EA have removed Rocket Arena from sale without much warning

Booted from the arena

To me Rocket Arena will always refer to a series ofQuakemods which stripped away hitscan weapons in favour of the acrobatic, splash damage purity of slow moving projectiles. The unrelated EA Originals' Rocket Arena did have mostly rockets as weaponry, but its unique feature was that damage would add up, rather than counting down your health, until you’d enter a critical state where one more hit would boot you from the arena and you had to rely on its third-person dodge movement to survive. Sin quite liked it when she played itbefore release:

Not every multiplayer makes it, but it’s a shame if Rocket Arena is being quietly turned off without a chance at a farewell or a redemption. I’ve reached out to EA for comment and to ask whether it’ll return.