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Marvel Rivals Sets August 8 Launch for Season 3.5 Featuring Blade and Major Overhauls

The midseason drop overhauls Team-Up abilities, ramps up penalties for leavers, implements AI-driven voice-chat moderation, streamlines shader loading.

Marvel Rivals Season 3.5: Blade facing away, looking over his right shoulder as he grabs his glowing red sword from his back with his left hand.
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Overview

  • Blade debuts as a Duelist in Season 3.5 on August 8, bringing an ancestral sword, shotgun and a draconic ultimate that deals area damage and suppresses enemy healing.
  • Season 3.5 overhauls Team-Up abilities by retiring Guardian Revival and Atlas Bond, adding Duality Dance and Vibrant Vitality, and reshuffling characters like Iron Fist, Star-Lord and Blade into new pairings.
  • NetEase strengthens competitive integrity by enforcing longer bans and steeper point losses for leavers, awarding compensation to teammates who stay and lowering the threshold for surrender votes.
  • Automated voice-chat screening backed by human review and custom text filters target toxic behavior by flagging inappropriate language and expanding the banned-word list.
  • Quality-of-life improvements include automatic background shader loading to reduce wait times, with the Resource Rumble mode and Throne of Knull map scheduled for release on August 22.