Rematch has been a welcome surprise from developer Sloclap, which repurposed the acrobatic movement and target tracking of martial-arts-inspired fighters Absolver and Sifu to make a cooperative third-person soccer “shooter” game. Rematch is currently in the midst of the first season of its live-service run, which implemented tons of bug fixes and the long-requested Ranked 3v3 mode. One of the most requested features still remains absent, however. Since the game launched, players have clamored for Rematch to have a “rematch” button so that teams can try to get revenge on an opponent. And while the feature isn’t coming this season (and may not ever happen), Sloclap is aware of the desire, and it’s working on it.
“I’m not in any way going to commit to it, but [a rematch button] was originally planned for Season 2 and now it’s more likely planned for Season 3,” Rematch creative director Pierre Tarno told me. “The first thing is to work on a ‘team up’ button. I want to be able to say, ‘Those were cool teammates. I enjoyed playing with those guys. There was not any Blue Lock fan roleplaying as a Neo Egoist.’ Being able to say to those guys that you want to team up and be a group together is what we’re working on first.”
The team is still working on adjustments to the moment-to-moment of gameplay as well. Tarno spoke to how tricky fine-tuning Rematch’s mechanics are because every change is immediately evident to all players: a problem not evident in most live-service games.