Is Rocket Racing OFFICIALLY Dead?!?!

[@Absolute_Lunacy]

Rocket Racing might have unironically benefitted from being the "bottom vid" gameplay in shorts / reels, kinda like how Trackmania & GTA are featured that way. Also ffs you're actually so good at Racing that bg gameplay is *immaculate*

[@Flare_Tc]

They honestly robbed the RL community of something they asked for, and gave it to a community who wouldn't really enjoy it as much as them. Rip ue5 rocket league

[@Half_awake_Jake]

Preach 🙌🏽

[@Master_Viccc]

It basically is I’m a festival main player but I found out they threw some free jam tracks but the only way to unlock it is not through festival it’s to play rocket racing and do the weekly challenges and do 8 challenges in rocket racing to get festival jam tracks which is wild to me I would understand stand me having to do BR but on RR is basically forcing you to play that mode just to keep it relevant

[@StarWyse]

yeah the jam tracks being locked behind a mode that doesn't even support jam tracks is pretty stupid

[@TyGuy943]

They better lower the prices on cars now that they aren’t doing new seasons for rocket racing

[@LilDoofy]

They probably aren’t because the cars are still usable in BR

[@Blaze_Craze]

Can’t believe they dropped support for this mode after 3 seasons, I was really enjoying this game mode and now I’m not sure if I’m even gonna go for elite again which I’ve hit consistently the last 2 seasons, kinda mad about this but rocket racing ain’t gonna be around for awhile I think.

[@Half_awake_Jake]

Have you tried Rocket League?

[@Blaze_Craze]

@ yes I’ve played rocket league since 2016 I quit the game in 2020 and I’ve played it on and off the games so dead it’s not even a joke

[@Kiger_03]

RR is now a premium experience. Just like STW.

[@optimumplatinum2640]

Shame too because it could have easily be just like Blur or literally just have normal RL physics, but no they did something no one asked for, have bland obstacles and abysmal communication

[@srge123]

​@@optimumplatinum2640 This is not the reason. Kids just hate high skill racing, they can only do building in BR.

[@optimumplatinum2640]

@@srge123thing is the game is okay, but it's really jank at times making a over generalization simply bc you like a thing isn't doing good for either, and before you say the same to me note that many people shared the same sentiment after the reveal

[@jman72898]

@@srge123the mode is janky as fuck. I’m in champion rank and the physics still make NO sense sometimes and I just fucking spin out or go all haywire when I don’t even mean to. Nobody asked for this kind of mode at all, most were expecting a Mario kart kind of experience which fits the goofy nature of fortnite much more then what they actually gave us.

[@srge123]

@@optimumplatinum2640 People are just repeating the hateful opinions from RL content creators. Majority of this audience hasn't even installed Rocket Racing because they are biased against it. I'm not saying there are no problems in the game, but they are in no hurry to fix anything because of the very low support from players

[@Averege_Kimiko_enjoyer]

Bruh poor Kimiko 😅

[@PauloClassicStyle]

based sonic frontiers ost

[@hotrod_hornet]

Tough times all around. Best we can do is enjoy the game as-is and hope Epic allows the TEN devs to make a little bit of content and fixes over time.

[@MrZephyrMan23]

The fact Rocket Racing got the STW treatment so fast is baffling to me. It's also hilarious that they're still trying to sell new cars as if they're trying to squeeze every last cent from the players before they realize it's pointless. Meanwhile, they kill off the Incredibile, god rest its soul 😢

[@StarWyse]

@@MrZephyrMan23 epic not releasing the incredibile was a warning

[@Jaimekk]

I think that still selling cars is bcuz you can use it in Battle Royale

[@ToppSpeed88]

​@@Jaimekk Plus if your a rocket league player you can use them in actual rocket league, which is a bonus

[@Jaimekk]

@@ToppSpeed88 Yeah thats a good thing tho!

[@ToppSpeed88]

@@Jaimekk mhm!

[@mikemajor6138]

I'll always enjoy Rocket Racing as I'm just a fan of cars and racing games in general. Though the main reason I've been grinding it recently is to play ranked for the Felina skin, since it's the only ranked game mode I don't completely suck at 😅

[@ianbuncher6488]

same🥲

[@BlkSpyDa]

​@ianbuncher6488 wait until you get to elite. These matches are insane

[@mikemajor6138]

@@BlkSpyDa yeah I just want to get into diamond since I like the color of it and it's as high as I realistically can get. Though I was half way through plat 3 before the rank reset which pissed me off (had to start from gold 1 again 🥲)

[@BlkSpyDa]

@mikemajor6138 enjoy it bro. Because once you reach elite, They mag flipping all over the place. Seems impossible.

[@optimumplatinum2640]

If they just stopped making big updates for one of their big modes they're not afraid to do it for the other ones if they don't listen to the players The whole reason for this even happening is due to not having any communication, we practically had to guess when ranks reset based on updates and RR pack leave times They even had another update on the road map, so 100% means they scrapped it, and also they had about 3 more on the way before all this. It just kinda makes no sense why there's no theming which gave it some structure, and they INSISTED that creator made maps would be plenty, but they fucking suck they're all the same thing The high player count is from quests, wheels are pretty good and people are grinding for the ranked rewards, we still have that gold drift trail since the last update, and to show support for the mode

[@jman72898]

Just like normal creative, it’s all the same cookie cutter shit and almost nothing that’s actually cool, I shouldn’t have to dig or look outside of fortnite for actual decent experiences.

[@J03L-]

What’s weird is that the jam tracks for a new RR season are the old track themes from last season.

[@Half_awake_Jake]

Late to the party but the main devs for Rocket Racing were pulled from Rocket League for 2 years while it was being made. During that time Rocket League felt basically abandoned other than season resets and lackluster cosmetics. Since then the devs have returned to RL, it is finally getting meaningful updates so I honestly can’t complain. If you liked RR , I would give RL a try. It’s honestly a more polished version of the game though it’s more soccer centered. If RL ever gets a creative mode Ik it will stay amazing because the community for that game is die hard. Sorry for rant, and as a RL player I feel your struggle.

[@silvafox07]

RL is too much of a grind . Fuck that game.

[@maxims2832]

It’s sad to see it happen. I was just starting to get into Rocket Racing just before the Metallica update ended because I had missed out on cosmetics and I wanted to start keeping up with them. I also thought it was a fun racing game on its own, nice fast races. Sad to see the themes gone because that could’ve been what gave Rocket Racing its charm. I’ll still play it for the cosmetics but it won’t be as fun as before.

[@shun2232]

Such missed potential, I've been grinding RR since it released and I haven't had that much fun with a racing game in years other than Mario Kart, so to see this mode just get thrown away because it's not as profitable as the other two new modes is heartbreaking, hopefully this means that they're working on revamping the mode, but I highly doubt it, I guess I'll still play it for a bit, but I don't think I'll grind to unreal this time around

[@Half_awake_Jake]

If you like ranked grinding car games, try Rocket League.

[@NightDayZX]

I know this is your personal opinon, and I believe not dropping any new tracks after 3 months is crazy work, buti just want to clarify that the mode will still get Updated and will still be able to get more tracks. From the way i interpret it this season is a filler season so they can get their bearings without strict deadlines, so they leave it ambiguously open.

[@JojoTheVulture]

It felt like it was missing something, gravity flipping wasn't enough to separate it from better racing games. There was nothing to keep casual players playing

[@xSNACKERx]

The low skill ceiling is enough to keep casual players playing. Theres not much expression of skill in rocket racing

[@josephtucker7181]

tbh the only reason i think more ppl started playing recently is bc the free skin that shows ranks bc RR is the quickest to rank up in. 3min race vs 30 to 50 min BR match in higher ranks when going up a couple percent those 3 min races are nothing compared to BR.

[@copenhagengamer]

I did not know that. Thank you my good sir👍

[@Thelikdeofficial]

As an unreal top player that plays a lot rocket racing i'm really worried about the future of this gamemode.

[@john_appel]

the skin in the THUMBNAIL is officially dead.

[@Gvidisss_]

cant believe they shot RR in alleyway

[@Soulvior]

They just need to focus on a Mario Kart type mode with items and that will bring players back. The items could be based on BR weapons. It’s a like Mario Kart but with realistic cars and it will be free to play.

[@4g3nt06]

Yes! Bring over some ideas from the Rumble mode in rocket league

[@AbsintheSol]

They already ruined it with the rocket league aesthetic. If it was actual Fortnite kart with ability to see your own skin, BR inspired items and tracks, everything would have turned out much better

[@silvafox07]

I honestly think they took away the magnetic style of flipping and the stupid red obstacles the game would be much MUCH better.

[@dragonsaremadeofdreams]

i disagree. I think that rocket racing is fun because it doesnt have any attacks or items, it is about the skill of the player and knowledge of maps.

[@silvafox07]

@@dragonsaremadeofdreams if that was true the mode would be way more popular .

[@jstruempf5963]

Epic kills everything it touches

[@DonyThimskit]

If epic games listened to us we’d have a race with base RL mechanics such as speed flip and boost instead of mystery crates like other race games

[@edoardomaster64]

I really enjoy this mode so it sucks to see it flopping and stop getting support, but I get it, it just never got the playerbase they were expecting it to get so... yeah

[@SuriMercy]

The Rocket Racing situation is insane

[@jamesmata4579]

I like playing RR. I’m very casual about it though and it’s usually only after I’ve finished quests on BR for the week. I hope RR stays around.

[@H3ml0ckk]

Epic please now that the game you removed rocket league trading for is dead please bring back trading

[@JamminJoey]

Thanks for talking about this.

[@Zarzamoritas]

top player since the beginning here. it's a shame that there were two more themed updates planned for the rest of the year and now we ain't gonna get them. still, now there is a community project with a cash prize tournament and new tracks called RR Revive. it's so sad that right on the point when they kill the game they get a good player count spike.

[@shiethegal]

It's a damn shame. Of the three game modes introduced, Rocket Racing was easily the one I enjoyed the most. I wonder if RR would've done better as Rocket League game mode rather than a Fortnite one.

[@Bando1t]

loving the thumbnail!

[@StarWyse]

@@Bando1t i think i know exactly why

[@ThatGuy89002]

it's still depressing that Rocket Racing is the closest i'll ever get to a new Split/Second game

[@LilDoofy]

Festival is next on the chopping board

[@PinkyBritey]

Main stage mode still have many players but battle stage barely to get 1k players

[@Browncoat7969]

Hopefully, the next chapter will make Rocket Racing better and actually give its mario kart like style

[@lolpold3073]

I'm excited about it, I hope they didn't scrap that too

[@DrSkulzar]

Average Festival Sweep (joke aside, this is sad to see and im upset yall dont get your fun cars anymore)

[@rixbyte7438]

It makes me sad. I was never a fan of Lego, Festival bored me after the second season, but I started paying attention to RR during Inferno Island and liked the mode because it was such a nice change of pace from the mess that BR was during that time. I knew the game wasn't perfect or anything more than just a meat and potatoes arcade racing game, but it was fun in decent doses and it definitely had more potential out of the three modes. The game released off in the worst way possible, people wrote it off and seems like epic gave up on it immediately and didn't bother to improve it besides what they had planned for the short term. I'm gonna go on a tangent here, but it really feels like this last year Epic got too ambitious with what they wanted to do, but they threw a bunch of things into the game with the purpose of experimenting. Things that were received positively will be kept and those that didn't stick will be thrown away. They gave up on weapon mods after season 2, and now they are giving up on rocket racing arguably a little after inferno island.

[@RyaaanCoopeeer]

didn't expect to see kimiko trampled in the thumbnail🙏😭

[@RocketRacingRevive]

We bring new hope…

[@LordSteel85]

Kimiko got turned into road kill in the thumbnail 😂

[@brandonstarstorm3289]

Honestly, I could see a future for this mode if they leaned into Fortnite's whacky side and took inspiration from Mario Kart or Sonic and SEGA Allstars Racing. They could have a lot of items you could use. I've noticed that sometimes t posing characters will appear on vehicles before a race stars for some reason, so maybe they are or were working on a taunt mechanic where you could dance on the car? Another idea is maybe have all characters in your locker have one of five or so special racing abilities appointed to them and they can help in races. The only thing with that is they should model one character for each ability and have those always be available and free so everyone can access each ability. The two biggest issues though are how buggy the mode is and how lame and grindy the quests to unlock cosmetics are. I get that I'm playing on worse hardware by playing on the Switch, but somehow making it manageable for that hardware is important. I've had the game crash several times and the audio is so glitchy and cuts out that I have to play with the audio on mute. There has also been times where I will spawn underneath the road before the race starts, putting me at a big disadvantage. The other problem is the quests being boring, repetitive, and long. I love the characters we got in bundles with rocket racing cars, but the quests take forever just to unlock the alternate style for the characters and the only quest is "drive distance". It's such a braindead activity of a quest and the distance drags on forever to get.

[@Cadeho3]

RR is so hard... can't come back from any mess ups... and I can be in 1st and get passed by 9 people... I kind of give up on it

[@TyGuy943]

I love this game mode it’s to bad that the player counts weren’t higher before it was to late

[@SeySenpai]

I love Rocket Racing i still play it more than any other mode on fortnite tbh. I wish they wouldve chosen some community made tracks and put the community made tracks into ranked since UEFN is why they said they were stopping the themes and tracks because we need more tracks in ranked and bringing community made ones wouldve been the perfect way to do that

[@treebobjoe]

Unreal rank here. Trying to get a game for the past half hour and NOTHING. Maaaaaaaaan

[@ziemsonn]

As a top 100 player i can list all the changes i want No new maps Acknowledgedging all mechanics and encouraging to do them Make it harder to get to unreal

[@silvafox07]

Lol no

[@ziemsonn]

@silvafox07 ? It's better for the game tho

[@silvafox07]

@ziemsonn either get rid of the exploits or let it die. And they chose die, lol.

[@ziemsonn]

@silvafox07 what would you call an "exploit"

[@Step_96]

Glad they removed it

[@Riley-ye3gf]

rip mid mode, more glory to festival

[@princetbz1102]

Be careful, this could happen to all of the other modes as well

[@konosuhardbass]

Rocket Racing looks like one of the most fun racing games you can play. Why did Epic kill this mode. Just why.

[@Statswaaw]

The reason why, is because it didn't have a lot of attention and a lot of players ( who played Fortnite don't really care that much about rocket racing) and it's really sad to look at this game having, but I do love rocket racing and rocket league, I hope this game will return with seasons

[@alexthemay1]

Kimeko is one of my fav skins

[@teenageapple3788]

Now I’m wondering. Will Psyonix put Haunted Hallows in Rocket Racing? I certainly hope so since HH is Rocket League’s Fortnitemares. But I’m pretty sure we’ll get nothing

[@floatasoda]

Yo whats up? Just a newbie looking at your channel right bow

[@relentless1989]

The reason everyone is playing rr is because of that ranked skin

[@uvdoesarts]

sorta off topic but it kinda sucks how the cars in game are expensive as hell. Moreover, they don't even give you a car in the battle pass anymore which also sucks. Really wanted that 400z 😭😭

[@ks_carri3d571]

On TikTok girls are going crazy over that star boost it took a girly cosmetic to get people to play rocket racing I was on yesterday and I saw rocket racing with 10K people I haven't seen that since launch

[@FOG-AJ]

I play rocket racing and fortnite . winning the game is related to how many shortcuts you know and good at its really frustrating.its not fun you lead most of the race suddenly youre 8th place because some players came out of nowhere with a short cut.i think there should be no shortcuts only pure skills of racing .❤

[@OnePlusOneEqualsZero]

your game looks so good. its gotta be settings cause I swear it seems like ur going faster but that doesn't make sense

[@REIstros7]

Man. I was excited for this mode to Shine. But since They HAD to remove trading in Rocket League. This mode was doomed to fail from the start. I came over from Rocket League this see all of my cars in UE5 but... without a destined game mode. Rocket League as a whole died. Im still looking for what cars come into the game so i can say i have a busted garage (garage meaning locker but for the cars) but thats basically it.

[@humanbeing9086]

I honestly hope RR gets legitimately deprecated and they actually TRY to make a racing mode. I love racers, but when I can play Burnout 3, NFS MW 05, FM4, MKW, or BeamNG, why would I ever touch RR? The game just doesn't really offer anything that any other game doesn't do better.

[@superstuntman1904]

This game ever since I saw the player drop I knew wasn't going to be able to recover unless it got the right updates. And I had a few good ideas on my hands. Hell I even was thinking of a free roam mode on three different maps to test your skills with other players who are in the same free roam as you. The only problem is they added time trials and then a casual mode which again does entice casuals to play it. But again, you weren't earning anything from it. Except for XP and some cool car vanity. There's no real intention to play it and again the game was just shockingly made, especially at launch I played this game on mobile at launch and the old controls were shockingly bad. But they did fix this with updates though, but it won't make up that they didn't have this ready along with countless other things like bugs and glitches when they launched the game now don't get me wrong Lego fortnite and also fortnite festival also had the same struggles but they were able to with updates. Get back their player base and I mean Lego fortnite literally has its own sub community dedicated to that specific game mode and it's almost the same story for fortnite festival. It's small but it's still a community unfortunately, it seems that rocket racing never found what it truly was meant to be and turn never regained to player base which again led to its death as themed seasons and tracks are no longer a thing

[@Jackalmercenary-t7y]

It sucks not only was this my favorite game mode it reminded me of speed racer freakin loved that movie and now RR is dead just dead with zero respect or effort put into the mode *sighs*

[@knitetimeteddy2989]

Yea this will be my last unreal season in rocket racing lol Once I heard they were pretty much abandoning it like stw I made th decision to just not play it I remember them leaking info it was gunna be like Mario kart and they shoulda have stuck to that but eh Rocket racing is extremely competitive and you have to be good to succeed point blank There is no other way around it like ranked br but eh It’s funny they put stw on the burner but it still has maintained more players then both festival and rr lol There is clearly a want for a actual Fortnite story but yea they are to bust trying to feed off other universes instead of developing their own

[@DragonSoulMusic]

Outstanding thumbnail lmfao

[@turbostuntman]

I'd play rocket racing if it gave any xp... you get so much more from festival and BR.

[@edwardkenway496]

Dawg it didn't need to be 8mins long

[@speedyrocketrobot959]

I like fortnite's original songs, not just the meme ones. Hope's song is so good and so is the machinist and megalo don tracks

[@romansanchez2277]

In my personal opinion, I never give a damn about rock racing Lego Fortnite is decent not the best but not the worst Fortnite fest is actually pretty good. I actually like that mode, but I mainly play battle Royale and I just wish the OG storyline would return

[@catninja9896]

Is it as dead as save the world??

[@mikeylarsen5627]

the metaverse doomed this game from the start

[@LIVEYoutubeShorts]

Mode 🍑 the obstacles made it not fun… if it was sort of like Mario cart I’d play a lot more

[@danibnnuy]

subbed, I recognize you from games, I'm danibnnuy / a bunny uwu if you recognize me

[@earthwormsally5211]

It came they monetized it and now its left for the uefn dumpster causing the loss of trading in rocket league but hey now disney franchise car themes are a thing in the game they have a new wallet target to focus on. I would say i feel bad for r racing players but to be fair the most players it ever had was when the free skin was available and im sure more than half of what little players are left are just trtjng to justify the money they already spent , lesson to be learned from this is that if it aint disney then it has no place in fortnites future

[@DigitalPand3mic]

They deserve it for what they did to RL

[@GerberFlerber]

They need to just take rocket racing out of Fortnite remove the cross game cosmetic sharing and bring back trading to rocket league. But epic is greedy so that will never happen.

[@Achilles_696]

i hate the way they let it die.. silly epic.

[@Jonasofzo]

Proud to say I never played rocket racing🤗

[@colonelradec5956]

That's kinda weak to give up that quick on it.

[@unkowngam3r_tfb113]

Rocket racing is not dead but barely any in elite atm

[@kermetdafrog7542]

yes

[@xSNACKERx]

Rocket racing has been dead since before neon rush

[@funkyfreshuuhhh2199]

Fortnite Fans: Less than 10k players??? LOL, dead game mode! Me: IDK man, I’m still out here enjoying it.

[@despacitoking237]

Fortnitemares quest that why

[@Pahiman12]

"rocket racing is officially dead for me" Bro saying it as if rocket racing failed him and not because it's literally terminared

[@jstruempf5963]

Its will die out after ppl hit unreal . Done watch...

[@gamerbeast3616]

Dont think its dead but not doing well

[@jstruempf5963]

Like literally bits epic. Stop comparing anybody else to epic. Ppl only are trying ti get to unreal cause its easy to get unreal in that skin. Thats it

[@CrucoYT]

hai

[@StarWyse]

hi

[@maxmusterman3371]

Imagine they killed RL trading for this trash

[@Niaaal]

I play with so many bots

[@yousokelight-tl1tg]

Good RR sucks

[@o4366]

Dont play epic games

[@w1ll190]

RR sucks just play RL

[@hotrod_hornet]

.... They are 2 completely different types of games.

[@w1ll190]

@ it fuckin SUCKS

[@imadlaichi9073]

This is even sad for rocket league players like me, we lost trading bcuz of this "game" and died in only 1 year, epic ruining everything 🪦🪦

[@Robotant1]

That actually isn’t true its the Belgium law’s fault

[@imadlaichi9073]

@Robotant1 huh ??

[@Robotant1]

@@imadlaichi9073 the Belgium law has something against trading, idk exactly what it is but if Epic didn’t remove it they would have had to pay alot of money

[@imadlaichi9073]

@@Robotant1 Oh i didn't know that but anyways the main reason of trading being removed was the connection of items between rl and fn