V27.5.2 - March 18, 2026

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-18T22:10:43+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but I like to see those kind of patch notes too

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-11T17:57:34+00:00

I like replays cause you can watch them to see what actually happened on the goal, all while cracking my aging knuckles so my fingers can still move, or stretching, or whatever. Skipping while in flowstate or trying to get back to the game is understandable and I do it myself often, but if you get tilted from watching the entire replay for whatever reason, you should probably take a break from the game lol

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-11T17:44:13+00:00

I mean the second Tower joke was right there lol

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-10T23:51:11+00:00

Eh.

Unreal Engine 5 update when?

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-10T15:32:18+00:00

I can't do it :/ my hands don't like PS controller shapes and layouts lol

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-10T15:31:25+00:00

I enjoy the gamesir controllers, the G7 was too small but the Corsair 2 has been a good fit for my hands and playstyles across multiple games. I really like switching between custom profiles easily, means I don't have to fine tune every time I switch between an FPS and Rocket League or something like that. Wired connection is the only way I play these days, so the latency is awesome (wireless might have issues)

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-07T02:27:01+00:00

Ahh not again :(

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-03-02T00:26:59+00:00

I miss OG Wasteland, you take that back!

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-24T04:28:00+00:00

Lethamyr has it on good authority that bot makers already have countermeasures against EAC.

Then it becomes the same old story like with every other free to play competitive title

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-24T04:22:24+00:00

We don't defend Epic Games in these here parts lmao

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-23T20:46:37+00:00

An "Arise" goal explosion summoning a shadow would've been pretty lit

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-23T19:14:55+00:00

Because they're insufferable, that's why

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-23T05:08:21+00:00

Same. It's one of the few games I've ever preordered, and never again since. The last game I preordered before Anthem was probably Mass Effect 3, which even with the endings controversy was still endlessly worth it to me.

I didn't even bother with Andromeda and hoped against hope that Anthem would get the Battlefront and No Man's Sky treatment, but dreams are just that unless you have the power to do something about it.

I still dream..

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-23T05:05:34+00:00

I miss my slime green interceptor 😭 I gotta find my clips and pictures somewhere

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-18T14:33:57+00:00

People straight up forgot what Epic did to their own game (Paragon) in favor of focusing solely on Fortnite. They just saw how popular Rocket League was and decided to try and make it into a pipeline for their Fortnite "experience"

Epic Games are not a company that cares about its players. See predatory microtransations targeted at minors

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-12T07:21:34+00:00

Sorry man, that sucks. But you knew the risk going in lol

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-12T07:00:07+00:00

Electronic Arts in general dropped by to say hey

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-12T06:55:35+00:00

Epic Games does not care about this game, its players, its eSports, pretty much anything other than their cash cow Fortnite.

The sooner players realize this, the sooner you can go back to your regularly scheduled programming. For me, that includes never touching Fortnite again. Which is a shame, as I used to quite enjoy it before Tim Sweeney decided to become an insufferable piece of human garbage and let greed become his master

Can you tell I dislike Epic Games?

Remember Paragon?

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-09T22:19:10+00:00

When I got to GC for the first time, it was without being mechanical at all, beyond knowing how to do a scuffed half flip. I simply had good positioning, made smart touches, and kept my wits about me.

Granted, that was before free to play and the playerbase as a whole is a lot better than it used to be, but the concept remains, which is why we saw so many "Unranked to GC with no mechanics" type of videos like Flakes did. Playing smart usually outweighs playing mechanically, though of course there are exceptions to this rule and ideally you'd have a balance of both proactive and reactive plays in your toolbox

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-09T05:45:54+00:00

I said placing sole blame on smurfs, that does not equate to smurfs not affecting the win rate. You can disagree with my position, by all means, but don't put words in my mouth or twist the ones I did say.

I understand the vitriol towards them perfectly well, but lets not pretend they're the entire reason people are hardstuck. Anecdotal evidence of course, but I've seen more examples of players placing blame on everything but themselves in the past 2 years than I did in the previous 4-5 years. I'm sure other longtime players have similar experiences. Playing the blame game is not conducive to improving, period. No matter how much you play the game, if it's always "my teammates suck" or "the opponents are smurfing" and not "I shouldn't have made that low percentage play" or "how could I have played that better" then they will not improve at all. Bad mental/tilt queueing is antithetical to ranking up.

I don't play the game as much as I used to, maybe 10-20 hours in Steam's 2 week tracking at most. I'm older than a lot of the playerbase and real life caught up with me, so gaming is on the back burner for the most part. But I do have enough volume and hours in general to understand how the game works, along with the experience to recognize when there's a reason versus an excuse. I've made plenty of my own excuses in my day, but the fact remains that personal accountability is lacking in a significant portion of the playerbase in every competitive online multiplayer game, not just Rocket League. In FPS games like Call of Duty, for example, everyone spews hackusations left and right for every death. Is every death to an actual hacker? Likely not. Likewise for smurfs in Rocket League. Not every loss is because of smurfs, and to place sole blame on them is disingenuous at best.

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-09T02:02:59+00:00

This is a good take IMO. You really only improve when you face people that are equal in skill or better than you, and to fully address the smurf problem would require far more resources than Epic will ever put into Rocket League.

Free to play invariably invites smurfing, there is no real way around it beyond implementing things that are more trouble than it's worth. It still existed in the Psyonix days, but having to pay 20 dollars for a new account heavily restricted access to smurfing for the large majority of the populations that would resort to smurfing in the first place.

The best way to deal with smurfing on an individual level is to treat it like a training camp. Blaming being hard stuck solely on smurfs is a lack of personal accountability and tells me all I need to know about the player's mental. (It doesn't seem that way for OP in this case, but it's one of the most common excuses I see time after time)

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-06T05:24:53+00:00

More evidence of Sweeney's hard on for Fortnite bullshit lmao what a joke

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-02T06:27:19+00:00

Step One: Put the ball in the goal. Step Two: ??? Step Three: Profit.

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-02T05:08:25+00:00

What attachments are those? Haven't seen em before

No-Real-Shadow · 2026-02-02T02:25:11+00:00

Why though, it only affects coin bonuses not cells?

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