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TheVileOne
osu! Alumni
8,431 posts
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Topic Starter
TheVileOne
Everyone must have that pattern that annoys the hell out of you when you have to play it. Well lets collect these distasteful things all in one place.


I'll start this off with random star jumps. I just hate the recent trend of making excessively large jumps in places that do not sound like jumps just to make a star pattern. It's unoriginal, annoying, and bothers the hell out of me.
Gaba
900 posts
Joined May 2011
Gaba
Diamond jumps, square ones I find ok, but I just can't do diamond jumps properly.
Hika
1,553 posts
Joined February 2010
Hika
I've always hated jumps that go along with consistent beat but the spacing isn't correct.
I hate spaced streams as well. SUPER spaced streams & streams that are super compressed.
That's all I can think of now...
TheVileOne
osu! Alumni
8,431 posts
Joined March 2010
Topic Starter
TheVileOne
I dislike stack jumps too. There's something about going from a stop to an accurate jump that comes off as very awkward. I know the pros can hit them just fine, but I'm not a pro.
those
3,136 posts
Joined November 2010
those
Anything that doesn't follow music.
-Athena-
1,414 posts
Joined June 2011
-Athena-

those wrote:

Anything that doesn't follow music.
you win XD

well long streams above 160 bpm and also spaced streams, generally anything super fast that forces me to alternate between clicks while moving, but well these aren't really problems cause it's my fault for sucking...
Pizzicato
2,739 posts
Joined February 2011
Pizzicato
putting diamonds inside diamonds, then squares. simplistiC's masterpiece is the best example. Lena's squares annoy me too :(
Mismagius
9,267 posts
Joined July 2008
Mismagius


please don't ever do this in your map



These, mostly when they're vertical and I can't cursordance on them :(

bonus



PEOPLE WHO DO THIS SHALL DIE
Royboyvdm
Royboyvdm


hate that on the right side..i just cant seem to to that kind of move with either mouse or tablet properly lol
mekadon_old
mekadon_old
SPOILER






Probably much more, just too lazy to search
bwross
265 posts
Joined December 2009
bwross

those wrote:

Anything that doesn't follow music.
Yeah that's definitely annoying. But if it's a quick triple pattern (eg mid-sized triangle jump or a jump to a triple stack or triangle), I'm okay with it... but the hit sounds should be Cha-Cha-Cha. A double pattern is also acceptable, with either hand claps or dog bark. :D

(One place where I really don't mind is in taikosu... taiko has a number of maps where the beat doesn't follow anything in the background music, because it's playing the missing taiko part.)
ZeroEightOne
240 posts
Joined August 2011
ZeroEightOne
jumps on high-BPM songs
D33d
1,697 posts
Joined April 2011
D33d
Overmapping with weak hitsounds and jumps which play inconsistently annoy me the most. Both are techniques which should be used sparingly and are great when they're used cleverly. However, they're often not and they feel awful as a result.
Kanye West
2,222 posts
Joined July 2011
Kanye West
Diamond jumps and the massive horizontal and Z jumps.
Waryas
Waryas

mekadon wrote:

SPOILER






Probably much more, just too lazy to search
they're fun to play though
Sander-Don
1,282 posts
Joined March 2010
Sander-Don

Blue Dragon wrote:



please don't ever do this in your map
♥ That map
Oh, and I hate full note spaced streams, they're impossible for me to do on my tablet. Too much moving...
thelewa
3,537 posts
Joined August 2010
thelewa
1/6 or 1/8 streams fill me with hate and they ruin otherwise good maps
Mythras
255 posts
Joined February 2010
Mythras
Slow approach circles instantly infuriate me, slow approach circles WITH bad spacing WITH difficult timing make me play the map on easy and forget about it.

This isn't really an issue with newer maps, but the older ones are full of that crap, drives me insane since im going through them. ><
confeito14
confeito14
Nice thread, but annoyed modders...

1 slider and 4 circles

We know, these are all fine.
SPOILER
How about this pattern?
SPOILER


rickyboi
rickyboi
1. Huge diamond pattern on high bpm maps.
2. Slow AR on 200 + bpm maps.
3. Slow slider velocity with huge jumps.
4. Anything higher than AR 9.
5. Spinners that are longer than 10 seconds.
moneto_old
moneto_old
1. Any notes/sliders that attempt to follow the vocals in a song. Especially if the vocals aren't quantized, or are on awkward beats.
2. Huge slider velocity changes that aren't exactly fitting the flow of a song. (Even worse if there's no SB warning)
3. An 8th note slider followed directly by an 8th note hitcircle. Not a problem on their own, but when there's a bunch of these with jumps and other hitcircles inbetween, I can never seem to get my fingers to hit them correspondingly, although I can read them just fine. (e.g. Vanessa [Extra], neu [v2b])
4. Wide spaced notes placed in a straight line. It looks like the most simple pattern, yet I frequently derp on these.
5. Similar to the above, notes placed in a large circular pattern with wide spacing.
-Athena-
1,414 posts
Joined June 2011
-Athena-

mnto wrote:

4. Wide spaced notes placed in a straight line. It looks like the most simple pattern, yet I frequently derp on these.
5. Similar to the above, notes placed in a large circular pattern with wide spacing.
i feel ya mean i feel ya
4.fairy tail main theme (kirby mix)(makes me wanna pull my hair out)
5.flower dance short-ver (insane)(ironically one of my favourite maps)
D33d
1,697 posts
Joined April 2011
D33d

mnto wrote:

1. Any notes/sliders that attempt to follow the vocals in a song. Especially if the vocals aren't quantized, or are on awkward beats.
May I ask why you detest the mapping of vocals? If they're carrying the song, then it's usually a good idea to map them. Because the melody usually has the most variance, changing between the lead and rhythm gives the map as much unique interest as possible. If the vocals ARE awkward and are being followed, then the mapper should be following their approximate rhythm and what's happening behind them, in a way which coincides with them.

Having said that, I really hate it when people map guitar solos with streams, because it doesn't usually work well. The average guitar solo is a pile of wank and isn't usually played entirely in time. Seeing a load of 1/4 1/3 nonsense is pretty bothersome, unless they're just used over specific phrases.

Also, long, widely spaced patterns bother me too, but that's just because I suck. It takes a great deal of control to hit them, but at least they make sense.
ziin
2,632 posts
Joined January 2010
ziin

ragelewa wrote:

1/6 or 1/8 streams fill me with hate and they ruin otherwise good maps
1/6 streams are better than 1/4 streams when it's supposed to be 1/6.

hiding triples under previous notes
hiding sliders under previous notes
hiding sliders under sliders
hiding notes under slider ends which are not immediately after the slider
anti-jumps at the end of streams
anti-jumps at the end of a 3 minute song for no reason which don't fit the music
notes before the song even starts

pretty much anything that makes me go "what the shit" because it's not obvious when I'm supposed to hit the next note, or where the next note even is (and I'm not going to remove my hitbursts).
D33d
1,697 posts
Joined April 2011
D33d
ziin just covered a bunch of lesser things which annoy me quite frequently. Additionally, I'm not keen on such things as this:



Basically, a short 1/2 stream going in one direction, with a 1/2 jump to the start of it. It becomes very hard to concentrate on the approach circle when there's a hitburst there; not to mention that it just doesn't make sense to push in one direction and then jump to the start and end so suddenly.

Also, now that I can actually play a lot of 'Masterpiece', I was reminded of how much I hate it when patterns are constructed for the sake of it, in a way which ignores the music. For example, this little bastard right here:



(4) starts on a new bar and the silly hexagonal slider pattern keeps going through a phrase, before there's a new combo. The silly overlapping pentagon spam which follows pretty much idles through the music without conveying where the downbeat lies. It resolves itself eventually, but there are so many consecutive bars in the map which just don't appear to follow the time signature. In fact, I'm pretty sure that the whole thing would've felt better if combos were placed better. What a shame.
Mercurial
Mercurial

ziin wrote:

hiding sliders under sliders
dafuq with that sliders...
Wishy
2,974 posts
Joined September 2010
Wishy
Stupidly long spinners and low AR that doesn't fit either the map or the BPM.
Regou
1,927 posts
Joined July 2010
Regou
...AR9 in a song which is below 170BPM(or even 180BPM). Hard to read and doesn't fit the song!
JappyBabes
666 posts
Joined February 2011
JappyBabes
BlueDragon Squares
Kirby
Like the maps but those mapping styles ruin a lot of attempts.
TheVileOne
osu! Alumni
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Joined March 2010
Topic Starter
TheVileOne
I really don't like when the slider velocity doesn't match the distance snap. Constant speeding up for the sliders, and then slowing down just doesn't make a nice rhythm in most cases. Also slow sliders going into large jumps are just annoying. Don't get me started on stack jumps.
Rena-chan
Rena-chan
Long combos of overlapping, singletappable notes.

Seriously, fuck that shit.
Amefuri Koneko
130 posts
Joined April 2010
Amefuri Koneko
I hate triplets or gallops right after slider which started with a gallop (so I had to use my 2nd finger to hold that slider) especialy if this pattern goes repeatedly >.<
And fast 4 notes repetetive mini streams, when they used the way triplets are usually used, are pretty annoying too.
BeatofIke
4,172 posts
Joined September 2011
BeatofIke
^ All of the above.
emergist
106 posts
Joined April 2011
emergist
Sliders that are too long annoy me.
Jordan
1,037 posts
Joined December 2010
Jordan
Spaced streams and diamond jumps
Ekaru
3,617 posts
Joined July 2008
Ekaru
Poorly done compressed streams.
YodaSnipe
1,378 posts
Joined February 2011
YodaSnipe
Rena-chan mapping techniques
HakuNoKaemi
3,828 posts
Joined October 2009
HakuNoKaemi
every thing that doesn't have sense.

If it have sense, but is hard hard... who care?
theowest
osu! Alumni
6,891 posts
Joined January 2009
theowest
Any high speed non-edgy jump. Smooth curved jumps with inconsistent distance spacing in a difficulty you cannot play without having to use flow.

and hidden notes behind other notes (especially sliders).
YodaSnipe
1,378 posts
Joined February 2011
YodaSnipe

theowest wrote:

Any high speed non-edgy jump. Smooth curved jumps with inconsistent distance spacing in a difficulty you cannot play without having to use flow.
god you just- get me <3
XripztEr
XripztEr
bad timing map, and the rhythm doesn't follow music..
animez15
122 posts
Joined April 2012
animez15
after the spin then the circle will easily appear.
bad timing of map. :?
Tshemmp
1,405 posts
Joined June 2011
Tshemmp
^ Well, bad timing isn't actually a mapping technique.

What I hate are streams with an even amount of Circles and any square formations. I also dislike exaggerated SV changes.

Edit: forgot to mention slow AR combined with high SV/spacing, this is the worst thing ever.
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silmarilen
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Joined February 2010
silmarilen
slow sliders in a fast map/fast sliders in a slow map
Frizz
4,131 posts
Joined April 2011
Frizz
Pretentious anti-jumps
CXu
osu! Alumni
3,558 posts
Joined March 2009
CXu
Squares
YodaSnipe
1,378 posts
Joined February 2011
YodaSnipe

CXu wrote:

Squares
Tsukasa
471 posts
Joined June 2011
Tsukasa

YodaSnipe wrote:

CXu wrote:

Squares
Kuria
1,390 posts
Joined May 2011
Kuria

CXu wrote:

Squares
exactly
tyrael6192
706 posts
Joined October 2010
tyrael6192
I don't wanna jump on the bandwagon, so I'll be original

really fast squares
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