Odd. When I play it in the editor, it tells me my offset is 5ms late. (hits are 5ms early) Adjusting my universal offset to align the bleeps only makes this worse. I can play the majority of ranked maps (Hand That Feeds and Dough-Nuts being the two big exceptions) perfectly with no universal offset.awp wrote:
Offset is 15ms early. 885 pls?
I kind of agree with you. I was told to avoid doing this for Pressing On, however, so I've been avoiding doing plain downbeats not synched to anything obvious.awp wrote:
[Easy]
Certain things feel awkward about Easy. There's a lot of notes on half beats, and those patterns are tricky simply because you're not clicking to the beat, but a fixed time after the beat. There's an underlying tone that they follow, but it is really hard to draw out, and not something you should be expecting from someone who plays Easy. Example here would be 00:46:76 (1,2,3,4) - sounds kinda catchy on Autoplay, but hard to pick up in game. Moving notes 2 and 3 ahead a half beat gives it a better flow imo. 00:58:94 (3) - the timing on this slider (and subsequent) just sounds too weird to me. Apart from the awkward half-beat timing everything seems really done well. Especially the chorus.
I've fixed 0:46:76 and repeats. I'm keeping the sliders at 0:58 and repeats for now. They're synched to these little beeps in the background during this part of the song.
I'd reduce the slider ticks, but I like my 1000-combo!awp wrote:
[Normal] and [Hard] look fine to me though.
Oh, just one thing: the score difference between Normal and Hard is approximately 640% - peppy almost FC'd Hard on his first try and it's worth 9.5 million, so it might be too easy for that volume of points. Maybe you could shrink the notes, widen the beatspacing, mix up the patterns, or drop the slider tick rate down to 1 to offset it a little.
It's a long map, and that's what's jacking up the score. The big 640% is also because Hard goes longer than Normal by a lot.I've shrank the dots, added a jump at the easy part around 4:26, and made some of the patterns in the last chorus a bit trickier. (..while still keeping to my personal style guides for this song.
Stacks with unstacked notes in between and covered up notes inside of stuff are fine, but they just don't go with this type of music, IMO. Save them for strange or James Difficulty levels. 
)Edit: Thinking this might make a better (and more original) backdrop. (higher res, of course)
Edit2: Fixed some things up with MaxwellDemon on IRC. I've also finally nailed my Universal Offset, and can see the wisdom in awp's awpset of 885.</suckup>
