Nyari wrote:
And the award for the most unnecessary difficulty spike goes to...
Other than the insane difficulty spike at 3:26, it's a really nice map and it's a shame that the difficulty spike renders the entire map almost unplayable even with extensive amounts of practice on streaming. I can see why you'd want that difficulty spike there but it's really just not a good way to get back the title as the dude that mapped the highest star rating on osu!.
I'm a big fan of your previous works, I'm sure that you'll fix this spike somehow without having them being overly extensive jumps and I really hope that the fact that the star rating might be lower on the final version doesn't bug you that much. I just feel like if this map is ever going to get approved this is a change that needs to be done.
what the fuck are you talking about? First of all, there is no "title" of having the highest star ranked map in osu!, I couldn't care less what star rating says. Secondly, my maps are significantly underrated by star rating, so there's no reason to even doubt they are and will remain hard in comparison to other high star maps going for ranking this year. Thirdly, it was proven as 100% playable by Gayz last night, and I'm pretty sure the likes of Rafis/Vaxei/hvick/C could even fc the jumps. However, you imply it's "overdone" - you're wrong, it's all spaced accordingly to the guitar pitch/drum patterns.
03:26:912 (1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1) - changes guitar pitch a bunch but isn't as intense as the other 3 sections of jumps, everything should be understandable here.
03:28:181 (1,2,1,2,1) - pitch goes up slightly more, so does spacing
03:28:758 (1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) - pitch goes up even more, + 1/4 drums, clearly the most powerful part by far, spacing goes up again, and in comparison to the last section it goes up only slightly
03:30:142 (1,2,1,2) - pitch goes down, spacing goes down again
not sure which part it doesn't make sense at, considering the lower pitched guitar jumps have even lower spacing for example here 03:39:142 (1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2) - which means it all increases gradually. The only problem you could bring up is that the spacing for low pitch jumps starts up too high, but this is a top difficulty after all, the rest of the map is balanced around the same idea.
I'm not sure why you all get so fucking salty whenever there's a huge difficulty spike if it's IN THE GOD DAMN SONG. I'm not going to ignore it just to make it "easy to play" or "consistent" with the rest of the map, if it's intense in the song, then it's intense in the map, simple as that. Can't understand why you'd ever think I map for star rating. There are a few mind-blowing (to me personally, anyways) things I noticed by the way:
1. Even if a high star map is complete dogshit, consistent difficulty saves it from being seen as bad by the community.
2. Non-high difficulty maps that are of average or lower quality get ranked easily and are never really noticed by the community.
3. If a map isn't high star but its difficulty comes from the gimmicks, community is completely fine with it. I cannot comprehend this one at all - I guess the vocal majority (we're not talking about the majority here, number is probably about 99%) is only good enough to judge spacing between objects and not the technical complexity of the map, HA. Which is why maps with underdone spacing but insanely hard gimmicks get ranked and nobody seems to care.
I won't list example maps here for obvious reasons. There would probably be a huge drama just from mentioning one name for the first point here.
Also, enough of begging pumpkinheaded, anime-avatared BNs to check my maps, 85% of you are actually too bad/inexperienced to even judge my maps and the rest of you are either too busy (understandable. no sarcasm) or too pussy to touch them (fuck off. It is kind of amusing to have such a reputation, though). I map these songs because I love the music and want to share it with the rest of the community, at least the part of it which isn't made of braindead animals who think poor taste references are funny. If you think my maps aren't worthy of being ranked, then fine, I won't kneel before you and beg you for your mods/icons, I'll simply let my maps rot in the graveyard. Keep having fun with your anime-infested game.
With that said, enjoy the game, my maps, the songs I map, do whatever the fuck you want to. Just remember that mapping isn't a competition and difficulty spikes aren't bad (if they truly are in the song)
Peace