Give the hype surrounding the game, it seemed somewhat likely that Marvel Rivals would beat its launch concurrent playercount. It did, and then some.

Marvel Rivals players take to social media to express enthusiasm about the newest Strategist added to NetEase Games' popular hero shooter.

Marvel Rivals has just launched season 1, the game barreling forward with a colossal amount of momentum over the past month as it has broken past the “you can’t make a successful hero shooter” narrative and has created a phenomenon.

NetEase has clamped down on Marvel Rivals skin modding in the game's latest seasonal update, so no more playing as Iron Man cosplaying Vegeta.

We already knew that Marvel Rivals has proven incredibly popular since its launch last month - 10 million players joined online at launch - but now it's smashed another milestone, topping 600K concurrent players this weekend on Steam.

Susan Storm can do it all

Marvel Rivals brings together a solid bunch of characters who are capable of dealing powerful attacks, especially at long range. Hela falls into this category and can be extremely tough to counter if you can’t predict her moves.