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Ultimate Mike7 - SlotcorE is dead - sHimaU [6.5 / 10]
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This file hurts. And it's pretty difficult!

Estimated difficulty 103+

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Simfile Folder Name

SlotcorE is dead (Ultimate Mike7)

Note Count

2887

Chart Length

2:46

Average NPS

17.7334

Estimated Difficulty

105.44

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x 9

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 30 2 - 56 3 - 695 4 - 347

Jumps

x 913

Hands

x 215

Quads

x 3

Color Jumps

x 7

Color Hands

x 1

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
12 - 36.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
18 - 36.00 nps 1 Second
29 - 29.00 nps 2 Seconds
52 - 26.00 nps 5 Seconds
124 - 24.80 nps 10 Seconds
226 - 22.60 nps 30 Seconds
634 - 21.13 nps 1 Minute
1131 - 18.85 nps

Color Count

x 1417 (49.08%)
x 1062 (36.79%)
x 7 (0.24%)
x 361 (12.5%)
x 12 (0.42%)
x 21 (0.73%)
x 7 (0.24%)
x 0 (0%)
x 0 (0%)

Largest Note Gaps

3.1s1.63s0.67s0.53s0.5s0.5s0.47s0.43s
35
28
21
14
7

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2859 => 2888
AVG NPS changed: 17.56143 => 17.73956
Hand Bias changed: 5 => 12

Hopefully last fix. Ft. less hurting. Hopefully it'll be enough...

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2888 => 2887
AVG NPS changed: 17.73956 => 17.73342
Hand Bias changed: 12 => 9

SlotcorE is dead
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** Initial section (before 6.238) is quite offsync. It's not a consistent bpm (changes twice), you'll need to do it manually.

** The minijack patterns are way too aggressive in this. 270bpm is extremely fast for minijacks; not so fast that they're never allowed, but fast enough that they should only be used with great caution and should be given a lot of breathing room when they are included. Some examples of problem areas in the first third of the file include:
- 8.127: This is at the end of an 8th anchor (ft. some extra required control) on the same hand.
- 10.460: In addition to coming out of some gnarly stuff, this also has two consecutive minijacks on the same hand, which is very hard at this speed.
- 13.238: This is extremely harsh on right hand. Even if the timestamped jump were made into a [3] single, this would still be a 270bpm anchor ft. OHT; adding a minijack makes that even tighter.
- 30.349: Another harsh right hand pattern.
- 49.682: Kick only present on the first of these two jumps, suggest [23]3.
- In addition to these specifics, there are numerous more places where a 16th minijack is preceded by an 8th on the same column. This by itself isn't terrible, but it does add a notable amount of strain, and so I feel it should be avoided where possible unless there's a good reason not to. Keep an eye out for issues like these throughout the rest of the chart as well.

* I feel there are a fair few little details the chart could afford to accent which it does not. For some examples: at 25.794, you could hold the [14] sound more strictly to [14] jumps to emphasize the repetition (e.g. https://i.imgur.com/kPHpxtm.png ); there's also a cool melodic triplet at 30.794 which goes unaccented; from 31.127-32.016 the instruments are very repetitive and this could be highlighted by strictly using certain jumps for certain sounds to highlight the repetition; etc. For an example in later sections, 83.240-83.518 sounds distinctly trilly, but gets a standard JS treatment.

* This issue is made tougher by the chart being very heavy overall. This isn't a problem in and of itself, but it is problematic in a few specific cases. For instance:
- 40.794-41.904 is an unbroken dense jumpstream with a jump on every 8th, but the sound evolves a lot. In the first beat, the 16ths are for hi-hats; in the second, it sounds like a trilly hi-hat pattern; in the third, I'm not convinced there are 16ths at all; and after that it's to a 16th melody rhythm. There's a lot going on in the song here, yet it all melds into the same pattern, which doesn't feel right. It also feels more heavy-handed than it should--I mentioned some of the notes feel ghosty, but also some of the jumps are much more prominent than others. For instance, 41.571 is much softer than the next three which are all kicks, and 40.904 is louder than the surrounding hi-hats but less than the other jumps. Putting all this together, my approach for the section would look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/ofyDC68.png
Notice how, in this sense, each different section and each different sound has its own flavour and it splits from one big jumpstream into several smaller patterns.

Overall I feel like, more than any specific technical errors (aside from the intro sync), the file is marred primarily by these high-level issues. The minijacks are spiky, the chart often feels lacking in nuance, and the density causes parts of the chart to blur together and feel indistinct. I feel it is absolutely possible to address these three complaints and wind up with a fun and interesting low-mid 100s file; certainly the speed would elevate it higher than Comatose State, for instance. I definitely encourage you to rework and resubmit this file; while daunting, the song would be pretty recognizable and you've got a solid foundation going. [6/10]

[Posted for Mipha]

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SlotcorE is dead (Ultimate Mike7)

**- Offset's very early after the first chord. 0.990 should be at 0.893, and uses 270bpm as well.

Other than that, the sync is fine for the most part.

*10.460 - This is a nasty left-handed jack transition. Try not to force this and switch up the the latter minijacks to the right side.

40.904, 41.126 and the other 8th jumps in that section should not be jumps. You have a prominent, clear sounding jump in 41.792, and your former jumps have significantly less impact.

46.237 - Missing jump.
46.681 - Should be a single.
51.515 - Should be a single.
51.681 - Should be a jump.
*1:22.851 - This should form as a minijack from that former 4th jump, and 1:22.907 should be broken up into its own minijack. You can make it something like this: (from 1:22.795, [13]1[34]3[24]-[34])
1:30.407 - Should be moved to column 3, this is awkward to hit when doing a motion where the former 4th jump should connect to form a minijack.
1:47.684 - Missing note.
1:58.518 - Awkward minijack that doesm't carry that much of a tension from the song. Move to column 3.
*2:06.295 - This jump is misplaced by 16th later. Should be moved to 2:06.240.

Structurally, this chart looks and plays well with some restraint with on the minijacks. They're not pain-inducing most of the times, though at some level I can feel some rhythms felt misplaced mostly because of the disjointed minijacks that separated from the jumps when playtesting a couple of times.

There are some points that are needed to be clarified, and especially the sync has to be fixed on that **'d point above. [7*/10, Fixes Required]