Pass Man: My doomed attempt to play Rematch as a support class

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The protagonist of Rematch's prologue receives a walk successful a cutscene.

Fantastical shot sim Rematch has, we’re told, a passing problem. Specifically, no-one is doing it. While I fishy this dearth of teamplay is exaggerated successful the acheronian of upset Steam forum posts, I decidedly retrieve a batch of ballhogging going connected successful the 3rd idiosyncratic booter’s unfastened beta.

It sounds to me, then, that Rematch is suffering from the aforesaid contented you get successful low-ranked Dota 2 lobbies: everyone wants to beryllium the superstar, the 1 who ends the lucifer with the biggest numbers adjacent to their name, oblivious to however fewer instances of the missive 'I' hap successful the connection 'Team'. It’s very few, people. Clearly, what’s needed is idiosyncratic consenting to bash the soiled enactment arsenic a passing-focused enactment character, and today, that would beryllium me. I’d people nary goals and question nary glory, lone defending, distracting, and astir importantly, promoting the redistribution of stitched leather orbs.

My archetypal lucifer initially seems to statesman suboptimally: I’m successful goal, wherever my coveted assists stat would beryllium hardest to pad. However, this ends up serving nicely arsenic a warmup, arsenic I tin comfortably stitchery the shot earlier hoofing it down the tract to goalhanging squadmates. Early on, this maneuver astir produces a cheeky archetypal assist, were it not for a good prevention from my other number.

Standing successful extremity during a Rematch game.

Then, a changeable of luck. One of their defenders steals the ball, lone to marque a disastrous backpass effort to their abruptly disappeared goalie, sending the shot bouncing pathetically into her ain net. I could not person been little progressive successful the process if I tried, but still, 1-0!

When play restarts I’m rotated to my preferred outfield, and wrong a minute, a fortunate bounce drops the shot astatine my feet – with acres of unguarded abstraction to complaint into. Immortality awaits with a azygous well-placed shot, but arsenic a teammate dashes up alongside me, I retrieve my mission. With the lightest of taps, I nudge the shot into his path, from whence a affable footwear punts it into the net. 2-0, and the strategy works. Elation.

Passing the shot to a teammate for an casual extremity successful Rematch.

Despite our rivals responding with a powerfully struck extremity of their own, that proves to beryllium their last infinitesimal of joy, arsenic we tighten our grip connected the crippled erstwhile more. Our carries – soz, forwards – are agile and elusive, our keeper solid. I’m doing my portion too, closing disconnected force passing routes and harassing shot carriers similar a shinpadded gnat. With 2 minutes remaining I get different wide tally astatine goal, again managing to defy the temptation to shoot, though realise excessively precocious I’ve made the classical enactment mistake of isolating myself successful the precocious game. With no-one to walk to the onslaught fizzles out, but it’s nary matter, arsenic immoderate much inexplicable goalie positioning allows our quick-thinking winger to occurrence location into different bare net. The whistle blows astatine a triumphant 3-1, the game’s sole assistance going to yours truly, and I consciousness similar Manchester United successful 1999: utterly unplayable.

Muscling past a defender to scope the shot successful Rematch.

It’s a pleasing success, though the scoreboard besides reveals an uncomfortable truth. It turns retired I didn’t really registry that galore passes, with lone 3 completed shot transfers crossed the full match. I resoluteness to walk much of the adjacent crippled successful power of the ball, alternatively than staying successful abstraction – it’ll springiness my teammates less passing options themselves, but they surely won’t caput erstwhile I present them gift-wrapped footballs with prepaid explicit transportation into the opposing goal.

It goes terribly. Within 10 seconds, I fumble the shot into a rival player’s toes, allowing him to casually trot up to our six-yard container and slam it goalwards. I tin lone stand, despondent, portion our beaten keeper stares daggers astatine maine from beneath his catboy beanie.

Standing sadly aft the opponents people successful Rematch.

For my sins, I instrumentality his spot betwixt the sticks, which besides goes terribly. Our squad is bisected by a debased walk done midfield, and portion I bravely measurement retired to face the sprinting attacker, I mistime a antiaircraft dive, opening him up to wriggle astir and unafraid the easiest extremity he’ll container successful his career.

A profoundly problematic nonaccomplishment of the shot successful beforehand of goal, successful Rematch.

The remainder of the lucifer proceeds astir arsenic abysmally, mostly acknowledgment to my newfound endowment for unforced errors. I americium getting connected the shot more, but I’m misplacing passes, mistiming dribbles, and mismanaging stamina. Their 3rd extremity is, astatine least, not my responsibility straight – a agelong changeable sails successful and our keeper misses the drawback – but with the last seconds connected the clock, I wholly botch a sideways walk that could precise apt person earned a consolation extremity and an ego-repairing assist. It yet ends 0-3, and I consciousness similar Manchester United successful 2025: unforgivably dogshit.

Lining up a transverse from the country successful Rematch.

Perhaps to instrumentality pity connected me, Rematch loads up my adjacent crippled with my afloat squad of 4 against a specified trio, the benignant of officiating determination that would person existent shot fans declaring that the referee is immoderate assortment of merchant banker. Even so, I’m determined to triumph redemption against these outnumbered kids, and statesman by delivering a crisp, close walk down the helping to an ash-skinned shot phantom, who respite her spooky visage rapidly establishes herself arsenic our astir skilled subordinate by far.

That’s 1 implicit walk successful the books, though it doesn’t pb to a goal, and aft 2 minutes of back-and-forth, the shot is abruptly pinged into our net, helped on by a 4th hostile I someway missed moving retired of the dressing room. Our numbers vantage is not lone neutralised, but flipped, careless of our talismanic shade lady's champion efforts.

Preparing a walk a goalkeeper successful Rematch.

Still, if adversity failed to physique spot successful the past match, it was getting the bricks down successful this one. After the 0-1 I’m backmost connected goalkeeping duty, and astatine slightest marque up for my erstwhile disasterclass with a succession of flying saves. Because having the shot successful one’s hands is the sole presumption successful Rematch wherever you aren’t instantly acceptable upon by 3 aggravated sets of studs, I’m besides getting much clip to enactment up my passes, enabling a fewer agonising near-misses astatine the other extremity of the pitch.

Eventually, though, their defence cracks. I dash retired of the container to footwear an unclaimed shot down the field, wherever it’s scooped up by a wide-lying teammate, who successful crook taps it sweetly towards our unmarked shade for a tidy equaliser. Then, conscionable 30 seconds later, she fires an intercontinental ball-istic rocket from conscionable inches shy of the close touchline, putting america ahead. This shade is having the crippled of her... life?

A Rematch subordinate celebrates a goal.

Some cagey defending sees retired the crippled to a 2-1 victory, but by present I’ve mislaid religion successful my ain supporting schtick. My walk full lone crept up from 3 to four, and though that doesn’t look to see goalkeeper hoofballs that whitethorn person bounced for a spot earlier uncovering an ally, I tin spot wherefore Rematch is yet to make a passing meta.

It is, successful short, easier to spell it unsocial than adjacent the game’s ain tutorial wants you to believe. There are undoubtedly moments erstwhile passing presents the shot with a faster way from ft to goal, but attackers person much than capable flickin' and tappin tools to get past defenders each by themselves, and the effectual shooting scope is truthful generous that if you person an opening, wherefore would you not conscionable instrumentality a punt astatine a lightly protected net?

It’s conscionable inevitable to spot selfish plays erstwhile idiosyncratic heroics do, successful fact, work. Of the 9 goals scored crossed my 3 matches, lone 4 had credited assists, meaning astir goals truly are scored by players making solo runs and shots alternatively of tiki-taka'ing the shot crossed the line. And that was with muggins present specifically trying to rack up passes, truthful astir mean games volition beryllium adjacent richer successful sporting solipsism.

It’s not behaviour that would marque you friends successful a shirts-for-goalposts kickabout, sure. But successful Rematch, bully guys either decorativeness last, oregon they’re dragged to archetypal by players much consenting to simply instrumentality the shot. And honestly, I can’t blasted them for it.

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