Archive for August 2nd, 2007
New User Skill Token #1
July is now over and the previous skill token month very possibly left a lot of new users in the dust. Worry not because August will provide a handful of skill tokens which do not require mountains of … well … skill. Tonight we introduce the first of the New User Skill Tokens straight from the Nestlekwik School of FFR by adding another token to the classified beginner level of tokens. Now pay attention class – to unlock this shiny new song token, go to the Dance category and pass the song Free Space, the very first song on the Dance listing.
Lesson one merely requires one to survive 59 grueling arrows so study up and report back in a couple of days for a harder lesson. Upon passing Free Space, you’ll be rewarded with the skill token for the song Eien Maikyu by Yuki Otoha. Eien Maikyu is Japanese for Eternal Labyrinth and is rated a one in difficulty thanks to a step file of timely reds and blues by jimerax. Running at 1:41, the song is a nice ballad that has a much slower BPM than nearly all of the songs on FFR. It’s also kind of fitting that Free Space, a wide open area, unlocks Eternal Labyrinth, a tight-quartered maze. It’s like they are opposites! … Well, I thought it was a funny coincidence.
Now I see a lot of the more skilled players rolling their eyes at this task, grumbling about how easy it is. Well, then, mister or madam, do we have a feature for you. Courtesy of lightdarkness, we now have a feature for subscribers only on the skill tokens page which divides the skill tokens into a set of six difficulty levels and suggests a token for you based on the lowest-skilled token left available for you. If you have more than one skill token left in that difficulty, you can refresh the page, and the feature will generate a new suggestion for you. Handy, isn’t it! Don’t have the feature? Well, that means you’re not a subscriber! What are you waiting for? Subscribe now!
Now go and fetch the new token and revisit the token page to see what previous tokens can give you a suitable challenge! Class dismissed.
-Nestlekwik
Release the Battle Ax – Skill Token #4/62
Battle Ax is a crazy fun song by Onoken. 9 on the difficulty scale, with all kinds of jump triplets and 16th bursts with jumps in them. Rated a 9/12 on the difficulty scale. Stepfile is a collab between macgravel and Exag0n, two well respected stepfilers.
To unlock it, Full Combo ESC -Super Version- with 2 goods or less. No averages, no boos. either AAA, Black Flag, or 2 goods. as per levelstats, 61 people currently meet that req, but I suspect we’ll have more than that within 24 hours alone.
Basically…. you’re going to want to have this skill token. Battle Ax is worth it to whore ESC.
-Tass & his Battle Ax of DOOM…. on this, his 4 year anniversary with Whorli.
A Little Tribal To Start Your Day
Skill Token #3 of the month is being brought to you by the letter T. Tribal Style is a song by Kyle Ward, under his KaW alias. To unlock it, you must Full Combo Tribal Revival. Stepfile is by Brilliant Dynamite Neon & shortysnmn2010. File is pretty straightforward; once again, a 7 in difficulty – “Difficult”.
Enjoy, and don’t forget to have your Bran.
-Tass
250th Overall Level… a simple Skill Token.
Our 10th Skill Token is also our 250th level in the game, including Secret, Purchased, Token, Skill, and Subscriber released songs!
(thanks go to iPatch for writing this up about 3 months ago)
Ugress is an electronica project from Bergen, Norway. The man behind this project is Gisle Martens Meyer.
Ugress’s music can be related to other artists as Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers and Propellerheads. Some similarity to Röyksopp have been suggested, but Ugress is described as having a more “dirty†style. Ugress is also known for using lots of sample snippets from various artists and TV shows. Often Ugress is mistaken for being the name and only project of Gisle Martens Meyer but Ugress is actually one of several projects by Uncanny Records. Each project spawns its own music style but nevertheless you can recognize the “vibe†which goes through most of the available music.
The specific song is the same as is in Spin It Up, Manhattan Sapphire. It’s not that difficult of a file, but it is a bit long at 3:39. Only 106 bpm, so I’m rating it a 3/6. The file is by new stepfile author and long time TWGer, Talisman. I’m sure you can find out how to unlock it via the skill token page on the left hand column… but if you want the challenge, i’ll only tell you to play Life Goes On.
Tasselfoot and Junior Mints
Song of the Week #3: That Tethnic Vibe
Hey guys, did you enjoy April fool songs.. rofl Vertex BETA and REAL Vertex BETA?
yea, I enjoyed them… really, seriously.
Some of you guys might have already noticed, another SotW was released, That Tethnic Vibe.
Song is by Re_Synthesis, healing music. He has some other cool songs with mainly pianos, strings, synths on his myspace page. Steps are by hi19hi19, go well with the music and fairly easy. Difficulty Rating is 2.5/6 (Standard).
This song is currently in Funk section.
Have fun with SotW,
The REAL Song of the Week #2: Vertex BETA
As most of you probably realized, Vertex BETA (now renamed as “Vertex BETA vrofl”) was an April Fools Day joke song, and we weren’t ever planning on having it stick around as a standard FFR file, no matter how many requests we got 
However, while the impossible-to-pass (although Darkshark gets credit for, as far as I know, being the only player to actually reach the truly impossible part) file is gone, we’re still releasing a *real* Vertex BETA file today. Back on the normal scale of difficulty, it still ranks a very high 11/12 (For Masters Only), and while this is nothing compared to the first version, it’s still nothing to sneeze at. The file (also stepped by yours truly) consists of long 200 BPM 16th streams mostly, with some breaks for 8ths in places. It’s located in its proper spot in the Dance2 genre, very near the bottom.
For those of you who are wondering what will happen to Vertex BETA vrofl, don’t worry…it’s on vacation, but it’ll be back…for a certain skilled few of you, anyway.
Happy FFR’ing,
Official FFR Tournament Round 4
For the skilled and/or lucky few who have managed to make it this far: Round 4 of the tournament started this past Wednesday, so you have until next Thursday (March 8th) at 11 PM EST to submit. The top 8 isn’t very far away now for those still in the running…=)
You can find this round’s songs and matchups in this thread in Brag Board.
Happy FFR’ing/Game-playing/pondering/seeing the light,
Shash
FFR Song of the Week
This week we finally introduce something new for the arcade genre. Yes… A Tetris Remix song. We figured it was time we pay respect to the great Alexey Pazhitnov and what he has done for video games. KGZ created the remix from scratch and away went Dore on the steps. This is a fairly simple level for moderate players (difficulty 8).
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Synthlight
Ranker My Server
So… ever since Jason and Synthlight made the upgrades and improvments to our quad opteron server, LD has wanted to really push the limits of our mysql server. A few mountain dew’s later, LD brings us Level Rank Stats. What the page will show you, when logged in, is a listing of your rank on every song you’ve played, ordered from best to worst.
What does this allow you to do? Well… it allows you to easily view what songs you might want to improve your rank on, in an off-game location.
This is still a beta-feature, so give the report some time to generate… we’re really giving the server a run for it’s money with this script, as it’s very server intensive. Let us know if you run into any problems.
More to come this July 
Stay tuned.
FFR Staff and Jelly Beans.
