Alongside the launch of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, Arc System Works releases a Day 1 patch for the highly anticipated fighting game, addressing plenty of issues and feedback from the previous beta. The day many have been waiting for has arrived as Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, a fighting game collaboration between Sony, Arc System Works, and Marvel, is finally available for PS5 and PC.
After being revealed last summer during a PlayStation State of Play, Marvel Tokon has picked up a ton of steam over these past few months as new characters like Magneto, Deadpool, and plenty more were revealed for the playable roster. In July, fans were able to go hands-on with a robust open beta offering of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, including online matches, training tools, and single-player content. While there was plenty of enjoyment to be had, the open beta wasn’t free of issues, especially for those on the PC.
As unfortunate as it was, the beta issues were ultimately helpful for Arc System Works, who confirmed that player feedback would be applied to Marvel Tokon at launch. Before jumping into the game, players will need to download a new update for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, which features plenty of fixes and improvements based on feedback from the open beta. PC players in general will notice that the game now has reduced CPU usage and an overall improved performance. ArcSys also improved shader warm-up and anti-aliasing behavior as well, hopefully resulting in a much smoother experience overall.
Upset Marvel Tokon open beta players also had plenty to say about the game’s various inputs and how, at times, it felt unresponsive. As such, ArcSys made changes to certain inputs to help players activate certain abilities. The X-Men character Danger also had her ground dashes revised, allowing players to now cancel a dash into a skill move and making it less likely that aerial special moves are accidentally triggered instead. The patch notes also indicate that the PS5 version of the game received “additional measures” to help reduce input lag even more.
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Alongside the game’s launch, PlayStation players can also get their hands on a special offer. PlayStation Plus subscribers can get a free Marvel Tokon bonus by downloading a set of 5 avatars for use on PSN as well as special result screen character poses for the game. The special win screen poses are for all 20 characters on the roster, including Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Star-Lord, and more.
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While some of the surprises may have been spoiled when the Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls trophies leaked early, it’s clear that Arc System Works has plenty more on the horizon after launch. Earlier this week, the studio teased as much with a mystery fighter being playable, though for many, the attention turns to future DLC content. Phoenix Cyclops was previously confirmed as the first DLC character to join the roster, leaving fans to speculate at who else could make the cut and what kind of interesting twists they could have applied.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Launch Update Patch Notes
Performance Optimizations (Primarily for the PC SKUs)
- Removed unnecessary character animation updates from being performed; resulting in a reduced CPU load.
- Made improvements to alleviate the load on the user interface update.
- Made improvements to address an issue where performance significantly deteriorated when running applications that use overlays or capture video. OBS Studio: Video capture via Game Capture & Discord: Overlays, Video Capture
- Added an anti-aliasing option to the automatic graphics quality setting to ensure that the appropriate anti-aliasing option is applied based on performance and prevents unintended load increase.
- Fixed an issue that enabled unintended anti-aliasing plug-ins (e.g. DLSS, FSR, XeSS).
- Also included a feature to the custom graphics quality settings and effect quality options that allow you to change the update frequency of the stage background characters.
- Selecting medium quality or low quality will reduce the update frequency and slightly reduce the load on the CPU.
- Have set the prompt inquiring about performing a shader warm-up at startup to ON by default, making it easier to find and perform a shader warm-up.
- Fixed an issue that caused the shader warm-up to run unintentionally at startup.
- Steam Version: Fixed an issue that caused a delay in sending input data during online matches; resulting in improved online match performance.
- PS5 Version: Implemented additional measures to mitigate input lag.
Other Fixes
- Game Screen – Fixed an issue where the game would automatically switch between monitors on setups that featured multiple monitors.
- Online Lobby – Fixed an issue where some players would become invisible after viewing rankings in Ranked Mode and then enter the Online Lobby.
- Ranked Mode – Fixed an issue where the screen would become distorted when a large number of digits were displayed.
- Game Server Connectivity – Improved communication stability between the client and game server.
- Mouse – Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes crash when using the mouse too quickly in the game’s menus.
- Text Optimization – Fixed an issue where performance was significantly reduced when large amounts of text were on screen; particularly when set to Arabic or Thai.
- Connectivity – Fixed an issue where the game would become unplayable if the network connection was lost during the Challenger Alert screen.
Gameplay Adjustments
- Input Optimization – Changed the input prioritization to ↓↘→
- Danger – Revised the input handling for ground dashes. Have made it possible to cancel into a skill from a ground dash to make it less likely for aerial special moves to be accidentally triggered.
- Released
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August 6, 2026
- ESRB
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Teen / Blood, Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
- Publisher(s)
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Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation Publishing
