Hi all,
short story about me: I'm playing rocket league since 2k15 and have played it more than 4k hours including my smurfs. So far, I would say I'm quite a good player. Also I'm a software dev who was coding game hacks. Anyway, I stopped that cuz lack of time.
Review
Before I'm going to review all the nice functions I use, I'm gonna tell you about a nice helper, too: I'm playing with a controller and use reWASD to map the bot-keys to my controller inputs. There might be other tools that do that but the main reason I use reWASD is, that I also use other combos with it. Examples given: Perfect stalling, breezi flick and the most important one: half flip back. That's helping alot in positioning.
Demolition Bot
Literally using it every match at least once. I bind it to "Right Stick Up" due to the auto-boost function I don't need my thumb there. Works very well and ensured me definitily more goals. Shortly I noticed a bug that's maybe related to the supersonic speed calculation. When I'm quite slow (e.g. stucked after a 50 challenged, dropped to floor) but close to the enemy and activate the demo-bot to maybe get that cheap bump that turns his car (so not a demo, still a bump) and might ensure the goal, the demo-bot doesnt speed up and uses the boost I have. It just drives without boost toward the opponent though I could touch him much faster with the boost. I guess it's because I use the boost saving function, but honestly I would expect it to use all my boost to ensure the bump, even though I cant reach supersonic speed in reach of the opponent.
Rate: 4/5
Kickoff Bot
Insane. The timings are perfect. I combine the kickoff bot with me controlling the ball touch. Literally I'm always doing the first touch and can win alot of mid boosts. I use the kickoff-bot on my "Right Stick Down". Nothing more to say.
Rate: 5/5
Aerial Bot
Well. That's probably the most interesting bot out there for rocket league right now. First off, the aerial bot works very good. Not perfect, but I defenitly like were the development of this goes. I bind the aerial bot to "Left Stick Down". Why? I need my right thumb for the boost control, because I don't use the auto-boost or any other automation settings for the aerial bot. Also, because I'm able to move the stick around while holding it down, I can use my flip while using the bot. That already lead to some nice double-taps starting of the wall. You can also do some airdrags/dribbles with this bot, but you have to be a better player. I usually do the start of an airdribble/drag manually and then, when my setup was good, I let do the bot the rest. Nice goals happend! Backboard shots are very dangerous, when u just have to hold the button down.
Where I wish more improvement could be done? =>
- Longer aerials: Sometimes the bot turns the nose of my car high up in the air but the ball is far away. Like when a clear happens on our side, both oppenents are at our net so their's open. I immeaditly follow to get the bouncy ball close to their goal but I lose important time because the nose of my car is looking higher in the sky than it would've too. Maybe this is speed related. I just notice this rarely and I usually start aerials using my own skill.
- Defense aerial mode: Might be simple implemented and very effective. I usually use Normal Freestyle as my prefered aerial mode. But since there is already a "defense zone" I would love to choose another aerial mode for the defense behaviour. I would use the normal aerial mode for that purpose. The Normal Freestyle mode struggles with higher balls right above you "dropping on your topper" and with shadow defense. When the shot happens, my car sometimes turns the top to the floor and can't reach it anymore. Still did some epic saves with the aerial bot in Normal Freestyle
- Flip Reset mode: Would love to be able to use an own hotkey for this mode. I rarely use flip resets which would be wasted to uses as an "aerial mode".. :-)
- Sometimes the bot uses the wrong airroll direction. I noticed that more often when jumping from a higher point at the wall and the ball is not that far away. Airroll right would have make more sense but it used left or other way round. I counter this by flying more on my own skills from the wall and then let overtake the bot.
- Deny wheel shots: I use the airial control function for the ball touches. I let some open nets being open nets because the bot stopped airolling with my wheels towards the ball (mostly when i fly from the center and the ball is slightly left or right next to the goal). Wheel shots didnt give enough power and it got saved. Wheelshots, however, can be very usefull close above the net.
Rate: 4/5 (It's not perfect but I like the way it goes. Ensured me a lot of more ball touches and gaining more MMR in the end of the day, but I know that there is more power available)
Thanks for all the hard work you put in there!