Currently, the way scroll speed works in osu!mania is that the BPM of a song affects it. So, on the same scroll setting (the setting you change by pressing F3/F4), a song with a BPM of 200 would scroll twice as fast as a song with a BPM of 100. This is good, because it allows SV changes to exist, because they basically modify the effective BPM of a song. But it's not ideal because you end up having to mess with your setting depending on how fast the song is.
So what is this "better scroll speed setting system", then? Well the idea is that with the same scroll setting, a song with a BPM of 200 will scroll at the same speed as one with 100 BPM. Keep reading, though, we're still gonna be preserving SV changes in exactly the same way. The key here is that we work with respect to the song's "primary BPM" for this calculation. The idea is that most songs have a primary BPM that they stay at for a majority of the time, and then with BPM or SV changes, they go faster or slower for a smaller portion of the song. The scroll setting will preserve these faster or slower parts, they'll just be faster or slower around the scroll speed of the primary BPM.
So the setting won't change gameplay at all. All it means is that you'll end up changing your setting for scroll speed less often. If a setting of 10 works for you with one song, it'll probably work for you on every other song with very little tweaking. If you decide you need to increase your scroll speed to do harder songs, you'll soon find that the new setting benefits you on all songs. In fact, this change might even raise the skill ceiling of the game, because when the song is going at its primary BPM, it'll be going at the exact speed you've eventually learned by using whatever setting you're using.
So before making a feature request to Peppy, I wanted to see if there's actually support for this from beginner and advanced players alike. As a relatively new player this change would be extremely convenient for me. I'm not familiar enough with the game to know what scroll settings work with what songs, so I end up having to tweak the setting every time I play a new song until it feels about right. Since I have to restart the song in order to change the setting, this quickly gets frustrating. But I'd like to know if more advanced players would also benefit from this system. Tell me what you think!
So what is this "better scroll speed setting system", then? Well the idea is that with the same scroll setting, a song with a BPM of 200 will scroll at the same speed as one with 100 BPM. Keep reading, though, we're still gonna be preserving SV changes in exactly the same way. The key here is that we work with respect to the song's "primary BPM" for this calculation. The idea is that most songs have a primary BPM that they stay at for a majority of the time, and then with BPM or SV changes, they go faster or slower for a smaller portion of the song. The scroll setting will preserve these faster or slower parts, they'll just be faster or slower around the scroll speed of the primary BPM.
So the setting won't change gameplay at all. All it means is that you'll end up changing your setting for scroll speed less often. If a setting of 10 works for you with one song, it'll probably work for you on every other song with very little tweaking. If you decide you need to increase your scroll speed to do harder songs, you'll soon find that the new setting benefits you on all songs. In fact, this change might even raise the skill ceiling of the game, because when the song is going at its primary BPM, it'll be going at the exact speed you've eventually learned by using whatever setting you're using.
So before making a feature request to Peppy, I wanted to see if there's actually support for this from beginner and advanced players alike. As a relatively new player this change would be extremely convenient for me. I'm not familiar enough with the game to know what scroll settings work with what songs, so I end up having to tweak the setting every time I play a new song until it feels about right. Since I have to restart the song in order to change the setting, this quickly gets frustrating. But I'd like to know if more advanced players would also benefit from this system. Tell me what you think!
