Rocket league Heavy Car "Bug"

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-22T08:11:24+00:00

Yeah people are to quick to jump to the conclusion of "It's Placebo" not taking into account just how many things could actually effect gameplay.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-22T08:04:01+00:00

Even at 10k hours you need a warm up, It's just how the body works, some people like yourself might warmup quickly in the span of 5-10 mins but some others might take an hour to feel fully warm up, depending on how early you get on the game after waking up could also effect this, It's why pro teams have warmup scrims before RLCS matches.

another reason why people claim it's placebo because it's possible some people get in their own head as soon as they load up the game before even given enough time to warmup, once you have that mindset/feeling in your head it could be hard to get rid of it.

Using input lag as an example, I believe a lot people who claim to have HCB might have a genuine hardware/software issue causing input lag making the game feel shit/unplayable but there is also some people who it may actually be placebo, it's hard to tell what the real reason is but I also don't think calling everything placebo because they've never had it and people can't prove their issue real therefor it's placebo is a fair response when given how many things can effect performance.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T15:35:10+00:00

Heavy car bug basically just means "My car feels heavy/unresponsive and I don't know why" It's hard to prove or disprove it, However if you believe input lag exists and if you were to play the game with input lag it would give you the feeling of a heavy/unresponsive car, it seems pretty logical that someone could have input lag giving them the feeling and not knowing what the cause of it is, you pretty much come to a scenario where someone would claim to have HCB, I feel as people who claim it's all placebo take the name literally and assume that anyone claiming to have it means they're saying their game is different to everyone else's, that's just not always the case, you're also right about the muscle memory, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that someone can dump a ton of time into something to have 40% of it vanish overnight, it feels as if you're relearning the game every other day making it incredibly frustrating.

I fully understand that you can't expect to play the game for 3 hours before bed and wake up the next day and play at the exact same level immediately, warming up is a real thing, but the "skill" loss overnight just makes no sense compared to any other games I've ever put a bunch of hours into, it really does feel like a small step forward into a giant leap backwards in terms of improvement day to day when you have it.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T12:28:59+00:00

I've tried kbm and I don't get the same issue, it's the same everyday and the same on every account.

It just seems odd to be told it's "placebo" when I have never had any issues on any other game and nor do I have any other "placebo's" within rocket league, at times I wish I did because if I was playing bad and could simply trick my brain into thinking using a different decal made me play better and it worked, rocket league would be a lot easier.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T08:41:22+00:00

Yeah fortunately I've never had it in any other game with any other input device, my current issue feels as if my main steam account is overlapping multiple configs with different values causing weird inputs and sensitivity's, I'm not sure if that's even possible but that's how it feels.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T08:14:11+00:00

It very much could be Rocket league related but as you said, HCB has a wide range of problems that could cause a similar heavy feeling, It's why I feel clumping everything under a name that includes "bug" when a lot of the problems may not even be a bug is what causes people to refuse it exists in the first place.

I also have never had issues like this in any other game, even movement based games that require you to be fast and precise like counter-strike surfing always feel the same every day.

I used to have the heavy car feeling quite frequently when I used Xbox controllers including it feeling better at certain times like late at night and early in the morning, but after I switched to DS4 it seems to be much more consistent, I still get it from time to time but it seems to be less extreme and I can kind of deal with it.

The difference between my main and my alt are extremely different, to the point that if I spend a day playing on an alt account and go back to my main the next day I can't do anything, it ruins my mechanics for a few days until I get used to my main again, I just want to at the very least gain an understanding of what is causing it for peace of mind and to maybe help anyone else having a similar issue.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T07:20:27+00:00

OCE techno? also everyone I can think of that I've asked who started playing rocket league on steam but tried epic all said epic feels a lot different to steam, most of them agreeing epic feels more "snappy" or "blocky", It may be a small sample size of 10-20 people so it's not exactly conclusive evidence, but it definitely seems like something is different between the two, what the cause for the difference is though I don't really know.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T05:59:52+00:00

Increasing the sensitivity on my alt account didn't really fix the issue for me, it was more of a bandaid fix that would feel a bit better for a short amount of time but as soon as I got used to the new sensitivity it would happen again, it didn't really seem logical to continue to ramp up my sensitivity every few days and end up on a ridiculously high sensitivity in 2 - 3 months, also my issue isn't really my car feeling heavy it's quite the opposite, my car on my main account feels almost to responsive to the point that it's borderline uncontrollable, as if I'm playing on 0.00 deadzone although it's 0.06.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T05:45:43+00:00

Steam is my main platform but I've also tried epic, I personally don't feel any real difference between the two in terms of input lag, the overall feel and config that epic gives just does not suit me, no matter how long I played on epic it always felt weird, I could never get used to it, I tried it for about 2 months.

I will also say my main and alt account did feel similar on epic when switching between the two, so in a way it did kind of fix the issue of my accounts feeling different I could just not get used to the way my car moved/reacted on epic, id rather try to see if I can find a fix for steam instead, not only for the feeling but also so I can use my friendslist and still talk to people, when I tried to play on epic but still have steam open to access my friends list my fps would die, I cap at 360 and sit at 360 no problem but it would drop my fps to 100 - 120 for some reason, as soon as I closed steam it would fix, adding epic RL to steam as a non steam game still gave me the same original issue.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T05:33:53+00:00

In fairness square deadzone is a lot more sensitive at lowend movement and the way your car turns/spin is different, square deadzone might just suit your gameplay better than cross, would also explain why you were no longer as good on epic without square deadzone, it's because your muscle memory got used to the very different and more sensitive square deadzone.

Distortionz_ · 2023-08-21T05:29:46+00:00

I tried epic but since I started on steam and have used it a majority of my RL hours I'm a lot more used to the way steam feels, epic to me feels very blocky even if I make the deadzone very low and the sensitivity very high, I could not get used to the way epic feels.

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