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Shxfted - Cortex Charger - Aquellex [7.25 / 10]
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Upper-mid 110s bounty

Simfile Folder Name

Cortex Charger (Shxfted)

Note Count

3772

Chart Length

2:30

Average NPS

25.7885

Estimated Difficulty

115.82

First Note

0:03

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x -4

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 44 2 - 163 3 - 1061 4 - 765

Jumps

x 838

Hands

x 120

Quads

x 11

Color Jumps

x 103

Color Hands

x 18

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
14 - 42.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
18 - 36.00 nps 1 Second
33 - 33.00 nps 2 Seconds
61 - 30.50 nps 5 Seconds
147 - 29.40 nps 10 Seconds
287 - 28.70 nps 30 Seconds
823 - 27.43 nps 1 Minute
1617 - 26.95 nps

Color Count

x 1112 (29.48%)
x 1006 (26.67%)
x 267 (7.08%)
x 910 (24.13%)
x 253 (6.71%)
x 23 (0.61%)
x 43 (1.14%)
x 14 (0.37%)
x 144 (3.82%)

Largest Note Gaps

0.37s0.3s0.23s0.23s0.23s0.23s0.23s0.23s
35
28
21
14
7

Approved for upper-mid 110s bounty

Cortex Charger (Shxfted)

- oh dear how did we get here

- Offset's good.

Full disclosure that I had to playtest this at 0.85x-0.9x, and even then I still struggled quite a bit lmao

23.227 - There could be some other ways to prevent this lone 16th jack, the transition in and out of the polyrhythmic structure is.... quite disgusting, and seems unavoidable at a glance.
33.764-44.653 - Not quite sure the purpose of these 24ths here. If you're emphasizing the 192nd off-note like before, I think you might be better off making a straight chordjack section instead I feel.
42.616 is fine I suppose.
47.357 - I think the main takeaway for these 12ths are that they are most prominent audible sounds to include for the chip, so the 8th jump after it should be removed for simplicity. (same applies to 50.468)

Good reminder that I think this chart presents NO breaks at all, it might be worthwhile to be at least more merciful with the layering decisions in a couple of places, because there doesn't seem to be any room to breathe at all lmao

*1:10.227 - The left hand bias here is aggravating, try your best to be cognizant for these kinds of things.
*1:12.246 - These polyrhythmic bits are ridiculously stupid - not only you have to contend with the respective hand bias, you're dealing with these constant sequences of jumpstream bits and the swing of an already packed chart in which we're not even halfway through the chart. This applies until the next 10 seconds (1:22.838)
*1:23.338 - Personally speaking, the polyrhythmic bits are a bit more cheeseable, but the middle column bias is pretty prevalent. It'd be wise to spread the notes a little bit more to prevent the anchoring as this is already extremely heavy, or sacrifice the polyrhythmic 24th/48ths bit and make them coloured as such, but still a little bit friendlier than what you have.

Kudos for making 1:37.283-1:49.727 bearable and still quite enjoyable after the madness from before, because playing-wise it's not as heavy-handed than it already was.

*1:49.727 - The idea of 24th streams are fine, but try your best to accomodate with how high-end players are trying to hit these - at present, your streams are mostly in the outward direction (1-2-3-4 or vice-versa), which gives it a concept of mostly pseudo-jumptrilling, which I think it's a little bit harder than pseudo-split jumptrilling (in this case, inward direction a la 1-2-4-3 or vice-versa). There should be at least some leeway of doing that, given how rough this section is.
2:05.227 - Don't think we should be doing this nearing at the end of the chart, it's 3-note anchoring at 270bpm here.
2:23.950 - what the hell LOL

For its maintained explosive difficulty, I'm....... not exactly sure the reception is going to be, especially for the Mythical tier players (very high D8s or even D9, for that into account). I'm just mostly surprised that this is structured well (as loose as it can be) for a chart this magnitude. Again, with how you structured your charts primarily on the upper bounds of extremes, the *'d points above are still worth taking a look, so FR at least. Might be a controversial take, but this is actually enjoyable with the difficulty presented. [7*/10, Fixes Required]

Judge Score: 7.00 - Fixes Required

Cortex Charger
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Permissions, sync, metadata good.

- 22.283-23.283: That's a fair bit of weight on column 4. Rebalance?
- 28.950, 32.061: Why omit the 8ths?
- 43.283-43.728: Oh man this is awkward on the right hand lol. Within this chart it's definitely not spiky, but it may be a touch frustrating. (Similarly 44.061 on left.)
- 72.561, 75.672, etc.: In general these OHTs are very attentive to the song which is super cool, but this note (i.e. the last note of long OHT) should be separated from the trill.
- 123.394: Why jump?
** 125.172, 128.283, etc.: Owwwww. These triple jacks are too much. They don't seem particularly well backed up by the song, either, unlike the other minijacks in this section; why not use 32nd bursts like 123.617 here instead?
- 142.228: lol
- 143.950-end: lmao even
* 146.839: You couldn't have made this something slightly slower, like 40ths? :(

This chart is very well executed overall, especially for how ludicrously difficult it is. I have little to complain about technically, but as playability goes, I strongly think the 3-note jacks in the ending are too much, particularly after everything else the chart throws at you. Additionally the 12th jack patterning earlier on (e.g. 47.283) is extremely aggressive; it causes a lot of column bias and demands some crazy control, which I suspect players may find aggravating.

FR on the **'d note, i.e. the triple jacks at the end; the *'d note is something I would very much like to see but which I do not believe is critical. [7.5/10 FR]

Judge Score: 7.50 - Fixes Required

Updated parts that required fixes

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 3796 => 3772
AVG NPS changed: 25.9526 => 25.78851
Hand Bias changed: 0 => -4

Applied fixes, changes/comments below:

Mipha:
23.227 - removed the jack here by shortening the burst length
33.764-44.653 - listen to this part on like 30% speed, the 24ths are going to the delayed sound at the end of the snare hits in this section
47.357 - I changed this part a bit, including removing the 8th jump
1:10.227 - removed hand bias
1:12.246 - I'd like to keep this as is, if possible. I don't see it as being much of an issue
1:23.338 - this section leans towards middle column bias cause the previous part leans towards outer column bias, I just inverted the one hand trills for this part
1:49.727 - I'd prefer this part to be psuedo-jumptrillable instead of psuedo-split-jumptrillable, personal preference and I think it is subjective whether it is easier or harder one way or the other
2:05.227 - heavily nerfed the jack
2:23.950 - :)

Pizza69:
22.283-23.283 - moved a bit of this to column 3
28.950, 32.061 - oops I forgot the 8ths here, added them
43.283-43.728 - hmm I'm not really sure if there's much I can do about this part being awkward, idk if it would be any less awkward if the last 24th before the quad would be on columns 2/3 instead of columns 1/4
72.561, 75.672 - I think this is fine, it repeats the same sounds here (72.394 - 72.561) that I use for the one hand trills from 72.172 to 72.338
123.394 - removed this jump and all other instances after
125.172 - nerfed the jacks heavily
146.839 - ok ok I made them 40ths instead

Pizza and I deemed these fixes to be good (and provided reasonings for most of the *d notes).

Setting this to Accepted, however if it's possible I'd like to see 1:12.246 maybe a little bit cleaner since the polyrhythmic structure in this is absolutely disgusting no matter how you swing it.