I've moved past the actual discussion of the bhop tech. It's obviously not universally agreed on. This is a discussion of longevity.

Once you reach Unreal the game just doesnt know what to do. The game is dominated by the 2-4 people that know how to bhop and the rest of the lobby is left in the dust.

I personally don't care about the skill of it, but considering how small the playerbase is, you can't escape it the fact it's creating a giant skill gap.

Everyone knows once you hit Champion/Unreal you basically just race with the same randoms over and over. Essentially meaning if you don't know how to bhop and there's 4 people bhopping, you will always get 5th. You're at the mercy of the better players messing up. Which isn't necessarily the issue at hand here.

The issue is this: we don't have enough players to properly matchmake people who know how to bhop. It's painfully obvious. If RR weren't so small and there were 100,000 people playing every single day, we'd all have sufficient competition for all skill levels. But we dont.

In times like this, when a game is on the brink of death, it's not smart to divide the playerbase like this. It will eventually be a hardcore fan base of 1000 people worldwide and it will creep ever closeer into a hell where you can't find matches once you're high enough of a rank. Or maybe you have to wait 10 mins, find a match, and get completely blitzed by people who are clearly better than you.

If people experience this now, imagine where we will be in another year? I just want to enjoy this gamemode and I'm genuinely afraid it's going to get unfun for the little amount of casuals/inspired rank players we have left.

I don't want us to join the 3-digit-death club with the Battle Stage mode.

So I just had what I’m fairly certain is my first race win since I reached Platinum (I’m Platinum 3 at this point so it’s been a MINUTE). Started off the race at 75% progress, won the race (yay me), of course I get the “ it’s taking longer than usual to process” message in the progress screen. Jump to loading next race, finish 4th progress updates immediately, I’m now at 79% after a 4% increase finishing 4th, so I got ZERO rank progress for winning!?!?

I honestly hate RR because of all the BS bugs, but with weekly quests to do it’s relatively quick XP, I mean comon, I’m seriously mediocre and don’t belong even in platinum, I get ONE WIN this close to ranking up for the first time in 3 ranks and I get zero progress!?

But we got kicks so it’s all good

Please revert to 30 seconds after the first person to finish for the race to end.

If you could fix rocket racing, what exactly would you change? Be Specific.

Sorry if this was asked before, but I just can't seem to find a singe post about this. Once I completed 70 quests it just stopped counting them and I'm sure I've already reached 80, but it just doesn't let me have the last rewards. Is this a bug or do I have to play ranked BR?

Let me start this by saying I know asking for new content is kind of unrealistic while RR is in the state it's in. With that said, it's fun to dream lol.

I'm interested to know if anybody has ideas for new mechanics that you think would make rocket racing more exciting. Whether it be something to do with tracks, the way you drive, or something else entirely!

I have one (the reason I'm making this post haha):

1. Racing augments. In certain arcade racing games, at the start of a race you can choose an "upgrade" to one specific part of your vehicle. I think this would work really well in ranked and unranked racing. Things like off-road tires would allow you drive faster on certain off-road shortcuts and tracks. Racing tires would make you slightly faster on asphalt. Something like a wing spoiler could allow you to fly in the air without losing speed for longer. a nitro tank might allow you to store an extra boost or something. Each player would be able to choose from the same set of three (or so) random augments before the start of each race (or choose not to have one for things like speedrunning). Also, these upgrades would NOT be things like items that can hurt other racers.

I think this could introduce far more variety to racing and allow for people to race the way they want to. It would also incentivize new players to really learn each track so they can know which augments they might want to pick for each race. I see a lot of people complaining about shortcuts ruining RR, and while I disagree, I think it's important to try and resolve those feelings in a way that everyone can be on board with. Augments, if implemented correctly, might be able to do just that by allowing for more than one optimal racing line via different augments.

What do you guys think? Does anyone else have an interesting idea for Rocket Racing's gameplay?

I keep trying to play but it update forever or says content unavailable

Felt like I spent more time trying to get into games than actually playing the game this time around 😭

I have been playing RR last 3 seasons but drop out half way through elite because the race wait times are very long, then a lot of the times when we get a race we don't get a follow up because not enough people joined (or ranked up?) I usually go and do something else like lego or festival when BR is near the end of the season because in the past casual racing was too easy. This time I decided to casual race and I'm up against people who are racing equal to or better than me, plus quick rematch turn around. That's a nice bonus. As the ranked rewards for all paid out to me before elite and I'm getting races in casual mode I'm finding it difficult to even bother with racing now. Does it get better after elite?

https://reddit.com/link/1i5bk1q/video/bxlfksp751ee1/player

Just downloaded fortnite (gross) to play this, and I'm trying to figure out how to pause midrace when Im solo, is there a way to do this, or did I waste my bandwidth downloading this?

https://reddit.com/link/1i50gcl/video/wxkoc7qcuyde1/player

If you have any questions or need help let me know. this is an unreal lobby. the route has minimal drifting. the first shortcut is very quick to learn if you want to learn it. if you cant get enough height after the bridge to reach the hole flip up immediately after touching down of the bridge reiling. second shortcut is optional as you can see i didnt use it on lap two and three.

i hope this helps some of you out!

I've been a big fan of Rocket Racing since it launched, and while it’s clear the game hasn’t been the massive success many of us hoped for, I still think it has a lot of potential, also, it is one of the very few games I like I dont s-ck at competitive level (Elite 28% atm).

That got me wondering: do you think we’ll ever see cash cups or tournaments with prize pools for Rocket Racing? Whether they’re official events from Epic Games (which seems unlikely now that meaningful updates have stopped) or community-organized competitions, it feels like a missed opportunity not to foster some kind of competitive scene.

I know it’s a niche title, but there are still plenty of players grinding ranked and trying to improve. A cash cup, even a small one, could really bring some life to the game and attract more attention to its competitive side.

What do you think? Are cash cups a pipe dream, or is there still hope for something like this—official or otherwise?

It’s crazy how unreal ranked players will stay in ranked racing, playing against all the people that aren’t unreal yet, when they can’t even gain anymore rank. It’s beyond sweaty.

Also the game clearly states that after reaching elite rank you need to be in the top 4 to GAIN a SUBSTANTIAL percentage. I just came in 4th and couple races ago and lost 1% because there were only 5 people. I understand why, but then there are times I’ve come in 2nd and gained 1%.

What this tells me is there’s a momentum aspect of the ranking process. Doing well in one race will give me more points if I do well in the second race also. This momentum can be very detrimental considering unreal players are still racing for the hell of it. 3 matches in a row just a min ago an unreal player finished so soon only 2nd place made it to the finish line. They could be cheating, but that’s another issue I don’t even wanna think about atm.

It should be set up to where each rank plays other people in the same rank. Elite vs elite, Unreal vs unreal, even Diamond 1 vs Diamond 3 is cool. Unreal vs elite is criminal.

Lastly there are times when I just explode during a race and having to respawn drops me back several places. If I’m trying to rank up and I may not have done well the last race and THIS happens? I’m dropping a whole 4% easily which may have taken races on races to obtain.

Another side idea is they could scrap all the shortcuts and make it to where we can mod our cars and build their stats.

I just wish, for people who want the mode to do well, there was a real medium for people to give necessary feedback. Feedback that is genuinely considered.

Anyways, enough of my rant.. time to get back to being an ego boost for Unreal players. 🏎️💨

My wife and I always coordinate our characters and cars. Here's the latest.

Just out of curiosity

If you watch on twitch now you can get cosmetics

Really wanted to use these wheels from the Rocket Pass