Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/18/2022
Welcome to another Song Release and Weekly Update for March!
Only one thing to talk about this week and that’s StepCon 2022! This official event is a contest focused on creating FFR files for public viewing/judging, with the winners having their files put in FFR. Top three prizes also include event tokens, credits, and unique profile badges. We encourage everyone to participate regardless of stepping experience. Even if you don’t win a prize, it’s a great opportunity to get plenty of feedback!
Please read the rules of this event carefully and if you are interested in signing up, you can do so here. StepCon 2022 signups will close on Thursday, March 31st at 11:59 PM CST (server time). The event itself will begin on April 1st.
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Enlighten Me
Musician: Masterplan
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 1:19
Difficulty: 43
Define
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 0:38
Difficulty: 51
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Satin City
Musician: kgb525
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 2:13
Difficulty: 67
Chapter VIII (Pacifier)
Musician: Sufferer
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 3:35
Difficulty: 77
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/11/2022
Welcome to another Song Release and Weekly Update for March! We have two new artists to talk about this week and a ridiculous AAA milestone as well!
Earlier this year a bounty was placed on getting the 1st AAA on Death Piano, with all progress tracked in the Death Piano AAA Bounty thread. This week the bounty was completed by jakads, with his winnings totaling at a whopping $1261.69! Huge congrats to jakads and a special thanks to those that contributed towards the bounty prize! You can find the YouTube video on the AAA below:
jakads Death Piano AAA
For those that are interested in the history of Death Piano and the score progression that led up to the AAA, you can check it all out in the recently created thread: Death Piano: A History of the chart and the current AAA.
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Satin City
Musician: kgb525
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 2:13
Difficulty: 67
Excerpt from kgb525′s website:
“Karl Brueggemann is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and instructor based in Minneapolis, MN. His unbreakable connection to strong groove and memorable melody is present in everything he does. Whether it’s composing or performing, his music is rhythmic, exciting and imaginative.
Karl is now very active in the twin cities music scene, leading the funk-fusion band Karl B & the Soul Surgeons. He also composes original music for video games along with his brother Will, under the moniker Super Marcato Bros. They also host a podcast, which brings to light the legitimacy of game music as an art form. They have been featured panelists at MAGFest and Gamer’s Rhapsody.”
You can follow kgb525 at their Spotify, YouTube, Twitter, and Battle of the Bits.
Chapter VIII (Pacifier)
Musician: Sufferer
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 3:35
Difficulty: 77
Excerpt from Sufferer’s Spotify page:
“Comprised of members from A Lot Like Birds, Hail The Sun, and I The Mighty, Sufferer is a “heavy” band, but only as heavy as the subject material; the band’s self-titled release details a day in the life of a Sufferer, from his panic immediately upon waking to the moment his brain finally shuts off at the end of his day. To help guide the narrative, three vocalists (portraying the Subject, his Anxiety, and his Depression) are heard screaming over each other, arguing for control, and at other times singing through moments of helpless soliloquy.”
You can follow Sufferer at their Bandcamp, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Thornmail
Musician: Pentakill
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 3:42
Difficulty: 74
Kababies
Musician: Infected Mushroom
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 4:36
Difficulty: 80
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/4/2022
Welcome to the first Song Release and Weekly Update for March! There’s a unique batch to start off the month and we have a new (virtual) band joining us in FFR this week! Going forward we will be providing a brief description on all new artists to FFR as we see their work arrive.
Judges
The March/April 2022 batch is now open, and we also have the Ooga-Booga Special Batch. It’s a batch that will have an expedited review process at the expense of detailed notes. All of the details on this batch can be found in the Ooga-Booga Special Batch Discussion Thread. Both batches are open until May 1st.
There has been a small change to the judgment process regarding files marked as Fixes Required, as well as files with a two or more point rating difference between two judges while one rating is a rejection . Please refer to this post for the complete information on the change.
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Thornmail
Musician: Pentakill
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 3:42
Difficulty: 74
Formed in 2014, Pentakill is a virtual heavy metal band with its roots in the MOBA game League of Legends, created by Riot Games. With its music composed by the music team within Riot Games, it currently consists of seven characters from the League of Legends universe but has featured cameos by musicians such as Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe), Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), and Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast). With millions of listeners and events such as an interactive virtual concert, Pentakill brings about a huge following that we hope will find as much enjoyment playing to their music within FFR. Enjoy!
Kababies
Musician: Infected Mushroom
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 4:36
Difficulty: 80
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Like The Angel
Musician: Rise Against
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:41
Difficulty: 56
Entrance
Musician: ICE
Step Artist: XelNya
Song Length: 1:49
Difficulty: 71
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/25/2022
Welcome to the last Song Release and Weekly Update for February!
Development
If you’re a simfile artist, you may have noticed that collab files now show under the Stepped Songs section of your profile. Give your thanks to Velocity when you get the chance!
Judges
Final reminder that the Jan/Feb and Event Tokens batches will be closing on March 1st!
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Like The Angel
Musician: Rise Against
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:41
Difficulty: 56
Entrance
Musician: ICE
Step Artist: XelNya
Song Length: 1:49
Difficulty: 71
Update: The file for Like The Angel has been replaced since the previous version was slightly outdated. The new version has a different note count so this means that those that obtained scores on the old version will have to do so again on the new version. We’re sorry for the mix-up!
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Bashing His Head
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:03
Difficulty: 92
Ideal Ratio 4-1-2.5 (Viticz Remix)
Musician: Viticz feat. Script
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 3:03
Difficulty: 93
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/18/2022
Welcome to another Song Release and Weekly Update for February! Songs of the Week is changing to have two songs starting with this release. The past week has been pretty quiet but there’s one very important thing to note.
Game Management
In case you missed the announcement on the Discord server earlier this week, The Great Author Re-Linking Project changes are now live! If you’re unfamiliar with the details on this, you can see the original front page post announcing the details here. You can also read the Discord announcement below.
“Goldstinger – Bing Bong, extra special ping. ‘The Great Author Re-Linking Project’ changes have went live. As a result, every song in-game should properly credit the music author by linking to their wiki page (which now exists) or linking to a wiki page that links off to more than one artist, if more than one needs to be credited. There’s also been tons of song name fixes, credit wording, and stepauthor name fixes.
Of course, with big scale changes usually comes small hiccups here or there where stuff being overlooked happens. So, if you spot an issue with a song name, artist attribution, dead link in-game, or misattributed stepauthor, DM me. Here’s to giving the music authors of FFR the proper credit that they deserve.”
As stated, please contact gold stinger if you notice any errors in song information. You can also post in our Song Corrections Thread.
The 2 veteran files we have for you today are:
Bashing His Head
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:03
Difficulty: 92
Ideal Ratio 4-1-2.5 (Viticz Remix)
Musician: Viticz feat. Script
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 3:03
Difficulty: 93
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Crab Rave
Musician: Noisestorm
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 1:19
Difficulty: 25
Divine Silence
Musician: t+pazolite
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:08
Difficulty: 79
Cold Storage
Musician: Terminal 11
Step Artist: Pizza69 & VisD
Song Length: 3:53
Difficulty: 94
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Valentine’s Day Release 2/14/2022
Take it easy today for Valentine’s Day with a public release of two files!
General
The FFR staff loves all of you. <3 (Except for the bots.)
Here are the files!
Latnemurtsni
Musician: Catherine
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:17
Difficulty: 7
One Wish Come True
Musician: HammyMcSquirrel
Step Artist: WirryWoo
Song Length: 2:02
Difficulty: 51
Starting after this release, Songs of the Week will also be two files per release instead of three.
Yours truly,
DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/11/2022
Welcome to another Song Release and Weekly Update for February!
Events
Make sure to check out the latest official event, FFR Bets on Super Bowl LVI! In this event you are predicting which team will win the Super Bowl and the final score of the game. The more people that participate the more credits will be rewarded to the winners, and there’s even a chance at winning an event token! This event requires no FFR skill to participate in and you will earn participation credits win or lose. Stop by the thread and place your prediction!
Difficulty Consultants
One file had its difficulty changed over the past week:
Lyrith -Labyrinth Lilith- 94 -> 96
Judges
Reminder that the Jan/Feb 2022 and Event Tokens batches will be closing March 1st. Get your submissions in while you can!
The 3 veteran files we have for you today are:
Crab Rave
Musician: Noisestorm
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 1:19
Difficulty: 25
Divine Silence
Musician: t+pazolite
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:08
Difficulty: 79
Cold Storage
Musician: Terminal 11
Step Artist: Pizza69 & VisD
Song Length: 3:53
Difficulty: 94
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Pressure Torture
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:08
Difficulty: 72
one of none
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: VisD
Song Length: 1:59
Difficulty: 89
Credits EX
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 4:38
Difficulty: 97
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 2/4/2022
Welcome to the first Song Release and Weekly Update of February 2022!
Development
We have a couple exciting projects in the works! First is that Velocity has been going through all of the source files for the 100+ difficulty songs and converting them from frame-based timing to ms timing. It goes without saying that this will be a massive improvement towards gameplay in this difficulty range. The project is almost complete and has taken many hours, as there are 88 files in this range with some that had to be re-created from scratch. When all files have been updated, you will see the change for all of them at once with any difficulties adjusted as needed. (Death Piano will have its update pushed through once its bounty event has concluded.)
Second project is that we’re trying to properly archive all of FFR’s simfiles. There are a lot of gaps to fill pre-2018 so please let Velocity know if you have the source file for anything in FFR from that time period!
Separately and thanks to Zageron, password resets should now properly send an e-mail to Outlook users and our contact us link within the footer of each page will now direct you towards our team section. Last thing to mention is that you’ll be seeing some new season specific badges on your profiles in the near future. These will also apply retroactively towards season 1.
General
We have a new official FFR YouTube channel! Videos of previous content will be uploaded there over time, on top of any new content that we provide recordings of. (Such as official tournament song releases.)
The 3 veteran files we have for you today are:
Pressure Torture
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:08
Difficulty: 72
one of none
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: VisD
Song Length: 1:59
Difficulty: 89
Credits EX
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 4:38
Difficulty: 97
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Qallupiluk
Musician: Artificial Fear
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:33
Difficulty: 3
Error Code
Musician: Case & Point
Step Artist: rushyrulz
Song Length: 3:10
Difficulty: 62
The Sun and the Star
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 2:26
Difficulty: 67
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 1/28/2022
Welcome to the last Weekly Song Release of January 2022! This month has seen many new staff members coming on board and updates that you can see in the previous update posts:
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 1/21/2022
- Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 1/14/2022
- Songs of the Week 1/7/2022
Here’s our latest news for this week:
Development
R3 1.4.3 has been released! You can find it and the changelog in our Download FFR section.
Game Management
Gold stinger has been hard at work with the The Great FFR Song Author Re-Linking Project. This involves making sure every FFR song artist is designated with a link to an active page on our FFR Wiki, which in turn is being created and/or updated with relevant information. This way the wiki page url remains a consistent reference in game if an artist’s direct url changes or breaks. On top of this, FFR stepartist names, song artist names, and song names are being checked for correct spelling and consistency across multiple files. Work on this is about 80% done, and once completed the fixes will become public all at once.
Judges
The work continues on getting everything caught up and judged from what was in our batch system in the past. The May/June batch is fully judged and the July/August batch is almost fully assigned, with emphasis to move to the October/November batch as judgments come in for those.
Now for our Songs of the Week!
The 3 veteran files we have for you today are:
Qallupiluk
Musician: Artificial Fear
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:33
Difficulty: 3
Error Code
Musician: Case & Point
Step Artist: rushyrulz
Song Length: 3:10
Difficulty: 62
The Sun and the Star
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 2:26
Difficulty: 67
And for Non-Veteran players, these songs have went public:
Moneko
Musician: Geoxor
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:31
Difficulty: 13
Own Little World
Musician: Celldweller
Step Artist: trumaestro
Song Length: 3:32
Difficulty: 67
FACTORY_RESET
Musician: KURORAK
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Length: 1:30
Difficulty: 95
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
