How to find good unranked beatmaps?
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I can't believe I'm saying this but
lurk moar
in all honesty, you have to start by looking around what people are playing, check what they're playing out, find similar charts or charts by the same mapper.
Get out of the mindset of 'all ranked maps are good, unranked maps are usually bad' and into 'a map may be good or not regardless of its ranked condition'
participate on IRC, join multiplayer games that look promising or have high level players, etc.. You'll get used to the unranked way of life quickly.
lurk moar
in all honesty, you have to start by looking around what people are playing, check what they're playing out, find similar charts or charts by the same mapper.
Get out of the mindset of 'all ranked maps are good, unranked maps are usually bad' and into 'a map may be good or not regardless of its ranked condition'
participate on IRC, join multiplayer games that look promising or have high level players, etc.. You'll get used to the unranked way of life quickly.
My biggest advice would be go to multiplayer. There are endless number of good unranked maps played by people in multiplayer.
Pay attention to who maps things. Whenever you find something you like, take note of who mapped it, maybe even check out their other maps. Each mapper tends to develop their own style, so when you find a mapper who's style you like, you're more likely to enjoy their other maps too.
Also, give completely random maps a chance. When checking pending/wip maps I usually check to see what the hardest difficulty is. If a map has one difficulty and it's an Easy, I won't even look at it because I don't play easy stuff, but if a map has 1 Insane diff, I'll check it because I know if it's good I'll probably keep it.
You don't need to use multi to find good unranked maps, but it can help if you find a game where people are playing good unranked sutff. Multi can also help you find decent unsubmitted stuff if you're lucky.
Also, give completely random maps a chance. When checking pending/wip maps I usually check to see what the hardest difficulty is. If a map has one difficulty and it's an Easy, I won't even look at it because I don't play easy stuff, but if a map has 1 Insane diff, I'll check it because I know if it's good I'll probably keep it.
You don't need to use multi to find good unranked maps, but it can help if you find a game where people are playing good unranked sutff. Multi can also help you find decent unsubmitted stuff if you're lucky.
besides this, dropboxes around the place several people have their own more so for 4k, there are some like blocko for 7k and i dont think there are any for 5,6,8k they will provide several converts from other games some of a lower quality compared to others be warned that it is a risk however you are likely to find good practise songs in them. in regards to 8k and 6k you can also convert your own songs i think the most would come from lunatic rave 2 maps which the game has a converter in the editor, if someone could indicate the location of this better it would help, in regards to 5k i dont know of a good source to find maps in this area, 9/10k are the same though there was one game with a lot of 9k maps that i cant remember which is likely to have a converter soon after other keymods come to live on osumania