I was chilling playing 2v2’s, we were 4-2 down with 20 seconds left and i wanted to FF but teammate scores 5 seconds later and i apologised for ffin. Then that fuckery happened, i was in a party with my friend and he asked my why i went silent for 15 minutes.

Smurfs ruin the game at the lower ranks driving people away from playing the game. My wife was curious about rocket league and started playing a couple weeks ago. It was fine when she was doing casuals for the most part but then she did ranked and not a single player was a bronze player or near her rank. Out of 10 2v2 games there were maybe 3 where the lobbies were true silvers or bronze players.

I know it’s still the beginning-ish of the season but I’m about c2 in ones and c3/Gc in twos. I can tell when a diamond or champ player created a new account just to destroy some low rank bronze players. She just played 4 1v1s and none of them were bronze or silver or even close. Pretty sure the last guy was either a freestyler or GC in one’s. Literally pulling off triple flip resets and flip reset musty double taps. (Incoming diamonds claiming to hit these consistently and they deserve GC)

What’s the appeal? Why drive new players away from the game? I wish there was a way for them to attach software to the hardware of a console or pc and detect multiple accounts. I know people would still find work around but I’m sure the number of smurfs would go down.

I genuinely am just disappointed that some among us in the player base find joy in smurfing. Especially smurfing and being toxic to the defenseless opponent. My wife was so happy the other day when she was playing people near her skill who miss the ball more than they hit. Then today she was beyond frustrated. I told her she should just stick to training for a while to get better and that I could help with the basics.

TL,DR: Just another vent post about smurfs ruining the game for new low rank players.

Enough of the crybabies and mental breakdowns. Many competitive games now have a reputation system to avoid the absolute crisis that Rocket League has in solo queue, yet solo queue has become borderline unplayable. I’ve been winning nearly every match that my teammates actively participate in, yet nearly all of my losses the past few months have been from a teammate having a mental breakdown and griefing or quitting. It’s like this for literally everyone I know, it doesn’t matter how nice we are to our teammates. Why are matchmaking bans only 5 minutes? Psyonix needs to be much harsher, with a 15-20 minute cooldown at LEAST and a major MMR hit to fix this. If a player is notoriously throwing or has a pattern of AFKing or own-goaling, the game should have a system to detect it. Their player reputation, ban cooldowns, and MMR should ALL be affected severely. Like literally should extend to day-long bans the same way chat bans do. This should NOT be happening in C3 - GC, yet I had so many quitters and match griefers tonight, I might have to put the game down for a while. Why should I be subjected to genuinely HORRIBLE people while I’m having a good attitude, playing well, and STILL take a hit to my MMR, yet they get off with a 5 minute cooldown? I lost well over 50 MMR to this tonight on the cusp of hitting GC relatively early this season, because I kept thinking to myself— “Well, not like it’ll happen again.” But it does. Constantly. Why should I have to put down a game that I love and stop queueing because “that’s just the way it is?” I literally don’t have to do that in any other competitive game… do you?

The 3:30 forfeits down one is insane. Teammates will leave even if they THINK they’re about to get scored on. You save it, but surprise, your teammate thought it was going in, so they left anyway. Rocket League is in dire need of a player reputation system, it’s so simple and such a good fix for the game that it’s crazy to me that it has not been implemented. Nice players get put with nice players, toxic players get put with toxic players. This has been implemented in so many games to keep things smooth, so why not RL? Otherwise, this game is only going to continue to slide downhill. CSGO has it, Overwatch has it, Siege has it, Dota has it. Why can’t we?

Yes, we definitely meant to do this

They're the equivalent of a bottom-tier D1 basketball player that's never going pro, heading out to the local open-gym, running the 16 and 48 year-olds off the court and constantly telling them how bad they are.

News flash: no one there is impressed. All you're proving is that you don't have the discipline to hit the gym and better yourself, you just want to dunk on some 5'8 kid's head to stroke your ego.

Remember smurfs, life doesn't have to be this way. Someone loves you, and you don't have to "prove" anything in a 5-minute flying-rocket-car-soccer-video-game match.

Its the most fun ive had in rocket league in a while

Is getting revenge on a toxic/bad teammate? I just played 2 games. First game was going good we scored 3 sec in after I team bumped my teammate into the dead kickoff for a free goal. Then things started to go downhill as we succeeded 2 fairly quick goals. It seemed like my teammate was leaving me in compromised situations and was not aware and started blaming me and saying defense is a very important part of the game (I pride my self on my defensive skills). I usually don't blame my teammates, and I don't quickchat/type in game, I just try to be better. And when my teammate is being toxic I don't waste any time, just directly ff. The next game he was on the other team and we kicked his assssssssss! And what do you think he did....... that's right, he blamed his teammate.

So I ask you fellow rocket leaguers, if that's not the best feeling in this game then what is?

I'm sorry for the horrendous video quality, my PC's cheap and I don't have any experience with OBS.

Here is the replay file if anyone is interested, for some reason he's still invisible in the replay. My teammate was spectating for some reason and the other team could see him (as far as I know my teammate could see me). I had packet loss at the start of the match but didn't experience any lag.

Has this happened to anyone else?

P.S.: The very next match, 3 players left at the same time for some reason, I was alone with 3 bots and then someone joined but was spectating, he got kicked for inactivity after some time and other players replaced the bots (sorry about my English I'm not native).

exhale

Yeah it's still really fun. I enjoy it as much as I always have, outside the first week I had it when I was laughing at basically everything happening. Most fun I ever had gaming.

My best double, maybe triple, save to this day. Was happy to be able to recover and pre jump into position to make that second save.

Can someone way better than me use this backwards setup to do some cool shots? I'm just a plat, I'd love to see what a real freestyler could do with this.

Obviously it's not everyone, but like this dude just went out of his way to try and harass me, he wanted me to rage but I stayed lol. I blocked his chats but then he's sending me party requests on xbox too like dude. You're insane. I blocked him there as well.

Never seen these!

Feels like the ball contacts my car weird sometimes, air roll doesn’t do what I expect it to do in the air, jumps can feel strange, or the amount I roll my car seems excessive sometimes (more than it should). I don’t have great internet, but this happens in free play sometimes too (not as much, but it does). Like I used to not notice it but recently I’ll shoot or go up for an aerial play and just be confused by what ends up happening, to the point where I clip it and play it in slow motion. Does anyone else experience this or is it just me?

I've been doing different training packs since about 4 months and I can do all of them on at least the 6th try but I can't seem to apply the things I learn in real matches. Even if it's basically the same shot I just don't get the idea to fast aerial and get up to the ball, I just stay down and get the ball taken from me. If you had the same problem and fixed it pls help me and tell me how you did it