yeah, the games have been played already. it´s certainly something different, but not bad at all so far
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yeah, the games have been played already. it´s certainly something different, but not bad at all so far
And here we are, C3 Solo Standard again, caught the mm system off guard it seems 
That mode is pure luck.
My promotion game we were down 0:2, 2/3 forfeit, I didn't just yet and we end up winning.
Our 3rd guy had 70 points too.
I: gg
MVP: gg bollocks
So I look him up and he too is stuck in C3 solo standard, while superstar/c elite in the other modes
That mode is pure luck.
My promotion game we were down 0:2, 2/3 forfeit, I didn't just yet and we end up winning.
Our 3rd guy had 70 points too.
I: gg
MVP: gg bollocks
So I look him up and he too is stuck in C3 solo standard, while superstar/c elite in the other modes
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
And here we are, C3 Solo Standard again, caught the mm system off guard it seems
That mode is pure luck.
My promotion game we were down 0:2, 2/3 forfeit, I didn't just yet and we end up winning.
Our 3rd guy had 70 points too.
I: gg
MVP: gg bollocks
So I look him up and he too is stuck in C3 solo standard, while superstar/c elite in the other modes
Wait, it's easier to rank up in the other modes? Is that just because you roll with a group usually or something else at play? Makes me wonder how much higher I would be if I wasn't sticking to Solo Standard.
Yeah, I exclusively play solo and solo standard is the most unreliable mode, the skill gap is so wide, wall plays mixed with ball chasers, other modes are definitely easier to rank up.
I only keep coming back to solo standard because I'm a masochist
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Yeah that was an eye opener. I've been fighting like hell to rank up on Solo Standard and now that I'm playing among blues here and there it's getting pretty intense to be honest. I just went to Standard and played the Challenger 3's were.....well consistently bad, whereas in Solo Standard you'd run into the occasional air dribbler.
I guess this would be a much easier mode to try hit those blues and maybe purples on.
Edit: Boom, Rising Star Div II. I feel like I've got at least another rank in me as yet too.
1s is weird because it's diff playstyles mainly imo
ie- there IS a correct way (well, within reasonable degrees of variation, especially at higher level) to play 1s. It involves a ton of flicks and powershots if you're trying to do stuff that can't get you scored on by them sitting in goal and reacting. The issue is, learning that stuff is a LOT of losses. Every messed up flick done badly gets you stuffed and gets a free goal on you. If im on point, I'm in champ/sc, if I'm not, I fall down to all star. Some people get to champ by just waiting for people to mess up, but never really learn.
TL;DR some people get high in 1s by never learning.
edit: this applies to any playlist (see getting out of prospect never aerialing because aerials are risky at that point and why learn something that causes you losses) but in 1s it just takes you a TON farther. Awareness of how flicks work takes people to Super Champ without ever actually doing them themselves.
ie- there IS a correct way (well, within reasonable degrees of variation, especially at higher level) to play 1s. It involves a ton of flicks and powershots if you're trying to do stuff that can't get you scored on by them sitting in goal and reacting. The issue is, learning that stuff is a LOT of losses. Every messed up flick done badly gets you stuffed and gets a free goal on you. If im on point, I'm in champ/sc, if I'm not, I fall down to all star. Some people get to champ by just waiting for people to mess up, but never really learn.
TL;DR some people get high in 1s by never learning.
edit: this applies to any playlist (see getting out of prospect never aerialing because aerials are risky at that point and why learn something that causes you losses) but in 1s it just takes you a TON farther. Awareness of how flicks work takes people to Super Champ without ever actually doing them themselves.
CountAntonius
Member
CHANGES AND UPDATES
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
What about the removal of half of the game modes? Hoops, Snowday etc are gone. It looks bare right now.
Edit: Aaaaand servers are down. Guess something went wrong.
when're they fixing the posts
They fixed them for that one "ball went in and rolled out" angle but I still have shots in matches where both me and my opponent go 'uh that was in according to any physics the world could possibly run on' and I check the replay and it definitely was.
They fixed them for that one "ball went in and rolled out" angle but I still have shots in matches where both me and my opponent go 'uh that was in according to any physics the world could possibly run on' and I check the replay and it definitely was.
CountAntonius
Member
Distortion looks good *shrug*
I wanted to vote for MG-88 for the Octane ZSR, but they didn't even offer this one.
Made it to Rising Star for the first time in Doubles (and any mode) on Tuesday. Those blue wheels are mine!
Also went up 3 divisions in 3v3 Standard Challenger Elite after winning a game then getting invited to the team mates party and went on a 5 game win streak.
A successful night that was.
Also went up 3 divisions in 3v3 Standard Challenger Elite after winning a game then getting invited to the team mates party and went on a 5 game win streak.
A successful night that was.
CountAntonius
Member
https://rocketleaguegame.com/news/rocket-league-toy-line-coming-spring-2017/
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DarkChronic
Member
Just pulled off my second 1v2 win. Teammate dropped out 0-0. Pulled off a 3-2 win.
Holy moly those feel incredible. What a high.
Holy moly those feel incredible. What a high.
lv2 pidgey
Member
sadly i havent found anything advanced for wall shots
this one is really basic but has helped me out since i was starting from square one for wall shots
43C5-A86E-F74A-EB37 (steam)
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
So I did a clean install of windows the other day to try sort of some of the W10 issues I keep having. I wasn't deleting RL off the drive it was on so it never occurred to me that I would lose all my replays with it. There goes my 200-300 clips that never got turned into a freestyle montage. :'(
CountAntonius
Member
PC?
FormallyMegadrive
Member
Yeah unfortunately the replays are stored in your documents folder
bad luck manDon't give up! Thats S2 Challenger 2/3, right? That area is hell, that's also where most players get stuck. Hm, it's possibly rotation, or could just be lack of mechanical skill yet, but either way, don't give up there-- once you get into blues is when stuff starts to become less generic in playstyle and it gets a lot more fun (and once again once you hit purples, and once again at gc!)
Yeah unfortunately the replays are stored in your documents folder
It gets saved to cloud though, no? When my friend came over I got a billion replays added to my folder sadly.
It's mostly mechanical I think. Ive just been playing standard and I don't have a team so I just play cautiously and make sure im not in bad spots. I still struggle in ball cam though. I just got so used to playing without it when I started playing that I try to use it as little as possible and I know it really screws me in some situations...Just trying to hit rising star before the season ends. 3 divisions away but it feels sooo far.
Hm, wellll, define mechanical. When higher level people go 'oh it's mechanical', they're usually referring to a tough powershot, or missing a backboard rebounce because they misinputted ever so slightly. If you're not quite at that point, it's usually a reading issue that leads to a mechanical error.
An example of this is "oh I got an awful touch off the wall" happening 2/3rds of the time. It usually has to do with not understanding how to hit it properly off the wall yet, but isn't that you had a misclick or such.
Feel free to upload a replay from your perspective or something, I'm sure any of us in here would help
(probs someone else, I might not be able to give the best advice. I know stuff theoretically a lot better than I can put it into practice, but that's because I'm still learning daily)
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Anyone else not able to play online on Xbox after the latest update?
Might need to try PS4 and see if I have the same issue.
Might need to try PS4 and see if I have the same issue.
The latest update was the one with bug fixes, right? Everything works fine on my Xbox.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
I'm really starting to grow tired of the crate system now. Currently sitting at 32 crates, kinda want to get rid of them but it's practically impossible to find anything now. Any time I look for the item I'm after on Reddit all I get is a 1000 results of people posting their crappy 'stores' which I'd have to filter through on hopes of them actually having the item and not just some random combination of the search parameters.
Then there's the market itself which is just ridiculous. Crimson loopers? 60 keys right now for some unknown reason. When I had them they were virtually impossible to sell. Did they suddenly become attractive or is the market being completely manipulated with false demand? Cause it kinda feels like the latter. This isn't the first item I've observed this with either.
I'd just try sell the crates for keys but what's even the point when everyone suddenly values everything like gold? It's strange, the prices are high with new crates, drop off after a week or two then slowly climb to all time highs.
Then there's the market itself which is just ridiculous. Crimson loopers? 60 keys right now for some unknown reason. When I had them they were virtually impossible to sell. Did they suddenly become attractive or is the market being completely manipulated with false demand? Cause it kinda feels like the latter. This isn't the first item I've observed this with either.
I'd just try sell the crates for keys but what's even the point when everyone suddenly values everything like gold? It's strange, the prices are high with new crates, drop off after a week or two then slowly climb to all time highs.
CountAntonius
Member
Just checked and wow. Crimson reds are 40+ on PC. I bought band sold some for around 15 weeks ago. I wonder if they were a victim of price manipulation.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
There's definitely something a little weird going on there. The price just spiked like crazy out of nowhere and I can't really think of a reason why. The whole thing is really messy now though compared to how it was when the feature launched. Prices were higher on a number of items back then, but items passed hands much faster. Now finding someone even trading the item you want can be bothersome, let alone sifting through endlessly for one with a reasonable price. I wish they'd just ban the stupid 'store' posts or make a sub without them since they completely ruin the ability to search for stuff.
CountAntonius
Member
What some of these guys do is buy as many as they possibly can for like 13-15 a piece and when they have bought a ton of them and not many are out in the market they start hitting up Discord, trading sites and reddit making posts looking for them at really high prices. They won't actually buy them from you at that price though. They are just planting that seed and making everyone think the value is that high. Then you see other owners themselves refuse to sell at low prices and bam price manipulation is successful.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Yeah that's what I figured may be going on. I'm pretty sure I witnessed the same thing happen with Crimson Lightnings back around the time the trade up exploit was discovered. I'll never understand why everyone is so focused on only crimson though.
CountAntonius
Member
Also happened with white zombas. They tend to focus on really attracted wheels and colors everyone wants.
Grinchy
Banned
I hate that white Zombas are like the only wheels I care about getting and their value has skyrocketed so ridiculously. It's weird how much the wheel values fluctuate.
The economy in this game sucks so much compared to Team Fortress 2, the last game I ever bothered doing trading stuff with.
The economy in this game sucks so much compared to Team Fortress 2, the last game I ever bothered doing trading stuff with.
CountAntonius
Member
It's just too easily manipulated. Some of these traders have thousands of keys.
CountAntonius
Member
Everything was cheap in TF2 except for Unusual which were very rare. Honestly not sure if there is anything you guys can do regarding price manipulation. Aside from the three wheels that got bought up then had the price jacked the trade market seems fine.
Grinchy
Banned
Yeah, not to mention that TF2 trading sites could use actual trading data to formulate item values. Since everything was done through Steam's inventory and trading systems, the data was there to be analyzed. We're never going to have that for Rocket League, so I don't know that there's really a solution. And honestly, the "problem" isn't that big to begin with. I hate complaining about things like this when everything else is so close to perfect.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Yeah luckily a lot of it is reasonable. It does suck to know some of these items will just stay out of reach like that though. I'd always wanted the crimson lightning but the absolutely insane price is dumb, especially when they're actually one of the less attractive ones since they're so dull. I think one of the reasons the manipulation irks me is a number of the people are well known scammers too if you chase their username history.
I still really hate what happened to the sub being swamped with stores though. Simply finding what you want has become a chore.