A competitive multiplayer shooter Marvel Rival It’s extremely popular on almost every platform released, and the PC version of the game tends to use more RAM than players would expect. This results in unfortunate consequences for players with low-minute systems that still meet the requirements of games facing performance issues while playing.
Director Guangyun Chen revealed that the studio plans to fix the issue. Speaking with PCGAMER for GDC 2025, Chen said that NetEase Games developers are working on new features in the upcoming second season of the game that will help reduce RAM usage. According to Chen, players may get experimental options in the game’s launcher, which can reduce how much RAM the game uses.
“In PCs, we recognize that (optimization) is a big problem, especially for memory consumption,” Chen said. “So in Season 2, the launcher player can have experimental checkboxes, allowing them to significantly reduce memory (consumption).”
It is worth noting that Chen has yet to give a decisive time frame as to when this feature will come out. In an interview, Chen said that the earliest such a feature could come Marvel Rival It’s alongside Season 2 update. This will result in a time frame around mid-April.
“It’s a huge problem, but sorting it out is a lot of work (fixing),” Chen said. “You can’t release it with a small patch. You need to test it thoroughly. But you notice the problem and continue to optimize.”
“It’s hard for all developers to use the engine and make it good. It’s a new engine for us. There’s a lot of effort (first) to optimize.”
Marvel Rivalavailable on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and has been an incredible success for NetEase. In February, the company revealed in its annual revenue report that the competitive shooter had acquired over 40 million players.
This game brought much needed competition with Blizzard’s own competitive hero shooting game Overwatch 2Netease believes that both games can coexist with their own viewers. The context of this was the release of Overwatch 2 In China, Netease handles the title along with its own shooter.
“Expected Overwatch It’s similar to the ones in World of Warcraft and Hearthstone,” the company said in a statement earlier this month. both Marvel Rival and Overwatch A great superhero shooter, and the market is big enough to accommodate both games. Netease strives to meet the diverse demands of each player community. ”
Blizzard is improving Overwatch 2 with many updates thanks to “internal pressure”. Marvel Rival‘Success.
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