Marvel's Midnight Suns News

Watch the Marvel's Midnight Suns Combat Overview Trailer Now!

It’s time to fight like Super Heroes! Learn how you’ll fight with the Midnight Suns and unleash devastating heroic moves in our combat overview video:

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Launch your epic Marvel adventure on December 2, 2022.

Firaxis Live Streams: Rise Up With The Midnight Suns!

With the December 2 release of Marvel's Midnight Suns fast approaching, members of the Firaxis development team recently took time out of their busy schedules to appear on a series of live streams. The ensuing card-based combat during tactical missions afforded great opportunities to see heroes including Blade, Magik, Wolverine, and others show off their skills on the battlefield and learn more about the numerous activities that you can enjoy in and around the Abbey between battles.

If you missed out on any of the action-packed gameplay and developer insights that were shared during these live streams, you can watch archives of all four below.

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Hulk is shown for the first time after being revealed as the 13th (late-game unlockable) hero on the base game's Midnight Suns roster, and Creative Director Jake Solomon attempts to beat a tactical mission on the hardest of Marvel's Midnight Suns' eight difficulty settings.

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Members of the Firaxis development team share a first look at some of the activities you can enjoy when you're not battling Lilith's demonic forces. Also, Senior Franchise Producer Garth DeAngelis almost gets beaten at his own game while playing through one of three very different tactical missions.

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Join the Firaxis developers for a deep dive into strategic combat as they play through tactical missions and discuss how heroes and their respective ability cards can be upgraded as you progress through the game. Later, Deadpool, Venom, Morbius, and Storm are revealed as the four heroes joining the roster in the Season Pass DLC next year.

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Creative Director Jake Solomon and Senior Franchise Producer Garth DeAngelis play through two tactical missions while discussing combat mechanics, how the Midnight Suns roster was chosen, why heroes' abilities are represented by cards, and more.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns system requirements

Marvel's Midnight Suns system requirements don't call for a super-powered gaming PC, with the strategy game seemingly bucking the recent trend of its peers by not demanding fairly high-end specs. However, there may still be some demanding settings like ray tracing for those with more capable hardware.

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Midnight Suns made Deadpool DLC as he "sucks the air from the room"

Marvel's Midnight Suns, the new strategy game from XCOM developer Firaxis that trades out soldiers and percentages for superheroes and a deck of cards, almost had Deadpool as a character in the base game, but the team decided against it as they were worried he'd end up a dominant presence in the game's story. On top of that, the character based DLCs will also actually have more content than those already in the game in a few ways - if that sounds interesting to you, our Marvel's Midnight Suns review dives into one of the best strategy games in years.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns isn't supported on Steam Deck, says 2K

Planning on playing Marvel's Midnight Suns on Steam Deck? Well, you might have to hold off, as 2K says it isn't officially supported. The comic book caper might still technically run on Valve's handheld gaming PC, but you should be mindful of minimum specs when playing on the go.

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