Rocket League: V1.50 Progression Update Patch Notes

Kayant · Aug 29, 2018

Yikes! ball physics among other things are broken(Luckily haven't jumped in yet)
In snow day pinches look to be dead too :(
Just look at that updated known issues list -

Unable to dodge while only holding Air Roll Left or Right

Ball reacting to the car differently while dribbling (on ground or in air)

[Steam] Bright flairs/colors on boosts, etc when Lens Flare is enabled

Unexpected Goalpost and Crossbar bounces

Left/right camera swivel not working with keyboard/mouse

Teams entering matches with more players than they should. (3v4, 2v3, etc)

Club matches may not be working in 2v2

Some non-profane names are being censored

Some players may noticed that certain titles are not appearing

Music playlists may be deselected and changes will not be saved after restarting

The rear wheel well of the Nissan Skyline is appearing wider the before

Some Steam achievements may not be unlocking

Snow Day puck physics may be off and not acting appropriately

Wonder how long it will take to hotfix or revert the patch.

SpartyCrunch said:
They said at the beginning of this year that they will not release the X Enhancements patch until the Autumn of this year at the earliest.

I don't really understand why anyone is still expecting the enhancements to drop earlier than they originally promised.

People just like to be disappointed i guess, always makes me laugh seeing those posts time again.
I can understand the frustration but people should know there is a lot more that is keeping them from doing the update quickly -

On the contrary - Xbox is very important to us and continues to sell very well.

Xbox One X support is a complicated one because it requires a lot of updates AND the benefit is less clear cut. To enable it, we have to do a full XDK upgrade (Microsoft's development layer that Xbox games are built on top of) which changed and removed lots of multiplayer functionality we rely on for Parties and other functionality. So it's a big job beyond just the actual 4k rendering/etc. updates.

The game already runs better on the X due to the improved hardware inside, so the main benefit is that 4K support. And we had to make some tough choices about how much 4k in Rocket League was worth compared to our other priorities - Tournaments, etc.

We're still committed to delivering Xbox One X support but that's the summary of how we got here.

Plus if am not mistaken it is also being done in combination with panic button who have a bunch of things on atm too.

SpartyCrunch · Aug 29, 2018

More Butter said:
Ok. But why so long to begin with? The (small developer) reasoning makes sense but then you consider the large amount of crates released for people to gamble on and the PS4 pro version that they cranked out so quickly and it becomes a little annoying. The game has had excellent support but they have been ignoring a substantial group of players. It's a minor annoyance but all I can do is express how I'm not pleased with it.

Kayant just posted above what I was going to. There is a lot to do. It's not "ignoring" anyone and it's not easy for them to "just" enhance the game.

And as someone who owns the game on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC, I'm extremely happy that they chose to prioritize the overhauled progression and all of the other updates they've made this year first instead of prioritizing the X enhancements highly.

I mean, it's not like Rocket League is a game that really" needs" enhancements. The game plays so well regardless of everything else that I was even super happy to play it at the low resolutions it ran at on Switch before that was updated to run at 720p.

RandomExpletive · Aug 29, 2018

Clubs seem cool, XP changes are welcome, although I'm not thrilled about an unskippable 5 sec animation of the bar filling up, save that for leveling up, or let us choose, I just want to queue for another match

AcridMeat · Aug 29, 2018

RandomExpletive said:
Clubs seem cool, XP changes are welcome, although I'm not thrilled about an unskippable 5 sec animation of the bar filling up, save that for leveling up, or let us choose, I just want to queue for another match

Oh what? That's annoying.

horsebite · Aug 29, 2018

For some reason chat is HUGE on switch version lol

Treestump · Aug 29, 2018

Oof, that Best of the Bunch Achievement is gonna take some work.

SixelAlexiS · Aug 29, 2018

Is the anisotropic filtering still ass on PS4?

opticalmace · Aug 29, 2018

horsebite said:
For some reason chat is HUGE on switch version lol

Need a pic of this. :P

night814 · Aug 29, 2018

UI adjustment was one of my only complaints for the Switch version, might have to jump back in before online goes pay²play.

ApeEscaper · Aug 29, 2018

SixelAlexiS said:
Is the anisotropic filtering still ass on PS4?

They fixed that last update apparently it was a bug before

AcridMeat · Aug 29, 2018

Trying to find a club to play against to see the new colors. Seem to be some bugs from the patch though.

CountAntonio · Aug 29, 2018

AcridMeat said:
Trying to find a club to play against to see the new colors. Seem to be some bugs from the patch though.

Try duels. If you are both in a club it turns into ac lub match. So cool being able to use black and white as primary colors now.

halo117 · Aug 30, 2018

I'm waiting on the 4k support for my One X, otherwise, all good stuff

SixelAlexiS · Aug 30, 2018

apeAsnake said:
They fixed that last update apparently it was a bug before

But I guess that shadow bug is still there instead (it was there one month ago)?

It's an old video (2015), but the effect is even worse on other maps...

Praxis · Aug 30, 2018

Kayant said:
Yikes! ball physics among other things are broken(Luckily haven't jumped in yet)
In snow day pinches look to be dead too :(
Just look at that updated known issues list -

Wonder how long it will take to hotfix or revert the patch.

People just like to be disappointed i guess, always makes me laugh seeing those posts time again.
I can understand the frustration but people should know there is a lot more that is keeping them from doing the update quickly -

Plus if am not mistaken it is also being done in combination with panic button who have a bunch of things on atm too.

Can confirm, pinches are dead. They have finally hammered the last nail into the Snow Day coffin. What a shitty update.

Kayant · Aug 30, 2018

Praxis said:
Can confirm, pinches are dead. They have finally hammered the last nail into the Snow Day coffin. What a shitty update.

It's complete horseshit if their plan really is to remove it because it sure sounds like that. Which is just really silly as it slows the game down and removes skill gap from the mode, whilst pinches can be random at high level they often are not. Then you look at the fact that rumble is getting ranked in which things are completely random then you really start to wonder what their aim is here with the change.

IMO this 'bug' should only be fixed if it's causing effects at large elsewhere which so far doesn't seem to be the case until they decided to touch it with this update.

Prattle · Aug 30, 2018

What is a pinch?

The music options are broken on switch!

CountAntonio · Aug 30, 2018

Update follow up.
Hi everyone, there are a few issues we want to address that came with today's Progression Update.

Today's level conversion resulted in Level 75 players, including both recent Rocketeers and players with thousands of hours invested in Rocket League, ending up at new levels very close to each other -- typically in the Level 110-120 range. This is not the conversion we anticipated and the end result is unintended.

Before the end of next week, if all goes as planned, we'll roll out a server-side fix that better rewards the time investment made by Rocketeers. Players with the most matches played beyond Level 75 will be increased to just over Level 200, with fresh Rocketeers staying around Level 110 and the rest somewhere in-between. Any levels you earn in the meantime will still count.

We're also working on a hotfix to address the two biggest issues that appeared with the Progression Update. Our hope is to release this hotfix on PS4, Steam and Xbox One as soon as possible -- before the weekend begins, pending first party approvals -- with a hotfix for Switch following soon after. This hotfix will address two bugs:

Input issues preventing dodge left/right, air 'stalling,' and other movement when holding the air roll left/right buttons
Unintended changes to the ball physics that alter 'dribbling' and other known mechanics (you can read more about this issue here)

Thank you for your patience, everyone, as we work to address these issues. We never want our players -- including our most hardcore players -- to feel slighted or ignored when we're making changes in Rocket League.

nikasun :D · Aug 30, 2018

Oh nice, is there a Rocket League community thread where I can look for players?

Edit: Found it!

Praxis · Aug 30, 2018

Kayant said:
It's complete horseshit if their plan really is to remove it because it sure sounds like that. Which is just really silly as it slows the game down and removes skill gap from the mode, whilst pinches can be random at high level they often are not. Then you look at the fact that rumble is getting ranked to which is completely random and you really start to wonder what their aim here.

IMO this 'bug' should only be fixed if it's causing effects at large elsewhere which so far doesn't seem to be the case until they decided to touch it with this update.

Well said and I hope it wasn't intentional and the change is rolled back. It's just one of those things you learned if you wanted to take your snow day game up a notch and can make for some exciting plays, whether it's to send the puck quickly down the wings for a chance on goal or a long range shot that isn't usually possible in Snow Day.

Kayant · Aug 30, 2018

Praxis said:
Well said and I hope it wasn't intentional and the change is rolled back. It's just one of those things you learned if you wanted to take your snow day game up a notch and can make for some exciting plays, whether it's to send the puck quickly down the wings for a chance on goal or a long range shot that isn't usually possible in Snow Day.

Luckily it does seem like it wasn't intentional. Based on the multiple touches comment I can see what they may have been going for but if that can't be fixed without messing up pinches and the current puck physics then they should let things be.

A Psyonix employee posted this in the Rocket Hockey League discord - In case anyone wants to join you can hang out here

Lmao the puck is so bad now look at this
Prattle
Something like this ;)

Btw all clips are from community members of Rocket Hockey League.

LordFish · Aug 30, 2018

First Touch, Aerial Hit, Bicycle Hit, and Juggle Hit no longer award Score

These stats are still tracked and updated for your Career Stats page

What the hell psyonix.

A Grizzly Bear · Aug 30, 2018

LordFish said:
First Touch, Aerial Hit, Bicycle Hit, and Juggle Hit no longer award Score

These stats are still tracked and updated for your Career Stats page

What the hell psyonix.

It was clearly done to deter people from doing those things for no other reason than to pad their score/XP. I've already played in a game where the other team scored on themselves to force OT just so they could get more points.

Achtung · Aug 30, 2018

I introduced a friend of mine to the game last night... he bought it and we jumped into a club and then into a tournament match. (Achievements were calling our name) We were on the Xbox One and about 3 min into the first game of the tournament the other team seemed to have unlimited boost and just head hunted us over and over. Spawn .. blow up.. spawn blow up. This continued the rest of the match and into the next so we quit.

Was this hacking of some sort? I have played a ton of RL online and have never seen this on Xbox or Switch. They did not have xbox icons so I assume PC... but man was it hard to convince my friend this was not normal and he quit and wanted nothing else to do with it.

No idea if this is connected to the update.. its been a few months since I have played but I sure hope this is not the norm now. Patch has some very cool things in it that I am looking forward to trying out.

swimming · Aug 30, 2018

preferred when people had the titles under their player name? now i don't know what rank i'm up against

AcridMeat · Aug 30, 2018

saltyramen said:
preferred when people had the titles under their player name? now i don't know what rank i'm up against

You've been able to hide titles for a long, long time. I never used the title before the update.

With the update it just reset to default without one since most people have more available now. So you're probably seeing people who either didn't notice or don't care to change it.

Sorry the question mark threw me off like you were asking why.

CountAntonio · Aug 30, 2018

Kayant · Aug 30, 2018

Whew! Pinches are back Praxis

jakoo · Aug 30, 2018

Anyone else having server connectivity issues? I just got booted from three ranked matches in a row....in all cases I was about to finally get my tenth win on Gold :-(

horsebite · Aug 30, 2018

opticalmace said:
Need a pic of this. :P

I'll have to take one tonight. All is good on PS4 & PC (in terms of the UI), but Switch chat box is absolutely enormous. It's super weird.

SundaysBest · Aug 30, 2018

Game looks alot better in handheld mode switch

Tambini · Aug 30, 2018

AGrizzlyBear said:
It was clearly done to deter people from doing those things for no other reason than to pad their score/XP. I've already played in a game where the other team scored on themselves to force OT just so they could get more points.

Why though? I only play RL casually nowadays but XP and levelling doesn't actually do anything other than a nice bar to watch go up right?

Praxis · Aug 30, 2018

Kayant said:
Whew! Pinches are back Praxis

Holy shit! Nice.

This reminds me, someone reported me for pinching a couple of weeks ago and said it was cheating and exploiting a bug. I asked them how many patches there had been since Snow Day and if it wasn't fixed by now it wasn't a bug that was considered cheating. They called me a homophobic slur and quit, I reported them for the slur and a few days later I had a notification that action had been taken because of my report haha.

So, when this went down yesterday and we didn't know if it was intentional or not I was getting ready to eat serious crow. Thank god its coming back.

horsebite · Aug 30, 2018

AGrizzlyBear said:
It was clearly done to deter people from doing those things for no other reason than to pad their score/XP. I've already played in a game where the other team scored on themselves to force OT just so they could get more points.

Playing last night was very annoying due to stuff like this. I had a game last nearly 25 minutes because one of the other team got disconnected early on and the other teammate wouldn't forfeit because my teammate kept telling him not to so he could score more goals for XP. Score ended up being like 27-0 and the match took absolutely forever (teammate was the only person who wouldn't skip replays).

If stuff like that keeps happening, I'm not going to play as much. I really love RL and the ability to jump in, play a few matches quickly and get out. If every ranked match becomes a point grind fest for XP, I'm going to be pissed.

Saty · Aug 30, 2018

Are they ever going to change blatant 'own goals' getting credited as regular scores by the other team?

Kayant · Aug 30, 2018

Praxis said:
Holy shit! Nice.

This reminds me, someone reported me for pinching a couple of weeks ago and said it was cheating and exploiting a bug. I asked them how many patches there had been since Snow Day and if it wasn't fixed by now it wasn't a bug that was considered cheating. They called me a homophobic slur and quit, I reported them for the slur and a few days later I had a notification that action had been taken because of my report haha.

So, when this went down yesterday and we didn't know if it was intentional or not I was getting ready to eat serious crow. Thank god its coming back.

Yikes! The report button is such a glorious addition always great when that report feedback comes in when a troll has been pwned xD.

LordofPwn · Aug 30, 2018

played a bit yesterday. first match i didn't receive any xp even though it played the remaining 2:30 of a match i got put into. the next match the other team forfeited 5 seconds into it. won 2 matches but didn't receive the win bonus, stopped playing and came back later that night. get thrown into a 4v3, and i finally got my 2 win bonuses. was hoping this update would keep people from leaving matches early and staying on the server but nope. dissapointing.

A Grizzly Bear · Aug 30, 2018

Tambini said:
Why though? I only play RL casually nowadays but XP and levelling doesn't actually do anything other than a nice bar to watch go up right?

This whole patch was about changing that progress to be more meaningful. Now you unlock items when you level up and get level specific rewards.

horsebite said:
Playing last night was very annoying due to stuff like this. I had a game last nearly 25 minutes because one of the other team got disconnected early on and the other teammate wouldn't forfeit because my teammate kept telling him not to so he could score more goals for XP. Score ended up being like 27-0 and the match took absolutely forever (teammate was the only person who wouldn't skip replays).

If stuff like that keeps happening, I'm not going to play as much. I really love RL and the ability to jump in, play a few matches quickly and get out. If every ranked match becomes a point grind fest for XP, I'm going to be pissed.

I think they've considered some of these scenarios. I expect they'll continue to balance the progression as people find new ways to abuse it.

Carbon · Aug 30, 2018

Praxis said:
Holy shit! Nice.

This reminds me, someone reported me for pinching a couple of weeks ago and said it was cheating and exploiting a bug. I asked them how many patches there had been since Snow Day and if it wasn't fixed by now it wasn't a bug that was considered cheating. They called me a homophobic slur and quit, I reported them for the slur and a few days later I had a notification that action had been taken because of my report haha.

So, when this went down yesterday and we didn't know if it was intentional or not I was getting ready to eat serious crow. Thank god its coming back.

Nerfing pinching kills Snow Day in a major way...It's like playing hockey without a slapshot. Far, far less interesting.

Glad they fixed it so quickly.

horsebite · Aug 30, 2018

AGrizzlyBear said:
This whole patch was about changing that progress to be more meaningful. Now you unlock items when you level up and get level specific rewards.

I think they've considered some of these scenarios. I expect they'll continue to balance the progression as people find new ways to abuse it.

Yeah, I trust them to fix this stuff, it's just a pain right now (like the unskippable XP bar animation when I really just want to que for a new match). They'll get it sorted sooner rather than later, I'm sure.

Falchion · Aug 30, 2018

Jumped up to level 78 after the update, can't wait to get back into the competitive grind now!

Aesop · Aug 31, 2018

Its really annoying that you have to look at some useless level-up bar after every match

opticalmace · Aug 31, 2018

Aesop said:
Its really annoying that you have to look at some useless level-up bar after every match

Agreed

Nabs · Aug 31, 2018

I hope they give us a way to turn off matchmaking vibration without disabling vibration altogether. It's a bit strong on my end (PC).

Rocket League: V1.50 Progression Update Patch Notes

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