gr0t wrote:
Bassist Vinyl wrote:
to be fair i think its wrong to assume the old star system was misguiding anyone, it was just plain useless and i think everyone knew that. everyone knew 5 stars began at a very easy difficulty and didnt go any higher even though the maps did. i dont think anyone passed a 5 star map after playing for like 2 days then went "oh big black is 5 stars too.. i can do that!"
What makes you think so? I am playing easy insanes for like 4 months now. At the beginning I downloaded every map I found entertaining in terms of music and difficulty (only 5 star diffs as anything lower wasnt hard enough). Of course half of these maps were 'hard' insanes I had no chance of passing. Star system misguided me quite a lot. Im not telling I tried Big Black second day. I didnt know it exists. It just put my-lvl maps on a par with maps I had no chance to pass and it wasnt fun.
Also I dont see many casual players reading all the osu! wiki right off the bat to learn all fancy terms like OD, AR so they could filter off hard insanes while old star system was in work.
New system, while not ideal, gives you slightest hint how far or close you are to some map you chose as your target. Thats how it works for me.
im sorry, there were 2 things i was assuming, that most people had seen cookiezi's plays on youtube since hes the first like 10 result for Osu!/Osu gameplay, and quickly realize that those maps and the maps they play are the same star diff, and that most people would look at the scoreboard and quickly make the connection between difficulty of the map and the mods used. The scoreboard is still a good way to determine difficulty, but the star system now is preferable since there are factors that could make a song look easier/harder by the scoreboard, such as number of plays it has.
but as they say, assumptions do more harm then good, and I shouldn't have thought everyone the same as me, there are probably many people that find osu randomly some other way and simply play for the fun of the game without doing much looking around- even at scoreboards.