Stepmania Skills

[Shikari]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Good:

- Jumpstream
- Staircases
- Basic streaming
- Low BPM jacks
- Trilling

Neutral:

- MA
- Speed
- Stamina
- Bursts

Bad:

- Mine dodging
- One-handed trilling
- Solo
- Holds reading







Worst:

- Vibrating

[Gundam-Dude]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Good: not applicable
Bad: at everything

[ELRayford]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Good:
Enjoying SM

Bad:
Playing SM

Want to improve:
Playing SM

[omega220]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Pros: Solo kinda.

Cons: everything else.

[MopeyJoe]

Re: Stepmania Skills

I didn't know you could be kinda good at solo and suck at the things you need to be able to play solo well.

[emulord]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Good at:
minijacks
mashing
PA

Bad at:
xmod (but I really like it)
stream at 200+
Jumpstream at 190+
vibrating
whoring songs ( I keep doing worse)

Okay at everything else

[kommisar]

Re: Stepmania Skills

good:

index
MA
rainbow dumps


bad:

speed
vibrating
brackets

[kmay]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Good: not applicable
Bad: at everything

this

[rushyrulz]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Pros:
Nothing

Cons:
MA
PA
Combo
Bursts of all kinds
Trills of all kinds
Jacks of all kinds
reading
General gameplay

[emulord]

Re: Stepmania Skills

No rushy, Pros = antiskill, Good accuracy, Average accuracy, mashing

[Jousway]

Re: Stepmania Skills

I have nothing aside from trying to make the most perfect quality noteskins :>

[stargroup100]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Get ready for some hardcore StepMania analysis at 5 in the morning.


When analyzing the different types of skill, one has to consider how these different parameters, when altered, changes the behavior of the players and the scores they get.

For this reason, you cannot simply divide skill into random categories that come to mind such as "jacks, trills, MA, PA, speed, etc." because they are poorly defined and do not take into consideration the higher level groups. There needs to be specific reasoning and a method to determining what attributes can be grouped.

Two categories can only be considered separate skill groups if by comparing extreme select cases of each, it nets significantly different results. For example, "timing, stream, and jumpstream" cannot be divided into categories in such a manner because a skilled player can hit both high speed stream and jumpstream at about the same proficiency level, given that the consistent NPS of each pattern is approximately equal.

Of course, this does not mean that there is only a single way to categorize StepMania skill, but it does mean that it severely limits the number of appropriate ways to divide skills into categories.

Here is my list of skills (and some examples of subcategories):

Reading Ability: This is defined as how well a player can process the patterns in the mind and be able to react to them. Because this category involves the interpretation of patterns, any skills related to general patterns would fall under this as a subcategory.
- Stream
- Jumpstream
- Holdstream
- Random notes/Colored note solos
- General combo ability

Physical Limit: Of course, there is a difference between reading high speed patterns and hitting them appropriately. Any specific patterns that involve pushing the limit of physical ability would fall under this category.
- Jacks
- Trills
- Staircases
- Brackets
- Runningmen
- Endurance
- Pettanko

Accuracy: This speaks for itself. Accuracy demonstrates an extremely high proficiency level of hitting patterns that are generally underneath the reading threshold (assuming that if you can't read a chart, you can't possibly hit it accurately).
- Marvelous Accuracy
- Perfect Accuracy
- Accuracy in consistent rhythm
- Accuracy in irregular rhythm

Flexibility/Translation/Learning: The ability to effectively tackle a chart with irregular features, as well as being able to adapt to these features quickly. The key feature of this category is being able to react and having fast reflexes.
- Effect Modifiers (Tornado, Dizzy, etc)
- X-mod charts
- Tackling anything new (different scroll direction, playstyle, etc)

Some subcategories can technically go into several categories, depending on their context. For example, mines, if new to the player, fall into not only the Reading Ability category, but also the Flexibility/Translation/Learning category. Depending on how fast the bursts are, bursts can go into either/both the Reading Ability category and the Physical Limit category. It simply depends on the situation.

Also note that the subcategories I listed are mostly general StepMania-specific ideas, while the higher level categories can applied to rhythm gaming as a whole. This is the advantage of dividing the skill categories in such a way.

That's my take. Hope you guys enjoyed reading it.
STEPMANIA IS SRS BNS GUIZ WHOO!!


EDIT: actually this is something I never thought about before. brb posting on kbo

[ScylaX]

Re: Stepmania Skills

It saves my life :
Mine dodging
Accurate on EVERY PATTERNZ (what were you thinking ? My MA is getting better every day)
Speed on no-jump streams (As long as I can A Disregard, I'll consider myself having a good speed)
Speed on minitrills
Sometimes I just go berzerk and get a LUCKY SPEED on some super fast dumpstream.

It kills my score :
Bad anticipation. EVERY ****ING TIME.
Awkward patterns (it goes together with the bad habits)
It seems I can't vibrate for shit
Shit stamina (oh hey, ironic for someone like me huh ?)
Shit accuracy when holding a freeze with damn notes playing around it

[LJRoX]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Pros:
Speed
Comboing
Reading
Sightreading
Jumpstream
Handstream
Two handed jacks
Handgluts
Jumpgluts
Random Color Notes
Jack Transitions

Cons:
Fast trills
Slow jacks
Weird awkward bursts
MA
PA

[Ziergdsx18]

Re: Stepmania Skills

Pros
- MA
- Jumpstream
- Holds
- Jacks

Neutral
- Speed
- Polyrhythms
- Stamina
- Jumpjacks
- Bursts

Cons
- Mine dodge
- Combo <= I have a bad habit of dumping Cb's on easy MA files. xdd
- Solo
- Vibrating