Reading arrows

[AerobicRobot]

Re: Reading arrows

I'm starting the Difficult songs, where it starts getting harder to make that 'linear' picture of the arrows in your head. I was wondering if some of the players who can play the VD's+ can just look at the screen and play the arrows or if you read the screen as two sides, one for each hand. I was thinking of practicing the latter.

I play on ASKL but I only view the receptors as one four receptor bunch, not two two receptor bunches. Usually when I see a pattern appear my muscle memory automatically hits the right keys, so I view the stepfile one screenfull at a time. Just keep on playing and your body will do the work for you. (Unless you play mash files, where the only way to beat them is to smash the keyboard with a hammer multiple times.)

[AerobicRobot]

Re: Reading arrows

protip: when the arrows get to the receptors you hit the corresponding button

Post of the millennium.

[Patashu]

Re: Reading arrows

I play on ASKL but I only view the receptors as one four receptor bunch, not two two receptor bunches. Usually when I see a pattern appear my muscle memory automatically hits the right keys, so I view the stepfile one screenfull at a time. Just keep on playing and your body will do the work for you. (Unless you play mash files, where the only way to beat them is to smash the keyboard with a hammer multiple times.)

Even mash files have skill associated with them; less so on ffr, where you just have to be hitting faster than the notes are coming, but on sm you get combo breakers for hitting but inaccurately, so even if it's too fast to read properly, you still have to mash at the rough density the notes are coming at.

[lumphoboextreme]

Re: Reading arrows

yeah i just kinda zone out and stare into the middle of the screen. xD

[AerobicRobot]

Re: Reading arrows

My SUPER SECRET TECHNIQUE is to take benedryl or any other drowsy allergy pills. It helps me relax (I once FCed Shind Bad because of it).

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

Re: Reading arrows

My SUPER SECRET TECHNIQUE is to take benedryl or any other drowsy allergy pills. It helps me relax (I once FCed Shind Bad because of it).

I personally prefer to be hyped up on energy drinks. I can't imagine how hard I would suck after a Benedryl.

[fido123]

Re: Reading arrows

I sometimes just find myself watching the combo go up while sub-consciously hitting all the arrows then thinking "Dear god I'm not even paying attention". Pretty much though practise you pick up on patterns and will be able to look at a wall of arrows and know instantly how to react to them.

[Garquillex]

Re: Reading arrows

I sometimes just find myself watching the combo go up while sub-consciously hitting all the arrows then thinking "Dear god I'm not even paying attention". Pretty much though practise you pick up on patterns and will be able to look at a wall of arrows and know instantly how to react to them.

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot. I find myself thinking about that awkward moment today and why it happened while I'm FC'ing some Difficult song. x_x It's like, [i]"Whoa, I'm not even looking at the arrows, I wonder how long I can do this!"

I remember doing the same during those long Endurance Races in Gran Turismo 3.

[infinity.]

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yeah i just kinda zone out and stare into the middle of the screen. xD

this is how i am mostly as well,
i actually watch tv while im playing, just using my peripheral vision and playing, which is just the same as playing while looking

i just look for colors.

[Patashu]

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this is how i am mostly as well,
i actually watch tv while im playing, just using my peripheral vision and playing, which is just the same as playing while looking

i just look for colors.

watch tv -while- playing ffr? (well?)

vids

[infinity.]

Re: Reading arrows

watch tv -while- playing ffr? (well?)

vids

sure mate

its not like its hard lmao

but how would i prove it?

[Patashu]

Re: Reading arrows

sure mate

its not like its hard lmao

but how would i prove it?

I was mostly kidding

but how's your PA like that?

[Heartseeker7]

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I can FC and PA much better if I stare at the place where the "perfect!" comes up.
I screw up horribly if it is above that.
(I once turned off the combo and Accuracy meter in the subby beta, and I have never failed so badly)

[AerobicRobot]

Re: Reading arrows

I personally prefer to be hyped up on energy drinks. I can't imagine how hard I would suck after a Benedryl.

When I drink soda or eat candy before playing stepmania I usually just spaz the **** OUT and miss every note.