Tyler Wilde first spotted a Reddit user on PCGamer who allegedly encountered cheaters while playing Rocket League Ranked. Like many of us, Tyler initially dismissed the clip as an unhappy player until he actually watched it.
Halfway through the clip (embedded below), it’s clear that something fishy is going on here. The supposed cheater in the clip is on the same team as the post author u/ghost_snyped, the clip is from the cheater’s point of view.
If, like me, you don’t have a lot of experience with Rocket League and only join in occasionally for the sake of friends, you might watch this video and assume that the player is really skilled to begin with. However, upon closer inspection, it is not difficult to find that the level of skill displayed by this cheater is inhumane.
That’s because cheaters are practically inhumane.
The cheater is actually a bot of RLGym. RLGym is an awesome machine learning tool for training Rocket League bots, including the one shown in the clip above. Now, of course people will find it and use it for nefarious means.
However, that’s not what the tool is for, and bots aren’t necessarily new to Rocket League. It so happened that someone manipulated RLGym’s machine learning bots for in-game revenue. The message is that people will only use RLGym’s tools to make their own newer and better bots.
RLGym also stated that it does not condone bots in ranked matches, and appears to be committed to keeping cheaters from abusing bots. Meanwhile, Rocket League developer Psyonix told PCGamer that it is “actively researching” a solution to the cheating issue.
