Rocket League Catch All

FlamingPeasant wrote:

Shoot, IGL signup deadline is today!

I got me, Norfair, Anti. Pizza or Crumbo I think one or both of you guys were up for it as well?

Signed in and sent a pm. Hopefully not too late.

Pizza, Norfair and Anti, you guys should have invites to the team. We have until midnight tomorrow (9/28). Crumbo is on now.

Confirmed

I also did the rank verification thing so I think we met that requirement, but there’s still a “action needed” banner I’m seeing.

Anyone else tried the Epic Store version of Rocket League yet? It played really smooth with almost no frame dips for me in game when I just tested it out. I haven’t done any exhaustive testing but so far it seems like less frame dips than I get with the Steam version. That being said I am playing without any overlays right now so that might be part of it. No Bakkesmod support in Epic version yet

I clicked the "get" button on epic and got my coupon. That's it so far.

I’m hoping they bring a 120fps mode to the console version with the XBSX and PS5 launch. The current Xbone/PS4 version is rough still.

That being said, if they add Nvidia Reflex Low Latency support to the PC version that’s going to be a big improvement and I can’t see the new consoles competing with that at all.

I’m wondering when they are planning to stop updates to the steam version and force us all to move over to the Epic version. It is inevitable.

FlamingPeasant wrote:

Pizza, Norfair and Anti, you guys should have invites to the team. We have until midnight tomorrow (9/28). Crumbo is on now.

I think I’m all up to date. Kind of a pain to do on a phone at work.

Also, we should try our hand at some tournaments for training.

Norfair wrote:
FlamingPeasant wrote:

Pizza, Norfair and Anti, you guys should have invites to the team. We have until midnight tomorrow (9/28). Crumbo is on now.

I think I’m all up to date. Kind of a pain to do on a phone at work.

Also, we should try our hand at some tournaments for training.

I can see all five of us in the roster now. I think we are just waiting to be 'auto-verified', which they say happens every 24 hours. Hopefully we are good to go.

I'm down to enter some tourneys.

Crumbo wrote:
Norfair wrote:
FlamingPeasant wrote:

Pizza, Norfair and Anti, you guys should have invites to the team. We have until midnight tomorrow (9/28). Crumbo is on now.

I think I’m all up to date. Kind of a pain to do on a phone at work.

Also, we should try our hand at some tournaments for training.

I can see all five of us in the roster now. I think we are just waiting to be 'auto-verified', which they say happens every 24 hours. Hopefully we are good to go.

I'm down to enter some tourneys.

I'm down too. We're set, I had to verify my email which is done. Everybody is on the team. Where do we get a Stan logo for the team image? Assuming we want to go with that.

We can ask Ameobic I suppose. Or refresh the page till you get one you like at the top of the page.

Crumbo wrote:

I can see all five of us in the roster now. I think we are just waiting to be 'auto-verified', which they say happens every 24 hours. Hopefully we are good to go.

I'm down to enter some tourneys.

If one of you guys stream your tourney games, let us know in here.

-BEP

Ameobic is going to send me the logo. We'll see if we can stream some. IGL also has casters, you can request your match to be casted, I'd like to try that too.

Or if we’re in discord we could broadcast it in the channel

Yes, please. We want to cheer you on virtually...just like the NBA in the middle of COVID.

My experience with the new tournaments mode is limited so far but also very positive. Nice to see something new and fun added to the game. Curious to see how it expands over time.

First attempt Dork and I were a bit inebriated and queued up as a pair with a rando teammate. Won our first match by a landslide to get to top 16 then lost by 1 goal to drop out in the next round. Fun start just to see how it all works.

Second attempt I didn't have anyone on to play with so I asked around on the MAN discord and found a couple lower rank (but still champ+) teammates to queue with. Never played with them before but at least we had comms so that helped a lot. Made it to the finals but lost and placed second. A few close calls and comebacks along the way as my team figured out how to play together. Overall an enjoyable way to spend an hour where everyone is trying to win but no one is overly concerned if we lose.

None of the reward items for tournaments are interesting to me but the mode itself has been enjoyable so far.

Anyone else have experience or thoughts on the tournament mode they'd share? I know a few other GWJers are playing them.

One thing about tournaments...from my sadly solo state...is if I'm playing with true solo'ers, then there may still be issues, but if they are good enough, they figure it out. Unfortunately I seem to get paired up with a pair. So they are probably communicating, and I'm not a part of it. So I feel like I'm fighting two fronts...the opponents, and my teammates.

I really look forward to 2v2 tournaments. 2v2 is my normal, comfortable zone place to play

My struggle in tournaments right now (other than the limited number to join) is finding teammates I can be in comms with. I don’t mind playing with people I don’t know as long as we have some communication and quick chats usually aren’t fast enough.

My third tournament I solo queued and ended up with a pair that queued together. Realized early in the first match that one of them was around my skill level and the other was significantly worse when we went down 2 goals right away due to bad touches by the same person. Changed my play style to compensate and scored the next 3 goals myself to win that match. Won the next match as well but just barely. Lost the third match by a landslide. Kinda frustrating but still also fun.

I’ll keep solo queueing them as I have to but I’m really hoping to find a more reliable source of teammates for tournaments. It’s a nice change of pace from other modes.

Cragmyre wrote:

I really look forward to 2v2 tournaments.

Would be nice to have more modes in official tournaments however I hope they split tournament rank by mode.

I love the idea of tournaments... I just hate how much they're limited right now. Hoping it's pretty soon when all that will change though!

Randomized private tournament this weekend? Twos? 10pm EST Saturday?

Dorkmanship wrote:

I love the idea of tournaments... I just hate how much they're limited right now. Hoping it's pretty soon when all that will change though!

The rewards are crap but the gameplay and format is really fun and every night I've played I've wished there were more I could join.

Since tournaments have their own rank and force you to play against people at your rank I wish they would count as rank reward wins in the same way that the alt modes (rumble, snowday, etc.) do.

FlamingPeasant wrote:

Randomized private tournament this weekend? Twos? 10pm EST Saturday?

I'm definitely interested although maybe wait another 30 minutes or so for the PST crowd to be able to attend.

BTW, if anyone was wanting to check out our first IGL game the GWJ team plays tonight at 6pm pacific. Our game isn't being casted on twitch this week but I think one of us is planning on streaming the game on discord.

BoSF is giving away a TW Octane and some other items

pizzaddict wrote:

BTW, if anyone was wanting to check out our first IGL game the GWJ team plays tonight at 6pm pacific. Our game isn't being casted on twitch this week but I think one of us is planning on streaming the game on discord.

We won, 3-0 in a Best of 5 match. Off to a good start.

Well done Flaming and crew!!

So, one thing I dislike about the tournaments is the point system. Because I'm low ranked. I deserve less points for both winning and losing. Why? Because you play better than me, you deserve a higher reward? I guess.

Tonight I was able to join only a second chance, because there aren't enough tourneys, and too many players. I was with a 100% random crew, and we played against a team. Heck, they even had club colors. One of them was sporting the gold tournament champion...my teammate was sporting a bronze champion tournament. I'm silver according to the losing reward I got. So, if titles are to be believed. It was a bronze, a silver, and a ? playing against golds. Yup... Fair.

Love the mode. It needs tweaking. More modes. More slots.

Cragmyre wrote:

So, one thing I dislike about the tournaments is the point system. Because I'm low ranked. I deserve less points for both winning and losing. Why? Because you play better than me, you deserve a higher reward? I guess.

At face value I agree and it seems really unfair. I think I get more for losing in the first round than a lower rank player gets for winning a couple games. That is quite a difference if the thing you are playing for is the points and reward items.

I think what they did was try to shape all the tournament rewards so that you are motivated to win them and rank up to higher levels in them. That does seem like the motivation behind their decisions.

If people are joining tournaments for the points and reward items then there is currently a lot of motivation to play at the highest rank you can so that you get the most points and rewards for your time. There aren't enough tournaments for you to just play a lot of them to make up for the lower point rewards of lower ranks.

The problem, I suspect, is that if there was no points benefit for playing in higher rank tournaments then you would see WAY WAY more people purposely lowering their tournament rank or smurfing so they could dominate and win tournaments lower than their real rank so they could get more reward items. This would likely make tournaments far more frustrating.

The other thing you get from tournaments is titles and since those are rank based there is again a lot of motivation to play at the highest rank you can win in so your title looks more impressive.

You have stated before that you don't really care about your rank but you do care about collecting items. They finally made a mode where if you want the items there is actually a benefit to trying to rank up. They've got you now

The items aren't much of a motivator to me but I do want the titles. My tournament rank is currently my highest rank in any mode and I'm pushing to get it higher. I've got second place a few times already but haven't won yet. Always a bridesmaid never a bride

Edit: Confirmed today that the reward points you get are based on your rank and not the tournament rank. A silver player in a champ tournament (because teamed with champ players) still gets the same reward points per game as they would have in a silver tournament.

Edit again: There is a fourth cup you can only open if you play in GC tournaments that gives guaranteed painted items. Not sure if there is one even higher if you get to SL tournaments but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Are we gonna try a private random team 2v2 tournament tonight if there are enough people?

Edit: We did try the private tournament idea tonight and it isn’t quite what I expected but it was still fun.

You can’t join a private team tournament without a full team so to get random teams we had to randomize ourselves and team up. That was fine.

Private tournaments also don’t have the “second chance” thing but you can make your own if you have enough people. We ended up making a lower bracket in private matches for the teams that lost in first round.

Thankfully you can make every match a best of 3 or best of 5 which keeps teams from being booted out after just one loss.

With 2v2 a wide skill gap between teams can really misbalance the whole tournament but we can always come up with house rules or mutators to try to balance things. Could also force certain teams to try to balance things. Not sure what would work.

So we did a private tourney and it was pretty fun. Did twos because we didn't have a ton of people. Are there any lurkers out there who would join us for more private tourneys?

We were thinking of rotating modes/mutators, like Heatseeker, Boomer, Small Beach Ball (my favorite).

Randomize teams ahead of time, set a time. Would people be into that?

I'd be happy to throw my hat in the ring and join for a few games. I'm low skill though as I've only just started playing since it went free to play. I'm also a Euro Goodjer so there's the timezone thing.

Look for us on discord. There's some goodjers that meet there to play Rocket League.