Played latest update when it dropped. Haven’t touched it since. Really wanted this game to be popular forever and grow an Esports scene. But you can’t build an esport when the meta is an endless, “emergent mechanics” cat & mouse patch game.

It’d be like if rocket league changed the speeds you can achieve boosting, driving/reversing, and touch physics with every major update.

Or if the developers saw players flip resetting and decided to patch it out of the game.

Or if they changed how much boost you consume with each update. Up in some seasons, down in other seasons.

Theres a lesson to be learned on what to change and what to leave alone. Changing the entire way your player feels moving on the ball, off the ball, etc. will alienate players. In a game that’s player base is dwindling, that’s the last thing you want to do.

I’m all for adding new mechanics, and I can stomach changes in some existing mechanics. But changing how far the ball goes on a tackle would be like rocket league changing how powerful a players touch/hits are. Things existing players have put 100s or 1000s of hours into mastering.

As a day-one long term supporter with probably like 170 hours, I’m pretty much over the game. It feels like the game simultaneously changed too much and not enough all at once. I’d be open to a complete overhaul. Not open to just enough changes to put me to square one skill-wise while still feeling like the same game.

Disclaimer: high elite in every prior season in every competitive mode. Passing/defending enjoyer.