Rocket League Update Starts First Season and Introduces Ranks

THE HEADLINES

• Ranked Season 1 Officially begins
• Added multiple Ranked Season Divisions with post-Season Division placement rewards
• Added “Ranked Solo Standard” back to the Online match queue
• Made multiple improvements and adjustments to the Utopia Coliseum arena
• PC players can now filter PlayStation 4 players out of matchmaking search
• Added Music Player interface to all menu screens
• Added “Featured Video” to in-game blog roll
• Added multiple “Spectate” mode improvements
• Added 12 new Community Flags, 2 new Chivalry Flags, and 20+ new Country Flags
• Repaired sound-related crash scenario that caused the game to crash on the loading screen after multiple matches

Complete list below…

NEW CONTENT

Antennas

• Added “Community Flags”
  • Angry Army
  • Anne Munition
  • The Attack
  • EMD1
  • ESL
  • itmeJP
  • MLG
  • Razer
  • Saudi Gamer
  • Serious Gaming
• Added “Video Games”
  • Chivalry – Agatha Knights
  • Chivalry – Mason Order
• Added “Country Flags”
  • Bahrain
  • Belize
  • Bhutan
  • Botswana
  • Comoros
  • East Timor
  • Fiji
  • Gambia
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Kosovo
  • Lesotho
  • Macau
  • Mauritius
  • Pakistan
  • Puntland
  • Réunion
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somaliland
  • Suriname
  • Swaziland
  • Western Sahara

NEW FEATURES

Online Play

• Added “Find New Match” option to Ranked endgame screen
• PC Players can now filter PlayStation 4 players out of matchmaking search

Ranked Season

• Season 1 has officially begun and all leaderboards have been reset
• The “Solo Standard” 3v3 Ranked Playlist has been re-added
• Season Rankings are now based on Rank Points (RP)
  • Rank Points are gained or lost based on Player skill rating, teammates’ skill, and the opponent’s skill (like the Pre-Season rating)
  • Rank Points change consistently throughout the Season unlike the Pre-Season skill rating, which changed less and less the more games that were played
  • Earning 100 RP will promote Players to the next Division, but dropping below 0 RP will demote them to the previous Division
  • The Player’s initial division is seeded based on their Pre-Season skill rating
• Ranked Divisions are now separated into…
  • Unranked
  • Bronze I
  • Bronze II
  • Bronze III
  • Silver I
  • Silver II
  • Silver III
  • Gold I
  • Gold II
  • Gold III
  • Platinum (Top 100 Players)
• Reaching Silver, Gold, or Platinum division rewards players with special reward items at the Season’s end
• Note: Season 1 will last for the next several months. An end date will be announced several weeks in advance

UI/ UX

• Added Music Player interface to all menu screens
• Added “Featured Video” to in-game blog roll
• Added “Video Games” sub-section to Garage Items/ Antennas
• Spectate Mode: Added persistent nameplate that shows username and stats for all players
• Spectate Mode: Added the ability to focus on the ball while in Flycam
• (PC) Spectate Mode: Controls now support hotkeys for camera switching between players or free cam

CHANGES AND UPDATES

Online

• Ranked Pre-Season is now over (see above)
• Improved overall connection reliability

Arena – Utopia Coliseum

• Daylight has been changed to earlier in the day
• Overall lighting effects and ambiance have been improved
• Level boundaries are now more clearly defined
• Added new arches around the outside of the playing field (because it looks cooler)
• Player start positions and Boost placements have been standardized to match other maps

UI/ UX

• Moved “Save Replay” option lower in the post-game screen so it is not selected by default
• Disabled HTML tag support in chat
• (PS4) Controller audio has been switched to “Off” by default for single-player, but can be toggled back on via Options menu (Splitscreen controller audio still defaults to “On”)

Garage Items

• Antennas
  • Moved “Blacklight” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Blacklight: Retribution” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Edge of Space” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Fenix Rage” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Shadowgate” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Strike Vector EX” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Unreal” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Warframe” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Warframe Chroma” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Warframe Excalibur” to “Video Games” folder
  • Moved “Warframe Loki” to “Video Games” folder
  • (PS4) Moved “Sweet Tooth” to “Video Games” folder

BUG FIXES

General

• Direct Input and XInput controllers no longer stop working when played together
• Improved protection against corrupted save data
• Repaired boundary-collision issue that would sometimes allow players to exit the arena
• Fixed random invisibility bug associated with large Boost pick-ups

Audio

• Fixed issue that caused in-game sounds to drop in and out
• Repaired sound-related crash scenario that caused the game to crash on the loading screen after multiple matches

Maps

• Utopia Coliseum: Fixed issue that would sometimes allow the ball to fall through the bottom of the map

UI/ UX

• (PS4) Text chat now properly works after suspend/ resume
• (PS4) Corrected issue that caused PC players to appear nameless to PS4 players following suspend/ resume