Rocket League Catch All

And rumble? Or rotating extra modes tournaments?

Stele wrote:

And rumble? Or rotating extra modes tournaments?

Rotating every day

Changes to the interface too, making it easier to see your rank, past placements etc. I like that they're moving in that direction.

What, you didn't like having to finish a round of a tournament and then remembering to look at the scoreboard to figure out your rank?

One of the important smaller details they gave about tournament changes in season 4 is that your MMR is the same in all tourneys so if you are champ in standard then you will be in the champ hoops tournaments too but also that wins/losses in the alt mode tournaments don’t impact your tournament rank at all so you get reward points from them but not MMR changes.

Come on Psyonix. Maybe give us game improvements not junk like this that no one asked for and in no way improves the game.

Player Count Display

The way player population is displayed in-game is changing
Total players online is no longer displayed
Playlist population display has been changed. Based on a playlist’s population, players will see one of the following
Amazing
Great
Good

pizzaddict wrote:

Come on Psyonix. Maybe give us game improvements not junk like this that no one asked for and in no way improves the game.

Player Count Display

The way player population is displayed in-game is changing
Total players online is no longer displayed
Playlist population display has been changed. Based on a playlist’s population, players will see one of the following
Amazing
Great
Good

If it showed population based on matchmaking rank that might be useful. In the past it was always saying there are thousands online in alt modes but if I search I sit and wait 10 minutes between matches even with both US regions selected.

pizzaddict wrote:

Come on Psyonix. Maybe give us game improvements not junk like this that no one asked for and in no way improves the game.

Player Count Display

The way player population is displayed in-game is changing
Total players online is no longer displayed
Playlist population display has been changed. Based on a playlist’s population, players will see one of the following
Amazing
Great
Good

It might not improve the game, but I swear it's created the weirdest outcry in a game's player base of all time (on the rocket league reddit). I've read posts where people try to explain why they care about this and it's not very convincing. To me, it seems like people just want to me mad at something.

Now the tournament thing is a big disappointment to me. I play 2v2 almost exclusively and was hoping that it would just be another tournament option at the same times as the 3v3, but not to be I guess. The 2v2 tournaments are all earlier in the day when I have family stuff to do. At least it seems like it, I can't find the schedule after googling for a bit.

I don't really care about the playlist population thing, it just seems like a waste of time to me when there are a billion other things they could do to actually add value to the game. Instead what we get is the awful change to casual mode and this pointless change to how population is displayed. I do appreciate the changes to tournaments but it's not something I get to participate in very often because it's hard for me to devote that much time to the game in one sitting.

Yeah 3 of the first 4 tournaments I played I made the finals. The other, first round loss haha. But I felt like all tournaments lasted an hour. Not necessarily but possible.

Definitely annoying that alt mode and 2v2 tournaments are early in day. I only ever get to play the 9pm 3v3 tournament.

The casual changes are such a mixed bag. Solo queueing is terrible right now mostly because of the MMR reset smashing everyone from champ to SSL into the same matches so every match is an unbalanced mess and some people have no chill when they notice that. On the other hand queueing as a team in casual is so much better right now because we don’t have to spend 99% of matches playing against bots. Managed to play 3v3 for a dozen games without seeing a bot for more than a minute or so.

The Casual changes may need some tweaking, but I agree it's on overall positive.

I like the limited backfilling and the forfeiting but I’d like the quitting penalties to be a bit looser.

Finally tried a bit last night. Yeah it seemed like people left less in casual. But I also wasn't sure if I could leave? Got placed mid match down 6-2 with one human and one bot. Traded goals and then down 8-3, voted to forfeit but other guy didn't. So if I leave I just lose XP or whatever? There's not an abandon cool down like ranked right?

Also tried a couple ranked singles and doubles since it's been a few weeks. Just thought I'd work on bronze or whatever. And then I see that I already have a rank? Are there no placement matches? Or does it show you the rank that you just played as during the placements now? Very confusing.

Oh it's in the patch notes:

There are seven ban levels for Casual Playlists:
First - 0 Minutes
Second - 5 Minutes
Third - 10 Minutes
Fourth - 20 Minutes
Fifth - 40 Minutes
Sixth - 1 hour
Seventh or more - 2 hours

Once you progress beyond the first level, there is a 12-hour cooldown before the ban level de-escalates by one level.

And I hope this actually works. I have definitely got screwed by not getting XP or weekly challenges with this bug:

Fixed matches not counting as completed when leaving a match during the final replay

Yeah I noticed the same thing last night. It says I'm unranked on the mode selection screen, but then shows me as Diamond 3 div 2 after the match and I my wins count towards my season rewards which I don't recall it doing before.

PS5 RL is finally getting a performance mode supporting up to 120fps

pandasuit wrote:

PS5 RL is finally getting a performance mode supporting up to 120fps

Dammit... Don't have hard drive space right now. And I'm already getting that and more on PC, although not 4k...

I don't think the 4K really matters on a game like this.

Stele wrote:
pandasuit wrote:

PS5 RL is finally getting a performance mode supporting up to 120fps

Dammit... Don't have hard drive space right now. And I'm already getting that and more on PC, although not 4k...

It’s not actually 4k on PS5 either. Never has been. It’s upscaled using checker-boarding.

Good games last night. What a strange special mode this week though.

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That's a lot of hours

Stele wrote:

That's a lot of hours

Nearly double what I have

Sunless “best moments” from his RLBS broadcast