[RELEASE] FFR Community Pack 2025

James May · 10-23-2025, 01:14 PM

Recommended files to play

Blood and Thunder
Credits
DESPERATE DEATHPARADE
Gaspard de la Nuit - I. Ondine
Kono Hoshi de...
Petal
slic.hertz
Splash
Story of Snowman and Sunshine Girl
Sweet Witch Girl

These are files that I genuinely enjoyed from the pack.

My main complaints overall

Focus
If the pack was meant to be also played in a loader, then mines/fakes/holds should've been banned from the get go. If you wanted to have holds, roll freezes, mines, and fakes incorporated, then you should've had it just be focused as a pack for Etterna. The clash of FFR-ized files and Etterna-appropriate files clashes too hard and you could tell which files was catered to the FFR audience in mind and which ones were meant for the Etterna audience in mind.

Quality
A lot of the files in the pack from what I played up to Sunset Sky Garden were too varied in quality, and not in a good way. The biggest offenders were the dump files. All of the dump files that I played (Deception, Know Me, Los Angeles and song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar [I am counting caterpillar as a dump unless told otherwise, I played the pack blind]) all felt like I was playing the same file. There's no identity in these dump charts and a lot of the FFR-ized charts in the upper difficulties all suffer from having a rollwall of some sort shoved into the file and ruining the overall flow of the file.

Most of these charts (outside of the ones I recommend) all felt either middle of the road average and forgettable and given the sentiment of "this is a file" or just flat out horrendous to play because of a few key parts of the chart that had the dynamic ruined that should've been caught during QA.

Communication
The fact that there's also a lack of communication in regards to release and updates. This pack had several opportunities to keep the FFR Community Pack legacy going but this release ain't it. I, like many others, thought this pack was dead due to the lack of communication that was going on. And I get it, you got the tourney, the stepcon, and other stuff to delegate your focus on but I think that if you had delegated someone else focus on the pack itself, the reception would've been a whole lot better than this.

Overall Thoughts
This pack has a few gems in there, as I listed, that should honestly be given a chance to be played. I do thank everyone that participated in this pack, and the people that run this pack. I do sound harsh because the FFR Community Packs were some of the first charts that I had gotten my files debuted on and I want this to be good. But unfortunately, this felt like a "oh crap I forgot to release this" kind of release. I hope that if there's another attempt at reviving the FFR Community Pack series that it goes better than this.

Edit: I'm going to play the rest of the pack at some point

10-23-2025, 01:14 PM	#23
James May FFR Player Join Date: Oct 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 3,817	Re: [RELEASE] FFR Community Pack 2025 Recommended files to play Blood and Thunder Credits DESPERATE DEATHPARADE Gaspard de la Nuit - I. Ondine Kono Hoshi de... Petal slic.hertz Splash Story of Snowman and Sunshine Girl Sweet Witch Girl These are files that I genuinely enjoyed from the pack. My main complaints overall Focus If the pack was meant to be also played in a loader, then mines/fakes/holds should've been banned from the get go. If you wanted to have holds, roll freezes, mines, and fakes incorporated, then you should've had it just be focused as a pack for Etterna. The clash of FFR-ized files and Etterna-appropriate files clashes too hard and you could tell which files was catered to the FFR audience in mind and which ones were meant for the Etterna audience in mind. Quality A lot of the files in the pack from what I played up to Sunset Sky Garden were too varied in quality, and not in a good way. The biggest offenders were the dump files. All of the dump files that I played (Deception, Know Me, Los Angeles and song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar [I am counting caterpillar as a dump unless told otherwise, I played the pack blind]) all felt like I was playing the same file. There's no identity in these dump charts and a lot of the FFR-ized charts in the upper difficulties all suffer from having a rollwall of some sort shoved into the file and ruining the overall flow of the file. Most of these charts (outside of the ones I recommend) all felt either middle of the road average and forgettable and given the sentiment of "this is a file" or just flat out horrendous to play because of a few key parts of the chart that had the dynamic ruined that should've been caught during QA. Communication The fact that there's also a lack of communication in regards to release and updates. This pack had several opportunities to keep the FFR Community Pack legacy going but this release ain't it. I, like many others, thought this pack was dead due to the lack of communication that was going on. And I get it, you got the tourney, the stepcon, and other stuff to delegate your focus on but I think that if you had delegated someone else focus on the pack itself, the reception would've been a whole lot better than this. Overall Thoughts This pack has a few gems in there, as I listed, that should honestly be given a chance to be played. I do thank everyone that participated in this pack, and the people that run this pack. I do sound harsh because the FFR Community Packs were some of the first charts that I had gotten my files debuted on and I want this to be good. But unfortunately, this felt like a "oh crap I forgot to release this" kind of release. I hope that if there's another attempt at reviving the FFR Community Pack series that it goes better than this. Edit: I'm going to play the rest of the pack at some point __________________ bananas Last edited by James May; 10-23-2025 at 09:52 PM..

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