My thoughts
What this has inadvertedly done is link stamina with agility, while at the same time introducing all the problems with ppv2+stream maps back to here. It also means that scores with as little as one slidertick missed are worth less now. This is silly and frankly, totally avoidable! After all, the stats are separate to each other and should therefore act this way, right?These are a few examples of ill-played combo influence I just find to be completely crazy (previous score in red)
The Himiko one is kind of understandable, because I did sliderbreak a couple of times there. Even so, it takes a lot of effort not to do so, and that effort isn't necessarily linked to the 278bpm streaming required not to miss on it.Three hundred points?? Is this a joke?
On End Time, I believe I missed once on a random double-- again, around halfway into the map, and then FC'd the rest. So, why don't I just have the same score as before? Why has combo got to play into this map where all the hard streams are in the second half anyway?
The UruboroS-Infinity one is the worst of all. Because I missed once on a random jump halfway through, what should be a ~710 stamina score is turned into that of a 160bpm burst map? It hurts even more knowing that there's probably an 80% FC out there that gets 700, yet my 96% score is sitting at almost half of that.
On CassiopeiA i aced that long 270bpm stream which is probably what gives the map its 731 full combo value. Yet, once again, it's reduced to a pint-sized value just because my combo was quite low? You've got to note that (for me at least) this map is quite hard to aim; yet there's agility for that, no?
It's worth nothing that as a result of this my high-combo end (meaning last 10 notes) choke scores have gone down even more, which is kind of the opposite of what I would've expected from combo influence
The Himiko one is kind of understandable, because I did sliderbreak a couple of times there. Even so, it takes a lot of effort not to do so, and that effort isn't necessarily linked to the 278bpm streaming required not to miss on it.Three hundred points?? Is this a joke?
On End Time, I believe I missed once on a random double-- again, around halfway into the map, and then FC'd the rest. So, why don't I just have the same score as before? Why has combo got to play into this map where all the hard streams are in the second half anyway?
The UruboroS-Infinity one is the worst of all. Because I missed once on a random jump halfway through, what should be a ~710 stamina score is turned into that of a 160bpm burst map? It hurts even more knowing that there's probably an 80% FC out there that gets 700, yet my 96% score is sitting at almost half of that.
On CassiopeiA i aced that long 270bpm stream which is probably what gives the map its 731 full combo value. Yet, once again, it's reduced to a pint-sized value just because my combo was quite low? You've got to note that (for me at least) this map is quite hard to aim; yet there's agility for that, no?
It's worth nothing that as a result of this my high-combo end (meaning last 10 notes) choke scores have gone down even more, which is kind of the opposite of what I would've expected from combo influence
My only suggestion is to remove combo weighting from stamina+tenacity totally. After all, this most fair way to measure stamina w/o replay data is to go by number of misses, since that's what shows how well you can stream without losing enough stamina to crack.
Agility should still take combo into account, but maybe start at <95% combo since then you don't just lose points uselessly through sliderticks? Consider looking into positive combo influence rather than simply negative, too. My accuracy scores are all still the same, so I assume it doesn't exist there to begin with. I'm glad it exists on precision, since some of my sliderbreak scores there were unfairly earned.
inb4 nothing happens because going back to old is silly
this only good that came out of this is that i have fearless now