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on July 7 2015 Sonics released rocket leap their sequel to start which stands for supersonic acrobatic rocket-powered battle cards to both PC and PlayStation 4 chances are you haven't heard of start before and that's probably because it was only released on PlayStation Network in North America back in 2008 it received fairly mixed reviews but did well enough to merit a second try rocket league was released last year on both PC and PlayStation 4 to much higher praise than its predecessor since then science has been very busy with further development of their game let's talk about developer support sanok's is fairly responsive to the community on reddit and other social media and has offered some of the best developer support I've experienced in a long time Sonic's also has nearly doubled their in-game content since released their first patch was released shortly after July 9th of 2015 since that day they released 23 more for a grand total of 24 patches that comes out to roughly 2 patches every month for about a year to give that number some perspective in the last year csgo has had 45 patches which comes out to about 3.75 patches per month this number may be misleading though because many of those patches were small bug fixes and not content updates rocket League has had plenty of bug fixes but they have also added new game modes cosmetics cars and additional gameplay functionality like many popular online games including League of Legends dota or csgo psionics has released seasonal patches for rocket league during the holidays last year Sonic's released their first custom game mode called snow day a hockey influenced game-mode that was popular enough for SATs to bring it back permanently after what was supposed to be an initial limited time run Halloween and Christmas also received seasonal patches all of which have been free for anyone who purchased the base game there are many random and fun items unrelated to the holidays like recently added item rarity and new rare items alongside these new rare items the company added an inventory management system with a trade-in functionality that mimics CS gos inventory and trade-in functions psionics announced both item trading and loot crate's will be added to rocket league soon rocket needs existing feature list is robust as is including extensive graphic options and camera settings cross-platform play is available between Xbox and Playstation players which can be toggled if desired powerful custom match mode for playing with large parties of up to eight is accompanied by mutaters for altering the ball-shaped physics and other gameplay settings for those who prefer to play solo offline and AI base season modes are available as for leaderboards and laddering stats tracking and powerful replay saving and viewing tools have been in place since day one useful for ego checking friends and filming your favorite moments a number of training modules allow for mechanical improvement for goaltending striking and aerials all of which are accompanied by three different difficulty settings this helps reduce the barrier for entry for players who may feel like they are late to the game or miss the boat and rapidly brings those players up to speed which brings us to the value of rocket League of course there are some cosmetics you have to pay for including all additional cars the base gaiden costs $15 and it has been on Steam sale for as low as 10 if you want all the DLC excluding the two soundtracks it will cost you twenty six dollars which includes cars wheels decals and other cosmetic upgrades rocket League includes seven unranked game modes including rocket labs which is the place where psyonix is planning to test new maps before adding them to the competitive map pool and for ranked game modes are available for more serious involvement psionics does all of this while doing their best to support their competitive community the company is currently running their own professional series called the our LCS which stands for rocket League Championship Series that's open to all players its first season will be coming to an end soon at the offline finals in Los Angeles California the grand final prize pool amounts to $55,000 marking our LCS a major step forward towards becoming a legitimate esports for more information and Racquet ly check the official psionics website for sources and articles check the links in the description if you want to support us directly check out the patreon link and subscribe for more content like this