I guess it may be an issue at higher ranks - I suck enough to be down where I hardly ever play with the same people twice in ranked anyway

I'm getting pretty sick of freezing on the initial screen and getting banned

I finally hit Champ!

top 10 life accomplishment

OTOH I'm loving logging in and getting tons of "we've banned that asshat you reported" messages

Possibly related, the games have seemed less salty and toxic lately. Hopefully people losing all their precious wheels and skins is incentivizing some good behavior after a temp ban.

Lol me too - I don't trash talk, but the game disconnects and doesn't let me play for 5 min. I don't report people though.

I rage pretty hard at any video game. And since I'm terrible at this one (Gold 1 after 6 months of of nearly everyday solo queuing 3standard) I found myself not having fun. So, I decided to do ZERO trash talk. I only give positive reinforcement to my teammates, I take the blame for all blunders regardless of what happened, sincere praise for amazing opponent plays, and generous trades for polite people have really made it more fun to play, plus, I play better.

If someone on either team takes the time and trouble to type out harsh words, I have "be nice or turn off chat" ready to go. They get one warning, then reported. Then I have, "report jerks and we won't have them" trying to get a multiple report/game on asshats. Like dude, all 6 of us are silver three this match, you type out TRASH TM8 after the first goal, you are not helping.

IT'S A GAME. wtf kids. like, if something that you are choosing to waste your precious time on is making you viciously angry, stop.

I was about the same. I recently turned off opponent chat entirely, and never say anything to my teammate other than an occassional "sorry" when I make a big mistake, and a "I got it" for the parallel faceoff lineup. Amazing how much more I've enjoyed since.

All I enjoy doing is BM'ing people though. I bm in clash royale, fortnite, Halo 3 (back when) and other games. It's friendly banter but yeah I love it.

Ive noticed that there seems to be less "omg, you are trash" once you get out of silver and gold, especially gold, I dunno what it is about gold, but its def the most toxic rank from what ive seen.

untrue, diamond is still horrible

Diamond has been pretty good for me. I rarely hear any toxicity. I thought plat was much worse than gold.

Picked this up, a lot better than I thought I’d be at it. 40 hours played and I got placed high gold (i think? My logo looks fancier than the other golds).

Go pro?

Getting a lot better at rocket jumps. For some reason I get slaughtered in casual but ranked has been extraordinarily easy.

speaking of aerials just got my first aerial goal! (i dont know if this is technically an aerial but it was kinda long range)

here's my rick and morty themed car:



love this game.

Cool kids don't look at goal explosions. Nice one all the same!

i couldnt believe I hit it and it went in, had a few more of those tonight. about to hit plat.

before I go further though, because people are starting to clearly be more technically proficient than i am, is i need to practice my off the wall driving because I absolutely suck ass at it.

hahahaha plat! i just got this game last week and i hit a rank i've been trying to hit in OW for 2+ years. probably not that impressive but i expected to really really suck at this game and it hasn't been hard at all.

I play pretty defensively, avoiding cluster****s in the midfield, try to break up play whenever i can. usually spend most of my time in the backfield, defending shots and rotating in to take a quick easy goal if i see one, if i miss, i rotate back. it's been working so far

Smart play will carry you pretty far in this game. But you don't really need to practice positional awareness and other non-technical skills, don't fall in to the trap I see often of higher ranked players that have clearly hit a ceiling due to avoiding learning tricky technical aspects of the game. You'll have to look like an idiot for hundreds of hours before learning particular skills, like wall play or aerials.

I guess this describes me since I still don't ever air-roll 800 hours in

(I don't think I knew air roll existed until 500?)

Air roll is maybe a high level skill but it's huge. Quick recovery from aerials or flips, positioning yourself so you land flat with handbrake to keep your momentum. That's how pros always seem so much faster, they're using minimal boost and just being smart about how they build and maintain momentum. Repositioning in the air with roll once you jump for an aerial shot or clear is 100% also required to get any power or accuracy, along with just knowing when and at what angle to jump. Those are long term skills that I didn't really start working on until 800+ hours in, but I kind of avoided it because I was working on other things.

They didn't add the practice playlists until I had like 1k hours IIRC, and those are really helpful for quick improvement, as is just mucking around in free play for 20-30mins trying to predict where the ball is going to come off the wall or how to hit it hard around the map. Once I started working on power shots and accuracy with the practice playlists I improved a crazy amount in not much time. I think it's like any sport, don't consciously practice anything while you're in a game, but always have one thing you're working on improving as a goal and practice outside the game at least as much as you play on it.

what are some good training packs?

Maintaining momentum is something I recently started doing and working on and it makes a world of difference

people are muuuuch better in plat div2/3 than what I am used to. Been getting yelled at occasionally. I don't think I really belong here, gotta practice my mechanics a lot more. I am absolute garbage at scoring even though it's my best stat by far. Most goals in my games are because i set up a good center ball and a teammate scores. But I've noticed when I get games without a really good striker it tends to fall to me and we almost always lose.

In gold/unranked people leave the net wide open so you just launch the ball in that general direction and get goals, here people rarely miss saves.

I didn't want to be a killjoy but I kind of expected this to happen. There's very little chance you 'deserved' the platinum after 50 hours. This game is amazing and the skill ceiling is infinite. Someone posted a general guideline on reddit when they analyzed season 6 data. The results are below:



The results match my experience. I'm almost 900 hours just about to scratch those champion doors (it feels like it) but in reality I know it won't happen for another 100 hours or so unless I run hot.

One of my sicker goals of recent, was also a last-minute go-ahead to make it all the sweeter.

Pretty solid Thamel, nice job bro.

Does anyone ever still play some PUB games? I'm not very good (was like low gold/high silver) and been wanting to get back into a few games. I know this game is pretty dead but my steam is Killer_kill420 if anyone wants to play or PUBG or Realm Royale.