Difficulty Consultant Applications

[M0nkeyz]

If a file is too easy to judge for a higher-skilled player, isn't it a possibility to just up the rate? From my personal entirely subjective experience what makes a file hard for a beginner that's playing index usually isn't that different from what makes a file hard for a more advanced player. It's usually just the speed and frequency at which the patterns come up.

Even if you have a level 3 file where arrows come in lets say every 0.5 seconds a [1,2,2,1] pattern is still going to be harder to hit for most players than a [1,2,3,4] pattern.

[TheSaxRunner05]

Originally Posted by M0nkeyz

If a file is too easy to judge for a higher-skilled player, isn't it a possibility to just up the rate?

I've seen from the TCG missions that this is does not work consistently. I play test the songs that have been added thus far to that list and difficulty scales vastly differently on rates. Some patterns can scale difficulty almost twice as fast as less technical patterning. It doesn't say much about the base difficulty of the file once you speed it up.

For example:
Queue up "Atlast" (11) on a rate equal to your division, then queue up "Morning Glory" (11).