Rocket League developer Psyonix has announced that Neon Nights will be returning this month, featuring two limited-time modes along with a slew of item collaborations with rapper Cochise.
Set to run from January 25 to February 7, Neon Nights will task players with completing challenges to earn Cochise-themed items, which include his tracks ‘TURN IT UP’ and ‘LONG WAY’ as player anthems, a check mark decal, and Mr. Professor wheels.
Additionally, Cochise’s 2023 track ‘POCKET ROCKET’ may also be put into Rocket League‘s item shop as a player anthem, while the Cochise Antenna and also the Inspector player title is going to be free to claim as the event runs.
This year’s Neon Nights event also returns two limited-time game modes, Spike Rush and Speed Demon. While Spike Rush is going to be playable from January 25 until February 1, Demon Mode will run from February 1 before the event ends last month 7.
2023’s Neon Nights event is really a follow-up to last year’s event of the identical name, which saw Grimes collaborate with Rocket League to coincide using the launch of her track ‘Shinigami Eyes’.
Earlier within the month, Psyonix announced that it's “actively investigating solutions” to tackling AI cheats inside the game. According to the developer, a “small number of players” have used an AI bot called Nexto to optimise their Rocket League play, although the bot’s creator said hello was “incredibly disheartening” to determine its software used in this way.
“Nexto was exceptionally hard to make,” shared co-creator Aech. “It took a massive engineering effort and a lot of community support to do, and it is not easily replicable. That being said, there is now clearly an incentive for bad actors to try making bots that are better than Nexto, so I think we must assume something better can look eventually.”
Yesterday (January 19), Psyonix outlined that it's “making plans to introduce additional anti-cheat functionality into Rocket League” and it has already taken action against “the vast majority of accounts” who have been using bots in online matches. Read the studio’s full statement here.
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