I Played Fortnite's Rocket Racing One Year Later...

Fortnite's Rocket Racing has been in the game for over a year now, with the lack of recent updates when comparing the game to other modes such as Fortnite Lego and Fortnite Festival, with both releasing around the same time. This raises the question of what Rocket Racing is like a year later.

My videos going forward will now be more variety and no longer about Rocket Racing. I can't thank everyone enough who tuned into my channel during this period, and I look forward to seeing old and new viewers with this direction of variety content!

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[-DEYRA-]

3:30 i'm sorry but you are wrong on this they are many thing they can add to make this game more fun like adding power up like in mario kart making new map different drifting or just anything you could think of it's the dev team that need of new stuff to keep this mode alive

[hotrod_hornet]

Epic completely Fumbled the bag with Rocket Racing. The physics feel like your driving hollow shells with no weight or momentum.

There are practically no modes, no new cosmetic types, no QOL fearures, no battle pass, nothing.

This was their ONE chance to appeal to the racing community (which has been on the decline for the last decade) and they FUMBLED IT.

[Clutch]

RR lacks a fundamental aspect of racing games: Reading out your checkpoint times, so you know how fast you took a certain section of the track. This would speed up skill evolution by instantly letting racers know if their new line is faster or not rather than having to put together 3 consistent flying laps just to invalidate/validate a theory. (I know there's Time Trials but it seems those only allow for 1 lap runs where techs change slightly on lap 2 because of the built up momentum from the last lap)

That and the "I'm glad I quit if this is what competitive RR looks like" part. It's no longer how efficiently you race a fun line that's easy to get into casually, it's about how many times you can repeat a straight-line glitch.

[BrandonGiesing]

Regarding some things mentioned:
1. The Featured Track hasn't been updated in literally months, definitely not daily or weekly
2. Seasons are no more, the last Season ended like October 2024 and they haven't added any new maps since like halfway through that season, now it's just rank resetting and no new content except the obvious collab cars they can sell you for $30.
3. Save the World DOES still get new content, more than RR actually ironically. New Heroes, Weapons, bosses, and entirely new missions even. And well, it gets like 10000x the play count (usually around 25K while RR gets on average 2.5K a day)

So yeah, for all intents and purposes, it's basically dead. The low play counts is one thing but not having any new features, modes, tracks, and barely any bug fixes in 4 months is nuts, I still personally enjoy it though. Too bad most of the UEFN maps are hot garbage cause otherwise, they easily could essentially "hand it off to the community", simply curating the best maps and adding them to the official rotation to keep the content fresh but they haven't done any of that cause everyone just wants to make car obby and mega ramps.

[NightDayZX]

most of the RR community is on Twitch or tiktok nowadays.

[ItsLummy]

I've been Unreal Rank twice now in Rocket Racing, the first time felt pretty fun to improve my skills and reach that rank but the second time was the opposite, felt pretty stressful just to get back there. Probably didn't help that my second time getting there was after the themed updates being stopped, so most players in ranked I'd race against were of way higher skill than me.

[swootheee]

Don't worry guys, I will make Rocket Racing better !!! (With good custom maps)

[SeySenpai]

I stil play RR every single day im so excited for the cars collab we are supposedly getting lightning mcqueen tow mater 4 tracks and 1 or 2 challenge sets

[SKYMONKEY]

I still play this game as often as I can (and probably will for a good while) as I think the unique racing style of the game in itself isn't a primary issue. One of the main issues is the game is no longer getting updates, maps, or any added game modes which, as a whole, really hurt the already small community of the game even harder. Less players playing also means less players willing to invest, not to mention the game is alot more competitive, making it less friendly for new players to have a chance at competing against tougher players than what you would see during Season 0. The skill level that players performed back then being considered "amazing" is a "dime a dozen" now (Mag Flips). There is also an Overpowered mechanic called "B-hops" which is amazing to see performed but in itself has become the absolute standard if you want to compete against the top players. It's a darn shame, but this is what we have now. Me personally I'm just trying to enjoy it as much as I can for the time being until ranked ques become slim to none.

[darth_Zed]

I dont play as much as i used too but i still dabble in this game. It had so much potential but money was more important to epic :(
I know some stuff that was actually planned and happened to this game behind the scenes if you ever wanna chat and make a video about it.

[Rob_Banks_TV]

They should of gave more XP for Battle pass per race, and Rewards should of been based on how much you play it instead of ranked, I was Champ Season Zero and Neon Rush and Unreal Inferno Island and last season. I played alot.

[Vectorlarity]

I feel all these mistakes across a thousand lives

[mikearance]

I am a rr fan since the first hour, sad to see what happened to the game... in honor of the 1 year anniversary, i think ill play until unreal 1 more time rn. and if epic games still doesnt do any major upgrades to the game, ill quit to... :(

[-joy]

As a new user ive just played this game i have found it fun and challenging but the raking system is too easy Ive gotten diamond in 2 days

[MonroySF]

i was just looking through what people thought of rocket racing today and i saw myself gr tho lol

[trip]

Should check out Dylanos he is too fast

[kipame]

Rocket Racing was my most played mode until people learned bhopping, now suddenly the game is not about rewarding good lines and driving but consistently repeating a glitch to not give anyone a chance to win, specially when people abusing that exploit can not race in tracks that aren't made for the glitch, the mode was already not very populated and bow its only getting worse and worse because competition is about staying almost a full minute ahead with glitches or losing

[Agartha_Inhabitant]

really glad to see this trash game die. hope there will be lay offs and more money put into BR instead

[Headlessthirst]

You are pretty good, but as somebody who has hit unreal for the last three seasons and has played this game every day for the last six months pretty much… You may be at elite level, but the unreal players have just been nonstop progressing their skills and it’s insane how good the pros are now