Fortnite Rocket Racing Takes the Best From Rocket League and Puts It on a Racetrack

Fortnite’s Rocket Racing is a brand-new arcade racer that assessments your driving abilities with gravity defying mechanics. Developed by Psyonix, creators of Rocket League, Rocket Racing captures the identical aggressive really feel, simply on a racetrack. Right here’s how Rocket Racing performs as a aggressive racing recreation and what to anticipate from content material and cosmetics sooner or later.

Motion Mechanics

Rocket Racing isn’t your typical automotive racing recreation the place you simply should optimize your turns and drifts. Together with basic race mechanics, it’s a must to take note of your environment so you’ll be able to break some guidelines and discover new different paths to cross the end line first. Image extra Mario Kart-esque and fewer Forza Motorsport. 

Utilizing the Air Dodge transfer, you’ll be able to merely flick your thumbstick to go away your present street floor and persist with the ceiling or partitions. You’ll want to do that to keep away from oncoming obstacles or  to seize a velocity enhance that’s on the ceiling.

You can too use your thrusters to fly and float via the air not simply throughout ramp jumps. This may help you discover some cheeky close to out-of-bounds raceway to zoom on however simply observe that leaping and flying slows down your acceleration.

Racing on a floor is the easiest way to realize velocity since that’s what fills your enhance meter. Drifting on turns will earn you extra cost for turbo boosts which, as soon as crammed, lets you thrust ahead for a superb second and will get you an additional burst of velocity on the finish of the enhance. You’ll be able to maintain onto three turbo fees directly.

Drifting round turns fills your turbo meter sooner however you may as well manually hit the drift button. If you hit a flip in Rocket Racing, you’ll robotically drift barely to suit the curve. Should you hit the drift button, you’ll get a a lot harsher flip and drift round corners to get extra of a velocity enhance after popping out into the straightaway.

Firstly of races, when you handle to hit the speed up button proper on the fourth inexperienced mild, you’ll get a slight to large beginning enhance. The proportion of your enhance depends in your timing, so make sure to preserve your finger on the button so you will get a minimum of 80% or above for that beginning acceleration.

Automotive Customization

Alongside its tight controls, Rocket Racing additionally encompasses a staggering quantity of customization. That is the primary time you’re actually capable of totally customise a automobile in Fortnite. You’ll be able to change your automotive’s physique and secondary colours, add decals, and even change the look of the wheels. And, one of the best half? The customizations you’ve got for the vehicles in Rocket Racing will switch to Battle Royale. Neat!

Maps and Ranked Mode

In the intervening time, there are 26 racetracks with extra coming each month. Presently, there are three biomes from the Fortnite ecosystem: Canyon, Forest, Jungle. 

Apart from an off-the-cuff mode, the place you’ll be able to play any maps you need with as much as 12 racers in your occasion and foyer, there’s a ranked mode that allows you to take a look at your abilities as an agile driver. In ranked, you’ll face off towards three different folks, that means every race solely has 4 whole gamers.

As you climb in ranks, the maps will get more durable and more durable and cycle from the simpler smaller maps to the more durable larger tracks. Relying on the dimensions of the maps, you’ll have to finish three to 5 laps to complete a race.

Whereas it’s really helpful that you simply play with a controller, you’ll be able to nonetheless use your keyboard and mouse when you insist. I simply personally discovered the controls to be a lot smoother on controllers! Rocket Racing is accessible now on Fortnite on all platforms, present and last-gen (PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection, Nintendo Change).

Stella is a Video Producer, Host, and Editor at IGN. Her gameplay focus is on aggressive FPS video games and she or he’s beforehand reviewed Apex Legends, Hyper Scape, Halo Infinite Multiplayer, and Battlefield 2042. She usually hosts and shoutcasts aggressive Apex Legends and Halo Infinite tournaments when she is not streaming on her Twitch channel after work outs. You’ll be able to comply with her on Twitter @ParallaxStella.