Am I allowed to necro my own topic? Well I’ve seen worse, and I got 8+ clips.
I didn’t forget about this thread, just didn’t feel like playing rhythm games for a bit or posting anything. But I did improve… a lot.
First of all, I learned how to download OBS and not use xbox game bar. Rhythia replays should actually look normal now and the video quality should be a bit better, if at least customizable.
About the clip: I think I got over some sort of learning cliff, as I felt like I was tapering off a few months ago. But I learned that Discord is causing 20% cpu lag spikes which was preventing me from getting FC’s or high acc in osu. So yeah, now I can easily acc what I like to call “density chordjacks”, or chordjacks that focus on high nps and more notes rather than a lot of minijacks with less milliseconds between notes.
Is there a limit to how long a reply can be? I’ll figure it out sooner or later. Anyways here’s the rest of my chordjack clips because I heard that jack mains are brainrot or something (its a pretty easy skillset to get into if you clim the vsrg skill ladder with osu):
I think the star rating system values notes per second too much. These maps are really easy to sightread and get high accuracy on, and the difficulty system overrates them 'cause of that. Like seriously, the sendan life clip is rated 6.49* at 1x speed (5.4* at 0.8x speed… thats like pp farm levels of inflation). That’s crazily high for how comfortable the map is for most of it’s duration. I can barely do 4.8* jumpstreams and even lower for tech/streams/what dans consider to be “speed maps”.
In Arcane Odyssey terms, it’s like calling a 300+ size warrior good at the game and hard to beat. If you practice a bit and learn how to parry, then they become a pushover. (I felt a blood vessel in my brain pop while writing this)
This map is deceptively hard. Excerpt from the description yap (i put this in all of my clips):
The jumpstream part has the same nps as the drop which is really brutal cause it’s harder to sightread and it and consumes more stamina. This map forced me to learn how to tap with finger stamina on the chordjacks instead of tensing my full forearm. This technique effectively makes you “gain” stamina during the high nps section to retain acc on the low nps section.
i type a bit differently outside the forums… infact i type however i feel like typing
Also before I leave the chordjack part I wanna mention that I am now top 33k on osu!mania. Not very impressive because pp farming exists, but it’s a more tangible representation of how good I am to someone who is clueless about the game. I still think that clips are better at representing skill though. I pp farmed a bit, which notably included a 7* frenchcore bootleg chordjack map with half-time. The map is basically 1 minute of glorified waiting and 30 seconds of comfortable chordjack. Literal brainrot for 312 pp without trying.
(you can tell that i play rate changes and graveyarded maps cause 220 million ranked score to 994 million total score LOL)
A few months ago I made a goal for myself which was to beat this map’s lowest difficulty at 1x speed. Just get an “honorable clear”, that’s all. (honorable clears to me are clears that didnt feel absolutely terrible to play, so like no playing sloppy. it makes more sense in rhythia)
Came back to this map after 3 months or something and I went from being overwhelemed to chilling. The one handed trills are really rude and I sadly had to manip them (play the pattern like a jack); a clear example of pattern placement and bursts of stamina being harder than pure nps.
This map has a comparatively low nps but I find it to be pretty hard just cause it’s 3 or so minutes straight of dense jumpstreams with very little breaks. It becomes exahusting on my mind to sightread it for so long and I drop acc near the end (i think this has a 3 miss choke).
This map was a stamina pick for I believe 10th dan? but it feels a bit more technical than your average jumpstream map because of the rolls and the grace-into-double at the extratone parts. It has a break though (average 2 drop pop song but at least it doesnt have a third extended drop…)
also the map is blocked in russia, which is a bit funny but also not much i can do about it
This one isn’t a clear, but I mapped this myself! Normally I’m not fine with autoplay clips because you’re basically removing half of the “transformativeness” of a video (the mapping and your gameplay transform the song). However I mapped this myself so I think it’s fine. For some reason the map went from 5.4* to 6.something star after I mapped the second half of the second drop. No way I’m beating this in the next year, but I hope to prove myself otherwise.
Anyways onto rhythia…
Looks a bit different 'cause I refined my skin and am using an actual recording software.
These were recorded a month ago and I haven’t played the game much since. Look, both games are REALLY hard imo. They’re both extremely purist rhythm games with one premise that they take extremely far. osu!mania is easily the most popular VSRG and it’s purist “hit the button when the mapper commands you so”, very kaizo if you think about it. Rhythia is very obscure and is purist cursor movement. Kinda funny how I got into both of them.
Continuing the rant with a line break for readibility and attention span: It basically has around 5 or 6 active, dedicated, and consistently good mappers. Rhythia, being a purist cursor movement rhythm game, ends up becoming really fast at higher levels so the songs it naturally demands are really high bpm extratone tracks. Well, it probably doesnt require them but the community basically makes extratone/dariacore/whatever underground genres most of the time (and less underground genres found in mainstream east asian rhythm games). Idk, just felt like commenting on the genres I see. Like where else do you naturally find “The Lost Temple (10 years edit)” or “m1dy - Kamikaze” being mapped unironically in a rhythm game? There’s already way slower genres that would scare rhythm game players shitless. Looking forward to beating these maps in the next 3 years!
Hell, the extratone remix of Mika - Take It Easy I found from Rhythia (it was an earworm and i have very little emotions relating to the song).
Anyways I think that’s enough yap (As the low attention span kids call it). I don’t expect anyone to understand what the hell I’m talking about, but it’s for an audience of one (Reference to something i might talk about in the future). I hope your brain generates positive emotion chemicals from gaining insight into a fragment of someone else’s lives.
I’ll try not to forget about this topic again. Also feel free to post your own rhythm game clips.
