NetEase aims to release a new hero every 1.5 months in its successful hero shooter, according to game director Guangyun Chen.

Marvel Rivals’ first full-fledged season kicked off last week, bringing a host of new content, including, among other things, two new characters in the form of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. That is the cadence at which you can expect new characters to be added to the game every season, according to NetEase Games.

Speaking in an interview with Metro, game director Guangyun Chen explained that the team intends to add two characters to Marvel Rivals’ roster with every season. Specifically, the plan is to split every three-month season into two halves and to release a new hero at the end of every half.

“Every season, we’ll be rolling out fresh seasonal stories, new maps, and new heroes,” Chen said. “We’ll actually be breaking down each season into two halves. The length of one season is three months. And for each half of the season, we will introduce a new hero. We just eventually want to continue to enhance the experience and, you know, keep everyone excited in our community.”

That would mean Marvel Rivals will have added eight additional playable characters before the end of this year. It’s worth noting that The Human Torch and The Thing are also seemingly coming as part of Season 1, which could bring the total to ten.

Marvel Rivals is available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. The shooter has only gone from strength to strength since its December release, having recently also hit a new peak concurrent users count of over 644,000 players on Steam.