It has been a long time since we've run any sort of Community Voice poll or discussion, and we figured there's no better time to dig into a relatively-lengthy survey than during these troubling times where everybody is stuck at home with little to do.

If you're interested in letting us know your thoughts and opinions on a few key topics, please check out the following link and fill it out. We'll be carefully taking note of all the we get here for a series of future polls and surveys that will help shape the course of the game going forward.

Click here to fill out the Community Voice 2020 survey!

Feel free to the link around to your friends who play, and get them to fill it out too. The more responses we get, the better things will go for everyone.

My least favorite game mechanic is notelock. I understand why and how it happens, but it would be much simpler if you were not locked to a single note to hit at a specific time. I know this may encourage spamming random circles, but it could also help alleviate some stress of failing due to missing 1 note.

Yerp

notelock more like ppblock

Aireu

It's great to see this coming back. Are any of the interesting metrics being shared after the survey concluded?

official osu mapping guide when

jasontimes normal pepega

Ive been more into mapping lately and I realy dislike having to do so much stuff just to silence a slider end.

tidak tau harus bicara apa ahahahahahahahahahui!!!!!?

One thing I've always wanted to know, is who added me?!? I have DMs open everywhere, really approachable, not a top player of any kind, I always add back, so why are there so many unnamed friends? Am I scary? Who are these people?!?

i hate osu wrote: 1y3t13

My least favorite game mechanic is notelock. I understand why and how it happens, but it would be much simpler if you were not locked to a single note to hit at a specific time. I know this may encourage spamming random circles, but it could also help alleviate some stress of failing due to missing 1 note.

And yeah, notelock is there to prevent 6 digits from cheesing patterns, but it also ruins the experience for those who play properly, completely negating the point for it's existence. If it has to exist, it has to be more lenient.

Lol

ALSO notelocking sucks pls remove.
many plays i've had that would have been FCs if not for this decrepid feature.

beatmapsets/1785#osu/21010 is a very good example of notelocking in the very beginning. It's a pain in the rear trying to manage those hellish stacks in the beginning, and this isn't some unranked thing, this is an approved map.

Pls make notelock more lenient. To Storm_AT's point above me, it's there to stop cheesing but it gets to a point where I just get pissed that I can NEVER make streams in maps when I'm perfectly capable of it.

hilfe, ich habe keine Ahnung wie das geht ich bin am verzweifeln

The game is like Gucci but for free

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

It has been a long time since we've run any sort of Community Voice poll or discussion, and we figured there's no better time to dig into a relatively-lengthy survey than during these troubling times where everybody is stuck at home with little to do.

If you're interested in letting us know your thoughts and opinions on a few key topics, please check out the following link and fill it out. We'll be carefully taking note of all the we get here for a series of future polls and surveys that will help shape the course of the game going forward.

Click here to fill out the Community Voice 2020 survey!

Feel free to the link around to your friends who play, and get them to fill it out too. The more responses we get, the better things will go for everyone.

free osu!

for me the sad part of the rebalance in the pp is that in this next change will drop significantly the stars in the maps and "throw me back" like 1,5 years in the past when i was playing 5.90*~6.00* maps, i dont care about my pp but losing a visible number in the of the progress is disappointing

You should've put a response option to what we don't like about the editor, but oh well

No Notelocking 7®7

Storm_AT wrote: 35r6i

One thing I've always wanted to know, is who added me?!? I have DMs open everywhere, really approachable, not a top player of any kind, I always add back, so why are there so many unnamed friends? Am I scary? Who are these people?!?

i hate osu wrote: 1y3t13

My least favorite game mechanic is notelock. I understand why and how it happens, but it would be much simpler if you were not locked to a single note to hit at a specific time. I know this may encourage spamming random circles, but it could also help alleviate some stress of failing due to missing 1 note.

And yeah, notelock is there to prevent 6 digits from cheesing patterns, but it also ruins the experience for those who play properly, completely negating the point for it's existence. If it has to exist, it has to be more lenient.

i feel that without notelock maybe this game was going to be boring because you know that there is no notelock anymore and you just think about your score was meaningless and it wasn't challenging, also everyone FCs and gets pp and the ranking system gets f*cked, it should be there for a reason and maybe without it the game was like not challenging anymore i guess ?

ban sotarks
Since I had left my profile link in there, I would like to additionally clarify that I don't care about being competitive in osu! for the reason mentioned above. I would like to play competitively on fair grounds, where one mapset/s does not exploit PP system, leaving players who refuse to play PP exploiting (farming) maps under an unfair disadvantage.

-KevinChan- wrote: 195c26

It's great to see this coming back. Are any of the interesting metrics being shared after the survey concluded?

Yep, we'll be sharing a breakdown of the survey results once we conclude it in a week or two.

and skinning gets neglected once again... geez, no wonder i have close to zero motivation

I have really often black screeens

I love Osu, all I have to say.

osuagme

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1. Please delete notelock!
2. osu!direct without osu!er
3. Official osu! mapping guide

Recorti wrote: 623w5v

1. Please delete notelock!
2. osu!direct without osu!er
3. Official osu! mapping guide

It's all in lazer already, and mapping tutorial is on the wiki LUL

Personally I believe note locking should just be modified in some way rather than stripped from the game. Its a good way to practice not going to fast a spamming but sometimes note locking can become very annoying such as on a good play that you end up note locking near the end due to being nervous or something other. Glad to see the community having a say in another survey. Keep it up!

i love osu!, that's all i have to say :3

I would very much like to add the OSU laser score v1 as in regular OSU (as a separate mod....)
i dk just want say this?

KatouMegumi wrote: 5d106k

Recorti wrote: 623w5v

1. Please delete notelock!
2. osu!direct without osu!er
3. Official osu! mapping guide

It's all in lazer already, and mapping tutorial is on the wiki LUL

Sorry, i mean video guides
(waiting osu!lazer release :/)

yay i can voice my opinions again

i love clicking circles!!

-

I'll Probably that

Recorti wrote: 623w5v

Sorry, i mean video guides

You can always check out pishifat's guides. They are fairly good enough

nice to see this return

i'd say

1. buff tech
2. remove notelock

other than that this game is epic

It's really the best game I have ever played for years ago, and I also wanted a pen tablet for Black Friday 2020 so I can have even more perfect skills. I didn't really get to see much, but of course it's especially a good game for anime lovers and many other music games like Beat Saber. May the star shine on us...

Remove notelock from the game.
>Notelock is meant to prevent mashing and spaming randomly.
>Notelock is prevented by mashing and spaming randomly.
???
I really like when the game punishes me for playing properly.
Overaiming one circle in a stream you have been hitting with 60 UR and failing because of it is pretty fun,ye.
Meanwhile doubleptap just exists in the game.
YEP.
Hidamari no Uta.

The fact that rates is still not a thing on stable.

Recorti wrote: 623w5v

Sorry, i mean video guides
(waiting osu!lazer release :/)

Lazer is already released, like. 3 years ago.
There is already official osu! video guide series, that does include mapping and whatnot.
Geez, you people really should just look around first before asking.

delete notelock

osu has mascots? I did not know that

A way to mass beatmap packs instead of using shady torrents or things like that.

delete dendy

Vallindra wrote: 2v506x

Ive been more into mapping lately and I realy dislike having to do so much stuff just to silence a slider end.

hahaha to bad

KatouMegumi wrote: 5d106k

Recorti wrote: 623w5v

Sorry, i mean video guides
(waiting osu!lazer release :/)

Lazer is already released, like. 3 years ago.
There is already official osu! video guide series, that does include mapping and whatnot.
Geez, you people really should just look around first before asking.

you're right
but it just a dev build

I'd really like some more progression systems.. PP was fine for the longest time but im tired of just farming the same kind of maps. Hit a wall in of improvement, still love playing tho. I would just love to fill any progression bar - maybe for different mods, see a more meaningful number grow. More kinds of pp systems for different skills or mapping styles (hard to accomplish im sure..) Achievements seem boring to me, but its a step in the right direction. The player level is a useless number, what use has the score number? Global ranks are too time consuming and tiring to achieve. Im not an overachiever compared to those monsters.

Gimme anything to unlock, anything to decorate myself with by trying different things or showing endurance in play even when stagnating or participating in the community. Dunno, integrate an optional clicker or idle game, thats what it is anyway when i listen to or play the music i learned to love. I peppy writing that he would love to make a rpg or something (dont quote me on that)

How about some better media control to enjoy the music, its a huge part of the game and i don't want to and can't tap away all day.

Maybe there is some way to make interacting in the game more fun, maybe when spectating another player. Come on, everyone loves a little attention or acknowledgement for the skills they develope, be it a a newbie or pro. Im still amazed about what i can do, how i have gotten better over the years, how others improve, what they can do. Can anyone think about a way to participate while spectating? Ffs i'd farm some osu! coins other players drop while farming

I love osu! but i really wouldnt mind a fresh experience, something else to strive for, something i can spend a lot of time with inside of osu! other than osu!. There is no other way to use what i learned in this game but this game, you know what im saying, its a useless skill outside of osu! and i want MORE and there is always more but i want even MORE

make osu! addicting for the burned out again, you feel me

Man i love you all, do anything or nothing i'll be here anyway

PEPPY FIX TAIKO STAR RATING PLEASE for a happier

i love osu

Add an option to queue player online/offline notifications for after finishing a beatmap

Can't we accept notelock as a difficulty element to challenge us in the game?

Glad to see an active development approach in reaching out to the community. This game truly has a very bright open future indeed.

Игра гавно, но мне нравится.

This may be a bit of a hot take but could we maybe have less... anime backgrounds whenever Osu! is celebrating something (for example spring) I'd kinda love to see more minimalistic takes on Osu! art and stuff instead of having to see only anime girls on my game

Shouldn't this be posted in front page of news as well?

the game is good and all, but what comes to my attention is the beatmap. you see, i'll love it if you can sort the beatmap by popularity. I know there's a reason for it. but I'm looking forward to it.

Please make a way of multiple bpm sliders works [ but what do i mean? ]
Maps like Pishi's Suite Nr.1 G-Dur, BWV 1007 I. Prelude beatmapsets/160528#osu/392107
Whenever a slider es a bpm change, the mapper needs to make sv changes and keep spamming changes every single time, and this is so damn frustrating. Everyone that tried multiple bpm songs knows that mapping extras and insanes are not that tricky, but hards / normals are a nightmare
I know it could break old maps that uses sv's for this, but just make something like mapping v3 or something

Vallindra wrote: 2v506x

Ive been more into mapping lately and I realy dislike having to do so much stuff just to silence a slider end.

amen brother

Saturnalize wrote: b5e5i

Shouldn't this be posted in front page of news as well?

Will be, yes.

A really helpful osu tutorial for new people teaching how to streams o jumps.

aaa

To can change the CS of the maps in any moment and not only one on all the map.
Example: (like AR)

CS: 3 - 4.5

I love this game owo and always will nuff said

I don't know exactly if this is because of the server, but I think the problem of not being able to the map of this game or being too slow to should be fixed. This problem has caused more frequent and long-term inconveniences these days. If the server itself of this game cannot be fixed, I think it would be better to connect them for through mirror sites such as Bloodcat and beatconnect.io, or at least officially let them know that there are such mirror sites.

goood

[Quarter] wrote: 443qg

I'd really like some more progression systems.. PP was fine for the longest time but im tired of just farming the same kind of maps. Hit a wall in of improvement, still love playing tho. I would just love to fill any progression bar - maybe for different mods, see a more meaningful number grow. More kinds of pp systems for different skills or mapping styles (hard to accomplish im sure..) Achievements seem boring to me, but its a step in the right direction. The player level is a useless number, what use has the score number? Global ranks are too time consuming and tiring to achieve. Im not an overachiever compared to those monsters.

Gimme anything to unlock, anything to decorate myself with by trying different things or showing endurance in play even when stagnating or participating in the community. Dunno, integrate an optional clicker or idle game, thats what it is anyway when i listen to or play the music i learned to love. I peppy writing that he would love to make a rpg or something (dont quote me on that)

How about some better media control to enjoy the music, its a huge part of the game and i don't want to and can't tap away all day.

Maybe there is some way to make interacting in the game more fun, maybe when spectating another player. Come on, everyone loves a little attention or acknowledgement for the skills they develope, be it a a newbie or pro. Im still amazed about what i can do, how i have gotten better over the years, how others improve, what they can do. Can anyone think about a way to participate while spectating? Ffs i'd farm some osu! coins other players drop while farming

I love osu! but i really wouldnt mind a fresh experience, something else to strive for, something i can spend a lot of time with inside of osu! other than osu!. There is no other way to use what i learned in this game but this game, you know what im saying, its a useless skill outside of osu! and i want MORE and there is always more but i want even MORE

make osu! addicting for the burned out again, you feel me

Man i love you all, do anything or nothing i'll be here anyway

What if as a way of progression (like rocket league) with each significant achievement (fc X star rating, reach X rank, X amount of SS ranks, reach X amount of Y star rating FCs) you get a special pfp border or unique identifier to show that accomplishment?

It would motivate me to play more certainly. If i could get a cool pfp border for FCing 100x 5 star maps you would catch me playing all day. Maybe even reach 100x 200pp+ plays to get a cool border idk.

The possibilites are endless and it would set an actual goal for most people to push for. Just an idea though, many different things to expand on.

Also I agree on the music player. If I am in a collection, please just play the songs from that collection and not dash hopes 3 lol

Editor wasn't included in the survey so I'll put it here... I crash way too much, usually has to do with all the times I open the timing points menu (f6). Does anyone know if there's a place know where to put your ideas to improve the editor other than suggestions?

You should add a searchbar for searching skins and let us choose maps in a certain difficulty like 6*/7*/8* maps on the osu! website specifically

When RC will get a rule about making the song after ranking it unrankable? Like seriously, it's so much annoying to have like 100 sets with Harumachi Clover and Chikatto Chika Chika! Why not encourage mapping a new song which isn't ranked yet? Especially: rare genres like psytrance, trance, neurofunk, dubstep and some deathstep?

Great game, the best game I played so far! But for god's sake, please, would you agree to create an official tutorial on: How to create a map"? Thank you, regards,

me.

emiIio wrote: 2i5g6t

You should've put a response option to what we don't like about the editor, but oh well

^^^ This

Editor system is old as hell, ctb and taiko suffers from this. I have no comments on ctb since a lot of mappers have accustommed to it but please let players to know how their map looks like without them needed to play it!!! It's really frustating.

And taiko need new editor as well. Std editor is not suitable for it (like the hell you even can't preview finish notes on taiko if you not listened to it)

Last thing I want to mention is the ability to add x/8 notation! Songs are not only written in x/4

Please care more about this. Easier mapping editor let more people to be able to map

i just star to play osu 3 days ago, so yep its a cool game maybee, just for the new people the configurationt isnt clear at all
ty!!
i create thi acount a long time ago but i never played like 2 or 3 maps per year,

limit the amount of new features....

Do you actively create beatmaps or write mods for other people's beatmaps? *
- Yes
- No

(Anyways fix editor, I want my undo to actually undo the actions I made and not crash the game randomly)

could you make osu pay to win pls

achievements, in mi opinion y love it! it would be a great adition!

deleting osu!er

Chinese player can't fill the form(

bring back osu! coins

Please... notelocking please remove this just please

owo

CTB EDITOR IS AN ABSOLUTE GARBAGE.

I mean, i haven't seen any single improvement since it was implemented.

We are in 2020 and it still doesn't tell you when a note is a hyperdash or not.

i think that some skinning features could be added. the ability to change cursor color without changing the png file, changing combo color without going into skin.ini, and having a preview of hitsounds are just some ideas i could come up with on the spot.

it would be great to see if these could be implemented, but the game is still great to me regardless.

bless up osu! development team!

you guys do realize right that they read responses mainly from the form, not from this forum's reply...

nice to see the devs listening to the community

ephemeral other than you who is checking the individual entries once it's finalized?
can you or peppy make a tweet of this poll so it gets more visibility?

I'd most like to see the mapping interface become more intuitive and less painful to use. Specifically such things as adding bpm markings and SV stuff for mania players like myself. Adding consistent/repeating SV is a not too good experience. That and being able to just hit/interact with the actual falling notes in the mania editor without having to save.

more BN's when?

i dont know but i fun

osu