How about making rolls and spins not count in the pp system?
From what I'm gathering, the converted maps feature far more of these.
From what I'm gathering, the converted maps feature far more of these.
They are still readable (4:3) just like how 16:9 is. At least for me though. HRHD is much easier to manage than pure memorization just like HDFL, but you shouldn't say FL should be nerfed, since the hugest enemy FL players usually face is accuracy than the patterns itself, (also remember there's no OD change at all, and to be honest I am always amazed at people who can HRHDFL a map with over 97% accuracy) I still find HD easier than HR, maybe it's because I'm more used to HD. I have something on DT, where as long as the BPM is over <inserts BPM here, 140 for me>, extra pp should be given. I can't stand slow maps, anything below 140BPM, and I'd rather use DT with them, even with a lesser accuracy. And as for my standpoint,Nashmun wrote:
I do not agree with your comment on HDHR @Gezo, it's only readable if you play with a widescreen resolution.
DT < HR = HD < FLAs for coverted taiko vs. taiko only maps, I'd say give converted maps way lesser weights than taiko only maps. As skills increase, you can purely hit for taiko-only maps for pp instead of ranking on converted maps, as they are way easier to get ranks with. You can even get to the Top 50 even with a C rank.
I like what Tom94 says here.Tom94 wrote:
Converted vs. Taiko-specific
I plan to weight converted maps just as much as Taiko-specific maps and present you all with a list of beatmaps together with their respective difficulty. If it ends up working well I don't see a reason to exclude converted maps. If it won't work they won't be included (or by a small margin).
dddkkkddkkdkdkkkkdddkkdddkkkkkdkdkdkdddkdkdkkkdkdk = ddd kkk ddkk dkd kkkk ddd kk ddd kkkkk dkdkdk ddd kdkd kkk dkdkYou can't just say that streams are nothing more than a combination of these patterns and only marginally harder than the added value of all of them.
I play full alternate and I encourage all other players to learn full alt so you won't get any problems with hand switching. While patterns are a difficulty based on a person playing and his style, it is still not that much of a factor compared to SV(Speed of your eyes), OD(Precision of your tapping), BPM(Speed of your hands), Length of a pattern(Your stamina), Length of a song(Your stamina) and mods which increase or decrease the difficulty.Luna wrote:
Addressing the post above:dddkkkddkkdkdkkkkdddkkdddkkkkkdkdkdkdddkdkdkkkdkdk = ddd kkk ddkk dkd kkkk ddd kk ddd kkkkk dkdkdk ddd kdkd kkk dkdkYou can't just say that streams are nothing more than a combination of these patterns and only marginally harder than the added value of all of them.
If you split it this way, you need to keep in mind that hand switches occurr. Assuming you start the stream on your right hand, that equates to:
That's a LOT more complicated than you make it sound.
Yes but no, each player has it own way of dividing them. I differentiate them in a totally different manner than you and EBAWER. But I do agree with both of you that patterns shouldn't be taken in consideration for long stream, because one pattern that seems easy for a players is hard for another and vice versa.OnosakiHito wrote:
Hm. I have to agree with EBAWER123 post. I never thought in this way. That's interesting.
Luna, he is right I think. For example: ddd kkk d is nothing else than dddkkkd. You play it in the same way. Just with the difference, having a gap between a pattern.
Example:
ddkkdkddkd ≈ dd kk dkd dkd
kdkkdkkdk ≈ kdk kdk kdk
ddkkddkdk ≈ ddk kdd kdk
When alternaiting, you play it in the same way. One pattern just has a gap or not, that's the difference. And I think he is right with his opinion, that there shouldn't be a value for certain patterns. That was one of our biggest problems before, but in the way he mentioned it, this problem would be solved. Especially because the BPM would define what is harder or not(E.g.: BPM 240 ddddkkkkd > BPM 150 dk kd dk kd d (?)).
@WemadeFOX-solo: See it as proto-typ. It will change later for sure.
This is the way it SHOULD be. The old way was stupid as hell because if you weren't around when the mapset was ranked, you weren't going to get #1 because you KNOW there's gonna be one player who will 100% DTHD / DT / HR / HD the song. Just because they're the first person to do it doesn't mean they should get more points for it as BOTH tied plays took equal amount of skill to perform.- - - - - wrote:
It become second(third,fourth,fifth...) #1 = first #1.
for mod, this is so hot to the correct answer imo.OnosakiHito wrote:
Mods
Doubletime
The slower the song, the less pp you gain.
The faster the song, the more pp you gain.
Hidden
The slower the song, the more pp you gain because, you have to remember more notes for some periode of time.
The faster the song, the less pp you gain because, you have to remember less notes for some periode of time.
HardRock
The slower the song, the less pp you gain because, density becomes higher and notes are less clustered. Easier readable.
The faster the song, the more pp you gain because, the density becomes really high and hard to read.
Flashlight
Should be disabled or give no points. Too often there was a problem with this mod.
Most people do not play it and it has been often abused (HD+FL+HR). That's my opinion.
Of course, we have to take care of OD and SV here.
well, some people actually have fun through FL. It gives players with lesser raw skill (considering legit ones in this case) an opportunity to compete evenly with higher raw skill, non-FL players (although memorization itself is already a skill imo; only some people can actually do it in fewer tries than anyone else/do hardcore, non-repetitive stuffs. Take baka_baka_Koishi, for example. Regardless, it's not really raw, but still). Although I haven't tried it at all, I think it's NOT impossible to actually train your reflexes with FL, but then again it's much more tedious to train than with other mods, thus making people not go through it. Just my opinion.WemadeFOX-solo wrote:
This, flashlight may be an challenge to the player but shouldn't influence in the ladder at all, people are just abusing of it to raise pp.OnosakiHito wrote:
Flashlight
Should be disabled or give no points. Too often there was a problem with this mod.
Most people do not play it and it has been often abused (HD+FL+HR). That's my opinion.
THIS. I didn't train my accuracy, deserving me a lower rank; but trying mod combinations that other people (or, to say the most, anyone) don't/can't (talking about individual song-wise, not overall) clearly helped me raise a lot.EBAWER123 wrote:
The whole ranking is about becoming better, not hiding in the corner and playing only in your comfort zone. Playing higher BPM, increasing your stamina, your reading skills, trying new mods, increasing your accuracy; striving to be better - isn't this the whole point of having a higher rank than someone else?
my agreements are highlighted in red._Gezo_ wrote:
Loctav wrote:
Basically I see it like (vision based mods. HD/HR/FL only affect vision): (HD = HR) < HD+HR < FL < FL+HR < FL+HD < FL+HD+HR
DT is an extra factor, increasing OD and BPM and therefore should be calculated into the difficulty where note density calculations happen.
HR affects OD as well. Else, well you'd see many more HRDT scores on average BPM songs (that is 110-140 bpm range no more)
HRHD is not impossible to read, it's very tough and playable at a very limited range !
FL+HD+anything is "memorization", FL+HR is also memorization (except when BPM gets abusively low) as you have a ridiculous reading timespan.
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yes, since this thing itself is obviously subjective.LunaticP wrote:
anyway actually different people may divide stream in different way, hard to say who is right
1. But then the game will be basically accuracy-oriented instead of skill-oriented.- Yuuka Niya - wrote:
Something I want to say:
① OD of course higher OD means higher pp
②mod I think DT>HR=HD>FL of course. Or you can just let FL≈0.(HR+HD) should not be more than( HR)+(HD).So is HDFL and HRFL and HDHRFL
③of course Taiko only maps far more than converted maps.From pp now I think 3 times is not enough.Maybe it should be 5 timers or more.
④The difficulty of the map itself. I think this is the most important.There are many points.
(1)BPM this BPM is the REAL BPM but not what the mapper give us. For example, the big black should be calculated as 180BPM but not 360.
(2)Change of the colors. I only have a theory of calculate the difficulty of a stream.I'm trying to translate it to English.
(3)Rhythm change. 1/6+1/4 is harder than 1/4 only of course.
(4)Note density. I think this one needn't be explained.
(5)Star rate. That's really means nothing in Taiko. So many wrong examples.
if you have any questions about what I say u can ask here or just PM me.
well, I'm actually a 4:3 fullscreen player, but I like playing HR on that reso (and just a friendly reminder: utterly EVERYONE can adjust the reso like I did without having more than ONE monitor). Yeah, the "half a note" thing is really bugging, and people wouldn't even try to adjust their monitor's brightness/contrast/both for that. My (own) suggestion is to increase the visibility by a bit (not large enough to make Taiko scoreboards look like STD's), although we don't know if that will ever be implemented.Nashmun wrote:
But you're an extra widescreen player, the area where you can actually see the notes is way higher than others players. Seeing only half a note IS NOT playable at all. As long as HDHR isn't fixed and playable for everyone, there is still a big issue with that mod.
About FLHD, yes we do have some legit players, but it's too easy to DS and the majority of the FLHD scores are DS. Do you prefer to advantage the non-legit plays just to reward the minority of legit plays ?
can't agree more XDTKSalt wrote:
osu!taiko compete for the "memorize skill"!
ahhh im so noob.... yes..
..yeah, this is wrong.
Can't agree this more.If HD+FL=HD,how about HDHRFL and HDHR? maybe all of them can be same as HR?OnosakiHito wrote:
Hm. Some of you used the term "unfair" in the last hours due to differences between players and their gameplay.
But if you ask me, the main gameplay is already(or if not, can be) determinated:
Keyboard: kddk
→ As I said before, Taiko is a drum game. And kddk is the authentic gameplay for this game. Not because TNT does so. Rather because the drum is designed in this way - the rim and the centre.
Screen: Widescreen
→ Some of you might disagree with me, but I say that the Widescreen is the main-option here. At this point I might be old-fashioned, but TNT is using this option even with a higher scroll range. In general, HR becomes easier readable and the mod HD+HR is up to a certian extend possible with WS*. Yes, the impact from HD 4:3 to WS is bigger than the one from HR, since the range you have to "memories" in HD becomes bigger while in HR you have more time to see the upcoming notes. But HD-Players can compensate this better than HR player from WS to 4:3.
Additional to this, I want to add what XK2238 said before: Those who can't play HR+HD on 4:3 can change to WS to be able to play it. Reasons like "they are not used to it" or something like that is rather up to the person and shouldn't be taken into account in such discussion.
FL+HD
If some of you really want to keep this mod, a possible solution would be to count HD+FL as HD play. I still say that this mod is too dangerous, but those of you who really like to play it can still do so and be marked as FL+HD player in the ranking. Just with the difference that your HD+FL points = HD points.
That's my opinion again. I see it from a technical way - what is the most beneficial one. Not what a single user wants to see, since this can lead easy to unfair decisions I think.
* Widescreen
Ono was referring to the Doron mode for HDFL = HD. HRHD also works as Doron, so does HRHDFL.- Yuuka Niya - wrote:
Can't agree this more.If HD+FL=HD,how about HDHRFL and HDHR? maybe all of them can be same as HR?
If you are meaning the "authentic" thing, I would like to clarify that all of the stated playing styles by me are capable with your model, they are all possible play styles with the orientation kddkOnosakiHito wrote:
^ http://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/2834015
While this is true, it's a moot point since the default (and should I say main?) input type for a computer is a keyboard (and a mouse), and not a drum. While our taiko is based off TnT, it's not TnT.OnosakiHito wrote:
→ As I said before, Taiko is a drum game. And kddk is the authentic gameplay for this game. Not because TNT does so. Rather because the drum is designed in this way - the rim and the centre.
oh..though I'm kddk ,there are really many ddkk players. So some discussion above means nothing I think.lolcubes wrote:
While this is true, it's a moot point since the default (and should I say main?) input type for a computer is a keyboard (and a mouse), and not a drum. While our taiko is based off TnT, it's not TnT.OnosakiHito wrote:
→ As I said before, Taiko is a drum game. And kddk is the authentic gameplay for this game. Not because TNT does so. Rather because the drum is designed in this way - the rim and the centre.
For the purpose of discussion, we could say that we should be focusing on the default key setup to play with, and that is zxcv in a kddk setup though. That's a more valid argument in my opinion.
osu!standard has nothing in the difficulty formula in the patterns being played by different playstyles (mouse only, tablet + kb, lmb/x, etc), so I'd suggest to keep our taiko that way as well, meaning, it matters little if a pattern is easier or harder on a certain key setup.
Naah, the key setups of the playstyles that I've stated are the same, manOnosakiHito wrote:
Or that.
- Most people said so far HD=HR, so it's cool._verto_ wrote:
SPOILERI'm not really that experienced in taiko, so I'll just speak from my perspective, instead of trying to lay down some hard facts.
I read that you guys think HD<HR, but I think the better you get, the easier HD will become, because you sort of memorise the patterns with muscle memory, so you don't need to "think" about it (or at least that's what I noticed). I only recently started playing HD, but I still find HR easier than HD on a map like this https://osu.ppy.sh/s/45672 , even though I play on 1366x768.
Also I'm a ddkk player, though after seeing what kddk players consider hard, I found that it's similar to what I find hard. Like I think ddkkddkk-- patterns are a breeze, while triplets (especially kat triplets) in a stream is really hard or annoying.
Without the mechanical way it is hard to consider what is hard/easy. How else do you want to estimate patterns? By looking at them?Quiesce wrote:
We should purely focus on the technical aspects of the game, not the mechanical.
Well, then we do not need the mod if people think in this way. Sounds hard, but I see no point in supporting a "dangerous mod" because people want to gain just points and ranks with it.XK2238 wrote:
SPOILEROr at least make FL give 1.06x only (meaning FL + HD/HR = DT, FL + HDHR/DT = HDT/DTHR)... Please, people won't even bother trying to HDFL if it's only going to be exactly the same as HD >.> same applies with +HR.
Think of it as a middle road.
We talked about this before. It is possible up to a certain extend. Please read the previous pages.darkmiz wrote:
i agree that HD+HR is impossible to read, every note looks like 3~4 note cluster.
I'm sorry but I can't agree with u.XK2238 wrote:
Or at least make FL give 1.06x only (meaning FL + HD/HR = DT, FL + HDHR/DT = HDT/DTHR)... Please, people won't even bother trying to HDFL if it's only going to be exactly the same as HD >.> same applies with +HR.
Think of it as a middle road.
the sad truth has been spoken..._Gezo_ wrote:
You guys should drop FL, honestly whatever happens there's nothing you can do to counter the multiscreen players without penalizing true memory players.
In fact you have to agree that multiscreen players is far more than true memory players when HDFL or HDHRFL._Gezo_ wrote:
You guys should drop FL, honestly whatever happens there's nothing you can do to counter the multiscreen players without penalizing true memory players.
In my opinion yes, if you are using the kddk set-up and playing full alt you can play very easily every 1/2 on 300bpm maps and if the map don't have lots of 1/4 it's very simple. But if you singletap everything it'll become way harder/ impossible.Quiesce wrote:
Does a certain playstyle confer advantages to playing the game? This is the question we're asking.
i'd say full alt players usually have lower accuracy but orukaa would strike me downTimmyAkmed wrote:
In my opinion yes, if you are using the kddk set-up and playing full alt you can play very easily every 1/2 on 300bpm maps and if the map don't have lots of 1/4 it's very simple. But if you singletap everything it'll become way harder/ impossible.Quiesce wrote:
Does a certain playstyle confer advantages to playing the game? This is the question we're asking.
Since this playstyle is the most "optimal" the difficulty should be calculated with the playstyle that makes the game easier imo.
RaneFire wrote:
So I read the whole thread... and this patterns stuff seems to be going back and forth.
I should probably mention how bad I am first, so take my post as a long-winded opinion. Shoot me down if you must, but I'm interested in taiko nonetheless..
The ranking system needs to rank all players. I'm practically a newbie, despite playing occasionally in the past, only playing muzu's and trying to delve into oni's occasionally, but it's hard. The reason I can't play those oni's is because of the non-repetitive patterns which are very randomised long streams or randomised short patterns with gaps. (Random = non-repetitive) These are just too hard... But when a pattern repeats, no matter where, even in a long stream or with a gap, it is very easy to read and play, even with hand changes. It just needs to repeat only once, and reading is far easier.
Ebawer's example of how you break up reading patterns is correct... I'm noob and already do it. I think other people's examples of longer patterns involving hand changes is subjectively wrong, although their examples are correct. However this is not due to hand-changes, but due to reading complexity, determining when the pattern changes, requiring a hand-switch. You don't read 12 notes at once, you read them in pieces.
Instead of determining which patterns are easier, we should give all patterns a static difficulty based only on their length, up to 5 or 6 notes (including streams)... and rather than rank their difficulty, instead create an algorithm for identifying these patterns (and lengths) and only weight the randomness of the patterns used, i.e. repetition vs non-repetition. You could get more into the specifics of breaking-up the easy ddddkkkk patterns or dkdkdkdkdk, but that's not hard to do.
I think including 62 patterns into some difficulty hierarchy algorithm is going to be far too much work to balance correctly between play styles. The randomness between these patterns is the only thing you can work with. Pattern groups with a random/non-repetitive nature that go on for longer would be worth more "complexity" score. It should also carefully consider odd and even pattern groups though, like having 1 pattern repeated in between a different pattern every time.
This would also solve your auto-convert problem... I think, because they're objectively broken. The hard ones would stay hard, and the easy ones with 1/8 spam would be worth nothing. Ignore rolls and spinners too from calculation... I don't think those have anything to do with skill... just mashing speed.
I'm wearing my bulls-eye T-shirt today.
Nope, this is not true.RaneFire wrote:
I think other people's examples of longer patterns involving hand changes is subjectively wrong, although their examples are correct. However this is not due to hand-changes, but due to reading complexity, determining when the pattern changes, requiring a hand-switch. You don't read 12 notes at once, you read them in pieces.
LunaticP wrote:
Totally disagree sorry.
First don't call a patten random, no patten is random only if you map in random mood and make it shit. Every patten have its meaning and effect in the map. If the map continue to repeat a patten it looks shit already. And I assume mapper talking in here are not mapping shit.
If you really think a patten is random you should play more and you will not think in that way.
Second in a player's angle, I actually don't know how many times the patten(e.g ddk) have appeared. I play when I see the patten, no matter if that patten appear before. The most extreme case is this.
And on your logic, you think that the program should only check how many times a patten appeared? Then the example map given is really easy right? Please explain on your point on this.
Luna wrote:
Nope, this is not true.
Patterns that don't require leading hand switches are automatically more regular and repetitive. And I don't read streams as a single unit either, I do break them up into parts (albeit using a different "algorithm" than EBAWER); when playing long Firce-style deathstreams I hardly ever miss because I misread, I miss because I mechanically mess up a leading hand switch.
I'd also like to repeat that I don't think every stream with hand switches is extremely hard; I already mentioned before that something like kddkddkddkddkddkddkddkddk is simple due to repetition. It's the irregularity of pattern / hand switches that makes a stream truly hard.
By that logic I can't read 400 BPM monocolor streamsRaneFire wrote:
IMO I treat the idea of reading and execution as one and the same. If you can't do it consistently, you still have trouble reading it.
You know what I mean. The definition of the word was the problem. Stop being stupid about this just because I'm not a pro taiko'er. It's a game, just because I'm not good at it does not mean I'm stupid.Luna wrote:
By that logic I can't read 400 BPM monocolor streamsRaneFire wrote:
IMO I treat the idea of reading and execution as one and the same. If you can't do it consistently, you still have trouble reading it.
1. ddk ddk ddk ddk ddkLunaticP wrote:
Just answer this , which one you think is easier?
1. ddk ddk ddk ddk ddk
2. ddk d k ddk d k ddk
3. ddk ddk d k ddk ddk
yea thisLuna wrote:
Actually, for me ddk d k ddk d k ddk... is the easiest out of those patterns. Can't really explain why though, it just flows better than ddk ddk ddk ddk...
#2 for me. For my old really weird playstyle #1 would be easiest but not on really high bpm. Now it's #2 regardless of the bpm, unless I am not really able to do that bpm in general.LunaticP wrote:
Just answer this , which one you think is easier?
1. ddk ddk ddk ddk ddk
2. ddk d k ddk d k ddk
3. ddk ddk d k ddk ddk
Don't feel offended, however you still can't grasp the true difficulty of oni maps (and higher level oni maps) just yet.RaneFire wrote:
Yes, I'm trying to pinpoint that irregularity with an algorithm. You make a good point, but it could also be a playstyle difference, and that's where I was trying to stem my argument from... because no one wants to agree. There's arguably more main-hand players though and alternaters have an easier time with hand-switches. Oh well... I tried.
I'd be interested to know what, or why, you changed. Was there something "wrong" with your previous style? Is there a superior playstyle overall?lolcubes wrote:
#2 for me. For my old really weird playstyle #1 would be easiest but not on really high bpm. Now it's #2 regardless of the bpm, unless I am not really able to do that bpm in general.
I swapped to full alternate because I was unable to do streams longer than 9~ notes (well, monocolors or streams which had 2 same colors if you divide a stream on 2x2x2x2 etc were actually fine) or even most simple chains on bpm higher than 150 (kdddkdddkdddkdddkdddk etc) because my playstyle was to cheese every pattern combination in a way I find it easier to play, so every 3~5 note (except for dkkkd, kkkdd and dkdkk, those were really impossible) was really easy to perform for me in any situation, but put them inside a stream and I'm done for.RaneFire wrote:
I'd be interested to know what, or why, you changed. Was there something "wrong" with your previous style? Is there a superior playstyle overall?lolcubes wrote:
#2 for me. For my old really weird playstyle #1 would be easiest but not on really high bpm. Now it's #2 regardless of the bpm, unless I am not really able to do that bpm in general.
Yeah, I think Orukaa is an inspiration to everyone. :pRaneFire wrote:
I do play full-alternating in Taiko, so maybe this takes a little longer to get into oni's, but full-alternating always felt more natural to play. Watching some of Orukaa's DT plays was even more of an inspiration to go for it since he was so fast and accurate. I was pretty much looking for an excuse to play it and he gave me one.
ofc you can'tLuna wrote:
By that logic I can't read 400 BPM monocolor streams
WemadeFOX-solo wrote:
So i keep losing ranking by playing normals and fcing it with 99~100%, is this part of the new pp system which try to promote to play harder beatmaps or it wont be part of the new pp system and is just being not functional?
2>1=4>3LunaticP wrote:
Orukaa is not a human at all,no need to kill your hand because of this....
Now the true question come,and this may brings problem because of two common playing style
Select the one you think the hardest
1. ddk k k ddk k k
2. ddk d d ddk d d
3. ddk d k ddk d k
4. ddk k d ddk k d
This result will be put into my program as well
Except we're trying to judge map difficulty and player skill, not rank maps or judge map quality. If a guy gets a good score on a ridiculously stupid and difficult ranked map, it should count for skill, as long as it's already ranked. Getting a good score on a difficult map of bad quality is still getting a good score on a difficult map.lolcubes wrote:
Imagine if any retarded taiko specific maps are allowed to get ranked. It's kinda the same.
well, some people actually have fun through FL. It gives players with lesser raw skill (considering legit ones in this case) an opportunity to compete evenly with higher raw skill, non-FL players (although memorization itself is already a skill imo; only some people can actually do it in fewer tries than anyone else/do hardcore, non-repetitive stuffs. Take baka_baka_Koishi, for example. Regardless, it's not really raw, but still). Although I haven't tried it at all, I think it's NOT impossible to actually train your reflexes with FL, but then again it's much more tedious to train than with other mods, thus making people not go through it. Just my opinion.1.
Just because HR raises OD doesn't mean you'd need less rhythmic accuracy or playing HD.MeeHawk wrote:
This game is a rythim game ( meaning of course that you need to play in the right rythim), so accuracy should count way more than other mods, meaning that DT and HR should be more rewarded since it raises OD.Takes skill to play HD too, meaning you can follow the rythim, but anyway HR>HD. By the way, HR&HD IS playable.
In my honest opinion that's a rather weak argument. There is an easy fix to it: Map it yourself.MeeHawk wrote:
I think converted maps SHOULD count as well, because there are songs you like, and there's not a taiko mode on it. But the converted ones shouldn't be weighted as much as taiko maps, UNLESS Tom94 comes up with a nice system.
Agreed. The old pp system was very broken because you could rocket up the ranking list by getting some decent scores on low difficulty converts, so this discussion is much needed if we want a new and working ranking/pp system.Jikson[m9] wrote:
If you remember there are a lot of converted easy's performance spamming the best performances in the previous pp system, and everyone could tell that those were not really "good" performance when compared with those which are performed with Oni maps. I do think it is essential to discuss whether should we count in converted map performances or not to.