Marvel Rivals Season 2 is now out, and excitement among the fans is growing with each new update. The new Marvel Rivals Season 2 update (#0250411) brings a new hero, plenty of new skins, a battle pass, and a brand-new map, among other fixes and optimizations. We also got major hero balances that will change the Marvel Rivals meta completely. So, here are the Marvel Rivals Season 2 patch notes that you should go over once Season 1 ends.
All New Content in Marvel Rivals Season 2
The Marvel Rivals Season 2 update brings plenty of new content that includes the new hero, Emma Frost. While Ultron is also set for release, he will not arrive until half of the season is over. Here are the full Marvel Rivals Season 2 patch notes for new content:
New Heroes and Costumes
- Emma Frost makes her grand entrance into Marvel Rivals! Prepare for her diamond-hard control and psionic prowess.
- Although she comes alone, she brings two iconic Marvel Rivals skins along with her: Emma Frost – X-Revolution and Emma Frost – Blue Sapphire.
New Maps and Modes
- New Domination Map: Hellfire Gala: Krakoa. Prepare for a glamorous showdown on Krakoa!
- Map Rotation Update:
- Hellfire Gala: Krakoa enters the Competitive map pool.
- Yggsgard: Royal Palace and Tokyo 2099: Shin-Shibuya has been retired from the Competitive map pool.
- Tournament maps will align with the Competitive map pool.
- Quick Match and Custom Game will continue to feature all maps without rotation.
- Quick Match Substitute Player Logic: Optimized settlement logic. Victories for substitute players will now count normally, while losses will not impact combat history or the scoreboard.
Battle Pass and Season Events
- New Battle Pass: Unlock a shiny new Battle Pass featuring 10 brand-new sets of heroic costumes!
- Season Event – Cerebro Database: A new Marvel Rivals event for free skin arrives with the Season 2 patch! Participate to earn the free costume Mantis – Flora Maiden.
- Bonus Seasonal Rewards: Complete 9 matches to receive the free costume Scarlet Witch – Chaos Gown.
- Twitch Drops Event: A new Twitch Drops event is live! Earn the Namor – Will of Galacta free Marvel Rivals skin, nameplate, spray, and emote.
- Mission System Revamp:
- New weekly missions and rewards have been added.
- The balance of daily and challenge missions has been adjusted.
- Overall Chrono Token distribution remains the same.
- The proportion of hero-specific missions has been reduced.
Ranked Update
- Rank Reset: Based on your final Season 1.5 rank, ranks will be demoted by 9 divisions. (e.g., Diamond I in Season 1.5 starts at Silver I in Season 2).
- New Rank Rewards:
- Reach Gold to earn the dazzling new costume: Emma Frost – Golden Diamond.
- New Crests of Honor for Grandmaster, Celestial, Eternity, and Top 500 ranks.
- Competitive Minimum Level: The minimum level required for new players to participate in Competitive has been adjusted to 15. (Players who have previously completed at least one valid competitive match can still join Competitive in Season 2.0 even if below level 15.)
- Pick/Ban Update: The Pick/ban phase will now begin at Gold III rank (previously Diamond).
- Queue Restrictions: When a team includes players from Eternity or One Above All ranks, only solo or duo queuing will be allowed.
- Competitive Score Adjustment: After the Season 2.0 launch, the weight of individual performance in determining earned/lost points per Competitive match will be increased. Better individual performance will result in more points gained on victory and fewer points lost on defeat.
Tournament Updates
- Marvel Rivals Championship Season 2:
- Champion, runner-up, and third-place nameplates have been upgraded to dynamic designs.
- Adjusted rank requirements and a revised sign-up phase. Refer to the Marvel Rivals Championship rules for full details.
- Global Tournament Region Enhancement:
- North America (NA) is now Americas (AMERICAS).
- Europe (EU) is now Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
- Asia (AS) is now Pacific (PACIFIC).
- This change provides a more compatible and organized classification of server nodes across regions.
- Knockout Stage Faction Search: A new faction search function has been added.
- Tournament Overview Revamp: Players can now quickly access core tournament information visually, with detailed explanations of each process and rules for advancement/elimination.
- Championship Nameplate Emblem Customization: Players with a Championship Emblem can now customize its display in Career – Customize.
- New Custom Game – Tournament Room Option: Features additional tournament-related functionalities.
- Custom Game – Tournament Room Pause Function: The room host and authorized players can now initiate a game pause.
- Custom Game – Tournament Room “Away” Feature: Non-host players can set their status to away, visible to others in the room.
Faction Updates
- New Faction Recruit and Seeking Factions System: Factions and players can now use this system to form squads for in-game tournaments.
- New Faction Emblems: A fresh batch of faction emblems has been added. Players can freely switch emblems in the faction details interface.
- Faction Reporting Functionality: Players can now report inappropriate custom content for factions (names, abbreviations, and announcements).
General Updates
- New Friend Gifting Feature: You can now gift cosmetics to your friends.
- Career Overview – Hero Form Selection: Now supports the selection of specific hero forms.
- Career – Rank Leaderboard Display: Rank leaderboard display has been added to the Career page.
- Real-time Voice Chat Optimization: An interface prompt now appears when activating voice chat using push to talk.
- Custom Game Spectator Improvement: Spectators can now temporarily exit matches and rejoin at any time.
- New Room Host Transfer Function: The current host in Custom Games can right-click on other players to transfer host privileges.
PC-Specific Updates
Graphics and Settings
- Experimental Feature: Switch Shader Compilation Mode. When activated, shaders will only compile the first time you launch the game after a new version or graphics driver update. This can significantly reduce memory usage and minimize in-game stuttering, especially on systems with 16 GB of RAM or less.
- Note: If using a CPU with fewer threads in combination with AMD FSR3 Frame Generation, occasional additional stutters may occur with this feature enabled. This is an experimental feature; please contact support if you encounter issues.
- AMD FSR 4 Support: Added support for AMD FSR 4, utilizing an AI-accelerated upscaling algorithm for improved image quality over AMD FSR 3.1. (Exclusive to AMD Radeon™ RX 9000 series graphics cards).
Console-Specific Updates
- New Vertical Deadzone Sensitivity Settings: Customize additional acceleration sensitivity after reaching the vertical deadzone.
- Additional Sensitivity Acceleration Delay Settings: Tailor the delay time for acceleration to activate after reaching the deadzone.
- Character Movement Stick Deadzone Settings: Set the maximum and minimum deadzone values for the joystick controlling character movement.
- Trigger Deadzone Settings: Define the trigger depth required for activation.
- New Player Initial Settings Feature: First-time players will receive a reminder of default sensitivity settings, vibration, and trigger effects upon entering the game.
- Focus Memory Optimization: The focus feature now intelligently remembers the last position on the screen.
Marvel Rivals Season 2: Bug Fixes and Optimizations
Here are all the fixes and optimizations from the Marvel Rivals Season 2 patch notes:
General Updates
- Resolved numerous notification-related issues.
- Rectified various text errors.
Fixed an issue in Custom Game where spectators would incorrectly exit the room after a match. - Fixed a rare occurrence where settings would reset to default upon restarting the game.
Maps and Modes - Fixed terrain issues causing characters to become stuck or clip through odd locations.
- Resolved various issues including floating broken objects and collision errors.
- Addressed several sound issues on maps.
- Resolved a rare issue in Custom Quick Match on Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown where spawn room transfer could sometimes fail.
Heroes
- Captain America’s Shield Bounce: Fixed an issue preventing Captain America from ricocheting enemy projectiles while moving backward.
- Spector Sightings: Fixed a glitch causing abnormal camera angles after being revived by Adam Warlock’s Ultimate Ability.
- Namor’s Super Soldier Shenanigans: Resolved an issue where Namor’s Ultimate Ability could occasionally fail to deal damage when targeting raising pillars in Hydra Charteris Base: Hell’s Heaven – Super-Soldier Factory.
- Winter Soldier’s Time Warp: Addressed an issue where Bucky would sometimes descend before ascending while using his Ultimate Ability in unstable network conditions.
- Cloak & Dagger’s Form Flaw: Fixed an issue where Cloak or Dagger’s character model could linger briefly during form switches.
- Iron Fist’s Floating Fumble: Resolved a rare glitch where Iron Fist could end up floating indefinitely.
- Wolverine’s Ferocious Leap: Fixed a rare issue where Wolverine’s Feral Leap could leave him stuck in an abnormal state, unable to finish the move.
- Claws and Consequences: Resolved a rare occurrence where being hit by Wolverine’s Feral Leap could render all abilities unusable.
PC-Specific Updates
Graphics and Settings
- Fixed an issue where the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card rendered with excessively low brightness in certain scenarios.
Console-Specific Updates
- Fixed a rare issue where raw mouse input settings unexpectedly affected controllers, potentially causing crosshair drift.
- Fixed an issue in console matches where button prompts could sometimes display as keyboard and mouse inputs.
Marvel Rivals Season 2 Hero Balance Adjustments
With the new additions and bug fixes, check out all the hero balances and changes revealed in the Marvel Rivals Season 2 patch notes:
Vanguard
| Hero Name | Changes |
|---|---|
| Captain America | Nerf: Reduce base health from 675 to 650. Nerf: Reduce the shield value of Living Legend from 400 to 350. |
| Doctor Strange | Nerf: Decrease Daggers of Denak damage per projectile from 18 to 16. Nerf: Reduce the Maelstrom of Madness conversion ratio of Dark Magic to damage from 1.3 to 1.2. |
| Hulk | Buff: Increase base movement speed from 600 to 650. Buff: Reduce cooldown time for Indestructible Guard from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. Buff: Decrease minimum charge time for Incredible Leap from 0.7 seconds to 0.5 seconds. |
| Magneto | Nerf: Increase energy cost for Meteor M (Ultimate Ability) from 3100 to 3400. |
| Peni Parker | Buff: Cyber-Web Cluster now has a chance to crit; reduce movement speed penalty while firing Cyber-Web Cluster from 40% to 20%. Buff: Increase base health from 650 to 750. |
| The Thing | Nerf: Decrease Embattled Leap’s damage reduction effect for himself and teammates from 30% to 25%. |
| Thor | Buff: Increase base health from 525 to 600. Buff: Increase base movement speed from 600 to 650. |
Duelist
| Hero Name | Changes |
|---|---|
| Black Widow | Buff: Added a new effect where Black Widow can directly shoot after releasing the second kick of Edge Dancer and after using Electro-Plasma Explosion (Ultimate Ability). |
| Hawkeye | Nerf: Reduce the slow effect while charging the bow from 30% to 20%. Buff: Increase both instances of damage for Hypersonic Arrow from 50 to 55. Buff: Decrease energy cost for Hunter’s Sight (Ultimate Ability) from 3700 to 3100 and improve the bow draw speed increase from 1.35x to 1.5x. |
| Hela | Nerf: Increase cooldown time for Astral Flock from 12 seconds to 15 seconds. Buff: Increase Spell Field Damage of Piercing Night from 30 to 35. Buff: Decrease cooldown time for Soul Drainer from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. |
| Human Torch | Buff: Reduce attack interval for Fire Cluster from 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds; the launch timing of the primary attack projectile has been advanced. Buff: Increase the cooldown for Flaming Meteor from 12 seconds to 15 seconds, but add a new effect: After releasing Flaming Meteor, immediately gain 75 Bonus Health, which will start to falloff 3 seconds later at a rate of 30 per second. |
| Iron Man | Buff: Slightly reduce Iron Man’s hitbox size. Buff: New feature: Gain 100 Bonus Health activating Armor Overdrive or Gamma Overdrive that will start to falloff 5 seconds later at a rate of 30 per second. |
| Iron Fist | Nerf: Reduce the Bonus Max Health gained from Harmony Recovery from 150 to 100, but slow the falloff rate of that health from 25 per/s to 15 per/s. Nerf: Lower fixed damage of Yat Jee Chung Kuen from 10 to 9, but increase the percentage damage of the enemy’s Max Health per strike from 1.7% to 2.1%. Decrease the cooldown for K’un-Lun Kick from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. |
| Mister Fantastic | Buff: Increase base health from 350 to 375. Buff: Boost the damage of Stretch Punch from 60 to 65 and from 75 to 80 while in Inflated state. Buff: Flexible Elongation New Effect: Enemies within range now suffer a 35% slow effect; reduce Flexible Elongation cooldown time from 10s to 8s. Nerf: Reduce the Elasticity gained from Elastic Strength (passive ability) from 30 to 20, while the Elasticity provided by Stretch Punch is increased from 5 to 8. After entering the inflated state, the Bonus Health provided to self has been reduced from 450 to 400. Buff: New Feature: When Mister Fantastic uses Brainiac Bounce (Ultimate Ability), immediately gain Bonus Health equal to that gained when entering inflated state. |
| Moon Knight | Buff: Increase Crescent Dart projectile speed from 120m/s to 150 m/s. Buff: Moon Blade New Effect: Gain 25 Bonus Health with each enemy hit, up to a max of 100. 3 seconds after the Bonus Health stops increasing, it will start to falloff at a rate of 20 per second. Buff: Speed up Moonlight Hook pull startup time after hit from 0.4 seconds to 0.15 seconds. Buff: Extend the duration of the Hand of Khonshu (Ultimate Ability) from 3.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds, and increase the number of talons generated during this period from 14 to 18. Additionally, the fall speed of the talons has been slightly enhanced. A new damage falloff mechanic for the spell field has been added, beginning at 1.5 meters from the center and reaching a maximum reduction of 70% at 5 meters. |
| Scarlet Witch | Nerf: Remove Chaos Control percentage damage while increasing fixed damage from 60/s to 80/s. Buff: Increase Chthonian Burst projectile damage from 35 to 40 and spell field damage from 35 to 40. Nerf: Increase the cooldown of Mystic Projection from 8 seconds to 10 seconds, and reduce Phased state time from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds. Nerf: Rework the slow effect of Reality Erasure to start at 1.5 seconds instead of starting immediately, with a linear increase to a 35% slow over 3.5 seconds. |
| Star-Lord | Nerf: Reduce Blaster Barrage damage from 80 per second to 75. Introduce a new damage falloff mechanic, starting at 4 meters and maxing out at 80% reduction at 8 meters. |
| Winter Soldier | Nerf: Increase the cooldown time for Bionic Hook from 8 seconds to 12 seconds. Nerf: Reduce base damage of Kraken Impact (Ultimate Ability) from 100 to 80, but lower the culling threshold from 20% of maximum health to 15%. |
| Wolverine | Buff: Increase Rage gained from Savage Claw hits from 7 to 10, while Rage gained from Berserk Claw Strike has been decreased from 7 to 5. Reduce Rage gained from Feral Leap from 20 to 10, and from Vicious Rampage from 20 to 15. However, Rage gained from taking damage has been increased from 3 to 5. Nerf: Reduce the time an enemy is knocked down after impact from Last Stand (Ultimate Ability) from 1 second to 0.75 seconds. |
Strategist
| Hero Name | Changes |
|---|---|
| Adam Warlock | Nerf: Increase the cooldown for Soul Bond from 30s to 40s. Buff: Karmic Revival (Ultimate Ability) now restores 30% of a fallen ally’s maximum health instead of a fixed 100 Health. |
| Cloak and Dagger | Nerf: After activating Eternal Bond (Ultimate Ability), the duration of the first three healing zones will no longer be calculated separately; instead, they will remain active until the duration of the final healing zone ends, at which point all will be removed together. |
| Invisible Woman | Nerf: Decrease the shield value of Guardian Shield from 300 to 250. |
| Loki | Nerf: Increase Regeneration Domain cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds. |
| Mantis | Nerf: Reduce base health from 275 to 250. Buff: Effects of Healing Flower and Allied Inspiration can be stacked, up to a maximum of 16 seconds. |
| Rocket Raccoon | Nerf: Decrease the healing area of Repair Mode spheres from 70 health/s to 50 health/s, but add a new effect of one-time healing of 55 health to allies hit. Projectile speed reduction increased from 4.5 m/s to 7 m/s. Nerf: Extend cooldown for Jetpack Dash from 6 seconds to 10 seconds; reduce dash distance from 10 meters to 8 meters. Nerf: Reduce C.Y.A. (Ultimate Ability) damage boost from 40% to 25%, but add a new effect: during the ability’s duration, linked allies will receive an additional 100 Bonus Health points per second, capping at 150. After breaking the link, this bonus starts to falloff after 1 second at a rate of 75 per/s. Additionally, increase the energy cost from 3700 to 4000. |
TMarvel Rivals Season 2: Team-Up Ability Changes
Along with the hero refresh, the Season 2 update patch notes reveal massive Marvel Rivals team-up ability changes. Here are all the balances and new adjustments we will see with the new season:
New Team-Up Ability
Arcane Order (Doctor Strange – Scarlet Witch)
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Doctor Strange gains a maximum health increase of 100.
- Scarlet Witch unlocks a new magical Mystic Burst ability through her team-up with Doctor Strange.
Stars Aligned (Captain America – Winter Soldier)
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Captain America gains a maximum health increase of 100 and a 5% boost in damage output.
- Winter Soldier unlocks the devastating Stellar Impact ability through his team-up with Captain America.
Mental Projection (Emma Frost – Psylocke/Magneto)
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Emma Frost gains a maximum health increase of 100.
- Magneto receives the Magnetic Resonance ability through his team-up with Emma Frost.
- Psylocke receives the Soul Resurgence ability through her team-up with Emma Frost.
Adjusted or Removed Marvel Rivals Season 2 Team-ups
Ammo Overload (Rocket Racoon – Winter Soldier)
- Winter Soldier loses the Infinite Grit ability he once had through his team-up with Rocket Raccoon.
Chilling Charisma (Luna Snow – Namor)
- Namor has lost the Frozen Spawn ability from his team-up with Luna Snow.
Dimensional Shortcut (Magik – Psylocke)
- Psylocke has lost the Psionic Disc ability previously attained from her team-up with Magik.
Gamma Charge (Hulk -Doctor Strange/Namor)
- Doctor Strange loses the Gamma Maelstrom ability previously gained from his team-up with Hulk.
- Namor now gains the Gamma Monstro ability through his team-up with Hulk.
Metallic Chaos (Scarlet Witch – Magneto)
- The Team-Up Anchor enhancement effect for Scarlet Witch has been removed, along with the Metallic Chaos Team-Up Ability.
- Magneto loses the Metallic Fusion ability he had through his team-up with Scarlet Witch.
Voltaic Union (Thor – Captain America/Storm)
- The Team-Up Anchor effect for Thor has been removed, along with the Voltaic Union Team-Up Ability.
- Captain America loses the Charged Aegis ability from his team-up with Thor.
- Storm loses the Charged Gale ability gained from her team-up with Thor.
That is everything you need to know about the new features and heroes in the Marvel Rivals Season 2 update. What are you most excited to test out in this patch? Tell us in the comments below.
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