Community / Internet Relay Chat

, see: Internet Relay Chat (Wikipedia) The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol used for chatting with numerous online clients. osu ... HexChat) may work improperly, or not work at all. osu!Bancho (sometimes shortened to just Bancho) offers a gateway for IRC (in-game chat) access. ... Alternatively, use a different server address, cho.ppy.sh (you will still connect to osu!Bancho). ... In osu! ... They are either using the web version of chat or connected via osu!(lazer).

Community / Forum

Forum See also: Internet forum The osu! ... Structure Each of the osu! forums contains a variety of topics, sometimes called threads, as well as smaller categories, or subforums. ... Feature Requests: suggestions for osu! development. Modding Queues: beatmap reviews done by other mappers and modders. ... During that time, the osu! ... supporter and user pages After the new osu!

Game modifier / Double Time (mod)

The Double Time mod is widely regarded as one of the best mods used for gaining large amounts of performance points on easier difficulties in osu!. ... osu!taiko In osu!taiko, the hit leniency is greatly reduced when the Double Time mod is enabled due to osu! ... Because of this, the Double Time mod is widely regarded as the hardest mod in osu!taiko and is seldom used. osu!catch In osu!

Mascots / Gallery

Gallery Official pippi Original pippi (Idol outfit) Current pippi (DJ outfit) Fan arts For pippi fan arts, see: First Official osu! ... (Facebook) osu! Fanart Contest 2! (Facebook) osu! Fanart Contest 3! (Facebook) Fan Art 7: Halloween! ... Fan Art 8: Christmas Mocha in Summer Fanart Contest Yuzu Fan arts For Yuzu fan arts, see: osu! Fanart Contest 3! (Facebook) Fan Art 7: Halloween! ... Fan arts For fan arts with cameo mascots, see: Mocha in Summer Fanart Contest Community For fan arts with the community-made mascots, see: Fan Art 6: osu

Gameplay / Accuracy

Game modes osu! In osu! ... Reference for one hit circle: osu!taiko In osu! ... osu!catch In osu! ... osu!mania In osu!mania, accuracy is calculated similarly to osu!. ... Spin Note: Spin is only used for the osu! game mode.

Gameplay / Combo milestone

The combo milestones for osu! and osu!catch are 30x, 60x, 100x, and multiples of 50 after 100. For osu! ... For osu!mania, the combo milestones are multiples of 100.

Game modifier / Mirror (mod)

Game Modifier About Abbreviation: MR Type: Special Score Multiplier: 1.00x Compatible game modes: Description The Mirror mod is a game modifier for osu ... The mod achieves this by reflecting the notes across a virtual y-axis that runs down the middle of the osu!mania keyboard. ... Specifically, the mirroring of notes is as follows: The reasoning behind this is that many osu! ... At the time of the feature request's posting, there was already a Mirror-like mod that was implemented in osu! ... (lazer), but due to the Mirror mod's nature of increasing accessibility, it was added into the Stable release of osu! at the time.

Slider Velocity Showdown / Slider Velocity Showdown: Round 2

Slider Velocity Showdown: Round 2 The Slider Velocity Showdown: Round 2 (SVS2) was the second iteration of the osu! ... supporter, unique profile badge 2 months of osu!supporter 1 month of osu! ... The chosen song must not breach the osu! song content rules; if you would not upload it to your profile, then do not use it here. ... Anything that violates the osu! rules will be disqualified. Each contestant is limited to a single difficulty of any level. Your map must be an osu! ... Sending in .osu files only is not allowed. If you do not know how to export a .osz file, please follow this guide.

Do you really want to ask peppy?

He keeps osu! support separate from personal messages and also finds that answering PMs is quite hard to keep up with. ... General osu! ... support For account issues, problems with payments, ban follow-ups, enquiries about tournaments and anything related to needing help on osu! ... , please contact the account support team by sending an email to accounts@ppy.sh (account queries) or osu@ppy.sh (anything else). ... Contacting peppy If you wish to contact peppy personally for non-osu! related reasons, you can email him at pe@ppy.sh.

Forum / Modding Queues

Each game mode has its own subforum for queues, with osu! taking up the main section of the forum: osu! osu!taiko osu!catch osu!

Quality Assurance Team / Quality Assurance Team Blog

Beginning in August of 2016, they discussed not only the activities of the QAT, but a variety of other topics spanning osu! ... All earlier posts on the blog were retroactively ported to osu!news afterwards. Post Compendium 2016 August Explore the QAT! ... September Code of Conduct Weekly Report #3 Tips on creating "Beginner Friendly" easies osu! ... catch Spread Problem October The QAT Gazette #4 The way we do spreads is actually really weird How the QAT handle Qualified Beatmaps November osu! ... BN Examination BN Test Review (osu!

Input device / Wiimote

Although mostly seen as gimmicky or silly, the Wiimote can be used in osu! to aim using the sensor bar. ... You can rebind any button to click in the osu! options. The Wiimote may also be used to control osu! ... In order to get the Wiimote working in osu!, you may have to check the option shown in the image above.

Beatmap / Beatmap packs

For example, osu! Beatmap Pack #1000 (pack S1000) is the 1,000th pack containing Ranked beatmaps for the osu! game mode. ... Move these .osz files into the Songs folder under the osu! installation directory, or select the files and drag them directly into the game window. ... Alternative downloads Caution: osu! cannot guarantee that files from unofficial sources are safe, up to date, or complete. ... : (Un)official Beatmap Pack Sheet Google Spreadsheet by Shige-Tori[a] Old Storage before packs.ppy.sh domain used ( ~2023.05.07) MEGA drive by Stefan osu ... Beatmap Packs @ Resilio Sync Resilio Sync torrent file by glukki [Beatmap Packs] All ranked maps (various DL options included) Torrent file by Elessey osu

People / User group

User group Listed below are user groups, most of which are made up of osu! community members that help maintain osu!. ... chat 7 Nomination Assessment Team Managing the Beatmap Nominators 11 Developers Making the game awesome by adding new features and fixing the bugs 16 osu ... ) Probationary BN that await a positive evaluation to confirm their presence in the team as a full member. 33 ppy Reserved for peppy, the creator of osu ... 35 Featured Artist Musical creators who have partnered with osu!

Input device / Mouse

Mouse A mouse is a very popular way to play osu!. You can use the mouse to aim and click. ... Confine mouse cursor This option allows the mouse cursor to stay inside the osu! window and is set to Only when fullscreen by default. ... The available options include: Never: Mouse will not stay inside the osu! window. Only when fullscreen: Mouse will stay inside the osu! ... Always: Mouse will always stay inside the osu! window.

Guides / Using custom hitsounds

If you are running osu! on macOS, you may need to take a slightly different approach: Right-click on the osu! ... Three basic categories of hitsounds, referred to as samplesets, exist in osu!: Normal (N), Soft (S), and Drum (D). ... Applying custom hitsounds In order to have osu! ... You will notice in the first image that no instance of soft-slidertick.wav is present, and in this case, osu! ... The osu! editor natively supports values between 2 and 100, but greater values can be achieved via editing of the .osu file if required.

Gameplay / Fingerlock

alternatively spelt as finger-lock or finger lock) is a term used to describe the sensation of momentarily losing control of one's fingers whilst playing osu ... Although not a term specific to osu! ... Any alleged research or commonly-understood information respective to the osu! ... The osu! community is not qualified to give medical advice; do not use the osu! wiki to diagnose medical conditions. ... Fingerlock is a common sensation that happens to many veteran osu! players.

Beatmap editor / Compose tab

The editor shares the same tools between osu!, osu!taiko, and osu!catch, while osu! ... It can be accessed by changing the difficulty's allowed mode to osu!mania. ... Features (osu!mania) For osu!mania mapping tutorials on the forum, see: [Tutorial] osu!mania mapping, Basics, [Tutorial] osu! ... mania mapping, Keysounding The osu!mania-specific editor has some differences compared to the other game modes, which are covered in this section. ... Beat snap divisor Main article: Beat snap divisor In osu!

People / Beatmap Nominators

Benefits Beatmap Nominators are granted the following benefits: osu!supporter: An osu! ... Full Beatmap Nominators osu! ... Roxy- Japanese Ryxliee Russian SN707 Korean Ulqui Spanish WTHBRO Chinese Yutsu- Japanese Zhuosh Chinese, German, Japanese, Cantonese osu ... Spanish BlackBN Cantonese, Chinese Daletto German Jemzuu Juansy- Spanish Mochi - Indonesian Nelly Russian SadEgg Spectator Verti osu ... taiko Doug Portuguese, Spanish osu!catch sxy62146214 Chinese osu!

Article styling criteria / Writing

Co-op or CO Random or RD Mirror or MR Auto or AT Cinema or CM Touch Device or TD ScoreV2 These game modifiers are no longer being used by osu! ... The following is an example: Trademarks For rules regarding osu!, see: osu! ... Use proper names of the game modes, such as osu!taiko, except when in historical context. User titles User titles that include osu! ... Examples include: osu! Alumni osu! Champion osu! in a sentence osu! should not end a sentence. ... If it does, use a full stop (.) or question mark to get osu!. or osu!?. osu! must not be followed by an exclamation mark (i.e. osu!!)

Contests / Contest points

Previous contests Contest points have been used in the following contests: Monthly Beatmapping Contest (MBC) osu!taiko Featured Artist Cup (o! ... tFAC) Twin Trials Vocaloid Mapping Contest 2 (VMC2) Kyoku 2024 osu!taiko Mapping World Cup (TMWC) Leaderboard osu! ... 1 Kyoku 2024 Mysty 1 Kyoku 2024 Le Mirai 1 Kyoku 2024 Omekyu 1 Kyoku 2024 hakashii 1 Kyoku 2024 Nihkee 1 Kyoku 2024 KomachiBaka 1 MBC osu ... tFAC fieryrage 1 Twin Trials FORMless000 1 TMWC superSSS 1 TMWC kknegative 1 TMWC Irone OSU 1 MBC osu! ... With the introduction of the osu!

Game modifier / Mod multiplier

For example, if Hard Rock and Half Time are enabled simultaneously in osu!, the final value would be 0.318x. ... Trivia The mod multiplier is shown on osu!(stable)'s mod selection screen as Score Multiplier, while in osu! ... (lazer) it is called Difficulty Multiplier. osu!

Taiko Korean Beatmap Contest / Taiko Korean Beatmap Contest #2

Taiko Korean Beatmap Contest #2 The Taiko Korean Beatmap Contest #2 (TKBC2) was a osu!taiko mapping contest dedicated for users from South Korea. ... Judging phase 2020-12-28/2021-01-17 Results announcement 2021-01-17 Organisation The Taiko Korean Beatmap Contest #2 was run by members of the Korean osu ... Manager [Karcher] 2, Civil oath Designer oL0 Judge [Karcher] 2, Petit, Ozu Prizes Unique profile badge 2 months of osu! ... supporter tag 1 month of osu! ... thread Podium This competition has come to an end and resulted in the following podium: applerss 4_4 ddm Ruleset Contest rules This contest is for osu

People / Nomination Assessment Team

Benefits See also: Departure from the NAT NAT members are granted the following benefits: osu!supporter: An osu! ... Communication: Acting as a bridge between the osu! ... Evaluation osu! ... taiko MV plugin development momoyo osu! NAT Internal Representative, Processing impact ratings for osu! ... nomination resets NeKroMan4ik Processing impact ratings for osu! nomination resets RandomeLoL Handling content reports, osu!

Community / Organisations

Organisations Index page for all offline organisations and clubs related to osu!. osu! at UCSD osu! UCI

Community / Community video series

Community video series Index page for video series run by community members. lazer updates osu!academy osu!mapping osu!talk

Staff log / Staff log 2011

Beatmap Approval Team (2011-02-20) Moved Derekku from Global Mod Team to Community Managers (2011-02-20) May Moved Larto from Beatmap Approval Team to osu ... Alumni (2011-05-06) Moved Mafiamaster from Beatmap Approval Team to osu! ... (2011-05-20) August Renamed Beatmap Approval Team to Beatmap Appreciation Team (2011-08-23) September Moved mtmcl from Beatmap Appreciation Team to osu ... Assistance Team (2011-09-29) Added SapphireGhost to Mapping Assistance Team (2011-09-29) October Moved Card N'FoRcE from Beatmap Appreciation Team to osu ... Alumni (2011-10-03) Moved deepsea from Global Mod Team to osu!

Beatmapping / Submission

Submission Beatmaps can be submitted to the osu! website via the in-game editor. ... If the beatmap a user is uploading is not already on the osu! website, the BSS window will state how many new uploads a user can publish. ... The limit varies depending on how many ranked beatmaps a user has and whether or not they are currently an osu!supporter. Users without osu! ... With osu!supporter, this increases to 8 pending beatmaps plus 1 per ranked beatmap (up to 12) for a total of 20. ... If only .osu files are changed, they are the only files in the beatmap's folder that will be processed and uploaded.

Beatmap / Difficulty

A beatmap's difficulty is a game level, which is stored as a text file with the .osu extension. ... osu! Easy Normal Hard Insane Expert osu!taiko Kantan Futsuu Muzukashii Oni Inner Oni / Ura Oni osu! ... catch Cup Salad Platter Rain Overdose osu!mania Easy Normal Hard Insane Expert Difficulty and star rating As of 27 July 2021, the osu!

Contests / Mapping to Pander: Taiko

Mapping to Pander: Taiko Mapping to Pander: Taiko (M2P) is an osu! ... All entries must be osu!taiko beatmaps. ... Heavy and continuous violation of these rules can result in a ban/blacklist from all future iterations of this, or other osu! ... Results #5 Genjuro _Rise _gt ler1211 Results Rewards The Mapping to Pander: Taiko contest series rewards its winners with the following prizes: osu ... supporter rewards: Each iteration can have a different amount of osu!supporter to award the winner, or the top 3 in some occasions.

Gameplay / Health

The HP drain rate difficulty setting determines how difficult it is to keep a high health value. osu! In osu! ... circle Tapping a slider head early Missing a slider tick, or slider reverse arrow Failed to achieve at least a 50 on a spinner No effect: Break time osu ... taiko In osu!taiko, the health bar starts off empty and must be filled 50% or more to pass a beatmap. ... catch In osu!catch, health will decrease at a steady rate called health drain, but can be replenished by catching fruits and drops. ... mania In osu!mania, only hit objects will affect the health bar, as health drain is disabled.

Unlock requirements / Unlock requirements for Beatmap Packs medals

Carpool Tunnel Clear all beatmaps bundled in the Carpool Tunnel Pack (osu!, osu!catch) beatmap pack. ... Creo Clear all beatmaps bundled in the Creo Pack (osu!, osu!catch) beatmap pack. cYsmix Clear all beatmaps bundled in the cYsmix Pack beatmap pack. ... LukHash Clear all beatmaps bundled in the LukHash Pack (osu!catch) beatmap pack. ... onumi Clear all beatmaps bundled in the onumi Pack (osu!, osu!catch) beatmap pack. ... The Flashbulb Clear all beatmaps bundled in the The Flashbulb Pack (osu!, osu!taiko, osu!catch) beatmap pack.

Beatmap editor / Beatmap editor menu

For Reference: (osu!mania only) Overlay the selected difficulty over the currently opened one. ... Import from... bms/bme: Open a .bms/.bme file to be imported as an osu!mania difficulty. ... Open .osu in Notepad Open the file for the currently selected difficulty in MS Notepad. ... Show Sample Name For osu!mania difficulties, show keysound samples' names attached to the notes. ... Enable live mapping mode (Ctrl + Tab) Place osu!/osu!taiko hit circles, osu!catch fruits, or osu!

Beatmap Spotlights

The leaderboard will be released in the osu! community discord, in the #osu-spotlights channel as well as in the lobby chat of the next playlist. ... The top 10 players of each playlist lobby will receive 1 week of osu!supporter. ... community Discord server #osu-spotlights in the osu! ... In September 2011, charts for osu!taiko and osu!catch have appeared. ... In January 2014, the charts browser was added to the osu!

Gameplay / Kiai time

While kiai time doesn't affect gameplay mechanics in osu!, osu!catch, or osu!mania, it provides a 20% score gain in osu!taiko.

Hit object / Hit circle

Hit circle Hit circles are coloured, circular hit objects present in both osu! and osu!taiko beatmaps. ... In osu!, hit circles appear with a number on top; showing their place in a combo. ... In osu!taiko, hit circles appear from right-to-left as either red or blue notes (Don or Katu).

Game modifier / Half Time (mod)

original, increases the length of the song by 33%, and decreases the approach rate (AR), overall difficulty (OD), and health (HP) by a small amount. osu ... taiko In osu!taiko, the slowed song and BPM causes the notes to become very dense due to the decrease in AR. ... However, due to the way dendens are calculated in osu! ... This effect will be even more significant when Hard Rock is turned on simultaneously. osu!catch In osu!

Hit object / Juice stream

Juice stream See also: Score Juice streams are an element in osu!catch which include both drops and droplets. ... Drop Drops are medium-sized coloured hit objects present in osu!catch beatmaps. Drops are equivalent to slider ticks in osu!. ... Droplet Droplets are small coloured hit objects present in osu!catch beatmaps.

Beatmapping / Timing

Additionally, the timing of a beatmap controls the following features: Heartbeat of the osu! ... as other menu effects that follow the beat) Pulsation of hit objects during kiai time Drum track added by the Nightcore mod Appearance of bar lines in osu ... taiko and osu! ... In the timing tab, tapping the T key or clicking the metronome button to the beat of the song will allow osu! to calculate an approximate BPM. ... See also osu!academy Episode 7-2 - Timing Basics, an episode of the osu!academy YouTube series osu!mapping: timing, an episode of the osu!

Tournament drawings

It is only available in osu!(lazer). Please note that the osu!(lazer) client is currently under development and there may be bugs. ... Accessing The Client Open osu!(lazer) and press Ctrl + O to reveal the game settings. From there, click "Open osu! folder". ... When the scrolling stops on a flag at the centre of the screen, go back to the osu! ... By default, osu!(lazer) provides country flags as ISO 3166 Alpha-2 Country Codes. ... A valid drawings.txt file with multiple countries as teams is: To define a custom flag, go back to the osu!

Beatmap editor / AiMod

On certain cases, this is discouraged by the osu! ... Most notable in osu! ... osu!mania maps only. ... This mapset needs at least 2 osu!taiko diffs. Self-explanatory Create a second difficulty for the set. osu!taiko maps only. ... This mapset needs at least 2 osu!catch diffs. Self-explanatory Create a second difficulty for the set. osu!catch maps only.

Gameplay / Input device

In the osu! wiki, this term specifically refers to devices that may be used in osu!. ... The following is a list of the most common input devices used for osu!

Ranking criteria / Simplified ranking criteria

Only one object is allowed per tick, excluding osu!mania maps. Metadata Metadata must be accurate. Use a primary metadata source. ... Mode-specific For full game mode–specific ranking criteria, see: osu!, osu!taiko, osu!catch, and osu!mania osu! ... Use at least two combo colors. osu!taiko Avoid covering essential parts of the background with the taiko playfield. ... You can edit the vertical offset of the background in the .osu file. Avoid rapid kiai toggles. ... Overall difficulty should match approach rate. osu!mania Spread rules apply to each key mode or playstyle separately.

Input device / Keyboard

Keyboard A keyboard is the most common input device used to play osu!. ... By default, the Z and X keys are set for clicking, but they can be changed to any keys of your choice in the osu! options. ... Keypads are popular in osu! because of their small size and amount of keys, usually 2 or 4.

People

Artists Global Moderation Team Nomination Assessment Team Performance Points Committee Project Loved Team Technical Support Team Tournament Committee osu ... Alumni osu! team osu!

Help centre / Account

supporter tags or other items from the osu! ... This username change can be redeemed at the osu!store page. ... We are considering extra 'score reset' purchases from the osu! ... This means you will no longer be able to use any of osu!'s online features. ... Locking an account should be one of the last resorts for those players that don't want to leave osu! forever, but need dedicated time away from osu!

Staff log / Staff log 2023

Alumni 2023-01-27: Moved Uni from GMT to osu! ... Alumni 2023-06-08: Moved achyoo from NAT to osu! ... Alumni 2023-07-06: Moved Secre from osu! Alumni to NAT 2023-07-07: Moved Petal from GMT to NAT 2023-07-07: Moved Noffy from osu! ... Alumni 2023-08-15: Moved elicz1 from NAT to osu! ... Alumni 2023-09-26: Moved Capu from NAT to osu!

Beatmap search

than > Greater than <= Less than or equal to >= Greater than or equal to Client Note: The filters only work at the song selection screen, while osu ... song difficulty Name of the beatmap difficulty ar Approach rate cs Circle size od Overall difficulty hp HP drain rate key, keys Number of keys (osu ... This can be one of osu, taiko, catch, or mania, or o/t/c/m for short. status Beatmap status. ... speed Saved osu!mania scroll speed. The scroll speed is always 0 for unplayed maps, or if the Remember osu! ... Circle size od Overall difficulty hp, dr HP drain rate star, stars Star rating bpm Song tempo length Length in seconds key, keys Number of keys (osu

Input device / Graphics tablet

just tablet, is an input device that is originally intended for digital drawing and artistry, but can be used as a way to control cursor movement in osu ... It is one of the most common play styles in osu!. Note to tablet players: the use of a Tablet PC or tablet clicks in osu!

osu! file formats / .osr (file format)

.osr (file format) .osr is a file format containing information about an osu! replay. ... Byte Game mode of the replay (0 = osu! Standard, 1 = Taiko, 2 = Catch the Beat, 3 = osu! ... mania) Integer Version of the game when the replay was created (ex. 20131216) String osu! beatmap MD5 hash String Player name String osu! ... Mods As seen on the osu! API. ... Key8 524288 (19) keyMod 1015808 k4+k5+k6+k7+k8 FadeIn 1048576 (20) Random 2097152 (21) LastMod 4194304 (22) Cinema TargetPractice 8388608 (23) osu

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