Marvel Rivals

Marvel Rivals is a free-to-play 6v6 hero shooter built in Unreal Engine 5EngineUnreal Engine (Epic Games)Epic Games' Unreal Engine is the most widely used engine in big-budget PC games. Versions 4 and 5 power a substantial share of the modern competitive shooter market, including Valorant (UE4), Fortnite (UE5), PUBG (UE4), The Finals (UE5), and Delta Force (UE5).20 games in this family →, developed and published by NetEase GamesPublisherNetEase GamesNetEase Games is the video-game division of NetEase, Inc., a Chinese internet company. It developed and publishes Marvel Rivals in collaboration with Marvel Games. NetEase ships its own in-house anti-cheat, a separate product from Tencent's ACE.3 games in this family → in collaboration with Marvel Games. It launched on December 6, 2024, on Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S, and became one of the largest new shooters of its release window. The development team is based in Guangzhou; NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese internet company.

Installing Marvel Rivals means accepting a kernel-level anti-cheat from NetEase. The main process is Marvel-Win64-Shipping.exe. If you uninstall the game and want the anti-cheat fully gone, check Windows services and drivers for residual NetEase entries and remove them, the same housekeeping the Delta Force plate recommends for Tencent's ACE. NetEase has not published the kind of internals that would let you verify its behavior independently, which is worth weighing if that transparency matters to you.

Marvel Rivals installs NetEase's own in-house anti-cheat, sometimes labeled NetEase Anti-Cheat Expert or NetEase Game Security. Independent technical analysis describes it as operating at the kernel level, the same architectural tier as Easy Anti-Cheat or BattlEye, but NetEase has not published the technical internals the way some Western vendors have, so the exact behavior of its driver is not officially documented. What is not in dispute: this is a Chinese-publisher anti-cheat with kernel-level access, it is a different product from Tencent's ACE despite frequent confusion between the two, and the main Windows process is Marvel-Win64-Shipping.exe, the standard Unreal Engine shipping-build name. The broader picture lives under the netease-anti-cheat family entry.

NetEase enforces against cheating publicly and visibly: it has published censored lists of banned accounts, from a closed-beta wave in 2024 through later large 'zero tolerance' enforcement. It has also had notable false positives. In January 2025 it wrongly banned Mac, Linux, and Steam Deck players whose compatibility layers were misread as cheating, some with bans reported as lasting a century, then reversed them after the maker of one of those tools objected. Around the 2024 alpha, NetEase apologized for a content-creator agreement whose non-disparagement terms drew criticism from streamers. As with any title shipped through a Chinese publisher's infrastructure, the broader operating context (data-handling obligations under Chinese law, telemetry questions) is part of the picture and widely covered; none of it is unique to Marvel Rivals.