Marvel Rivals’ special Avengers mode is lazy, unbalanced, and just not very fun to play

I was pretty excited to play the new MCU Avengers-themed mode in Marvel Rivals to celebrate the movie’s 14th anniversary, but after just a couple of games, I’m completely done with it.

NetEase Games advertised the new Path to Doomsday: The Avengers mode in Marvel Rivals as an asymmetric PvP experience honoring the 2012 Avengers movie, and I suppose they weren’t lying. But as far as any other redeeming qualities, it has missed the bar completely.

The mode features one team of the original MCU Avengers (pictured above) versus one player as an utterly overpowered, ridiculously strong version of Loki. RIDICULOUSLY strong. His ability set makes it a fight against six other players, but it doesn’t feel very fair if you’re on the Avengers thanks to Loki’s outrageous ability set.

Loki can spawn clones of himself and go invisible like usual, but now he deals incredibly high damage with his attacks, and he’s also got a mind control ability that allows him to take control over any Avenger and fight against their teammates or, as shown in this video from streamer Necros, jump off the map completely. It’s beyond broken, especially considering the Avengers have no healer and can only regain HP from health packs around the maps.

What’s worse, though, is that the rest of the mode feels lazily thrown together. It’s played on a variety of Domination maps that have absolutely nothing to do with the Avengers movie at all, so it doesn’t feel like there was much extra thought put into it beyond making it Avengers vs. Loki, and it’s just a massive disappointment.

I’m sure NetEase will make some balancing to Loki in the coming days because feedback is overwhelmingly negative about how strong the character is, but the playerbase’s perception of the mode so far is not very good, to say the least.

The best part about the mode is that, every time you respawn after being merked by Loki yet again, you hear the classic Avengers movies’ theme song. But that’s about where my enjoyment ended after five consecutive matches of getting utterly destroyed by Loki.

Path to Doomsday will add more content down the line this year including additions honoring Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, leading up to Avengers: Doomsday’s release in December. I sincerely hope the future content drops will be better than this one is on day one, because as cool as this idea may have sounded in theory, the execution was a complete miss.

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The Totenreich map in Black Ops 7 Zombies has a new musical easter egg for you to solve, and the process involves finding three Mister Peeks Headphones. The three headphones, as is the norm, are spread all around the map.

This guide will help you figure out all three locations so that you can unlock the song at the earliest.

All Mister Peeks Headphone locations in Black Ops 7 Zombies

You can find the following headphones in any order you like. There’s no fixed way to find them. To activate the song, you’ll need to find and interact with all three of them.

Dry Dock

You’ll find a massive boat in the Dry Dock location, situated right at the center. Drop down to the ground, and head to the right of the boat. Reach approximately the middle of the boat on the ground, and the headphones will be located in a box on top of the crates.

Core Foundry

The second one can be found in the room opposite the Double Tap Root Beer machine in Core Foundry. Head inside (from the side of the Root Beer machine), and then turn right. There’s a bunch of old machinery located near the wall, and the headphones are located among them (look down by crouching, and you’ll find your headphones).

Loven’s Antiquities

The third one is located near where you spawn on the map. Head inside from the main door of the building, and look past the desk. There are a bunch of plates in the cupboard, and the headphones are in the bottom shelf.

Once all three headphones have been found, it will activate the No One There track, composed by Kevin Sherwood and Vicky Psarakis.

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