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# This Absolute Gem.
I honestly don't ever see a time where i'll stop playing this, the gameplay never gets old. The physics are spot on for the ball and car handling. If you play Ranked then you will only ever choose 1 of 4 cars to play with that have the best physics, turning radius, hitbox etc.
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### I will say that it's one of these games that you will either get into or you won't
There's no middle ground really. Actually originally i was gonna hold off on getting this but then i technically got it free when i bought a Steam Controller which came bundled with Rocket League and Portal 2, i would have got it sooner if i knew how fun and addictive it was...or maybe i wouldn't have so i could spend more time playing all the steam games i neglect cos of this one lol.
There are 4 standard game modes being 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 and chaos which is 4v4, 3v3 usually being the most played and also most balanced. 1v1 and 2v2 are the most tense, if you make a mistake in those modes you will pay for it. The 3v3 mode allows more leeway for mistakes. The chaos 4v4 mode is the most goofy fun one, but only new players tend to play that one, so it's hard to find a game of chaos with skilled opponents which is a shame.
There are also special game modes which include an ice hockey one where the ball is now a puck that slides around the pitch. Hoops which is a 2v2 basketball mode (i'm not good at that mode). Rumble mode where you all get power ups which enable you to swap places with the enemy or mess with their driving physics, that mode is the most luck based, it's fun to play for 5 minutes but i honestly haven't played it since it released. I think Dropshot is the most recent mode where you have to score by breaking the ground away on the opponents side and drop the ball through the hole you created. That mode is pretty interesting and probably my fave along with the ice hockey one.
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### The Negatives
Would be that Psyonix are becoming increasingly greedy in how they priced the DLC cars. When they first introduced the DLC cars you got 2 for like £2.50 i think, and then it was about £1.60 to buy each car separately. And finally now to get new cars you have to f*ck with their crate and key system. No longer can you just....you know buy a f*cking car you might want! you need to buy a key or set of keys to open a crate which among other useless cosmetic items MIGHT contain the car you want.
I'm not spending £20 on keys to unlock 2 cars, or spending hours trying to trade crates or a number of cosmetics with people, i don't play this game to trade, If anyone that works at Psyonix reads this can you please give us the option of buying the cars outright again, i don't think it's too much to ask in all honesty. Rule number one of game development should be don't force your playerbase to use a system they hate, especially when you used to be able to buy the cars from the store.
I think a lot of more casual players may not even realise that there are new cars you can only get through the crate system. I know some fanboys may defend these practices because some of the money goes to the Rocket League esports division. My question is why am i being asked to pay for someone elses prize pool? Why don't Psyonix pay the winners through sponsorships or something like wtf really, makes no sense to me.
The other negative and it's a big one, the one that will turn you off the game is the playerbase, this community is the worst i've experienced, i don't play CS:GO so i'm sure that's worse but dude, you will play against or with the most childish, racist, immature and fickle gamers you can imagine. One minute your own teammate will praise you for scoring or saving a goal and the next they will spam "what a save" over and over when they hit the ball passed your own goal and you fail to save it in time, i had this happen to me yesterday.
There are players who will start playing against your team if you hit them by accident or don't let them have the ball for 90% of the game, hell sometimes they just start playing against you for no reason at all. I will say i think the verbal abuse through the chat window has gotten better, you can disable the chat and also report people, i think Psyonix may actually temp ban people now for that kinda stuff, i've seen people on the forums complaining about being banned for that.
If it were up to me i would get rid of all of the chat and emote spamming from the game altogether. This is the other thing about it, people use the emote spam to save face when they miss the ball to pin a mistake on you, telling you to "take the shot" or spamming "centering" or "in position" when they just handed the ball to the other team, then when the other team scores cos of their mistake they will spam "What a save" at their teammates.
Now, I'm not saying i'm amazing at this game, i can admit that i'm average, i'll go for weeks without playing this sometimes and then suck when i come back to it. I'm only Gold II in ranked right now. I think that gives me a good broad perspective on the playerbase though. A tip would be to disable chat and also don't play ranked when you are new cos that's just messed up, learn to play and then join ranked mode.
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### The Verdict
To be more positive you do get nice players from time to time, but they are few and far between and also to be honest it actually comes across as creepy to me when they are nice to you in the chat, it's so jarring to what i'm used to lol. The matchmaking system also needs to be reconfigured, some games will have you matched with a whole team who may be 2 or 3 levels higher than yours or vice versa. This happens more often than you would think. The game offers a lot of content and different game modes though, Psyonix also continually adds new free stadiums and game modes through updates so the game feels fresh and continues to evolve over time. I give this game a solid 8/10 for having such a brilliant engine and mechanics the gameplay is engaging and exciting, you gotta try it!
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### Thanks for Reading!
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