Had to share this. Funny and many of those reasons are sadly accurate for me(Platinum/Diamond player).
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Rocket League: 60 reasons you aren't a Grand Champion in less than 3 minutes
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Had to share this. Funny and many of those reasons are sadly accurate for me(Platinum/Diamond player).
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I need to stop centering it in front of their goal while the other 2 guys are off getting boost.
Not sure even how to practice ceiling shots, is there a training code for it
Not sure even how to practice ceiling shots, is there a training code for it
Add in "you centre the ball when you know your teammate has been demo'd in 2's" and that's me.
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lol Guilty. No matter the situation if I centered the ball I did my job.
Man...
I've probably spent about 100-120 hours in Rocket League, and I still have no idea how on earth to air dribble or flick or do any of that advanced shit. Even when I go into training I just feel like a derpy player doing derpy things.
I'm not a bad player, mind. I just can't do any of that next-level nonsense. How do I next-level.
I've probably spent about 100-120 hours in Rocket League, and I still have no idea how on earth to air dribble or flick or do any of that advanced shit. Even when I go into training I just feel like a derpy player doing derpy things.
I'm not a bad player, mind. I just can't do any of that next-level nonsense. How do I next-level.
There are youtube guides and the game has user made custom training modes that go with them. Its pretty intuitive.
you have to actually train to get used to them. just learning on the fly in matches will only get you so far as you can't really repeat the action over and over.
I have 600+ hours and still don't know how to air dribble, or flick very well. I do have a nasty side shot using my rear bumper though.
"Great pass" Yeah it was a great pass you sarcastic ungrateful little shit, I'm glad you got demolished.
I'm just way too inconsistent. On my day I can fly with a champion, other days (like today) I'm bronze bad. I keep switching controllers though so I'll blame that...
One day I'll stop centering the ball when my teammates aren't at mid yet
But they're REALLY good centers (for the other team)
But they're REALLY good centers (for the other team)
I seem to play better on the gamecube controller than the ps4... but im probably also the only person in the world using that one
I can't use my PS4 controller anymore. I used a steam controller for a while and got quite good using it but it was limiting me. The dual button triggers are the main benefit
I know it's crazy to think about but 100 ish hours for a video game is just way too little for this one to start learning the advanced techniques. I think I'm at like 1700 hours total on PC and maybe halfway through that amount could air dribble. Then over the last few hundred hours I've really just tried to hone in on effective air rolls. Even after all that time the highest rank I've been able to get to is champion 2. The new technique I am trying to learn but just can't get the hang of are any kind of ceiling shots
yeah... im a few thousand hours into DotA2 and still not a great player. Rocket Leagues learning curve for controls alone are pretty high ceiling so a hundred hours is kind of really not much.
free play + analysis >>>> training packs
as a friend of a ton of pros, training packs are underrated and the vast majority of good players rarely do them.
LOL. I was a pretty good player, but to be honest I don't generally get into games with other people and play with them every day. Ranking up in this game with random partners is literally a waste of your life. I quit. Not one regret. I had my fun, but there is nothing to show for all the time someone puts into this unless they are Pro. While fun does mean something, there are a million other things to do in life and about that many other games to play. It is what it is. Very happy for the dev team that this got popular, but not sure if they will ever make another game.
Sometimes I do wanna reinstall, but then I get a match where a guy is just sitting there and my ranking tanks because of griefers and whatever else. Nope. Not a chance. The community for this game is fucking awful on the bottom end, and playing with randoms is nearly impossible for me.
People are talking about 2K hours to get the hang of the game, and they are not really joking. It takes hours and hours to get air rolls and ceiling shots down. And even when you do playing with a random can still break your soul. The grind is just too much. Logical people realize there is nothing that will come of it after a certain point, and it's time to move on. I mean shit I had to move on from Warhawk too. Ya just gotta kick it to the curb.
Sometimes I do wanna reinstall, but then I get a match where a guy is just sitting there and my ranking tanks because of griefers and whatever else. Nope. Not a chance. The community for this game is fucking awful on the bottom end, and playing with randoms is nearly impossible for me.
People are talking about 2K hours to get the hang of the game, and they are not really joking. It takes hours and hours to get air rolls and ceiling shots down. And even when you do playing with a random can still break your soul. The grind is just too much. Logical people realize there is nothing that will come of it after a certain point, and it's time to move on. I mean shit I had to move on from Warhawk too. Ya just gotta kick it to the curb.
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Yeah I guess I should do that. I really need to work on flying upside down, air dribbles, and flicks.
I guess you meant to say overrated, but of course good players rarely do them because they're a starting point, and a good one.
Double Tap, Dribble, Centering, Flicks.. Fuck this game got complex after I stopped paying attention to it.
I followed it on Twitch when it first blew up for a couple weeks but havent bothered to watch it since. Dudes in the video air juggling the ball and shit, lol wow.
I followed it on Twitch when it first blew up for a couple weeks but havent bothered to watch it since. Dudes in the video air juggling the ball and shit, lol wow.
Centering has been a thing since the game launched. Too bad 80% of the time there's nobody there to take a shot off the back of it. As for things like double tap, it mostly exists for the sake of looking good on streams. It really serves no practical purpose to scoring goals or winning a match at the end of the day.
I meant overrated oops
They're a trash starting point- you need to just learn how the ball bounces and how to control your car, everything else comes from that. Literally everything.
I did 0 training packs for ceiling shots but I can score them all day just like any other shot, etc.
Ive had teammates try and fail arials in game during ranked matches over and over like theyre experimenting. It took me an hour or two practicing how to hit different arial shots and it made it a lot easier. The people I used to play with did not improve despite similar hours put in, and im going to say its absolutely going to help some people more than others.
If it did nothing for you, ok cool, it obviously does help a bunch of people and without pissing off your team trying new shit mid match, especially the more tricky scenarios that only happen once in a while.
okay well that's because the average person has no clue how to improve
You gotta have the basics down. You don't learn control + basic ability to fly in ranked, we call that mechanics. However, you do learn how to apply it in ranked from seeing a billion variants of it. That IS learned through hundreds of failures. You need the basic ability down. We aren't talking aerials- in 2018, aerials are as basic as it can get. We're talking useful air dribbles, ceiling shots, double taps, flicks, bumps, etc. Creativity. Flip resets, etc.
And theres no one size fits all for improving. It helped me immensely so its obviously going to help other people.
Having a shot you can repeat for air dribble was a lot more helpful for grasping the timing for when you jump off the wall because I do learn by grinding out timings like that.
If you're learning ceiling shots by just playing you're not a newish player so its not even the same category.
really not sure what being 2018 has to do with picking up the game