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iggymatrixcounter 11-20-2005 11:00 PM

How to get better at FFR
 
I€™m tired of reading €œHow do I get awesome at this game?€ threads€.

Hence my rant of How to get better at FFR

First and foremost: PRACTICE!!!!!! this cannot be stressed enough. How do you get better at football? How do you master the gameplay of chess? How does one become a rocket scientist? You practice the trade and learn about what you want to get good at.

But I€™ve learned a couple tricks that, coming from my own experiences, can make your practice more effective.

1 ) Scroll the screen so you only see about half of the total screen. C300 (The speed of EVERY song on FFR is not the best way to read many of the harder songs. By scrolling up the screen your reaction time is less thus making it SEEM faster and easier to read. (Trust me it does, ask anyone that has any high score and I€™ll bet you they tell you the same thing.)

2 ) Try to hit ALL the arrows. Don€™t worry if you get averages, they still keep your combo going. (unlike Step Mania) Your total score heavily depends on a high max combo so hit every arrow at all costs.

3 ) After being able to Full Combo (FC) a song (or not get any misses.) work on your Perfect Attack (PA for short). It€™s relatively easier to get perfects on FFR than the standard Step Mania difficulty and the more perfects you get the higher your total score. (Keep in mind that you€™ll want to keep your combo over getting more perfects as the max combo has more weight to the scoring system.)

4 ) Finally once you€™ve gotten a decent PA (Perfect Attack) and can FC (Full Combo) a song..... €œGo for the AAA!!!€ (<-- A common term sometimes said to other users) This is where you get all perfects, thus getting the highest possible score for the particular song you are playing. To me this is the only way someone can say that they€™ve mastered a song. Every song has a difficulty we can work on if we€™ve never gotten a AAA.

Well there you go all you new players. I hope this can be of some help to getting you on your way to becoming a better player. Remember you have to PRACTICE in order to get good, but if you can make your practice more effective, then you can become better, faster.

HOW FFR SCORES YOUR SONG

550 for each perfect
275 for each good
55 for each average
-310 for each miss
-20 for each boo
1000 for each step in your max combo
(from igotrhythm)

And there you have it.... if anyone wants to add something they feel has helped them, I€™ll take it into consideration and possibly add it to my list.

Advice from fellow FFR Players:

Doug31: Find a direction that fits your style. (I.E. having the arrows scroll up or down basically.) I've found that playing down is easier than up and I've been playing up for a long time.

LinkisDoomed: My suggestion: don't just play once with one finger style and keep playing that way. I'm stuck with one hand and I don't want to transfer to 2 handed methods because I'm gonna suck at it for a while. Test yourself for a while on different styles of playing.

*Sticky Please?*

shadowAKA086 11-21-2005 01:46 AM

RE: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
Thanks for the help! I'm a new player, and I've gotten a bit better since I've joined, but I want to improve as much as possible. Your guide helped me a lot. Thanks! :D

kmlt 11-21-2005 01:54 AM

RE: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
Yeah thanks a bunch for all the advice it is greatly appriciated.^^*

luc_marceau 11-21-2005 03:42 AM

This has actually help me out thanks

igotrhythm 11-21-2005 09:01 AM

Actually (and Bandit pointed this out to me earlier), the end of song scoring system also subtracts 15 points for each boo you get, and in the game you get 5 points taken away for each boo. So in total, the scoring works this way (forget about the during-song score):

550 for each perfect
275 for each good
55 for each average
-310 for each miss
-20 for each boo
1000 for each step in your max combo

Doug31 11-21-2005 11:06 AM

I know another thing that helps a lot. Make sure the arrows are scrolling down, not up. I played on UP for a couple months, and then I tried DOWN a couple games, and I could already get 480,000 on CIA Rave on DOWN, but only 280,000 on UP, even though I had played UP 500x more than I'd played DOWN.

FishFishRevolution 11-21-2005 11:48 AM

Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
I was going to post "Fishing for sticky/10" but then I saw this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by iggymatrixcounter
*Sticky Please?*

-.-

This does look pretty useful, we'll see how it fares as a sticky, although noobs never read the stickies anyway.

stlunatic0124 11-21-2005 12:33 PM

RE: Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
Good thread. Another thing you forgot to mention: AVOID BOOS. It is pointless to practice a song if you are going to just button mash the hard parts. Work on concentrating really hard and practice reading the steps.

super-smashman 11-21-2005 01:30 PM

RE: Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
OH COME ON!

This get's stickied and my awesome guide doesn't!

Since Fish is the only mod who seems to be paying attention, do the right thing.

PS: Not implying that this guide is bad, in fact I was going to make something like this but never got around to it. Gj doing it though.

iggymatrixcounter 11-21-2005 01:42 PM

RE: Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
Your guide was very useful, and I've read it a couple times myself. But it's more for people who know what they're talking about. I made this just as a general thing so new players would have an idea of how to get better. (AND I'm tired of the "How do I play like [insert top 10 player here]?!?!?!111 " threads.)

super-smashman 11-21-2005 01:47 PM

RE: Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
Are you kidding me? I've seen this so many times:

Thread: ????

Post: I wuz playing FFR @ my friends house and he uses both of his hands i waz wondering if any1 else uses 2 hands or is it jsut my firend?

iggymatrixcounter 11-21-2005 02:04 PM

RE: Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
rofl, yea me too. But not as many as I used to. I mean as I speak someone has already posted a thread on "How do I get better?".......ghey

Bodom13 11-21-2005 02:41 PM

RE: Re: NOOBS READ: How to get better at FFR
 
Nice Thanks :D

Paper07 11-21-2005 02:58 PM

Hey
 
HI I LOVE FFR LOL

RealLife 11-26-2005 02:32 PM

RE: Hey
 
HOLY SHIT.

I'm playing stepmania 8 months or smt. but I totally sucked at FFR. And then I mean... very HARD. Untill I read that 1st trick, setting your screen halfway.

I just FC some very challenging stuff and easely went through the for masters only ones. This game became 1000x easier. No joke.

FluorescentArmy 11-29-2005 02:33 PM

RE: Hey
 
Wow those tips helped me alot. Thx to all who composed it.

iggymatrixcounter 11-30-2005 12:18 PM

RE: Hey
 
I stole the first idea from other better players that told it to me. Everything else (except the advice from others.) was written by myself.

Remeber if you have anything you want to add to help others. I'll try to get it in here if I feel that it hasn't been discussed.

SaveSaya 11-30-2005 01:28 PM

RE: Hey
 
The first trick on there... i feel really cheap when I use it. Without using the trick, songs like breaking the common are harder than uber rave with that trick. @_@ Feels almostl ike im cheatign *_*

igotrhythm 11-30-2005 01:54 PM

RE: Hey
 
Actually, I tried that first trick, and it doesn't seem to work for me. I think it's because I rely more on pattern recognition than lightning-fast reflexes (as most of you know, I have no speed whatsoever). Different strokes, I guess.

killacrip 12-3-2005 08:09 AM

RE: Hey
 
how come in tha nu one its in like japanes or summit, i cnt read the speed etc.


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