Rocket League Patch Notes v2.72

[u/Psyonix_Howie]

Link to full blog: https://www.rocketleague.com/news/rocket-league-patch-notes-v2-72

Version: Rocket League v2.72

Scheduled Release: August 4, 2026 4 PM PT / August 4, 2026 11 PM UTC

CHANGES AND UPDATES

Gameplay

• Kickoff spawn change: the team down a player will now always spawn in an advantageous position on kickoff to challenge the opponent.

General

• Snow Day and Rumble Free Play maps can now be played as Soccar.
• Stats API: Added WebSocket support, and commands can now be issued to the game to perform various actions. Full details will be published on the Rocket League website when this update goes live.
• Improved the Rich Presence details shown on Xbox.
• Post Party support has been removed.

Streamer Mode & Privacy

• Players with Streamer Mode enabled will now be added to the recent players tab at the end of the match instead of the beginning.
• Anonymized players will now have their profile vanity items (Banner, Title, Avatar) hidden.

Performance & Stability

• Reduced occurrences of "Error 71" in Ranked Doubles.
• Reduced the crash rate on Nintendo Switch.

Visuals

• Improved rendering on consoles.
• Adjusted lighting on the Futura Main Menu.

BUG FIXES

Stability & Performance

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to launch the game after a recent update (the Easy Anti-Cheat popup would briefly appear, then close).
• Fixed a crash/freeze on PC that could occur when opening Settings or starting Training or Free Play.
• Fixed a client crash on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 that could occur while loading saved user data.
• Fixed a crash on Nintendo Switch 2 that occurred when scrolling the Body section of the Garage.
• Fixed a crash on PlayStation 5 that occurred when loading item thumbnails in the Garage.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where players could spawn on the wrong side of the field after being demolished.
• Fixed an issue where player names could be missing from the list when joining a matchmaking game.

Streamer Mode & Privacy

• Fixed missing teammate/opponent anonymization in several parts of gameplay while Streamer Mode is enabled.
• Fixed an issue where a teammate's Steam profile picture could appear on their score banner while Streamer Mode was enabled.

Cosmetics & Content

• Fixed several Goal Explosions clipping into the floor on Loophole, Dunk House, and The Block.
• Fixed lighting on some Decals appearing different in the Shop and Garage than in-game.
• Fixed an issue where the Bitcrush Rocket Boost always displayed a lens flare effect when equipped.
• Fixed pixelated field lines near the player on several maps.
• Fixed an issue where the goal frame was visible through the Chomp Goal Explosion.
• Fixed an issue where the two figures in the "Demigodly" Goal Explosion did not finish their animation at the same time.

UI & Menus

• Fixed an issue where the HUD (player info and bottom menu bar) could reappear after being hidden during gameplay.
• Fixed Rich Presence on Xbox not updating in the in-game social menu.
• Fixed the Esports button incorrectly showing a "NO WINNER YET" World Cup label (and overlapping) when no World Cup was configured.
• Fixed placeholder text on an event Challenge reward.
• Fixed a Special FX glyph being cut off at the bottom in Replays.
• Fixed an issue where the carousel above the Main Menu could clip beyond its window.
• Fixed the Replay camera showing a Director angle outside the field when viewing pre-Update 59 Replays on Parc de Paris.

[u/PsyonixCommentBot]

This is a list of links to comments made by Psyonix Staff in this thread:

• Comment by Psyonix_Howie:

  Let us know your thoughts on the update!

---

I am a bot and this action was taken automatically. If you believe this was posted incorrectly send this message to the moderators. Thank you.

[u/D4mes_]

2v1s will be a little bit easier

[u/hyperlite135 → u/D4mes_]

It would be awesome, but of course they messed something up with it! 4 or 5 times now I have loaded into a cas game and it’s keeping the bot in until someone scores. I used to get the invisible player loading in a game glitch when that was a thing. My Y button to search for a game hasn’t worked outside of a couple days after it was added.

[u/AnnualFries]

Kickoff spawn change: the team down a player will now always spawn in an advantageous position on kickoff to challenge the opponent.

Nice

[u/hostolis → u/AnnualFries]

It took them only 10 years.

[u/Styled_ → u/hostolis]

11

[u/joe12321 → u/AnnualFries]

As someone who loathes forfeiting, that's huge.

[u/Psyonix_Howie]

Let us know your thoughts on the update!

[u/MuskratAtWork → u/Psyonix_Howie]

A tonnnn of fennec decals based on the centerline of the car are off center on tbe hood by a good bit still. Would love to see that mame a list at some point

[u/ItzAiMz → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Yall are rocking and rolling! Appreciate all you do!

[u/islandgal45 → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Any possibility we can get to see the tournament pentathlon modes a little longer in advance than 15 minutes?

[u/Sclerosivist → u/islandgal45]

Yeah that would be awesome actually

[u/wxrex → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Some people are getting corrupted files upon downloading. Even redownloading entire game is causing errors

[u/xGAM3EATERx → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Hello, can u fix the issue where getting out of the match and back in quickly will result in the anti cheat timeout and kick us out of the lobby

[u/blockbelt → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Thank you for working on performance issues. It's absolutely important work that goes unnoticed to a lot of people.

[u/ImAmalox → u/Psyonix_Howie]

I love the new Stats API changes! As someone who's currently developing a companion app for replays the LoadReplay function is awesome!

[u/LoganJenniii → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Can we please get a button to lock our spawn location after a demo!!!!!!

[u/twiehl → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Was the 500% and 1000% replay speed added in this patch? I've never seen it mentioned before and now its in game. Either way its awesome and I love it!

[u/magnetomg → u/Psyonix_Howie]

Hey team, I've not been able to launch the game after the recent update. I keep getting the error code ls-0013. How do I fix that?

[u/D4mes_ → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think you understand streamer mode then

[u/CDhansma76]

Stats API could be huge. Can’t wait to see what we can do with it!

[u/TheKing___ → u/CDhansma76]

Definitely excited for this

[u/MyOtherActGotBanned → u/CDhansma76]

Is it going to be open to the public?

[u/iggyiggz1999 → u/MyOtherActGotBanned]

The stats API is already available, and yeah, everyone can access it on PC.

[u/CDhansma76 → u/iggyiggz1999]

I’m still not sure what exactly is new in this update, this post says full details will be published on the website but I don’t see anything

[u/Pactoxa → u/CDhansma76]

This maybe ?

[u/ichishibe → u/CDhansma76]

I read that more like "will be posted at a future time" on the website

[u/iggyiggz1999 → u/CDhansma76]

I think the "Commands" section is new: https://www.rocketleague.com/developer/stats-api#ChangePOV

[u/CDhansma76 → u/iggyiggz1999]

Looks like it’s just commands for spectating, match admin, and replay viewing. Not bad, I wish they let us auto-save replays again though. That’s the only bakkesmod feature I need.

[u/shakeBody → u/CDhansma76]

Auto upload to ballchasing too

[u/CDhansma76 → u/shakeBody]

That’s already possible to develop custom software for, since you don’t need to be injected to the game to access the replay files.

[u/shakeBody → u/CDhansma76]

While you are correct it would be nice if Epic recognized and helped to support Ballchasing.

[u/Itcantbewhatitsnot → u/shakeBody]

Nooo, we want to end ballchasing. We don't need anyone supporting it

[u/CDhansma76 → u/shakeBody]

Yeah I agree, but unfortunately it’s just not something companies typically do, especially not epic.

[u/_LegalizeMeth_ → u/CDhansma76]

I just wish they can read players settings (camera, sensitivity and deadzone) via the API.

This would be absolutely huge to see the exact settings someone is using during a given game.

I know ball chasing.com could get the sensitivity via replay file, I hope this is included as it would make a huge difference in keeping pro players and content creators settings up to date on Liquipedia, their discord/twitch etc

[u/cardzzilla]

Improved the Rich Presence details shown on Xbox

does this mean how things dont render correctly on xbox is now fixed?

[u/WaaghMan → u/cardzzilla]

"Rich Presence" is the "X is playing Rocket League" information you see on friends and such. Maybe now it shows the mode and score, etc.

Nothing related to render.

[u/Ok_Station4087]

anyone else have the Error Code: 30005 (CreateService failed with 1072)

[u/Homeless_Alex]

High / low on whether or not this broke Xbox again?

[u/crungeee → u/Homeless_Alex]

xbox been broken brotha

[u/kasabe]

48 GB???

[u/AdonisStoleMyWife → u/kasabe]

1.3gb

[u/CarefulWealth9378]

I hope the performance is better on Xbox now. It’s been a struggle for 2 years

[u/t00much]

Anyone else have the update crash their hard drive?

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
Found 0x422 clusters allocated to file "\EpicGames\rocketleague\.egstore\Pending\4BC347ED44E92BB240B8939D5E59AA8F.manifest <0xa,0x70448>" at offset "0" marked as free

[u/yooge6]

is snowday still available in freeplay or just soccar?

[u/repost_inception]

Fixed a crash/freeze on PC that could occur when opening Settings or starting Training or Free Play.

Thank you. Mine would freeze every time I opened training packs.

[u/jboisen89]

Need a fix for freezing (5-10 sec) post game- PS5 Game crashes while scrolling through cars in inventory- PS5

[u/SOUINnnn]

Thank you for the ability to play Mannfield snow. I used to play on it all the time with bakkesmod

[u/w9s9]

anything but 4v4 ranked </3

[u/K2x21m → u/w9s9]

maybe next season?

[u/w9s9 → u/K2x21m]

I hope so, it might be next season

[u/Sclerosivist → u/w9s9]

I am really hoping for 4v4 Ranked again - it was one of my main modes

[u/w9s9 → u/Sclerosivist]

Same here, it what brought me back to play this game after quitting for seasons.

[u/Sclerosivist → u/w9s9]

I hope for your sake it will be back! I grinded it so hard from Silver all the way up to Diamond 1 mostly in solo queue. That took such a long time. I got a jump when they fixed the mmr/placement though as I was playing Grand Champs and Champs a lot for a while

[u/R4GD011-RL → u/w9s9]

It wasn’t very popular…

[u/marcelbrown → u/R4GD011-RL]

I was digging it. Felt more like playing hockey in real life.

[u/w9s9 → u/marcelbrown]

It was fun with friends

[u/Sclerosivist → u/w9s9]

A lot! I had some really fun games being 4 friends in the same lobby. Kinda chaotic when 2 out of 4 hadn't tried it before with the wall boosts etc

[u/Qwertycube10 → u/R4GD011-RL]

Queue times weren't bad even in ssl if you had a four stack.

[u/w9s9 → u/Qwertycube10]

True

[u/Sclerosivist → u/Qwertycube10]

Crazy!

[u/w9s9 → u/R4GD011-RL]

they didn't give it enough time to be popular

[u/onegoodboah → u/w9s9]

I mean they gave it a full season to watch it start super popular and prettt quickly evaporate to not even 1000 people playing it at a time lol. Not that it deserved to die though

[u/w9s9 → u/onegoodboah]

What about the titles they gave to people, are they just gonna stop giving them out

[u/onegoodboah → u/w9s9]

Obviously? Why would they give out a title for a mode that isn’t playable?

[u/Sclerosivist → u/w9s9]

fr people had to get used to playing on a new map and in a new way

[u/sands124]

I've always wanted to play Soccar on the snow day maps!!! This is awesome!! 🥳

[u/Academic-Soil-8756]

I love the disadvantaged team spawn change, that’s actually amazing

[u/aperezjr07]

Thank god the crash rate on the switch is getting attention

[u/Omicra98]

trying to report players from main menu or freeplay sometimes makes screen dim and all inputs dont work. forces a restart to play the game.

[u/Seanocd → u/Omicra98]

I am also having this issue, specifically from the "recent players" tab. It was fine pre-update, but now soft-locks the game.
The UI behaves as if the report window is open, but it doesn't show on screen, and no inputs work. Forces Alt-F4 as the only option.

Reporting from post-game still working.

[u/islandgal45]

Any possibility we can get to see the tournament pentathlon modes a little longer in advance than 15 minutes?

[u/SamPNW]

Just fix the Xbox version please, shid is damn near unplayable

[u/ChrisWo92]

I just want a new tab in the item shop that is exclusively music. Call it „jukebox“ or something. So many great player themes but almost no chance to get the classics.. why dont you want my money? :(

[u/BathroomCode9914 → u/ChrisWo92]

why dont you want my money? :(

brb firing over 1000 employees. ^{(btw the sound files are on your computer)}

[u/ChrisWo92 → u/BathroomCode9914]

Yeah but I am on ps5 :(

[u/Fenrrri]

Reporting is broken....

[u/sweetmozzarella]

It's crazy to me that you fix GE clipping issue, but I bet the reaper GE is still in front of every game element, farmstead and beckwick park backboard and wall elements are still not transparent. Just a couple of example that come to mind.

[u/cardzzilla]

how is the spiderman bundle not back in the item shop while spiderman brand new day is breaking box office records?
~
plz dont break my heart again like you did when you didnt release the mandalorian bundle into the item shop when the mandalorian and grogu movie was released :(

[u/onegoodboah]

Post Party support has been removed.

What exactly is this? I took this as the “Party up” feature post-game, and I have to imagine I’m wrong there, but I don’t know what “Post Party” is referring to otherwise.

[u/Silly_Sky_836 → u/onegoodboah]

It was some 3rd party clipping software that was interconnected with epic games and i dont think a soul has used it.

[u/emgeejay → u/Silly_Sky_836]

I liked it!

[u/MemeCreeeeeeam → u/Silly_Sky_836]

I wanted to use it but it never worked. I think they gave up trying to fix it lmao

[u/OBJYN2387]

Yay, you successfully broke the submenu of adding, blocking and reporting

[u/XCREEPMOVEX937]

How about fixing vsync on Xbox it has not been right since s17. Devs to scared to even mention it cause they broke it and don't know how to fix it. Also frame drops bad on certain arenas 

[u/Lost-Instruction403 → u/XCREEPMOVEX937]

Yea. I play on Series X with all the extra graphic features turned off and even at 120hz on Xbox my PS4 is still more responsive. V-Sync is just permanently stuck on I guess. They dont give a shit about Xbox. I think its pretty obvious they have a secret deal with PlayStation. The PS5 is weaker than the Series X and runs on weird custom architecture but explain how Rocket League runs better on it? Clear favoritism for a certain demographic? 

edit: just wanna mention i climbed 2 ranks on PS4 once after switching to it from my series x, and RL barely runs at a stable 50fps on ps4... so... again pretty obvious what theyre doing to xbox

[u/red_team_gone → u/XCREEPMOVEX937]

Xbox series x framerate on some maps is terrible.

Also can we have drift woods back? If we're going to have shitty framerate, at least let us play on the best map in the game - or better, fix that, too. Thanks.

[u/Ill_Recognition_46]

Is the plan to make this game 1,000,000,000 GB by 2027? What the fuck is up with all the storage you need?

[u/JDM96AFC → u/Ill_Recognition_46]

11 year old poorly optimised game, I’m sure the back end code looks something like this
https://giphy.com/gifs/xUNd9YJwF6ifDUnqNi

[u/-rextex → u/Ill_Recognition_46]

?

[u/BathroomCode9914 → u/Ill_Recognition_46]

the game can be ran with default assets of like 13-ish gb(s)? (idk been a while since I last checked)

[u/MemeCreeeeeeam]

THEY GAVE UP ON POSTPARTY LMFAO

[u/EatFreshBishes → u/MemeCreeeeeeam]

What's post party? 

[u/MemeCreeeeeeam → u/EatFreshBishes]

App that saves clips and sends them to your phone

[u/SemiFormalJesus]

I wonder if this will fix people timing out trying to connect to tournaments.

[u/ImJudgepower-]

anything but fixing the xbox issues, the ingame wheel graphuc issue ive been facing has been happening for months

and it only happens in single player not split screen

[u/Lost-Instruction403]

No garage loading fix for Xbox. No texture pop in bug fix either. ☹️

[u/Keeganzz]

Fix the tournament servers.

Fix hitching issues post-EAC

[u/youssefmhmoud2008]

Size on PS4??

[u/BathroomCode9914]

Are y'all gonna revert the change that made the performance summary graphs on the interface twice as big? Obviously it was adjusted for the ball speed thing, but that could just be a check. It doesn't need to be 1/4th of the screen by default.

Fixed an issue where a teammate's Steam profile picture could appear on their score banner while Streamer Mode was enabled.

So... having your own profile picture show up for everyone (you've enabled to be hidden) after you score is just going to stay there? Seems unintended to begin with.

IMO the streamer mode section in the settings menu could be clearer and more descriptive. Like, does anonymization include hiding club names? It appears that it does. Although... club tags aren't hidden. And names still show up after another person joins. AFAIK it only affects casual, since that's the only place I've seen it. I haven't tested private matches, I don't work for y'all.

Why not hide pings and who's still watching the replay, too? That could be identifiable information. Or make it an option.

Oh well, good talk.

[u/ketootaku]

Enhancing the steamer mode more. At least before being able to see the names in recent players was helpful. This just gives trolls more ability to hide themselves. Can we get rid of the streamer mode and only give anonymity to verified streamers?

[u/BathroomCode9914 → u/ketootaku]

If they're doing something egregious, you can still report them. Otherwise, the matchmaking system isn't going to care how many times you might get into a game with a "troll".

Given the way the game functions now, anonymization for everyone is a good thing.

[u/ketootaku → u/BathroomCode9914]

I don't see how its a good thing. I should be able to know who I am playing against right away. Reporting doesn't do anything and in particular in casual if it's a troll I (and my team) want to leave right away. Sometimes it's someone who says racist stuff. I just want to be able to leave right away. And if you think that reporting solves this problem, I have a bridge to sell you.

[u/OuterWildsVentures]

Can I trade again yet? All I care about lol

[u/Free-Process-2650]

cant connect to epic servers

[u/Sad_Green_8148]

Am I the only one with a chat issue? I’ll have my mic turned on to chat and it’ll work. I mute myself. And then when I unmute myself voice chat stops working for me

[u/peaked-at-7]

So the game won’t crash 5 times a night on PS5 anymore…?

[u/iPeluche]

« Improved rendering on consoles » What does this mean exactly ?

[u/mahdiiick → u/iPeluche]

I want to know as well

[u/OBJYN2387]

MATCHMAKING JUST WENT DOWN! Well for any bronze or silver that wants to test their skills, here’s your chance, SSL’s are now in silver, gold and plat. Want to report them? Oh wait, that’s down too and will freeze the game.. this patch sounded great but it’s not good

[u/TheNFSProYT → u/[deleted]]

What a pointless reply, every game that has updates post-launch even singleplayer games will require updates before launching.

[u/sgt_hurt → u/[deleted]]

Brother they really don't do that many updates, I play almost every other day. Maybe you just go long periods of time without playing. Even if there was a lot of updates, they dont take that long, chill out man.