1. Predation (4.71 stars, 1176 notes)

1. I'm being told that 03:30:799 and 05:13:779 are unsnapped so check your snapping. It's probably some weird ass 1/16h shit knowing you
2. 01:17:779 (1) why is this spinner so fucking long i mean it's whatever but why are you like this
3. did the corners of the screen offend you at some point

1. 00:34:080 (2,3,4,5) - on all 3 of these how come you're using different spacing coming off of the slider into the triple?
2. 00:42:404 (2,3,4,5) - you did it here in this section as well, but only once.. it just seems random
3. 00:49:947 (1,2,3) - can you make the visual spacing here look more like 00:53:241 (1,2)
4. 00:57:403 (1,2,3) - you might actually shoot me for this but 00:57:490 (2,3) is slightly different than 00:56:103 (2,3) . I'm not gonna point out these unless I really think they need to be pointed out because I'm fairly sure you're doing it on purpose but this is just a "i see what you're doing there" bullet point I guess
5. 01:28:791 (1) - shits starting to get weird I doubt i'll have much to say
6. 01:55:756 (5,6) - hey look one of those things i said i wasn't going to point out. but tbh here you could space this out more to make it obvious you're not going for the same overlap as 01:55:496 (3,4)
7. 01:57:577 (8,1) - do these shapes come to you in a dream and whisper in your ear?
8. 02:01:305 (3,4) - why make overlap smaller here?
9. 04:08:935 (4,5) - ^
10. 04:20:033 (5) - it'd be cute if you ceneterd this between the slider head and tail

Logic Agent wrote:

hey

[General]

1. I'm being told that 03:30:799 and 05:13:779 are unsnapped so check your snapping. It's probably some weird ass 1/16h shit knowing you fix
2. 01:17:779 (1) why is this spinner so fucking long i mean it's whatever but why are you like this fix
3. did the corners of the screen offend you at some point yes

[Predation]

1. 00:34:080 (2,3,4,5) - on all 3 of these how come you're using different spacing coming off of the slider into the triple? fix
2. 00:42:404 (2,3,4,5) - you did it here in this section as well, but only once.. it just seems random fix
3. 00:49:947 (1,2,3) - can you make the visual spacing here look more like 00:53:241 (1,2)
4. 00:57:403 (1,2,3) - you might actually shoot me for this but 00:57:490 (2,3) is slightly different than 00:56:103 (2,3) . I'm not gonna point out these unless I really think they need to be pointed out because I'm fairly sure you're doing it on purpose but this is just a "i see what you're doing there" bullet point I guess they're slightly different because when it's slightly off the player feels the unsettling nature of the music. Like, call it a meme reason but if things are slightly off it fits thematically.
5. 01:28:791 (1) - shits starting to get weird I doubt i'll have much to say
6. 01:55:756 (5,6) - hey look one of those things i said i wasn't going to point out. but tbh here you could space this out more to make it obvious you're not going for the same overlap as 01:55:496 (3,4)
7. 01:57:577 (8,1) - do these shapes come to you in a dream and whisper in your ear
8. 02:01:305 (3,4) - why make overlap smaller here? fix
9. 04:08:935 (4,5) - ^ fix
10. 04:20:033 (5) - it'd be cute if you ceneterd this between the slider head and tail mmm nah but made it cleaner

just as a like closing thought or whatever, something i didn't find or didn't find as much as i kinda thought i would is that sections with stuff like 04:15:785 (3,4,5,6,7,8) this, the second set of 3 wasn't more spaced out than the first... i'm probably explaining myself really badly but i think it'd be cool if the spacing kinda felt more like a spaced stream (maybe not this extreme) rather than a triple that just didn't happen to be stacked i see what you mean here but i also feel like that tends to be really weird difficulty-wise as this since is very lenient on cursor movement due to the higher circle size plus the more weidly-flowy patterning, having actual enforcement on a flowing arc (which a spaced set of 1/4 does, it forces the player to a much lower margin-of-error speed and movement) would feel out of place on this map, which has massive margins of movement error. 's a good idea but it's not quite what I'm going for so I'll pass on it.

weird shit dude, but you already knew i liked it so

Low wrote:

req in irc

[General]
- tags fuck da po-po
- i tried to mod this with the default skin and the BG, but the combo colors and the sliderpath color mingling with the colors of the background made this VERY difficult to read to the point of frustration. in the end, i did this mod using my own skin and by dimming the background significantly. take what you will from this statement, but i think the map BG/combo color/sliderpath combination makes this nearly unplayable. (i know everyone uses their own skins and dims the BG anyway, but it's worth mentioning this since one should be modding a map with default skin). the sliderborder is very bright with the background but with a fully dimmed bg its the exact color i want. Due to inherent slider transparencies it's nearly impossible to get a color that works right with both a full bg and a dimmed one, and considering the focus involved to get this map right, a fully dimmed bg is gonna be far more prudent to focus on for color cohesion.

[Predation]
00:38:676 (3,4,5) - i know the rhythm at this part is different from the section around it, but this triplet stack being behind 00:38:242 (2) rather than near the sliderend like you were doing before was jarring to play. i suggest moving it near the sliderend, but farther away than the rest of the patterns similar to this to indicate the change in rhythm. example The entire point is that it's slightly jarring - it's a different pattern entirely. The fact that it's behind the slider means that the player instantly knows that something is up, and if it's past the slider the initial instinct is to continue the weirdo rhythm pattern that they were following before - the triplet here is "normal", and by being so it's actually hard to read if it isn't very clearly different.
00:49:166 (2,3,4) - this looks better without the starts of the objects overlapping. like this ok
01:33:299 (3,4,5,6) - this whole pattern looks really jumbled and threw me off as i was trying to play this. perhaps re-arrange it to look like this to make it easier to read and less cluttered changed but not that way
02:29:658 (2,3) - this almost entirely obscures the slider path of 02:29:831 (1) and made me completely misread this, thinking (1) was two separate sliders. please move these so they don't do this this is a rhythmic pattern that happens over and over, and by this time it's happened already. These kinds of issues are due more to the player trying to read the map rather than keep with the extremely repetitive, if weird, rhythm. Keeping with the rhythm means you'll never read this wrong.
02:54:369 (5,1) - this is really hard to read since it's covered by 02:53:762 (2)! shift it a bit to make it not totally overlap, or just rework this pattern entirely ok

from a purely artistic standpoint, this map is absolutely beautiful. however, from a playing perspective, this map is inconsistent at times with the flow. i assume this was your intent, but this makes the map really fun to play at some (most) points, and a total bitch at others. once you get past the complicated rhythms, this map is generally fun to play with a few lapses (the inconsistency i mentioned). what you were consistent in, however, was the way you mapped the rhythms. this map is very structurally sound in terms of being mapped to the music, and this makes an all too tricky rhythm less of a hassle to get through.

I feel like the major weird inconsistencies you feel are due to the patterns simply being structured in ways you're not used to seeing, if ever - the structures all make sense and are all made to maintain the same, or similar, kinds of flow, but some of them contain weird overlaps or slight changes in the jerking of the cursor. This is fine, if not outright important, as there's no real point to this map if it doesn't give the player the feeling of something being really weird or off about it, but being able to FC it anyway. That's what I try to do as a mapper - I want to bring the players feeling, sensations, and move them as people, like the music does, not simply bring a gameplay challenge.

overall, i really like what you've done here! i've never seen a map like this ever, so kudos to you for making me say this since very few maps have ever evoked that response from me. it'll be interesting to see how the community responds to this map. good luck, and a star for creativity thank you

1. HP 4 seems kinda low for this but up to you I suppose.
2. A LOT of this map is kiai and it loses its impact when it's used so often. Consider using it more sparingly.

1. UNSNAPPED OBJECTS: 03:43:703 (1) and 04:51:940 (1)
2. 00:44:571 (3) - NC since this is a new measure and a totally different style.
3. 01:16:717 - Any reason for reducing the break to here? You didn't do it in the part after.
4. 01:44:051 (1,2) - This spacing looks really similar to 01:44:658 (5,1) even though they have different beat snapping divisors. Really easy to misread and I suggest having at least a slight difference in spacing.
5. 01:48:820 (4) - I don't think I support this slider shape to represent this sound since it's not very intricate or intense, and you use it later on multiple times for the "WEEERGGHSH" sound thing which is much more interesting.
6. 02:04:513 (1,2) - These two should just be mirror images of each other. If I had to choose one, I'd choose to replicate the first one since it doesn't look as unpolished.
7. 03:39:195 - I feel the impact sound as well as the change in pitch in the bass deserves to be represented with a circle on this tick.
8. 03:50:900 (5,1) - Not saying you need to change this but why do you have a random jump in the stream here? I can't find anything in the song to support this.
9. 04:31:219 (6,1) - Stack pls im triggered lol

Smoothie World wrote:

[General]

1. HP 4 seems kinda low for this but up to you I suppose.
2. A LOT of this map is kiai and it loses its impact when it's used so often. Consider using it more sparingly. shit son i know but at the same time its like, there's only 3 seperate parts of the song: the chorus, the dank chorus, and the weirdo bits. it'd be weird to only kiai the second half of the choruses, but... whatever

[Predation]

1. UNSNAPPED OBJECTS: 03:43:703 (1) and 04:51:940 (1) ya
2. 00:44:571 (3) - NC since this is a new measure and a totally different style. yah
3. 01:16:717 - Any reason for reducing the break to here? You didn't do it in the part after. weird ass bug shits
4. 01:44:051 (1,2) - This spacing looks really similar to 01:44:658 (5,1) even though they have different beat snapping divisors. Really easy to misread and I suggest having at least a slight difference in spacing. yah
5. 01:48:820 (4) - I don't think I support this slider shape to represent this sound since it's not very intricate or intense, and you use it later on multiple times for the "WEEERGGHSH" sound thing which is much more interesting. changed up a bit
6. 02:04:513 (1,2) - These two should just be mirror images of each other. If I had to choose one, I'd choose to replicate the first one since it doesn't look as unpolished. this had to be some weird ctrl+g bug, fixed
7. 03:39:195 - I feel the impact sound as well as the change in pitch in the bass deserves to be represented with a circle on this tick. sure let's give it a shot
8. 03:50:900 (5,1) - Not saying you need to change this but why do you have a random jump in the stream here? I can't find anything in the song to support this. This is a weird one. The jump isn't all that hard or strenuous, but i wanted to more cleraly emphasize that the stream ends on a bluetick slider, after starting on a white tick, this is really weird for alternators and it being more visually apparent was the difference between random, unfair breaks and more clearly knowing which finger you're supposed to start on. rant over i guess?
9. 04:31:219 (6,1) - Stack pls im triggered lol yah