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PA Rocket League steam group!: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PA-RocketLeague
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More tips from @Sceptre!
The whole premise of Rocket League is that you're playing soccer, but with over-powered RC cars. You can boost, you can double-jump, and when you introduce three other people it's chaos.
The game is a sequel to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars.
Rocket League is available on PC and PS4. BONUS: it's one of the free games included in PS+ this month! It's also now available on XBone!
Generic picture!
Here's what the top players in the world are capable of doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI1xuE6OUuU
I've seen several of you on PS4 playing, so let's start playing together!
@Muffinatron put together a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of Steam and PSN names. Add yourself up and join the fun!
PA Rocket League steam group!: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PA-RocketLeague
Helpful links!
More tips from @Sceptre!
ALSO: figured I would do a little write up on this since I haven't really seen this info presented in other places, and it's pretty useful RL info.
Aerial Takeoff Tips
Aerials are hard. They take some practice to get the hang of, and even then they can be tricky. While the majority of the aerial normally takes place in the air, making clean contact often has more to do with your positioning and setup before you start flying at the ball.
There are three major aerial takeoff techniques you should know about, and each of them are useful at different times.
A "standard" aerial is most likely what you are already doing. You jump, tilt back, and then boost into the air as three separate actions. This should be the aerial you use most of the time, and should be the one you work on the most in Aerial training. It has the advantage of giving you the most accurate level of control, but it is not terribly useful for quickly gaining Vertical height.
The next type of aerial is very similar, but involves double jumping before you boost. You still have a lot of control over your car, but with added advantage of some extra vertical speed. This jump is most useful when you are directly beneath the ball, and often comes into play when you are goal tending. The trade off on this jump is that you have already committed to using your second jump, so you don't have any potential to flip or dodge into the ball. But if the ball was positioned in a place where you wanted to double jump at it, it's likely the cooldown on your second jump would already have expired by the time you got to the ball anyways.
Finally, my favorite take-off, I call "THE SUPER JUMP" (yes, in all caps). The technique is this. You Jump and Boost at the same time. Rather than separating your jump, tilt, boost into separate actions, you combine them all at once. For those of you who play with a 360 Controller, I execute this takeoff by mashing the Jump and Boost buttons at the same time with my thumb.
This jump throws you forward into the air really quickly which is both this jump's strength and weakness. You receive a violent boost forward in horizontal momentum, but shoot into the air like a missile. This jump is most useful in the opposite situation as the previously mentioned Double Jump. Good luck hitting the ball if it's above your car, you will likely blast too far forwards and whiff in embarrassing fashion. Instead, this jump is most ideal in situations where you are being contested in the air. Eventually you reach a point where people are much more confident contesting your aerials, and it becomes important not only to successfully hit the ball, but to make sure you hit the ball first. Furthermore, this jump has the advantage of leaving you the option of using your second flip/jump, allowing you to make some very precise and deadly strikes.
Advanced Shit:
If the ball is very high in the air, yet far enough away that you can safely SUPER JUMP, you can actually combo in your second jump at takeoff to gain extra height. Mechanically, it looks like this:
Jump+Boost at same time, release jump but continue boosting, tilt back slightly, quickly return your thumbstick to neutral position, jump again, then continue your tilt (make sure to be boosting throughout). If you mess up the timing of the tilt and the second jump it's very easy to accidentally do a backflip which looks hilarious and everyone will laugh. However, once you master this technique you will take to the skies extremely quickly and with a speed that lets you win mid-air challenges you would have otherwise lost.
Good luck, and happy flying!
The whole premise of Rocket League is that you're playing soccer, but with over-powered RC cars. You can boost, you can double-jump, and when you introduce three other people it's chaos.
The game is a sequel to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars.
Rocket League is available on PC and PS4. BONUS: it's one of the free games included in PS+ this month! It's also now available on XBone!
Generic picture!
Here's what the top players in the world are capable of doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI1xuE6OUuUI've seen several of you on PS4 playing, so let's start playing together!
@Muffinatron put together a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of Steam and PSN names. Add yourself up and join the fun!
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You should probably turn off ball cam once you're headed in the right direction, it's a lot easier to aim that way.
Also that 1v2 replay you posted @Dirtyboy is ridiculous.
I discovered this game last night and am in love with it. I can't play more than an hour at a sitting or I get a terrible case of controller claw, though.
I played a shit-tonne of it today and now I have what used to be known as Tetris Thumb. Think it might actually have gotten as far as a blister.
On the other hand, since there are no rules, it can be great fun to do nothing but harass/blow up/knock around the opposing team's goalie. Expect to receive hate mail from people that take the game a bit too seriously though.
I've found success playing a kind of sweeper role. I don't play all the way back in our goals, but I stick around just inside my team's half of the field making sure I keep a near full tank of boost. If I need to move back to the goal to defend I have a decent head start on everyone else, but it also means if my team mates manage to centre the ball well enough I can use a massive spurt of boost to drive from deep to knock it in.
On the occasions that it works, it works amazingly well. Had a game last night where we won 9-0 and I scored 8 with that strategy.
I'm finding it helpful to actually just stand back from the action instead of trying to ram the ball as much as I can and waiting for that opportune moment to line up a shot into the goal.
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I have to say, like most other games, it is way way way more fun playing with friends in your team. Then even the disasters are funny.
It's still a mix of talent in the ranked 3v3 games I've played recently. More people are playing goalie or mid-field now rather than chasing the ball endlessly so that's good. Not seeing many accurate aerial hits yet though.
Anyone else find themselves working extra hard to score, when a teammate is replaced with a bot? I hate to win a game with the AI being the to scorer.
I think it says a lot about the player-base that the 4th rarest trophy (excluding the platinum) is the one you get for doing all of the training drills. You don't even need to ace them, just do them.
Anyway, I'm two trophies shy of the platinum now, the complete gear collection and the 500k trophies so it's more a matter of when rather than if.
I'm really tempted to use the rubber band trick for the 500k trophy, that sounds like it's going to take forever. Especially given kms done in online matches don't seem to be counting.
Yeah, I don't enjoy playing with AI teammates, especially if the opposition don't have one to balance things out. My brother and I were in a 3v3 with an AI teammate and he scored 7 frickin' goals. It was a hallow victory.
Loving the game so far. Trying to find mid-week games on GMT can be difficult, although the ability to hop into Free Training while you wait is a blessing.
Still don't think I'm near good enough to do aerials. Took me a bunch of tries just to hit the rocket-boost ball in the tutorial.
I did read that a lot of players find it easier to map all the square buttons to L1 and mapping boost to Square. Gonna try that out tonight.
Switch: US 1651-2551-4335 JP 6310-4664-2624
MH3U Monster Cheat Sheet / MH3U Veggie Elder Ticket Guide
Is it that Camgears guy you keep linking?
The vid you asked about:
SteamID: steamcommunity.com/id/lehmancm/
BnS: Draggan (Server:Poharan)
General consensus on the Rocket League forums seems to be that it plays just fine with KBAM, but that it really feels like it was designed for a controller. I've got an old PS3-style controller hooked up and prefer to play that way.
About 30 seconds of putzing around and generally being bad followed by an incredibly fortuitous pass:
http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/v/7711798
Dunno how quickly things are archived, but it's there for now.
Yeah, this is an awesome game.
Twitch: KoopahTroopah - Steam: Koopah
I am so in love with it.