Marvel’s Rivals it’s ringing in the holiday season with its first Winter Event, debuting new skins, special gifts, and a game mode centered around Jeff the Land Shark.
The new online shooter from developer NetEase Games has proven to be a huge hit, bringing players into the Marvel Multiverse for competitive team play.
Competitors is the latest in a long line of games to be played as a service (following in the footsteps of Fortnite, Rocket Leagueand Call of Duty Warzone), which offers players new content drops over time.
When does the Marvel Rivals Winter Event start?
The Marvel’s Rivals The Winter Event begins on Thursday, December 19th at 11:00 PM PT. and is suspected to last at least two weeks (until the week of January 3rd). Due to the event’s late-night release, it will premiere on Friday, December 20th in most territories, airing at 2:00 a.m. ET.
This will likely come after some server downtime, meaning the game may be taken offline for a short period of time before its official release. However, this is only speculation at this point and no downtime has been confirmed.
Below is a complete list of expected release times for the release Marvel’s Rivals Winter event, through Marvel’s Rivals On X (formerly Twitter):
- GMT (Greenwich Mean Time): 20.12.2024 at 5:00 a.m
- EST (Eastern Standard Time – USA): December 20, 2024, 2:00 AM
- CST (Central Time – USA): December 20, 2024 at 1:00 AM
- MST (Mountain Standard Time – USA): December 20, 2024 at midnight
- PST (Pacific Standard Time – United States): 19.12.2024 at 23.00
- AST (Alaska Standard Time): 19/12/2024 at 22:00
- HST (Hawaii Standard Time): 19.12.2024 at 21:00
- CET (Central European Time): 20/12/2024 at 6:00 a.m
- EET (Eastern European Time): December 20, 2024 at 7 am
- IST (India Standard Time): December 20, 2024 at 10:30 am
- CST (China Standard Time): 20.12.2024 at 11:00
- JST (Japan Standard Time): December 20, 2024 at 12:00 p.m
- AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time): 20/12/2024 at 16:00
- NZDT (New Zealand Summer Time): 20/12/2024 at 18:00
What news is part of the Marvel Rivals winter event?
Typical content of this type drops in running games such as Marvel’s Rivals there will be a series of new cosmetics and skins for players to enjoy.
CompetitorsThe Winter Event doesn’t disappoint on this front, bringing new Holiday-themed skins for characters like Magik, Venom, Rocket, and Groot, adding to the game’s already great collection of skins (read more about the amazing collection of skins Marvel’s rival launch skins here).
Magik’s skin sees him ready to hit the slopes, dressed to the nines in his beast mountain suits, athletic snow pants, snowboard boots and ski goggles.
Venom’s winter event look begs the question – what if the iconic Marvel symbiote was hanging out with Jack Frost? In the new look, the villain is coated in ice, which looks like players might get cold if they get too close.
Similar to Magik’s winter look, Rocket’s new skin puts the Guardian of the Galaxy in his best winter outfit, sporting new goggles, a puffer jacket and crampons.
The final premium skin transforms the lovable Groot into a walking, talking Christmas tree, adding snow-topped branches to his head and evergreen fur to his feet.
The exact price of the Magik, Venom, Rocket and Groot Winter skins has not been announced at the time of writing.
The new release also comes with a special winter themed skin for Jeff the Land Shark. This new skin of the super powerful apex predator is free for all users as a special holiday Gift Marvel’s Rivals development team.
The trailer for the winter event also teased Jeff’s new MVP animation of young Jeffrey building a snowman (via X), but such an addition has not been confirmed and may just be a custom animation. trailer.
As has happened with the teasing of new characters Marvel’s Rivalsmore were mentioned in the official announcement of the event, so fans are sure to have plenty to look forward to in addition to these already announced skins.
Jeff’s Winter Splash Festival: New Game Mode Explained
Also included Marvel’s Rivals The Winter Event is a brand new game mode that focuses exclusively on Jeff the Land Shark.
Jeff (one of 33 playable heroes available at launch) has quickly become a fan favorite CompetitorsEarly in life, which is wild for NetEase and Marvel Games to focus on the hero in their first post-launch event.
The new game mode, called “Jeff’s Winter Splash Festival” is a take on Nintendo’s “paint the city” style. Splatoon franchise. In the mode, all players control their own Jeff, using the character’s Joyful Splash ability to paint as much of the map as possible.
The winner of each game is then not determined by capturing a point or transferring the payload as in the rest of the game, but by which team scores the most goals in the environment.
Jeff’s Winter Splash Festival is scheduled to last as long as the winter event itself, and future plans for the facility have not been announced.
However, if it proves to be popular, it wouldn’t be at all surprising to see the special Game Type brought back down, either in a limited capacity or as a permanent addition to the online skirmish.
Marvel’s Rivals is now available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
