My Angel Azusa wrote:

Please avoid modding blankets/consistency/overlaps/stacks etc. when modding after qualification. There are like 3-4 days for you to post the mod before as this map was in DQ status but you choose to post right after its requalified.

Sinnoh wrote:

Ok here's a mod for Ultra in CtB mode. Lots of unrankable issues that I would suggest you fix

00:10:652 (3,1) - Impossible edge dash, increase distance to make a hyper or reduce for playability
00:13:652 (6,1,2) - Hyperdash into edge dash is unrankable, reduce spacing from slider head to tail on 1 + either increase or decrease distance to 2
00:17:126 (1,2) - Increase the distance between these two for better playability, since previous part is all dashes
00:36:705 (1) - slider tail is too close to previous object because plate has too much momentum, increase spacing
00:42:705 (5,1) - large edge dash, increase spacing for hyper
00:44:916 (1) - only caught a little bit of cancer from trying to follow these droplets. Could increase to slider tick 2 to fix.
01:07:652 (1,2) - Here patterns start becoming unplayable/impossible to fc. Using two 1/4 sliders in a row on each one creates impossible dashes that constantly kill flow. Using more patterns like this would significantly increase flow and up the diff.
01:13:968 (1) - All of these jumps are at the farthest possible distance from each other without being hyperdashes, which makes it really unplayable and underweighted.
01:16:021 (4,1) - nice pp, just increase spacing here a little bit so this is also a hyperdash
01:16:652 (4,5,1) - If these were unstacked it would really improve flow when ending the dashes
01:24:389 (3,1) - These edge dashes are near impossible to play
01:29:758 (1,2) - Over the top edge dash, increase a little
01:50:284 (3,1,2) - Pixel dash, also known as the most unplayable pattern in the game. Increase spacing to 2

hope this helps with making it more playable for ctb, since right now it's unplayable in that mode <3

Sinnoh wrote:

00:10:652 (3,1) - Impossible edge dash, increase distance to make a hyper or reduce for playability

Shiirn wrote:

the longer i stick around the more paranoid i get about the possibility that shadowland is just an escaped laboratory experiment by the chinese based around sticking as many mapping techniques as possible into a single person without ever giving them any sort of information as to when or how to actually use any of these techniques

it's like in mass effect where there's this tank-bred guy who had all his knowledge imprinted into him from birth but he never got any context for it so while he knew, he didn't understand

and i really get this vibe from a lot of maps recently and it's really really pronounced here so maybe instead of memeing about how weird these maps are maybe we should actually take a step back and try to figure out how to properly explain why we feel these maps are so incredibly unnerving to experienced mappers and modders while leaving the rest of the community totally ignorant of what's actually wrong with it cuz really that's kind of elitist, to expect people who don't have all the knowledge and experience to just spontaneously have it anyway

but on the other hand, any time you try to explain why something doesn't work, either you're too nice about it and get ignored, or you're too aggressive about it and get called names and get ignored, because it's very obvious very few mappers actually want to get better, they just want to be praised for shitting out circles and sliders, like a child who wants to be praised for his shitty crayon scribbles. it's a parent's duty to tell the kid it's good when it's obviously not, but it's also the parent's duty to stop doing that when the kid can fucking take the heat


this rant brought to you by allergy-induced oxygen deprivation