Marvel Rivals’ first season, Eternal Night Falls, is now available on all platforms. It adds a new Convoy map, Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown, and two new heroes from the Fantastic Four – Mister Fantastic and The Invisible Woman. They also have The Maker and Malice as alternate outfits.
Other new content includes Doom Match on Sanctum Sanctorum in Arcade Mode, a deathmatch mode where the winners are crowned from the top 50 percent scoring players. Convoy and Convergence also get a new feature that allows for moving to the next spawn room if attackers reach a checkpoint, thus preventing staggering.
But wait, there’s more as Ranks have been reset, and a new Celestial Rank, above Grandmaster and below Eternity, is available. There are also several new settings to customize, like turning off anti-aliasing, global illumination and reflection quality, and a Performance option for Model Detail. Check out some of the patch notes below and full details here.
Two more heroes, The Human Torch and The Thing, will be added in the second half of Season 1, so stay tuned for updates.
Marvel Rivals Version 20250110 Patch Notes
1. New Content
1.1 All Platforms
Heroes and Costumes
- Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman join Marvel Rivals!
- New Costumes: Mister Fantastic – The Maker; Invisible Woman – Malice!
Maps and Modes
- Explore the new Convoy map – Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown.
- Prepare for the thrilling arcade mode (Doom Match) and its map (Sanctum Sanctorum): 8-12 players will engage in battle, with the top 50% emerging victorious.
- New feature: In Convoy and Convergence, both sides can transition to the next spawn room sometime after the attacking side completes the current target.
- Enhanced feature: During the loading phase of a Quick Match, you can now view the Nameplates of both sides.
Season & Store
- Unlock a dazzling shiny new Battle Pass featuring 10 brand new sets of heroic costumes!
- Embark on the first thrilling half of the Midnight Features Season Event!
- Dive into the latest Twitch Drops event, featuring rewards such as the Hela – Will of Galacta costume. (Stay tuned for official announcements for specific times)
- We have revised the refresh times for various in-game content. Beginning with Season 1, the unlock time for daily missions, the availability of new items in the store, and the start time for most events have been adjusted from 7:00 (UTC+0) to 9:00 (UTC+0).
- Additionally, we have optimized the mission types and removed some of the more challenging ones.
Ranked
- Introducing the Celestial Rank, a tier above Grandmaster and below Eternity, consisting of 3 divisions.
- Rank Reset: based on your final Season 0 rank, ranks will be demoted by 7 divisions. For example, if you ended Season 0 at Platinum I, your Season 1 journey begins at Silver II.
Tournaments
- Newly added automatic follow function for tournament sign-ups: Faction members can opt to follow the captain on the sign-up page. When the captain/coach initiates or cancels the sign-up process, following members will automatically confirm. Please note, this feature, once activated, is effective for the current season only.
- New faction reporting function: Report factions for perceived misconduct in the same tournament within the past 90 days.
- New spectating channel: Chat in real-time with fellow rivals while spectating the same match.
- When spectating, the target player’s hotkeys and crosshair settings will be prominently displayed.
- New setting option: Block all active invitations and faction join requests.
General
- Streaming Mode: In Settings – Social, new settings have been added under the social setting allowing streamers to conceal their name as needed (only effective locally; other players in the same match can still see it).
1.2 PC
Graphics and Settings
Enhanced and optimized graphics settings for improved performance:
- New: Added a new “Off” option under “Anti-Aliasing”.
- New: Included a “Performance” option for “Model Detail”.
- New: Integrated a new “Off” option under “Global Illumination”.
- New: Added a new “Off” option for “Reflection Quality”.
- Optimization: Adjusted and optimized various parameters within the graphics settings.
- Mouse Settings: Under Settings, the Keyboard – Combat category now includes new settings for mouse smoothing and mouse acceleration, enabling customization as required.
- Support Intel XeSS 2: With Intel Xe Super Sampling 2 (XeSS 2), experience faster, smoother gameplay with higher image quality and a more connected playing experience with Intel Xe Frame Generation (XeFG), Intel Xe Low Latency (XeLL).
