By the gods, WHAT IS THAT?
Rofl, Lewa. XD I get carried away. Hehe.thelewa wrote:
By the gods, WHAT IS THAT?
G0r wrote:
Wow... I wake up to find that this thread became a monster while I was asleep. XD
Anyway, I read what everyone is saying, and aside from thinking it's super cool that everyone is taking this so seriously for you (which I understand, since you genuinely look like you could be a good player with more time and proper settings), I have something that I want to share. This is my story of learning to play Osu!.
I personally began playing Osu with a crappy mouse that I could barely control. I played hard, and I got to probably somewhere around your skill level, maybe a little better. I finally got a Deathadder gaming mouse, because it became apparent to me that I was spending so much time on this game that I obviously wanted to take it to the next level with some more precise tools. I started with that mouse. When I first began with it, I knew that the common knowledge was that low DPI is better, but somehow every time that I tried to set my DPI to 800, which is the common DPI that most pros use, I felt like it was impossible to play... so I started experimenting with setting it higher. I went up, up, up, until I was using 2000 DPI, and each time I went up I felt like I was playing better, and gaining control over my mouse. This was, in fact, an illusion. What I was gaining was more movement for less effort. Since my muscles weren't honed enough to handle some of the fast movements that I needed to play insane maps, I was feeling like I was playing better because my small efforts were being rewarded with dramatic movement and speed. This, however, made me terribly inaccurate, and my aim was not very good. I was still improving, though! I was steadily getting better and better from long hours of practice and fun. However, as I improved, and as my muscles got better, I started to see the error of my ways... I felt that it was taking so much muscle control and strain to control my mouse that sometimes I was sure I'd develop carpal tunnel eventually. It became impossible to tense my muscles enough to play the maps that I wanted to play. That is when I realized that I had to drop my DPI. I was at a skill level that was high enough that I could physically feel the need for it. I slowly started moving my DPI down. I went down, down, down, and every time I did it I felt like I was getting worse at the game, because my mouse felt harder and harder to move the way that I wanted to move it. At this point in time I was using something like 700 DPI. But then something cool happened... I started playing better... As I practiced more with lower DPI, my muscles began to understand what they needed to do with it, and I got better so quickly that I could feel the improvement every day. I got so good that I actually surpassed my previous skill level that I had when I was using 2000 DPI. I surpassed it by miles. At that point I noticed, however, that I was still feeling just a little off. I felt like I was still straining my hand, but now it was because I felt that getting to the very top and bottom of the screen was difficult for me. I finally decided that I wanted to go up to a nice rounded 800 DPI. I made that change, and I immediately felt better. It didn't feel like I was straining to do anything, and I didn't feel like it was too easy on my muscles either. It was just right for me. I've sometimes thought about going lower again, but the fact is that I probably never will, because now I am probably five times better than I ever was when I was using 700 DPI, and I might even be ten times better than I was with 2000 DPI. I can safely say that for the moment I have no plans to ever change from 800 until it becomes impossible for me to improve further at that setting.
Long story short, it took me a few months to get down to 700 DPI. It took me maybe one month to get back up to 800 and surpass my previous skill when I was on 700. Keep ramping it down, and play until you feel the difference. It's not going to be fast. it may take months. Just give it a real chance. The very least thing that you will get is a better understanding of how DPI effects your hand and your play.
Edit: I forgot to add that a couple months ago I got a Steelseries QCK+ mouse pad. Wow... It's good... Lol. Think about your playing surface too, as you get better. K. I'm done, I promise. XD
No.xsrsbsns wrote:
Use plain backgrounds. I personally use grey.
Fair enough, to TS: do this.thelewa wrote:
it's better to use the dim option
he barely learned to swim and you're telling him to jump into a whirlpoolRaging Bull wrote:
Well I suck at insanes now compared to before but if you can, try playing some val maps. They're pretty fun and quite challenging.
I had this reaction too.silmarilen wrote:
he barely learned to swim and you're telling him to jump into a whirlpoolRaging Bull wrote:
Well I suck at insanes now compared to before but if you can, try playing some val maps. They're pretty fun and quite challenging.
please, this person is having trouble with insanes, dont tell him to play maps that 90% of the people cant even play.
I'm guesssing when they do that 99% of good/decent players gonna quit. xdthelewa wrote:
No.xsrsbsns wrote:
Use plain backgrounds. I personally use grey.
NO.
People won't be able to delete or change the BG in like a few months anyway so it's better to use the dim option than to shoot yourself in the leg by getting used to playing with no BGs
Try forever to beat ths guy (FL not included, because impossibru) and you will get good at anything! /o/CXu wrote:
Have fun, that's the best way for improvement.
Many players use custom BGs (grey, etc), and then again many more use a PLAIN black backgrounds, this game will need a background toggle, hope peppy adds it.lolcubes wrote:
Don't really see why honestly. I used to delete a BG sometimes because some maps just have a too detailed background which is horribly distracting for me, but with the new dim feature you can dim it by so much that you barely even notice that there is a background in the first place.
As I said, no BG still feels better.thelewa wrote:
The combo colours problem will be solvedin the next buildedit: I read wrong, anyway there's going to be a colourblind mode that changes the combo colours into something that contrasts with the BG, at least I read peppy say that in Feature Requests
there's literally no justification to deleting BGs anymore
I'm not telling him to jump to the insane difficulty, but maps made by val. Maybe I should have been more specific.silmarilen wrote:
he barely learned to swim and you're telling him to jump into a whirlpoolRaging Bull wrote:
Well I suck at insanes now compared to before but if you can, try playing some val maps. They're pretty fun and quite challenging.
please, this person is having trouble with insanes, dont tell him to play maps that 90% of the people cant even play.
lolnomakkura wrote:
I always delete the BG, osu! should even have a No-SB and No-BG download option.
If this is actually going to be implemented I won't even be complaining inside my own head anymore.thelewa wrote:
The combo colours problem will be solvedin the next buildedit: I read wrong, anyway there's going to be a colourblind mode that changes the combo colours into something that contrasts with the BG, at least I read peppy say that in Feature Requests
there's literally no justification to deleting BGs anymore
what's so retarded about a no bg/sb option?thelewa wrote:
lolnomakkura wrote:
I always delete the BG, osu! should even have a No-SB and No-BG download option.
you're silly
I tried some beatmaps from your list and I failed them as fast as Sacrifice. Too fast for meAqo wrote:
Also, refer to my signature and try out all of the maps with "SP" in their 'style' on the listing, this will help you train spacing accuracy. If you couldn't pass a map on first try, use nofail on the second run, don't just retry a million times because that's just a waste of time. Play it once and move on to other maps, return to it much later once you got better.
Don't do this too much. It's how people get stuck on the easier insane maps, people start to believe because they are ranking maps they should be pro but the fact is they are simply playing easy to rank maps and not pushing themselves. It's good in moderation.makkura wrote:
Try to rankwhore, it will improve your skills a lot.
thelewa wrote:
lolnomakkura wrote:
I always delete the BG, osu! should even have a No-SB and No-BG download option.
you're silly
Wishy22 wrote:
1 day or 2 at most, worst possible scenario = a week or two.
Try playing maps that involve a lot of cursor movement, it should be quite fast, like you gonna see huge changes in a few hours. Use No Fail if necessary.
Well it only took me a few hours before I started getting back up to the level of my mouse it just felt natural, insanes are somewhat easier, but I couldn't seem to hover or spin good with full area so I experimented with portion after a few days on full and did about 80% of the full area. Everything felt much more easier, spinning was consistent, I rarely dragged the tip, and jumps felt a lot more easier. Though everything felt perfect at portion I decided to go back to full since every comment I read says it's best to learn full area in the long run, even friends who use portion recommended I play full. So here I am today adjusted back to full area which felt extremely slow at the beginning, but i'm now used to it except for spinning, it's so damn slow.WASSHOI wrote:
I was making good progress on my hards and feeling more like I was transitioning to insanes. Then I got a tablet today. I feel like I'm back to day 1 trying to get used to it, but I suppose that's to be expected. It's not like I'll be pro at using a tablet the day I take it out the box, I expected I'd take a while to adjust to it. But now I'm just practicing normals again to get used to the feel of a tablet and feelin like it's a step down.
Inspiration, anyone? How long did it take you to get used to the switch from mouse to tablet.
You'll develop a technique, eventually, and easily spin over 400.WASSHOI wrote:
Wishy22 wrote:
1 day or 2 at most, worst possible scenario = a week or two.
Try playing maps that involve a lot of cursor movement, it should be quite fast, like you gonna see huge changes in a few hours. Use No Fail if necessary.
Well I can say I see a noticeable improvement in how my tablet handles jumps and I'm slowly getting my accuracy back. I'll try moving to hards again in about an hour or so.
Edit - Also, how2spin faster with tablet? On Mouse I worked around a technique to spin pretty fast, tablet is going half the speed right now.