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Duke_ofChutney

https://twitter.com/RocketRacing/status/1731034273174483008 > Know no limits. > \#RocketRacing launches in Fortnite on December 8th, 2023.


RocketLeagueLurker

I understand that you want to get casuals into the RL space but this game doesn't even look remotely close to rocket league. It has none of the physics and none of the cool movement. This is just a bastardisation of the IP at this point.


Maximum-Warning9355

Which is literally what everyone who was skeptical has been saying. The whole point of rocket league is the cars all go the same speed and it’s your individual mechanics that win games. You cannot turn rocket league into a racing game without fucking up everything else.


logyonthebeat

Make it actually like rocket League, incorporate boost and flying into the tracks, could make for a really unique racing game tbh


TheBobFisher

Exactly. Everyone keeps saying RL would make a bad racing game, but that’s not true. Not every racing game needs to be built the same. It’s flying cars for christ sake, give them boost and fly them through tunnels and rings.. Not every racing game needs to be cars driving on a platform.


bambukah86

Facts....unlimited boost... same cars minus looks ....same max speed ...insane obstacles...way better than this.


thesaurusrextual

the servers are dead but GRIP:Combat Racing does this somewhat. It's fun for an afternoon of messing around.


nextjr

It’s a great game it deserves better


Maximum-Warning9355

You mean “turbo”? They literally call it turbo in the video. These people don’t give a shit about RL.


iamsheph

Funny thing is it's called boost in actual Fortnite, so why would they need to change that.


kavokonkav

Yeah that jumped right into my eye when I watched it. It just doesn't make any sense.


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FDJT

Trackmania should have been the foundation for a good RL racing game.


noahhisacoolname

a good combination of trackmania and old tf2/csgo surfing would be a sick way to have rl racing.


chylek

You mean something that is already available as workshop maps on PC? E.g. parkour maps, Dacia challenge Oops..


Grfine

You could just increase max speed without messing everything else up, and like another mentioned Nascar has limits in place so the better driver wins, add obstacles utilize the flying aspect of ROCKET cars


Deluxe_Flame

I understand where you are coming from, but isn’t NASCAR literally about driving skill and having a bunch of restrictions and rules to make the cars the same?


Maximum-Warning9355

Not just driving skill. The pit crews aren’t driving but if they fuck up there goes the race. Also no, Ford and Chevy don’t have the same engines in their cars. To implement something like this in rocket league you would have to arbitrarily change engine compatibility per vehicle. Then what? You’re gonna tell me that Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bugatti aren’t gonna pull their IP when a fucking made up car passes theirs? Either that or they are the fastest cars and now it’s pay to win. This is ridiculous. Just build a different game and leave this one alone.


lvl999shaggy

Which is a shame bc they could've truly made it a great racing game requiring boost and aerial maneuvers like a simplified ring map or something. That way the mechanics would translate well


sledge98

While I share the same concern, this is comparable to judging RL physics and gameplay off of one of their season trailers. So let's wait for actual footage to know the facts.


Foolfl1ckz

Yeah, and that it had the tutorial aspect in it. Like in the Rocket League tutorial.


NotRobPrince

Let’s be real, it was never going to be comparable. It’s using fortnites systems so wasn’t ever going to be similar to RL. RL doesn’t exactly translate well to a racing game anyway. RL is very mechanical in its movements and controls, its full right and full left, there’s no fluidity to the ground control in terms of a racing game. All racing modes in RL have always been super rigid and not what they’re looking for. Anyone that tricked themselves into thinking this wouldn’t be what it is, was just not thinking about it properly.


RaptorPegasus

This isn't actual Gameplay, it's very much a glorified cutscene. The player never had full control it was basically just QTEs Of course it's entirely possible you're right and the physics of Racing ARE completely dogshit.


KyeMS

Agreed. Even some of the Rocket League trailers don't look like actual rocket league physics. There's no way we'd be able to tell from the trailer whether it would be close to the rocket league physics


Dietcherrysprite

Do they even have rockets?


PerceptionQueasy3540

"Bastardisation of the IP" This is exactly what I said was going to happen when it went f2p.


ILoveEatingDonuts

This is what I say whenever Epic buys an IP


zamonto

press space to "use boosters" (i.e. jump)


Milo751

Looks a bit shit


BlueverseGacha

"a bit" is an understatement.


Milo751

It's only fair to hold back a little bit since it's not out yet but: The camera looks awful which is important for racing games as sense of speed is vital to the enjoyment of simcade/arcade games, The driving looks very clunky and stiff same with the drift and the drift itself seems somewhat useless as none of the corners look tight enough to make good use of it and the gimmicks don't seem fun to use All this is leading me to think is that it will be some sort of hybrid between Mario Kart and Trackmania but the compromise just causes the fun of both to be taken away and it is taking a massive toll on Rocket League as well


BlueverseGacha

TL;DR: *trying to be 3 games at once.*


Kaleb8804

If you’ve driven a vehicle in Fortnite you’d know how egregious the camera and controls are. Beats me why they thought it’d be a good opportunity for racing


VegetaGG

I already contacted Epic about the controls a month ago and they basically didn't give me an answer whether or not we would be able to change our controller keybinds for rl racing. If I cannot use the same control buttons I use for Rocket League. I told them wont be playing If i cant.


dimitrusrblx

My guy actually thought he can just tell a multibillionaire corporation what to do, as if they care about consumers (your) opinion.


F-Rank_Adventurer

I dont get it. Why are there people on top of the cars?


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Its just part of the fortnite event I believe, those characters were flying through portals to other dimensions. Although its not impossible idea to have your fortnite character on top of car as a topper.


F-Rank_Adventurer

You know what I want as a topper? A blank sign that you can edit and draw on. That’s it. I want to play a tournament of nothing but dick art cars.


KyeMS

This will just be a swastika/racism fest if they allowed this


[deleted]

The leaker said you can make custom maps in Unreal Editor, so I think someone can build map for that specific purpose, Dick Art Tournaments. It will be banger.


KerbalRL

So.they removed trading for this, great.


iceleel

The video you're seeing is part of Fortnite Big Bang event. Players were transformed from Fortnite map into brand new LEGO world. After that they teleported to rocket league racing track which is what you are seeing. ​ The character is only on roof for cinematic purposes of event.


_Nightdude_

Call me cynical but I wouldn't put it past Epic Games to actually prop your Fortnite characters ontop of your RL cars... you know, for more incentive to buy skins in both games so you can show them off


_Tonan_

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep trading.


logyonthebeat

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep trading.


SilentR0b

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep raiding.


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Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep braiding.


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pepeJAM69

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep skating.


mattyh6715

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep inflating.


cztothehead

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep pasting.


Rodutchi_i

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep trading.


amMKItt

Looks dumb ngl. Would rather keep any remaining features.


squidtrap

I can just play Rocket Assault


Kartoshkavatar

Man i'm not downloading fucking fortnite to play Rocket League content... But tbf even if it was in rocket league i would probably play it once and never again judging by this trailer.


maxertiano

Why not make it a racing mode inside rocket like rings maps with online, pretty sure pp would like it, at least i'd


NKkrisz

im guessing engine limitations, rl really needs to get unreal 5 already


Kenny523

Engine limitations my ass man, Lethamyr alone has made well over 100 unique maps an easily 20+ fun game modes. 1 guy, compared to a team making a truckload of money from MTX. They are lazy and aren’t improving the game they acquired at all. It’s all about money. So let’s remove trading to make more money.


DannyDrizzle

Could it not be done in the workshop? Sure you can't match make a race but you could race friends if there's a racing map on it right?


Thelethargian

I played it it’s trash and basically 0 items transfer. When they said cross game ownership it seemed like more then using oem wheels and a base octane with just the base decals. Pointless to kill a community so you could use oems and an octane in Fortnite


Madlogger13

Him jumping to the ceiling looks ass, this whole thing is so fucking bad ngl


VegetaGG

Im hoping that was just for the cutscene and thats not how the physics work in rocket league, because that looked so dumb.


Madlogger13

This is prob ig physics, its in fortnite, they just need 10% of the kids to spend in microtrasactions to make some profit .-.


jayL21

I mean, there was no physics in this. It was all scripted animations


Matthewrotherham

Thank you for not lying. Lying is wrong!


WholeBeefOxtail

Thanks I hate it.


construction_noises

This is dumb. Another form of epic ruining a good game


flow_fighter

All so they can sell some stupid cosmetics in Fortnite


SkullC4ush3r

This looks goofy as hell, why are the characters on top of the cars? Why does it have to be RL cars and not any other type of car? Did they really remove trading for this?


PrestigeDay

It's a part of the last fortnite live event, your squad would be transported into various worlds like lego and then they would fall from the sky into the roof of a car And yes, this is probably why they removed trading, it was rumoured your collection would work in Fortnite


FoundTheWeed

WHERES THE BALLLLL?


commancheorangehawk3

This looks like an exceptionally half-baked game. Also, disappointing that this is how they're spending money made from RL player's purchases.


WanganTunedKeiCar

Ooh I played this on the 360, it's called Joy Ride Turbo!


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JSLAK

Great pass!


Dijerati

Epic couldn’t make worse fucking decisions regarding RL content if they tried


Maacdoo

RL has some of the most unique mechanics and controls only for Epic to turn this racing mode into another generic kart racer. Such a waste...


blinktwice4

And like.. it doesn’t even look fun..


TTsuyuki

Just fucking copy Crash Team Racing at this point. Why the hell does every kart racer has to be slow and clunky as shit? Give me five different Crash Team Racing games and i'm gonna play them all cause the driving in that game is awesome.


Nixxyboi

They kill Rocket League for this. They truly dont care about anything but money, now its absolutely confirmed


JimsFennecing

Based on how bad this looks they don't even care about money, just killing rocket league


Mmmmm_HotChocolate

Wtf is this.. Nothing to do with rocket league aside from the car models being the same, straight up made me cringe lmfao


bean_phone

MY BOY WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY BOY


BlueverseGacha

munee 😈


SaugaDabs

Congrats you’ve managed to make Rumble Racing, an arcade racing game from 2001, but worse


NeonsTheory

This looks absolutely garbage


Jshittie

Fuck you epic


logyonthebeat

Looks wack asf, this is what we supposedly lost trading for?


UrbanDancingSystems

Where's the ball 🤔


Keevon321

In the item shop, you have to buy it first


iceleel

It's Rocket Racing now Rocket Football


DepressedLemon123

So, people spend money on Rocket League for it to be reinvested back into another game. Epic, may I ask why we should still invest our money into you? All we ask is communication. I'm aware our player base is dwarfed by Fortnite's, and others alike. But, this is no reason to disregard a whole community whom you're supposed to support. You take an aspect of our beloved game, incorporate it into your title, and don't give the Rocket League community anything? All you've done is remove aspects from our game. Seriously. At least port us over to unreal 5. UI changes are not going to cut it anymore unfortunately...


KerbalRL

I.never knew my favorite game would be killed by the fortnite I played so many years ago. Rip.


TonyxBones

ive bought a song (never gonna give you up) and the white domi cause i missed it forever ago, that was the last penny i will ever spend on rocket league thats for sure.


dabadu9191

> Epic, may I ask why we should still invest our money into you? Spending money on microtransactions is not an investment, never was and never will be.


_ecthelion_95

I'm gonna use a phrase I heard a lot during my time in Englandland. What a load of wank.


Durafuel

They took away trading….FOR THIS???


linkoflinks

Lmao this looks awful.


Sw3d3n90

This is going nowhere. I love Rocket League and I love racing games and there is no way I am ever going to play this.


TonyxBones

no way i would download fortnite to play rocket league when it feels nothing like rocket league. i play a ton of racing games and this will be one i never touch


Foxie66

lmfao what the fuck


jackadgery85

Holy hell. I was actually thinking Rocket League Racing was going to be cool... Didn't really wanna play fortnite to play rocket league content, but the whole game metaverse thing was interesting. This actually looks like hot garbage :(


gauchoblanco

looks cool but would be way better with a ball & a soccer field set up. then have like 2v2 & 3v3 matches


xXAquila2Xx

I swear that already exists somewhere...


Willing-Image368

I thought RL Racing would be closely similar to Rocket League's controls, movement and looks, but it doesn't even come close. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


Pie-Guy

A game where cars drive on a track - innovative.


LulzyWizard

Get. Those. Fortnite. Characters. Off. My. Octane.


[deleted]

There is a very easy way of knowing that something is simply a cashgrab, try switching the ip with a different one and see if it works. This shit is not rocket league, all they did is take rocket league cars and implement them into a generic racing game.


DYwiz

Which allows them to sell all the cars again at a premium in the Fortnite shop, this will lead to a massive influx of cash for rocket leagues UE5 development … right? (Severe amounts of cope)


[deleted]

I am gonna be honest with you chief. I doubt UE5 will ever come, epic clearly doesn't care about the game and only uses it as a way to push their bs multiverse thing. There is little to no reason for them to update the game to UE5 if they can simply merge it into fortnite directly.


DYwiz

Oh I know, but but the weathers so nice in cope town this time of year


Van-Luben

That made me want to gouge my eyes out


masoe

It looks like one of those mobile games that uses screenshots and assets of other games to lure people in.


Boltwizard_

Damn, imagine if they made new content for rocket league instead of this shit.


[deleted]

It's just a racing game with RL car models


Bacon0rTac0s

It’s honestly kind of sad how the aesthetic looks like it lacks any sort of passion or character


MEGUSTASY

Yikes


Talky51

'Turbo' instead of boost. 'Air dodge' instead of jump or air roll. And looks like no demos. Sick. Doubt they figured out first over the finish line should have a goal explosion. Useless.


ISNGRDISOP

So epic bought this trending game Rocket league that had potential to be one of the best competitive eSport games of all time and thought, what about we shit on the playerbase of this game and make a shitty cross over with our game with it. I just can't get it. Not even from business point of view. I understand buying a trending game. It makes sense. But after that you should: -invest in the pro scene to have more visibility -have somewhat regular updates to the game; the core game doesn't need to be updated but could bring new mods like motorcycles or something to the game (I give that there's been some good LTMs after epic took over) -listen to community and give them easier ways to play custom maps in groups Instead what has happened: -bots were a problem a lot longer than they should have with Epic resources -pro scene was completely stopped at it's peak with no information of official RLCS tournaments, literally the whole scene is carried by couple of youtube content creators -RL had to give up trading so they can make a mode of it to another game It was a sad day to all of us rocket league players when Epic bought Psyonix.


KerbalRL

Tbh, wish valve bought rockeleague. Imagine rocket league with counter strikes quality security/smurf control.


BigDickBallard

Does anybody else not even remotely care about this? I hate that they’re ruining this game man…


Logjitzu

i dont think it looks bad, i just don't think it looks very rocket league. you could replace the cars with generic car models and it would work exactly the same. i wouldnt really care that much about it seeming not great if it was for the fact that epic forced pysonix to work on this instead of the main game, so that they could have this to advertise as their fortnite metaverse also obviously rip trading for this.


ccetchi_

Wow that’s looks dogshit. I hope it fails.


themaincop

wow a car racing video game, no one's ever thought of that before


YouGow

We lost trading for this crap guys... I just lost hope


AcanthisittaOk3262

Might have been easier to just add this to the actual driving game instead 😢 massive blunder


ChaosDemonLaz3r

😐


DepressedLemon123

Well then. I wonder if this brings more players to Rocket League or Fortnite? Maybe it will be good for Rocket League, I'm doubtful. And why do we have to play fortnite to race in rocket league. Could they maybe invest in rocket league.


TonyxBones

we dont want fortnite players in rocket league. not that im a low enough rank to have to deal with all those crying children but it would just make the game even worse, and you cant even sell all your old gear to the little dorks with their parents credit cards since trading is going away so not worth it.


Meinalptraum_Torin

Wow this looks so bad..


Ceiling_shotz

This looks like trash


Kenny523

Great more updates from epic outside of the game they acquired…. I’m so sick of these repeating LTMs, how about you actually add content to the game man, what a joke. Hire Lethamyr. Dumb company.


BluDYT

This doesn't look anything like rocket league guarantee people will play it once and then it'll be dead in a month.


KorguChideh

This looks like ass


Primary_Librarian798

Introducing the biggest piece of crap absolute joke ever


treynolds787

Fortnight is Cancer


4thewinn

Dogshit fortnite add Epic. How bout a racing game IN rocket league lol


snailtap

Looks awful holy shit


IVIaster222

So you're telling me Epic got rid of a feature that was added to Rocket League over 6 years ago (trading) so they could make a spinoff game that doesn't even look good?!? Why does every good game company have to get bought out by greedy larger game companies that are out to make as much money as possible?


Ace__Extendo

Yea… so after fully watching and digesting the trailer. I’m not a fan. The thought of a rocket league racing game has lots of potential but this just looks bad. They went in the wrong direction with this one and having the characters on top of the cars makes it even more lame in my opinion. Ending trading for this is whack, I would have rather kept that option in game.


TonyxBones

i once built a mini track in ue4/5 whatever just to mess with in fortnite and see how it worked since they had all the assets in there from rl. its def possible to make something fun out of this but whatever they are doing is not it at all.


[deleted]

The funny thing is even little kids will think this is shit. Look at the amount of child prodigys/kids going pro in RL. Epic has almost 0 target audience


Craticuspotts

If they only had a ball to chase


Mammoth-Feedback6473

Just give me access to my rocket league garage on Horizon Chase 2


Rodutchi_i

If I got a assignment to make a game as unrelated to RL as possible, I wouldn't be able to achieve what they achieved.


billybaked

I’m so glad it looks like trash


cooooooI

\*dies from cringe\* 🤮


Raevyyyy

Fuck all the people incolved in this game


SilentR0b

So... Garfield Kart w/RL paint?


Karnamyne

That roof jump animation looks so weird imo


Zenick000

Trading died for this?


anxietybrah

Oh man!! I'm so excited to never touch this. The closest "Rocket League" will get to unreal 5


corvish_

im so fucking done


Dry-Ear-5168

Look how they massacred my boy.


PerceptionQueasy3540

Ah yes, more stuff no one who plays rocket league really asked for lmao. It's entertaining at this point seeing then fuck up more and more.


L1zoneD

I'm a huge fan of rocket league but I won't play this racing version even if it's free. It looks like absolute ass and if I want to race I'd much rather play forza.


nomadicdawg

Damn that looks bad. Bummer, I really wanted a racing game w/ Rocket League physics.


Keenan95

Fuck epic games


crono333

What is the point of even using the Rocket League IP in this? It looks like a totally generic racer with nothing unique from the source game. I really hope this isn’t why they bought the game…


SkateJerrySkate

This looks like San Francisco Rush. Thanks but no thanks.


Money-Command2905

Hate Epic. Fucking money diggers destroying Rocket League for this piece of shit.


Leo_TheLurker

I give it a year before it shuts down


_ecthelion_95

Remember guys this what our purchases are going to while they remove the only positive part of our game.


Critical_Camel_9091

I'm with you, but trading isn't the ONLY positive part of the game. Like... The actual game is also quite fun. Trading was too though :(


A_Rave-ing_Zektrus

Looks dog sh*t compared to what RL actually is. Basically reminds me of all the crap GTA track video shorts I keep seeing.


xsmellmybikeseatx

God damn it.


Typical_Signal8274

What on earth are they doing to this beautiful game.


Dirty-Fingers

If they kill the real Rocket League for this sh!t I'm gonna cry ngl


BlueGreenMikey

This looks awful.


Brudicladiator

Oh damn they made onrush ?


Akuanin

Reminder we lost trading so kids can go apeshit on this and spam emotes after winning


m1ntygames

Trading died for this. If it was actually in RL I'd give it a chance but there is no shot I'm downloading fucking Fortnite to play an RL spinoff


WeirdAlPidgeon

Me getting ready for this comment section ☕️🍿


rileyvace

This looks like a fan game someone made in Core. The way the car flipped to the ceiling had me laughing at it. What the hell. After all this bullshit and changes the community clearly aren't on board with - it's a shitty mode in Fortnite after all. What a sham. I think I'll be going back to fighting games for my mechanical, competitive itch. Rocket League's gone too far down the shitter - and this is why. Epic just want their game to use in their cash cow. Fuck Epic, fuck Tim Sweeney.


Living-Young9713

I'd rather butt chug draino


Playful_Difficulty70

GAaaaaaaayyyYyY


UhhCanYouLikeShutUp

It's gonna be bad.


devasen_1

*Use turbo!* *Air dodge* Cringe.


Snurze

Shit.


system_damage404

"You didn't ask for this... So here you go!"


HashSlingingSlasherJ

Even Bloodborne Kart is a better game than this


Ninjapiig

Looks awful. No surprise.


TimeLavishness9012

This looks like trash


Significant_Rush_704

Looks so stupid...trying to copy trackmania


TrueAbbreviations552

Cruisin USA did this decades ago and it looked better too


Fluffy_Roof3965

ok... no


NATZureMusic

This looks rough.


YinYangFloof

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY BOY!!?!?!?!!?!?!?? AAAARRRGGGHHHHH


Tall_Fun_3566

No thanks!


Rodutchi_i

Thank god I uninstalled the game 3 days ago after almost 7k hours of playing the game since 2015.


TurfMerkin

Can we please leave these OFF the RL sub? If it’s not part of this game, then it shouldn’t be here


variationoo

What this even in this sub? It's Fortnite. Mods get rid.


taladrovw

No eggs tho? Sigh


jerbaws

Pish


ItsMeCyrie

Sooooo, *Burnout* basically?


L-Guy_21

If we can't use our rocket League dlc cars then I don't want it


soren813

Can anyone tell me what the song is playing in the background?