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I have purchased a proper headset, so if I can keep my voice down, I should be able to play even if the gf has gone to bed - it will also let me play with people on PC, if anyone's interested.

I should really get around to buying it on the PC, it'd give me more opportunity to play it. Is it Rift compatible?

I poked you the other day on Steam, but got no reply. I suppose you were busy testing your Rift on Shower With Dad.

I guess it's a bit late to mention that RL was in the Steam Summer Sale.

Yeah, was having a shower-off with my gf. We then played Mount Your Friends. Sorry I didn't reply.

Thanks for the game, chaps, I thought that went really well. But my girlfriend told me I was shouting like an old man! Probably because I couldn't hear my own voice with the headset. Next time I'll try to reduce the volume in the headset significantly and see if that helps. There doesn't seem to be an option to hear your own voice, but that would probably be really weird anyway.

Rocket League does make you shout though - it's so much fun

Excellent tips from one of the top players:



One thing he doesn't mention, but which is mentioned in many other places, is that it is a good idea to swap the default functions of the L1 and Square buttons (ie. put air roll/drift on L1), because it lets you use boost while air rolling or drifting.

Many top players also tweak the camera settings to get a wider FOV and a better view of what's behind the ball when it's right in front of you, but I haven't experimented with that yet.

Pretty good I guess. I did this today which is quite similar.

Rather enjoying this. I'd started playing offline seasons just to get the hang of it, but the Rookie difficulty doesn't really give a good intro to the game - the AI is set so low that you end up doing all the work yourself as your teammates can't be relied upon to defend or shoot properly. Thankfully Pro offers more of a challenge so I feel I'm actually learning to play now. Only played a handful of online games so far as multiplayer isn't usually my thing, but at least I'm starting be useful in a match instead of handicapping my teammates.

Haha how did they not score that?

After playing a lot of online games over the weekend I'm no longer the ball-chasing waste of space that I used to be. I'm getting better at mid-air stuff but I still have a terrible time judging where the ball is going to land when I'm on the floor.

Hate hate hate the neo-tokyo stage, though.

When I first saw that Neo Tokyo stage, I thought it was a nice idea to have a different layout of stadium... till I played it. It just ends up in chaos.

I'm slowly getting better at judging the aerial stuff, but I'm often getting beaten by those who do those boosted jumps to reach the higher balls.

Press x, wait a bit, press again to go as high as you can.

Also something I didn't know until recently is that once you hit the "blerm" top speed you can stop boosting, as you won't go any faster but can maintain the speed.

Funnily enough, I'd just accidentally discovered the double jump. I should have probably gone through the tutorials.

Oh, you really should.

Incidentally, the double jump is very useful on Neo Tokyo to get up on the elevated area in a controllable and speedy manner.

This is also indicated by a purple trail. If you turn sharply, your speed can decrease.

"Blerm"

Me and Myp!

If you could play just a bit earlier, I would be able to join you more often. (1 hour time difference)

And if I may provide a little tip which, once I was made aware of it, made my game so much better: Don't allow yourself to run out of boost.

Whenever you have a spare moment or are already driving along the side of the arena, look for one of the six max boost panels. Switch off the ball cam and go for the nearest one or go back towards the rear if you want to play it safe. When you are lined up with the boost, switch ball cam back on while you move the rest of the way.

Also, using the forward kick while driving will give you a quick burst of speed unless you are moving slowly. Two or three in a row can often get you to top speed.

I'll get onto that as soon as I get the hang of hitting the ball when it's coming from above me

Online I'm losing more games than I'm winning, but I don't mind as it's just fun to play, particularly if there are some decent players on. Judging by my stats, I seem to be more about assists than goals, which just means I'm crap at shooting.

That was really fun! not sure why my voice chat didn't come through the recording pipes though.

It did. I spent hours carefully editing it out.

What are you using for the video capture? I was a little disappointed that I couldn't export a saved replay out into a useful video format (on the PC version anyway)

It'll be the PS4 native software I guess.

Yup.

If you have an Nvidia card, you can use Shadowplay to fairly easily record or twitch from your game - it's hiding inside Nvidia Geforce Experience.

I use OBS Studio, which is really quite good. https://obsproject.com/

That is rather more advanced skill, I would say.

Unfortunately, it would seem my graphics card isn't up to it.





Cheers. I'll give that a go. I've only saved the one replay so far - I've not exactly generated many highlights with my 'skills'.

It's only something that's started working consistently for me very recently, and I've played it a lot more than Grim...!

And I still sometimes do a hilarious miss.

'Sometimes'

I've not played with you very recently.

Self-title

Fraps is another app that will do screen recording.

I found fraps to be deeply rubbish.

It was the one that used the least processing power, although it used the most drive space (but not HDD I/O). This was fucking years ago, though.

Otherwise, it recorded the screen okay, which is all I wanted it to do.

OBS seems really good from what I've seen so far. I probably need to find a better tool for chopping the video up after, but avidemux will do for now.



First attempt. A rather pleasing moment where I made a save and then set up the winner with a few seconds left.

Anyone up for this tonight?

Will be later on but sure.

My super popular Minecraft stream was done with OBS. And the university graduation, but that's irrelevant

Now?

Looks silly, I like silly.

Think I'll give this mode a pass.

DYSWIDT?

I can confirm that the Rumble mode is pretty mad and chaotic.

Rumble is fun! Silly good fun!

It's anathema for a Rocket League purist such as I!