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Old habits
Posted on: January 27, 2013, at 03:11:10am

I've felt this for a while but just finally decided to really force myself back into old habits today. Since I restarted after my three year hiatus I think I've changed where I look when playing. Currently I tend to stare directly at where the notes are going (the outlines), which doesn't give much time to react. I've been trying for a bit today to stare at where the "PERFECT" etc. shows up, which made certain patterns MUCH easier to read but my accuracy is shit. I'm pretty sure that's what I used to do way back when, but it's going to take some adjusting since my eyes tend to wander back up to the arrow outlines unless I really concentrate on where to look.

I'm a little curious as to where the higher level players tend to look when playing...Maybe I'll make a thread or something.

  1. There actually has been a thread made about this topic, but unfortunately I cannot find it.
    The general consensus from what I recall from that thread was...there was none. People had different preferences. But I'll tell you mine's.
    I would look close to the arrow receptors just so that you can be sure you know when exactly to hit those arrows. It's very easy to look further down in anticipation of what comes next but I find that your mind makes a lot of erroneous assumptions in a game that requires more or less precise timing. Even if the song is perfectly synced and you think you know what's going to happen next, you really don't see what you're hitting - and that can result in what we might say are "random" goods that we didn't see.
    So you can either resort to: a) increasing your speedmod so that what you see below is very quickly going to be what you're hitting, or b) lower your speedmod a bit and look at the arrow receptors to reassure what you're hitting at the right

  2. *to reassure what you're hitting at the right time. I chose this second option a while ago and it improved my accuracy. But now that I play casually, I often forget to do this and can lose focus easily.

  3. Guess I could try both for a bit and see how it goes. Thanks :)