Presets Beach Ball - A huge, slow, lightweight ball with a lot of bounce Cubic - Cube shaped ball and recharging boost Demolition - Demolish opponents on contact in a high gravity matchup Moonball - Low gravity action with a whole lot of boost Pinball - The ball is small, light, fast and bouncy… and a lot to handle Time Warp - Slow down the action as you get close to the ball
Custom Options Match Length - 5, 10, 20 Minutes, and Unlimited Max Score - Unlimited, 1 Goal, 3 Goals, 5 Goals Game Speed - Default, Slo-Mo, Time Warp Ball Max Speed - Default, Slow, Fast, Super Fast Ball Type - Default, Cube Ball Weight - Default, Light, Heavy, Super Light Ball Size- Default, Small, Large, Gigantic Ball Bounciness- Default, Low, High, Super High Boost Amount - Default, Unlimited, Recharge (Slow), Recharge (Fast), No Boost Boost Strength - 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 10x Gravity - Default, Low, High, Super High Demolish - Default, Disabled, Friendly Fire, On Contact, On Contact (FF) Respawn Time - 3 Seconds, 2 Seconds, 1 Second
I'm actually not into the crazy variants. I played a few last night, and they really just weren't fun. When we got the time warp one, half the players left the game immediately. I wondered why, then I played for a few seconds and also left.
The worst part is that even less people are playing in the ranked modes because they are in the silly mode.
The worst part is that even less people are playing in the ranked modes because they are in the silly mode.
CS1.6 had that problem when kid started playing the "Warcraft" mod that made the game stupid. It constituted a huge percentage of the public servers for a while, and drove a lot of people away from the game entirely.
Tribes 2 - same deal. Shitty "mods" and alternate game modes crept into the public space, crowding out the real modes while simultaneously being pretty bad.
I'm not sure RL will go the same way - I think it's more likely people will mess with it for a while, but drift back to the usual ranked modes once they've had their fill, and people who prefer unranked will play with mutuators for fun. It's only new yet, give it a little bit.
I'm not sure RL will go the same way - I think it's more likely people will mess with it for a while, but drift back to the usual ranked modes once they've had their fill, and people who prefer unranked will play with mutuators for fun. It's only new yet, give it a little bit.
The awful matchmaking is really starting to make this game not fun anymore. Every single game there is someone on one of the teams who is just better than everyone else. Sometimes it's me! Sometimes it's someone on the other team. Sometimes it's someone else on my team. No matter who it is, it results in a very not-fun game.
That one person ends up scoring a ton of goals. Everyone else may as well not be there. It's even worse when people don't forfeit and you have to wait for the match to end to play another, hopefully (but not likely) good game.
The matchmaking system says "it will take up to X minutes to consider players of all skill levels." This implies that if it has a hard time pairing you up for a match it's going to eventually create a match with whoever is available, regardless of skill.
That is a huge fucking problem. I would rather not play than play with anyone significantly more or less skilled than I am. I'll wait 5, 10, 15 minutes for 6 players to be available. I don't give a fuck. Better to play one fun match than 20 painful ones.
A week or two ago I was having a lot of good close games. This weekend over 90% of the games I've played have been extremely lopsided contests.
I think for the foreseeable future, my video game time is going to be spent either not playing video games, or on single player games. Despite there being more video games now than have ever existed, there isn't even one online multiplayer video game in the entire world for me to play.
Rocket League cannot sustain the middle tier. It's going to be like every other esport: there will be one professional tier, one contender tier, and no one else.
I think for the foreseeable future, my video game time is going to be spent either not playing video games, or on single player games. Despite there being more video games now than have ever existed, there isn't even one online multiplayer video game in the entire world for me to play.
Welcome to my neck of the woods. Been here for years and it's great.
The game looks potentially different enough from TF2. I haven't played it personally since I didn't get into the beta. But I'm somewhat interested. However I heavily disliked TF2 so who knows.
The game looks potentially different enough from TF2. I haven't played it personally since I didn't get into the beta. But I'm somewhat interested. However I heavily disliked TF2 so who knows.
Hockey is perfect for people who don't aerial well. I like it, and so do my buds who are landlubbers. But those who are all about getting awesome aerials are lamenting the loss of mutators and going back to regular mode.
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Cube is difficult and weird. It's like trying to dribble a football. I didn't like it too much after two consecutive games of it.
Beach ball is slow and weirdly nerve-wracking.
The worst part is that even less people are playing in the ranked modes because they are in the silly mode.
Tribes 2 - same deal. Shitty "mods" and alternate game modes crept into the public space, crowding out the real modes while simultaneously being pretty bad.
That one person ends up scoring a ton of goals. Everyone else may as well not be there. It's even worse when people don't forfeit and you have to wait for the match to end to play another, hopefully (but not likely) good game.
The matchmaking system says "it will take up to X minutes to consider players of all skill levels." This implies that if it has a hard time pairing you up for a match it's going to eventually create a match with whoever is available, regardless of skill.
That is a huge fucking problem. I would rather not play than play with anyone significantly more or less skilled than I am. I'll wait 5, 10, 15 minutes for 6 players to be available. I don't give a fuck. Better to play one fun match than 20 painful ones.
A week or two ago I was having a lot of good close games. This weekend over 90% of the games I've played have been extremely lopsided contests.
I think for the foreseeable future, my video game time is going to be spent either not playing video games, or on single player games. Despite there being more video games now than have ever existed, there isn't even one online multiplayer video game in the entire world for me to play.
I put about 2 hours into Rocket League and will likely only put a few more in at most.
It's... strange.