The State of Rocket League

Petition to keep trading: www.change.org/p/keep-player-trading-in-rl

Great points! I will say one thing about the post bounces, the spin of the ball does have quite an effect on the return trajectory. Not saying the bounces right now work, but they should still have a slight change instead of being a 1-to1 mirror

The scary thing for me is how since the Epic transition, we've pretty much only seen things get removed. The only way to play custom maps on the new platform now is by using third party mods, for example. That's another large community (content creators, speedrunners, freestylers, training nolifers) already alienated. They also haven't formally committed to not banning bakkesmod as a part of their recent anticheat measures as far as I'm aware. If trading is removed even though no one wants that, what's next?

Man, they need to get with you for ideas if they want this game to start peaking.

Things I'd like to be added: 1. Chat with friends before you team up 2. Saved previous chats, so you for once remember who you played with the last time 3. Custom maps need to be official 4. If your tm8 disconnects, or leaves the game, your mmr loss is mitigated 5. Seperate freeplay with 2 players who are teamed up 6. 1v1 tournaments

Epic Games needs a reality check, theyre destroying the game at the moment, they “revived” it but now theyre just killing it again. They dont listen to us, so even after everything we’re saying, theyre just gonna do their own thing to make money. I recommend not buying anything from the itemshop again since theyre only doing this to make more money from it. Boycot the item shop people, cause always €/$20 for a standard wheel? Come on people. Blueprints were the beginning and we didnt know, look at it now. Just a silent and sneaky way to start turning this game into a “moneymaking” machine

Dude, literally all of these takes were super solid. I genuinely hope epic/psyonix looks at this and can at least take half of the suggestions provided. Really well made JZR

13:57 This part is super important imo. The devs are just doing what Epic is telling them to. They don't have any influence, and it's very likely that Psyonix themselves wanted to make UE5 Rocket League happen, but Epic most likely said no (due to lack of funding, or any other reason).

I like that the community is saying something about this. The bad thing about this, is seeing people in the community leave. Hang in there guys. ❤

I really want rocket labs to be back, i loved it, it was something different, and I Personally seemed to adapt better to the map than others. i just loved having a slight advantage on arctagon.

One more thing I would suggest is a rotating weekly community spotlight gamemode from the community that makes workshop maps, because the workshop community works insanely hard and deserves more love

Honestly I feel bad for Psyonix this feels like a decision from epic games’ higher ups. I miss playing this game and it’s sad to see one of my favorite games ever, to come down like this basically saying “fuck you” to the community. I bet many of the Psyonix employees are not ones from pre epic having a lot of creative freedom. It feels like they are trying so hard to make it like Fortnite even though they are two very different communities.

I've been playing since the very first day of release, and before that. 2012, in sarp. I'm not generally active and voice my opinions into the community but I do often keep up with what's happening. I don't know why they keep making these stupid decisions. It just makes me want to come back to playing less and less

Thank you for speaking up about this, I completely agree with you. Ever since Psyonix sold out to Epic, I felt like they just threw away all the work they, as a small team, put into making this game so good and popular, starting basically from nothing. It's insane how they managed to get millions of players to play this game that no one even knew about before it released. All the way to building up an e-sports scene for the game. And they just gave it away to Epic for some pocket change. As someone who followed the development of RL in alpha stages and obviously played SARP too, it somehow feels sad to slowly watch this game fade away basically thanks to corporate greed, as I don't think there really is anything else to it, but it is what it is.

so glad you had something to say about this JZR. thank you for standing up for our community using your platform. it means the world to us.

Literally every idea and suggestion you presented would be incredible to see implemented. The game has been exactly the same for YEARS and they have not even remotely begun to address the most basic and core of problems that affect almost every person who plays the game. Great video JZR, hopefully Epic sees this and something changes soon.

I like the idea of team ranked I think that would be awesome in its own way

You are right about everything. Ever since Epic Games bought Rocket League this game has only gotten worse.

Thanks for this Video! You talk about so many topics i worried about! I love Rocket league since the first time i played it back in 2015 and i became the first time GC in Season 14 - than every Season till the last one and now this season - cause of smurfing. I played against enemys so much above my skill level - its insane - and sad and frustrating. Some days im so hyped to play and than i became 3 times the same Smurf against me... im almost about to quit playing rocket league - i hope with all my heart that epic/psyonix hear us and change something before its too late. Cause all the new players get clapped by smurfs - not just us in the higher ranks.. and i hear often "its too hard and make no fun at all, thats why i never played more than 10-20h" - 10-20hours ive played it on the first day, cause it was too much fun! Pls bring back the fun and dont remove all features of this amazing and outstanding game! You will make money, if u help the community, cause new players will come if the fun comes back and with them new payers!

Top quality video. Presenting issues and possible solutions or examples to those problems. Hopefully Epic sees this and actually cares enough to listen to the community.