this has nothing to do with the user rating. the similarity was intended to give a different variation in terms of gameplay and it does not change anything about comfortabilitystupud man wrote:
The majority of the parts are similar to the insane diff because going even further with the difficulty (whether the pitch relevancy is right or not) makes the chart unplayable. There's a reason the chart has a positive user rating, and it's because 1) nobody bothers to use user rating and 2) the people who did actually bother played the insane difficulty or even easier ones, where there isnt necessarily anything uncomfortable about them.
just because this chart is not your cup of tea, I don't see the need of mentioning the chart is not compatible or unplayable
somehow you did mention about "skill" and "gift", well each individual has their own "gift" and "skills". like this map is focusing on less usage of chordstreamstupud man wrote:
I have only talked to 1 person who actually liked the Infection difficulty, and it mainly has to do with the amount of longjack charts they play (eg. LR2 jack scale). It's an unconventional "skill" that doesn't really determine if you have any. It's a gift to move your forearms at a high speed without doing much reading of the chart.
for those who are bad on sightreading but has the jack/spamming skills
think about it. do you consider yourself as the person who has a clear understanding in it? if you think this is an abuse. i would have put 6 notes spam for the final part on each difficulties like i did in Influenza diff
as a mapper, they must already know the limitations for what the music based for,stupud man wrote:
So about pitch relevancy. There comes a time when pitch relevancy genuinely doesn't matter whatsoever, because following perfect pitch relevancy will eventually only make a chart more uncomfortable (see Dysnomia 8K prior to it's current version, where following pitch relevancy lead to extremely uncomfortable death jacks that didn't belong with the rest of the chart. this should sound familiar). That being said, pitch relevancy can still be noticed when playing small bursts of patterns (eg. FC's Blastix Riotz, he doesn't chart the 256bpm jumptrills as a single 256bpm jack. that's fucking outrageous). So, I think it's appropriate here to focus on playability over pitch relevancy, and no, a 24 note 170bpm longjack isn't playable by any means.
this was intended for a challenge. however, it depends on the song, the rhythm and the bpm itself. it is mapper's choice to decide whether to make it a trill or jack or etc...
Updated some fix on Stupud's mod