Rocket League just leaked some amazing news...

Rocket League has been saved! Completely unintentionally, Psyonix just leaked the fact that they are currently working on something big. In this video, I go over the details of the leak and explain why it's such a big deal, along with other things that have happened recently in the community.
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Psyonix is officially working on moving Rocket League to Unreal Engine 5. This is the best news Rocket League has had in years. I would argue even more important than Rocket League going free to play. The free to play launch was amazing for the community, but the game itself didn't change all that much other than some interface changes and new in game tournaments. If Rocket League actually moves to Unreal Engine 5, that would be a MASSIVE change to the game for the better. We would finally get updates and new features just as often as other modern games. For so long we've always had to wait longer than normal for updates and features to be released because of Rocket League's current engine. Now that it's being moved to a modern one, we'll be able to see Rocket League's true full potential.
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[@alanjukic6743]

this is probably the best news I heard about rl since I started playing.. I'm kinda big on competitive side of the game, but additional content and diversity really does set a new bar for what this game can accomplish

[@Leeon_TM]

What rank are you

[@alanjukic6743]

@@Leeon_TM diamond, I didn't say that I was high up on the leaderboard, just that I primarily like and play competitive

[@Robi-wd5zx]

Jebeno

[@Leeon_TM]

Ja sam platinum1

[@alextriant3238]

yeah i agree

[@roundedtoast]

See, you get it. I literally hate like GC’s reverse boosting to plat lobbies to hit a reset musty on someone who can’t even come close to defending it, and then calling it skilled.

[@benr970]

Had someone do that with me in 1’s, I’m only a diamond 1/2 but he was ridiculously good, wouldn’t mind but he was so toxic

[@Alikow89]

@@benr970 Same bro I once had a teammate who threw on purpose to derank

[@benr970]

@@Alikow89 yeah it’s so frustrating

[@lok687]

@@benr970 alot of people in 1s the people that are in there purely to shit on newbies are insanly toxic. But im a legitamite GC stuck in D3 in 1s its a pain for everybody

[@benr970]

@@lok687 oh yeah 1’s is infuriating haha I’m amazing one game and can’t hit the ball the next. Not bothered about trying to hit clips on me as often to gives me a chance to score but the toxicity is so unneeded

[@just_Zoroo]

Rocket League moving to UE5 is such a great news even if its gonna take a long time to realise... Im pretty happy to hear that :D

[@Kunnadah]

@@connorallan8080 Unreal engine 5

[@InvincibleSucks]

I don’t want to be that guy but I think it should be Release not Realise, sorry

[@Zeph0]

@@InvincibleSucks i think he meant realise because it will take some awhile to realise that its good

[@yorickpronk6898]

@@InvincibleSucks no his words were correct

[@Steamrawrler]

Lmao pretty sure he meant release 🤣

[@KindOldRaven]

1v1 ranked is usually ''good''. Which is also the freakin snow-hockey gamemode literally nobody plays. So ''good'' and ''good'' can be completely different numbers ;p

[@ryandgav1361]

I play snowday ;(

[@sir.zermaroon3894]

I actually really like snowday

[@KindOldRaven]

@@ryandgav1361 I do too, at times at least, that's why I know the numbers are usually quite low in the playlist :p 't Was just a figure of speech guys haha

[@exitious7352]

@@KindOldRaven I never play snowday cause barely anyone plays it. If more people did I might go for the gc title.

[@reflectcard6258]

I rather snow hockey than hoops any day. Hoops only in real life for me

[@carson7146]

As I game developer myself of well over 10 years, I can say that moving to UE5 has **THE POSSIBILITY** of custom maps specifically being forward compatible, it just depends on how the custom maps were serialized and stored inside their database. :)

[@Slimmeyy]

I don't think it's even their database, considering it's run through the Steam Workshop for Steam players. Epic players have their own third-party loaders.

[@peksn]

it's go to do with compatibility badically, I guess it'll be a lot of "ue5 is expecting X thing inside the file of a map created in ue4 that doesn't exist BC ue4 doesn't add that" or "ue5 doesn't know how to read this part of the file bc it is a ue4 only addition" etc

[@Slimmeyy]

@@peksn UE3 even, not UE4 :P

[@Futureguitarist15]

"RL moving to Unreal 5, do you know what that means?" Yeah, it means my 6 year old PS4 will actually catch on fire now instead of just getting close 😂

[@NightyFall]

They should still have graphics settings...

[@swagie_]

Performance won't change that much for similar settings, what will change is how good it looks at the highest settings

[@slapshotjack9806]

@@swagie_ yaaaay now my Xbox one can catch on fire with my ps4

[@cesarbernal3959]

Going to run smooth on my ps5

[@oddzly-585]

@@cesarbernal3959 going to run smooth on my pc

[@nolanitis2086]

5:38 The fact that this video is a year and a half old, and they finally just added the estimated queue time...

[@fallbike8711]

yeah i was going to comment about it too

[@woolyrs455]

The estimated queue time idea based off the mode, your rank and regions is one of the best ideas I’ve seen for a while.

[@karelspinka3031]

It already exists in a few other games so this could be possible.

[@remizik]

I'm not gonna lie I was expecting news from this video, but you shared something most of regular players know for weeks.

[@devinedgin673]

News to me my guy

[@devinedgin673]

Not everyone keeps up with leaks

[@Valhalla2049]

This is so sad to watch back. Here we were all lead to believe that RL ue5 was being made but in reality it was just rocket racing being developed. Its extremely depressing...

[@blackcloudrl8200]

They killed the game tbh

[@bblvrable]

One key issue with that whole "rocket league is dying" thing is that it stemmed from a graph showing Rocket League search numbers on KZbin. The problem is that a lot of content creators looked at that and said "oh, interest for Rocket League is dropping off", but what wasn't mentioned was the fact that this same drop off was appearing for literally every game on KZbin at the same time. If you look, you'll see drop starting in March 2021, which was the same time a lot of restrictions that had been imposed for the previous year to mitigate COVID-19 were being lifted, meaning that suddenly, people were allowed to go outside and do stuff, and weren't stuck inside playing video games and watching KZbin videos. So it wasn't so much "Rocket League is dying" as "hey look, there's an outside!" Beyond that, I'm afraid that most RL content creators forget that RL is a *very* niche game. How many other games are there that it takes 100 hours of play just to not be absolute trash? I'm not talking "100 hours of play to be professional", I'm talking "100 hours of play to be good enough that people don't mistake you for a poorly written AI script". That's a STEEEEEEP learning curve that simply doesn't exist in 99% of games. If you're familiar with shooter games, you can hop into your first game of Fortnite and while probably won't win, you probably won't look like a head-trauma patient spinning around in circles while trying to aim at your opponent before being headshot. That means the drop-off for RL is going to be pretty swift. Even for those that stick it out, RL is going to get repetitive fast, extra modes or not. All the soccar modes are functionally identical, just the number of players changes, and the extra game modes still use the same mechanics, just with some minor twist. At the end of the day, it's still driving a car into a ball (or puck). If you're not competitive, and not trying to be the best, that's going to get boring after a while. I originally bought RL in 2018 because it looked pretty awesome, seeing clips of RLCS highlights and such. But then I went to play it and realized that there's no hope in hell of me ever becoming JSTN. Hell man, I'd be impressed if I was as good as Jon Sandman, and people dump on him for not being an SSL all the time. My first experiences with multiplayer were all getting smurfed on (except I didn't realize it at the time, I just thought I was *that* bad, or the game's matchmaking was broken). It's extremely disheartening to spend 20 hours in freeplay and playing against bots, and you go into your first 1v1 casual match only to play against some guy hitting ceiling pinches, Musty flips, and flip resets. And then you play another game and it's the same thing, and you go "okay, this isn't fun, why bother?" So I put down the game for a couple of years. Then in 2020 when the pandemic hit, I figured I had plenty of time to kill, so why not see if I can actually get good at RL. So I watched a bunch of videos (thanks Wayton and others!), practiced like hell, and started playing again. I made it to Gold II Div II in 1s, and Plat II Div III in 3s. But then I kind of just hit a wall where I didn't feel like I was improving any more, unless I was going to dedicate a LOT of time to RL, and that just didn't seem appealing to me. So now I probably watch more RL content than I actually play RL, and even that is starting to fall off (I watch the creators I'm subscribed to if they post an interesting video, but I don't watch everything, and I don't really seek out new content creators any longer). It's just a very niche game, and so it shouldn't really surprise anyone that the playerbase is slowly eroding back to what it was before it went F2P, because the sorts of players who would love a game like RL have already been playing it for years.

[@anon5973]

you seem very passionate, i will not like or disklike

[@pello2587]

jesus chris this comment is long

[@probabvieh]

I’m glad to see that they actually did some thing. I have to say, there were more videos about rocket league dying then there were about Eddie Van Halen when he died in the guitar community

[@mvrcguitar]

Or about Alexi Laiho's death, but that's understandable. R.I.P. Eddie :(

[@ScratchMyAnchor]

All the people who cared are too old and don't know how to use youtube

[@nohaelsayed7143]

Wayton: they should add an estimated queue time Psyonix: Your wish is my command

[@freakyfinder]

I really hope there will be some way that epic games users can experience the profile pictures when they move it to UE5. Because it looks so boring with the "PSY NET" og just no picture in a lobby.

[@jameshancock1528]

That's something to do with the epic games launcher, not RL specifically, changing RL to ue5 isn't going to change that Pfps for epic players could come in a year or so, especially since a preview of a new epic games launcher has been leaked with revamped social features including more detailed profiles

[@siddhantpochalwar9805]

since it looks like you play on playstation, why don't you just get an icon for free from the shop. there are even rocket league related profiile pics

[@freakyfinder]

@@siddhantpochalwar9805 i dont play on Playstation. But i know :)

[@Josh-km5vk]

Yeah i agree it is boring. I am c1 on Nintendo and all I see is PSY NET and no pictures.

[@emilrosenkrands3051]

You can do it with bakkesmod

[@rlnt]

"just leaked", it's been a month already 😅 Edit: Before someone insults me (this is the Rocket League community after all), I still liked the video.

[@superXphos]

What a save! What a save! What a save! There you go friend.

[@DragonRyuken777]

Close one! Whew. What a save! Whew. Chat disable for 4 seconds.

[@pierreleonsimard]

Savage!

[@omari8717]

No way! What a save!

[@nero5250]

Okay.

[@Thomas-uq6gl]

Summary: Rocket league will use unreal engine 5, making it possible to add new fearures much faster Rest of video is just there to exist

[@dragons321]

My problem with the quitting glitch for me is I had like a 1-day ban because I get kicked out and can't rejoin

[@JmKrokY]

8:25 Racing mode sounds awesome

[@drlaggybro]

I am in fact, a free to play player, I started back in early 2021 And the game has me looking at so many different angles and perspectives that I didnt even know were possible in a unreal engine 4 game, Its amazing how technology can change like this. And seeing how not many people stayed is just sad considering that they are new and still have like EVERYTHING to learn

[@KrystalNCMA]

I wonder if the random log out is how I have been left alone in competitive mode? I was in a 3v3 and before the game really even started, I was alone against 3 players. I got a lot of saves that game 😂

[@RouVie2001]

Oh my god rocket league racing tournaments would be hilarious

[@eczotiik]

4:10 no, we want them to communicate with us all the time, not just when we're complaining

[@jonking7153]

Dude thank you. I'm finally getting mechs down and having fun and I've been playing for over 3 years. So glad this game might not die on me.

[@exitious7352]

Its such a great game but u will always be reminded u suck if u are under gc2+

[@exitious7352]

Nevertheless I still play it because its a great game haha. You can always learn and see your progress over time

[@cameronclement1286]

@@exitious7352 I’m guessing u just hit gc 2….

[@exitious7352]

@@cameronclement1286 Nope, im still gc1, and still suck.

[@exitious7352]

@@cameronclement1286 gc2s and beyond are very good at the game and make far less mistakes.

[@LostLinguine]

I wish trading tournament items was a thing in the game, i know its not big of a feature that would bring back more players but I've always thought about why there isnt any trading involving tournanent reward items or even credits being tradable.

[@Elroeithenga]

This is such great news to hear, especially with Wayton giving more additional information about and telling us more of what it means. Thanks Wayton! Love your videos!

[@logankaiser5]

That title will get so many views. Great job

[@Raiden1]

1:50 wayton done squishy dirty hahahahaha

[@jackmatthews9637]

All psyonix needs to do, to fix all of their problems, is give console players access to custom maps/training packs like on PC. Why they haven't done this yet is beyond me, yet they sit there and wonder why people are getting bored and leaving? I've been a regular RL player for the last 4 years and even I'm close to giving up on it due to the lack of meaningful new content

[@TNM001]

as a new player...let me tell you, the reason that new players don't stay is that there is 0 progression in the lower ranks, pretty quickly you get paired with ppl who are obviously better than you and are in lower ranks because the rank-compression is off. my experience was being thrown into mid gold...derank to bronze (what a game concept btw, get shit on for hours as a new player experience) ...work my way back to gold and staying stuck there until i decided to train specifics, which for most can be boring as eff, and if you don't, good luck getting out of gold EVER. so i made an experiment this season, knowing that i'm much better than when i started. deranked to bronze on purpose to rank back up to high gold in one session to feel the difference. boy...why the game would even think of putting a new player in gold (like it did me when i started) is questionable at best. on a lazy day i still have a hard time in gold (the random factor is crazy in gold lol), but would still shit on any noob. no noob should be paired with me there, EVER. basically, new players get put in the worst rank possible by my experience: high silver / low gold. its terrible there, pure chaos, from ppl not hitting basic groundrollers to airdribbling. its all over the place. worst. gaming. experience. ever. p.s. the casual change has to go. or at least 1time free leave / hour. so many trolls there.

[@thecorvus100]

Smurfs ruined the free to play crowd. I started playing about 6 months before F2P and I’ve just about had it with them.

[@benkearney8459]

that que time timer is fantastic

[@SomeDudeOnline]

I don't like the "vote to concede" in casual because you can't just keep playing a game if your team mate only wants to win "oh no we're down 3 to 2, time to quit". So you're forced to quit or continue playing with someone that's not actually going to try or play against you. I'd rather have a predictable bot or if there's enough time left, a new player.

[@prokodza]

Tournaments in 2s are kinda broken. I had this time where I challenged a team twice in my second match we won in the beginning and lost at the end, but only that lost counted so we were eliminated.

[@binary2699]

.what are you trying to say? you won a match in the beginning but lost in the end? wdym

[@prokodza]

@poo child so basically I played my round 2 match twice for some reason. The first time I won and the 2nd time I lost, but it only counted the 2nd match so u was eliminated

[@UltimateDuck97]

@@prokodza woah chill with the replies lmao

[@prokodza]

@UltimateDuck97 Oh gosh how the heck did I post that 8 times lol

[@skxrpionxi4387]

rl moving to UE5 is great but the biggest problem is to exactly "copy" the correct physics of the current game without any bugs etc. which is why many pros etc. are concerned about the change if psyonix wont be able to replicate the physics precisely

[@gabrielthiago]

this is the reason why this change to UE5 can take 2 years.

[@WaytonPilkin]

The physics actually wouldn’t need to be changed. They built their own physics engine for rocket league and if they move the game to UE5, that physics engine would be one of the things they could copy over if they wanted. Check out this video for more info on UE5: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npC4k6iJp7ulnas

[@PocoLoco7474]

this is so ironic...

[@joshuahaewardii8540]

Thumbnail: Rocket league stonks Me: why am I already entertained

[@JustMark87]

My issue with the dropping games in casual is I'm a father, so sometimes I have to abruptly quit game, im certain there are plenty with a similar situation.

[@allonmyownherewego9893]

bro you know Leth is gonna be involved in the custom map building and its going to be INCREDIBLE when that day comes

[@justinsmith1001]

They should just hire the man.

[@AnimeTesterXeoxeo]

me and some others got the bug that randomly the fps set to 30, imagine hopping in freeplay, got launched into a ranked game and you screw up you kickoff ....

[@luvetohate]

I hate not being able to quit any online game mode without being penalized... Seriously if I'm playing some 'smurfs' or just people losing matches on purpose that are double flip resetting on me with ease and I can barely touch the ball I don't want to stick around and some people just wanna stay and don't care. Just let me leave.......

[@PabloJustChillin]

Playlist population would be a lot easier to tell if they went back to the actual number like it was before👍🏽

[@papagrounds]

"Shut up Wayton" Oh, so Classic Twitter! 😂

[@DarkSansTV]

Even this guy was able to come up with a better solution than Psyonix for the population issue! Take notes Psyonix!

[@adamclark4978]

6:10 that’s shit scared the absolute hell out of me IVV been hacked before and I got flash backs

[@HyaghoMiranda]

1:53 shoots fired repeat shoots fired

[@funnybility]

I’m happy to see this, just a few months ago the trading severs were booming and it was insanely fast to get into a match but now everything is dead the trading sever that have 100k + people have only like 100 people trading and the rest is offline I hope it can go back to normal :)

[@socoolbroweemannn1561]

I still wish that it was still on steam for profile pictures :( but the keys are like 500$ now

[@chrisdillon7527]

Rocket League on UE5 means I can finally use a horn.

[@mrtwinky2007]

5:10 I wish they'd bring back the numbers for players online and playlists. Good and Great and Bad can vary between person to person.

[@clynny8926]

let’s just hope it feels like the og ue3. either way, thx for the update wayton 🙏

[@maksenDK]

probably the same way CS:GO "feels like" CS 1.6

[@ScratchMyAnchor]

The casual matchmaking experience has been worse for me since the new rules. Games freely flowed with people coming in and out, I didn't mind the AI because I just wanted to slap the ball around. Now I have to feel stressed that my teammate is going to start being toxic if he wants to quit and I don't. I liked when they could just ragequit freely and then I didn't have to feel anxious about it

[@TNM001]

just concede if the other wants to. ppl get toxic because YOU are forcing them to stay. often for 3-4min with 0:5 after 1min because the team doesn't click and that won't change by ppl dragging it out another few minutes. question is, who is really toxic if you force 2 others to stay or take a penalty?

[@ZippyBytes]

There was a lot to talk about, over 1 million concurrent players in Dec 2020, as well as bakkesmod update for epic.

[@llyukll]

It's crazy that we're talking about better alternatives to the population indicator when we already had direct player count. It doesn't really take experience with Rocket League specifically to interpret a player count. If a game with a max range of 2-8 people in an entire lobby has an active count of 20k in a playlist that's more telling than a broad description can hope to be.

[@PedroPascoaPedro]

About the bans on casual, some of us don't have a stable connection all the time and are targets of timouts or connection errors often. This makes the game unplayable for me. My laptop's wifi goes to shit every 20 mins or so, this makes it so that i can play one two games tops and then I'm out banned for 10 mins

[@abdullahsajid65536]

Gotta love them casual bans. I should totally be forced to commit my time and energy on something that is meant to be taken casually. This feature is necessary because unfortunately I can't play competitive because boo hoo my shiny badge will not be so shiny when I get demoted.

[@frickin_thorfinn6355]

I'm happy game chat doesn't work. If it did I'd have been banned long ago for verbally abusing my teammates.

[@jsh6475]

im really happy for psyonix tbh, i wanna see it thrive

[@RedSchmit]

Number of players needs yo return. I agree a queue time excpectancy would be amazing.

[@logandynamite627]

I want the population counter back because not many people play dropshot and when your high rank you have to pick times to play damn near

[@cogocahe]

The way they treated casuals almost ruined the game for me. And I'm sure for lots of others too... A few examples why? - Premade team leader goes back to main menu after a match after we all wanted to stay in the match, but the opponents aren't reacting (or 2 are leaving). I ended up being 0.0025 to slow in reacting to that and I'm in the next match with randoms and my team is waiting in main menu. I can't quit, the randoms don't give up after a minute so this ends up as a 2v3 and five minutes of timewasting. This happens every now and then, but at least 2-3 times a day. Or someone got a disconnect because of the server and can't rejoin because unlike ranked his spot was filled up with a random (that can't quit because he will get punished). The connection was perfectly fine though. But even when no one is filling his spot rejoin is not possible (ingame) or doesn't work (via Steam). This happens around 5 times per day. If my teammates and I ended up in a game against freestylers or too good players we will have to watch them and wait for a minute. They're doing their thing, either driving to the ceiling with every ball possesion or leading 4:0 after 30 seconds without us touching the ball and we can't avoid them. Yay, fun. - for me there is no real reason to prefer ranked over casuals. I would describe my playstyle as "playing for fun, always giving my best, extremely fair". Playing for fun is ruined for me when I get destroyed over and over and over. Yeah, it's a part of the game, but so was quitting. So this was my main reason to quit games. The other guy can destroy bots and I didn't have to endure his toxic playstyle. But as I cannot react to this anymore I play way less. So why don't play ranked? Same here: demos, but it's also worth nothing. Player titles are the most worthless 'items' besides antennas in the game. But maybe they drop a good one in the next six years, I don't know. Would be a cool feature if you can type your text there, but I quess that's to complicated. And season rewards are usually the most ugly items in the game so why play ranked for them?! Sadly, there is nothing more... - to round up why taking taking away quitting was the worst idea: If an opponent is in front of me I usually break. I'm 100% sure there are not much players with less demos than me and that's why i would describe myself as extremely fair and I'm proud of it. Also a problem is, that they are really, really buggy. I lost count how often i got destroyed although I was at supersonic and the other one was slow and I hitted his door with my front. Or when one car is dropping from the ceiling, landing on me with just the falling speed and I'm dead. Or when I dodge someone, he drives past me and i get destroyed anyways because of his 120 jumping red ping and he is not even slowed down. I wrote this to the developers too, more or less. Sure, they can't answer everyone and demos are part of the game bla bla... But what they should be able to do is fixing their game and servers and don't add things that make the game less playable. And they totally failed for this goal. So I'm not convinced that they actually improving things. To me it seems like they are doing the opposite, making it worse.

[@raymondcarter9810]

I will continue to support you. I'm a 24 year old guy who can't live the dream like you at the moment. You're a content creator and have a passion for games, who gets to live off that passion. That's amazing and I will do everything I can big or small to support good people like you.

[@IRaskaj]

Correction: Empty>Good>Great>Amazing.

[@Lochwoods]

I actually didn’t realize the impact of just leaving a casual lobby definitely changed my viewpoint. For myself at least I would leave casual because I saw no significance in casual it’s just casual nobody cares however now I get it I never really grasped the idea of new players getting upset over it. Thanks

[@isaz2425]

it's fine if it's not too often, but sometimes I try to play casual and my team can change 5+ times in a single game. Even worse if the enemy team scores first, my mates leave, then I have to play with bots on my team vs real players so it gets worse and the people who join the game to repkace the bots leave again because we're losing. leaving matches before the end sometimes is fine, as long as it happens less often than playing a full game.

@@isaz2425 Must be nice, I rarely get replacements in my ranks. Though honestly a bot is better than a charging player if the opponents aren't going off heavy.

[@nickpurdy69]

I really hope they don't fix the in game voice chat. That's going to make things sooo much more toxic for people. Obviously you can turn it off, but still, that's also a whole new thing they will have to moderate.

[@BC_W]

About the custom map support, Idk if they could do that for consoles. (Unless they do a similar system to what Snowrunner did, which if you don't know about that system, basically it allows users to instead of uploading their mods to the steam workshop, they can upload it to the built in mod support thing and this in turn gives console players the ability to download mods. I wish this mod system was in every single game) On the same point on PC. I don't think Psyonix has control over if you can get mod maps to work on epic or not. I think that is something Epic themselves control and unless they change that, I don't think you will be able to get mod maps (If you have the epic version of the game. I'm a steam player and I don't use the Epic store, so maybe they have changed it, but as far as I know they have not. If I am wrong, just let me know.) Edit: Just thought about this. Imagine the graphic quality boost when they jump to UE5. I know Rocket League isn't the worst looking game, but this will be a noticeable jump in graphic quality.

[@Snapback-]

UE5! that got my eyebrow raised! great video btw first time seeing you and im moving to my own place too on my own for the first time its nice to see it can be done

[@drumonabumable]

They took away the number of online players because they don't want people seeing the decline in popularity

[@assootoshmotah2350]

Sometimes instead of saying good, it just puts empty in the population

[@mn.o601]

1:11 thats where you get this ...and a Mercedes ad shows up

[@TK-gp1nz]

idk how psyonix haven't thought of adding an indicator that shows you the amount of boost your team mates have. of course it shouldn't take up too much space, so my idea for that would be removing the ballcam indicator in the bottom left corner and replacing it with this. it would make rotation and decisions for when to challenge so much easier, especially with the completely unusable voice chat. it just seems to me like such an obvious thing to add.. but maybe that's just me

[@HazFrostYT]

They added a "Need boost!" quick chat though, but a boost indicator would be much more clear. Maybe psyonix could put a number on your teammate's name and that number would say how much boost they have, although that might cause more ping lag due to the name constantly updating so the quick chat is probably a way more reliable option.

[@aggiesce]

Big fan of this idea!

[@TK-gp1nz]

@@HazFrostYT i get your point But I don‘t it has To be that complicated. Instead of displaying it in the name it could just be My previously suggested small indicator in the bottom left corner. The player should also be able to change Its size. Another point would be that there are only 4 slots for team quick chat commands and the likelyhood of a player having it equipped is not that high, meaning not as reliable as a Constant display on the Screen, Not to mention that you need to get extremely Lucky to find someone who tells you in the Perfect Moment That he Needs boost.

[@HazFrostYT]

@@TK-gp1nz In terms of performance it will likely significantly increase ping for other players due to your internet having more things to worry about and keep updated. So sacrificing internet performance just for knowing your teammate's boost is really not a great trade.

[@TK-gp1nz]

@@HazFrostYT so, obviously I'm not an expert but to say that this would significantly increase ping is, for me, just a reason for them to finally increase their server performance. I mean i have packet loss every two games or so despite having a good internet connection. This is another thing that is long overdue I think. Also I don't think that it's impossible to implement this feature in a convenient and heavily ping influencing way, we do live in 2021 and just compare that to what other games can do. But, as I said I could be totally wrong because I'm not an expert, this is just my speculating thought process

[@justcd89]

He called squishy muffins out!

[@exceptionalish614]

Repercussions for leaving casual lobbies is the worst change they've ever made to the game, including the deafening canon sound bug in Champion's Field, for a variety of reasons. Depending on the day and my mood, maybe I don't feel like playing against people who are sweating (read: better than me) and just want to bounce from a game or two until I find someone more my speed. Maybe there's a tournament I just signed up for solo and I'm queueing to warm up in the meantime but I'll be kicked from that game regardless. Maybe I have tried to vote to forfeit because I'm down 0-10 and my teammate is own goaling on purpose, holding me hostage until the time runs out. None of that even matters though. It's casual. Feels bad being told that leaving a casual match without the explicit approval of your teammates, strangers or not, is playing the game wrong.

[@zachmorrison7332]

If it takes two years to actually come out, a lot of players might not even be playing or keeping up with rocket league by that time. Hopefully they find a way to expedite this process

[@raphaelmillon5061]

The only thing I need Psyonix to fix is the issue where most of the time I start a tournament without a team mate. For example, if I join a 3v3 tournament, I literally have to, most of the time, join in second chance because my team is always a player short. I also happen to notice that many teams that are with one player missing in every single tournament. They must fix this

[@gjm_yt3227]

When rocket league is moving to UE5 this game will be skyrocketed to a hole new level

[@blissfulhydra4399]

They have it say good, great and amazing because they don't want people to see the decline in the number of players.

[@rafaplays7418]

They now actually have estimated qeue time!😍😍

[@br7418]

Imagine a rocket league campaign choose your storyline of your car

[@anter2523]

congrats on moving out and making youtube your full job cant wait to see more from you.

[@Md915]

They removed voice chat, they maybe remake it or something.

[@santanawrldd]

This is way better than what the tf2 community is experiencing

[@evanfopma5083]

The only bad thing about fixing the voice chat is that its honestly hilarious hearing somebody trying to scream through it.

[@jamesonbornholdt7302]

I'm just surprised they haven't created mini games and side things from actual soccer or competitive games

[@danny-phantom5670]

I got an ad after he said "and you get this"

[@Chicken_Dippers]

I absolutely hate getting punished for leaving casual matches some times. Wouldnt mind it if I started the game, but when it throws me into a match with 1.30 left and the team i’m on is 5-0 down, WHY DO I HAVE TO STAY?! They should change it so if you join a game when 1(or 2) minutes has already passed, you.should be able to leave. Anything before that then yeah punish the players lol

[@andrewmtgx]

Never seen your channel before, maybe heard the name, but nice to meet you! I haven't watched Rocket League in a while so maybe that's a sign! Hyped for UE5

[@aiven06]

7:55 LOL Double nice

[@megazerorl]

I know the video is old and we know a lot more, but I need to add something that I noticed when it comes to rocket leagues move to UE5. So not to long ago there was an official statement (not on reddit) regarding the move to UE5, the growth of the Psyonix team, and more. The main point I want to make about this is, when they said how much their team as grown by THIS YEAR. I believe (without a direct quote) that it was they have doubled the size of the development team THIS YEAR. Implying that they starting a mass hire in like January 2021, and by the time they made the post, it was already doubled, this also implies they are still hiring more people. What I took from all of that is that they had already made and finished a PLAN on how to move to UE5, brainstormed what to do after (I.E. Creative mode, better training, workshop, etc.) prior to the start of this mass hire. With a plan of action already prepared, and almost if not all of the staff required for it hired, and this growing staff that has been actively working on the post-planning phases of the UE5 move since at least March, it seems likely we will get this update relatively soon, or at least the announcement of when they expect it to be out. Just to make a prediction (I wont edit this comment) I say in January or Febuary 2022 Psyonix will make a post reguarding the move to UE5. My guess is that they will say in that post is, "We expect to have a working version by the end of the year" Whether this means it will be a public beta test or the full working version is unknown. I believe I read somewhere as well that they do not know whether they are going to make it a "new game" or if they are going to allow for an update from the existing download of RL. If it is a new game (which like I said I believe I heard a Psyonix member mention somewhere) all items would be transferable as well as ranks, stats, workshop maps, etc. By the end of July 2023 we will for sure have a full, (mostly bug-free) version of UE5 rocket league, and if its a new game, by that point all items, and stats will be fully transferred for all existing active accounts/players.

[@leventeszaffenauer4142]

forfeit in casual just ruined it imo

[@osmark86]

do you miss leavers after 3 seconds?

[@phntm.6292]

@@osmark86 yes because its fucking casual and nobody cares If someone leaves the game

[@mo.865]

@@phntm.6292 lets put you in that position, say you forgot to go for the kickoff cuz ur eating something, and your teammate leaves because of it, wouldnt it be frustrating to play without a teammate? And sometimes youre not even garuanteed to have a tm8 most of the time they do join but half of the match is ruined.

[@assootoshmotah2350]

@@phntm.6292 i do tbh

[@phntm.6292]

@@mo.865 it really doesnt matter to me lol If really want to Play the Game i start ranked :)

[@melancholas]

Nope, Extra Mode tournaments are definitely worst how they are done. Here in central Europe they start at 3:00pm. Which makes it impossible for people with a job to take part in them. Even if you go to school this is bad time to have those tournaments run, and then everyone wonders why there isn't that much "interest" in them. Then, there is a weird rotation in them, this means on weekends I have to be lucky to have Snow Day. There IS a community who love to play Snow Day, Rumble etc. So just make those tournaments run side by side to 3vs3 tournaments. Punishing people who leave casual matches is also a bad decision, they made. I mean, it says "casual", why punishing people who leave games, because I am still put in already running matches, where the other team leads by three goals and there's one minute left. On the other hand I have people in competitive matches, just standing around and doing intentional own goals. And as for changes: why isn't it still possible to create training scenarios for Snow Day. Extra Mode fans (what about those modes, that only exist for a week) are still treated as they wouldn't exist. It is no wonder that people leave this game when their favorite game modes are time limited or have bad tournament schedule for them.

[@jacobschutt4369]

Thanks for the video and updates. Glad I didn't have to head musty's voice to get rocket league news lol

[@ahmadkhalid4135]

Rocket league racing would be so cool if it's combined with power ups like Mario kart or crash team racing 😍

[@HazFrostYT]

I agree!

[@nickmaddz]

Rocket League racing would be cool or golf and volley ball would be awesome. The issue I see is if EA adding Fifa, Madden, NBA Live and all their sports games together. Rocket is free though and money is earned through skins. But rocket leagues seperate game modes will never grow if they're hidden away. So much potential

[@chaquetero-kun77]

thanks wayton, I was a little worried rocket league would end

[@jandrosdumb]

Oh you finally blew up I remember when you only had 10 subscribers

[@MrJtYates]

Imagine Rocket League making a Mario Kart-type racing mode where you can demo people mid-race😂 the possibilities are endless

[@DigitalJedi]

I've worked with UE5 as a hobbyist for simulations and some indie development stuff. I'm super hyped for the UE5 update, no matter how long it takes. I can finally get some of my stuff to work with rl. Who wants a 1v1 bot that learns? It's coming baby, but it only works in UE5 right now.

[@rixsterplays]

I was one of the people who lost interest in the game since they weren't adding anything:(

[@josiahgurney9468]

Great content Wayton thos is truly great fo hear! If you hadn't done a video on this I probably wouldn't have heard so thanks.

[@sporegazm]

Probably not the place for this...but i gotta put my inquiry out there. I'm an older guy(nearing 40)...and I have never been a hardcore gamer. The most hours I have ever put into a video game has been well under 150 hours. I currently sit at over 1200 on rocket league. Between my shift work, kids and family life...it has consumed me for 2 years. I used to play my guitar every single day for the last 20 years. I would write and record my own full songs with multiple instruments, a couple a year at least.... I haven't touched an instrument in over a year. Rocket league has taken that space. I have grinded from bronze to champ 2(mainly play 2's). I find myself not even enjoying the game as i once did. I have been so focused on improvement in general...and my competitive side has cast a dark cloud on this game. I have no doubt hit a ceiling that is much slower/harder to improve upon. But even when i'm winning...i find overall this game is beginning to become very toxic for me. I know it's just a game at the end of the day. But i have poured a lot of time, energy and heart into this game. I sometimes wonder why I am still turning it on. :/ i wonder why others were able to grind even harder for longer and not feel this way. As the game becomes less and less fun...I wonder what my end goal is? To be a 50 year old guy who made it to grand champ VIA some overwhelmingly frustrating sessions. Lol. Then i wonder if perhaps there will be a point where it finally feels the juice was worth the squeeze. I dunno. im rambling in a comment section like a moron 🤪 Love your vids man. If i do hang up the gloves, i will still be regularly checking your content 👍✌️

[@Bearlizard_03]

Im still waiting for ue5