Psyonix has released Rocket League’s Salty Shores (Version 1.45) update on Nintendo Switch.

Besides a new arena, customization options, and new competitive season, tons of other changes and bug fixes have been made. Check out the patch notes below.

THE HEADLINES

• ‘Salty Shores’ Arena has been added

• Competitive Season 7 ends, and Season 8 begins

  • Season 7 Rewards: Player Banners and Goal Explosions are being distributed to eligible players

• ‘Impact’ Crate has been added

NEW CONTENT

Arenas

• ‘Salty Shores’ is now available as a new Arena in all Playlists

• ‘Wasteland’ (Night) is now available in all Playlists

Crates and Keys

• ‘Impact’ Crate has been added

Monstercat

• ‘Rocket League x Monstercat Vol. 3’ is now available to all players under Music Playlists

• Monstercat Flags have been added

  • ‘Aiobahn’

  • ‘Bad Computer’

  • ‘Dion Timmer’

  • ‘Duumu’

  • ‘Instinct’

  • ‘Inverness’

  • ‘Skyelle’

  • ‘Soupandreas’

  • ‘Stephen Walking’

  • ‘Sundial’

S. Watercolour

• ‘S. Watercolour’ Customization Items have been added

  • ‘S. Watercolour’ Player Banner

  • ‘S. Watercolour’ Flag

Decals

• ‘Glyphtrix’ (Triton)

• ‘Min-Spec’ (Masamune)

• ‘ShapeRacer’ (Paladin)

• ‘Tiger Tiger’ (Aftershock)

Toppers

• ‘Goldfish’

• ‘Palm Tree’

• ‘Swim Ring’

CHANGES AND UPDATES

Server Reporting

• You can now select the ‘Report Server’ button in the midgame menu to directly report a problematic game server to us for investigation

Competitive Season 7

• Competitive Season 7 has ended. Titles and items will be awarded for your highest rank achieved during the season. Season 7 Rewards are custom, non-tradeable Player Banners and Goal Explosions

• Receiving the Season 7 Rewards is also contingent upon successful completion of Season Reward Levels

• Reward Player Banners:

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 1’

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 2’

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 3’

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 4’

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 5’

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 6’

  • ‘Season 7 – Tier 7’

    • Season 7 Grand Champions will also receive the ‘Season 7 Grand Champion’ Title

• Reward Goal Explosions

  • ‘Striker’

  • ‘Striker Pro’

  • ‘Striker Legend’

Competitive Season 8

• Competitive Season 8 has begun

  • Season 8 brings a “soft reset” that requires you to do placement matches in each playlist to recalibrate

  • Winning half of your placement matches will land you near your previous season ranking

  • The soft reset will no longer compress Champion Tier players skill downwards.  Instead, only Grand Champions will be compressed down to the top end of the Champion 3 skill range.

  • League Rankings will be temporarily empty until players complete their placement matches

BUG FIXES

General

• A player’s Rank now correctly displays on the post-match screen

• Fixed an issue causing Orange team-specific Presets to incorrectly preload during matchmaking, causing them to appear late once the map loaded

• [Xbox One] Fixed a crash/performance issue

• Fixed Boost activation occurring one frame behind input when client runs above 60 FPS

• Boost Audio and visual FX will no longer continue to play after boost is deactivated

• Fixed an issue with physics state quantization that led to cars occasionally “settling” at inconsistent suspension heights (thank you to Rocket Science for reporting this)

• Improved loading performance that was causing some players (particularly on PS4) to experience stutter in the first 5-10 seconds of matches

• Fixed players who have initiated a Forfeit Vote being unable to see the Vote to Forfeit option afterwards

• The “Keyboard Input Acceleration Time” option is once again available in the Options – Controls menu.

• Fixed the “Favorite” button sometimes disappearing in the Garage Car Body tab

• Fixed issues with car preview sometimes breaking when quickly switching garage tabs

• [Switch] Improved scrolling performance when viewing items in the Garage

• Tread glow on ‘Season 3 – Star’ Wheels has been restored

• FX on Draco Wheels have been restored

KNOWN ISSUES

[NOTE: If you go down a division after a win in a Ranked match, this is not a bug. The division down is attached to a previous loss that was reported to our database late. You are still receiving appropriate credit for the win.]

General

• Painted ‘Twinzer’ lacks paintable attributes on the front of the body

  • This will be changed in our next update

• Paint finish on the Batmobile may look different than before

• You may be able to see edges of the ‘lighthouse’ that illuminates the map on Salty Shores

• [PS4 Pro] Users may experience performance issues when playing 3v3 Rumble on Neo Tokyo with Supersampling enabled

• [Switch] Splitscreen users may take longer than normal to appear in the main menu

• [PS4] Join delays at the start of a match have been greatly reduced but may still be present

• [macOS. SteamOS] Textures on some buildings in the background may be missing

• On Salty Shores, some ground textures load a few seconds after reaching the Choose Team screen

• In some cases, users may not be able to invite Party members to trade immediately after leaving a match

• Images of Painted ‘K2’ and ‘Zeta’ Wheel variants may not display correctly

• Player POV camera issues when spectating or viewing Replays

• Voltaic Wheels may appear pixelated for some players

• Moving quickly between the Showroom and Garage may cause Boosts and Trails to not display properly when viewing in Redeem Rewards and Crate Preview menus.

• Some Gray Wheels (Voltaic) may appear similar to Titanium White variants

• Black texture can be seen sometimes outside of the Neo Tokyo and Tokyo Underpass Arenas

• Painted Voltaic Wheels may appear pixelated

• Trails slightly off-center behind ‘99 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 Wheels