If you couldn’t get right into a game of Rocket League over the weekend, you’re not alone. Because of some bizarre technical difficulties, gamers have been faraway from the game’s servers whereas it was put into “maintenance mode” on and off over the previous few days. It couldn’t have come at a extra inconvenient time both, as the problems brought about a bunch of official esports matches to be pushed again, too.
It all began on Thursday, after what gave the impression to be a daily upkeep replace to PsyNet (the community that connects gamers throughout platforms in Rocket League). This replace had damaged one thing one way or the other, because the Rocket League devs took to Twitter on Friday to tell gamers they have been investigating “server access issues” – then a short time later gamers have been knowledgeable it was all fastened. Except it wasn’t correctly fastened, as a result of this continued to occur a number of instances on Saturday and Sunday.
Last night time although, the on-again off-again servers lastly gave the impression to be sorted: “Thank you for your patience this weekend, and we’re sorry for the downtime,” Psyonix stated in their last tweet, however what went incorrect?
In a message to players on the Rocket League Discord, a developer from Psyonix defined that they weren’t a server drawback, however a PsyNet drawback:
“What meaning is the game servers are fantastic, however we’re having bother with 1) placing gamers into servers, and a couple of) different providers that decision into PsyNet (updating XP after a match, Challenges, Item Shop, and so forth.)
“The maintenance we did on Thursday was a PsyNet upgrade, moving to a new version of MySQL (database management system), this is where we are having issues at the moment”.
It all seems to have been resolved now, however sadly for anybody trying ahead to the primary week of the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS), you’ll have to attend till a later date to observe, as a result of the matches have been postponed.
“Competitive integrity is of the utmost importance and we don’t want players and teams playing on shaky ground,” the builders wrote in a submit on Reddit. “We’re currently planning how we’ll reschedule the matches and we should have an update for you early next week in that regard.”
Due to the disruption, the Rival Series Play-In brackets have been postponed, too – the North American matches are pushed again to February eighth at 2pm EST (7pm GMT), and the European matches are pushed again to February ninth at 1pm CET (12pm GMT).
In different Rocket League information, I reported final week that the developers are stopping support for the game on Mac and Linux as a result of the platforms symbolize lower than 0.3% of the energetic participant base. It’s additionally one of many games in a position to make use of a new add-on for the Xbox Adaptive Controller that lets you play the game with a power wheelchair.
