NetEase may be getting at what Blizzard Entertainment’s game ultimately missed out on (although there were plans for it!).

Marvel Rivals has become so popular in the few months since its release that there are now “specialist” leakers who work together to analyze the game’s files and share with the public what content the Chinese tech company’s game might add in the near future. So far, this has mostly been skin-related (and getting more and more adult for female characters), but sometimes other things can catch the attention of both data miners and fans.

Back in January, two Twitter accounts, @RivalsLeaks and RivalsInfo, hinted that NetEase was developing a PvE mode for Marvel Rivals. They claimed this by citing a “source” or referring to a tag in the game’s files. Since then, @RivalsInfo has been joined by @X0X_LEAK in stating that this is not fiction, and the latter account even shared a video of a creature resembling a giant squid that will supposedly be a boss in a game mode called Infinity Crisis.

This monster could be Monstro, a menace from the Murky Depths, a radiation-mutated octopus that first appeared in the Tales of Suspense story. If not Monstro, it could be one of the tentacled sea monsters that have appeared in Marvel comics over the years, fought by the comic book incarnation of Conan, or it could have traveled from the “pirate reality” of Spider-Man to threaten Aunt May and Web-Beard (the pirate version of Spider-Man), which actually happened in the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series.

Since the model seen in the leaked video appears to be a temporary placeholder, it’s hard to say at this point what form it will take, or if it will even make it into Marvel Rivals. If the free-to-play hero shooter does make it to the point where it gets a PvE mode, fans of Overwatch 2, which has seen its player base dwindle as of late (as we reported earlier), may flock to the game even more. And it’s from this game that the long-planned PvE mode has been canceled…

But none of this is official yet!

Source: PCGamer

It’s 1:1 the Store asset as of right now🤔
we gonna keep track of it, if they will change/replace the model and there’s still some unused stuff related to the Boss like an AOE attack.

Until than enjoy the goofy ingame look at it.
Thanks to @RivalsInfo for the video 🫶 https://t.co/Ktleeo4RMN pic.twitter.com/XKMxzvYlWm

— X0XLEAK (@X0X_LEAK) January 28, 2025