{"id":4698,"date":"2022-08-07T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/multiversus-is-getting-a-coop-arcade-mode-very-soon-in-season-1\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:18:07","slug":"multiversus-is-getting-a-coop-arcade-mode-very-soon-in-season-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/07\/multiversus-is-getting-a-coop-arcade-mode-very-soon-in-season-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiversus is getting a coop arcade mode &#8220;very soon&#8221; in Season 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise hit platform fighting game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiversus<\/a> is picking up steam, with an announcement of what&#8217;s to come in its Season 1 update at this week&#8217;s EVO fighting game tournament. Most of it was known: A ranked mode, new cosmetics including skins of bugs bunny as Br\u00fcnnhilde the Valkyrie, some icons and such, alongside new characters like actual real world basketball player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus-turns-lebron-james-meme-into-a-devastating-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a>, or the decidedly-fictional Rick and Morty.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most surprising was an unexpected play mode, a singleplayer and coop Classic Arcade Mode. If that&#8217;s anything to go on it&#8217;ll be a mode of successive battles against the AI, like classic arcade fighting game machines. Leakers and rumors <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/multiversusie\/status\/1556096216437379073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say<\/a> it&#8217;ll be available either solo or in Multiversus&#8217; signature 2v2 mode cooperatively, will have several difficulty settings, and up to 10 stages.<\/p>\n<p>Multiversus Season 1 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus-season-1-has-been-delayed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed earlier this week. <\/a>\u00a0It was originally to release on August 9th, but now has no firm release date. The tweet released during EVO says to &#8220;Stay tuned for an official Season 1 announcement date, coming very soon.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what that means, really: Are they saying they&#8217;ll soon announce a date&#8230; to announce a date? We&#8217;ll let you know if and when we figure that out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>Feast your eyes on this, MVPs: our Season 1 Snapshot! Stay tuned for an official Season 1 announcement date, coming very soon. #MultiVersus #Evo2022 pic.twitter.com\/A5ObXKN7V6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/multiversus\/status\/1556088757694119938\">August 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Multiversus is getting a coop arcade mode &#8220;very soon&#8221; in Season 1<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>Surprise hit platform fighting game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiversus<\/a> is picking up steam, with an announcement of what&#8217;s to come in its Season 1 update at this week&#8217;s EVO fighting game tournament. Most of it was known: A ranked mode, new cosmetics including skins of bugs bunny as Br\u00fcnnhilde the Valkyrie, some icons and such, alongside new characters like actual real world basketball player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus-turns-lebron-james-meme-into-a-devastating-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a>, or the decidedly-fictional Rick and Morty.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most surprising was an unexpected play mode, a singleplayer and coop Classic Arcade Mode. If that&#8217;s anything to go on it&#8217;ll be a mode of successive battles against the AI, like classic arcade fighting game machines. Leakers and rumors <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/multiversusie\/status\/1556096216437379073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say<\/a> it&#8217;ll be available either solo or in Multiversus&#8217; signature 2v2 mode cooperatively, will have several difficulty settings, and up to 10 stages.<\/p>\n<p>Multiversus Season 1 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/multiversus-season-1-has-been-delayed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delayed earlier this week. <\/a>\u00a0It was originally to release on August 9th, but now has no firm release date. The tweet released during EVO says to &#8220;Stay tuned for an official Season 1 announcement date, coming very soon.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure what that means, really: Are they saying they&#8217;ll soon announce a date&#8230; to announce a date? We&#8217;ll let you know if and when we figure that out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<p>Feast your eyes on this, MVPs: our Season 1 Snapshot! Stay tuned for an official Season 1 announcement date, coming very soon. #MultiVersus #Evo2022 pic.twitter.com\/A5ObXKN7V6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/multiversus\/status\/1556088757694119938\">August 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more__button-container\"><span class=\"see-more__button\">See more<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}