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Apparently, Rocket League and Fall Guys are being ported to Fortnite. Both games currently work on Linux, but in the future, they may require playing through Fortnite (lemmy.ml)
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and Epic Games stance on Linux gaming is known

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The game itself hasn’t changed at all since Epic acquisition. The only significant changes they have made are making it free and removing trading which don’t affect gameplay.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    How about them making the variants like Snow Day unavailable unless it's in season, or at least that's how it looked to me when I logged back on after a year or two of not playing. I also remember when you could play Snow Day and it wasn't competitive.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, Snow Day and Dropshot are seasonal for ranked play. That’s because they were not popular enough on their own so it was taking too long to find matches at high ranks, making it hard to get the season title. Has nothing to do with the Epic acquisition though, just a need to reduce fragmentation on the player pool.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I would venture a guess that they are not popular enough because of the changes they made. I do recall a ton of people being pissed when they switched them to not having a casual option and went to ranked only. I wasn't sure about the epic acquisition having an effect though. Thanks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They were made ranked on 2018, and Rocket League had its peak in player base around 2020-2021 after it became free. Unfortunately that was followed by a huge drop in player base in 2022, which led to the extra modes changes in 2023.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The changes they've made are adding 348953754 pop-ups every time you open a game or finish a match, and completely useless servers.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The changes they've made are adding 348953754 pop-ups every time you open a game or finish a match

    it has been like this since 2017. Now there’s maybe 1 or 2 extra pop-ups for the game pass garbage. Not that it’s a good thing, but it’s hardly a difference if it’s about 2 pop-ups or 4 pop-ups.

    completely useless servers

    Do you seriously think Epic servers are worse than what they had before? Psyonix servers were famously horrible to the point that the CEO had to issue a statement in 2017: https://www.rocketleague.com/en/news/server-performance-a-letter-from-our-ceo/

    Followed by another Psyonix statement a year later: https://www.rocketleague.com/en/news/rocket-league-server-performance-update

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    it has been like this since 2017.

    It hasn't.

    Do you seriously think Epic servers are worse

    No I don't. I know they are. Like the game is literally and unironically unplayable anymore. Maybe that's an issue that's affecting me specifically somehow but I don't have problems with any other games.

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