11 Jul 2023
Introducing New Beatmap Pack Categories
by chromb

Introducing New Beatmap Pack Categories

by chromb

The beatmap pack scene is taking off in 2023 with a number of all-new categories and some new talent to boot!

What's the one thing better than a beatmap? More beatmaps.

For this reason, the engineers over at the osu! beatmap pack factory have been working hard to scale up operations in order to deliver high-quality packs right to your doorstep, and their new line-up is sure to excite you!

But first, we'd like to welcome some new talent into the beatmap packing business, namely Shige-Tori[a], who has for a long while catalogued existing packs in an exhaustively expansive unofficial spreadsheet. We'd also like to give a somber and grateful farewell to Stefan, who has kept the lights on at the beatmap pack assembly line for many, many years with his tireless toil.

"What are beatmap packs", you ask? They are collections of hand-picked beatmaps that you can download in bulk from one place, instead of tediously looking around to find them all. The beatmap pack listing even tracks your completion on each one!

"Why would you complete beatmap packs?" Well, most of them do absolutely nothing (not to discourage any completionists out there), but a special few may give you a shiny reward...

Now, let's stop asking questions and take a look at the new beatmap pack categories:

Project Loved packs

Project Loved has been bringing some of osu!'s finest creations to your screens since 2016, and the time has come to bring some HIGH-DENSITY LOVED GOODNESS to your songs folder. Each pack contains a selection of each season's greatest hits, as chosen by the Loved captains themselves.

Show them some love over at the Project Loved pack listing, and perhaps even earn some shiny goodies while you're at it!

Tournament packs

For years people have been asking the question, "where can I find a nice selection of easy-to-download mappools from past tournaments?". Turns out the answer has been found, as tournament packs are now alive and kicking! Enjoy some sensible Quarterfinal pools, or test your limits with a Grand Final pool from any of the most hype tournaments to have graced the game.

For now, the focus is on getting all of the World Cup mappools uploaded, but expect to see other tournaments joining them very soon!

Give yourself a challenge over at the tournament pack listing today!

Centurion packs

To this day, there are only 14 mappers who have reached the incredible milestone of creating one hundred (or more) Ranked beatmaps, so after some light interrogation of these industrious creators, we're excited to bring you the all-new Centurion packs! Each pack represents a selection of a given Centurion's most beloved creations, namely the beatmaps they're most proud of making.

These packs can be found in the themed pack listing, so why not give them a spin?

In addition to the packs, all of the mappers to have achieved this ridiculous milestone have also been granted an exquisite new profile badge (many thanks to Tanza3D for the design).

In particular, for their astounding dedication to the creation of beatmaps, the entire team would like to extend utmost congratulations to DJPop, Andrea, ztrot, Sotarks, Lasse, Nao Tomori, Annabel, Ascendance, Nevo, Faputa, Genjuro, Ryuusei Aika, Secre and SMOKELIND!


That's all we have for the moment, but keep your eyes peeled for new pack-related things in the future!

—chromb

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I especially like the tournament pack idea, my only question is: will it include all(most) of the tournaments from forum? Or only major ones like OWC Corsace etc. ?

[-Omni-] czeczotka

my guess is major ones..

Gotta love 'em packs!

[-Omni-] KimAriel

tourney packs = free good maps :)

Comb changed :/

What an amazing time to be alive.

Wish beatmap packs were more integrated into lazer :/

ZebbyX jseto

Yeah same, like being able to download the packs from the client and being able to complete them from lazer too, I guess in the future they will integrate that tho, it's just a matter of time.

This is not related to any of these three new categories but to the "Featured Artist" one, since there are a lot of current featured artist in the Artist/Album category (*namirin for example), do you plan on moving them to the new category specifically made for them at some point?

chromb ZebbyX

it's technically possible, but due to medals and that kinda thing it's not quite as simple as just changing filenames.

ZebbyX chromb

Oh yeah, it makes sense, plus the effort of the team is currently on lazer so small things like that aren't a priority, thanks for the answer!

Hello mappers!

As you have over 100 ranked maps, you are now eligible for a new pack type on the website!

If you would like to have a pack made for you, please contact me via Discord (@chromb), for a list of 10 maps (from your first 100 ranked) that you feel really represent your mapping prowess.

If you have 200 ranked maps, you are eligible for 2 (TWO!??!?) packs, and if you're one of the crazy people with 300 you're eligible for THREE!!. If you are one of the people eligible for multiple, and would like packs to be made, please contact me on discord.

Many thanks, chromb.

chromb _Illustrious_

you shall be boiled.

EB John chromb

:chromb:

Sad that there are no mania main Centurion :( but congrats to all mappers for achiving such!

chromb Risukuma

be the change you want to see in the world 👀

yes

thank youuuu going to the wiki for tournament mappools was such a pain

YOOOOOO
that's what i want in osu!

give larto their one as well :(

chromb Aranel

isn't larto only on 99?

Aranel chromb

yeah, he did not rank the 100th one, that one got loved instead which was a nice touch to his overall progress ig

yay!!

chromb Genjuro

YOU get a badge!!

Congrats!

Praying that we get medals for most of those beatmap packs

Stefan GalaxyGaming

I'll haunt Ephemeral until we get them.

chomb

holy, That spreadsheet fry's your PC when loading the thumbnails

Shige-Tori[a] [REDACTED]

try upscale the sheet and load it

Shige-Tori[a] [REDACTED]

yeah, my spreadsheet is eat over 6 ~ 8GB RAM when you full load sheet page. (and LAN too) (+ 429 too many req three)
sorry but i cant handle about that issue :((

\o/

larto on 99 ranked maps :c
rip centurion pack for him
(unless ofc loved maps get counted as well)

Jun Maeda Kurboh

Hi

You should make tournament mappool packs show which mods were used on which maps in the tournament

Flickrz QnVubnkgR2lybA

Or at the very least list the maps in order (starting with nm1 ending with tb)

"Tournament Packs": the feature I never knew I needed but I love it

"To this day, there are only 14 mappers who have reached the incredible milestone of creating one hundred (or more) Ranked beatmaps"

if you waited like 3 days there would be 15...........

chromb Kaeldori

and they too will get a pack and badge when they hit 100, not gonna mindlessly delay stuff because people are 'vaguely near'

Kaeldori chromb

dw it's normal you are not waiting lol, it's just funny it happens like 3 days before amateurre get their 100 map ranked

Any chance packs for Tournaments from 2011-2014 will be included in the beatmap packs? I think it'd be pretty cool

Woooooooooooo

Hi guys, here is Shige-Tori[a], in charge of the packaging on behalf of Stefan.

The official package will be uploaded after a grace period of about at least 3 days if 20 sets are gathered because of preventing Unranked issue'd Set Packed.

I'm working both with my https://bit.ly/osuPackSheet so this problem is almost not happens, but if you find a mapsets that isn't included in the package, feel free to report it via PM!

Hope you guys enjoy osu! with Map Packs! <3

HeXLoK7 Shige-Tori[a]

bruh
i confused you with cookiezi and had a mini heart attack

Hinshi Raito HeXLoK7

Who?

8605 Shige-Tori[a]

오.... 굳

Hoshikuz Shige-Tori[a]

우왕대다내

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