Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

[rCaliberGX]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

Directly at the judgments

[Sidek]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

judgment.

[Guest15937]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

Directly below the receptors (about one arrow-height below).

[Pizza69]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

Generally I focus about an arrow's height below the receptors aside from the right arrow because right sucks, but when I want to power through a persistent mindblock I'll zone out of FFR and stare just above and behind my laptop screen. It's actually worked pretty well.

[bballa48]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

I look just below the receptors, but I do find my eyes creeping down as the patterns get denser. For example, I can't stare at the same spot for too long during dense, extended jumpstream without my eyes freaking out, so my eyes begin to migrate down the screen.

[FF_rules]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

I typically have been staring at just the bar and striking keys as they cross that plane but as I've progressed to more difficult songs

Whenever I get to thicker/denser patterns I start to stare even further away from the keys/bar (where you hit them). I tend to stare at the center 2 (up down) row at around half from the bottom (I'm up scroll). I also play on 2.55 speed atm (gone up to 2.9~3 but that's just too fast imo); I also can play staring right at the opposite side and just playing off short term memory (Which is a habit I learned to do when I was really bad at streaming back when I first played; it helped me cluster different patterns of arrows for a relatively straight forward stream tempo).

As of late I've been staring closer and closer to the bar though; It's something I needed to do to get better PA.

[Dynam0]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

Dead centre but my focus shifts to the right or left depending on the patterns (mostly focus on right hand to keep time)

[KLiTz]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

FEEDBACK!! You guys are awesome.

Looks like the general consensus is I need to stop focusing on the receptors. It seemed like I had hit a wall by doing so, especially with more difficult files like I said in the OP. My PA suffers a bit staring at the flow of arrows but once my eyes adjust to their new spot I'd imagine that will improve.

Thanks errrrrbody.

EDIT: and today I learned they're called "RECEPTORS"...... lulz @ keystrike bar

[_Zenith_]

Re: Where do you focus on the gameplay screen?

FEEDBACK!! You guys are awesome.

Looks like the general consensus is I need to stop focusing on the receptors. It seemed like I had hit a wall by doing so, especially with more difficult files like I said in the OP. My PA suffers a bit staring at the flow of arrows but once my eyes adjust to their new spot I'd imagine that will improve.

Thanks errrrrbody.

EDIT: and today I learned they're called "RECEPTORS"...... lulz @ keystrike bar

@Bolded, this is a natural occurrence for following the arrows as they meet your receptors. PA (and MA) drop when you do this because you aren't set on a spot and the timing window in which your eyes think they are actually is like half a second to a second off at times. I've noticed that a good counter to that is take brief looks at scrolling arrows and switch back to a set-in-stone spot, like I mainly stare at where it says "Marvellous (Amazing on FFR) and Perfect!" and that's where I get my accuracy from, and I don't miss when I scroll my eyes.