Beta Engine: R^3 [Updated 6/5/14]

[Velocity]

Should be Fixed.

[Hakulyte]

I wonder if something could be done about TWWW's preview that's not working and possibly the file itself so it works on R^3 with or without background(?).

[NeonSM]

Thanks for the work, really cool update!

[r]

R^3 is just getting better and better. I'm amazed with it now but is it possible to search through all songs in difficulty order like in Velocity?

[choof]

is it safe to play queues again

[Velocity]

Originally Posted by choof

is it safe to play queues again

Try it.

[Xtreme2252]

I have a handful of suggestions on how you can make R^3 even better with the next update.

-Change the color of averages to a light green, misses to yellow, and boos to orange.

-Make it so that negative scores get saved and take away points from your grand total.

-Remove the multiplayer editor.

-Set all of Synthlight's charted songs to mute themselves by default, that way the music won't throw off your "rhythm."

-Add a "No Fail" mode, that way you could FC tier 99 songs without having to worry about mashing too fast.

-Make any section that has no notes a "freestyle" section where you can do whatever you want to without penalty.

-Add a pause feature which will rewind the song slightly when you unpause to allow time to react to the next note.

[SC_coolguy44]

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

I have a handful of suggestions on how you can make R^3 even better with the next update.

-Change the color of averages to a light green, misses to yellow, and boos to orange.

-Make it so that negative scores get saved and take away points from your grand total.

-Remove the multiplayer editor.

-Set all of Synthlight's charted songs to mute themselves by default, that way the music won't throw off your "rhythm."

-Add a "No Fail" mode, that way you could FC tier 99 songs without having to worry about mashing too fast.

-Make any section that has no notes a "freestyle" section where you can do whatever you want to without penalty.

-Add a pause feature which will rewind the song slightly when you unpause to allow time to react to the next note.

I have a few things to point out about this.

1) There is already a new feature where you can customize your accuracy colours.

2) That would just annoy people.

3) The multiplayer editor is just as useful as the other two editors because it helps to give you a better look at what your multiplayer gameplay will look like.

4) There is already an option for ingame music. If you want to mute the songs change ingame music to 0.

5) This would make the game way too easy and there has to be some challenging aspect to the game.

6) This imo would just encourage more mashing.

7) This would kind of be cheating.

I hope some of these pointers were helpful for you.

[beary605]

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

I have a handful of suggestions on how you can make R^3 even better with the next update.

-Change the color of averages to a light green, misses to yellow, and boos to orange.

-Make it so that negative scores get saved and take away points from your grand total.

-Remove the multiplayer editor.

-Set all of Synthlight's charted songs to mute themselves by default, that way the music won't throw off your "rhythm."

-Add a "No Fail" mode, that way you could FC tier 99 songs without having to worry about mashing too fast.

-Make any section that has no notes a "freestyle" section where you can do whatever you want to without penalty.

-Add a pause feature which will rewind the song slightly when you unpause to allow time to react to the next note.

i hope this was a joke (at least the first few here), i laughed at this

i wouldn't mind a no-fail mode if it didn't submit scores; people may just want to watch the arrows fly by, or there might be a difficulty spike which they can't pass in a chart they really enjoy

and a pause feature for R3 replays!

[arcnmx]

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Change the color of averages to a light green, misses to yellow, and boos to orange.

Do this yourself in the options.

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Make it so that negative scores get saved and take away points from your grand total.

No.

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Remove the multiplayer editor.

Why? You realise the editor is for editing, right? It's for moving everything around, and the MP screen is set up differently from SP so it needs to be accessible separately.

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Set all of Synthlight's charted songs to mute themselves by default, that way the music won't throw off your "rhythm."

Better yet remove them.

Originally Posted by beary605

and a pause feature for R3 replays!

Already exists but I guess no one's found it yet!

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Add a "No Fail" mode, that way you could FC tier 99 songs without having to worry about mashing too fast.

Fair suggestion, has been considered for a long time but was never a priority.

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Make any section that has no notes a "freestyle" section where you can do whatever you want to without penalty.

While I've thought about this, it's hard to decide exactly what part should be a freestyle section. How many seconds long must a gap be? How many seconds before/after the last/first note of a section should it start registering boos? How does the player see this intuitively and not accidentally hit a boo when they think there should be a freestyle?

Originally Posted by Xtreme2252

-Add a pause feature which will rewind the song slightly when you unpause to allow time to react to the next note.

Rock Band 3 style... I don't have a problem with this as I value user experience slightly over score integrity, but it does seem somewhat susceptible to abuse. Even if you rate limit it to only be usable every X seconds, it can still be used right before a particularly hard part. I would go for it though.

[Charu]

Originally Posted by arcnmx

Already exists but I guess no one's found it yet!

...Dude...

[One Winged Angel]

people didn't know about pause break?

also with respect to the 'freestyle' suggestion, the only way that could viably be implemented would be to remove boos altogether, which would just bring the game even closer to a flash stepmania clone

the in-game pause feature made me chuckle lol

[Charu]

Son of a...

No, I didn't know about the pause-break thing. I didn't know you literally had to push "pause" on the keyboard.

[choof]

Originally Posted by Velocity

Try it.

don't tell me what to do, mom!
sick job, queues work like a charm and the results screen looks great

[Velocity]

Originally Posted by Charu

Son of a...

No, I didn't know about the pause-break thing. I didn't know you literally had to push "pause" on the keyboard.

If you're going to hide things, in plain sight is often the best option. >:D

[Hakulyte]

Originally Posted by Hakulyte

I wonder if something could be done about TWWW's preview that's not working and possibly the file itself so it works on R^3 with or without background(?).

Did this get ignored because it's not directly related to R^3?

Edit: welp, forgot the obvious.

[One Winged Angel]

song previews don't work if you don't have access to the file in question (which is quite dumb imo and pretty much defeats the purpose of previewing a file)

[Yulanik]

Can we possibly play queues in MP?

[Velocity]

Originally Posted by One Winged Angel

song previews don't work if you don't have access to the file in question (which is quite dumb imo and pretty much defeats the purpose of previewing a file)

Strange, it should be setup to allow that. I'll look into it.

[popsicle_3000]

Originally Posted by Velocity

Strange, it should be setup to allow that. I'll look into it.

hasn't for years