The game actually has a very nice mechanic with some very impressive skill celling when you get into it but the unpolishness, almost a year later, still kills the experience for me... At least they added a lot of my favorite cars form RL, basically the only reason that I gave it a shot in the first place haha
Request on more "What Went Wrong" series -Need For Speed Payback or Most Wanted 2012 -Death Track Resurrection (Esspecially the copied NFS HP2 Track Layouts) -Motorstorm RC -Smash Cars PS3 -Flatout 3 (This game is even another problem with Ridge Racer Unbounded)
Most Wanted went wrong? I get the whole “it was almost MW2” thing, but let’s be honest; -Carbon ended the original MW storyline. -If it were a sequel fans would complain they’re shilling to the older fans of the original game just because it was a best seller. -The game itself is good, it can get dull after you get everything but multiplayer is the best of an NFS to this day, Unbound being a close second if you don’t count 2015 for being always online anyways (they’ll probably give it an offline patch if they know what’s good for them).
I really hate this gamemode. If it were a standalone game or inside RL it could've had more content since it wouldn't be at the mercy of whatever epic games decides to add or remove (not that this gamemode had many things anyway). Adding onto car customization, it's really awful. 9 months later and they still haven't added Fennec nor Dominus. There's no paint finishes, no universal or animated decals, no legacy customization items from RL before going F2P like the original cars, wheels or antennas. And you'll never be able to use older Rocket pass items, even if I'm all for selling older rocket pass/battle pass items on their shops. It could've benefited from being in Fortnite with stuff like showing your driver inside the car, having a pre-race lobby or showcase of the players' cars, same with post-race results, having a podium and being able to emote like Festival. Every other issue i have with this gamemode were perfectly explained on the video.
If it was a completely polished, standalone game that had some parts of progression linked to Fortnite or Rocket League (just like RL does). Great vid as always!!!
As a Rocket League and Fortnite player, and a Racing Fan, I can say that the problem was the lack of content, and also Fortnite Fanbase probably isnt the biggest fans of racing games
Just wanna say, the fact Alpine has a shortcut isn’t a bug, theres much worse bugs than a fun shortcut, one of the reasons I liked rocket racing were the buggy shortcuts and glitches, it was fun for me and now most are gone
@ maybe not but they haven’t fixed it for so long that I think they don’t care, so unless they remove it im going to regrard it as a feature, if it gets remove it’ll be a bug, Its hard to tell with something like thats tho
three time rr unreal player here. i understand its not for everyone but for someone who just wants to relax and doesnt care for buying stuff from the item shop, its honestly a blast. the rewards from quests acts as an amazing incentive to want to get to unreal. the game is much better than it was now with new tracks being less spammy then before. the game is basically described simply - easy to learn, hard to master. i assure people that taking the time to play for even just a week is rewarding.
@@JohnFortnite386 I have hope that the game isn't dead yet. sure no "themed" updates but that doesn't me (I hope) no new tracks necessarily. just that there won't be an overarching theme anymore.....right? 😭
@@Lewisthegood unfortunately thats exactly what it means, we wont be getting any new tracks for a very long time and i doubt pysonix or epic is really making it a priority as it doesnt get as many players as the other gamemodes the only thing we'll get is new ranked rewards like every 2 months but even those are lazy look at how 5 out of the 7 weekly rewards are literally just jam tracks i more blame pysonix as they cant even port over their full battlepass or any good cosmetics we still havent gotten a single exotic tire in fortnite after 10 months it really does just comes down to laziness smh
As a back to back unreal ranked player too, I wouldn’t say it’s relaxing, really the only game mode that gives the adrenaline rush. Racing against less skilled people is somewhat relaxing(more of boring), yet going against the players who know the strats and techs is complete opposite of relaxing. Still fun for us octane racing adrenaline junkies, although you’re completely right about; easy to learn, hard to master.
I actually got into Fortnite because a friend was playing it for the Avatar event. Thought to try out rocket racing. At first I thought it was neat, but by the end, it kinda became more "god please have this over with for the battle pass so I don't need to deal with it anymore."
for a game that people claimed to want our money they sure made every possible move to not do so, from not allowing base cars like the dominus and backfire and their painted variants in and not bothering to add in universal decals that would 100% be way easier to implement
3:30 forget about that. You'll never see Epic Games releasing anything outside from Fortnite ecosystem. It's their business model now. They even announced that UEFN is going to be integrated in Unreal Engine 6.
Its a great game I got Unreal Rank with it and stream it. What went wrong is the fact they are not giving out A LOT OF BATTLE PASS XP to give people a reason to play it. You get 30K XP in LEGO mode for like 10 minutes. It is very deep and very fun, Ill never forgive the community for scewing this mode.
Understandable since the first row of gamemodes you'll see on the main menu aren't neither official gamemodes, your favorites nor your last modes played, it's really awful
What went wrong: game's idea is great, execution is really bad and it launched bundled with a game a lot of target audience has no interest in + among the controversy with removal of important features for big part of more casual RL community. I just really dislike base gameplay, even without taking bugs into the equation: - Snapping to surfaces feels awful - Vehicles seem to be stiffer than in Rocket League - Flying feels weird which sucks, as it's great in Rocket League
It being made by less than 10 people, all being crunched to death for a month before release cartainly sounds feasable when you look a the game. The mechanics are there but they needed way more time to cook
I enjoy Rocket racing, other then some annoying bugs like slamming into part of the track too hard, you're car explodes, but generally it's pretty fun but I know I know I'm the minority 🤷
@@GamerAlexVideos They would really have to make the Camera Flipping not-motion sickness inducing, because there are some tracks that I would simply not survive..
This game could’ve been so fun but they’re only adding new maps and skins, not fixing old bugs, and doing nothing to add anything more to the mode itself. Just more maps and skins that get old bc of the bugs that come with them
I would have played Rocket Racing a lot more if it was actually challenging, but no matter the rank the game always puts me against people who clearly don't play racing games, and ranking up is slow as shit even if you consistently win first.
I can understand the slow rank qualm. But I promise you couldnt even finish the race vs the top unreals right now, skill ceiling is quite high in this game
The game is dope. Just sounds like you need to get better. Learn what can really be done in the game. And the things people complain about, isn't even game related.
I'm aware that I still have plenty to improve on, especially seeing the crazy stuff that the Unreal players do. However, just saying to get better is completely dismissive of all the other points that don't have to do with skill. Unfortunately, there are times where things outside of the game itself affect the game. That is what my 'What Went Wrong' videos cover, along with issues with the games themselves.
I don’t like the fact want us to grind rocket league just to get more cosmetic options for cross game cars, I don’t even like using rocket racing for xp
Well they removed trading and that killed my daily motivation for Rocket League. Now I only play RL casually and will never buy or install anything from Epic ever again. 100% lifetime boycot, except they bring back trading. Imagine CS removing trading, lol, it's unimaginable and that's what went wrong. Fck Epic 💯
If this was just a rocket league mode it would be so much better received. I have no interest in installing fortnite, especially just for a rocket league racing game.
5:57 This is WRONG.... well not entirely. but even then, all vehicles would have the same stats in spite of Fairness edit: Wrong in the meaning that, not all racing games have to have Forza amounts of cars, but with 10 or 15 should do the trick, (Road & Track) Need for speed used to have 4 cars only
Don't worry, I wasn't implying that all racing games need the number of cars that Forza or Gran Turismo have. It's more so the selection has to be good, and in some cases, a good number of cars too. 4 - 5 in a game like this where A. Many haven't been transferred over from RL and B. They are all the same (expect for hitboxes), just isn't going to satisfy many...
I think altho game isnt shallow in gameplay - I really think is so bare that I not interesting in skill ceiling techniques because beyond ranked there nothing in it. I Dont think inclusion with Fortnite is bad and its just game doesnt give enough reason to come back to it after 20 minutes
Neither did it make sense to add a rhythm and an open world survival mode in a third person shooter. But hey, here we are now Oh, and im pretty sure I pissed off a bunch of morons in the Reddit community by being so insistent that Rocket Racing should’ve been in Rocket League, not Fortnite. One scrub even blocked me for bringing it up lmao.
As a unreal player who has continuosly played since launch, your argument about the game being buggy is flawed. If we're purely just talking about the game at launch then yes i agree with you, but nowadays where their are VERY few buggy tracks (like 3-4 off the top of my head), a lot of what people would call bugs are just actually bad gameplay. For example, at 4:30 you flip to a wall you had no reason flipping to. 5:07 on Tilted Turnpike you flipped to the wall too early also causing a crash. And while it is your fault, Epic/Psyonix could have done a better way of showing it was your fault. Also You didn't mention this but, Fortnite's player numbers revolve around XP. I'd say 60% of the people playing LEGO and Festival are only there because Epic incentivized it by giving exponential amounts of XP just by playing for like 3-4 hours. As a example, I played roughly 4.5 hours of lego yesterday and gained 11 levels to use in the battle pass, I played the same amount of time in a session to get to unreal in Rocket Racing and gained a max of like 5.5 levels. There is litterally no reason for the fortnite audience to actually give it a chance because their time could be better spent in the two other modes. Sorry for the rant, but a lot of criticism for the game, especially on twitter, is done through bad faith. It really is a great game but all of the cool mechanics, better tracks, and stuff are locked behind a big skill ceiling that not many Fortnite players are willing to reach.
Regarding the bugs, that's why I called the section 'Unpolished'. For 4:30, I did realize flipping to the wall was my fault. I put in the clip in because of how I died once I landed (since it didn't seem like I even hit the wall yet nor at an angle that should have killed me). For 5:07, it looks like I could have made it, but I didn't. Just like you said though, it's not really clear at all. Aspects like this are why I argue that despite all the bug fixes, the game still feels unrefined and unpolished. I also don't play Fortnite other than for Rocket Racing, so I wasn't aware of the XP stuff. That is great to know!
Rocket Racing looks and sounds like a mini-game you play, while the actual game is loading.
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expectation: rocket league racing mode
reality: subway surfers with cars
now imagine that as tiktok brainrot alongside asmr and family guy funny moments
The game actually has a very nice mechanic with some very impressive skill celling when you get into it but the unpolishness, almost a year later, still kills the experience for me... At least they added a lot of my favorite cars form RL, basically the only reason that I gave it a shot in the first place haha
And yet for me, I hardly have any of my Rocket League vehicles in Rocket Racing... what a bummer.
As a Rocket League fan who dreamed of a racing mode for YEARS I can assure you that the depression is real.
Request on more "What Went Wrong" series
-Need For Speed Payback or Most Wanted 2012
-Death Track Resurrection (Esspecially the copied NFS HP2 Track Layouts)
-Motorstorm RC
-Smash Cars PS3
-Flatout 3 (This game is even another problem with Ridge Racer Unbounded)
Unbounded is a playable game at the very least.
Most Wanted went wrong? I get the whole “it was almost MW2” thing, but let’s be honest;
-Carbon ended the original MW storyline.
-If it were a sequel fans would complain they’re shilling to the older fans of the original game just because it was a best seller.
-The game itself is good, it can get dull after you get everything but multiplayer is the best of an NFS to this day, Unbound being a close second if you don’t count 2015 for being always online anyways (they’ll probably give it an offline patch if they know what’s good for them).
Wait,death track copied stuff from hp2?
I wanted it so badly but the moment they said it was a part of Fortnite/Epic, I was out.
I really hate this gamemode. If it were a standalone game or inside RL it could've had more content since it wouldn't be at the mercy of whatever epic games decides to add or remove (not that this gamemode had many things anyway).
Adding onto car customization, it's really awful. 9 months later and they still haven't added Fennec nor Dominus. There's no paint finishes, no universal or animated decals, no legacy customization items from RL before going F2P like the original cars, wheels or antennas. And you'll never be able to use older Rocket pass items, even if I'm all for selling older rocket pass/battle pass items on their shops.
It could've benefited from being in Fortnite with stuff like showing your driver inside the car, having a pre-race lobby or showcase of the players' cars, same with post-race results, having a podium and being able to emote like Festival. Every other issue i have with this gamemode were perfectly explained on the video.
The car models are already in RL so it couldn’t be that hard to transfer them over right
If it was a completely polished, standalone game that had some parts of progression linked to Fortnite or Rocket League (just like RL does). Great vid as always!!!
As a Rocket League and Fortnite player, and a Racing Fan, I can say that the problem was the lack of content, and also Fortnite Fanbase probably isnt the biggest fans of racing games
Just wanna say, the fact Alpine has a shortcut isn’t a bug, theres much worse bugs than a fun shortcut, one of the reasons I liked rocket racing were the buggy shortcuts and glitches, it was fun for me and now most are gone
Well, I don't think going through the checkpoint the wrong way is intended.
@ maybe not but they haven’t fixed it for so long that I think they don’t care, so unless they remove it im going to regrard it as a feature, if it gets remove it’ll be a bug, Its hard to tell with something like thats tho
aged like milk
Fr tbh saw it coming
Maybe I would have played it if it was standalone
three time rr unreal player here. i understand its not for everyone but for someone who just wants to relax and doesnt care for buying stuff from the item shop, its honestly a blast. the rewards from quests acts as an amazing incentive to want to get to unreal. the game is much better than it was now with new tracks being less spammy then before. the game is basically described simply - easy to learn, hard to master. i assure people that taking the time to play for even just a week is rewarding.
its actually heart breaking how you said this literally the day before epic announced no new seasons or tracks until further notice😭
@@JohnFortnite386 I have hope that the game isn't dead yet. sure no "themed" updates but that doesn't me (I hope) no new tracks necessarily. just that there won't be an overarching theme anymore.....right? 😭
@@Lewisthegood unfortunately thats exactly what it means, we wont be getting any new tracks for a very long time and i doubt pysonix or epic is really making it a priority as it doesnt get as many players as the other gamemodes the only thing we'll get is new ranked rewards like every 2 months but even those are lazy look at how 5 out of the 7 weekly rewards are literally just jam tracks i more blame pysonix as they cant even port over their full battlepass or any good cosmetics we still havent gotten a single exotic tire in fortnite after 10 months it really does just comes down to laziness smh
@@JohnFortnite386 well all we can do is hope this isn't the case then but I fully agree with what your saying
As a back to back unreal ranked player too, I wouldn’t say it’s relaxing, really the only game mode that gives the adrenaline rush. Racing against less skilled people is somewhat relaxing(more of boring), yet going against the players who know the strats and techs is complete opposite of relaxing. Still fun for us octane racing adrenaline junkies, although you’re completely right about; easy to learn, hard to master.
I actually got into Fortnite because a friend was playing it for the Avatar event. Thought to try out rocket racing. At first I thought it was neat, but by the end, it kinda became more "god please have this over with for the battle pass so I don't need to deal with it anymore."
for a game that people claimed to want our money they sure made every possible move to not do so, from not allowing base cars like the dominus and backfire and their painted variants in and not bothering to add in universal decals that would 100% be way easier to implement
3:30 forget about that. You'll never see Epic Games releasing anything outside from Fortnite ecosystem. It's their business model now. They even announced that UEFN is going to be integrated in Unreal Engine 6.
Screw Epic Games
FR.
Its a great game I got Unreal Rank with it and stream it. What went wrong is the fact they are not giving out A LOT OF BATTLE PASS XP to give people a reason to play it. You get 30K XP in LEGO mode for like 10 minutes. It is very deep and very fun, Ill never forgive the community for scewing this mode.
A point that you didn't mention: the first season stages were horribly designed.
I remember when I tried to play this.I had to install fornite and could not figure out the menus since I never played fortnite, so I uninstalled.
Understandable since the first row of gamemodes you'll see on the main menu aren't neither official gamemodes, your favorites nor your last modes played, it's really awful
What went wrong: game's idea is great, execution is really bad and it launched bundled with a game a lot of target audience has no interest in + among the controversy with removal of important features for big part of more casual RL community.
I just really dislike base gameplay, even without taking bugs into the equation:
- Snapping to surfaces feels awful
- Vehicles seem to be stiffer than in Rocket League
- Flying feels weird which sucks, as it's great in Rocket League
It being made by less than 10 people, all being crunched to death for a month before release cartainly sounds feasable when you look a the game. The mechanics are there but they needed way more time to cook
yea we all watched the video already. Make your own video
I enjoy Rocket racing, other then some annoying bugs like slamming into part of the track too hard, you're car explodes, but generally it's pretty fun but I know I know I'm the minority 🤷
the rocket league players expectations are way to high I honestly don’t know how they could improve this game other than the bugs
I love rocket racing though it’s definitely overhated
As a double unreal player I’m heartbroken. This is my favorite game I’ve played over the last 20 years 😢
I'm so sorry RL fans have to see this unfold, must've been traumatic
they should just take the rumble mode combine it with racing and now we have kartrider drift/mariokart in fortnite
5:15 the hitboxes are different
You can notice the goodness of the "day" by watching how fluctuating this race is.
This could've been like Speed Racer (the movie) but instead it plays like a mobile game
Honestly a vehicle class for sports car, suv, sedan, and bike would make this gamemode much better imo
I only play Rocket League and Rocket Racing for the cars that work in Fortnite. I keep Fortnite Crew active mostly for the Rocket Pass.
The biggest mistake epic made was making it a fortnite mode instead of a rocket league mode
4:54 There's actually an option for the controls when driving upside in the settings!
I still feel the camera should flip, and that would mean those settings wouldn't even be needed in the first place.
@@GamerAlexVideos They would really have to make the Camera Flipping not-motion sickness inducing, because there are some tracks that I would simply not survive..
@@Ericman100 GRIP: Combat Racing has showed you can make the camera follow the car and flip without being motion sick inducing.
i dismissed rocket racing as my controller wouldnt work and then i forgot about it
Rocket Racing players should just play Distance ngl
Or Rocket Assault, but Distance is better.
Distance is pretty fun!
Or trackmania.
This game could’ve been so fun but they’re only adding new maps and skins, not fixing old bugs, and doing nothing to add anything more to the mode itself. Just more maps and skins that get old bc of the bugs that come with them
The only bug I've seen so far is on Olympus..😂
@@De_cei_ver thats crazy you lucky mf 😭😭😭 damn near every map i play i always find some spot that just deletes me from the race
I would have played Rocket Racing a lot more if it was actually challenging, but no matter the rank the game always puts me against people who clearly don't play racing games, and ranking up is slow as shit even if you consistently win first.
I can understand the slow rank qualm. But I promise you couldnt even finish the race vs the top unreals right now, skill ceiling is quite high in this game
I agree with you with the player drop. what are your graphic settings and can you tell us your pc specs please?
The game is dope. Just sounds like you need to get better. Learn what can really be done in the game. And the things people complain about, isn't even game related.
I'm aware that I still have plenty to improve on, especially seeing the crazy stuff that the Unreal players do. However, just saying to get better is completely dismissive of all the other points that don't have to do with skill. Unfortunately, there are times where things outside of the game itself affect the game. That is what my 'What Went Wrong' videos cover, along with issues with the games themselves.
Man I completely forgot about this one. Such wasted potential.
I don’t like the fact want us to grind rocket league just to get more cosmetic options for cross game cars, I don’t even like using rocket racing for xp
Would you review the new Matchbox Driving game that came out today ? Or in the future
Oh, it came out today? I had no idea. I don't think I will since it seems very much like a kids' game, which I'm not interested in.
@@GamerAlexVideos yeah. Had to check on the racing tag under steam today & found out about it. I kinda wished it was made by Milestone
I want to give this a go sometime… when I have the hard drive space… 😅
Well they removed trading and that killed my daily motivation for Rocket League.
Now I only play RL casually and will never buy or install anything from Epic ever again. 100% lifetime boycot, except they bring back trading.
Imagine CS removing trading, lol, it's unimaginable and that's what went wrong. Fck Epic 💯
If this was just a rocket league mode it would be so much better received. I have no interest in installing fortnite, especially just for a rocket league racing game.
Shoulda had an attack mode like m@riokart people woulda went crazy
5:57 This is WRONG.... well not entirely. but even then, all vehicles would have the same stats in spite of Fairness
edit: Wrong in the meaning that, not all racing games have to have Forza amounts of cars, but with 10 or 15 should do the trick, (Road & Track) Need for speed used to have 4 cars only
Don't worry, I wasn't implying that all racing games need the number of cars that Forza or Gran Turismo have. It's more so the selection has to be good, and in some cases, a good number of cars too. 4 - 5 in a game like this where A. Many haven't been transferred over from RL and B. They are all the same (expect for hitboxes), just isn't going to satisfy many...
I think altho game isnt shallow in gameplay - I really think is so bare that I not interesting in skill ceiling techniques because beyond ranked there nothing in it. I Dont think inclusion with Fortnite is bad and its just game doesnt give enough reason to come back to it after 20 minutes
A bit off topic but you gotta check out Fatal Run 2089 trailer
I've seen the trailer, and it looks rather interesting!
@@GamerAlexVideos ikr seems like there's still hope for combat racing
I forgot this existed 💀
Love your videos man, great stuff all of it !
Sadly, Rocket Racing being a Fortnite gamemode is even worse than Disney Speedstorm.
it feels terrible, like a bad mobile game from 2010
I’m sorry Fred but you do not know what bad mobile racing games felt like in 2010
bro has not played blur unleashed on ios
Ur just buns at racing bro ngl. But imma like ur vid bc I see wym
Neither did it make sense to add a rhythm and an open world survival mode in a third person shooter. But hey, here we are now
Oh, and im pretty sure I pissed off a bunch of morons in the Reddit community by being so insistent that Rocket Racing should’ve been in Rocket League, not Fortnite. One scrub even blocked me for bringing it up lmao.
it was just a 10yo fanboy. Don't worry.
i didn't know Rocket Racing existed
Easy, it was part of Fortnite
maan
This game looks like a cheap version of Distance. And that was an indie game.
distance has no racing. just driving on a track alone. boring.
@@NikosM112 I'm sorry? It does have racing.
@@VitaliyMilonov pvp first to the finish wins racing? no. So it's boring and overrated
@@NikosM112 Don't waste my time if you have no idea what I'm talking about. 🤦♀️
@@VitaliyMilonov It's an overrated game.
Epic really thinks we’re on Fortnite for their sad app store…
Sooo everything,got it ...wow this x mil cash cow and they just totaly not care. 7-10 ppl project ?? what LMAO.
It's like Epic Games didn't care from the start having such a small number of people on the project.
Everything
As a unreal player who has continuosly played since launch, your argument about the game being buggy is flawed. If we're purely just talking about the game at launch then yes i agree with you, but nowadays where their are VERY few buggy tracks (like 3-4 off the top of my head), a lot of what people would call bugs are just actually bad gameplay. For example, at 4:30 you flip to a wall you had no reason flipping to. 5:07 on Tilted Turnpike you flipped to the wall too early also causing a crash. And while it is your fault, Epic/Psyonix could have done a better way of showing it was your fault.
Also You didn't mention this but, Fortnite's player numbers revolve around XP. I'd say 60% of the people playing LEGO and Festival are only there because Epic incentivized it by giving exponential amounts of XP just by playing for like 3-4 hours. As a example, I played roughly 4.5 hours of lego yesterday and gained 11 levels to use in the battle pass, I played the same amount of time in a session to get to unreal in Rocket Racing and gained a max of like 5.5 levels. There is litterally no reason for the fortnite audience to actually give it a chance because their time could be better spent in the two other modes.
Sorry for the rant, but a lot of criticism for the game, especially on twitter, is done through bad faith. It really is a great game but all of the cool mechanics, better tracks, and stuff are locked behind a big skill ceiling that not many Fortnite players are willing to reach.
Regarding the bugs, that's why I called the section 'Unpolished'. For 4:30, I did realize flipping to the wall was my fault. I put in the clip in because of how I died once I landed (since it didn't seem like I even hit the wall yet nor at an angle that should have killed me).
For 5:07, it looks like I could have made it, but I didn't. Just like you said though, it's not really clear at all. Aspects like this are why I argue that despite all the bug fixes, the game still feels unrefined and unpolished.
I also don't play Fortnite other than for Rocket Racing, so I wasn't aware of the XP stuff. That is great to know!
3:20
Vehicle classes would be hard to implement without making it p2w + SUVs have bigger hitboxes
That's why the whole cosmetics system is flawed for Rocket Racing.