Marvel Rivals to add special game modes, skins for Spring Festival

NetEase will be hosting Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival, a new seasonal event featuring a limited-time game mode, a free costume for Guardians of the Galaxy’s Star-Lord, and a special crossover with Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2. Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival begins on the 23rd. January 2025 at 4 a.m. ET/1 a.m. PT and is Season 1’s main event. The game’s previous event, Winter Celebration, ran for three weeks, although NetEase did not specify a time period for the Spring Festival.

Clash of Dancing Lions is the event’s new limited-time mode – a 3-on-3 match where players use the abilities of Star-Lord, Black Widow and Iron Fist to move a ball into their opponent’s scoring zone. It’s similar to Blizzard’s Lucioball event in Overwatch 2, where teams of specific characters competed to see who could reach the goal first. Playing the Dancing Lions mode and completing related objectives will unlock event-exclusive items, including a lion mane costume for Star-Lord, which replaces his usual helmet with a lion mask and long, golden hair.

Black Widow and Iron Fist also have event costumes, though these are in the in-game store and cost Marvel Rivals special currency, which itself costs real money.

Also happening during Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival is a gallery card customization event called Fortune and Colors, where players can collect and decorate a gallery card using special enhancements available specifically for this mode. NetEase included a similar customization mode in Winter Celebration, but limited it to a Jeff the Land Shark themed map.

On January 30, 2025, NetEase is adding a Spider-Man 2 bundle to Marvel Rivals to celebrate Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 launching on PC on the same day. The base, which NetEase will make available in the in-game merchandise store, includes the Advanced Suit 2.0 costume for Spider-Man, a name tag and a special spray. The suit is similar to the costume Peter Parker wears in the PS5 game.