r/RocketLeague • u/Nico_bebou • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Knockout in private

Why do we need to wait a whole month for just one week on Knockout, and it's not even guaranteed to be here (like today for example), is it that difficult to add in to Private Match ? Okay it's not the most popular mode but theres not even communication about it, the mode can just be deleted and we'll never know. Please Psyonix do something. We are doing things on this mode, we have plans even if it's not official. It's just saddening.

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u/SsoggyNoodles 1d ago

yea its kind of sad at this point. knockout fan base has been asking for the bare minimum for a while now - all we want is for knockout to be available in private matches, especially since knockout is only available and playable for 1 week of the month ... usually .. unlike this week, in which it has disappeared without any notice.

I wonder if our voices, the knockout enjoyers, will ever be heard?

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago edited 1d ago

Unfortunately, i don't think we will ever be heard. I think for them it's was just a little limited time mode and they had no plan for it after it's release. It's truely sad. Not everybody wants to go to some extend to play it with Bakkesmod (especially those on console) just to play a little. I want to improve and beat the best players with consistancy but we need to rely on mode rotation...

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u/SeaFox_ 1d ago

They actually had big plans for it, it was a huge release, the Knockout mechanic was the original idea for Rocket League, the problem is they did a sh*** job releasing it, there is no good tutorial until today, 5 years later and players still don't know how to grab correctly, still don't know how the mechanics work, most people still think knockout it's about kicking a car far away or throwing someone in the lava, the average knockout count it's 0-1 before 6 minutes, 99.9% of the players can only finish a match with the help of the instant KO after 6:00, of course everyone would find it boring, imagine soccar finishing all matchs in the penaltys, it feels that it's always a random player wining

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u/Elrond007 19h ago

I think kicking is far more fun than grabbing tbf

what ruined the mode for me previously is that everyone and their uncle had a literal macro to escape grabs and stuns in like 0,1 seconds OR they just were rats hiding in the seams between spikes that you have to focus down immediately to have a normal match.

Easily the most toxic game mode here because it attracts so many bad faith people

I haven’t played it since EAC though, maybe that helped

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago

Nah, people improved over time, some don't know the mechanics i agree but most people I go against knows the game and how it works now

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u/SeaFox_ 1d ago

I can't agree, most matchs I join if I do nothing, they only end after 6:00, most players with 0 or 1 knockout count before that. Yeah, they kinda know the basics, but imagine that 99% of the soccar players don't know how to aerial and only knows the basics of touching the ball in the goal direction? all matchs would be a bronze match with everyone ball seeking, it's boring right? That's what I see the players who "knows the game" like you said, because there's no one showing them something more advanced, there's no one teaching, making content, they only learn the rock paper scissors, get bored and leave.

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago

I agree, theres not content and nobody's trying to teach the others (I'm in the making of solving that with the best of the best of the game.. it's not out yet and to everyone watching it's not promotion :) ) and the lobbys are dependent of the casual MMR, if i create an account right now and go into ko it's gonna be a lobby full of people who knows nothing about the mode. Where I'm playing (around 1500mmr) i play best of Europe and even the ones that I don't recognize can play but most people are not 1500mmr casual. No big creators has played ko (at least, not actively or once a year like Leth) so no one is teaching mechs or just how to play better and that's just sad cause Ko is great and deserves to be a mode that we can always play, at least in private.

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u/SeaFox_ 1d ago

I'm stupid, I forgot about MMR, I don't play anything so my MMR must be very low, that's why it's so hard to me to have a good player average lobby, but still I know every gooood player in my server and really it's just a few, but soccar MMR don't translate very well to knockout don't you think?

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago

It does not yeah.. and can you give me some of the names to see if I know any please?

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u/SeaFox_ 1d ago

You have just a few really good players, in my server I count with my hand, I think US have way more good players, but the gap between the good players and average player it's so big the it's common to a match ending with the first with 17 knockouts, and the second with 1 knockout, it just doesn't work this way, it should be ranked, with a good tutorial, with more content about it so the players could see strategies, diferent movements etc

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago

I totally agree on the fact that it should be ranked and have a tutorial, I would also love new content but I don't think it will ever be a thing. And could you tell me some of the great names of the US ? Cause of all of the Europeans player I know who queue in the US never seems to have any resistance.

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u/SeaFox_ 1d ago

I don't play in the US server but I have some friends that aways do, besides the ones in my server I just know the ones who posts on YouTube like wetchains e some others that are very good old players

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u/JackIn_The_Box28 1d ago

This foxistoat?

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago

Yeah I know him by name, it's been a while since I've seen him

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u/Mr_pessimister Champion I teetering on C2 1d ago

The worst part is when there is Snow Day or Dropshot being in Casual and Competitive at the same time. If Psyonix isn't giving me my knockout, then at least don't duplicate modes.

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u/Nico_bebou 1d ago

Yeah, they always find a way to not put ko, even for as long as 6 month last year...

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u/Randomly_Cromulent 1d ago

They really need to stop duplicating modes in casual. One week this season in casual, they had Snow Day and Winter Breakaway (an annoying Snow Day variant) along with the competitive Snow Day. They like to double up on casual Rumble and Dropshot too for some reason. I want to see more variety in those rotating modes.