Not New Player Friendly

[᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

Really isnt. Just no ways to actaully get good?

[Shepard-Commander]

Plenty of ways, actually. Contrary to what the forums show, check there are many friendly people on assorted levels of skill you can game with. Of course, getting a couple of regulars to play with a couple of hours a day helps a lot.

Many people follows certain players on YouTube, where there are many videos about pretty much everything Rocket League-related.

I'm about to go to sleep now, but add me as a frind if you wanna play some matches until you turn into a player yourself can be proud of (or find other friendly people that can teach you more lol) !

Best of luck pal.

[Avalanche]

Well, people seem to say 'to get good, face better players' but that is a load of bull, the only way to really get better is to face players on a similar skill level, though the game's matchmaking system know jack about what skill is, hell it can't even tell the difference between a player being carried and a skilled player, all it sees is 'win' or 'loss' and acts accordingly.

Overall, all i can suggest is just unranked, 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 or whatever and just keep playing, make sure to play the season game mode, it may be against bots, but it can give you basic control lessons, the more advanced stuff comes when facing other players.

[Kingkilla]

Like any game it just takes time to get better.

If you want to go farther than that you can watch videos that give you tips or find some people to play with.

[Kronos]

How to get good? Get good.

Play. Make mistakes, realize them and correct them. Learn patterns and playstyles. Predict and react. Its all in the numbers. Just go, you'll figure it out.

[Atagi]

Yes this game is not friendly to new users. You gotta play versus better players and hope you get better over time.

[Specific Beef]

Change camera settings. As Tipsy says, watching the Team Rocket tutorial videos on YouTube is a very good idea, and they include some info on camera settings that might help you too (get ready with the pause button and a pen and paper). Figure out which camera's best for you (for me, that's Ball Cam 24/7, but some people prefer the other or to constantly mix it up).

Play the in-game tutorials. Don't worry too much about getting 10/10 on the ones for specific skills, especially aerials, but use the practice. Playing against the computer is good, but it only gets you so far as the bots aren't as good at human roles like scoring off a crossed ball or crossing it for you - keep that in mind.

Don't play ranked. When you find a good group of people who are fun to play with, stick with them for as long as you can.

Play games to the end, and don't quit just because you're losing early. That's a good way to learn very little, and to be in a perpetual state of losing which is not good for your morale.

Use the fact that flipping moves you faster without any cost to boost, and know that three flips in a row gets you to maximum speed. Use this for the best mobility on the field, so that you can attack and predict the right time to start flipping your way back downfield to defend.

Be conscious of closing down angles. If you go in a straight line at an opponent, you're taking a risk because you present the thinnest obstacle to their movement. Sometimes it's better to stay still or move back a little. Keep drawing invisible lines in your head between the ball and the goal, since ultimately that's what you need to defend. Is it worth going into that corner, or are you better serving your defence to move closer to your goal? When you do that, you start to see the corner point as a sort of dead zone for defence, with richer possibilities out of them. You still go in sometimes, but you make sure to get out again ASAP.

Learning aerials is an ambition, not an immediate requirement. You are going to find it difficult at first, so don't worry about it. Practice, "feather" your boost when attempting aerials (rapid taps save boost and give you more control over movement), be in Ball Cam.

Learn about the car. You don't always need to actively strike the ball, and indeed doing so can sometimes put too much power into the ball's movement and send it too high for the goal. Often all that's needed is a tap into the goal. If you zoom forward to hit a ball into the goal, watch what happens when you connect and learn from the results. Often this will lead you to brake a little bit in the final split-second before you hit the ball, to take some energy out of the speed of your approach and ensure the ball arcs into the goal and not over it.

In terms of zones: the nose hits hardest, the car sides then next hardest, the roof the next hardest, and the underside of the wheels that least. You can use the latter with aerials to send the ball downwards into the goal, and you can use nose strikes to add more snap to a slower-moving ball.

Learn the maps and pay attention to the way the ball bounces so that you can meet it. Normal maps have a predictabilty about the way the ball bounces off surfaces, but Wasteland is different (still predictable, but with different rules). Don't worry about not being good at Neo Tokyo. It's a very hard map which reqards the greatest aerial players, so don't rush around in that one.

Lastly, people tend to misuse the phrase "steep learning curve" to mean something that's hard to learn, but the true meaning is the opposite. If you imagine a graph of Time on x Learning on y, a steep curve would indicate that you learn a lot early on. Rocket League has a true steep learning curve. You'll learn a ton in your first 20 hours with the game, and then slowly learn more over time. Don't be put off so early - keep going, and the game will give back to you!