Summary
- Rocket League's competitive scene sees innovation as players master intricate mechanics over years.
- Reddit user introduces elaborate wall-based mid-air pursuit trick that could change competitive play.
- Rocket League fans appreciate new player tricks, welcoming focus on gameplay over monetization trends.
A new trick demonstrated by Rocket League player could add a new twist to the game's competitive scene. Despite debuting nearly 10 years ago, Rocket League continues to inspire multiplayer innovation as players master its intricate mechanics over years of play.
Though it was released nearly a decade ago on a previous generation of consoles, Rocket League remains a reliable bastion of multiplayer thanks to its unique "car football premise" combined with some of the best indie game driving around. Many players find the game easy to get into thanks to its familiar football-based structure, but will spend thousands of hours practicing their technique and mastering Rocket League's physics-based play, eventually learning elaborate tricks that send their cars flying through the air or bouncing off the walls.
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One such trick, demonstrated by Reddit user and YouTuber sly3x, involves an elaborate wall-based mid-air pursuit. In a clip shared with the game's subreddit, sly3x sends their car up the wall after the ball, then leaves the wall to bounce the ball off the car's corner. But rather than returning to the ground, sly3x manages to backflip diagonally back to the wall, then jump off it again to bounce the ball a second and even a third time. Sly3x jokingly declared that this could change the Rocket League competitive scene "forever."
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The maturity of Rocket League as a competitive game means that the scene is full of unwritten rules and tricks that beginners just starting aren't immediately aware of. Though the basics are easy to grasp, even relatively elementary Rocket League maneuvers can be utilized very well in experienced hands, raising the skill ceiling greatly at higher levels. Thus, sly3x's maneuver could lead to a potential advantage for players as it spreads, since the move allows one to keep the ball up and out of the reach of rivals seeking to regain possession.
Some players on the Rocket League subreddit disputed whether sly3x's trick was genuinely new, stating that such maneuvers didn't really count as truly new mechanics. Others said that they'd come across such behaviors before, either when players luck into the bounces by accident or as part of their personal play style. Some even questioned its effectiveness, saying that newer players on the user's team might not be ready to follow up the aerial gambit, potentially leading to fouling up a goal or returning possession to the opponents due to a lack of coordination.
Despite questions about the validity of the new maneuver, though, many players were happy to see that Rocket League's fans were still coming up with new or interesting ways to play the game. With much of the recent news about the game dominated by seasonal content or the Rocket League x TMNT crossover, they said it was refreshing to see something shared about playing the game itself rather than something monetized.
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