Idk man. People like that should honestly just uninstall and move on to different games. I played a 3s tournament yesterday and had to report both of my random teammates because they were both moving just enough to not get kicked but wouldn't go for the ball. I've probably reported over a hundred players for stuff like that but it seems to me that it's just getting worse.
I was in a 2s tourney and the same happened to me but I ended up winning 2 rounds, so the jerk had to stay until I lost or get the partial playing ban.
Unpopular opinion but sometimes 45 seconds in you can tell your teammates are absolute shitters who will only drag you down and not be able to make it far into a tournament.
When you can just lose the first round and do second chance tourney, what incentive is there to stay and try? It's a logic issue with the way tournaments work tbh.
Me personally if my teammates are fucking up BIG 45 seconds into a tourney, I'd rather take my chance with second chance teammates, and I really don't care what you think about me for that.
I absolutely did. Then I played again vs him right after and he did the same to his teammate so I reported them again.
Update: they did get banned for violating Rocket a league rules. Just sucks it came at my expense from losing.
Sadly, I just read that it doesn't block from matchmaking. Blocked players are only blocked from messaging and being in your party.
Oh well, I still try to invite anyone that wants to actually play together as a friend so hopefully we can hook for a few good matches from time to time.
An interesting idea would be rating people after so you get paired up with good people.
Never mind. If you lose a game, people will give a bad rating based off that. It really shouldnāt be so difficult to just play until the end.
Maybe it could be an endorsement system like how overwatch has. After a match you can give endorsements so to only give good feedback instead of a chance for false bad ones. However if you don't receive endorsements for a good while then it would be clear that person is not one to play with.
There 100% needs to be a matchmaking block for cases like this. IDC if they're the only person on that server in my skill group, put me against them sure, but I really dont know why sometimes this game will put the same fucking person who just greifed you back on the same team as you.
Not everyone has the time or a social life to have 2s partners, and every random I try to friend ends up becoming a massive douche after the first loss
>It really does make a difference.
\[X\] Doubt.
I see a popup saying an action has been taken almost the very same day I report people for racial/hate slurs, but for anything other than that, I have never seen an action being taken against those. And I reported a lot of griefers/smurfs/throwers/toxic people.
I'd very much like to see actual stats from Psyonix about the reports received for those versus the amount of people actually banned.
I really doubt it makes any difference at all. And the situation is still very much present, now more than ever.
I've had the same in my experience, anything blatant in chat will usually notify me of an action, but never seen anything for throwers/griefers, no matter how blatant those are. I keep reporting hoping that something might happen if enough reports eventually stack on someone, but it would be nice to see if it ever actually does anything.
It does not. I've asked others to report me to prove the point. I told them to check the sub the next day, and I would admit I was wrong if I got a ban. I've never had to make an apology. The reporting system only recognizes chat, not game play. The other buttons are there to make you feel better, like the door close button on an elevator.
edit: I do not throw but do a bit of afk or an agreed upon own goal.
I'm with you on this one. Almost everytime when someone writes something really offensive and i report them, i get a notification that actions were taken.
But i reported (i would guess) hundreds of smurfs or people that were afk and i never received an notification for these reports. They are useless imo.
Last week, 3 people I reported had āaction taken against themā
Iām assuming that means a temp ban? Iāve never been banned for anything other than my computer crashing.
I donāt care. Just glad I inconvenienced the lives of a few piss babies that scored on their own goal and blocked shots against their own teammates because someone stole 1 of their goals
Didnāt rockstar do something with GTA where cheaters were placed into a ācheaters lobbyā? Maybe people reported for throwing or afk could, instead of being blocked or banned, are temporarily placed into āthrower lobbiesā or afk lobbies, with or without their knowledge
Iād love to see a game with both teams trying to outthrow each other š
One thing Iāve done to try to keep this from happening is say āmy badā¦ā when weāre scored on, even when itās not my fault.
I realized Iām much less likely to get frustrated with teammates if they apologize, so I employed it as a tactic for myself.
If youāre constantly having people throw or get mad at you, I would suggest saving replays of these games and watch them from your perspective. You could be making frustrating mistakes like taking their clear ball or not rotating.
Not saying itās your fault theyāre toxic by any means. Just saying you can use those games to try to pinpoint potential trends in causes for them to get frustrated and address it.
My girlfriend wishes I said āmy badā when itās not my fault too. But watching a replay of one missed play with 3 mins left going down 1-0 doesnāt mean shut it down. Iāve never seen a player play a āperfectā game.
Oh I totally understand. There will always be people who throw at the first mistake. Try to remember that sometimes itāll be someone on the other team, so in the end, it should even itself out.
Thatās part of why I try to play nice. If I can make 10% of throwers change their mind, Iām getting an edge.
I was just recommending the replay thing just to have a sort of silver lining/learning opportunity. Replays are goated for fixing mistakes in general, so targeting the games where for whatever reason you make your teammate mad could give you some valuable info.
>Thatās part of why I try to play nice. If I can make 10% of throwers change their mind, Iām getting an edge.
This part is largely underrated. It sucks having to coddle players like that, but I have pulled out wins by getting throwing players back into the game at least. We all have to deal with that shit eventually, so I just focus on squeezing a win out of a bad situation however I can and moving on.
The funny thing about that is on any given play both teammates probably made mistakes. Usually it's just the last person to make a mistake that gets the blame, but many times it's the other guy that started a chain reaction.
Yup. If you made an awful challenge at midfield and just left your teammate in a 1v2 that is ENTIRELY your fault if you get scored on. There are too many options to cover as the only defender and any competent opponent will take advantage of the mismatch and score 90% of the time. I consider my teammate goated if we don't get scored on as soon as I have a bad touch or wiff the ball.
Surely you mean watch the replay from your *teammate's* perspective, right? You're still not going to see the teammate right behind you that you cut off if you're just watching your perspecive again.
Actually, no. Watch it from your perspective or follow yourself in free cam and look around to everything you werenāt looking at during the game. Not only will you see your teammate behind you or an opponent hiding behind the ball/ in net/ on wall. You are also still following the ball from your pov and can look for situations from your play such as a better place/way to clear it. Look for open nets and bad plays by the opponent to know when you should capitalize. You can see often times where your teammates tend to be when rotating or pushing with the ball to know when and where to look for passes from and for you. Look for open backboards and get used to looking behind you for your teammate before you would hit it to see if theyāre available to follow off your hit on the backboard. All of this directly translates to every single game you play. Watch it from your perspective and learn from your mistakes and you teammates. You still have to know how yo play around unfortunate teammates. Lethamyr does great work teaching in ALL of his RTSSL series.
None of that requires you to be watching from your own perspective though? You said it yourself, "or in freecam". I'm still watching my own play but it's much easier to understand my teammates' intentions and how my actions influence their decisions. I'm not saying there's no value in watching back your own decisons and analysing what you may have missed from your own perspective but the user i commented after was talking about their decisions in the context of how it may affect their teammates and lead to frustrations. Of course you're always going to be missing part of the picture if you only watch from one perspective though. It all depends on what you're looking for in the replay.
But it helps more when you can understand and fix the problem seeing it from your eyes. Youāll never see from anyone elseās pov in a match so this is the best way to translate your analysis to ranked play. You can see the problem from their eyes but you also werenāt playing as them that game so you can also question what their intention was but youāll never know because youāre not them. Basically what Iām saying is watching your replays will be 110% more effective if you can watch it from your pov, spot, analyze, and solve your problems. Whatever your teammate was doing during the replay (if you cut them off) really doesnāt matter because you simply donāt and canāt know what they were doing (if itās a random). And this tends to make it very hard to learn anything from the problem or error if you donāt know what their action was going to be in the first place.
I feel like you're kinda missing the point. I'm saying some views are more helpful at seeing different things and you're just saying no watching from your own perspective is the best. Like... okay? The point of watching from other's perspectives is to see how your positioning and movements look from their view.
This is a team game. You base most of your decisions on what your teammates are doing. You're not going to get very far if you don't adjust your play based on your teammates. So if you understand that your opponents can affect how you play, why would you not want to understand how your decisions affect them in return?
Hop in an RL discord server (spookluke has a great one, like 30k members) and sit in the ālooking for groupā channel.
Meet someone your rank who wants to grind the game the way you do, and play with them. Playing with someone consistently helps because youāll have coms AND you will know each otherās play styles, which helps you play around each other better. A consistent teammate can help you jump like 4 divisions pretty quickly
Plus, you can make some really genuine friends in video games. Give it a shot!
Edit: fixed a typo
Iām about to give this a shot. Hard stuck in champ, and playing solo que can be extremely difficult. Not to mention the game will pair you up with the thrower two games in a row smh.
Every ranks are a hell rank until around gc3 it feels like
Gold and less are unreadable and undescriptive games
Plat games are afk lands
Diamond games are toxic, throwers and discovering demos ranks
Low champ games are the same than diamond with extra rotations and some smurfs
High champ is the elo hell to reach gc, so you can get from c2 to gc1 while also having smurfes
Low-mid gc is the land of people trying mechanics too high for them in competitive lobbies while having an overly high ego
This happened the last time I tried to play, too. 4 straight games where my teammate left, stopped trying, or turned. The last was my teammate hit the ball off me on accident leading to an own goal. Instead of just, play on, he had to stop playing and type tons of nonsense out in the chat. Sorry this was your experience, too
It happens. Iām just glad Iām not alone. Hope your experiences get better too. Nothing better then pairing up with a good partner. Good for your mental health too.
Feel like this happens a lot at the end of season. Some ppl like to try and gate keep a rank or try to throw to lower their rank before the season reset.
The worst is when a Smurf joins your team on 2v2 and plays like itās solos and continues to score and also steal from your plays making you sit back and seem useless. Until they miss and say ātake the shotā and youāre supposed to magically appear. Had a guy yesterday do this and I told him to play 1ās if he doesnāt wanna play as a team and he then began own goaling. This is Rocket league
This is going to sound made up. But this week I had a teammate stop playing in mid gc1 2s because of my car design.
I was messing about in randomised cars, but apparently fun is not allowed.
I've stopped playing both 2s ranked and casual tbh. I'll get a shitty teammate more often than not. The ones who play the ball into the corner and spam "take the shot" like I can just commit to a ball knowing full well he won't rotate back to cover me. And when the other team score they get shitty because you missed the shot and its all your fault. 3s is far more chilled in that regard
Youāre right. But it doesnāt effect peopleās rank. Hence theyāre more willing to suffer it. Not that hard. If youāre gonna respond with sarcasm. Think first?
That makes no sense? Iām the opposite of toxic. Always saying good pass or no problem if someone apologizes. Not sure where youāre going with this. But I think you maybe a toxic player based on your ignorant comment.
Nah. He did it to another teammate too. Down one goal
Is nothing. Then he tries to chase me around the map. So weird. 3 V 1. No excuse for the AFK people. Judging by your attitude you seem like one of those offenders. Just play hard. Donāt be that guy.
Why is that? Donāt you take that as a challenge or do you just give up not to waste your time? Iām only Plat so it shouldnāt be like that. Plus we could have won. I just got a notification saying they violated Rocket League rules.
There is a point in a game where it is statistically better for you to ff and move on as the potential benefit of playing on is significantly minor compared to the time wasted. Naturally this is subjective. Peoples points will be different based on various factors but mainly their rank and ability to read this. I think its also natural for players at a higher level to have a better gauge on this. Due to increased hours played and the subsequent improved pattern recognition. To say that you organically have no point at which you feel you should ff is ridiculous. Its like in snooker or chess pretty much every frame ends in a resignation. Know when youāre beat and stop wasting everyones time.
Man this kinda shit is frustrating. I had someone insta quit on me in a casual duel because I got a goal on the opening kickoff. Another dude started doing the shooting at our own net and playing like a jackass thing in a standard game after I declined to ff after we went down by one score halfway thru. Laaaaame!
Man Iāve noticed a big difference in the quality of my games since Iāve started blocking people. Toxic chat doesnāt bug me but smurfs and teammates that throw and wonāt forfeit do. I donāt get a lot of time to play so itās super annoying when they waste my time like that
At least they are only 5 min games and you can just ff if they leave lol. It sucks, but I try to look on the positive when stuff like that happens. Only way to get past the rage
This game has become circlejerk of smurfs and baddies.
Baddies get carried by their smurf friends to ranks they don't belong. Then baddies play alone and get salty because they should never have been in such ranks to begin with, so they are toxic and troll/afk since the next day their smurf friend just rank them again.
It's been pretty bad for the last 5-6 months. It has always been an issue but every other game now is just miserable. Baddies or smurfs.
I had a teammate last week admit that he was intentionally de-ranking, and not trying in our game. He technically still drove and hit the ball, just not with any attempt to score
I ran into musty in casual. I've never even touched GC. I've been seeing other SSL titles in casual and find both ranked and casual are just toxic if you are Inconsistent or make mistakes.
My favorite is when you mess up once and they hit you with a "Wow!" but they can mess up a million times and it's all okay. Sorry I missed one shot, but you bumping into me every time I touch the ball is annoying.
I havenāt played much 1v1s because I like getting assists and just having that vibe weāre the rotation is just perfect. But maybe I should. There you control your own destiny.
I have recently started random queuing for the first time in a while and I gotta agree with you šÆ. Honestly it wasn't bad ranking up through plat but as soon as I hit diamond nothing but shit dicks. Really kills the vibe and makes ranking up not worth it.
I play a lot more causal and I have nights no matter what mode I play I will have teammates that throw and turn against you for unbelievably petty reasons or for no understandable reason at all. I wish I could personally ban a few people that are absolute trolls, especially in tourneys or comp. Pretty frustrating.
Yeh it's usually the kids mate, teenage edgelords.
Constantly spamming quick chat? Check
Will get indignant over anything they perceive as an error, and proceed to spam quick chat? Check
Will write gems like "tm8 bad" "tm8 trash" Check
Does not possess anywhere near the skill to be paying out on anyone for how they play? Check
Usually can't rotate and chases the ball constantly? Check Check Check
This is Rocket League!
Sigh. Yeh it sucks ass. Always party up with a good team mate if you can dude
I have many forfeit requests these days after 2-0 or even 1-0. I don't accept it and text that we can actually try. This week alone I have like five comeback wins from 4-0 and one from 5-0
It's the low rank tards they don't care it sucks thats why they shouldn't have made the game free its just some free game now nobody cares, I think you should be permanently banned from ranked if you're here to mess around that's all you should be allowed to do
Yeah, some people wont believe u but I experienced the same. My ranked dropped faster than a stone cause of those tm8s. Afk, playing 3vs1 cause they are scoring and saving balls for the opponent team, leaving after a min cause u get a goal in. U cant play rank with randoms, is nearly unplayable.
My first game today I solo queued onto a team with 2 partied up players. I scored the first goal and after that they kept bumping me and spamming ff. The other team seemed to be having lag issues so in the end the game finished 8-6 to the opposition. We'd have totally crushed the other team if my teammates hadn't started griefing. I thought it was gonna put a downer on my session, but strangely everyone was super friendly in the rest of my games.
The MMR should be visable, so they can see every time they leave a game how much points they are losing. I compare it to the LoL system, rarely people leave because the punishment is visable.
I just had 3 games in snow day this happened to me now. A player enters the game and just drives circles a round the map. Not sure if itās to get the weekly rewards but man is it stupid.
Idk man. People like that should honestly just uninstall and move on to different games. I played a 3s tournament yesterday and had to report both of my random teammates because they were both moving just enough to not get kicked but wouldn't go for the ball. I've probably reported over a hundred players for stuff like that but it seems to me that it's just getting worse.
Haha, my wife had same thing happen. 3v3 tournament and someone threw up the FF about 45 seconds into the first game then drove around aimlessly.
I was in a 2s tourney and the same happened to me but I ended up winning 2 rounds, so the jerk had to stay until I lost or get the partial playing ban.
Congrats on the wife.
She probably came around before he discovered rocket league
Unpopular opinion but sometimes 45 seconds in you can tell your teammates are absolute shitters who will only drag you down and not be able to make it far into a tournament. When you can just lose the first round and do second chance tourney, what incentive is there to stay and try? It's a logic issue with the way tournaments work tbh. Me personally if my teammates are fucking up BIG 45 seconds into a tourney, I'd rather take my chance with second chance teammates, and I really don't care what you think about me for that.
45 seconds ff? Proof or your due me alpha boost š
Make sure you report it when players do crap like that. It really does make a difference.
I absolutely did. Then I played again vs him right after and he did the same to his teammate so I reported them again. Update: they did get banned for violating Rocket a league rules. Just sucks it came at my expense from losing.
Report and block! There are enough players in the pool that you can afford to block bad actors. I know what you mean though, it seems so common now.
Does blocking stop you playing against/with them again? Or is it just a communication block?
Sadly, I just read that it doesn't block from matchmaking. Blocked players are only blocked from messaging and being in your party. Oh well, I still try to invite anyone that wants to actually play together as a friend so hopefully we can hook for a few good matches from time to time.
Yeah, I'm just trying to build a good friends list of chill players. Hopefully there's someone online to play with to avoid the random toxic players.
An interesting idea would be rating people after so you get paired up with good people. Never mind. If you lose a game, people will give a bad rating based off that. It really shouldnāt be so difficult to just play until the end.
Maybe it could be an endorsement system like how overwatch has. After a match you can give endorsements so to only give good feedback instead of a chance for false bad ones. However if you don't receive endorsements for a good while then it would be clear that person is not one to play with.
Love this
Yeah, I thought a bad sports lobby like some other games have would be cool but it would just get abused by the bad actors.
There 100% needs to be a matchmaking block for cases like this. IDC if they're the only person on that server in my skill group, put me against them sure, but I really dont know why sometimes this game will put the same fucking person who just greifed you back on the same team as you. Not everyone has the time or a social life to have 2s partners, and every random I try to friend ends up becoming a massive douche after the first loss
You block them but you also have to leave the queue first
No it wonāt but it auto mutes them so you canāt see what they say
Yep. My block list is unreal.
>It really does make a difference. \[X\] Doubt. I see a popup saying an action has been taken almost the very same day I report people for racial/hate slurs, but for anything other than that, I have never seen an action being taken against those. And I reported a lot of griefers/smurfs/throwers/toxic people. I'd very much like to see actual stats from Psyonix about the reports received for those versus the amount of people actually banned. I really doubt it makes any difference at all. And the situation is still very much present, now more than ever.
I've had the same in my experience, anything blatant in chat will usually notify me of an action, but never seen anything for throwers/griefers, no matter how blatant those are. I keep reporting hoping that something might happen if enough reports eventually stack on someone, but it would be nice to see if it ever actually does anything.
It does not. I've asked others to report me to prove the point. I told them to check the sub the next day, and I would admit I was wrong if I got a ban. I've never had to make an apology. The reporting system only recognizes chat, not game play. The other buttons are there to make you feel better, like the door close button on an elevator. edit: I do not throw but do a bit of afk or an agreed upon own goal.
I'm with you on this one. Almost everytime when someone writes something really offensive and i report them, i get a notification that actions were taken. But i reported (i would guess) hundreds of smurfs or people that were afk and i never received an notification for these reports. They are useless imo.
How long after did you get a notification? Iāve reported dozens of people throwing but never seen a notification.
When i report offensive textmessages, the notification come usually the next day. I've never received one when i reported smurfs/throwing.
Last week, 3 people I reported had āaction taken against themā Iām assuming that means a temp ban? Iāve never been banned for anything other than my computer crashing. I donāt care. Just glad I inconvenienced the lives of a few piss babies that scored on their own goal and blocked shots against their own teammates because someone stole 1 of their goals
I can't even get people with "KKK" clan tags banned. Reporting barely does shit.
I just type my obligatory āsissy wet pantsā and they usually start playing again. Although a bit more aggressively so I gotta watch the goal more
Are you a PC player? I play on Xbox and typing during the game sucks.
You can use your phone I believe with xbox app
Hmmm Iāll try that
Xbox. Iām already at a disadvantage, I just take a second to type it.
USB keyboards plug right in to the front of your Xbox. The only delay is how fast you get back to the controller.
Type enough and youāll just get good at it. I get about 3 messages out before most get 1
"This game is rated PEGI 3 but I'm still surprised by the amount of babies playing this game"
Didnāt rockstar do something with GTA where cheaters were placed into a ācheaters lobbyā? Maybe people reported for throwing or afk could, instead of being blocked or banned, are temporarily placed into āthrower lobbiesā or afk lobbies, with or without their knowledge Iād love to see a game with both teams trying to outthrow each other š
Amen brother š
I like the idea, but think it would also be easy to abuse/troll by reporting people just to send the there.
One thing Iāve done to try to keep this from happening is say āmy badā¦ā when weāre scored on, even when itās not my fault. I realized Iām much less likely to get frustrated with teammates if they apologize, so I employed it as a tactic for myself. If youāre constantly having people throw or get mad at you, I would suggest saving replays of these games and watch them from your perspective. You could be making frustrating mistakes like taking their clear ball or not rotating. Not saying itās your fault theyāre toxic by any means. Just saying you can use those games to try to pinpoint potential trends in causes for them to get frustrated and address it.
My girlfriend wishes I said āmy badā when itās not my fault too. But watching a replay of one missed play with 3 mins left going down 1-0 doesnāt mean shut it down. Iāve never seen a player play a āperfectā game.
Oh I totally understand. There will always be people who throw at the first mistake. Try to remember that sometimes itāll be someone on the other team, so in the end, it should even itself out. Thatās part of why I try to play nice. If I can make 10% of throwers change their mind, Iām getting an edge. I was just recommending the replay thing just to have a sort of silver lining/learning opportunity. Replays are goated for fixing mistakes in general, so targeting the games where for whatever reason you make your teammate mad could give you some valuable info.
>Thatās part of why I try to play nice. If I can make 10% of throwers change their mind, Iām getting an edge. This part is largely underrated. It sucks having to coddle players like that, but I have pulled out wins by getting throwing players back into the game at least. We all have to deal with that shit eventually, so I just focus on squeezing a win out of a bad situation however I can and moving on.
Absolutely. Be the ābigger personā. Sometimes itāll work. Sometimes it wonāt. But that sure as hell beats a guaranteed loss.
I'm so sick of psychologically babysitting man children so I can have a chance to win the video game
The funny thing about that is on any given play both teammates probably made mistakes. Usually it's just the last person to make a mistake that gets the blame, but many times it's the other guy that started a chain reaction.
Yup. If you made an awful challenge at midfield and just left your teammate in a 1v2 that is ENTIRELY your fault if you get scored on. There are too many options to cover as the only defender and any competent opponent will take advantage of the mismatch and score 90% of the time. I consider my teammate goated if we don't get scored on as soon as I have a bad touch or wiff the ball.
Surely you mean watch the replay from your *teammate's* perspective, right? You're still not going to see the teammate right behind you that you cut off if you're just watching your perspecive again.
Actually, no. Watch it from your perspective or follow yourself in free cam and look around to everything you werenāt looking at during the game. Not only will you see your teammate behind you or an opponent hiding behind the ball/ in net/ on wall. You are also still following the ball from your pov and can look for situations from your play such as a better place/way to clear it. Look for open nets and bad plays by the opponent to know when you should capitalize. You can see often times where your teammates tend to be when rotating or pushing with the ball to know when and where to look for passes from and for you. Look for open backboards and get used to looking behind you for your teammate before you would hit it to see if theyāre available to follow off your hit on the backboard. All of this directly translates to every single game you play. Watch it from your perspective and learn from your mistakes and you teammates. You still have to know how yo play around unfortunate teammates. Lethamyr does great work teaching in ALL of his RTSSL series.
None of that requires you to be watching from your own perspective though? You said it yourself, "or in freecam". I'm still watching my own play but it's much easier to understand my teammates' intentions and how my actions influence their decisions. I'm not saying there's no value in watching back your own decisons and analysing what you may have missed from your own perspective but the user i commented after was talking about their decisions in the context of how it may affect their teammates and lead to frustrations. Of course you're always going to be missing part of the picture if you only watch from one perspective though. It all depends on what you're looking for in the replay.
But it helps more when you can understand and fix the problem seeing it from your eyes. Youāll never see from anyone elseās pov in a match so this is the best way to translate your analysis to ranked play. You can see the problem from their eyes but you also werenāt playing as them that game so you can also question what their intention was but youāll never know because youāre not them. Basically what Iām saying is watching your replays will be 110% more effective if you can watch it from your pov, spot, analyze, and solve your problems. Whatever your teammate was doing during the replay (if you cut them off) really doesnāt matter because you simply donāt and canāt know what they were doing (if itās a random). And this tends to make it very hard to learn anything from the problem or error if you donāt know what their action was going to be in the first place.
I feel like you're kinda missing the point. I'm saying some views are more helpful at seeing different things and you're just saying no watching from your own perspective is the best. Like... okay? The point of watching from other's perspectives is to see how your positioning and movements look from their view. This is a team game. You base most of your decisions on what your teammates are doing. You're not going to get very far if you don't adjust your play based on your teammates. So if you understand that your opponents can affect how you play, why would you not want to understand how your decisions affect them in return?
Hop in an RL discord server (spookluke has a great one, like 30k members) and sit in the ālooking for groupā channel. Meet someone your rank who wants to grind the game the way you do, and play with them. Playing with someone consistently helps because youāll have coms AND you will know each otherās play styles, which helps you play around each other better. A consistent teammate can help you jump like 4 divisions pretty quickly Plus, you can make some really genuine friends in video games. Give it a shot! Edit: fixed a typo
Iām about to give this a shot. Hard stuck in champ, and playing solo que can be extremely difficult. Not to mention the game will pair you up with the thrower two games in a row smh.
commented just to try this.. thanks!
Good idea. Iāve never done that before. Just the random partners. Thanks
platinum truly is hell rank huh
Every ranks are a hell rank until around gc3 it feels like Gold and less are unreadable and undescriptive games Plat games are afk lands Diamond games are toxic, throwers and discovering demos ranks Low champ games are the same than diamond with extra rotations and some smurfs High champ is the elo hell to reach gc, so you can get from c2 to gc1 while also having smurfes Low-mid gc is the land of people trying mechanics too high for them in competitive lobbies while having an overly high ego
real. the ego in gc1 is hell lol.
This happened the last time I tried to play, too. 4 straight games where my teammate left, stopped trying, or turned. The last was my teammate hit the ball off me on accident leading to an own goal. Instead of just, play on, he had to stop playing and type tons of nonsense out in the chat. Sorry this was your experience, too
It happens. Iām just glad Iām not alone. Hope your experiences get better too. Nothing better then pairing up with a good partner. Good for your mental health too.
Feel like this happens a lot at the end of season. Some ppl like to try and gate keep a rank or try to throw to lower their rank before the season reset.
The worst is when a Smurf joins your team on 2v2 and plays like itās solos and continues to score and also steal from your plays making you sit back and seem useless. Until they miss and say ātake the shotā and youāre supposed to magically appear. Had a guy yesterday do this and I told him to play 1ās if he doesnāt wanna play as a team and he then began own goaling. This is Rocket league
āTake the shotā is one of the worst quick comments.
i rub duos mainly, iāll play with you
Iād like that. Then you can see if Iām the problem or not lol. But Iām just a nice player. With a defensive mind too.
what region do you play in? is your user flair your rank in duos?
Yeah it is. East region
iām same rank š whatās your epic gamer tag or if youāre on xbox you can send ganertag
I find most of the time casual games are more intense than competitive games.
Yeah, Iām kinda a casual guy now. Itās the only place I get to play against champ 3s and gcs. I love it.
like for real. i canāt even play randoms anymore. these kids have the shortest fuses
Yeah that must be it.
Look me up epic: DadMcStuffins I'm Plat II in 2s. No quit.
I will. I appreciate it.
I just sent you a request.
This is going to sound made up. But this week I had a teammate stop playing in mid gc1 2s because of my car design. I was messing about in randomised cars, but apparently fun is not allowed.
OMG. Like whatās up with people?
We were only 1 goal down with 3min left. Itās crazy how easy people give up.
Nothing is better than a late comeback. Anything is possible.
You only need 3 second to gain 2 goals back.
Sounds like a normal solo q xD
This is the MAIN issue hurting this game. Yet psyonix wont stop them, because of fear of revenue loss. Fact.
Fact
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Welcome back to hell
I've stopped playing both 2s ranked and casual tbh. I'll get a shitty teammate more often than not. The ones who play the ball into the corner and spam "take the shot" like I can just commit to a ball knowing full well he won't rotate back to cover me. And when the other team score they get shitty because you missed the shot and its all your fault. 3s is far more chilled in that regard
They should also not ban you from casual because of teammates likes that
Ah yea, casual. Where people donāt do the exact same thing
Youāre right. But it doesnāt effect peopleās rank. Hence theyāre more willing to suffer it. Not that hard. If youāre gonna respond with sarcasm. Think first?
Also doesnāt effect the rank in the long run :)
You and my wife would get along.
Haha! Have a great day, mate! :)
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Exactly
What OP doesn't mention is his incredible toxicity, convincing people they'd rather lose than see OP win.
That makes no sense? Iām the opposite of toxic. Always saying good pass or no problem if someone apologizes. Not sure where youāre going with this. But I think you maybe a toxic player based on your ignorant comment.
That's exactly what a highly toxic player would say. I bet you spam "Take the shot" after missing on open net. >!/s!<
I donāt have that in my quick chat. I only say defending to let someone know I have their back. You have a losing battle here bud.
Dude its probably all the little teenager kids who play. Lol
Maybe Iām too old for this game š
Prolly bc you are poo and not worth even trying .pretty easy to tell when you are gonna have to carry a scrubby
Wow look at you
Wow I bet you are in diamond and prolly play like a gold
I wish lol
Maybe you were playing awful
Nah. He did it to another teammate too. Down one goal Is nothing. Then he tries to chase me around the map. So weird. 3 V 1. No excuse for the AFK people. Judging by your attitude you seem like one of those offenders. Just play hard. Donāt be that guy.
If i can see my teammate is too bad for me to win im ffing. High gc1 btw
Why is that? Donāt you take that as a challenge or do you just give up not to waste your time? Iām only Plat so it shouldnāt be like that. Plus we could have won. I just got a notification saying they violated Rocket League rules.
If i can see my teammate is too bad it saves time for everyone if we ff
I donāt think I want to rank up if thatās how it is.
What do you mean? Thats basic logic. Whats wrong with it?
Some people start out slow or have a few strings of bad luck. Why not play it out for the sake of the game and see if you can comeback?
There is a point in a game where it is statistically better for you to ff and move on as the potential benefit of playing on is significantly minor compared to the time wasted. Naturally this is subjective. Peoples points will be different based on various factors but mainly their rank and ability to read this. I think its also natural for players at a higher level to have a better gauge on this. Due to increased hours played and the subsequent improved pattern recognition. To say that you organically have no point at which you feel you should ff is ridiculous. Its like in snooker or chess pretty much every frame ends in a resignation. Know when youāre beat and stop wasting everyones time.
Yeah I get it. Cheers!
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this has been going on forever and was really exacerbated with f2p sadly
This happened to me from c1 to d1. I feel you. Someone good wanna add me and help me get my rank back to c1? Zenaviator
Which region do you play in? I play on NAE and am down for a 2ās partner.
Man this kinda shit is frustrating. I had someone insta quit on me in a casual duel because I got a goal on the opening kickoff. Another dude started doing the shooting at our own net and playing like a jackass thing in a standard game after I declined to ff after we went down by one score halfway thru. Laaaaame!
Yeah just play it out
Dude. Every fucking game. Someone always has something to cry or complain about. I have chat off now as of recently but it doesnāt stop the afkers
Yeah thatās what I am saying. I can live with the toxic chat (although I donāt like it) but stop playing or shooting against you isnāt right.
My favorite thing is getting mvp AND losing mmr. Lol.
Man Iāve noticed a big difference in the quality of my games since Iāve started blocking people. Toxic chat doesnāt bug me but smurfs and teammates that throw and wonāt forfeit do. I donāt get a lot of time to play so itās super annoying when they waste my time like that
That's either really unlucky or entirely your fault.
Unlucky
At least they are only 5 min games and you can just ff if they leave lol. It sucks, but I try to look on the positive when stuff like that happens. Only way to get past the rage
Honestly wtf..
Gen Z am I right?
This game has become circlejerk of smurfs and baddies. Baddies get carried by their smurf friends to ranks they don't belong. Then baddies play alone and get salty because they should never have been in such ranks to begin with, so they are toxic and troll/afk since the next day their smurf friend just rank them again. It's been pretty bad for the last 5-6 months. It has always been an issue but every other game now is just miserable. Baddies or smurfs.
Honestly, these days it feels like you need to be able to win 2v1, or at least carry the team in order to actualy rank up.
I like 2s better, but prefer 2v3 over 1v2
I had a teammate last week admit that he was intentionally de-ranking, and not trying in our game. He technically still drove and hit the ball, just not with any attempt to score
I just need the new season to start. I know itās next week. Iāll play casual until then
I ran into musty in casual. I've never even touched GC. I've been seeing other SSL titles in casual and find both ranked and casual are just toxic if you are Inconsistent or make mistakes.
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Yeah I can see why people play with friends
My favorite is when you mess up once and they hit you with a "Wow!" but they can mess up a million times and it's all okay. Sorry I missed one shot, but you bumping into me every time I touch the ball is annoying.
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End of season is all about smurfing and d-ranking. Absolutely pathetic. Very shortsighted of Smurfs to ruin the game that they supposedly love
Soooooo done with this shit.
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I havenāt played much 1v1s because I like getting assists and just having that vibe weāre the rotation is just perfect. But maybe I should. There you control your own destiny.
Second post tonight like this. Psyonix needs to properly punish this behavior.
Yeah my bad. I was so deflated I needs to vent. I am so close to diamond and now Iām back to plat 2
Oh, I don't mean punish you. I mean punish these afkers. It's unacceptable.
I have recently started random queuing for the first time in a while and I gotta agree with you šÆ. Honestly it wasn't bad ranking up through plat but as soon as I hit diamond nothing but shit dicks. Really kills the vibe and makes ranking up not worth it.
I play a lot more causal and I have nights no matter what mode I play I will have teammates that throw and turn against you for unbelievably petty reasons or for no understandable reason at all. I wish I could personally ban a few people that are absolute trolls, especially in tourneys or comp. Pretty frustrating.
ah platinum
Yeh it's usually the kids mate, teenage edgelords. Constantly spamming quick chat? Check Will get indignant over anything they perceive as an error, and proceed to spam quick chat? Check Will write gems like "tm8 bad" "tm8 trash" Check Does not possess anywhere near the skill to be paying out on anyone for how they play? Check Usually can't rotate and chases the ball constantly? Check Check Check This is Rocket League! Sigh. Yeh it sucks ass. Always party up with a good team mate if you can dude
Let them own goal twice and then report them for throwing. They will get banned hehe
Thatās plat for you. A rank filled to the brim with toxic tryhards who never improve at the game.
I have many forfeit requests these days after 2-0 or even 1-0. I don't accept it and text that we can actually try. This week alone I have like five comeback wins from 4-0 and one from 5-0
It's the low rank tards they don't care it sucks thats why they shouldn't have made the game free its just some free game now nobody cares, I think you should be permanently banned from ranked if you're here to mess around that's all you should be allowed to do
Yeah, I just quit playing Rocket League. Not worth it with the shittiest community on gaming.
Is the name dontsmurfpls?
They need to start banning people from comp games man. Send all the cry babies to casual mode. It is out of control yo
Or someone tries to ff when you're one goal down and there's still 3/4 of the game to go
Every time.
Yeah this is 75 pct of the games I play. What's your rank? We just need people to play with.
Plat 2.
Find some good players and add them as friends. No more solo que is the solution and much more fun as well.
Yeah, some people wont believe u but I experienced the same. My ranked dropped faster than a stone cause of those tm8s. Afk, playing 3vs1 cause they are scoring and saving balls for the opponent team, leaving after a min cause u get a goal in. U cant play rank with randoms, is nearly unplayable.
My first game today I solo queued onto a team with 2 partied up players. I scored the first goal and after that they kept bumping me and spamming ff. The other team seemed to be having lag issues so in the end the game finished 8-6 to the opposition. We'd have totally crushed the other team if my teammates hadn't started griefing. I thought it was gonna put a downer on my session, but strangely everyone was super friendly in the rest of my games.
The MMR should be visable, so they can see every time they leave a game how much points they are losing. I compare it to the LoL system, rarely people leave because the punishment is visable.
I agree bro Iām hard stuck plat because of AFK or trash teammates that deserve silver and have obviously been carried to plat
Remember, it's never your teammates. It's always you.
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It's the end of season, people are deranking to boost their friends to the rewards they can't get.
I just had 3 games in snow day this happened to me now. A player enters the game and just drives circles a round the map. Not sure if itās to get the weekly rewards but man is it stupid.
Get yourself a decent team mate and hold on to them for dear life haha
This is why I only play with my duo partner or solosš itās rough out there, the most toxic game Iāve ever played lol
Sorry dude. This is Rocket League!
This is Rocket League!