Chapter 1 & 2
And once again, we're back! Anyways, I'll try to cover as much as I can on this post so we can move on. In this post I'll talk about the relevant easy mods and some, 'extra' stuff. The relevant ones are as follows. Easy, Half time and No fail. Most of the time, people don't use these as they lower your multiplier but if you're practicing an incredibly hard song (cough scarlet rose cough) or just screwing around, they're pretty cool. Easy is pretty much the opposite of hard rock, it makes everything well, easier. The circles and sliders are bigger and that's about it. Half time is the opposite of double time as well, it halves the bpm (beats per minute) and makes everything very, very easy. Of course it also makes the beatmap or song sound weird and last twice as long. Finally, there's no fail, which makes it impossible for you to fail. This is probably the only one that's used as people use this to practice the hard songs I mentioned. It's really nice to have when you're practicing so you don't fail immediately when you miss a note. People don't usually use these, 'mods' but they're there. It's nice to have and I'm glad they're implemented into the game.
Now that I've covered most of the stuff within the game (I think) I'm going to talk about some, 'advanced mechanics' or just terms used when people talk about this game. I'm not the best at this game, so this stuff is just my understanding of the terms. The first thing I'll talk about is, 'streaming'. How the term streaming came about, I have no idea. But this is seen fairly commonly nowadays. How streaming works is essentially putting a bunch of objects incredibly close to each other. The first object is about the same, but the next object will be almost immediately after the prior circle and so on. When the stream is short like 4-5 circles, it isn't so bad. When it gets very, very long it's insane and pretty unfair. I would describe that as around 20ish circles in a row. The difficulty with streaming is that you need to complete the stream almost immediately after it appears. When it gets long, obviously that's not the case but you still need to go at the same speed as before and it's very easy to drop your combo or get many "50's" or "100's". I would say streaming is pretty fair by osu! standards. There is something else called a, "deathstream" which is a stream that's even HARDER which is insane. I've never done one, I've probably seen a few and I don't want to do one. Not only are they incredibly long, they also have a weird pattern which makes the streaming process even harder. What I've heard of but never seen are, "Ninja spinners". They're spinners that pop up randomly during a beatmap just to screw you over. They're incredibly unfair and are probably gone by now. The difficulty or unfairness of this is that you need to start spinning right away after it pops up and even then the beatmap keeps going as if nothing was happening. It's very weird and it's almost impossible to keep your combo if you encounter one.
Well, I think this should end the series of posts about osu! I've been dragging this out for a while now, and I feel I should end it here. Although I haven't really covered EVERYTHING that there is to cover about osu! I guess I'll end it here. In case you still have stuff you have questions about, I'm sure the wiki/FAQ can answer it. Here's the link to that amazing place. Once again, I'm not the best of the best (in fact i'm pretty bad) but I think I have enough knowledge about the game to post stuff about it. I love this game and I think there's a lot of things to do in this game. It's pretty casual too. Well, until next time!
- Henry
