DT in general increases star diff much higher for a some good reasons. It directly impacts the pace of a song by bpm alteration. It proportionallly decreases the window in which a hit is registered as 300/100/50 as HR and past AR9 it has a higher impact on AR/OD than HR.
HR will "only" increase OD and AR up to 10 while DT can manipulate these stats past that point up to 11.
The only situation where I could think of HR being more challenging for one specific beat map is when circle size already is fairly small(5 and higher) before nomod, the AR is below 9, OD is around 8 - 8.5 and the dt bpm wouldnt surpass ~200.
Some of these conditions for this particular scenario might be subjective. But so is the whole topic if you consider memorization. Someone who perfectly memorizes a map without mods "only" requires to increase all his speed parameters (reading, tapping, cursor movement) to play the same map with dt. This doesnt work with HR.
If your question is what should be rewarded more then I would be inclined to say HR. Simply because DT and HT alter the sound quality in a negative way which ruins the whole experience for me and doesn't work with the whole concept of enjoying music in a rhythm based game. Again a very subjective personal opinion noone will actually care about in this community. Sadly.
You might ask the question 10 different players with totally distinctive profiles. You will get 10 different answers on that matter. Some might prefer playing acc based/aim based. Others will like to go fast. And then again You'll have those which are too proud to admit they cannot do the respective other thing and will claim their ways are more challenging or demanding and due should be rewarded much more. And then out of a sudden a wild millhiore will walk by and show you how hard EZ mod actually is. Kynan might just prefer playing really high bpm settings. thelewa is gonna rape every read intensive map. Or let's say emperorpenguin tags along and just mashes both DT and HR and wouldn't even be mad.
Bottom line. There is no one and only correct rule and answer to this question.
FL is nothing but a troll mod for cheaters. People multibox/use several monitors/perfectly memorize whole maps. But so can HD be abused in the same way.JonQuy wrote:
As far as I know, the same map with dt is much harder than with hr. However, when two different maps with the mods respectively that are the same star rating, the one with hr is generally harder.
Sums up my post perfectly... oh well.