Rocket League Goes Free-to-Play Causing Server Issues

Rocket League is now free-to-play on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch, which seems to be inflicting server points. After months of ready, Epic Games and Psyonix lastly hit the “launch” button on free-to-play. As a consequence, new gamers started to flood the game, and so like most games that go free-to-play after beforehand being premium, Rocket League has been having server points.

Rocket League launched again in 2015, and whereas it is all the time been pretty low-cost, right now it has been opened to anybody on the aforementioned platforms. In truth, not solely is the game free on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, however you do not want PlayStation Plus or Nintendo Switch Online to play it. Of course, the identical applies to PC, however no Xbox One, the place the game nonetheless requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

At the second of publishing, it seems the servers at the moment are working as regular, nevertheless, there are nonetheless instances of gamers reporting not having the ability to play the game. Meanwhile, Competitive Tournaments stay turned off.

Update: Matchmaking is restored, and Challenges must be accessible to all gamers within the Main Menu. Competitive Tournaments are nonetheless offline, updates to comply with as soon as they’re restored.

— Rocket League (@RocketLeague) September 23, 2020

Of course, it stays to be seen simply how a lot this new injection of gamers will affect the game long run. Obviously, servers will stabilize, however it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how this impacts the rank system and whether or not or not this could breath new life into the game, which may be very removed from dying, however a bit stagnant.

To accompany the game going free-to-play, a considerable new replace for the game was launched. You can learn extra about it — together with its patch notes — by clicking proper here. There’s not solely new content material, however loads of modifications to the game as properly. Unfortunately, none of those modifications embody the return of the “Quick Play” button, which was inexplicably eliminated in a current replace.

Rocket League is obtainable, free of charge, through the PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch. At the second of publishing, there’s been no phrase of the game coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, or cell units.