Rocket League is just a bit bit extra social, slightly bit louder and a tad higher moderated at the moment. The much-hyped Patch v1.43 has formally rolled out for the shock Esports mega-hit, including automated event play, an choice to truly hearken to the sport’s built-in soundtrack (fancy that) and a few developer-level chat moderation options, permitting them to globally gag unpleasantly noisesome gamers.
The key characteristic on this replace is the Tournament system. Invite a swarm of gamers, set the foundations and the sport will deal with the job of matchmaking groups to run a event. Sadly, losers leagues and returning challenges don’t appear to be an choice on this specific iteration, however I hope it’ll be added afterward.
The different largest characteristic for me (your mileage could fluctuate) is the very belated addition of in-game music. Previously, all you heard throughout gameplay was honking horns, revving engines and the siren asserting a aim scored. Now you’ll be able to truly hearken to the (surprisingly intensive) soundtrack to the sport, plus a bunch of latest tracks launched on this replace.
Presumably to curb toxicity inside the Rocket League neighborhood, Psyonix have launched world chat bans for gamers which might be loud, obnoxious and in any other case disruptive. Presumably these received’t be casually handed out (the sport has a really giant cross-platform neighborhood, and a comparatively small studio supporting it), however chat-banned gamers will discover themselves unable to make use of public textual content chat in-game in any respect, and can solely be allowed to ship pre-set Quick Chat messages each 5 seconds.
Naturally, chat bans don’t have an effect on personal or get together occasions, but it surely ought to hopefully lead to a number of much less abusive random gamers. One last characteristic launched is a brand new set of HUD parts displaying connection points as they come up. Distinct symbols for prime latency, ping fluctuation, packet loss or server pressure can seem on-screen if one thing is improper, so at the very least you’ll know if it’s simply you that’s lagging or everybody directly.
It’s attention-grabbing to see this added now, contemplating it was a regular characteristic again within the early days of PC on-line gaming, however Rocket League is moderately extra delicate to connection points than most fashionable multiplayer video games. The replace is stay now, and you may check out the full patch notes here.
