Auto gets bugged while restarting, after toggling on/of Ignore Beatmap Skin.Let's say you are watching Auto playing a song. You hover your mouse towards the bottom edge of the screen and change (toggle on or off) the
"Ignore Beatmap Skin" option. You will get a message:
Please restart map for changes to take effect.If you do ([Ctrl]+[R] or [~]), then the song will restart, but... it will start playing from the place you was in the moment of restarting (with possibility for Auto to start making errors from that moment onwards... or at least in the time neighbourhood of this moment, after restarting... or most likely both).
If you restart again, no matter how many times you will restart, auto will be frozen, until you reach this point again, missing everything that was before.
If you change "Ignore Beatmap Skin" and restart again, this will repeat, but with reference to the new moment in time. So, changing it at the very start of the song and restarting quickly can make Auto to play the whole song again. However, you can change it later and make auto miss even greater part of song. It doesn't show misses and Accuracy change before you reach the restart moment though, so it's delusional 100% before that.
It checked other versions and it affects all game releases, except Fallback.
There's also one more thing about restarting, while watching Auto, even without changing any settings, that probably doesn't work as intended.
Nevertheless, for me it's a feature, not bug, and I will be absolutely exploiting it with premeditation! That is:In past, if you stopped watching Auto's gameplay, the Auto mod persisted as toggled on. For some reason I don't know, it was changed to be automatically toggled off, after the song ends or get cancelled with [Esc] key.
However, if you restart Auto's gameplay even once, then either after song ends or is being ended with [Esc], it will still be toggled on.
I hope this one is intended and it's not bug, because I like to use Auto for the songs I don't know or I want to learn better, especially for playing Flashlight. You keep watching Auto playing the song and you follow in-game cursor with your own cursor, trying to memorize the map or improve your AR11 reading, or for any other reason you are doing this. It's really useful and effective, and believe me, many people are really using it for that!
The problem is, that after the song ends and you want to follow Auto's play again... it gets toggled off... You need to end your newly started play, losing time and unnecessarily boosting your play count, only because game automatically toggled Auto off. Then, you need to go to the mods menu, toggle Auto on, close menu and start song again...
It's usually really annoying and bothersome after some time, especially if you keep learning a song on Flashlight and often forgot that you need to toggle Auto on after every single gameplay, even if you didn't need to do it in past. If there's a way to disable this Auto disabling option, them please tell me. It would be best, if you could decide that you want or don't want Auto to be turned off automatically
Fallback is not affected.
Now that I think about it, I remember that some time ago Peppy was asking why some people are still sitting on Fallback.
Maybe, technical things aside, there are some perks, like this one, that they like, thus they decided to keep using Fallback?
Depending on the way someone plays (habits aside), some changes can be took by players as changing for something worse, unpractical or not necessarily better, so they stick to the old settings?