We're big fans of Fallout here at Psyonix, and to celebrate next week's big Fallout 4 release, we'll be including this FREE Vault Boy Antenna as an unlockable in our next update (the one with Mutators!). Look both the Antenna and the Mutator patch to hit Rocket League hit sometime next week!
(and a huge thanks goes out to our friends at Bethesda for making this possible!)
We're big fans of Fallout here at Psyonix, and to celebrate next week's big Fallout 4 release, we'll be including this FREE Vault Boy Antenna as an unlockable in our next update (the one with Mutators!). Look both the Antenna and the Mutator patch to hit Rocket League hit sometime next week!
(and a huge thanks goes out to our friends at Bethesda for making this possible!)
We really appreciated your responses to our previous Rocket League News post, so we're back again with another update from Psyonix HQ!
One of the hot topics lately, has been your desire to report inappropriate activity that occurs during matches, in addition to our recently-announced (and soon-to-be-released) update for Rocket League. Here's info on both topics:
Report System Functionality:
We want your Rocket League playing experience to be fun at all times, but if you find someone messing it up by griefing, intimidating, or harassing you with malicious or offensive behavior, we want to help make that better. If you weren't already aware, players already have a few options at their disposal:
Players can disable communication (text and audio) with a specific player by selecting their names in the "Muting" menu. Players can disable text and audio chat from the entire opposing team (or completely) by pausing the game and moving into the Audio menu.
If you're a PS4 player, you have the added option of using PlayStation's "Block and Grief Reporting" system as part of a system feature, located in the "Friends" menu, under the "Player's Met" tab.
In addition to those options, we'd like to implement a dedicated system to counteract some of the worst behavior. We are currently investigating the construction of an in-game reporting tool that would, essentially, grab the dialog text from an apparently-toxic player and send it to Psyonix for monitoring. This system would take time to implement, though, so we appreciate your patience as we work it all out.
Mutators Preview:
We announced earlier this week that we're releasing a FREE game update in November that adds a number of new Presets and Custom Settings. Dubbed "Mutators," these brand-new options will allow you to change multiple aspects of your custom games. Ball size, ball bounciness, boost strength, gravity, match length, and max score are just a few of the many new modifiers that you'll be able to manipulate. In addition, we'll also offer a "Mutator Mashup" playlist that assembles several game-type Presets (like "Moonball" and "Cubic") for easy online action.
Over time, we'll continue to add additional presets to the Mashup playlist, and starting in December, we'll also add a brand-new Hockey mode. You can watch the official trailer to see what we're talking about, RIGHT HERE.
We'll continue to update you more on these (and other) topics regularly via Facebook and Twitter. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to bring them up in this thread or during our Reddit AMA on November 3! Also, don’t forget to grab your FREE Halloween items by November 2! You’ll have another chance to get them next year if you don’t grab all six. Thanks!
We really appreciated your responses to our previous Rocket League News post, so we're back again with another update from Psyonix HQ!
One of the hot topics lately, has been your desire to report inappropriate activity that occurs during matches, in addition to our recently-announced (and soon-to-be-released) update for Rocket League. Here's info on both topics:
Report System Functionality:
We want your Rocket League playing experience to be fun at all times, but if you find someone messing it up by griefing, intimidating, or harassing you with malicious or offensive behavior, we want to help make that better. If you weren't already aware, players already have a few options at their disposal:
Players can disable communication (text and audio) with a specific player by selecting their names in the "Muting" menu. Players can disable text and audio chat from the entire opposing team (or completely) by pausing the game and moving into the Audio menu.
If you're a PS4 player, you have the added option of using PlayStation's "Block and Grief Reporting" system as part of a system feature, located in the "Friends" menu, under the "Player's Met" tab.
In addition to those options, we'd like to implement a dedicated system to counteract some of the worst behavior. We are currently investigating the construction of an in-game reporting tool that would, essentially, grab the dialog text from an apparently-toxic player and send it to Psyonix for monitoring. This system would take time to implement, though, so we appreciate your patience as we work it all out.
Mutators Preview:
We announced earlier this week that we're releasing a FREE game update in November that adds a number of new Presets and Custom Settings. Dubbed "Mutators," these brand-new options will allow you to change multiple aspects of your custom games. Ball size, ball bounciness, boost strength, gravity, match length, and max score are just a few of the many new modifiers that you'll be able to manipulate. In addition, we'll also offer a "Mutator Mashup" playlist that assembles several game-type Presets (like "Moonball" and "Cubic") for easy online action.
Over time, we'll continue to add additional presets to the Mashup playlist, and starting in December, we'll also add a brand-new Hockey mode. You can watch the official trailer to see what we're talking about, RIGHT HERE.
We'll continue to update you more on these (and other) topics regularly via Facebook and Twitter. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to bring them up in this thread or during our Reddit AMA on November 3! Also, don’t forget to grab your FREE Halloween items by November 2! You’ll have another chance to get them next year if you don’t grab all six. Thanks!
Car-wot-plays-football smash hit Rocket League [official site] is the gift that keeps on giving. And I don’t mean simply that the next downloadable content is free, but also that it continues to ramp up the game’s signature ridiculousness. Next month sees the addition of Mutators, a loving nod to the Unreal Tournament feature of the same name, with which you can remix RL matches into something a little stranger. Make the ball gigantic, for instance, or square. Make it into a giant ice hockey puck, or a low-gravity Moonball. Make it faster, make it explode. It’s the obvious add-on for Rocket League in a way, and it costs no-pennies.
Longtime Psyonix fans already know that Rocket League’s origins are firmly rooted in the modes and mods of Unreal Tournament and its beloved sequels, and we’ve never forgotten that; Which is why we’re celebrating our UT heritage by unleashing a new, 100% FREE, update this November that allows players to “Mutate” their matches with a multitude of cool Presets and Custom settings!
https://youtu.be/cEH2hUw-d_U? Want to play low-gravity “Moonball” with extra boost? It’s possible! Want to relive classic Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars game modes like “Cubic” and “Time Warp?” You can!
Whatever your preference, you’ll be able to find your favorite gameplay combinations in just a few short weeks from now when Mutators invade Rocket League! Once they arrive, you’ll be able to create new Custom Matches with the rules and settings made especially from your tastes, while our sweet “Mutator Mashup” playlist allows you to enjoy pre-determined weirdo matches in public games like you’ve never seen them before.
Want even more details about how Mutators work? Tune into our official Twitch channel -- http://www.twitch.tv/RocketLeague -- tomorrow, October 29, at 5pm Eastern/ 2pm Pacific, as we go in-depth with our new Mutator modes, or check back with us on again on Reddit, November 3 at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT, for an AMA you won’t soon forget!
Longtime Psyonix fans already know that Rocket League’s origins are firmly rooted in the modes and mods of Unreal Tournament and its beloved sequels, and we’ve never forgotten that; Which is why we’re celebrating our UT heritage by unleashing a new, 100% FREE, update this November that allows players to “Mutate” their matches with a multitude of cool Presets and Custom settings!
https://youtu.be/cEH2hUw-d_U? Want to play low-gravity “Moonball” with extra boost? It’s possible! Want to relive classic Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars game modes like “Cubic” and “Time Warp?” You can!
Whatever your preference, you’ll be able to find your favorite gameplay combinations in just a few short weeks from now when Mutators invade Rocket League! Once they arrive, you’ll be able to create new Custom Matches with the rules and settings made especially from your tastes, while our sweet “Mutator Mashup” playlist allows you to enjoy pre-determined weirdo matches in public games like you’ve never seen them before.
Want even more details about how Mutators work? Tune into our official Twitch channel -- http://www.twitch.tv/RocketLeague -- tomorrow, October 29, at 5pm Eastern/ 2pm Pacific, as we go in-depth with our new Mutator modes, or check back with us on again on Reddit, November 3 at 4pm ET/ 1pm PT, for an AMA you won’t soon forget!
Rocket League is obviously meant to be a version of soccer played with rocket-powered battle cars, but it's always felt more like hockey to me. You've got the battles in the corners and along the boards, clearing, checking, and momentum to consider—and that's not lost on Psyonix, because soon the dev is going to add a puck.
Rocket League is getting mutators, and it starts in November with stuff like a low gravity 'Moonball' mutator and the 'Cubic' mutator, which was apparently a favorite in the original game, and turns the ball into a cube. I'm not sure what 'Time Warp' does, but I'm on board. There'll also be a new playlist that cycles these modes, called Mutator Mashup, according to the press release.
As much as I love the basic, competitive version of Rocket League, something more whimsical (more whimsical than cars playing soccer, yes) sounds like a wonderful, less competitive way to kill a couple hours making cars do unlikely things. I'm excited.
But as a hockey fan, I'm most excited for December, which is when we'll get the hockey mutator. From the looks of it, hockey mode turns the field to ice and the ball into a giant, ridiculous-looking puck. I was sort of hoping it would further emulate hockey by adding space behind the goal, but that'd probably be a bit much (and possibly entirely unfun). I'm not so sure about the puck, actually. Trying to steer that biscuit looks onerous, as if it outweighs the cars and is more likely to smash them than go anywhere. But we'll see! It might be fun to have new bounces to learn, and to deal with a puck's endearing habit of spinning and flipping and generally being a pain in the ass to put in a goal.
The mutator update will be free. There's no word on the exact date of either release, but we might find out on Thursday, when Psyonix will be livestreaming a demonstration.
In 1981, the DeLorean Motor Company starting producing its first – and only – car, the DeLorean DMC-12. It was a flop, and the company shut down a few years later. The DMC-12 was expensive, heavy, and slow, so for a good long while many simply sat and rusted quietly in garages, car yards, and barns – too much work to fix up.
The car’s spaceship-y stainless steel panelling and gull-wing doors have found a few fans amongst collectors in recent years but, even so, this is a curious development: a DMC-12 arrived in Rocket League [official site] today as DLC.
Ball indicator now properly appears in Beckwith Park (Stormy)
Improved Ranked post-game UI stability when attempting to chat
Complete list below..
CHANGES AND UPDATES
Online
When a player’s Rank Points (RP) are well below average for their hidden matchmaking rating (MMR), bonus RP will be awarded for wins to better “trend” players towards their expected rank.
UI/ UX
Improved UI functionality in post-game Ranked matches when receiving unlocks or attempting to chat
BUG FIXES
Arenas
Fixed an issue where the ball indicator would not appear in Beckwith Park (Stormy) when Render Detail was set below High Quality
