Astronomic Metal Collection 2

[who_cares973]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Wow, metal is hard to step. I'm telling you this is stretching my skills quite a bit.

always good to step outside your comfort zone

[Quigly]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Someone needs to step some Alestorm.

Can't have a metal pack without pirate metal.

[sp1nzoK]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Nice! I'll check it out later. And when you said 24th notes, do you mean like semiaudible middle notes? Also if you're gonna have 24th streams at 260 BPM you autta make an additional chart if difficulty consistency becomes an issue (determined by the length of the stream).

Well I'm seeing how BluearrowII does on it seeing he's pretty pro in SM, it's hard file and meant to be hard but not like it's full file with those parts and also it's not straight 24ht stream or jumpstream I'll try to describe it below:

X = 4th note
e = 8th note
(empty) = empty space
o = 24th note

rows with 24th note increments (the parts with these are 1-2measures long)

x---
--o-
----
-e-e
o---
----
-x--
--o-
----
ee--
---o

(and so on)

The 24ths are audible snarehits. Possibly I could just take the jumps out and keep it as PR guitar instead of adding bassdrums as jumps, or taking off the 24ths, or make watered down chart but it's meant to be a hard file and people usually go for the hardest difficulty for whatever reason so yeah

My own speculation is that the file might be fun for pro players and might be unfun for less pro players, still as scoring file or practice file for fast-ish jumpstream/trills/other stuff prolly for both

[who_cares973]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

make two versions. a watered down in heavy and full in oni

[Charlo]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Someone needs to step some Alestorm.

Can't have a metal pack without pirate metal.

Pirate metal is not a genre. Just sayin'.

Anyway Alestorm is a pretty good band, I might step one of their songs at some point. Probably not for this pack, though. Although they just released a new album so maybe some of those songs are irresistibly steppable, I don't know. :P

[sp1nzoK]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Gonna remove jumps from the 24th parts and alter placement / change placement of 3 arrows in 24th stream part, I'm pretty sure it will remedy the gripes I have myself with the file. No need to play the current [Fix] version N.T.M. I'm gonna send a Fix2 soon.

EDIT: Sent Fix 2... and Fix 3 since I was retarded and one arrow had vanished with Fix 2, sorry for hassle. It reads in email too but as I said if gap is off feel free to correct it also IF the 24ths aren't actually 24ths (I'm not 100% sure since I'm going nuts with dealing with my file haha) you can change them to correct arrows but keep the directions intact: (spots that I mean as follows) m13-14, m20-21, m55, m57-58, m60-63, m84-85 and m91-92.

[Joe D]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Ill submit my 2 fixed files later tonight.All that is missing is Eve of Seduction and Once in a Lifetime.Ill think of stepping sumthing else for this pack.I dont know yet

[moches]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

always good to step outside your comfort zone

Yes definitely

But just one question: how the hell do you sync metal songs?

[sp1nzoK]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

I could be part of graphical team by the way if you guys would like that.

[Joe D]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

But just one question: how the hell do you sync metal songs?

Like any other song :P

[who_cares973]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Yes definitely

But just one question: how the hell do you sync metal songs?

DDReam studios


submitting abstract art with an index friendly chart made specially for this pack

oops forgot the album name and year in subtitle

[N.T.M.]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

I could be part of graphical team by the way if you guys would like that.

As I recall you said you made the graphics for the file you submitted? I liked those. I'll see what Sulfer says.


Well I gotta leave for work, guys!! I'm also tired as ****. I think I might go right to bed once I get home.

[Virus881]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Ok, I'm stepping I of Meshuggah, a stamina challenger. I've stepped 6 minutes:

But just one question: how the hell do you sync metal songs?

With a lot of patience, BPM changes, syncing at low speeds and some odd arrows somewhere.
I do not use DDReam studio at all, but I use SM 4.0 to step songs because I can put BPMs with numbers

[N.T.M.]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Submitting two more files and then I’m gonna consolidate my reviews and Sulfer will update the OP with the accepted files. Decent-sized list at this point.

What's it at? Around 20 accepted? Something like that.

*edit* sent

[N.T.M.]

Re: Astronomic Metal Collection 2

Reviews consolidated (those with new versions won't be included):

(SulferDragon) Swamp-Stamp-Polka: Nice layering here (as usual).

(SulferDragon) Hollow: Song is pretty monotonous at parts, but the solo makes up for that.

(SulferDragon) What Lies Beyond: Ooo, I love this!! Really solid overall. The guitar is really fun.


(Joe D) Sacred Land: Best file of yours I’ve played. Still though a few errors that need attention: BPM and offset are both off considerably. The offset is CLOSE to -0.285 (if you’d like I can get the exact offset for you) and play the last quarter of the song at .3x to find the BPM. Excluding the PR errors, measure 65 is minijacks, and m71 has one too many minifreezes. It autta look something like this:




Just fix that and I’d accept it.

(Joe D) Once in a Lifetime: Initially I thought this might be alright with the exception of a few blatant errors. However after measure 124 the file’s quality declined rapidly. Seemed like everything from then on was painfully out of sync. And the main solo (the heart and only real reason for playing a DF file) was riddled with PR and sync errors. Some superfluous notes, and others missed. Even the most rudimentary PR patterns were neglected. Sorry, homie.

Oh, and how’d you miss those 24ths preceding those holds in the intro? Yet you used 16th 200 BPM minijacks?



(who_cares973) Doomsday: Yes!! Fun file. Didn’t bother checking the sync. It felt fine and I know your files.

(Joe D) Blazing Hate: Damn son, this file needs PR. Also, the offset is incorrect. Might get accepted if those things are fixed. Possibly others required too.

(Dog_E) No One Wins: Terrible song choice. Some stuff’s outta sync too. Also lacked difficulty consistency.

(OMEGAspike) Antimatter: What’s with all the poor song selections? This is an easy arbitrary jump file with some missed notes. Didn’t bother to look any further into the solo.

(Dog_E) Father Time: I’ll have to look into this in more detail later. From simply playing it I can tell that it lacks PR, is a very mediocre song choice (at best), and there are some missed notes.


(foilman) We Are Not Anonymous: Much better jump trill placement in the intro although the file still lacks strong PR. Also regarding that 16th guitar stream in the intro: I see the consistency there, but the trill initiating the pattern feels awkward. Maybe something like 4321 would be more suitable. Just tell Sulfer what you‘d like it to be if you wanna change it and he can rectify it himself since it‘s so minor. M40 also feels awkward. IMO you shoulda stepped more prominent sounds there, but it‘s not too bad. Nothing at all significant enough to reject the file I think.

(Bluearrowll) Duncan Hills Coffee Jingle: I’ll go into this in detail later as a courtesy, but all I can say for now is that there were several significant issues. I’ll check again later. Maybe it’s salvageable.

(Coolboyrulez) Master Exploder: Fun file imo, but there are a few things that need attention. Places like that above measure 7 are off. There are some jumps that really could be more pr, but that’s fairly negligible I’m told (especially considering its context). Now regarding those 24ths preceding measure 2. They don’t sound like 24ths or look like 24ths. Why’d you place 24ths there?





(moches) Roar: Really solid Xoon Minipack file.

Eradication: Song choice is very poor here so it’d really take an incredible file (and a good cut) to get accepted. The pause above measure 25 seemed outta place and caused you to miss a following note. And those 24th drum hits above measure 41 should be 32nds. Some pitch errors too. Didn’t have to look further.

So again, some reviews omitted for obvious reasons and I still need to review other files.

*edit* Joe I should be able to go over those things in your OIAL file later tonight. Just been really busy lately.