Last week, Psyonix announced that Rocket League would be getting a new update this week, adding a new arena and loot crate. The Salty Shores update would also trigger the start of Season 8 for those who are really interested in the competitive aspect of the game. That update has now arrived.
The full patch notes are below:
NEW CONTENT
Arenas- ‘Salty Shores’ is now available as a new Arena in all Playlists
- ‘Wasteland’ (Night) is now available in all Playlists
Crates and Keys- ‘Impact’ Crate has been added
Monstercat- ‘Rocket League x Monstercat Vol. 3’ is now available to all players under Music Playlists
- Monstercat Flags have been added
- ‘Aiobahn’
- ‘Bad Computer’
- ‘Dion Timmer’
- ‘Duumu’
- ‘Instinct’
- ‘Inverness’
- ‘Skyelle’
- ‘Soupandreas’
- ‘Stephen Walking’
- ‘Sundial’
S. Watercolour- ‘S. Watercolour’ Customization Items have been added
- ‘S. Watercolour’ Player Banner
- ‘S. Watercolour’ Flag
Decals- ‘Glyphtrix’ (Triton)
- ‘Min-Spec’ (Masamune)
- ‘ShapeRacer’ (Paladin)
- ‘Tiger Tiger’ (Aftershock)
Toppers- ‘Goldfish’
- ‘Palm Tree’
- ‘Swim Ring’
CHANGES AND UPDATES
Server Reporting- You can now select the ‘Report Server’ button in the midgame menu to directly report a problematic game server to us for investigation
Competitive Season 7- Competitive Season 7 has ended. Titles and items will be awarded for your highest rank achieved during the season. Season 7 Rewards are custom, non-tradeable Player Banners and Goal Explosions
- Receiving the Season 7 Rewards is also contingent upon successful completion of Season Reward Levels
- Reward Player Banners:
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 1’
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 2’
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 3’
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 4’
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 5’
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 6’
- ‘Season 7 - Tier 7’
- Season 7 Grand Champions will also receive the 'Season 7 Grand Champion' Title
- Reward Goal Explosions
- ‘Striker’
- ‘Striker Pro’
- ‘Striker Legend’
Competitive Season 8- Competitive Season 8 has begun
- Season 8 brings a “soft reset” that requires you to do placement matches in each playlist to recalibrate
- Winning half of your placement matches will land you near your previous season ranking
- The soft reset will no longer compress Champion Tier players skill downwards. Instead, only Grand Champions will be compressed down to the top end of the Champion 3 skill range.
- League Rankings will be temporarily empty until players complete their placement matches
BUG FIXES
General- A player’s Rank now correctly displays on the post-match screen
- Fixed an issue causing Orange team-specific Presets to incorrectly preload during matchmaking, causing them to appear late once the map loaded
- Fixed Boost activation occurring one frame behind input when client runs above 60 FPS
- Boost Audio and visual FX will no longer continue to play after boost is deactivated
- Fixed an issue with physics state quantization that led to cars occasionally “settling” at inconsistent suspension heights (thank you to Rocket Science for reporting this)
- Improved loading performance that was causing some players (particularly on PS4) to experience stutter in the first 5-10 seconds of matches
- Fixed players who have initiated a Forfeit Vote being unable to see the Vote to Forfeit option afterwards
- The “Keyboard Input Acceleration Time” option is once again available in the Options - Controls menu.
- Fixed the “Favorite” button sometimes disappearing in the Garage Car Body tab
- Fixed issues with car preview sometimes breaking when quickly switching garage tabs
- Tread glow on ‘Season 3 - Star’ Wheels has been restored
- FX on Draco Wheels have been restored
KNOWN ISSUES
[NOTE: If you go down a division after a win in a Ranked match, this is not a bug. The division down is attached to a previous loss that was reported to our database late. You are still receiving appropriate credit for the win.]
General- Painted ‘Twinzer’ lacks paintable attributes on the front of the body. This will be changed in our next update
- Paint finish on the Batmobile may look different than before
- You may be able to see edges of the ‘lighthouse’ that illuminates the map on Salty Shores
- [macOS. SteamOS] Textures on some buildings in the background may be missing
- On Salty Shores, some ground textures load a few seconds after reaching the Choose Team screen
- In some cases, users may not be able to invite Party members to trade immediately after leaving a match
- Images of Painted ‘K2’ and ‘Zeta’ Wheel variants may not display correctly
- Player POV camera issues when spectating or viewing Replays
- Voltaic Wheels may appear pixelated for some players
- Moving quickly between the Showroom and Garage may cause Boosts and Trails to not display properly when viewing in Redeem Rewards and Crate Preview menus.
- Some Gray Wheels (Voltaic) may appear similar to Titanium White variants
- Black texture can be seen sometimes outside of the Neo Tokyo and Tokyo Underpass Arenas
- Painted Voltaic Wheels may appear pixelated
- Trails slightly off-center behind ‘99 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 Wheels