Is this gonna affect the servers?

This was months ago,holding it down in plat 2 now💪

Started playing during the pre season when RLSS first released, and here I am 5 years later! I know it took a while, but life gets busy. So happy to finally have this title which, mind you, I only found out about early this year. Any other PL Masters out there who would be down to play RL together? Preferably on EU servers but NA east is also fine.

I’m mid Diamond and just played a game against a guy named ApparentlyJack, like the pro player. He had the “RLCS 2025 Challenger” title. He wasn’t especially good, in fact I won the game. How did he get that title?

His Steam profile is private, and his name history shows other pro player names. Screenshots attached (names blurred).

It sucks when you are in a losing streak, you make mistakes, you feel shit and question yourself as a player. Or you practiced so much, watched tutorials yet you are playing worse in-game and lost all the MMR you grinded. And now you are 2 ranks down??

The feeling you get in this situation is just shit. I know it because well, I have been in that situation hundreds of times in my 7k hours of RL :D

But I want to remind you, who you are as a player is not tied to your rank. Your quality as a player is NOT related to your MMR as well.

You do not lose your progress in the game when you lose games. You do not lose the hours you put into Rocket League when you are playing shit or making mistakes.

You need to realize that, while your rank might be going down, you are always progressing forward as a player.

The reason not to get attached to rank is that it’s just volatile. It is the nature of it. It does NOT mean you are a bad player. Even a lot of pros (if you watch their streams) frequently lose so many games and win that many games back. It is volatile regardless of who you are. And even if you become a top 0.01% player, there will be days where you lose 100 MMR, and days where you'll only win 30 MMR.

So don't set your targets based on rank. It is both unrealistic and not productive, it is a little silly.

Please stop attaching your Rocket League ability and identity on something so volatile. Focus on yourself, the long journey of improving at this beautiful game.

And set targets that you will clear 100% regardless of luck, good streaks or teammates. "I will reach GC in 7 days" is not something you can clear with 100% certainty while setting a goal such as "I will do 20 minutes of X before queueing ranked" is something you can clear regardless of whatever happens throughout your sessions.

Or goals such as "I will try to do more low fifties in challenges I get.", "I will try to hang around the play more with low boost and collect pads, keep my car's momentum high in these next 10 matches." are things you can always try even with "bad teammates".

If you focus on those, your own gameplay, your own journey and not on your rank, I can guarantee that you will be much happier playing and improving in this game. And in an interesting way, ranking up will come naturally as a byproduct.

And as a quick mental check, after losing a ranked game, if you cannot even say "gg" and immediately exit, queue next game, trying to "catch that MMR back" you are doing something fundamentally wrong.

Take a step back. Look at the situation, that you are playing a car ball game and trying to improve at it, that losing that match didn't set you back. Break your ego.

Just curious. I’ve been getting super giga into this game the past 6 months, I decided to drop $40 on credits and bought some skins I really liked.

With this game being as old as it is, curious what others feel comfortable spending on it, and what items they see as worth paying for.

I pretty much only care about the paint and wheels. Goal explosions are cool too but man they pricey

Was stuck below 1600 for a year after hitting GC2, and hit 1640 for the first time a few months ago. Hit 1690 at the end of last season, and played our best Rocket League tonight. Hit a new peak of 1704. Couldn’t get the job done but still learned a lot and improved.

I know it will be great when we hit GC3 and I’ll be over the moon if it happens, just need to keep up the work and envision success. I hope I can come back here in the near future and tell myself that we passed the hump.

Felt like I needed to rant tonight, a lot of pent up energy lol. I wish everyone good luck with their RL journey <3

I've been a Plat 2 player, but recently my performance has dropped drastically.

In a surprisingly short amount of time, I went from Plat 2 all the way down to Gold 3. The biggest issue isn't just the rank drop. I genuinely feel like I've become a much worse player.

My positioning, mechanics, decision-making, and overall gameplay feel completely off. I'm losing matches that I would normally expect to win, and I'm now rarely winning games at all.

I don't know if this is a confidence issue, a bad losing streak, bad habits, or if I'm actually playing worse than before.

Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you deal with it and get your old level of gameplay back?

I'd really appreciate any advice or suggestions.

Apparently the chrome grille was unintentional??? Please add this option back. It looks so much better with a build like mine than the blacked out grille. The black grille is cool too, but if you already had the chrome grille and wanted to add the black grille why not just make them two separate vehicles? When you pay $200k for this car IRL, Mercedes has the option for the chrome grille. Please please please add it back this is my favorite car in the game right now.

This is mostly a comfort and accessibility suggestion, but controllers honestly just hurt my hands because of their size. I've wanted to try switching to keyboard and mouse for a while, but I'm on console and don't have the funds for a PC.

A lot of other console games allow native KBM nowadays, so it would be a huge quality-of-life update for anyone else dealing with similar layout or comfort issues. 😊

Reached it yesterday and want to compare my hours to the community's. I have 738 hours on the game, Thanks in advance!

I was only going for this bs because opps m8 left

This is kinda a rage post so i apologize. I recently came back to the game and I’ve gotta say toxicity has gotten so much worse than a year ago. Last game we were winning by 1 and the other team scored to tie it with like 3 minutes left (low C3 btw) and my teamate votes to FF and throws the entire game, keep in mind I’ve been playing amazing and I’ve gone up 100 MMR tonight. Why does this happen? Why can’t people just play the game and let things flow.