October 2015 Site Updates
Greetings, FFR Community! We hope you’ve all had a great summer. Make sure to check out yesterday’s What’s Happenin’ post to get a snapshot of what’s happening on FFR this week! We’re back this month with another installment of exciting announcements and shiny new toys! Post a comment and let us know what you think. 
What’s New?
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The Skill Rating formula has received a massive update! The scope of Skill Rating has been expanded from your top four scores, to an exponentially weighted average of your top fifteen scores. Additionally, the formula can now evaluate scores well beyond the previous limitation of 28 goods – and in some cases – over 1000 goods. Visit the formula discussion thread to learn more about our most accurate ranking algorithm yet, and look at some cool graphs.
The Global Leaderboards reveal an interesting new stat: Levels. Levels are simply your Skill Rating divided by 100. Your personal best score matters the most (24.04% of your total XP), and your fifteenth best score matters the least (0.17% of your total XP). We hope this change provides a more meaningful way of understanding your skill and goal setting. To discuss this update, please visit s1rnight’s “exp bar” suggestion thread.
Halved Noteskin is a new visual modifier on the R^3 engine. Using this mod, coloured arrows appear as half their note value, making especially colourful or dense stepfiles simpler to read. This visual modifier also doubles as a cure to blue note syndrome on Legacy files by turning every blue arrow red.
The FFR FAQ page has been moved to the FFR Wiki. This change will allow its contents to be easily edited and improved by anyone. Everyone is welcome (and encouraged) to contribute to the FAQ page!
“Token Whore”, “Here We Go”, “Quickdraw”, “PianoCore”, and “The Games We Played (Full Edition)” token unlocks have been added as new recent achievements. Duplicate achievements displaying on the recent achievements sidebar have been fixed.
Any rated replay scores mistakenly recovered have now been removed from the leaderboards. The ability to delete replays has been re-enabled.
PrawnSkunk, Trumpet63, arcnmx
FFR Development & Design
25 Responses to “October 2015 Site Updates”
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Posted at 12:01am on October 1st, 2015
rad
Posted at 1:47am on October 1st, 2015
So instead of crying blue we’re going to bleed red now?
Posted at 1:49am on October 1st, 2015
The ability to delete replays has been re-enabled.
Fucking thank you.
Posted at 6:45am on October 1st, 2015
standalone stopped working??? or is it just me
Posted at 7:48am on October 1st, 2015
This is huge, though now I jumped 3 ranks but idgaf; the progress is more important than a number.
Posted at 9:09am on October 1st, 2015
@AOD_ELEMENT: Thanks for your bug report! The standalone is not loading on Flash Player 9 and older. I’ll get arcnmx on this as soon as possible.
Posted at 11:20am on October 1st, 2015
This update is amazing.
This front page post is amazing.
Congrats, you guys. You AAAA’d FFR!
Posted at 11:49am on October 1st, 2015
FP9 bug doesnt make for a happy squid :<
As long as its being worked on tho :&
Posted at 1:01pm on October 1st, 2015
Damn!
Posted at 1:45pm on October 1st, 2015
Awesome when stuff is actually happenin’
Posted at 5:06pm on October 1st, 2015
white arrow power
Posted at 5:10pm on October 1st, 2015
So when was the “TC_Halogen” language added to R^3?…
Literally spat water all over my new laptop. It’s ok, but holy crap did it make me laugh. and yes, my Jimmies WERE rustled.
Posted at 5:32pm on October 1st, 2015
That TC_Halogen thing has been there a while
Posted at 8:45pm on October 1st, 2015
Can’t wait until halved notes are released.
Posted at 10:46pm on October 1st, 2015
Halved notes are released, they’re under game visual modifiers, they aren’t a noteskin.
Can confirm Fractured Sunshine looks a lot better when using Halved notes.
Posted at 11:10pm on October 1st, 2015
Yeah, I’ve got the mod all up and running now. Thank arc for the addition.
Posted at 12:12am on October 2nd, 2015
same here, on all fp
Posted at 1:58am on October 2nd, 2015
Are you certain? It is working fine here and on numerous PCs.
Posted at 2:10am on October 2nd, 2015
Have you tried clearing your cache ?
Posted at 1:10pm on October 2nd, 2015
Is FP9 still not working?
Posted at 7:22pm on October 2nd, 2015
very nice update really like it
Posted at 2:16pm on October 3rd, 2015
your new skill algorithm bumped me up from d4 to d5. i’m not even remotely close to d5 (best sdg 66, ignoring nanairopanda v2 whose rating is a joke) but i’m not complaining. yay for me
Posted at 4:24pm on October 6th, 2015
AAAAAAAAH DARN IT I saw “Halved noteskin” and was expecting smaller arrows. Can there please be some kind of %mini mod where you can adjust the size of the arrows (smaller = longer playfield = easier reading with a faster scroll speed that doesn’t require insane reaction speed) please please please PLEASE!
In other news, awesome updates this makes me happy good job peeps.
Posted at 3:22am on October 11th, 2015
lol me too