It’s time to get very, very severe about taking pictures your buddies with rockets. Rocket Arena‘s first season takes off today, bringing a heap of newness to EA’s bouncy battle enviornment – a brand new battle move, new ranked season, a collection of latest limited-time occasions that’ll herald new maps, and a dorky new hero who blows up baddies by tossing interdimensional cat-heads at them.
Rocket Arena’s headline addition is Flux, a baby prodigy who reckons getting punted by excessive explosives is a small value to pay for extracurricular curiosity.
Annoyingly, the Season One update post doesn’t give us a lot on Flux past her being “excitable, effusive, and easily distracted by anything that tickles her scientific fancy”. At least the video provides us a take a look at a few of her skills, with largely seem to contain robotic cat heads at people to blow them up / compress them right into a horrifying singularity. She can even dimension shift to sneak about, sorta like Wraith off of Apex Legends. Importantly, you received’t should pay a penny to play as Rocket Arena’s nerdy murderchild.
Season 1 additionally brings in Rocket Arena’s first battle move (sorry, “Blast Pass”), your commonplace affair with 117 ranges of rewards break up throughout free and paid tiers. But it’ll additionally characteristic two time-limited occasions, completely including new maps together with temporary, themed gamemodes to point out off the brand new locales. The first, Blast In Paradise, kicks off on August 12th by including Grand Harbor and Lagoon of Doom to the game’s map pool.
Rocket Arena’s core premise – wot if Super Smash Bros however with rocket launchers – is an efficient’un, although I’ll admit I haven’t heard a lot buzz across the game since its launch two weeks in the past. If you’re up for giving it a bash, Rocket Arena is at present accessible on Steam and Origin for £25/$30/€30.
