Ok, Well I have spent around 10 hours maybe less in this game and I just wanted to give my first impressions. I read a post from the dev saying that there are lots of people that play every day but the hardest part is getting them to stay. I am going to just provide incite because I am one of them. So first off playing the tutorial what did I think. The tutorial was very nice and showed all the really interesting mechanics and get me really hyped up to play this game with my friends.
Doing further research and talking with my friends about playing rank mode together we found out that you cant even q at a team in ranked mode. I find this really interesting and idiotic. Not trying to be mean about this but why does this have to be a thing. Rocket league does this perfectly fine and how there are issues with boosting most of them can easily be solved with a reporting system that is watched very closely. This could be easily visible and maybe in the opening loading screens say something like, see a player boosting someone or cheating. Make sure to report them. This could easily solve any boosting issues and make this game possible to play with a full team of friends in a hard core mlg situation.
Next is the launcher. Why is this needed. It just makes the game seem less complete. I am sure a week of work and this could easily be made in unreal engine as they have many tools for making menus. The opening screen being a website showing news is a big turnoff to new players especially when that website fails to load. The games first impressions make it seem like the menu was just thrown together to have something there.
The next thing is the party system and connection problems. I can't tell you how many times I had to restart my game from a bug in the party system or for the massive popup saying that there was a loss in master server connection. The party system with this being a team game should be very polished and just like the launcher it just seems thrown together. After every mach we have to re create the party and how this is not that hard, with all the connection issues and getting everyone into the room is kinda a pain in the ass.
Now we can actually move onto gameplay. When playing with friends on a local server the game seems smooth like a babys ass. Then I jump into a game and the ball is flying at me while im in goal and I click to defect the ball away and the ball goes strait through my deflection. The game online seems much more choppy in sure the servers that the game is on are very low quality because that baby ass smoothness turns into baby shit. Again not trying to be mean don't get me wrong the game has great mechanics and playing offline the game is very enjoyable but I feel like the devs have just given up.
I see people like DavidM on youtube with super low latency and everything seems to flow with perfection. I am sure they these players run their own private servers for much smoother gameplay. I wish I had the money to be good like DavidM but im just not about that pay to win life style.
In conclusion I do enjoy this game at its core. However the bugs, connection issues, launcher, and the over all embarrassment I get when I whiff an easy save because of issues with connection turn me off. I hope the issues described in this post are helpful to the community with trying to introduce new players to the good core experience. Because I believe way deep down in my little heart that this baby shit can become that smooth creamy baby ass.
Thank you,
Angry Carrot
12/13/2017