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Investigating Anomalies
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Investigating Anomalies

Learn how to tackle the Marvel Zombies event in Marvel Rivals. Discover playable heroes, modified abilities, map details, difficulty levels, and all available missions and their rewards.

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Learn how to tackle the Marvel Zombies event in Marvel Rivals. Discover playable heroes, modified abilities, map details, difficulty levels, and all available missions and their rewards.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Objective: Unite with Marvel's mightiest heroes under Khonshu's eye to reclaim Midtown from an undead horde and defeat the Queen of the Dead.
  2. 2
    Heroes: Play as Thor, The Punisher, Magik, Blade, and Jeff the Land Shark, with some modified and new abilities. Duplicate heroes are allowed.
  3. 3
    Map: The event takes place in Marvel Zombies: Midtown.
  4. 4
    Difficulties: Choose from Normal, Hard, Extreme, Nightmare I-IV.
  5. 5
    Gameplay Loop: Up to four players select heroes, spend starting Moon Power on Khonshu's Blessings, and fight waves of zombies. Defeat all enemies in a wave and complete special missions to earn more Moon Power and progress.
Tips
  • Due to performance limitations, this mode was not available for PlayStation 4 players.
  • Standard abilities for some heroes were tweaked:
    • Jeff the Land Shark's 'It's Jeff!' only swallows enemies, 'Hidden Undertow' damages and launches enemies, and 'Vitality Bubble' can only be picked up by Jeff. His 'Reviving Current' passively heals.
  • Thor's 'Electric Vitality' passively heals.
  • The Punisher's 'Warrior's Gaze' passive is removed, replaced by 'Crisis Recovery' which passively heals.
  • Magik's 'Limbo's Might' passive is not listed but appears to be present.
  • Blade has no changes to his abilities.
  • Holy Ankhs can be used to revive the team when all players are defeated.
  • Lanterns are rewards for some missions and are used in the Voyage to Astonish event.
    • Daily Login: 3 Holy Ankhs.
    • First Clear Rewards: Marvel Zombies Spray, 100 Units for Normal, Hard, Extreme, and Nightmare II-IV difficulties.
    • Nightmare I Clear: 1 Lantern.
    • Nightmare II Clear: Undead Nightmare Title, 1 Lantern.
    • Nightmare III Clear: Zombies' End Title, 1 Lantern.
    • Nightmare IV Clear: Queenslayer Title, 1 Lantern.
    • Solo Clear (Nightmare III): Undead Demolisher (Punisher), Undead Reaper (Magik), Undead Crusher (Thor), Undead Hunter (Blade), Undead Predator (Jeff the Land Shark) Titles.
    • Solo Clear (Nightmare IV): Endless Arsenal (Punisher), Queen of Limbo (Magik), Wrath of Asgard (Thor), Lunar Vengeance (Blade), King Land Shark (Jeff the Land Shark) Titles, plus 100 Units for each.

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