For a sport that the majority players may need disregarded as “Overwatch at dwelling,” NetEase’s newly launched free-to-play workforce shooter Marvel Rivals seems to be making a fairly large splash after its first day of launch, with some spectacular participant concurrency numbers, general favorable opinions, and the sorts of issues that at all times plague on-line video games.
The shooter’s launch was heralded by a trailer all about its Season 0, an FAQ, and a submit that lays out loads of hype over its 6v6 make-up, team-up talents, and destructible environments, whereas additionally promising continued updates each season that deliver new heroes and maps. The submit additionally fingers out a free Iron Man pores and skin by redeeming code nwarh4k3xqy till March fifth.
In fact, it hasn’t all been plain crusing, as Rivals apparently has a Steam-specific bug that stops gamers from shopping for stuff; unsurprisingly NetEase has a workaround for gamers to make use of whereas it really works to resolve the difficulty. Gamers are additionally reporting server issues which might be erroneously dinging legit gamers as ragequitters, day-one cheaters (due to course there are), and complaints about UI menus and another odd bugs.
As for its reception, the multi-platform shooter has up to now acquired what look like some blended important opinions, with some calling it a bit too near its main competitors and others calling it “an enormous W” and the form of competitors Overwatch wants.
participant response forces us to as soon as extra depend on the only aspect of Steam, the place issues actually look sunny proper now. The sport is at the moment at “principally optimistic,” with person opinions lauding Rivals’ enjoyable gameplay and utterly truthful monetization. It’s additionally drawn in a powerful concurrency of over 444K in its first peak and almost 300K gamers in-game as we kind this.
