FFR vs. Stepmania

[Kekeb]

Re: FFR vs. Stepmania

sm cause I can read the notes since they aren't skipping across the screen

[Kekeb]

Re: FFR vs. Stepmania

15 fps

[Charu]

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You can up the FPS now though. Unless you mean the unknown cause of sudden drop in frames with Flash 10/11.

[Kekeb]

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I play standalone 9 but the drops are still noticeable regardless of the fps. I normally have it set to 60 or 120.

[Dynam0]

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FFR is fun for the statistical aspect, Stepmania is fun for the vast amounts of things you can do with it, the multiplayer function is a lot better and it doesn't rely so heavily on framerate to play smoothly. For me it's Stepmania.

[CaptainAhab]

Re: FFR vs. Stepmania

Very interesting posts!

I'll have to try FFR. I'm finding Stepmania very fun but a little overwhelming, having never played any rhythm game outside of osu! a while back. Really digging it though.

I see that there is a beta version of FFR, R^3 -- is there an ETA for the final release?

[African Anger]

Re: FFR vs. Stepmania

2015

[arcnmx]

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Personally I came to FFR because of the mentioned competition, leaderboards, multiplayer's fun, etc. Unfortunately flash is a bottleneck for a lot of people - I tried FFR on windows at one point recently and goddamn do I feel sorry for all of you :P

I'm not a fan of Stepmania mainly because the interface is so awkward to use. The core game engine may be nice, but everything supporting it (config, menus, etc.) is awful. I guess that's because it was designed for an arcade/controller setup?

I see that there is a beta version of FFR, R^3 -- is there an ETA for the final release?

When it's done. Don't let that discourage you from using it though, anyone new to FFR should be starting on R^3 over anything else.

[James May]

Re: FFR vs. Stepmania

Very interesting posts!

I'll have to try FFR. I'm finding Stepmania very fun but a little overwhelming, having never played any rhythm game outside of osu! a while back. Really digging it though.

I see that there is a beta version of FFR, R^3 -- is there an ETA for the final release?

It will be done in Hawaiian time~

As for me. I mainly play SM now since I really care less about competition :/ and also I kinda stopped caring about playing fiffer. With SM I have about 600+ packs that I can just play on each day if I wanted to.

[Charu]

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600+ packs

Jesus, how long is the load time when starting up? lol

[James May]

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Jesus, how long is the load time when starting up? lol

5 mins. 15 if I got other stuff open xd

[NeonSM]

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I have vastly different paradigms for these two games. FFR is so stressful for me, and much more nerve-racking, because I'm constantly worrying about perfecting a song, as soon as I get a good I pretty much purposely fail out every time. In SM I don't have this problem, because the difficulty level is so high and so vast, and because of marvelous timing. I just like to play the songs in SM, as opposed to stressing over perfection in FFR.

[CaptainAhab]

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Tried FFR R^3 beta and it works just fine, except for the fact that the arrows look a bit jagged around the edges with my retina Macbook Pro display. Or is that just the way it looks because of the engine it's on?

[dAnceguy117]

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Tried FFR R^3 beta and it works just fine, except for the fact that the arrows look a bit jagged around the edges with my retina Macbook Pro display. Or is that just the way it looks because of the engine it's on?

that might just be the look of the default noteskin. try poking around in the options, and see if any of the other noteskins look cleaner.

[Fantasticone]

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SM cause I can have files to any song I like