Rocket League Update 1.05

Rocket League Update 1.05

Here’s the full list of patch notes for today’s update, which is 522MB:

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

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, 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
• (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 to Video Games folder: Blacklight, Blacklight: Retribution, Edge of Space, Fenix Rage, Shadowgate, Strike Vector EX, Unreal, Warframe, Warframe Chroma, Warframe Excalibur, Warframe Loki, Sweet Tooth

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