23:56 swash984: Hey, you're a BAT right?
23:56 Sakura: yes
23:57 Sakura: why?
23:57 swash984: Awesome, I'm mapping for S3RL, I have to map his songs before he releases them. Of course, I'm actually a bit newer to mapping, so I've never received proper criticism. Only "I like it."
23:58 swash984: I need 1: Some one I can trust with un-released songs to help tell me what could be done. 2: I need to know how well the other map I released is.
23:58 Sakura: this?
23:58 *Sakura is listening to [http://osu.ppy.sh/b/535108 S3RL feat. Lexi - Genre Police (Radio Edit)]
23:59 swash984: Yeah, that's my first one.
23:59 Sakura: Well the basics first
23:59 Sakura: Normal and Hard dont have a preview point
00:00 Sakura: Also you need to re-encode your mp3 to 192 kbps
00:01 swash984: What's the difference for the encoding? I receive the actual mp3 from S3RL :l
00:01 Sakura: that peppy doesnt want anything higher than 192 kbps distributed on osu! unless you own the actual rights to the song
00:02 swash984: I own the actual rights to the song...
00:02 Sakura: you mean you made it?
00:02 swash984: No, S3RL made it.
00:02 swash984: Though, I make these because he doesn't have time.
00:02 swash984: I pretty much work for him.
00:02 Sakura: and S3RL sold you the rights for it?
00:02 Sakura: hmm
00:02 swash984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxGtRLM9HYc See
00:03 Sakura: hmm
00:03 Sakura: you'd have to ask someone higher up if it's ok for you to use it, but you'd have to show proof, the safer bet would be to go with 192 kbps
00:03 Sakura: anyway
00:04 Sakura: the preview point is still something necessary you should use the same one squiggly is using
00:04 swash984: I've never made a preview point, so I didn't actualy know they existed.
00:04 Sakura: as in: PreviewTime: 85500
00:04 Sakura: this is the one squiggly is using
00:04 Sakura: tho it's your mapset so you can chose whichever and then squiggly has to follow you
00:04 Sakura: just go whichever part of the song you like and click on Timing then "Set current position as preview point"
00:05 swash984: I'll just use his.
00:06 Sakura: 01:15:187 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18) - This combo's a bit too long for a Hard
00:07 Sakura: tho since you work on music at least you got a good sense of rythm and when to use sliders and such
00:07 swash984: Actually this is my first time doing anything like this ever.
00:07 Sakura: 01:42:375 (2,4) - Hiding a slider below another slider is unrankable
00:09 Sakura: Your patterns in general seem very simple, but that's normal when you're a new mapper
00:09 Sakura: btw really nice song
00:10 Sakura: My main gripe is that your mapping seems like you can't decide if you're making a Hard or an Insane
00:10 Sakura: 00:16:125 (4,5) - jumps like these feel out of place
00:11 Sakura: 00:18:375 (2,3) - while jumps like this one are fine since it's for the pattern
00:11 swash984: Well I knew I was making a hard, I just.. try to add my own original feel at times.
00:11 Sakura: 00:24:000 (10) - new combo here for example
00:11 Sakura: 00:23:625 (9,10) - also this is a really awkward jump
00:12 Sakura: 00:31:875 (1,1) - This is a really awkward pause and the first note doesnt really need new combo if you're gonna make this pause to begin with
00:12 Sakura: otherwise just map the inbetween
00:13 Sakura: 00:51:000 (3,4) - 1/4 jumps aren't ok for a Hard even if it's a slider jump
00:13 Sakura: this is pretty much what i was referring to that it seems that your difficulty goes all over the place in terms of how hard it is
00:13 Sakura: 00:50:625 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17) - You should also break this combo
00:14 Sakura: 00:52:687 (7) - New combo here for example, 00:54:375 (11) - and here 00:55:687 (14) - here too
00:15 Sakura: 01:04:687 (7,8) - This kind of anti-jump is unintuitive
00:16 Sakura: 01:13:875 (7,8,9,10,11) - Yeah don't do this on a hard (the last one specially) this is good for something like an Extra (which is higher than Insane)
00:16 Sakura: 01:18:187 (10) - New combo here
00:17 Sakura: 01:23:062 (5,6) - Another awkward anti-jump
00:17 Sakura: Yeah, i think you might be better off at looking how Hard diffs feel and starting over from scratch
00:17 Sakura: it's gonna take a lot of work just to fix the difficulty spikes in this map
00:18 swash984: Looks like it will take a lot for ranked status, I'd have to probably re-map normal.
00:18 swash984: and cancel shroom's.
00:18 Sakura: yeah, but if you're willing to put in the effort you should do well
00:19 Sakura: just dont get disheartened when you have to remap
00:19 Sakura: it happens, specially for newer mappers
00:19 swash984: Ah, well I didn't do the normal so I'm not to disheartened. IT's just making a beatmap a month takes quite a lot of time. Since I try very hard on them.
00:20 Sakura: It's ok, at least you have a good grasp of the rythm of the song to put it into the map, it's just that your note placement goes haywire
00:21 Sakura: i'll take a quick look at the normal and see how that one looks
00:21 swash984: Don't. xD
00:22 Sakura: yeaaah no
00:22 Sakura: this is... pretty bad
00:22 Sakura: kudos for effort on the patterns tho
00:22 Sakura: xD
00:23 Sakura: to Shroom that is
00:23 swash984: He ain't cut out for normal. xD
00:23 Sakura: i'll check the Insane, but it's squigly probably wont be too bad
00:27 swash984: I'll do a lot more work on the hard, I believe I know what part would be very difficult.
00:27 Sakura: well squiggly's diff looks good at a quick glance
00:27 Sakura: but eh no time to fully mod it