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Rocket League suddenly has the most toxic community i've seen. and its a shame.
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Icedburden
Member
Yes, I can see how that would be annoying. But still, its a person you'll NEVER meet in real life and if he's that negative, it's not worth it getting salty about. I've been called every name in the book in games since I got XBL in 06. Never gotten mad. Not once.
I love it when im starting a game and I type "GLHF" and then I type somethin like "close one!" "nice shot!" to me savin a shot from them
then they score
and by them not responding or quickchatting "Thanks!" to my legit compliments I think "oh here it comes"
"WHAT A SAVE"
"WHAT A SAVE"
"WHAT A SAVE"
"WHAT A SAVE"
then they score
and by them not responding or quickchatting "Thanks!" to my legit compliments I think "oh here it comes"
"WHAT A SAVE"
"WHAT A SAVE"
"WHAT A SAVE"
"WHAT A SAVE"
Pretty much happens in every community. Once you reach a certain level, you just can't play with randoms anymore :\ If you can, just try and make friends with randoms you enjoy playing with. I did that with L4D and had a good time with it. Nothing is worse than playing with some dude with 1000 hrs of playtime who only ever plays with randos and expects people to conform to his strategy.
not good enough if pointless text bothers you that much
I aint gonna lose sleep over it. it's just a sad thing to see when the game can be a great experience with a certain kind of randoms that unfortunately are in the minority
just bummed, not angry (..anymore)
I'm 300 hours in and SAM servers are really rough in that department, I've read racists and homophobic comments in USEast servers but it's far from the norm. I spam some What a save! or Wow! after some terrible whiffs but that's it, other players end up typing more than playing just because another team-mate or I missed a save and that's in non-competitive games; I end up muting people at the first sign of assholery.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Alternatively you could read the thread and realize how little your comment has to do with it.
this is really true
I don't think being an ass is country specific or anything, but it's so shitty to see when playin with people from my own region :/
*Third world Brofist*
ThatArcher
Member
I've been reported by the people I was playing when we won by 2. I know reporting does nothing but it still agitated me... until I reported him 
Generalpsyduck
Banned
Yeah it's been real bad recently. I stopped playing because of it.
and the servers still are ass
WickedLaharl
Member
What a shit "solution" you got here
Chezzymann
Member
Yeah it was great in the summer but now its shit. Passive aggressive 'what a save' responses when you get scored on, people shitting on you and calling you terrible or even saying 'fuck you' or something when you mess up, and just your general ultra negative angry nerd competitiveness you'd expect from xbox live call of duty players. It sucks, so i just muted the chat.
joecanada
Member
its weird in some games though trolling. I think the only benefit is making youtube videos maybe of reactions?
like in rainbow siege you will sometimes get in a match and a guy just teamkills his own team, why? he's booted instantly I don't get it , as it auto boots you.
sometimes it is funny though, I had a teammate who went around shooting all our teams devices so I shot him in the face with shotgun but he didn't die so I revived him and he was like "he shot me in the face!" "why?" and I said "quit shooting our devices" and it was pretty funny all around.
like in rainbow siege you will sometimes get in a match and a guy just teamkills his own team, why? he's booted instantly I don't get it , as it auto boots you.
sometimes it is funny though, I had a teammate who went around shooting all our teams devices so I shot him in the face with shotgun but he didn't die so I revived him and he was like "he shot me in the face!" "why?" and I said "quit shooting our devices" and it was pretty funny all around.
Sora the Cat
Member
I adore this game and I love the devs so I hate to give a game "bad" publicity but I gotta be real
idk what the report button does
but this is basically one guy out of every single one ive come across playing today. for some reason its worse in south american servers. I reported him 3 times in 3 different matches.
im having a fucking mental breakdown man. It just straight up ruined my mood. "time to put the controller down" and all, and I seriously rarely get mad at games, but god damn
here's the difference:
if a player griefs you in a fighting game when you lose, ultimately he's right, so you deal
playing Rocket League with randoms who are terrible and at the same time call you whatever racist / homophobic racist slur at you for missing and at the end of the game say "lol learn to play faggot" when your score is way higher than them seriously grinds my gears to a point I havent experienced in a game in a long time
it aint even about the moment itself, wether the trolling works (which fuck it but it does, I almost threw my controller today after being demoted a rank cause of a shitty teammate who kept shitting on me while playing awful), but it's the fact that its such a good god damn game that it seriously bums me out to see people ruining it like this
it was bound to happen, it's a very popular multiplayer competitive game, but god damn man Psyonix oughta implement a better report function cause it is seriously keeping me from playing. It's intolerable.
Ive been playing since it came out, and after hundreds of hours it is absolutely keeping me away from it at times.
So yeah, by the chat I can tell that you are probably from Argentina like me. I can't play on the SA server because of my ISP, I get like 250ms and the game is almost unplayable, so I play in us east with 125ms which is acceptable for me.
The thing is, even if I could play in SA I wouldn't, the community over there ruins it for me, there's insults in every game and people quitting a lot. And I can honestly say that I never get those levels of toxicness in US, of course you can find some toxic guy every now and then, but it isn't comparable at all.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
I'll give a nod for sure on the flagrant insults.
But the, "Wow", "Nice shot!"? You are just being overly sensitive. You flipping your lid over a little ball-busting is weird bro.
But the, "Wow", "Nice shot!"? You are just being overly sensitive. You flipping your lid over a little ball-busting is weird bro.
I dont think he was trying to exchange insults, it was more of "enjoy being a moron over a videogame" thing.
But salame does get a lot of use in Uruguay, not a heavy hitter insult anyway.
Japanmanx3
Member
Chezzymann
Member
Thing is in the summer from what i saw it wasn't really like this. There was mostly just 'nice shots' when people scored, or 'what a save's when someone actually saved a ball. Its gotten increasingly more negative and toxic over the past six months or so.
DarkChronic
Member
Went to a 4-4 OT game last night. Teammate scored all 4 goals. He called me trash.
I score the winner in OT. His response?
"Ur still trash"
Unreal.
I score the winner in OT. His response?
"Ur still trash"
Unreal.
SoundPulse
Banned
You'd love the Dota 2 ping spam, then.
17 Seconds
Banned
sounds like every online game ever. you're anecdote doesn't tell me that the community for this game is worse than any others.
Reverb Shock
Member
Yep, that's been the case for me. It's not uncommon to encounter at least one fool like this every two games or so.
brianjones
Member
the quitters fucking suck
down 2-0 with 4 minutes left? fuck this I'm out
down 2-0 with 4 minutes left? fuck this I'm out
The group invites after playing a toxic game of Dota 2 still make me chuckle.
Gotta be honest, I play at least 2 hours a day and I never see this. I'm playing from the West Coast NA for what it's worth. The "What a save!" when you miss a block is just part of the game at this point I feel. I kind of laugh about it now.
THAT shit needs to stop. Last night I felt so bad for my opponent playing 3 vs 1 that I played as if I was on their team and we made it a 2 vs 2 match. We still lost but it was really cool
THAT shit needs to stop. Last night I felt so bad for my opponent playing 3 vs 1 that I played as if I was on their team and we made it a 2 vs 2 match. We still lost but it was really cool
QuantumSquid
Member
Don't play CS:GO if you don't like to hear homophobic/racist slurs hurled over voice chat by teenagers constantly.
Rocket League is pretty bad too though, it desperately needs some player report tools.
Rocket League is pretty bad too though, it desperately needs some player report tools.
Have to admit, it is fun to shit talk the other team. Unless if they start giving legit compliments, in which case I'd just feel bad.
Indeed, I just type "4v2" and have fun. I'd probably find RL more stressful if I actually played ranked matches though.
Sadly I fell you OP. I'm now playing RB Siege and I'm mostly paired with guys from my region (brazil).
When it isn't the opposing team typing stupid shit on the text chat, is somebody from my own team just calling everyone idiots (or worst) because we lost a round and later rage quitting.
And this is on the casual servers, where people are supposed to play just to have fun.
The HUEHUEHUE culture that brazillian players are know from is pretty terrible. I'm even got kicked form matches before just because I'm from Brazil. It sucks
When it isn't the opposing team typing stupid shit on the text chat, is somebody from my own team just calling everyone idiots (or worst) because we lost a round and later rage quitting.
And this is on the casual servers, where people are supposed to play just to have fun.
The HUEHUEHUE culture that brazillian players are know from is pretty terrible. I'm even got kicked form matches before just because I'm from Brazil. It sucks
typical argentinian, BRO
im from uruguay
and yeah. USE servers are better. stop embarrasing me latinamericans
I think you can leave the word 'suddenly' out of it, RL's chat is by far the worst chat I've seen in years and I've seen quite a few toxic communities. I honestly don't get annoyed by them anymore, they're just people I don't have to react to anymore. (EU servers btw, I'd say it's 50/50 between nice chats and awful chats here)
No you don't, grieving is uncalled for in any circumstance. I always stay nice to other players, even if they didn't hit the ball even once in RL or lose in a fighting game (how would that even be a good example of grieving?). Grieving benefits no one. If you're the kind of guy to report every instance of grieving, you should report those as well imho.
No you don't, grieving is uncalled for in any circumstance. I always stay nice to other players, even if they didn't hit the ball even once in RL or lose in a fighting game (how would that even be a good example of grieving?). Grieving benefits no one. If you're the kind of guy to report every instance of grieving, you should report those as well imho.
TheOohChild
Member
I am a big fan of sarcastic quick chatting. I think it's hilarious. But yeah, people saying ugly shit in the chat kinda sucks.
of course it aint the best, im just trying to stress how it bothers me more in RL cause it's your own teammate and it helps no one
Oddvintagechap
Banned
eh, it's not a big deal.
I was hoping to play with xbots n talk crap tho. Like my cousins boyfriend David.
I was hoping to play with xbots n talk crap tho. Like my cousins boyfriend David.
I'm not sure what you expected from this thread. Rocket league is no different from any other online competitive game.
If you've got an online game where you can talk directly to your team mates then expect people to act like shitlords from time to time. Coming to expect it happening in doesn't make it ok to do but until developers permanently ban or punish players who act like this, it's not going to go away.
Your only options are to deal with it how you can or stop playing the game.
If the game has options to mute disruptive players then use it.
Report them if the function exists.
That's all you can do.
If you've got an online game where you can talk directly to your team mates then expect people to act like shitlords from time to time. Coming to expect it happening in doesn't make it ok to do but until developers permanently ban or punish players who act like this, it's not going to go away.
Your only options are to deal with it how you can or stop playing the game.
If the game has options to mute disruptive players then use it.
Report them if the function exists.
That's all you can do.
...Scatter...
Banned
I love some good old trash talk. It's entertaining. I can't stand trolling your own team though. Like in Halo 5 when dude goes 0-15 in Slayer. Why bother booting up? Just want to keep me from ranking up?
The most annoying thing is French Canadians though. Sorry Quebec GAF. French sounds amazing when beautiful girls speak it, not so much when gamer bros do it.
The most annoying thing is French Canadians though. Sorry Quebec GAF. French sounds amazing when beautiful girls speak it, not so much when gamer bros do it.
Oh ok, didn't realize you meant it in relative way. The sentence threw me off a bit.
The bigger a community gets, the more trolls you get.
If it's cheap or free you'll get plenty of people who DNGAF.
It's been this way since the dawn of online multi.
Example: When I started Hearthstone, back in closed beta, no one ever "emote trolled" me. Even during the full release, I didn't see much. A couple years later every other match is shit tier emote trolling.
Example: Left 4 Dead, etc
I'm sure there are communities that improve with time, I'm just not thinking of any off the top of my head.
I remember nothing but nice things from Rocket League on PS4...
"Nice Shot" coming from teammates and heck even opponents.
"Sorry" when someone f's up....followed by "no problem" from teammates.
once in a blue moon someone would say something stupid though.
edit- US servers (North American?)
"Nice Shot" coming from teammates and heck even opponents.
"Sorry" when someone f's up....followed by "no problem" from teammates.
once in a blue moon someone would say something stupid though.
edit- US servers (North American?)