Well, there it is. I must have been playing ranked without realising it.
Grimdark Barratt wins every time
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Rocket League |OT| Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars
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Grimdark Barratt wins every time
gutterboy44
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Anyone have any high level RL twitch channels I can follow? Would love to see top players play other than just in highlight reels.
TimeEffect
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camgears
gutterboy44
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Gravy Boat
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It doesn't add bots on Ranked, only unranked games.
Edit: I hadn't refreshed my page in a while, it seems this was answered a while ago. Move along, nothing to see here.
Except it isn't missing... It only works if you have two controllers or more though.
A collection of some of the clips I've taken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN6AA1nu3EA
I love this game so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN6AA1nu3EA
I love this game so much.
gutterboy44
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OMG. I just watched some of the camgears 2v2 stream he has archived where it is him and m1kerules in a 2v2 match....they are incredible. Like, I don't even get how they can position their cars so well so quickly. I swear camgears was sometimes sideflipping away from the ball instead of toward it for some hits. Maybe hitting with the bottom of the car is better? He was calling aerial hits before he even jumped. God damn that is impressive.
Edit: I also notice how much more deliberate they are with their moves. One carefully times flip, or just simply a tap to put the ball on goal instead of going wild with boost hits and crazy flips.
Edit2: Mother of god. They ended up having 29 unanswered goals int two 2v2 matches.
Edit: I also notice how much more deliberate they are with their moves. One carefully times flip, or just simply a tap to put the ball on goal instead of going wild with boost hits and crazy flips.
Edit2: Mother of god. They ended up having 29 unanswered goals int two 2v2 matches.
I couldn't enjoy other games the first few days RL was out
ThatStupidLion
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how do I turn on voice chat? I never hear anyone talking
cr_blah_blah
Member
Played matches with GAF again last night. It was great as always. Kryo, where ever you are, just know you ruined a perfectly good moment! Too bad the Share button doesn't catch me going "OOOOH WHAT NO"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpa_NGVT1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvpa_NGVT1g
Dude, thanks... I've been using flip boosts forward and back now. Still getting used to the feel in close and in traffic but it's definitely helping me save my boost and is a HUGE difference going in reverse.
Wow the GAF tournament has 15 teams on PS4 and 4 teams on Steam right now... That's a lot of people! 
Friendly reminder, you have about 31 hours left to sign-up for the GAF tournament!
Friendly reminder, you have about 31 hours left to sign-up for the GAF tournament!
Everyone hates Kryo when he's not playing with you. Lol. I kept boosting and pushing him out of the net until he got mad. Screw you too CR
for destroying me and blocking some goals Ok, thanks for info.. but why only then when you have atleast 2 controllers?.. an option to play split-screen with one controller and keyboard/mouse would be greatly welcome
cr_blah_blah
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Everyone hates Kryo when he's not playing with you. Lol. I kept boosting and pushing him out of the net until he got mad. Screw you too CR
Having a full time keeper who's good at it is such a blessing, until you're against him then all bets are off. I think I did the most destructions last night but I wasn't going for it, the moments just kind of felt right. They were so right. I tried to blow Kryo up but he wouldn't let me
.The finals of the first ESL tournament this past weekend had 18k Twitch viewers. I don't think it's solely novelty either. Watching high level play of people doing things kind of unimaginable to the layman will always be a draw.
Well sure, true, I don't see any reason why they couldn't add that in a future update... Poor dude that would be stuck with the keyboard and mouse though... x)
gutterboy44
Member
Wow the GAF tournament has 15 teams on PS4 and 4 teams on Steam right now... That's a lot of people!
Friendly reminder, you have about 31 hours left to sign-up for the GAF tournament!
When is the actual tournament being played? I only saw a signup deadline date in the OP.
ThatStupidLion
Member
Oopsie... I thought it was implicit but never actually wrote it down, should have done that. Pretty much when the sign-ups end, I'll do the brackets and the tournament will start right away. (I will give a tentative deadline for the first round, and we'll go from there!)
Darth Smurf X
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I had the opposite effect. Playing Rocket League for a few matches and then going into Arkham Knight actually improved my Batmobile driving. I was able to clear out several APC missions right in a row.
ickingfudiot
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The trouble with this is presets allow us to both localize the message (so other language players can communicate) and can be shared cross platform. We aren't allowed to do unrestricted text chat between platforms and the fixed quick chat lets us bypass that.
No, the pure simplicity is what makes it so damn good.
I don't think adding this layer would over complicate things though. The dev team wouldn't need to go nuts with stats.
MMaRsu
Banned
Assassio u gonna be on in a bit?
Same. I wish we had a vehicle creator though but i see why it was not implemented. Cant wait for more customization stuff
gimme dat dlc so i can give you money!
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Just played a row of great 2v2s with my brother, so much fun! Random matchmaking is great for what it is, but playing with someone you know and being able to communicate plans of attack (almost nobody uses headsets in random matchups) just takes it to another level. Most fun I've had with a game this year. Decade?
His point wasn't that it'd be hard to differentiate the frames, but rather it would harm the competitive aspect which thrives on the simplicity of the game.
My god.
Marvel
could never
Yes indeed.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
No. Just no.
I mean, I can see where you're coming from, but that would take away from what I love so much about this game, which is that it's 100% down to skill and not what you have equipped or whatever. You might argue that it would still be all about skill even if cars had different stats, but then you'd have to learn how each one handles and choose one to become really good with (if your goal is to compete in the rankings), and also learn how the others behave to be able to defend from them effectively. To me it's so liberating that that's not a factor at all. I could never play something like LoL, because there's SO much you have to learn by heart to really be able to compete. Here you just have to learn the basic controls, and then its up to you to practice your skills using them. The simplicity is what makes it so brilliant.
Stats would ruin it. As others have said, right now it's completely skill based with everyone on equal playing fields. Adding stats would create rock-paper-scissor situations that aren't fun.
ickingfudiot
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Agree to disagree I guess. Stats on cars lock you into playstyles based on looks, which isn't great. It also inherently limits positional flexibility and what we like about our game is that it doesn't try to tell you how you should play based on a set of values assigned.
Also consider the complexity and frustration it brings to matchmaking. Say the van becomes the best goalie according to the stats. You get matchmade into a ranked 3v3 and your whole team are vans. Now you start having to solve the MOBA problem where team comp has to be chosen collaboratively, systems like LoL's Team Builder become needed, etc.
It just creates this huge mess for the sake of emulating the common perception of depth (choosing a class archetype with strengths and weaknesses). I just think it's a better game without that complexity.
I'm sure there's mileage in a sports game like RL where you can customize your stats like a create a player in NBA/FIFA etc. One challenge we ran into even discussing it for RL is that Speed trumps almost all other statistics.
MMaRsu
Banned
Dont keep the camera locked on the ball or you will miss shots a lot
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
God damn this game is addictive. One of the coolest things that happened to me today was when I ended up in a 2v3 match online and we still ended up winning 5-0. No the AI didn't even take over. Must have been a bug. Then in the next match the bug continued and as we kept scoring people on the other team rage quitted one after the other. So it ended up as us 2 vs nobody. Nice shot! Nice shot! Nice shot! Wow! We ended up turning the rest of that game in to a 1v1 after that despite us both being on the same team.
oh shit
YUP. less variation between players puts a greater emphasis on skill. which is fun.
TheDanimal
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How does ball can make it harder to hit shots? I usually use ball can all the time, so I'd like to know the benefits to not using it so that I can improve
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