The Rocket League team has revealed the spring 2018 roadmap, featuring a ton of new content and gameplay tweaks.
For spring this year, patches will alternate between content updates and feature updates. This will allow the team to “update on a more frequent and regular cycle, guarantees [players] won’t have to wait too long between Competitive Seasons, and lets [the devs] spend more time perfecting and bug fixing features before they go live.”
The next update is set to launch on February 7.
Take a look at the full roadmap below:
FEBRUARY
February Content Update
- Competitive Season 7 Begins
- Competitive Season 6 Rewards
- New Crate
- New RLCS Fan Rewards
Tournaments Beta
- Steam public beta for our upcoming Tournaments Feature
MARCH
New Licensed Premium DLC
Spring Event
SPRING (MARCH-APRIL)
Spring Feature Update
Tournaments
- Play against other players in bracketed, single elimination tournaments
Quality of Life Updates
- Item Stacking
- Better Item Filtering, Searching, and Sorting
- Equip to Blue/Orange Team for Painted Car Bodies
New and Expanded Options
- Packet Send/Receive Rate and Bandwidth Limits
- “Team Quick Chat Only”
- Disable “One Minute Remaining”, etc. messages
Connection Quality Info
- See notifications for Packet Loss, Latency Variance, and Server Performance in-game
- Will help us and the community better differentiate between “server issues” and connection problems
Switch Performance & Visual Quality Updates
- Performance Mode – 900p (Docked) / 720p (Handheld) @ 60 FPS with infrequent dynamic resolution scaling
- Quality Mode – Native 1080p (Docked) / 720p (Handheld) @ 30 FPS with added visual effects
APRIL AND BEYOND
Once we’re past the Tournaments release we’ll begin talking more about our roadmap for the summer and beyond with posts like these every few months. As a quick reminder, here are some of the features that are still being developed for 2018 release:
Cross-Platform Parties
- Party up and matchmake with players from other (participating) platforms
Progression Updates
- Make XP relevant again
- Earn Decryptors through play
- New Banners, Titles, and other rewards for reaching high levels
New Arenas
New Features
Xbox One X – We are now targeting Xbox One X support for late 2018
Psyonix is promising some big changes, including additional support for the Nintendo Switch, and an Xbox One X patch now planned for late 2018.
What do you make of these Rocket League future updates? Sounding like a lot of fun? Or were you hoping for the game to go in a different direction? Let us know?
Source: Rocket League
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