Marvel Rivals Patch 20261029 Notes: Night of Illusions Event, Gorr Out-of-Map Fix and No Balance Changes

Marvel Rivals' weekly update for October 29, 2026 – version 20261029 – is a quiet one on the balance side and a busy one everywhere else. NetEase didn't touch a single hero's numbers this time. Instead, the patch turns Halloween into a detective story with the Night of Illusions event, fills the store with new Winter Soldier and Marvel Tōkon cosmetics, and cleans up a handful of bugs, including one that could send Gorr flying out of the arena.

The patch went live on October 29 at 09:00 UTC on all platforms, and there was no server downtime – just download and play. Here's everything that changed and what it means for your next queue.

TL;DR

• Version: 20261029, live October 29, 2026 at 09:00 UTC, no downtime
• New event: Night of Illusions, a five-chapter puzzle and mystery event starring Elsa Bloodstone, running until December 31, 2026
• No balance changes: no hero buffs or nerfs in this patch
• New store items from October 30 at 02:00 UTC: Winter Soldier's Celestial Soldier bundle plus Storm and Iron Man Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls bundles
• Eight fixes covering Gorr, Rogue, Black Cat, Invisible Woman, Times Square, the store and Blood Hunt

The biggest change: Night of Illusions

The headline addition is Night of Illusions, a limited-time Halloween event that plays nothing like a normal Marvel Rivals match. Elsa Bloodstone investigates a strange house where a man is trying to complete a ritual involving four monsters, and you work through it as a string of escape-room style puzzles rather than team fights.

The event is split into five chapters, each set in its own room. You search the scene for clues, then solve a puzzle to move on, and finishing one chapter opens the next. You get things started by talking to Nurse-Pool in the first room.

The rewards are mostly cosmetic – Sprays, an Emoji, a Mood and two Gallery Cards – but the 100 Units at the end are a small, welcome bonus. Since the event runs until December 31, 2026 at 09:00 UTC, there's no need to rush it. Still, it's a short, relaxed break from ranked and an easy way to grab limited-time items before they're gone.

Balance changes: none this week

If you were hoping for a nerf to whoever keeps beating you in Competitive, this isn't the patch. Version 20261029 has no buff or nerf section at all. Every hero's damage, cooldowns and health stay exactly where the Season 10.5 balance changes left them earlier this month, so your current tier list still applies.

This is a content-and-fixes update: events, cosmetics and bug fixes, with balance left alone for now.

New cosmetics in the store

The store refresh lands on October 30, 2026 at 02:00 UTC, a few hours after the patch itself:

• Winter Soldier – Celestial Soldier Bundle, available until November 27, 2026 at 02:00 UTC
• Winter Soldier – Celestial Soldier Emoji Bundle
• Winter Soldier – Celestial Soldier chromas (Iris Nebula and Pipe Nebula) plus a matching Ultimate Ability VFX
• Storm – Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Bundle, with its own Ultimate Ability VFX
• Iron Man – Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Bundle

The Marvel Tōkon pair ties in with Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, Arc System Works' Marvel tag-team fighting game, giving Storm and Iron Man looks that nod to that project. Winter Soldier players get the most this week, with a full skin, chromas, an emoji set and new Ultimate effects.

Bug fixes worth knowing

The fix list is short, but a few of these affected real matches:

• Gorr: Using Shadow Harvest right after creating a Black Berserker could launch him out of the map. His attacks now stay inside the arena. This is the most important fix of the week, since it could cost a team a fight or even a round.
• Invisible Woman: After entering stealth with Veiled Step, using another ability didn't always break her stealth as it should. It now breaks reliably, which matters for anyone playing against her.
• Black Cat: Two fixes. Players who rebound her Ultimate could still trigger its second phase with the Q key, which could waste the Ultimate by accident. Separately, the overhead icon for her Fatal Weaver costume no longer vanishes during the Binding Ties Team-Up with Spider-Man.
• Rogue: Her left arm no longer clips through her cape in the X-Men '97 Season 2 costume when walking backward.
• Times Square: Picking "One More Round" from the Times Square hub no longer leaves you unable to return there after the match.
• Blood Hunt: Moon Knight can place an Ankh again when his Ankh-specific build is equipped without any Traits.
• Store: The secondary navigation bar no longer slides off-screen after you complete all Pop & Wins.

What it means for players

For competitive players, this is a "nothing changes" week. With no balance changes, the meta stays put, so it's a good time to keep grinding the heroes you already know. The Gorr and Invisible Woman fixes are the only changes likely to show up in a ranked match, and both remove the kind of bug that decides a team fight.

For everyone else, Night of Illusions is the reason to log in. It's a calm, puzzle-focused side activity with free Sprays, a Mood, Gallery Cards and 100 Units, and you have two months to finish it. Winter Soldier mains and anyone curious about the Marvel Tōkon crossover have new skins to look at from October 30. If you only care about the store, keep in mind the Celestial Soldier bundle leaves on November 27.