

Alongside any balancing issues, these betas measured player satisfaction by way oꦰf a survey, with results reportedly determining that 70 percent of players would recommend Marvel Rivals, giving the game an average score of 4.5/5.

We received like 100,000 pieces o💯f feedback fro🌜m players.

One key piece of feedback that came from the survey was the desire for cross-prog🧸re൲ssion, something the team is considering, but will launch the game without.

“For now, we have no cross-progౠression. As we only have around two months to go glo💞bal launch, we are doing the final tech check to see what we can do and how we can process it. The workload is a lot more than we thought at the beginning.”

Chen does confirm, however, that “we are still having internal discussions, and we’re not sure when we’ll be ann🐟ouncing our decision.”

A PVP Game From The Very Start

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As part of an earlier group interview, Chen🌼 was asked whether, given the wealth of characters at their disposal, his team had ever cons﷽idered adding a story mode to Marvel Rivals.

“Our plan, when we got the IP, was to make this game from the beginning. It ha🎃s always been quite firm. We are making a 6v6 superhero team-building game. We are making a PvP game; a story mode is not included in our plan or roadmap,” he says. The reason for this? “Our team really likes rivalry and competitive game modes, so we wanted to inject that kind of style or features and make Marvel Rivals into that kind of game.”

Instead, Marvel Rivals will tell its story through the game’s multiplayer modes. “The storytelling process is actually in the game; it moves and kind of varies with the players' action and the players' progress,” Chen says, adding, “Each season will also have its own unique theme to help further elab𒈔orate the story we want to bring to our players.”

A story mode is not inc⛎luded in our plan or roadmap.

With the competition in the space so hot, Chen’s passion, belief, and commitment to tryi🐷ng something different have me thinking that Marvel Rivals might just be alright.