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 must optimize your turns and drifts. Together with basic race mechanics, it’s a must to take note of your environment so you may break some guidelines and discover new various paths to cross the end line first. Image extra Mario Kart-esque and fewer Forza Motorsport.
Utilizing the Air Dodge transfer, you may 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.
It’s also possible to use your thrusters to fly and float by the air not simply throughout ramp jumps. This can assist you discover some cheeky close to out-of-bounds raceway to zoom on however simply be aware that leaping and flying slows down your acceleration.
Racing on a floor is one of the best ways 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 stuffed, means that you can thrust ahead for 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 costs without delay.
Drifting round turns fills your turbo meter sooner however you may also manually hit the drift button. Whenever you hit a flip in Rocket Racing, you’ll mechanically drift barely to suit the curve. If you happen to 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.
At first of races, should you handle to hit the speed up button proper on the fourth inexperienced gentle, you’ll get a slight to large beginning enhance. The share of your enhance relies in your timing, so make sure to maintain your finger on the button so you will get not less than 80% or above for that beginning acceleration.
Automobile Customization
Alongside its tight controls, Rocket Racing additionally includes a staggering quantity of customization. That is the primary time you’re actually in a position to absolutely 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, the perfect half? The customizations you may have 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. At the moment, there are three biomes from the Fortnite ecosystem: Canyon, Forest, Jungle.
Except for an informal mode, the place you may play any maps you need with as much as 12 racers in your occasion and foyer, there’s a ranked mode that permits you to check your abilities as an agile driver. In ranked, you’ll face off towards three different individuals, that means every race solely has 4 whole gamers.
As you climb in ranks, the maps will get tougher and tougher and cycle from the simpler smaller maps to the tougher 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 beneficial that you simply play with a controller, you may nonetheless use your keyboard and mouse should you insist. I simply personally discovered the controls to be a lot smoother on controllers! Rocket Racing is on the market now on Fortnite on all platforms, present and last-gen (PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence, 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 frequently 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.
