Epic Games developer Psyonix has published a sneak peek at an updated version of Rocket League running in Unreal Engine 6, revealing a first look at its new logo.

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    3 days ago

    I’ve been playing Rocket League for years, just because it’s a good way to hang out with a friend who likes it.

    For probably the past year, I’ve been playing it in Linux. But recently, suspiciously at about the same time that they added the anti-cheat software, Rocket League has become barely playable in Linux, at least for me.

    I don’t really see the need for either anti-cheat or an engine update. I only anticipate that it will make it run even worse in Linux.

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      3 days ago

      I’ve been running it on Linux for a few years now. The performance is better than Windows.

      The anti cheat feature might not matter to you, but at higher ranks it ruins the game to run into bots at every corner.

      I just need them to do the “Authenticating” bit much faster. 3 seconds was already way too long to be joining a match, but now with the authentication step it can sometimes be upward of 15 second, which is an eternity in RL play.

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        Yeah the “authentication” can be super long. Sometimes you are connected to the server and get to see your future team getting wrecked 2v3 while you are authenticating.

        Not a big deal since it’s mostly an issue in casual but annoying nonetheless.

        I’ll be honest I expected them to fully block linux via the EasyAnticheat but they didn’t. So for now it remains functional but on UE6 and new code they might try to dump the linux support.

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          5 hours ago

          they might try to dump the linux support.

          That would be such a bad move now that Linux is starting to take off as a serious gaming platform. Also the hate for big tech is growing so it’ll only escalate from here.

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            I’m cynical… I lost access to Battlefield 6 when I moved to linux.

            And on BF6 they purposefully block linux pretexting it makes cheating too easy.

            Arc Raiders, or Rocket League let me play without issue. So despite the growth of linux gaming there is still businesses that will fully block that avenue…

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      3 days ago

      I disagree. Why would you not need a anti-cheat in a competitive game. As long as it’s not intrusive it’s fine.

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        3 days ago

        I haven’t played it in awhile, but it also ran great on my steam deck through heroic

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        For me, when I load the game, sometimes at the title screen, but more frequently only when I start a competitive game, the entire screen starts flashing black and then back to the game maybe once or twice a second. It often settles down after a minute and stops flashing, but sometimes it starts flashing again or it won’t stop for the entire game. And then, sometimes, the entire screen turns black and stays black and I have to restart the game to get the graphics to return.

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            3 days ago

            I always switch back and forth between hotfix and experimental to see if one works better. So basically, I use those two.

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                22 hours ago

                I tried proton-ge, using proton plus, and I got no flashing screen, even when playing a 1v1 competitive match. Hopefully, it will still work when I play with my friend later.

                Thanks for the tip. I think it probably worked.

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                  22 hours ago

                  DUDE glad to hear that! Hope it sticks :)

                  I occasionally get some weird window positioning issues when I first start the game. Like the game loads full screen, but instead of loading over the taskbar, it moves the window above the taskbar, and cuts off the very top of the window (about as much as the height of the taskbar).

                  To fix that, i go into settings and just change the resolution to something else, apply, then immediately change it back, and it usually fixes itself. Im guessing this is some bug with dual monitor setups, but in case you run into this, this usually fixes it.

                  Other than that the game runs great, and i can play at 2560x1440 @ 144hz.

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                3 days ago

                Thanks I’ll give it a shot. Especially because I don’t want this technical problem to ruin this long tradition.

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          I don’t know man, but my instincts of repairing pcs for the last 30 years tell me its either a graphics driver issue (including stuff like DXVK and MESA), a graphics card issue, or an issue with the PSU - that’s where i would start looking