Spring Showdown Round 8 (The Final)
Here We Go for the final round of the tournament, with your song picks for the 8th round:
D2: Credits [Standard]
D3: PSEUDO SHROUD
D4: ATHAZA
D5: For UltraPlayers
D6: Stress Free Style
D7: Critical.Error
D8: LWVIIX (Lawn Wake 69)
With this round we have 2 brand new ones, with a new musician to go with it:
PSEUDO SHROUD
Musician: MajesticPeriod
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:10
Song Style: Drum’n Bass
Note Count: 1149
Difficulty: 68
MajesticPeriod – SoundCloud | Twitter
ATHAZA
Musician: LeaF
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:44
Song Style: Imaginary Flower
Note Count: 1596
Difficulty: 81
For other news, a few files had their difficulty changed recently. They are as follows:
Grocery Escape Plan: 71 > 75
E-Lectixilent: 79 > 75
Define v2: 86 > 84
As an FYI, we will be returning to our regular Songs of the Week release schedule on Saturday, April 29th.
Enjoy, and thanks for all the fish.
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Spring Showdown Round 7 + Bonus
Quick reminder that the 16th Official Tournament batch closes on April 30th! Get your submissions in while you can!
Nearing the end of the tournament now, so here’s your round 7 songs:
D2: ROCK IT
D3: New World Disorder (23′s Orchestra Dubstyle Extravaganza)
D4: Queen of Bootlegs
D5: Panic! Pop’n! Picnic!
D6: Red Sheets, White Lies
D7: Finding Her Not
D8: Undici
We have one new song from the tournament:
Panic! Pop’n! Picnic!
Musician: Umeboshi Chazuke
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:14
Song Style: Picnic!
Note Count: 1798
Difficulty: 88
As well as one bonus song:
Hopeful Frontier!!!
Musician: cosMo@BousouP
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 2:01
Song Style: Progressive
Note Count: 1850
Difficulty: 97
Enjoy!
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Spring Showdown Round 6 + New Release!
Another day, another round. Time for the round 6 songs:
D2: PSYCHIC DiVE
D3: Time 4 Your Medicine
D4: Redraw the Colorless World
D5: SYNTHETICS (EXTENDED MIX)
D6: OTENAMI Hurricane
D7: This Is The End of Everything
D8: Gamma Stop Sending Me High Quality Rips
This round includes one new song for D6:
OTENAMI Hurricane
Musician: t+pazolite
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 1:59
Song Style: Pop Breakcore
Note Count: 1642
Difficulty: 95
And one bonus song:
Pwntendo [Full Version]
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 4:19
Song Style: 8-bit Breakcore
Note Count: 3380
Difficulty: 90
Enjoy!
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Spring Showdown Round 5 + New Release!
The 5th round of the Spring Showdown Tournament is upon us, with the following songs for the round:
D2: Mindreader
D3: Debut
D4: Random
D5: Fluff Master
D6: Daraku no Sono
D7: Extratone Pirates (Drunk Optimus Remix)
D8: PEACE BREAKER
In addition, we have one bonus song being released as well:
Plastic Mind
Musician: dBu
Step Artist: Shadow_God_10 & XelNya
Song Length: 3:59
Song Style: Progressive Metal
Note Count: 3306
Difficulty: 87
Enjoy!
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Seasonal Graph, Spring Showdown Round 4 + New Releases!
For those who missed the update posted on our Discord server a few days back, we released a new Seasons feature for everyone!
If you go under your seasonal dashboard you should now see a graph that tracks your daily progress with your skill rating throughout the season. Hovering over each marker provides the skill rating and date, and these graphs have also been applied to previous seasons. Huge thanks to PrawnSkunk for making this happen!
Round 4:
D2: My Suit & Tie Life (D.licious Live Edit)
D3: Colors of the Wind
D4: Manhattan Lover
D5: E-Lectixilent
D6: Lawn Wake III
D7: Lyrith -Labyrinth Lilith-
D8: Mishnu
New Songs:
Burning Me Up
Musician: Nu-Prophet
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 1:39
Song Style: Dance Pop
Note Count: 1199
Difficulty: 71
The One
Musician: odaxelagnia
Step Artist: M0nkeyz & Psychotik
Song Length: 2:17
Song Style: Orchestral Breakcore
Note Count: 1219
Difficulty: 75
odaxelagnia – Main | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Enjoy!
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Spring Showdown Round 3 + New Songs
Hope everyone is enjoying the songs released yesterday for April Fools’ Day! For those that haven’t figured it out, unfortunately all of those releases are only temporary and will be removed on April 8th. Play them while you can!
Round 3 Songs:
D2: Carissa
D3: Unpause the Heat
D4: ecstatic ghost party as Nightmare
D5: DRAGONLADY
D6: Dawn [Culprate]
D7: Delirium v2
D8: Adcar
New Songs:
Delirium v2
Musician: Smiley
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 2:12
Song Style: Happy
Note Count: 2102
Difficulty: 95
Terra Liberty
Musician: Freedom Call
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:29
Song Style: Power Metal
Note Count: 1407
Difficulty: 65
Enjoy!
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/1/2023
Welcome to the first post of April! With another new season comes our bigger seasonal update with difficulty changes, a new leaderboard season, an engine update, and some other big news!
FFR Engine v1.5.0
Starting with a new engine update, a quick rundown of what’s coming to the engine is as follows:
Local File Browser
- Local file browser for playing .sm / .osu / .qua files.
- For those that have used the AF2021 engine, this is the same song selector, but is limited to just FFR style charts. (4K, No Mines or Holds)
- There’s a potential desync issue when using Isolation in combination with this, am looking into it.
Song Selection Tags and display toggles:
- Legacy
- Explicit
- Unranked
Reworked Receptor Code:
- Speed Scaler (0.25x – 5x)
- Unify Animations
- Per Judge Score Color and Toggles
Song Rates:
- No longer requires reloading the song when changed.
As with any engine update, you can find it over on our downloads page, and report any issues over on Github.
Season 7
Season 6 has concluded with just over 250 participants this time around. Season 7 has begun and will last until the end of June. Participation badges for Season 6 will automatically be added soon for those that met the requirements for them.
Difficulty Updates
The difficulty changes this season can be found at the usual location of our contested difficulty spreadsheet. In addition to the list of difficulty updates coming out for the new season, we have something a bit different that is happening with a short list of files. These files in particular have a severe difficulty spike, and as a result are frequently brought up for difficulty discussion, with enduring disagreement about whether the files are overrated, underrated, or should be moved to 0. Specifically, these files have a singular difficulty spike that is 1) ~5 seconds or less in duration and 2) 15 or more points more difficult than everything else in the file. We determined that these files are not quite as extreme as other files currently rated 0, and consequently they will be retaining their numerical ratings but will be unranked. This means they will no longer grant AAA equivalency or figure into global or seasonal skill ratings. You’ll be able to identify them in the new engine update by the gray difficulty number on the song selection screen.
The files affected by this change are:
R/\IN
DubstEpic Symph
Entrance [Deemo Cut]
Etude Op. 10, No. 9 in F minor
For FFR
Runny Mornings (SGX Mix)
Jettison
Judgement Updates
On the judgement side of things we have a change in pace. We’re going to temporarily close submissions once the 16th Official Tournament batch closes at the end of April. We’ve built up quite a backlog, and will need to focus on getting OT files judged once that batch closes. There has not been a date set for when when the next batch will open, but we will provide an update on that as soon as it has been determined. The main factors will be how quickly judging proceeds through the current backlog and the quantity of files in the queue.
New Releases
As for the song releases today, we’ve kept this as a secret for awhile now. It took a bit of wrangling with some labels on our founder’s end, as well as a contract to only dedicate a very, very small percentage of his time towards being present on FFR. It doesn’t make much sense to us either, but it got some results!
To start out this month, all of our releases will be new musicians! These were extremely hard to get permissions for artists you may have heard of. As always, check out their socials below! Thanks, Synthlight!!!
Rap God
Musician: Eminem
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 6:04
Song Style: Speed Rap
Note Count: 5577
Difficulty: 102
Eminem – Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Mariah Carey F**king Dies in a Multigenre Death Loop
Musician: Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled, ReeK, Filthy Frank
Step Artist: Velocity & ositzxz369
Song Length: 4:17
Song Style: Multigenre
Note Count: 2639
Difficulty: 112
Mariah Carey – Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Space Oddity (Dossar Acapella Remix)
Musician: David Bowie feat. DossarLX ODI
Step Artist: DossarLX ODI
Song Length: 3:55
Song Style: Acapella
Note Count: 592
Difficulty: 13
David Bowie – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Flames!
Musician: Dragonforce feat. Ph0ton
Step Artist: XJ-9
Song Length: 4:23
Song Style: Kawaii Desu Guitar
Note Count: 2409
Difficulty: 73
Dragonforce – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Ph0ton – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
SUPER RENDA BEAT
Musician: LuzeriA
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 2:24
Song Style: Free Jack Equiv
Note Count: 1504
Difficulty: 81
LuzeriA – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, gold stinger, Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Spring Showdown Round 2 + New Releases!
Another round of the Spring Showdown tournament has begun, with the following songs for this round:
D2: Come With Me [Virtual Riot]
D3: Glorious Morning
D4: Creative Happy
D5: Heavenly Spores
D6: Fast Fissure (Atomhead RMX)
D7: Deadman DJ
D8: You Show
In addition, we have two new songs with one new musician being released:
Jack of Spades
Musician: MrMinisterMaster
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 1:08
Song Style: Game Music
Note Count: 392
Difficulty: 50
MrMinisterMaster – Battle of the Bits | SoundCloud | YouTube
Polar 240
Musician: Paragonx9
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 1:42
Song Style: Speed Instrumental
Note Count: 910
Difficulty: 56
Enjoy!
-Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/25/2023
Welcome to the last Songs of the Week release of March! We’ve got a difficult release of long files to end the month and go into the Spring Tournament.
For those of you that signed up for FFR’s Spring Showdown Tournament, round one has now begun! Your division’s song and overall progress can be found within the tournament dashboard, and round one ends on March 29th 2023, 12:00 AM server time. Keep the thread in mind for any questions you may have. Good luck!
Final reminder that Season 6 ends in one week!
LET’S JUMP
Musician: Camellia
Step Artist: Velocity & gold stinger
Song Length: 7:03
Song Style: Future Techno
Note Count: 5000
Difficulty: 91
Where’s Bill
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 5:06
Song Style: Industrial Breaks
Note Count: 4244
Difficulty: 97
Tache
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 6:27
Song Style: IDM Breakcore
Note Count: 4802
Difficulty: 100
As part of the Spring Tournament, the following file is also being released for Round 1:
Diversion
Musician: Fire From The Gods
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 3:04
Song Style: Metalcore
Note Count: 2069
Difficulty: 69
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
