In Rocket League, communication is essential, we explained it to you in the guide for beginners, and that is, communicating well with your teammates within a game can lead to get victory. Remember that not everything consists of flying towards a ball, but in establishing a good strategy.
When you think about communication, you can come to think directly of the typical chats, but Rocket League is much more special for it. In this guide we are going to divide you communication in verbal and non-verbal so that you end up playing like a pro and can understand any situation.
Communicate within Rocket League
Verbal communication
In Rocket League you will meet a lot of information at once that you have to digest as quickly as possible, so you have to be efficient and this is not compatible with creating long and complex sentences. Therefore, the game allows you to talk to your teammates with shortcuts, a way not to focus too much on writing and not to waste time. These shortcuts are summarized as “nice try”, “thank you” or “bad luck”.
Another way to communicate verbally with your teammates are calls, but no long calls. The game itself brings voice chat, so we encourage you to use it, since it is a quick way to communicate, but of course, don’t focus on talking too much either, but to clarify the strategies of the game and focus on the ball. You can also use other external means for the call and use short sentences to achieve a good communication, but an even better match.
Non-verbal communication
Non-verbal communication in Rocket League exists, but it is sometimes difficult to convey to peers. The idea is to be willing to communicate, have a play-to-win attitude and have the best chance to get it. In the end, when you join a team in matches, you can’t send a Disccord link for them to join, which will require a different way of speaking.
You may not realize it, but every action you take within the game will send a signal to your team and opponents. To give you an example, every time you change momentum, you jump, fly, dodge or you simply go back, it is a non-verbal or bodily communication, which plays a fundamental role.
We give you a clearer example: you are in a 3vs3 match and they place you with a couple who are in voice chat with each other. Due to this, between them there is much more direct communication, but they will not include you, so they have perfectly created a good strategy and you are simply excluded. The simplest trick is keep an eye on the tires of their cars, yes, of the tires. If, for example, on the kickoff they are looking straight ahead, it probably indicates that they are going straight to the ball, but if they look to the side it means that they will go to an impulse platform. Another example would be, in a 3v3 game two of your teammates are pushing to put the ball in, so you It will be time to go back to the goal to defend.