deepfake

but but i really liked the break cause to me it creates a sense of tension and unease since it's unusual to have a break right after one burst or one note, causing the player to be thrown off guard and then the ominous sounds of the song come in while this girl is whispering "I am using my imagination" into your ear and the break makes it so the song demands all of your attention, but so far everyone has said it's boring so idk

I mean it follows your intention yeah, but also maps are meant to be played and I think a jumpscare burst on nothing followed by a 16 second break will have most any player not want to play the rest of the map, and if they do I doubt they would go back to play it again

ill keep for now unless a bn says to remove it

This just dumb, if you want tension add a spinner or slider instead that achieves basically the same thing without adding unnecessary shit.

All this does is make players not want to replay the map.

I originally had a spinner but _destiny said to remove it. Usually spinners are used for buildups and intense sections cause of the freeform movement it allows, but I think a break does a better job of actually representing the song properly, even if it diminishes the replay value

Why not a big slow slider, then the player is at least doing something

because I wanted the big sliders to be solely for the chorus

well the chorus sliders are much much much faster than what would be here so that would contrast well

ok Lets Be Nice Everyone first of all we do not need to be calling anything "unnecessary shit" especially when the reason for it has already been laid out to you in clear words

on top of that the break is just not an issue. i understand the frustration and theres nothing wrong with posting a suggestion for it, but this is 100% the type of thing thats ultimately up to the mappers discretion, and it clearly achieves an effect that they're going for. its fine and you dont need to change it

the burst is the only thing here that could be concerning from a "should this be ranked" perspective bc it's mapped to nothing (Wow) but a good rule of thumb w/ overmapping is just whether it feels natural, and imo it works great here

the only other issue i can think of with overmapping particularly at the beginning or ending silence of a song is that it could be a way to artifically extend drain time, but here the drain + break time would easily exceed 5 minutes regardless of whether the burst was there or not so that reasoning doesnt apply here ^^

yay

I feel like it doesn't make much sense to map the small changes in the vocals on such a calm section. also the rhythms are simplified to create the repeating up and down pattern as well as to represent the "lazy" type of singing he's using in this section

I think ill keep to stay consistent with all the other sliders

also you could add whistles for that pianos

changed to 1/8 and added whistles

I think I will keep to stay consistent with 02:07:645 (1,1,1,1) and 03:09:346 (1,1,1,1,1,1,1)

just played again btw whatever you did to this section feels crazy nice job

same as 01:10:198 (2) -,

done

omg the mods are never ending lmao, changed

welcome to the pain and suffering of ranking your first beat map

sure, but wouldn't that also make the next jump super hard to hit on time?

yeah thats the point

okay changed

ctrl g definitely fits the rhythm better but I think it throws off the flowy movement and also doesn't emphasize the vocals as much, i might change it tho since i agree it kinds of weird to ignore the kick

I don't rlly like that tbh

honestly this is probably a good idea but i like the jumpscare since i think that fits how the song suddenly shifts in intensity so i will keep for now

done

sure

fixed

raised sv to 0.5

I think its because the snare in the song kind of fades in, but the peak of the snare is correctly timed with the hitsound, it just fades in a little bit

resolving since no further discussion

oops

I think you pasted in the wrong time because I don't hear anything here and its not snapped to anything

no i believe i hear two sounds here :< but maybe i was tripping

yeah this was exactly what I was mentioning here #4675795

it did sound like timing to me, and same thing present here (i only came back cuz I saw update button when I went to play map again)

fair but also i wanted to have the same pattern in the middle throughout the map to kinda tie everything together, like at 01:18:051 (1,1) and 04:18:618 (1,1)

fair

I feel like shortening that slider doesn't do much but make it feel less impactful just for the sake of following the kicks, like that slider is supposed to be kind of out of place and stand out so it can signal a shift in the music and map, as well as the prolonged stop in motion into the super fast wub slider to give the next section a lot of impact

fixed

fixed

done

I tried to put those sliders (2,3) on a 45 degree type axis to make it feel different from everything else and i kinda like how it plays rn, can i keep?

maybe something like this for 2 would make the pause more apparent? since the player pauses here anyway the flow would be paused anyway so the slidershape direction won't affect the movement too much

changed

fixed

still there, select specifically the sliderbody and remove the sampleset

weird I swear I removed it, definitely changed now

made it a slow slider

yeah I didn't add it cause it wasn't one of the big sliders

like leave the in the same spot but just split then in half? idk how that would play

You should move them and repattern a bit if you do because you want more movement on top of the increased density to bring out your buildup

I forgot if I said this already but the idea for those sliders are to be neurons that are firing off around the brain slider, with each neuron slider growing in intensity, showing signs of distress and shit, cause in the lyrics he's saying "I don't know how much more I can take" so I think that really fits even if I had to ignore the drums

at least then could increase the sv throughout the pattern to make the buildup a little better

honestly I don't think it makes sense to do a build up in sv here cause the song is already at max intensity and its not really building up either, its kinda hitting the same beat over and over

well I say that bc you said each neuron is growing in intensity, when it doesnt really feel like that rn

the shape of them grow more chaotic to show that more neurons are firing off but the sv stays the same, ig a build up would show that better but I don't think that fits exactly with the song. I think having just the shape change but the sv stay the same is the right balance of representing what's actually happening in the song while also getting my artistic point across, but maybe that's only cause I was the one who mapped it so I understand all my ideas

resolving cause i think its fine

definitely a mistake whoops

move the 2nd anchor and the slider head right a bit

done

whoops

fixed

i like that yeah

missnapped?

oops I must've accidentally snapped it to 1/6 when changing timing

fixed

added circle on 4:17:271

u right

added a bit more spacing

moved the triple a bit closer

increased to 15%

see also 05:01:855 -,

keeping to keep consistent with all the other reverse sliders at the start of each measure