Rocket League servers are down and online access is blocked coinciding with the launch of season 2. Today begins the second "season" for the futuristic rocket car soccer game since going free-to-play under the ownership of Epic Games.
Season 2 also brings with it a new Rocket for players to buy into a tier of in-game challenges and rewards. As we noticed today before the servers went down, season 2 has also brought with it some new and continuing issues...
But first, the issue at hand! Rocket League is not playable online! The game's launch of season 2 seems so popular it seems, that it crashed the servers. Going into this season, we were seeing concurrent player counts in-game ranging from 500,000 on weekdays to over 800,000 on weekend evenings, and we can only image that number maxed out today with the release of new content. Servers may be starting to come back online at the time of this writing...
Update: The servers came back up and then went down again for the evening. As of December 10, everything is back to normal and there are nearly 1.3 million concurrent players online. The R3MX however, remains missing in an we tested and we're waiting to connect with customer service on a fix.
When we jumped into Rocket League to check out season 2's new rocket , new car (the R3MX), and new EDM-themed arena, we noticed a few issues right off the bat. The new car that comes with the purchase of the season 2 Rocket immediately vanished from our garage and inventory after selecting it and wouldn't come back to start. We reached out to Psyonix earlier today, before the server issues, to see if others had this issue but we suspect it's related.
After matches, players are also missing the ability to access their garage or access their other presets, meaning players must back out of the game and lobby and return to the main menu to choose another car. This is particularly painful and needs to be addressed since this change occurred within the last few days, before season 2 launched.
Other unrelated topics we keep seeing raised by the community on social media and forums/Reddit cover include the inability to purchase cars or access older DLC (including highly coveted ones like the Batmobile). The store instead focuses on a limited rotation of cosmetics. Players on PC are still waiting as well for the PC (Epic Games Store) version of Rocket League to allow players to choose their avatar since the game packages avatar borders and banners as content to be unlocked. It's insane there's still no actual avatar to put in this border.
Rocket League is playable on PC, PlayStation 4 | 5, the Nintendo Switch, and the Xbox family of devices.
Source: Psyonix
