I can only agree to any of these changes listed above. For somebody who has been slowly but surely improving to get #1 on his favourite song, this adds an extra layer of difficulty when it comes to remembering which end of the slider to press, some maps are really fast and don't even give you time to see the slider before you have to press it, and this sometimes makes it confusing or hard to do it. I think my problem with this is that it's adding an extra piece of difficulty to an already hard mod combination. Sometimes it makes it easier when exclusively using Hidden with Hard Rock and/or Double Time/Nightcore, but when added with Flashlight it does make it quite difficult. While yes it is a visual improvement to the mod, that visual improvement puts people at a disadvantage than others. It was if you changed the double time speed increase to 1.3 instead of 1.25 but left all of the previous scores and the same multiplier there. While yes, that is a little more drastic, the same thing stands: newer players or people going towards a better score will now have a harder time doing it compared to those players that had it previously to the update.
Yes, it does make the game look prettier in the sense, yes it does make the game look a little better and hides EVERYTHING not just simple beats, but if you're going to add a feature that gives newer players a disadvantage (I don't care for the arguments that simply say "FL makes it a memory game so it's only a little more to remember", I shouldn't have to try harder for a high score just because I attempted for a higher score a little later) at least add an option to revert it or any of the other options allowed above.
To all the people defending this new update, let us make it so all the visual things you can toggle in the game (snaking sliders, screen fire, side-characters, video, beatmaps, beatmap skins, beatmap sounds) had to be used and you couldn't turn it off no matter what. How is that fair because those things add a layer of concentration to the game as you have to keep your focus while the screen is in flames, at every 50 combo you get a person popping out and the sliders appear out of nowhere... You would atest to it easily and would be disproving of it, so how is this really different apart from "well not ALL PCs can run those previously mentioned things"?
I rest my case, but if this is kept without even any way to turn it off, it's just going to anger people and people are going to constantly suggest it to be removed until it is done so
Faustas156 wrote:
THERE WAS THOUSANDS OF POSTS ABOUT IT THEY SAY NO.
did that make you clear ?
So because the developers made an obviously bad choice seeing how there were THOUSANDS OF POSTS complaining about this new feature, and they said no, why in the WORLD should we stop if we disagree with an obvious flaw. This is exactly how online games grow stale because the developer decides to make a bad decision then they don't listen to that group of people affected by it, then those people drop out. Look at Runescape for example (I know, but it's the only online game I've had YEARS of experience with), they added a certain feature that stopped people from trading properly, leading to a large portion of the player base to quit because the developers refused to revert the change after many many requests for it to happen. It's kicking down the minority in a game similar to how society handles it. I don't see why in the world I, or anybody else, should stop making posts requesting it to be changed.