Dang you guys are skilled lol. I was doing good but my skill plateaued. I switched from mouse to keyboard and now im worse than before, but it feels more natural.

Cyro

United Kingdom20326 Posts

January 01 2012 15:09 GMT

#1923

On January 01 2012 23:46 xavra41 wrote:
Dang you guys are skilled lol. I was doing good but my skill plateaued. I switched from mouse to keyboard and now im worse than before, but it feels more natural.

It takes a while to get used to, probably a few hundred playthroughs to be better than before. It depends on the person i guess, but overall keyboard is so much better, especially if you have a good mechanical board (though i wouldnt want blue switches for osu because of the way they double tap (or dont), brown/black/red and maybe a few others are sweet)

BookTwo

1985 Posts

January 02 2012 09:43 GMT

#1924

for the mouse/keyboard people out there, are you guys using mousepads? I'm not sure if it's my dodgy mouse, but it doesn't feel... accurate enough for me. I've played around with adjusting the sensitivity and I started using a mousepad just today (has helped a little bit).

I'm using a standard usb microsoft mouse on a mousepad. Do any of you have a special surface you play on or something?

Dee-Kej

Sweden191 Posts

January 02 2012 10:05 GMT

#1925

On January 02 2012 18:43 BookTwo wrote:
for the mouse/keyboard people out there, are you guys using mousepads? I'm not sure if it's my dodgy mouse, but it doesn't feel... accurate enough for me. I've played around with adjusting the sensitivity and I started using a mousepad just today (has helped a little bit).

I'm using a standard usb microsoft mouse on a mousepad. Do any of you have a special surface you play on or something?

I'm using a microsoft intellimouse 3.0 on a steelseries QX pad. A mousepad always help with accuracy since it's surface is made to give your mouse better response. Regarding sensitivity, I can only tell what I use; 1.0 without precision mode in osu, and full sensitivity in Win7. That's at least the optimal settings for myself, but bear in mind that I'm not exactly among the best and still far from being able to pass the most difficult songs (even though I can FC some of the "easy" 5-star maps).

On another note, I've found two maps that I really enjoy playing now: Madeon - "Shuriken" ( http://osu.ppy.sh/b/112423&m=0 ) and ryo (supercell) feat. Hatsune Miku - "Sekiranun Graffiti" ( http://osu.ppy.sh/b/121189&m=0 ) (both on Insane)

Still not FC-ing either of them, but I'm trying, and thanks to their wonderful flow I really enjoy it

Bobbias

Canada1373 Posts

January 02 2012 10:15 GMT

#1926

I've got a Razer Deathadder 3G (3500 CPI) set to 3500 CPI, 1000Hz, Windows sensitivity set to 6/11 (1:1, or as close as your going to get), and precision mode off (you should NEVER play with precision mode, since it causes mouse acceleration, which makes it very hard to accurately make jumps).

As for a mousepad, I've been using a hard flat pad I bought from Staples. The brand name on the front is Fellowes, but the back says it's a BriteMat. It's nothing special, but I've always liked these flat hard pads over the fabric pads or the plastic topped ones with the rubber bottom.

EDIT: ARGH I just played Masayoshi Minoshima - Fire [Insane] for the first time in a while, had a 300+ combo, and died on the stupid jumps T.T I have no idea why, but my hand went completely retarded and I basically missed every single jump in the jump pattern... When I died I had a 93% acc (meaning I was probably more like 94-95% before I missed all those circles...)

My best score on it so far is about 180 combo, so I was already well past that score when I died too. Fucking hell.

Camail

United States1030 Posts

January 02 2012 11:13 GMT

#1927

It feels weird, but I somehow play better with mouse acceleration on. I don't feel any particular difference and I think I am playing maps fast enough that mouse acceleration is fairly significant. Eh, "precision mode" just feels better for me.

As for mouse pads, my razer one is pretty worn down, but all plastic mouse pads are fine by me, just get a surface with a resistance level that you're comfortable with.

Bobbias

Canada1373 Posts

January 02 2012 11:27 GMT

#1928

On January 02 2012 20:13 Camail wrote:
It feels weird, but I somehow play better with mouse acceleration on. I don't feel any particular difference and I think I am playing maps fast enough that mouse acceleration is fairly significant. Eh, "precision mode" just feels better for me.

As for mouse pads, my razer one is pretty worn down, but all plastic mouse pads are fine by me, just get a surface with a resistance level that you're comfortable with.

I have no idea how the hell you do that. Every time I use a computer that has mouse acceleration on I immediately notice it (to the point that I need to turn it off) and I'll actually miss and overshoot what I'm trying to click on a lot.

I didn't notice it so much when I wasn't using a good mouse, but once I switched to the Deathadder and started making sure I got as close to 1:1 as I could (there's always a small amount of acceleration) I notice acceleration a lot. I'm sensitive enough to acceleration that I've noticed (before checking and confirming it) that even with my current setup (window accel off, 6/11 etc.) that there's still some acceleration. I noticed that when playing osu sometimes my mouse seemed to drift closer to my laptop and would sometimes drift far enough for me to bump into it. I correctly identified that the acceleration only seemed to affect my left-right movement (with a bias towards the left).

I actually checked with some program I found that could identify acceleration, and sure enough, it was very low acceleration (usually 1-3 pixels to the left, about 1 to the right per mouse movement) when moving the mouse very quickly left to right, but no acceleration at all up and down.

Sinedd

Poland7052 Posts

January 02 2012 11:50 GMT

#1929

this game is pretty awesome

I started to play it some time ago

im still a pretty big noob but Im starting to learn..

my username in osu is - ShockeR_40

add me to the list please !

Sporadic44

United States533 Posts

January 02 2012 14:13 GMT

#1930

someone who has experience making beatmaps needs to make one to temp0's, "when im grandmaster" pleaseeeee

Xafnia

Canada874 Posts

January 02 2012 19:12 GMT

#1931

Played that like 30-40 times when it got ranked 2 weeks ago, always missed a note or 2 somewhere.
Played it 1x today, FC it and gain like 4% acc on it. Joy.

MegaManEXE

United States845 Posts

January 02 2012 21:30 GMT

#1932

I use a Logitech G500 with a generic $1 mousepad from Target or something, it's pretty old so I need a new one.

prototype.

Canada4215 Posts

January 03 2012 00:03 GMT

#1933

I use a Logitech G500 without a mousepad. The grip is wearing out fast so I need a new one.

Also, I'm really bad at 215+ bpm stuff, because my single clicks can barely keep up so I'm quite proud of this score

ThaZenith

Canada3116 Posts

January 03 2012 00:16 GMT

#1934

On January 02 2012 23:13 Sporadic44 wrote:
someone who has experience making beatmaps needs to make one to temp0's, "when im grandmaster" pleaseeeee

Learn how to make one yourself, you'll at least see just how time consuming doing that is. You can't just politely ask someone to do that for you.

MegaManEXE

United States845 Posts

January 03 2012 02:10 GMT

#1935

It usually takes me around 8 hours to complete a single insane-level difficulty for a 3~ minute song, from timing to placing beats to arranging to hitsounding.

Bobbias

Canada1373 Posts

January 03 2012 02:38 GMT

#1936

FUCK. SO CLOSE T.T

Got so nervous at the end, and just BARELY missed 1 note. I just got a decent score on Homework Crisis (Insane, or whatever the non-Lets Jump! diff is), and then played this right after.

Seiferz

United States640 Posts

January 03 2012 23:29 GMT

#1937

On January 02 2012 19:05 Dee-Kej wrote:

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that second one is really fun! i can barely manage hard though :/

Bobbias

Canada1373 Posts

January 05 2012 08:59 GMT

#1938

First SS is the score on Homework Crisis before that Ghostly Parapara score.

This map is something I've been practicing on for a bit. Finally passed it on nofail.

Finally S'd this. Been playing this map for ages, it used to be one of the hardest maps I could play, and I was only really good at it because I knew the song well. It is pretty decently fast, even now, but I've been trying once in a while for an FC/S on it, and just got this.

Failed this the first time I tried it, didn't play it for a while (couple weeks I think), then this happened, second attempt. Failed due to timing issues with one small spot.

EDIT: Just got this. Still not an A, but only 6 misses, and most of them were from the difficult jumps partway though. Pretty soon I can see myself FCing this. And it's so damned fun too.

prototype.

Canada4215 Posts

January 06 2012 00:38 GMT

#1939

I just discovered something amazing. If you hover your left palm instead of resting it on a surface, you can stream with keyboard better. May not apply to all players though :p

Bobbias

Canada1373 Posts

January 06 2012 00:50 GMT

#1940

For me it's instinctive, when I need to stream faster, my hand hovers...

Discovered that ages ago when playing Stepmania... IIRC there were discussions about it in the SM community as well, and the response was basically 50-50