Rocket League Season 4

I got distracted from Rocket League by the current political situation in the United States and by playing MLB 16 The Show (which I buy at the end of the season for half price). The only notable thing that happened in Season 4 is that I plateaued in my skills and had to hide my level (determined exclusively by amount of experience) because my “teammates” couldn’t believe I was that level and that bad. Now that they don’t know my level, they can believe I’m bad for whatever reason they like. I went without playing RL for long enough to lose my ranking in competitive play sometime during the season.

Players have, for a while now, been able to add training sequences, so practicing is a lot easier and can be done in the privacy of my own arena. An example of my progress: I can now do arial hits from the wall with more regularity, and I spend more time in casual mode to warm up.

Season 5 has started and the arenas are refined. Neo Tokyo lost its ramps but still feels like the old arena, just easier to play. I continue to dislike Wasteland as being too big. Chats can now be exclusively private, so that teammates don’t have to be frustrated with me in public. The best experience of the latest patch so far has been playing with an obviously more-skilled player who would continuously want to play again after we were done. I got better as we went along, and wished the player goodnight when they outlasted me. I wish more players were like that.