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It’s been a day of reveals for Marvel Rivals: Two new heroes, battle go modifications, baffling layoffs for US-based builders, and a tease for what gamers assume can be a future hero. Couched on the finish of a trailer for Rivals’ new Central Park map is a four-second shot of a snarling Blade.
Why is Marvel’s resident vampire hunter so ticked off? Because he is all chained up by Dracula, robbed of his cool sun shades and decreased to ornament on the Central Park map. Twitch streamers who performed the brand new map and heroes in the present day bought a have a look at Blade for themselves—he seems to be chained up within the defending group’s spawn room, pressured to look at his hero mates ignore him as they return to the frontlines.
Blade’s starring position on the map is fascinating from just a few angles. Up to now, the hero has been suspiciously absent from a season devoted to Dracula’s assault on New York City, showing solely in promotional artwork and surrounding story passages on the primary menu. His look on a map brings the hunter out of the menus and into the engine—rendered, polished, however not but playable.
This is one of the best proof but that months-old datamined findings are right and Blade will be part of the Rivals roster within the coming months. Judging by his proximity to the second half of season 1, he may even be a shoo-in for season 2’s hero. I nonetheless discover it unusual so as to add Blade to a season that’s presumably not themed round vampires, however what do I do know.
We’ll get our personal have a look at Blade on the Central Park map when Marvel Rivals season 1.5, as NetEase calls it, begins February 21.
