If you were one of the many hoping that NetEase Games, the developer behind the smash-hit live-service hero shooter Marvel Rivals, would be announcing a PvE mode anytime soon, then think again. It's not coming anytime soon.
In an interview with IGN, Marvel Rivals producer Weicong Wu stated that there are no plans for a PvE mode, though things could change down the line.
“For now we don't have any kind of a PvE plan, but our development team is continuously experimenting with new game play modes. So if we found that a new specific game mode is entertaining enough, fun enough, we would of course bring it to our audience.”
That's not to say it isn't something the team hasn't pondered, it's just the PvE experience would be a “different experience” from what currently exists, according to executive producer Danny Koo.
Can this really be sustainable?
“Yeah, we believe there are some of our audience that would like the PvE mode,” Koo acknowledged. “But also, you can see that if we come up with a hardcore PvE experience, that will be totally a different distinctive experience from what we have right now.”
That said, the team is...
