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A Bridge Of Iron And Blood :: FFR Batch Submission
storn42 -
A Bridge Of Iron And Blood -
Eidola [5.75 / 10]
Autumn 2024 Seasonal Batch
Public
Rejected
From the album Eviscerate released under Rise Records
Simfile Folder Name
A Bridge of Iron and Blood (Storn42)Note Count
2898Chart Length
3:42Average NPS
13.2007Estimated Difficulty
106.21
First Note
0:03Ending Note Delay
0:01Hand Bias
x 34
Framers
0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 158 3 - 791 4 - 96Jumps
x 877
Hands
x 208
Quads
x 20
Color Jumps
x 1
Color Hands
x 5
Color Quads
x 0
Most notes in:
1/3 of a Second13 - 39.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
16 - 32.00 nps 1 Second
30 - 30.00 nps 2 Seconds
50 - 25.00 nps 5 Seconds
116 - 23.20 nps 10 Seconds
202 - 20.20 nps 30 Seconds
487 - 16.23 nps 1 Minute
908 - 15.13 nps
Color Count
x 972 (33.54%)
x 842 (29.05%)
x 106 (3.66%)
x 867 (29.92%)
x 90 (3.11%)
x 1 (0.03%)
x 0 (0%)
x 19 (0.66%)
x 1 (0.03%)
Posted at 5:17pm on September 7th, 2024
A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 2919 => 2898
AVG NPS changed: 13.29639 => 13.20073
Hand Bias changed: 35 => 34
Posted at 12:25am on August 15th, 2025
Permission good (Rise Records)
Sync good
Metadata good
** Majority of the difficulty is contained in the first minute. If a player is good enough at jacks to deal with that, the rest of the chart becomes a filler. Specifically:
- 18.291-21.602 and 26.567-32.774 single-handedly brings the difficulty by several points. No other section throws this kind of "double longjacks" in addition to extreme hand controls for such an extended period of time. It should be toned down significantly, for example with only single jacks, with jumps where pitch changes and hands at drums.
- 47.257-1:13.740: although I think a longjack approach could work here, it should be done very carefully. The current one is too spiky, often not for a good reason:
--- 47.257-48.809 is only a buildup but has one of the longest jacks
--- 48.912-49.636 shouldn't be a jack, no vocals
--- 50.360 is an unnecessary pressure on the left hand when it's already busy dealing with the jack
--- 51.705-52.222 at the end of a longjack is very hard to hit well. I would break the jack at 51.705 and 51.912, and make the 3-jack one-handed.
--- 58.843-1:00.809 jacks are longer than how the vocal goes
** Even in the easier sections, some of the hand controls in chordjacks are dubious, due to an extensive usage of [12]1[12]-shaped jacks. Especially 2:48.705-2:51.395 has too much pressure on the left hand.
* 24th split minijumpjacks are a bit awkward to hit rather than being interesting. At the very least, they should be used conservatively and definitely not twice in a row (2:02.981, 3:37.740).
FFR's ongoing relative lack of high-level jacks (that aren't just Magical-Fushigi-Etude spams) does call for some more, but the difficulty balance isn't quite there and I doubt many D7-8 players will be receptive to this one. It isn't a kind of chart that can reliably be playtested on a lower rate, since the sheer speed approaching the physical human limit is a huge part of what makes level 100+ jacks difficult. I strongly recommend getting playtesters around this level range if you didn't.
Judge Score: 6.00 - Rejected
Posted at 6:37pm on August 15th, 2025
A Bridge of Iron and Blood
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** The longjack patterning in this is uhhhh... kinda unplayable. The amount of control needed to hit stuff like this: https://i.imgur.com/X0fkkEQ.png (18.602) or this: https://i.imgur.com/1ypzS60.png (29.930) is just off the charts. The rest of the file is not even in the same universe as that type of patterning. Stuff like 170.464 and the extreme one-hand-control heavy chordjack at 202.844-205.326 come kinda close-ish (which mean they’re also pretty spiky), but aside from those very short sections, 17.464-21.602 and 25.740-32.775 are simply ridiculous compared to the rest of the chart. You need to ask for playtests from people who can play charts at this level before submitting.
Outside of that,
- 47.257-73.740 is cool in theory, but feels like it could be tightened up. You swap columns pretty liberally for changes in the vocals (I might recommend being a little stingier swapping columns if it’s just a relatively subtle pitch shift), but the initial guitar jack at 47.257 stays on the same column throughout despite substantial evolution in the sound. Also feels like there are a fair few missing jumps in the back half particularly.
- The 24th split minijacks at 73.740/etc. feel pretty forced. Relative to the spikes previously discussed, they’re not that bad, but they just feel like difficulty for difficulty’s sake. Nothing wrong with using a split jumptrill or a nicer minijack pattern instead.
Realistically, though, I’m not sure that this could work as a longjack file--I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, but I’m skeptical. The longjack bits are relatively few and far between, particularly after the first minute or so, and chordjack and longjack play *very* differently. Even with the longjack sections toned down to have reasonable patterning and no intense one-hand-control spikes, I worry that they might feel spiky and out of place simply by virtue of their infrequency. In any case, if you want to submit this again, you will need to get playtests from people at this level. That is not a request, but a demand. [5.5/10]
Judge Score: 5.50 - Rejected