Four days after release, and millions of downloads later, Marvel Rivals is receiving its first patch, and nestled between the various crash-fixes and bug-squashing is a change to how Dr. Strange will play moving forward. Since release, the Sorceror Supreme was able to rapidly fill his ultimate meter whenever he tricks the opposing team to take a one-way trip through his portals, but that bug has been removed by changing how kills are awarded. Now, Strange won't get credit for terrain kills through his portals, which solves the rapidly-filling ultimate meter problem, but also makes his Achievement temporarily unobtainable.
The sudden success of Marvel Rivals proves that, despite the failure of Concord, there's an audience out there for the hero-shooter genre. The struggles of Overwatch 2 to retain the massive playerbase of the original is going to get worse now that there's an option out there with the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Moon Knight. With a patch coming in under a week that includes mutliple bug fixes, it's clear that NetEase understands they have a hit on their hands and won't sit idly by while glitches and bugs impact the outcome of matches....
