Exciting steps have been taken, with even more exciting steps yet to come!
Your monthly dose of improvements to the game has arrived. It comes in the form of a video, which you can watch below, and a big list of changes you can find right here (below) or here.
This batch is different from the rest, because it also marks the announcement of even more updates in the coming months (who knew).
Or, well, it actually is different... just read on or watch the video below to find out.
Ctrl
+ Shift
+ R
is back! ... except now it's Ctrl
+ R
by default, but that can be changed in the options.Ctrl
+ G
to reverse a slider, it should retain the exact same shape. That is now the case for a few more types of slides (but not all of them yet).Tab
key. This was already a toggle in the options, but now it's more quickly accessible.The above video goes more into the topic described below than the actual changes to the client, but if you're looking for more visuals for these changes, you can find a couple in the full changelog.
This update comes with a shift in developer focus announced a bit over two weeks ago in the last community meeting, which is to get osu!(lazer) to a state where it can submit permanent scores to ranked leaderboards. Discussion around the remaining tasks have been a thing for a long while (see the last few community meetings), but the priority hasn't really been there yet. Now it is.
In order for things to happen, a GitHub project board has been made to track all of the remaining tasks. These range from creating missing infrastructure components to implementing important improvements to user experience (the quality-of-life stuff), and most importantly, rebalancing gameplay mechanics.
In addition, courtesy of former tournament and top player Bubbleman, a group of top osu! players has been gathered in order to accelerate progress on more contentious discussions and resolve any stalemates. This kind of direct involvement between the team and specific groups in the osu! community will likely happen more often in the future.
Essentially, soon you'll be able to farm performance points in osu!(lazer) and have them tracked in your profile forevermore.
When will all of it be ready? Hopefully by the end of this year, with one single leaderboard wipe.
The download button for the new client can be found this way! Expect more updates soon. Perhaps sooner than you expect.
—Walavouchey
lazer scores will be wiped either wholly or partially and there's no definite plan of how or when exactly it'll happen.
scores can be wiped at any time but there's not much point in doing so rn and it'd just cause disruption among current lazer players who don't know about it, so it'll come with an announcement
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