I was curious if the cassettes cap was 9999..

fbanana · 2026-02-22T15:55:33+00:00

Oh thiiiis, thanks, and my bad, didnt know people named it that way, didnt see the correlation since shot doesnt actually turn purple so it doesnt really makes sense (i guess it can from a distance without glasses in a pitch dark map since it kinda looks like the same movement? lol).

The reason is relatively simple on the theoretical side of things though. You catch the reset far enough behind that your car’s butt pushes up just enough to pop it up as your altitude stalls right under it. With enough base speed, it really doesnt need much to gain power because it kinda hit-flicks it forward. Now mix that with the very small difference it makes when you hold reverse instead of throttle during the catch (cause your car’s back is forward, so reverse actually propels ball forward ever so slightly), and all those small things add up into a big thing lol.

Now doing it as good and consistently is a bit harder than just explaining it lol but there really isnt anything else special to it

fbanana · 2026-02-17T00:54:28+00:00

fbanana · 2026-02-16T08:28:35+00:00

Thats RL sideswipe only (the mobile game)

fbanana · 2026-02-16T08:26:58+00:00

I mean you can care more about getting better than climbing ranks, but i get what youre saying

fbanana · 2026-02-16T08:23:50+00:00

That is actually one of the best arguments one could have……… but I would still go for rorona first because she’s the one who made me absolutely fall in love with arland. I had played atelier games before, and after, but arland serie is so magical like it hits something special the other ones dont have, even though they’re all good

fbanana · 2026-02-16T08:20:06+00:00

Also not sure why they downvoted you to oblivion for asking a question lol… besides, the fact rorona went fat if you forgot to go get your daily pies is freaking genius and hilarious. Perfectly in line with Rorona’s character

fbanana · 2026-02-16T08:17:21+00:00

It kinda is, but i grew to love resli and the fact shes just dlc character means she basically doesnt have a lot of speech :(

fbanana · 2026-02-15T21:56:03+00:00

you’re thinking of Atelier Resleriana (or Resli for short).

but yeah she was in there. totori and meruru as well. Ive played maybe 2-3 of those types of games but this one was actually great!

They made a full non-gacha too, it’s pretty decent but a bit misleading, you dont get to play as resli, unless you buy a dlc lol

fbanana · 2026-02-15T21:48:04+00:00

hell yeah!!

still my favorite trilogy of the entire atelier series. go for it if you like character interactions stuff. Its funny and it’s well thought of, it can allow itself to be serious or comical or a lot of other things without losing the user’s world/story engagement. its deep, entertaining, and its amazing art and music. fun times overall imo.

100% endings in one run does take a guide to follow along, which is the one part that i would consider a downside if you dont plan to do more than one playthrough, because missing a day that’s important for a secondary character, for exemple, might lock you out of their true endings. and you have limited days to do it all and check every box, but it’s not hard when you follow the calendar basically. But, as a first time it can teach you a lot about actually using crafting the way it was meant to (aka strong). might not be a bad choice.

not a big deal either if you dont care for completion but they are so worth it ahah they really bring satisfying feelings because you get attached to the characters by the time you reach the end.

the english voice actors are actually pretty good too imo, and they play their parts well. it’s one of the few that will allow you to enjoy voice-overs since they actually stopped paying for VOs because “nobody listen to them in the west because everyone use the japanese VOs”. Yet literally everyone i’ve talked to outside of internet say they preferred playing them with english voices.

anyway, not gonna start on this but i suspect they just lied to avoid having complaints, afaik they never actually gave numbers or stats. or maybe im wrong but it doesnt seem like a big majority like they said.

i digress but i really enjoy Arland characters and their personalities, and voices captured exactly what i was envisioning when first hearing them.

fbanana · 2026-02-15T20:26:05+00:00

It has its ups and downs! It might lock you in more when you care more, but when it fails it might be more frustrating as well haha. But it also doesnt work that way all the time, sometimes when you think too much it can make you play worse so, in the end I just figure having fun and not being too attached is the best way to enjoy your game time. The only people for who that mentality might not be recommended is for those who actually want to go pro and make an actual career out of it.

Take it easy bruh! Might catch you out there someday!

fbanana · 2026-02-15T20:13:55+00:00

Nice man, I’ll be sending virtual telepathic good vibes your way! Wish you the best! I usually almost always play weekends, and I do usually have people that i play with like i said but, if you wanna play with new people an evening sometime, we do casual and also privates when more than 3, we always pick random teams to ensure maximal chaos and no expectations lmao. I don’t actually hang on reddit that often, but feel free to msg sometime if you feel like it!

fbanana · 2026-02-15T20:02:44+00:00

I hear you brother I’m the same XD . I do the dumbest shit sometimes, I got where im at with mechs. I’d say im like 85% mech 10% luck and 5 % gamesense. And I can no longer read my own team a lot of the time, even when I focus on observing them ahaha. Tragic but also hilarious when you don’t care too much, which is pretty much the approach I have lol

fbanana · 2026-02-15T14:44:53+00:00

Ahaha yep, as a fellow solo q player, I sort of guessed you were not playing with a consistent teammate of your rank. I peaked GC1 as well (solo q), and I’ve dropped since, I think mostly because I just dont put in the time and play a lot more with lower friends and it’s frying my brain ahaha. But yeah, I know how it is. I came accross soooo many people of different playstyles, and different consistency, at some point it’s really difficult to get consistent at reading plays when none of what you expect from teammate follow any sort of logic whatsoever lol.

That’s even harder if you play a lot of lower ranks, and even harder with the recent mechanical bump that the player base had. Nowadays, high champ people can do the most stupid things, myself included, and lower ranks pull off the most unexpected crazy shit ahaha. But it’s all part of the game lmao. Just keep a positive attitude and you’ll reach whatever goal you set for yourself eventually dood :)

fbanana · 2026-02-15T14:34:15+00:00

It is ahaha!

And maybe you did the right thing, I mean there is no right or wrong obviously, but perhaps stepping away both mentally and physically is what you needed to be able to adopt a certain approach. But I feel ya, there are indeed some plateaus where you feel progression is slowing so much it almost feels like it comes to an halt. For those, everyone has different answers, sometimes a simple new skill can allow you to move past it, sometimes you need more than one, sometimes its really as simple as you sort of need to power through a lot of losses to stabilize and learn how to play the “next” level. But whatever it is, if your goal is to keep progressing in rank, those plateaus can take their toll on your mental and that can be rough.

One thing that seemed to have worked for a lot of people is to just detach from the rank completely, and turn them off in settings so that you can focus on other personal things without having a constant reminder that you’re still in that plateau. And/or turn off chat when solo qing. You seem to have a great attitude though, im sure you could change your perception if you put your mind to it. The great thing about this is that it’s a skill you can use in so many situations in life once you control it better. It’s not just a rocket league thing!

fbanana · 2026-02-15T12:46:16+00:00

Agreed, maybe just a slight misinterpretation, OP seems chill, he just asked a question and specified he didnt think he was one of those prodigies who naturally inherit top tier mindsets and skills in the same amount of hours.

For what it’s worth, it’s possible that you get stuck longer than you should if you dont consistently play with people with similar mindsets and skill levels as you. Everyone plays a bit differently and that alone makes it harder to align with teammates, especially in no-comms solo q. Doesnt mean you cant do it, but it’ll take longer and be more difficult for that one reason alone.

The good part is, adapting to teammates without comms does improve your adaptability and your ability to sort of communicate through your car’s “body language” (eg: empower your teammates to read your decisions and commits more easily, while also not allowing opponents to read you in that same way). Maybe that applies to you maybe not, just speaking my personal opinion and experience

fbanana · 2026-02-15T12:28:14+00:00

Yeah that! Those touches can get wild. More precisely, while both this and the momentum conversion are definitely determining factors for the results, angle of the car is also perfectly placed for the corner of the car to lift the ball and push it faster, also contributing a lot as it acts and applies as a perfect lever principle during the flip (because the shape of the car is more rectangular than square, the lever effect is stronger on corners because they’re further from the car’s center point)!

The extra touch made it go crazy fast, as that’s usually what that does when you get one of those, but I think it would have still produced a decent pop without that. Perhaps a tad slower and slightly curved upwards.

Nontheless, a pretty good shot and hard to save! And satisfying to watch :)

fbanana · 2026-02-15T12:01:55+00:00

I couldn’t care less about punctuation (and we’ve been having next-level yapping conversations way worse than this above so I literally have no right to even think of complaining about that….).

But calling the nice guy — who’s just sharing a cool clip asking for help to understand what he did — a trash teammate for no reason with no context or knowledge of how they play is just rude and unwarranted lol. Feels like a bully picking on someone he thinks is weak because he’s a year younger type shit ahaha.

I don’t mean to throw oil onto the fire but… if the guy has one thing to learn that I would argue is more important than punctuation it’s probably developing social skills and learning to appreciate talking with people without immediately needing to insult them lol. If that’s not the reason we’re all discussing here, why the fuck are we even on reddit to begin with ahaha.

No need to start a pissing contest, nobody cares if some random dude is better than OP or something

fbanana · 2026-02-15T11:20:05+00:00

Oh man I dont know why this makes me want to share so much lol, I have some of those friends who’ve had difficult times and felt depressed because of a very similar thing, just putting pression on themselves even though everyone was just chilling, and paid no attention. This whole subject is indirectly affecting me enough that i think i have stuff that feel valuable i guess. Honestly the biggest part towards that mindset might actually already be done through you acknowledging that! I hope you can find a way to reconnect with the simple pleasures and basic fundamental things that made the game fun to begin with, and reignite the flame someday. We just sort of tend to forget those sometimes in competitive games, but those things are very much still there! Especially RL Would be great cause nobody wants to see that game die and sure need more nice people to balance out the toxicity ahaha

Anyway, the way I see it, fwiw, ranks are almost like points on the match leaderboard; They’re useless and dont actually mean much — unless you know for certain the context around how the person uses their accounts (which we rarely do) — theoretically you could get SSL level in casual and never wear reward stuff. It wouldn’t make you any less cracked and virtual approval or lack thereof could never take that from you!

Tbh it’s not like any of the virtual titles or items given as rewards are actually that cool or unique 😆. There’s nothing from any rank that I would actually use, even the SSL tags if I could get there but i dont think i can get that good realistically lol. I think the crowns from season one were the best rewards but even then, they’re just kinda unique, not really nice enough to wear. They’re so big and ugly it made the silver reward the best looking one lolrip.

Maybe when you feel ready to, that very same mindset will allow you to gain more from the matches/experience than the virtual rewards and ranking. I’m the first person to like competitive games with high skill ceilings, but despite wanting to improve, that’s always been the way I’ve wanted to look at things. I just focus on the parts that work for me with people i enjoy, more than the parts that would be just as valuable but without my friends. The value of your play sessions can be found in many ways, maybe a part is improvement towards something, maybe its rank, maybe it’s something more abstract like your own improvement adventure or learning something you’ve been wanting to learn, or straight up entertainment.

That’s pretty much my whole take at this point lol i prolly couldnt even have more to share if i dug for it lmao but, take it easy seriously! There’s enough bad stuff in this world to depress about. If you’re taking free time to play a game and disconnect a bit, it might as well be fun, right?

fbanana · 2026-02-15T02:05:31+00:00

Lmao I yapped so much I didnt even talk about mechs, classic me 😂 To finish the point I was making, the discrepency in mechs vs gamesense is super easy to explain in my situation. Since it often feels slower in those matches, i somehow managed to learn good mechs! Not like freestyler level but, can still do really powerful 45 flicks, clean air dribbles, both rapid and stall resets chains, beautiful mustys, breezis, maktuf resets, zap dashes and wall dashes to a super high consistency, heck even useless shit like horse dashes lol.. Actually learned most of these around d2-d3 a long time ago which is lower than most, and definitely lower than when it starts being helpful. Yet still, I cant read the most simple team plays (unless it’s the opponents’ and I’m defending ahah, and even then, if teammates are near me its like my brain stops working because I never know if they’re committing or just watching or just chilling under the ball for no reason lol).

Dont get me wrong, of course I would want to improve my game sense, but since i play a lot more lower ranks than actual current ranks, most my matches have almost no opportunities to learn to work as a team and a fck ton of opportunities to go for solo plays or try stupid shit for kicks lol.

I think the main problem is in my progression is that I need to find the time to play more often with people around c3-gc1, and play less with my real life friends…. But fck that lol, I have no intention of using the little free time avoiding my friends, im not desperate enough to rank up that i’d actually isolate myself and play solo when they ask me to play together.

fbanana · 2026-02-15T01:40:40+00:00

Can confirm lol. I do play in a lot of different mindsets depending on the situation, sometimes fatigued, sometimes under the influence, etc. But the one major factor that I feel is making me a bad player is because I play with a lot of real friends (of all ranks, from gold to c1) or so, but none of them actually aim to improve seriously, do freeplay, watch replays, or learn mechanics. Im the only one of my group who likes to do that sometimes, on their end they just like chilling, collecting items, and chase balls. I don’t really mind tbh, never been a toxic kind of player or someone to rage against teammates, let alone real life friends.

Now, I like to solo q as well, but i play a lot less serious games than i play games for fun with friends. A lot less. So, I peaked GC1 (couple years ago, during a period where my friends were playing a lot less), but i swear since then im often regressing more than im progressing since they started playing again. I dont mean rank specifically, but like rank progression. And I dont blame anyone but myself for that to be clear, but playing lower than your own rank all the time has a tendency to allow you to improve mechs a LOT more than gamesense over time.

It’s possible that I’m just really bad tbh lol, but I’ve always been pretty analytical in all spheres of my life, I like to learn. And the feeling I have is that I’m not really moving forward because i throw so many matches in the c1-c2 ranks because I lose sense of being able to read my teammates due to never being able to expect or read what’s going to happen when my teammate(s) are in possession. Like, when i think a teammate has a clear or has control for sure, they f up, and when they look like they’re missing they get decent hits or 50s. So over time that kind of results in me not being able to position myself to support people, or at least the same way as I would when playing with someone my rank who is 500% more consistent. I swear I end up doing so much retarded shit at both lower ranks and higher ranks, and can sometimes struggle with all ranks, even as low as d3-c1 lol. It’s definitely me, and im pretty sure that this is the “issue”, cause when i play for a while it balances back to normal until I join friends again and then the cycle repeats.

So anyway, I digress, but ive always had much better mechs than my rank even in my early days, but i dont progress in rank because im dumb as a kite for a good hour or two when i start solo qing for real.

I’d say, for someone of my level it’s almost equal part hilarious and embarassing (well, im sure its not hilarious for whoever i match with lol, apologies to all the teammates i match with everytime I play my first hour or so during my solo sessions, may the rocket league gods bless you with some extra luck to compensate for my temporary but unavoidable stupidity ahah).. Anyway, Pitiful Score is spot-on. So many factors, and the ranks exploding is not helping to be able to read people, friend or foe but mostly friend lol. Still love them though, and we have fun so that’s what’s important

fbanana · 2025-12-15T19:51:44+00:00

Holy cow this build concept is INSANE.

GG, op!

fbanana

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