In the past, there have been a lot of conversations about ugly-looking Switch HOME Menu icons. Arguably the biggest offender was Snake Pass in 2017. The game icon was perfectly fine until one day it was changed to resemble something that looked more like a mobile app. Months later it was restored to its original state.
While there was nothing particularly wrong with the Rocket League icon in the first place, the game's developer and publisher Psyonix has decided to give it a slight makeover. As you can see above, the logo has been reduced in size and there are now three cars underneath it. For the sake of comparison, here's the original one:
Apart from the new icon, Version 1.62 makes a couple of changes and updates to the game's audio and also resolves a number of bugs. For the full patch notes, click here.
What do you think of the new icon for Rocket League? Tell us in the comments.
[source rocketleague.com]
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Here's hoping Sonic Mania gets a makeover as well.
Important news
If you look at the Switch clocks in the upper corners of the pictures, you’ll see there is a 36 minute time difference between when each of them was taken.
What does this mean? Absolutely nothing.
You should update the article to say that Sumo Digital did eventually (a full year after the ugly icon) change the Snake Pass icon to a better art made specifically for Switch. The way the article is phased leaves the reader with the impression they never fixed it (as opposed or compared to Psyonix now with Rocket League’s icon).
Is Rocket League filled with micro transactions? Or can you unlock stuff through progression?
The new icon looks way better and far more appealing, i like it a lot!
@mist there are micro transactions but they aren't necessary. I've been playing the game for years and never spent a penny on them. You unlock stuff by playing.
@blockfight
Thanks for that 🙂
@mist most items are visual cosmetics and don't affect gameplay. Only some cars differ slightly, but cars are equally good
Diablo III was my own personal favourite. Originally that was one ugly icon.
@kosmaty
Thanks for this info 🙂
@Deku-Scrub And 8% battery used!
@mist there are some common cosmetics that you unlock as you play through the game, but these are all the same stuff that everyone gets. Then you can get random drops after each time you rank up your XP meter, these include aerials, hats, banners, decals, wheels, boosts and paint styles. In the garage, you can trade up the random drops, 5 of one tier will give you 1 of the next.
This is where you can make the game pay for it's self. Using the trade up system in the garage, when you get to the point where you can trade up to painted versions of cars or wheels, if you get any painted octane or black wheels, people will trade some good items for them.
After each match, you might get a random crate drop, save these up, you could also trade a bunch of these with people for things like cars and wheels.
Both ways of trading will admittedly take a bit of time and patience, but it's better than wasting money on buying keys to open crates and filling your inventory with stuff you'll never use.
You can also link your game to a Twitch account if you have one, and if you watch the official Psyonix streams, you can also get random item drops that are only available from the stream, although you could trade for them if you want.
@Dizzy_Boy
Thanks very much for the informative response. Very helpful
mist
Rocket league gets plenty of content updates as well, including music which is impressive.
Skyrim needs a better icon, so does Valiant Hearts, Velocity 2X, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, Sonic Mania.
Those icons are all trash that can die in a fire. The games deserve to be represented better.
What region is that blue Zelda BotW icon from? The North American one is different...
I've always been really intrigued by this game and even played it a while back, and while it was fun, the learning curve seems too high and a lack of single player content just makes me worry that I'd never play it in favor of my pretty large backlog of single player games. Fantasy Life and Metroid Samus Returns will haunt me from the grave at this rate...
My breath of the Wild Icon dousn't even look like the one in the picture above. Is that a new Icon or something.
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