The Rocket League: Starbase Arc patch notes are too long, let's just watch this video instead
Rocket League: Starbase Arc makes me feel like a teenager watching Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet to avoid reading Shakespeare.
Rocket League players can now enjoy the delights of Starbase Arc, a big free update with a new arena and stacks of new features.
Rocket League: Starbase Arc was revealed at The Game Awards after some heavy teasing about a major December update, so we knew quite a lot about what was coming. The key highlights are:
- Starbase ARC arena
- New antennae, decals and trails
- New holiday items
- Support for new premium DLC
- Custom Training has been added on all platforms.
- Players can now set Arena Preferences on all online Playlists.
- "Champions Crate IV" can now be found rarely after online matches.
- The "Gizmo" and "X-Devil" Battle-Cars have received a visual upgrade.
- Steam Workshop support has been added for map creation on PC.
- Color Blind support has been added.
No? Oh gosh, okay, here are the Rocket League Starbase Arc v 1.25 patch notes - but you will need to hit the on the Rocket League website for fine detail on these points, because there's a limit to how many bullet lists I'm willing to nest.
New content
- Arena
- Starbase ARC is now available in all playlists.
- Wasteland (Night) is now available in all playlists.
- Utopia Coliseum (Snowy) is now available in all playlists.
- Utopia Coliseum (Snowy) will stay in all online playlists through early 2017.
- Utopia Coliseum (Snowy) is a permanent addition to the Snow Day playlist.
- Antennae
- Satellite Antenna
- Video Game Awards Flag (Updated for 2016)
- Noclip Community Flag
- NZXT Community Flag
- SDMN FC Community Flag
- Vikkstar Community Flag
- DLC Battle-cars
- Six new Decals:
- Combat
- Cryo Flames
- Medic
- Space Worm
- ARC
- Armada
- One new Wheel:
- Vulcan
Added Vulcan DLC Battle-Car, including:
- Decals
- Flower Power (Merc)
- The following skins have received a visual upgrade when used on the upgraded Gizmo and X-Devil:
- Lightning
- Flames
- Skulls
- Stars
- Stripes
- Tech
- Wings
- Rocket Trails
- Lightning Yellow Boost
- Holiday 2016
- New Year’s 2017 Glasses Topper
- Elf Hat Topper
- Nutcracker Antenna
- All Holiday 2015 items:
- Xmas Rocket Trail
- Blitzen Topper
- Christmas Tree Topper
- Sad Sapling Topper
- Santa Topper
- Candy Cane Antenna
- Holiday Gift Antenna
Changes and updates
- General
- "Champions Crate IV" can now be found rarely after online matches.
- The "Gizmo" and "X-Devil" Battle-Cars have received visual upgrades.
- Custom Training
- Color Blind Support
- Postgame Highlights
- Master Volume Control
- Controller Deadzone
- Online
- (PC) Steam Workshop Map Support
- Arena Preferences
- Rocket Labs Updates
- Seamless Bot Replacement
Bug Fixes
- General
- Car customization will no longer be lost when equipping a licensed vehicle. Any incompatible items will now be re-attached when switching back to a non-licensed vehicle.
- Aquadome wall distortion has been removed to fix double ball image issue.
- Framerate on Aquadome has been improved for lower-end PCs.
- Batmobile no longer “bounces” upon landing from a jump or aerial.
- Players will no longer be randomly banned from matchmaking after a crash.
- PS4 account data now properly loads when splitscreen is in use.
- UI will no longer display the “New Item” indicator if the new item is a Crate and you have Crate notifications disabled.
- Players no longer forced into matches if Party Leader joins a match.
- Green shades of paint added to the primary car color selection in a previous update now work correctly in online matches.
- The new Dualshock 4 controller is now natively supported on the PC version of Rocket League.