I'm glad you worded your mod differently from what Styx forwarded to me previously and that you took your time to actually explain your points of view here objectively. I hope my explanations were clear enough. If you still have any questions, feel free to poke me directly.Smoothie World wrote:
[grumd's Hell]
- Your spacing in the intro seems very random. It's essentially the same thing played twice, and it doesn't feel like you have any correlation between the two halves of the introduction before the lyrics. For example, at 00:00:903 (2,3) you have these two notes stacked, whereas later at 00:04:214 (2,3) there is a large gap. I won't state everything wrong with the intro but take this and consider my suggestion to have the intro's spacing make a bit more sense.
The spacing in the intro actually makes sense.
All 1/1 notes are being played slowly, and all 1/3 notes are played as fast jumps.
1/1 notes are all placed with a spacing either lower than 1.6x, or as a stack, and they are played in an easy and relaxing way, but when a player gets to 1/3 notes, he needs to change to fast jumpy movements, which clearly fits the rhythm.
While there indeed are two patterns, one of which is a stack and one is two notes placed at a long distance, there's around half a second between those 1/1 notes in these patterns, which makes both patterns feel almost the same calm way.- 00:14:972 (7,1) - Spacing here can be increased to emphasize the kick. 1.1x just seems super inconsistent and uncomfortable compared to the rest of this part preceding the kiai time.
fixed- 00:17:869 (5,6) - Same point as above. This can be increased for better emphasis on the kick.
fixed- 00:21:731 (9,10) - Nothing in the song warrants a huge spike to 3.50x spacing here. This needs to be reduced.
The music pitch literally became twice as high as before, that's why I increased the overall difficulty of this part.
However, even in previous less hard part there were jumps with spacing like 4.0x here 00:11:110 (3,4) - and overall a lot of 3.0x jumps everywhere. The change in jump sizes is not that huge as you're describing, and there is an obvious reason for that: music pitch.- 00:23:248 (4,5) - This jump is literally 3.60x for nothing but difficulty. WHY in the world is this jump so big? There's no percussion or anything here, just a vocal that isn't even a major vocal (-yers).
If you really can't hear the difference in the music between this pattern and all the others, I can only suggest you to get a pair of decent headphones. Excuse my innocent banter
To explain the biggest jumps in kiais:
00:22:834 (1,2,3,4) -
00:26:145 (1,2,3,4) -
00:29:455 (1,2,3,4) -
00:32:765 (1,2,3,4) -
These four parts are the patterns with the biggest jumps in this map. What was the reason to make them bigger than the rest, you ask?
The bass sounds. These are the only parts where bass is placed on the every single note in a pattern.
During all other parts in the song, bass is only heard once every 1/1, but here it's on every single 1/3 tick.
You can see how spacing increases right when the bass pattern is coming in play here 00:22:834 (1,2,3,4) - and how spacing decreases greatly after bass sounds stop being so intense here 00:23:386 (5,6,1) -- 00:26:145 (1,2,3,4) - This is a calmer part than the kiai yet you decide to increase spacing by an entire 1.0x, making it 4.57x for 0 reason again. Too difficult for a part thats supposed to BUILD UP to a harder part. With this you make the kiai's power nearly irrelevant since that's supposed to be the climax of the song.
I was emphasizing the bass sounds which, for me, suggest a lot harder and heavy patterns than other parts. I totally disagree that these parts are supposed to be only a build up, more like a culmination in my song view. It's totally not a calmer part than the kiai, it's the heaviest one.- 00:26:558 (4,1) - Add more spacing here or create a break in flow for bigger emphasis on the cymbal.
The emphasis here lays in the sudden change of the slider speed, from 0.8x to 1.2x, and I don't feel a need to increase spacing here even more.
Offtopic: 00:26:558 (4) - this is, actually, indeed a build-up for the following cymbal and fast part after it. Not the heavy bass part before that.- 00:29:593 (2,3) - Are you kidding me lol... 5.50x spacing whereas at 00:23:110 (3,4) you used 3.60x. Completely inconsistent and I'm convinced this is completely mapped for difficulty at this point.
00:23:110 (3,4) - indeed are placed at 3.60x, but the previous note 00:22:972 (2) - is actually prev: 4.14x and next: 4.51x, which is not that far apart from 5.50x (19% difference).
I might assume you're so "convinced" that it's mapped for difficulty only because you couldn't bother to hear the bass sounds and understand that I'm mapping to emphasize them. There are plenty of instruments in that song and the probability is quite high that we could interpret the song differently and we could think different parts of this song are the culmination parts. But I hope that after I explained my reasons for mapping it like that, you'll see my point of view.
Thanks.
Edit: I decided to change 5.5x jump to 5.0x. Here's the diff for now: http://pastebin.com/raw/iWzzAfUW
