Psyonix has announced new details that they are working on for the Rocket League Season 2 via the game's official blog. The developer first acknowledged that there is a need to address the rank progression. Second is how are they going to address the specific problems that players are facing particularly those who are currently in "Champion" tier.
The developer via the game's official blog says that they are hearing fans' feedback and they are only giving a sneak preview of the changes that they are working on for Rocket League's Competitive Matchmaking for Season 2.
The developer admits that the lack of visibility on where the player stands within a Skill Tier is a problem and states, "to address this, we've added a Division indicator along with your Skill Tier, says Corey Davis, the Design Director at Psyonix Studios via Psyonix blog.
There are five divisions in each Skill Tier...when you're in Division V, you know you're close to promotion, and vice versa with Division I."
Those players who ranked in the highest skill tier will see their actual Skill Rating instead of seeing a division number. Their skill rating will also appear on theLeague Rankings screen so that they can easily gauge how far they have to go to reach the Top 100.
The second issue that Psyonix want to fix are the two specific problems for players who are currently in "Champion" tier. Davis gives the details as provided below:
- The Champion Tier includes too wide of a range of player skills, and lacks the aspirational goal of reaching "Platinum" in Season 1.
- Players in the Champion tier, but outside of the Top 100, have no way to gauge how far they have to go to reach the leaderboards.
More details of the Season 2 Update can be seen via this link. There is no official release date yet for the update but it is expected to be released in the coming weeks. Follow Rocket League on Twitter and through the game's official website for updates.
Rocket League is a vehicle soccer video game for PC/Steam and PS4, and just for the Xbox One last February 17. The game got awards from The Game Award for Best Independent Game and Best Sports/Racing Game.
