Welcome to Rocket League!

I know you want to dive right into the game but if you can spare just 10 minutes of your time I'll help you set up the game like most dedicated players did. Some of these settings will greatly improve your performance in the long run!

I will go over the basic settings step by step.

Some settings are highly subjective but for simplicity sake I present to you only the most commonly agreed upon settings.

Keybinds

Go to: Options -> Controls -> View/Change Bindings

Change these:

• Air roll: L1 (Xbox: LB)
• Powerslide: L1 (Xbox: LB)
• Boost: R1 (Xbox: RB)
• Air roll right: Circle (Xbox: B)
• Air roll left: Square (Xbox: X)
• Reset shot: Share (Xbox: Select)
• Controller Vibration: Disabled

Camera

Go to: Options -> Camera

Change these:

• Camera shake: uncheck
• Field of View: 110°
• Distance: 270
• Height: 100
• Angle: -4
• Stiffness: 0.5

Video Settings

Go to: Options -> Video

Change these:

• Vertical Sync: Uncheck
• Max FPS: 120 or 240 (since the phyics engine runs at 120fps)
• Render quality: High Quality, lower if your machine can't handle it effortlessly
• Texture detail: Quality or Performance
• World detail: Quality or Performance
• Particle detail: Performance
• Transparent goalposts: check
• all other checkboxes: uncheck

Interface Settings

Go to: Options -> Interface

• Nameplate scale: 130
• Nameplate mode: Default
• Team-colored boost meter: check

Where to go from here

Just have fun! You can hop right into casual playlists or mess around in Training until you feel competent enough for competitive playlists.

Note that the freeplay training mode is a very great ressource for improving your basic car and ball control. Just ignore the ball for some time and figure out how your car moves. Then hit the ball as hard as possible and follow up with another hit as fast as possible. This is called freeplay ballchasing and will help you improve a lot!

Whenever you feel like getting more serious with RL there are many content creators happy to show you the way. Some that did help me climb through the ranks:

• Why You Suck At Rocket League series by Sunless Khan, very entertaining yet informative
• Thanovics indepth mechanical advice for future Grand Champions Supersonic Legends
• Virge offers a lot of great advice regarding rotation and positioning
• CBell is a real life coach with great expertise regarding the mental game

Want free items? Watch RLCS!

Consider checking out the Rocket League Esport stream over on twitch. You can get free items by watching RLCS matches live! Head on over here to link your Twitch to your Rocket League account - that's all you need to do for a chance at random drops.

And to be honest, RLCS is just great fun to watch. You'll surely have a good time and will be amazed at what is possible in this game of car soccer. If you didn't knew: THIS IS ROCKET LEAGUE!

Questions?

If you have any questions just let me know in the comments!

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PS: If you are a RL veteran and don't agree with some of these settings, please note that I deliberately picked what I consider to be agreed upon basic settings and left out some settings that I don't consider mandatory for new players (audio settings, sensitivity and so on). I don't think this post is the place to discuss "Air roll vs air roll right/left" and such nuances that don't make sense to new players.

However, if you disagree with thing's I present here, let me know since I am willing to improve this post as I see fit.