Any Rocket League Fans?

Best advice I can give if you are just starting out: slow down until you stop missing "easy" hits on the ball. Early on everyone wants to go full throttle. It wont take long to get comfortable and more accurate.

For aerials, if you arent the last one back, just go for it and keep adjusting until it clicks. Trial by fire

You can do the custom trainings as well to help. Attacking from the wall was always weird for me, even when I got much better at them.

Most importantly is to have fun with it and What a save! the shite out of your son every time he misses the ball.

I have been playing for like 5 years and I am still only about a Gold 3 or Plat 1 player. The game is hard and I don't care what anyone says.

I’m almost in my 40’s, so I might have an excuse. I’ve always excelled at games. I watch some of these young dudes playing, and it’s insane what they can do in game.

I’ve been playing for about 2-3 years and I’ve gotten and maintained Diamond 2ish in both 2’s and 3’s.

I just cannot get past that level.

I suggest looking into bakkesmod, as that will help some during practice runs.

Rocket League is my all time favorite game in the sense that it is one I don't think I'll ever stop playing. Couple years ago I was really good, got about nut hair away from GC. Don't play as much but it's always there when I'm bored.

Some really cool feedback on the gameplay. It really is a fun but frustrating game with a steep learning curve, but it seems like once you have the basic mechanics, you can build on that knowledge.

Anyone into following the esports tournaments? Going down that rabbit hole more and more with watching old games with new matches. It seems like EU dominated the game early. NA has caught up in recent years. The style of play favored how EU played, I think, with solid rotations, crazy aerials, and late commits in goal. Demos happened, but weren’t a major part f game play.

IMO NRG had the best squad in the world to compete in the EU style of play. IMO Rogue is changing the way people are playing RL competitively especially in NA. They are really good 1 v 1 players. They play fast and make early commits to challenges, especial when in goal against aerials. They are also really good a head hunting demos. So against a mechanical and technical team like NRG, they really screw up their rotation and negate one of the best mechanical players in the world in JSTN.

I recommend using a controller lol

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You will still suck unless you put time and effort in. I have 420 hours on PC (with a controller) and I still basically can't do actual aerials.

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True that, I won’t put in enough hours to not suck

I guess the guys that can do all the full control aerial moves. I know how to rotate and generally how to play the game. Can't do the flashy stuff though. I can score goals from the air I just can't do the flipping and control of the car in the air and all that crazy shite.

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Real rough learning curve

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Probably one of the roughest in any game

For me it’s probably the only game I’ve never gotten tired of though, partially because of the learning curve and theoretically infinite skill ceiling

I have played for about 6 years now and I’m Grand Champion, but to be honest there are times that my fingers just don’t do what I want them to and I’m reminded how difficult the game really is. I spent probably close to a year in both diamond and platinum.

For beginners, what I would say is that ground mechanics are the absolute paramount of the game. In fact, it’s possible and has been done to reach as high as champ without aerialing higher than the crossbar.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t learn aerials. You should practice those too. But the ability to accurately and with good power hit the ball on the ground is so underrated.

The second most important is rotations. If you hit the ball and you don’t have an immediate follow back immediately turn out towards the opposite direction (left/right) that the ball goes, you should then drive back, and if you can manage it rotate in a way that allows you to pick up the large boost pads. If not though, it is never worth it to go out of your way to get boost during rotation unless you are absolutely sure the ball won’t be in your net.

The end of your rotation should end up at the back post (opposite post of the ball) and behind your 1 or 2 teammates, who will then challenge for the ball and rotate behind you, and that creates the full rotation cycle

While that is the basic, this game is also about feel. If the ball is stuck in the opponents corner or really just floating in their half, you shouldn’t rotate all the way to your own goal because that would take yourself completely out of the attack if your teammate misses and you need to follow up with a shot as they rotate out.

The last thing I will discuss is settings. The default settings in rocket league aren’t just bad. They are straight up awful

Your camera settings are personal preference, but here is a general guideline

Camera shake : OFF (always)
Fov: 110
Distance: 260-280
Height: 90-110
Angle: -3- -5
Stiffness: .3-.6

The rest are personal preference

I would also recommend changing your controller dead zone to as low as it can go where you can still drive in a straight line and not turn left or right (stick drift) without moving your stick to correct

Hope any of this can help y’all get better