Old 10-31-2014, 12:30 PM   #1
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Stop doing them so much. They make hard files unneccesarily easy, like the recent Cold Heart/Midair Heatstroke releases. By separating tight frames players are given too much leniency with them. I understand why they're necessary for some files like DeVouR, but the fixes in the current tournament have been, to put it bluntly, overkill.

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Old 10-31-2014, 12:36 PM   #2
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Frame fixes aren't done to make files less difficult, they're done to accommodate for a lack of consistency in timing due to the engine.

If this game was 60 FPS or millisecond based like it should be, the files would be as easy as you see them frame fixed now. This precise reason is why SM-native players have trouble adjusting to FFR, because timing is not evenly distributed regardless of even rhythms.

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Old 10-31-2014, 12:44 PM   #3
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Nah, I think I like a FFR that works well without some fake difficulty added.
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Old 10-31-2014, 12:48 PM   #4
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blanky were you on the shitter when you had this thought?
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Old 10-31-2014, 04:39 PM   #5
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Frame fixes aren't done to make files less difficult, they're done to accommodate for a lack of consistency in timing due to the engine.

If this game was 60 FPS or millisecond based like it should be, the files would be as easy as you see them frame fixed now. This precise reason is why SM-native players have trouble adjusting to FFR, because timing is not evenly distributed regardless of even rhythms.
This basically nails it.

Cold Heart had many 2-frame 16th speedups in the jacks when it's only around 160 BPM. That is a 225 BPM 16th sudden hiccup, and these kinds of incorrect speedups make files play off. You can even look at RATO which has a few 1-frame 16th minijacks, which is a 450 BPM 16th speedup. In other words a 240 BPM jack was sped up to 300 BPM when you average it out.

If the files are playing smoother, then that is showing the files are more representative as how they would play on a smoother framerate. There are countless files that had placements completely out of whack in certain spots, and I've AAA'd files before frame fixes and I can tell you the rounding errors don't make this game any more enjoyable. What matters is the file content itself, not rounding errors.
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