Players of the popular race cars-meets-soccer game Rocket League on Switch have noticed that last week’s update brought an unwanted change: the disappearance of split-screen multiplayer. Understandably, this is causing a lot of frustration among the player base, but they don’t need to worry, as Psyonix promises it is working on this Rocket League issue and is bringing a fix soon.
Rocket League isn’t a terribly complex game, but tons of people enjoy playing soccer with cars or watching others play it on Twitch; it’s simple but fun. When the game came to Nintendo Switch, more people were able to play and enjoy the game and made good use of the split-screen multiplayer by kicking a ball around with their wheels with friends.
The disappearance of split-screen multiplayer is giving a lot of players a lot of grief, and they’re voicing it online. Since Rocket League just went free-to-play, it has had a huge influx of new players, enough that the servers have been feeling the strain. With any influx of players comes a lot of people with opinions about how the game should and shouldn’t work, and even people playing the game for the first time are highly annoyed to play multiplayer this way. Most people expect this sort of feature from multiplayer Switch games, and when any feature disappears without warning, there’s cause for both concern and annoyance.
Luckily for the people having the issue, it isn’t an issue on the players’ end, but a Psyonix problem that it is intent on fixing. With even Epic Games supporting Rocket League being free-to-play, it looks like the game is getting a lot of support right now, and hopefully, the issue won’t last too long. Of course, more players does mean more potential issues even beyond the lack of split-screen, so the hope is Psyonix isn’t too bogged-down with support and fixing the servers that it reneges on its promise.
It looks like these issues are just an expected part of the game getting more popular, with other older games that are facing a sudden resurgence in popularity like Among Us facing server issues and devs making tough decisions like nixing a potential sequel. Simply put, many games are built with the expectation of a certain audience in mind, and Psyonix might not have been thinking about going free-to-play and moving to the Epic Games Store when it first launched Rocket League, so both server issues and glitches like no split screen are just part of development and maintenance.
So far, there’s nothing that definitively negates Psyonix’s promise to fix the split-screen issue soon, so players can hope and expect to have multiplayer work like normal soon. In the meantime, Rocket League is crossing over with Fortnite, so players have something to keep them entertained while they wait for the multiplayer issue to be resolved.
Rocket League is now free-to-play for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
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