Rocket Arena Update 2.1 Notes
A New Map and Limited Time Items!
Update Notes for 2.1
The 2.1.0 patch brings with it some new limited time modes and items, a player profile with stats, and some quality of life updates as well.
Introducing: Ruined City!
Battle across the Ruined City, a long-lost ancient temple that provides plenty of fast paced action. Keep your eye in the sky for great views of a few familiar Crater locales.
During the All Crater’s Eve event, limited time items will be making an appearance as well; the Pumpkin Bomb and the Spiderweb Magnet. Be sure to drop in and enjoy the festivities and new content taking place in the Rocket Championship Tour!
New Feature: Profile & Stats
Players can now view their gameplay stats in the Front End UI by selecting their player portrait or tabbing to the Profile menu in the Friends/Party screen. There are a lot of interesting stats added including; Total Games Completed, Total Damage Dealt, Highest KO Streak, Total Knockouts, and more. Share high scores for the top Rocket Championship Tour bragging rights!
Competitor Edits and Bug Fixes
- Leef: Flitt now bounces off (or around) Mysteen's Mirror Shield
- Leef: Flitt is no longer affected by the Rocket Magnet
- Fixed Flitt remaining visible for simulated clients after Leef's secondary ability activated
- Fixed Topnotch's primary ability playing cook release SFX when firing uncooked shots
- Fixed Flux & Plink item fetching temporarily breaking if actively fetching while knocked out
- Fixed Rev secondary mine glitching out if stuck to Megarocket and then Megarocket goes away
- Fixed Kayi double secondary ability FX when playing at higher net latency
- Fixed some Leef and Plink getting stuck in geometry issues
- Fix characters returning to arena blocking Topnotch's Zephyr Strike rocket
Limited Time Modes
Mega Rocket Mayhem
Battle your opponents over Mega Rockets, but with a twist...everyone deals increased impulse and takes reduced damage! You can stay in the Arena much longer in this mode, so get ready for an epic tug-of-war! IT’S MAYHEM!
Blast Ball
In Blast Ball, the Rocketball literally explodes! Keep your eyes and ears on the timer, because once it fills up, an explosion will damage friends and foes alike, and Megablast whoever is unlucky enough to be holding the Blast Ball!
*No Rocketballs were harmed in the making of this mode*
Game Mode Changes
- Rocketbot Attack
- Removed AoE attack from Rocketbots
- Reduced Rocketbot fire rate
- 2v2 Knockout
- Reduced the score limit from 20 to 12
- Reduced time limit from 7 min to 5 min
Items
Limited Time event items added!
Spider Magnet
Use the Spider Magnet to deploy a sticky web wall that will severely slow down any opponent or their rockets that get caught in it. Beware, opponent rockets can still punch through the web if they make it through!
Pumpkin Bomb
Throw the Pumpkin Bomb for an explosion that’s larger than life! With its increased size, it’s easier than ever to hit with rockets and change its direction. Watch out, this goes for allies and opponents!
UI
- Crossplay can now be set to PC-Only or Console-Only
- Onboarding videos now work on Xbox
Misc
- Performance improvements to increase console gameplay quality
- Adjusting camera shake to be less aggressive when taking damage from certain abilities
As always, we value your feedback and if you’d like to leave us some now, or in the future, hit us up on the Rocket Arena Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Twitch Streams, DMs, etc. - we read as much as we can!
Thanks for being part of our community and we’ll see you in Crater!
#LETSROCKET
-The team at FSG
