Rocket League Catch All

Who's he kidding? Switch players are the best! Those player names made me lol.

I love tense, low-scoring games. This one was 0-0 and headed into overtime, until my pass...

(I guess the shot was okay, too.)

Great pass!

firesloth wrote:

I love tense, low-scoring games. This one was 0-0 and headed into overtime, until my pass...

Nice. Effective pinch passes are a valuable skill.

Nitro Circus does Real Life Rocket League. RLNITRO in game code for free items.

https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ni...

Going through some clips I saved and found this gem from about a month ago.

Super pool shot.

Definitely took a lot of skill for us to plan that shot.

This felt pretty good

Holy crap! Great play!

Panda, your highlights make me want to play again and get gud. Cool stuff.

This is definitely targeted at people who don’t already actively follow RL but it’s not a bad summary.

- control off wall? ok
- transition to bounce dribble? good
- transition to air dribble? nice
- beat defender? woo
- direct ball to net? yeah!
- save it myself? Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!
- have a good laugh at myself? yup
- share so others can laugh too? of course, I posted it to Reddit

What a save!

I've recently just made it to Platinum and I'm finding it THE most toxic of any rank below it so far. For 3v3 I'm at platinum 3. I barely go a game without seeing someone or myself harassed . There's also a lot more pettiness too, such as forfeiting after 1 or 2 goals, asking others to forfeit and constant spamming of the quick chat. Today I was playing a game with two people who are in a clan, and after one mistake one of them would just not stop. The usual "uninstall now" and asking how I got to that rank. Then, right at the end, I got "I want to kill your whole family".

I was enjoying climbing the ranks, but all of this is souring the game a bit for me. I'll still carry on playing and try to block it out, as Rocket League has really took hold of me this year since I got the game in the summer.

Clusks wrote:

I've recently just made it to Platinum and I'm finding it THE most toxic of any rank below it so far. For 3v3 I'm at platinum 3. I barely go a game without seeing someone or myself harassed . There's also a lot more pettiness too, such as forfeiting after 1 or 2 goals, asking others to forfeit and constant spamming of the quick chat. Today I was playing a game with two people who are in a clan, and after one mistake one of them would just not stop. The usual "uninstall now" and asking how I got to that rank. Then, right at the end, I got "I want to kill your whole family".

I was enjoying climbing the ranks, but all of this is souring the game a bit for me. I'll still carry on playing and try to block it out, as Rocket League has really took hold of me this year since I got the game in the summer.

First of all: congrats on the rank up. That's a pretty big jump in less than a month of time.

It's at all ranks. GCs and pros often get the same. I was watching Fireburner on Twitch (one of the best players in the world) and he was getting that level of toxicity as well. I honestly couldn't imagine the level of delusion it takes to tell Fireburner that he sucks.

I'm not really sure what is up with some players in RL but I assume it is immaturity. We can't fix that for them but we can sure tune them out. If this communication in game is affecting you then just disable all in game messaging (or perhaps just leave team quick chat on). I know others who have found that helps them cope with the toxicity. Personally I usually have a good laugh about it but normally I just play with people I know or in a community I know discourages toxicity. There should be plenty of good plat level players around in Discord you could play with. I don't usually see EU players in GWJ discord but Noobs discord has a ton of EU players on every day. The best part of playing ranked with a non-toxic team is that the other team is the only one being toxic to themselves and forfeiting for no good reason. Free wins.

pandasuit wrote:
Clusks wrote:

I've recently just made it to Platinum and I'm finding it THE most toxic of any rank below it so far. For 3v3 I'm at platinum 3. I barely go a game without seeing someone or myself harassed . There's also a lot more pettiness too, such as forfeiting after 1 or 2 goals, asking others to forfeit and constant spamming of the quick chat. Today I was playing a game with two people who are in a clan, and after one mistake one of them would just not stop. The usual "uninstall now" and asking how I got to that rank. Then, right at the end, I got "I want to kill your whole family".

I was enjoying climbing the ranks, but all of this is souring the game a bit for me. I'll still carry on playing and try to block it out, as Rocket League has really took hold of me this year since I got the game in the summer.

First of all: congrats on the rank up. That's a pretty big jump in less than a month of time.

It's at all ranks. GCs and pros often get the same. I was watching Fireburner on Twitch (one of the best players in the world) and he was getting that level of toxicity as well. I honestly couldn't imagine the level of delusion it takes to tell Fireburner that he sucks.

I'm not really sure what is up with some players in RL but I assume it is immaturity. We can't fix that for them but we can sure tune them out. If this communication in game is affecting you then just disable all in game messaging (or perhaps just leave team quick chat on). I know others who have found that helps them cope with the toxicity. Personally I usually have a good laugh about it but normally I just play with people I know or in a community I know discourages toxicity. There should be plenty of good plat level players around in Discord you could play with. I don't usually see EU players in GWJ discord but Noobs discord has a ton of EU players on every day. The best part of playing ranked with a non-toxic team is that the other team is the only one being toxic to themselves and forfeiting for no good reason. Free wins.

Going to quickchat only made a huge difference for me enjoying the game. I focus on the game instead of getting drawn in by that toxic crap. Make that change and you'll be happier.

Thanks for the advice, I may try that. I do play with some some North American GWJ'ers, mostly as their work life aligns with GMT time. I might check out MAN channel to see if I can get a group to play with more regularly.

I think I've hit my ceiling at the moment for rank, as I'm noticing a lot of players who can do plenty of things I can't do that well (or at all). Mainly a lot more air dribbling and hitting the the ball off the wall with a follow up. I really need to get better with the air roll, as I basically only use it to land on my wheels right now.

Clusks wrote:

Thanks for the advice, I may try that. I do play with some some North American GWJ'ers, mostly as their work life aligns with GMT time. I might check out MAN channel to see if I can get a group to play with more regularly.

I think I've hit my ceiling at the moment for rank, as I'm noticing a lot of players who can do plenty of things I can't do that well (or at all). Mainly a lot more air dribbling and hitting the the ball off the wall with a follow up. I really need to get better with the air roll, as I basically only use it to land on my wheels right now.

Might be time to try Kevperts car control drills for a few minutes each day. You don’t need crazy mechanics to rank up, consistency and positioning is more important, but working on new mechanics will give you more options and control. Air roll shots might be worth working on now as well as they are a good way to focus on adding air rolls to your game in small ways you can use right away.

Here’s a good air roll shot tutorial and training pack:

Yeah I still suck at air rolls, ceiling is Diamond 2/3 for a while now. Hard to unlearn the bad flipping habits I picked up though.

This guy bumped me on the wall which annoyed me so I demolished his teammates so Red could "shoot" on the net...I mean pass to me in the net because I totally stole that goal...I mean I totally earned it....

Revenge is mine! Also, nice pass Red

Check: Don't bump panda.

Stele wrote:

Check: Don't bump panda.

#truth

Stele wrote:

Check: Don't bump panda.

or steal " his " boost.

Actually pretty funny

what if I'm a mix of those ??

ragin_redneck wrote:

what if I'm a mix of those ??

Well yeah of course. I'm obviously the streamer girl tho.

I've been keeping clips of some of my saves. Here are some from the last few months of 2018 thrown into a quick and dirty montage.