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Kernaus

Mathisca wrote:

I think that we should regain life when we hold sliders, like in ScoreV1.

Iii dont agree with this, the HP rate in o!m is generally very lenient, and we dont have a constant hp drain like in standard, failing in mania is generally because the chart is way way above the player's abilities.
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smoogipoo

Kernaus wrote:

Mathisca wrote:

I think that we should regain life when we hold sliders, like in ScoreV1.

Iii dont agree with this, the HP rate in o!m is generally very lenient, and we dont have a constant hp drain like in standard, failing in mania is generally because the chart is way way above the player's abilities.
Actually just noticed this in a multi I played earlier too. Not sure if HP is fine with LNs atm and want more opinions.

That being said I've also noticed quite a few HP bugs and will begin sorting them out soon.
rohen04
Actually I did notice that people have failed songs with V2 that they have never failed before. Maybe it's part of a bug, or because of the harder LNs. This definitely needs more testing.
Other than that, occasionally it showed me right at the end of the song that I have failed it, even though I had a FC. I haven't tested the newest version yet, maybe it's already fixed.

By the way, thanks for changing the Combo system. This should be more in line of what people expect from such a system.
I do have the suggestion to maybe not make the cap static, but dynamic (i.e. 10-20% of the total notes). This would help to make 4K and 7K equally hard in this regard, since 4K usually has less notes in a similar difficulty level. Also this might avoid problems with songs with less than 400 notes (not relevant for MWC).
ReTLoM
i tried some LN Converts and i think it is fine with no regen cause i cant spam thru the song i have actually to play it l :)
Arras
Yeah, osu!mania's very lenient HP gain on LNs was one of the major things preventing clears from being impressive on songs with a decent amount of LNs. Now that this has changed, perhaps clearing songs can be more of a goal in and of itself.
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smoogipoo

rohen04 wrote:

Actually I did notice that people have failed songs with V2 that they have never failed before. Maybe it's part of a bug, or because of the harder LNs. This definitely needs more testing.
Other than that, occasionally it showed me right at the end of the song that I have failed it, even though I had a FC. I haven't tested the newest version yet, maybe it's already fixed.

By the way, thanks for changing the Combo system. This should be more in line of what people expect from such a system.
I do have the suggestion to maybe not make the cap static, but dynamic (i.e. 10-20% of the total notes). This would help to make 4K and 7K equally hard in this regard, since 4K usually has less notes in a similar difficulty level. Also this might avoid problems with songs with less than 400 notes (not relevant for MWC).
Yeap that's a bug, if they failed instantaneously when the map was completed :p
ReTLoM
okay i think i found a Bug when u start a Song and press only one note Your score hits example 190 and start to grow fast->slowly :)
Kempie

smoogipooo wrote:

- Combo
Combo is the harder one to talk about. We want to award holding combo, but at the same time not punish holding 4000 combo and missing once too much. To achieve this your individual hit scores are weighted by the combo you have after hitting the note. In the previous iteration this was a linear relationship, which resulted in punishing for missing after holding 4000 combo. In the new iteration it is logarithmic, with a cap at log_4(400) (meaning combo > 400 will be weighed as if your combo was 400), as shown in this graph (red = old, blue = new): https://u-gi.me/oJ6sa
This is a lot better, but combo still has some influence on score. I think a purely accuracy based scoring system is what osu!mania really needs:
  1. Inconsistent gameplay is already punished in a 100% accuracy based score. Inconsistent gameplay = missing notes and not timing well, resulting in lower accuracy and score. No need to involve combo at all here.
  2. Gone are the days of beating your personal best score on a song with a lower accuracy, sometimes even resulting in a loss(!) of pp.
  3. A purely accuracy based scoring system is a lot simpler and more predictable. Hit notes = higher score. Good timing = higher score. Right now you need to be mathematically inclined in order to comprehend or do calculations with both ScoreV1 and ScoreV2.
  4. No weird edge cases like '1 miss 10 seconds in' being punished more severely than '1 miss on the last note'.
So basically just Keep It Simple, Stupid. Any thoughts on this?
FelipeLink

smoogipooo wrote:

- Combo
Combo is the harder one to talk about. We want to award holding combo, but at the same time not punish holding 4000 combo and missing once too much. To achieve this your individual hit scores are weighted by the combo you have after hitting the note. In the previous iteration this was a linear relationship, which resulted in punishing for missing after holding 4000 combo. In the new iteration it is logarithmic, with a cap at log_4(400) (meaning combo > 400 will be weighed as if your combo was 400), as shown in this graph (red = old, blue = new): https://u-gi.me/oJ6sa
So, its better than before but still, i dont think the combo cap has to be at log_4(400), we are osu!mania the lair of the TVSAIZUS DESU, but being serious, maybe 200~300 should be fine, need to test to see the differences and see what is best, but i think 400 is kinda high, meaning that taiko is ''2k'' the combo cap is 100, so why osu!mania should be 400? this is my opnion btw.

P.S: Some broken mechanics on that combo cap is that we have 9 keymods(6 can be ranked), to be FAIR i think every Keymod need to has his own combo cap, because more keys= more notes, less keys= less notes, 400 could be fine for 7k, but for 4k maybe not, 200 could be good for 4k but for the other keymods? this is a BIG problem in my opnion.

Still, i dont think the score system needs to be changed, maybe this is the small problem in the osu!mania is the score system, all people say ''i had the same combo and accuracy'' but what about the ''300g'' ? and the ''100,50'' ? you can get a 99,5 with Nx100 or with Nx200, and probably the 99,5 with only 200 will be the higher score(meaning that the two scores has the same amount of 300g)
I want to see some scores like:
Example:
992k 1500x 300g, 3x200, 0x miss
Beating a:
991k 1520x 300g, 3x200, 0x miss) i dont think this will happen.
(considering that the 200s were in the same places on the runs)
Hope thats help, my english is kinda bad )':
Arras

FelipeLink wrote:

smoogipooo wrote:

- Combo
Combo is the harder one to talk about. We want to award holding combo, but at the same time not punish holding 4000 combo and missing once too much. To achieve this your individual hit scores are weighted by the combo you have after hitting the note. In the previous iteration this was a linear relationship, which resulted in punishing for missing after holding 4000 combo. In the new iteration it is logarithmic, with a cap at log_4(400) (meaning combo > 400 will be weighed as if your combo was 400), as shown in this graph (red = old, blue = new): https://u-gi.me/oJ6sa
So, its better than before but still, i dont think the combo cap has to be at log_4(400), we are osu!mania the lair of the TVSAIZUS DESU, but being serious, maybe 200~300 should be fine, need to test to see the differences and see what is best, but i think 400 is kinda high, meaning that taiko is ''2k'' the combo cap is 100, so why osu!mania should be 400? this is my opnion btw.

P.S: Some broken mechanics on that combo cap is that we have 9 keymods(6 can be ranked), to be FAIR i think every Keymod need to has his own combo cap, because more keys= more notes, less keys= less notes, 400 could be fine for 7k, but for 4k maybe not, 200 could be good for 4k but for the other keymods? this is a BIG problem in my opnion.

Still, i dont think the score system needs to be changed, maybe this is the small problem in the osu!mania is the score system, all people say ''i had the same combo and accuracy'' but what about the ''300g'' ? and the ''100,50'' ? you can get a 99,5 with Nx100 or with Nx200, and probably the 99,5 with only 200 will be the higher score(meaning that the two scores has the same amount of 300g)
I want to see some scores like:
Example:
992k 1500x 300g, 3x200, 0x miss
Beating a:
991k 1520x 300g, 3x200, 0x miss) i dont think this will happen.
(considering that the 200s were in the same places on the runs)
Hope thats help, my english is kinda bad )':
Here you go.

Note how I have almost a full 2% higher accuracy, higher max combo, much less HP loss, more MAX, more 300 and less of every other judgement, yet a lower score.
Endaris
Am I dumb or are both scores from 2015, Arras?
FelipeLink

Arras wrote:

Here you go.

Note how I have almost a full 2% higher accuracy, higher max combo, much less HP loss, more MAX, more 300 and less of every other judgement, yet a lower score.
i dont think you understand what i said, mania on score v1 has a combo cap already so ''higher max combo'' dont do anything.
Anyway, i'm talking about High acc scores, not a LOT OF MISS scores, if you miss only in one part and in the other run miss in a lot of parts you score will be different, its not even plausible to debate;
AS i can see in your screenshot you missed a lot on ''bursts'' in the first SS, and in the other you did well compared to the first, but in the middle you can see that in the 2nd SS you were bad its noticeable.
i have B who beats A, A who beats S, but why!?!?! because you did well the Entirely map except the ''Burst'' example of that? Ranked 4k charts: M.A.M.A / Blastix Riots.
This should not happen with >>Full combo<< stuff (FC 97 less 300g Nx200 beating a FC 98 with more 300g and the same amount of 200s)
Remyria
I suggest that the combo cap could be scaled on song at something like 5-6% of max combo as the cap, on short songs it would be WAY less than the 400 you tried, but on longer songs, it can reach over 400, without being over penalizing, since the song is...uh...longer. (I noticed someone suggesting the same)

(and that's just my opinion, but i'd make the accuracy points raising very slightly faster, of a few % only, but I have no justification, I let people like shoegazer give their opinion with an actual justification that makes sense :3)
Arras

Endaris wrote:

Am I dumb or are both scores from 2015, Arras?
They are. I pretty much stopped heavily playing not too long after that anyway. The only reason I picked those was because I remembered that as a score where I had a lower score even though it should be higher looking at the stats.
AncuL
is 300MAX (rainbow) counts on accuracy? or is it only the percentage accuracy thats being counted on "accuracy" ?
Tidek

Drojoke wrote:

smoogipooo wrote:

- Combo
Combo is the harder one to talk about. We want to award holding combo, but at the same time not punish holding 4000 combo and missing once too much. To achieve this your individual hit scores are weighted by the combo you have after hitting the note. In the previous iteration this was a linear relationship, which resulted in punishing for missing after holding 4000 combo. In the new iteration it is logarithmic, with a cap at log_4(400) (meaning combo > 400 will be weighed as if your combo was 400), as shown in this graph (red = old, blue = new): https://u-gi.me/oJ6sa
This is a lot better, but combo still has some influence on score. I think a purely accuracy based scoring system is what osu!mania really needs:
  1. Inconsistent gameplay is already punished in a 100% accuracy based score. Inconsistent gameplay = missing notes and not timing well, resulting in lower accuracy and score. No need to involve combo at all here.
  2. Gone are the days of beating your personal best score on a song with a lower accuracy, sometimes even resulting in a loss(!) of pp.
  3. A purely accuracy based scoring system is a lot simpler and more predictable. Hit notes = higher score. Good timing = higher score. Right now you need to be mathematically inclined in order to comprehend or do calculations with both ScoreV1 and ScoreV2.
  4. No weird edge cases like '1 miss 10 seconds in' being punished more severely than '1 miss on the last note'.
So basically just Keep It Simple, Stupid. Any thoughts on this?
Yeah, and player with 10misses on 1000notes map can still get 990k points, no, thanks
Full Tablet

Tidek wrote:

Yeah, and player with 10misses on 1000notes map can still get 990k points, no, thanks
A pure accuracy system can be based in something else besides the sum of the judgment values (which is not really a very good way to measure accuracy, since the value of each judgment is pretty arbitrary).

The scale of the score system is not really important, for example, you could take the accuracy ratio "r", and change the scale by using:
Scaled_r = r^3
And the meaning of the scale doesn't change (if ra and rb are different accuracy ratios from different plays, and ra>rb, then the scaled valued of ra is also bigger than the scaled value of rb).

The only situation where the scale matters is from team multiplayer matches, since the scores of different players are added together; the solution here is, instead of adding different scores together, make the overall score of the team be a score calculated by adding the judgment counts of the players together.

Another way to calculate accuracy is fitting the Normal Distribution probability curve (with mean 0) that fits the distribution of the hit errors the best.
In this case, for example:
- Play A: OD10 map, no mod, 10,000 judgments, 100 misses (the rest are Rainbows).
- Play B: OD10 map, no mod, 10,000 judgments, 153 50s (the rest are Rainbows).
- Play C: OD10 map, no mod, 10,000 judgments, 308 100s (the rest are Rainbows).
- Play D: OD10 map, no mod, 10,000 judgments, 996 200s (the rest are Rainbows).
- Play E: OD10 map, no mod, 10,000 judgments, 3263 300s (the rest are Rainbows).

All those score would be rated as very similar under the normal distribution fit (the order is C<A<E<D<B, but the differences between plays are very small).

Under the current accuracy percentage formula (scaled linearly so the max is 1,000,000).
- Play E: 1,000,000 (no different as if the play was only rainbows)
- Play D: 966,800
- Play C: 979,467
- Play B: 987,250
- Play A: 990,000
FrenzyLi
My proposal on score composition:
  • 20% combo-based scoring: for each combo achieved, divide it by max combo to get "dimensionless combo". For each dimensionless combo (between 0 and 1), use a function to map it from [0,1]->[0,1]. Sum the function values. The sum, which is still a value within [0,1] will then be scaled to 20% of max score. Refer to my algorithm proposed at the end of page 12, which doesn't use combo cap, and is being discussed by devs and a few members of community (thanks evening on this).

    75% old-acc-based scoring: a curve based on v1 accuracy. (refer to research by shoegazer, et al)

    5% 300g score bonus: linear against 300g ratio. Example: If 80% of all registered score values are 300g, the user gets 1 million * 5% * 80% = 40k score due to 300g.
Note that 300g = 320 = 300 + 20, and 300:20 = 75:5.

So, I'm asking for references and history as to:
Why is 300g considered to be 320?
Damaree
Errrm. . . . . . , well its up to all of you. Well Goodluck.
robby250

Remyria wrote:

I suggest that the combo cap could be scaled on song at something like 5-6% of max combo as the cap
I agree with it being percentage based instead of 400, and I agree with the 5-6% max combo values, but smoogipooo and other combo lovers would probably want a bigger percentage. So I suggest 10% of max combo as a compromise (please note that combo bonus still scales up after the cap but much slower).

Other suggestions, taken from reddit, are:

- Separating 300g and 300, regular 300s should give 95% accuracy. And yeah 300g should probably scale with OD too in that case. Alternatively, make 300g only visual, no effect on the actual game, and tighten up the judgements by a lot.

- Color based timing option like in stepmania

- Adding some kind of anti-mashing system that penalizes HP. I'm fine with the current one, but some find it too lenient and the range for missing/losing HP from hitting too early should be extended. Maybe offset HP up by 1 point too (new HP5 = old HP6, except in the upper values where there should be diminishing returns such as new HP9 = old HP9.2 or so because they're penalizing enough).

- Speed rates. These are mentioned in the OP but I want to enforce that it's a good thing that should be done.

There are other changes I've mentioned on reddit but they're beyond the scope of this thread. I still suggest you try to make them happen if you truly want osu!mania to thrive.

I'm fine with all the score v2 changes tbh, except the combo which should be percentage based as mentioned above.
Kempie

Tidek wrote:

Yeah, and player with 10misses on 1000notes map can still get 990k points, no, thanks
There's always the option of making misses/50s/100s reduce accuracy. Using Stepmania's scoring system (which punishes for misses by reducing score) scaled up to a maximum of 1,000,000 points, you would get a score of 960k when missing 10 notes and hitting 990 r300's.
abraker
smoogipooo, this entire idea is a mess. You are creating a Frankenstein's monster by mashing together accuracy and combo components. I don't know whether you have modeled the possible edge cases or not, but most players are going to be sure this is a bad idea until the edge cases are addressed and solutions are proposed. Until then, this has too many flaws to take seriously.

Here are two cases which I know are an issue:

  1. Suppose there exists a high spike in difficulty in the beginning of the map and the player has a miss there and only there. The player misses in the beginning, and as a result, got one short of an FC. Suppose there is the same spike in difficulty in the middle of the map and has a miss there and only there. The player misses in the middle, and as a result, has half of an FC. The first case would have a higher score than the second case, yet the difficulty spike is the same. Justify this matter.
  2. Players like Bobbias have become accustomed to a visual mod in such that they play worse without it. The player can easily become accustomed to a visual mod like that if they have the will to. How would it make sense for there to be a difficulty multiplier for visual mods then?

smoogipooo wrote:

As maps progress anxiety builds up and you become tired, both of those are indications of how good of a player you are, or otherwise, how consistent of a player you are.
You are forcing more anxiety with the combo based system, actually. Frustration as well. Currently the source of those emotions in mania is primarily when trying to PF a map with nothing but MAX or at least SS for less skillful players, but with this, you are going to extend that further. Having your score screwed for the rest of the play because of these mishaps on a non skillful level doesn't sound like a good gameplay mechanic. Also, a map can be as long as you want to be, but unless a player is being skillfully challenged, the player will get tired only from boredom. The way you made it sound is that you were referring to physical tiredness, which is not always the case.

smoogipooo wrote:

Explain what the "better ways" are? As I mentioned in the OP we are taking feedback, and we have lots of time to make changes.
Gladly! I have my own proposal for a scoring system which should be better than accuracy based scoring and combo based scoring. The concept of this scoring system is influenced by the difficulty of the parts the player is playing.

Let me tell you the main flaws in combo and accuracy first.

  1. Combo: Notes following a poor hit after a point have permanent diminished potential worth. Therefore, the position of the hard part matters to set the worth of every following note following.
  2. Accuracy: Doesn't care about disproportionate difficulty. Map can be mostly easy with one hard part and the player still gets high accuracy.
If you combine those together, what you get is a mechanic in which notes following after a poor hit at a point have permanent diminished potential worth while the player is still able to amount a high score if the easy part is sufficiently long enough. That's why I called it a Frankenstein's monster. You are trying to put life back into something while still creating something sill imperfect and ugly. It doesn't solve the problem, rather it compounds it.

A score might be a pretty number to some players, but to me it is a measure of skill. This number has to reflect how well you are doing against what you are given. As such, this number should be under the influence of two primary things: difficulty and result. When you multiply by the difficulty of that part, easy parts are worth little and hard parts are worth more, and should address the problem accuracy based scoring has. If the player misses on the hard part, tough luck, try harder, and if the player spams the hard part, the missesPunisher will do its job to not reward the player for random hits.

Here is the formula:
Score += (diffScore[t] * accScore[t] * log(t)) / missesPunisher

diffScore take the difficulty of the map at point t

AccScore take the player's score point (50, 100, 200, 300, MAX) at point t

log(t) increases as the map progresses. This has a similar effect like combo, but not quite. It's there to give a bonus for longer maps and how much depends on however you wish to scale it. I think this shouldn't give a noticeable effect unless the map is more than 5 minutes long.

missesPunisher is the number of misses and possibly bad score values in the last X milliseconds. If you want, you can do interesting things with this value such as an exponential increase with every miss or increase X for every miss so that it looks at a broader time period. However, the most important thing is that it doesn't destroy the worth of every proceeding pattern indefinitely if there is a miss. If there are misses, this would result at a temporary reduction in worth unlike your system where the potential worth is permanently reduced.
FrenzyLi
Reply to abraker:

diffScore take the difficulty of the map at point t

this is not a post about star rating. Any score system that takes into account the difficulty at time / point t should be deferred until a better, non-jumpstream-inflated, workable improvement or revamp to the SR system is made.

AccScore take the player's score point (50, 100, 200, 300, MAX) at point t

scalar sum of score values? I would rather not take a vector.

log(t) will a pause in a map affect this? You can't just take a single formula for everything. Divide map into discrete parts (by combo, timestamp, whatever) because a beatmap is not a continuous function. Smoothing will help but how do you smoothen this discrete chunk of data of user replays / beatmap hitobjects?

Also, the objects at the end of a map is exaggerated in their importance compared to the first few notes. What if beatmaps has hit objects at point t=0?

missesPunisher: v1 thanks.
dynamic last X milliseconds: seems interesting, please propose a working formula.
abraker

FrenzyLi wrote:

diffScore take the difficulty of the map at point t

this is not a post about star rating. Any score system that takes into account the difficulty at time / point t should be deferred until a better, non-jumpstream-inflated, workable improvement or revamp to the SR system is made.
I agree. This will work only if star rating is fixed, though it I think it could be better than scoreV1 even now. Also due to the nature of this thread I tried my best to avoid mentioning star rating. When I say difficulty, substitute that for what you percieve the difficulty as instead of star rating.

FrenzyLi wrote:

AccScore take the player's score point (50, 100, 200, 300, MAX) at point t

scalar sum of score values? I would rather not take a vector.
Whatever works. The formula I put up is psuedocode and not in proper mathematical notation.

FrenzyLi wrote:

log(t) will a pause in a map affect this? You can't just take a single formula for everything. Divide map into discrete parts (by combo, timestamp, whatever) because a beatmap is not a continuous function. Smoothing will help but how do you smoothen this discrete chunk of data of user replays / beatmap hitobjects?
See above

FrenzyLi wrote:

Also, the objects at the end of a map is exaggerated in their importance compared to the first few notes. What if beatmaps has hit objects at point t=0?
Not sure what you mean by the first sentence. To address your second point, this is the formula at the core without any constants. Ofc you would shift the function to the left to avoid the t=0 situation.

FrenzyLi wrote:

missesPunisher: v1 thanks.
dynamic last X milliseconds: seems interesting, please propose a working formula.
I will experiment with this bit and see what works best.
Full Tablet
I think it is better to not make the scoring system difficulty-dependent.

Instead, make the star rating calculation output a function f(score) that maps a certain amount of score with the difficulty of achieving that score in the specific map. If a map is mostly made of easy notes, with one spike of difficulty at some point, then the difficulty rating of achieving scores that are possible by playing only the easy part correctly (without playing the hard part correctly) remain low, then the difficulty rises abruptly for scores that require playing the hard part correctly as well; if the beatmap is more even in it's difficulty, then the difficulty curve rises more evenly with score as well.

I don't agree with giving harder parts more weight compared to easy parts in the score system, the relative weight of each note is a matter more complex than that. If you are estimating the skill shown in play by looking at the judgments the player gets at each note (which is better than estimating skill by just looking at the score, but it is not feasible since it would be pretty expensive computationally, and the information required is not there for most plays), not always failing to play a note correctly in a hard part hurts the overall skill in the play more than failing a note in the easier part (it actually depends on how sensitive is the probability of playing the note correctly with certain skill level with changes of skill level, not with the absolute difficulty of the note).

There are certain EASY patterns a mid-level player has about 99% chance of playing correctly, while a high-level player has about 99.9%; also some MEDIUM pattern a mid-level player has around 80% chance of playing correctly, while the high-level player has about 95%. In this case, the harder pattern indeed has more weight when estimating skill by looking at the play. Also, there can be a HARD pattern a mid-level player has 30% chance of playing the pattern correctly, while a high-level player has about 40%; in this case, the MEDIUM difficulty patterns would have more weight than the HARD pattern when estimating the skill of the player in the play.
Endaris
@abraker:

smoogi wrote:

Please note that HD/FI/FL mod multipliers have not yet been removed. These are slated to be removed in the next iteration of changes.
abraker

Full Tablet wrote:

I think it is better to not make the scoring system difficulty-dependent.

Instead, make the star rating calculation output a function f(score) that maps a certain amount of score with the difficulty of achieving that score in the specific map.
Sounds like the same thing to me. The main difference is that your system works backwards from mine. You are putting the resultant score and getting out the corresponding difficulty of obtaining that score. I am putting in difficulty and result and getting out the score. Your system work of potential worth while my system works off immediate worth.

Endaris wrote:

@abraker:

smoogi wrote:

Please note that HD/FI/FL mod multipliers have not yet been removed. These are slated to be removed in the next iteration of changes.
I had a feeling I missed something. 15 pages was a lot to catch up to.
LinkTaylord
How disgusting! ._.

You'll see ''best global players'' will be using HD/FI/FL only.
Goodbye Jackads, Inteliser, Yuko.
abraker

LinkTaylord wrote:

How disgusting! ._.

You'll see ''best global players'' will be using HD/FI/FL only.
Goodbye Jackads, Inteliser, Yuko.
Visual mods won't have a multiplier, relax.
MDLC
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denisol
And people wonder why Osu!Mania is considered a joke ...
Yuudachi-kun

denisol wrote:

And people wonder why Osu!Mania is considered a joke ...
I think it's very fun and good mode
[Crz]Makii
try to consider more about mods multipliers.
Many players who come from o2jam or other 7k games maybe good at HD/FL even better than none,I think HD/FL/fl should keep 1x score.
others,DT in mania is a very hard mod,Obviously most players playing DT songs can't get same acc as songs which is none mod in same stars,even can't pass in DT.so DT should be 1.12x imo.
FrenzyLi
Reply to LinkTaylord and MDLC:
Quote smoogipooo:
Please note that HD/FI/FL mod multipliers have not yet been removed. These are slated to be removed in the next iteration of changes.
Hinpoppo

Khelly wrote:

I think it's very fun and good mode
There aren't many ways you can fuck up a VSRG at the base, but you can definitely screw up its contents.

What you think is a "good mode" is just really a basic principle that VSRG follows which is a genre of games in itself. What you think of mania isn't a mode; it's a huge category of rhythm games in general. Because of this it can be compared and judged to other games. Based on the standards set by other games, it is a "joke", as in it's not really developed, because it is only a sub-mode here when there is so much competition for similar games that are fully fleshed-out.

However I don't agree with it being an easier game cause standards change base off the difficulty of the game so I feel like that argument is invalid if you don't actually compare it 1:1, even though there would probably be a mob of stepmania/lr2 players who would completely crucify me for saying this. (this goes for pretty much every VSRG)

On top of Osu!mania being a sub-mode that isn't really super relevant in the grand scheme of all things Osu!, it's also shooting itself in the foot by trying to be too innovative and change the format that other VSRG games has set; keep in mind these games are half of what the community in this game is, and what this games is now is based off of just that in terms of the later game, basically making the players who ARE in touch with the community (and players are also trying to reach the late-game) players influenced by certain styles set by other games. Changing this is inherently difficult without creating some sort of backlash unless you have set a style to follow through everything. Unfortunately, if a player wants to pursue that "endgame", they can't really turn to osu!mania itself because it's not really a game with difficult stuff in it; making it a forced link to those other games.

TL;DR

Basically, Osu!Mania is the undeveloped child of keyboard VSRG in general and it's almost too late to change it without displeasing a huge amount of people (rather the players who can put in the input to change the game) because of its community being made up of more developed VSRG games.

Truly, the community (I should say the content mostly, but half of it is regulated by the community) has an internal conflict that isn't going to really resolve itself unless something is ACTUALLY done with this game mode. This is probably why it "suffers" so much.

Edit: went to fix some oddities with how the post was worded but got lazy after a few so sorry if it some of it makes 0 sense in actual script.
Yuudachi-kun
I still don't understand your point because all it boiled down to was being underdeveloped without actually explaining in what way it is - I don't see how the core gameplay of a mode like this (Notes come down; hit note) can be less developed. In addition to that, do unranked maps not count when you're trying to say someone is "getting to the endgame" or are there some weird ass "would be 8 star in 4k" maps I haven't seen yet?
Ayaya
I don't think you understand what Lampranthus is trying to explain. He is saying there are many VSRG games out there that has been running way longer then osu!mania (e.g. o2jam, stepmania, flashflashrevolution, lr2 etc) and was developed through loads of trial and errors. These VSRG has already developed certain rules and systems that works really good for the game most people love. Osu!mania been out since Q4 of 2012 but didn't even have mania specific maps back then. Osu!mania does't even have a close to perfect pp system or star rating at all, this is why it's consider undeveloped. But now randomly Osu are trying to change the way most VSRG standards were laid out by changing the score system to focus on combo more and mods.

Khelly wrote:

I still don't understand your point because all it boiled down to was being underdeveloped without actually explaining in what way it is - I don't see how the core gameplay of a mode like this (Notes come down; hit note) can be less developed.
That's just mindless thinking. Lampranthus isn't just talking about core gameplay, you have to take maps, score system, community, and other stuff into consideration.

Khelly wrote:

In addition to that, do unranked maps not count when you're trying to say someone is "getting to the endgame" or are there some weird ass "would be 8 star in 4k" maps I haven't seen yet?
Most of osu!mania "unranked songs" are most just song converted from other VSRG or some really low quality maps. "Endgame" wise, if you look at mania maps that were originally made on osu, than other VSRG would be better for people looking to improve.
Yuudachi-kun
If you can have convert maps from any other game, then what difference does it make for you to play it there or here rather than preference for whatever client you'd actually like to use? (Score is not a difference here since it does not affect your gameplay but just your end result) I like the osu client and think a lot of the other games look and feel like complete shit to me so as long as I'm fed with good unranked maps then I'd stay here. (And I "seem" to have hundreds of them still that are far above me)

Personally I still don't like it whenever someone says "Look at what these other Vsrg does and emulate that" because they want osu mania to be exactly or more exactly like the other games they could just play instead. What's the point of different games if you make the games the same? Even though I think combo based for a mania-type game sucks.

You could say I haven't played it too long, but I'd rather speak as someone with a lot of experience in standard who quit that for mania because it's so much more fun rather than someone who started in other vsrg's who came to osu mania, found it bad, and doesn't seem to like it. At least that's the impression I'm getting. If most of the problems you have are in relation to things like score and pp, then that's just the metagame and not as important as actually playing imo - map availibility and the actually vsrg. All these good yolomania maps come in unrankable collections qq
gintoki147

Khelly wrote:

I like the osu client and think a lot of the other games look and feel like complete shit to me
thank you so much
as someone who started playing VSRGs two years ago and tried many different games, those are exactly my thoughts of o2jam/stepmania lmao

i like o2jam very much though
yetii

Khelly wrote:

Personally I still don't like it whenever someone says "Look at what these other Vsrg does and emulate that" because they want osu mania to be exactly or more exactly like the other games they could just play instead. What's the point of different games if you make the games the same? Even though I think combo based for a mania-type game sucks.
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This is basily the mentality of the people who are just here to bash on ScoreV2. They are like:'Oh Stepmania does 'X' much better therefore it is superior'.
=> Well good for you, play stepmania than instead of bashing on o!m. If you only like things that are implemented in that game, and thing o!m is trash becasue it does stuff differently, then you're just being cocky and pretending that you're some 'masterrace' mania player.

Anyways, my question is now: if the combo is going to be capped, with the intend of getting similair scores as the current system(correct me if i am wrong here), then what is the point in changing the system at all then? I mean the current score also uses some kind of accuracy combo which punishes incosistent players even on their 200s, but had a pretty low cap so each punishment isnt that big of a deal.

Scorev2 will punish not as often as before but, the punishment is way harder than scorev1 and will impact all players (especially with high acc scores on hard maps) with the result that people will have to grind maps to hold combos while getting consistenly a good accuracy.

I don't mind having a some sort of combo system but please make sure it wont make getting good scores grinding and kinda luck dependent ( getting good acc+combo), which will kill mania for lots of players.
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