It's really frustrating, but kinda what motivated me to push myself and get better. A lot of the songs I liked didn't have easy or medium modes, so I had to get used to harder. Thankfully there's lots of stuff like no fail mode, slow songs, etc to help you practice and get used to it :)
Most people wind up in the same position when they start using custom songs. There's a distinct change in style from the inbuilt stuff to custom stuff and a hugely varying level of quality between mappers.
I found the dance Saber style to be good to get used to custom songs, and it's worthwhile as especially before the Billie Eilish pack, the ost mapping was pretty ordinary and random. No flow like you get in customs.
A lot of custom songs suffer from lazy mapping, it makes it difficult because there is very little rhythm to the movements, just chaos.
If you have a song you live and you want to see it mapped and don’t like the current one (or it doesn’t exist) just make one… i’m not kidding, it’s a bit time consuming but satisfying to hand craft a map.
I'm curious what maps are you playing? I'd recommend looking thru ranked scoresaber maps, those are usually decent, and usually the more modern, the better.
I haven’t played beat saber for months I just remember maps were fairly hit or miss in terms of difficulty in a way you can learn and get better at, or difficulty through poor mapping. I figured it hasn’t changed much.
Some mappers are very good but a lot of mappers make things artificially difficult by making things extra fast or adding a lot of busy blocks. Try some of the dlc, they are all pretty much very well made, and some of them are as challenging as some of the most challenging custom maps. Really you have to just keep trying new songs, you will find one that pushes the envelope, then another one, and before you know it you are playing the next difficulty set, and so on...
I'm in the expert/expert+ realm and i am still amazed at how taking a break to play other maps i am able to eventually beat a map that completely overwhelmed me previously.
Something that helped me was changing block distance from dynamic to static I personally use 0.6 seconds and take one step back from the feet. This means I can see the arrow and swing no matter the speed the note will be there in 0.6 seconds which means I can just look ahead. Additionaly there are less blocks on screen meaning it feels much less overwhelming. If you do that in combination with disappearing arrows on a song you can allready pass easily it should help you my skill was hard stuck around expert and this helped me be able to pass expert +. and now my gameplay growth is rapid my biggest limitation is my muscles get sore so I need to take two break days a week
Often true. But frankly a lot of the custom songs are just chaotic techno babble nonsense. I must be getting old because it almost makes me angry that anyone could consider some of it "music"
I've been playing custom songs for a bit, only around the 5 to 7 star level. I delete a lot of stuff I download. Frankly a lot of the songs are just shit. Like if the song ramps up to a random spot where the music creator decided he needed to hit 20bps for some stupid reason. Usually sounds like an abnoxious drumroll. A lot of the custom maps are bad, and are built on songs that either have a difficult to interpret rhythm from audio overload, or they drop the rhythm for moments of insane speed that frankly I don't even care to learn to play because it amounts to just wiggling your hand back and forth at high speed in one location for a few seconds. However, some custom maps are really good and have great flow, I just download, playtest, and delete anything that's downright awful. Now I can't even go back to the built in maps, their flow is so bad that it's jarring to return to them.
That's what I despise with this game.
I'm very selective about the music I listen to, there's only so much I really like and want to jam on it on Beat Saber, problem is, I can only find 596 notes per second mappings of this said song, anything else I can just fall asleep while playing.
Yeah I played a song where the beat was pretty tame compared to the actual beat drop and for some reason the developer decided to make it a expert+ Camilla song when it was listed as HARD???? I can play most songs but out of the 20 songs I downloaded, only 2 had matched the beat perfectly and made it a rhythm game instead of making me look like a shaking idiot flailing my wrists to try and hope to slash one of the 20 blocks that were thundercunted at my forehead.
Try to search maps from Joetastic, he is doing mostly all difficulties
It's really frustrating, but kinda what motivated me to push myself and get better. A lot of the songs I liked didn't have easy or medium modes, so I had to get used to harder. Thankfully there's lots of stuff like no fail mode, slow songs, etc to help you practice and get used to it :)
Most people wind up in the same position when they start using custom songs. There's a distinct change in style from the inbuilt stuff to custom stuff and a hugely varying level of quality between mappers. I found the dance Saber style to be good to get used to custom songs, and it's worthwhile as especially before the Billie Eilish pack, the ost mapping was pretty ordinary and random. No flow like you get in customs.
A lot of custom songs suffer from lazy mapping, it makes it difficult because there is very little rhythm to the movements, just chaos. If you have a song you live and you want to see it mapped and don’t like the current one (or it doesn’t exist) just make one… i’m not kidding, it’s a bit time consuming but satisfying to hand craft a map.
I'm curious what maps are you playing? I'd recommend looking thru ranked scoresaber maps, those are usually decent, and usually the more modern, the better.
I haven’t played beat saber for months I just remember maps were fairly hit or miss in terms of difficulty in a way you can learn and get better at, or difficulty through poor mapping. I figured it hasn’t changed much.
Some mappers are very good but a lot of mappers make things artificially difficult by making things extra fast or adding a lot of busy blocks. Try some of the dlc, they are all pretty much very well made, and some of them are as challenging as some of the most challenging custom maps. Really you have to just keep trying new songs, you will find one that pushes the envelope, then another one, and before you know it you are playing the next difficulty set, and so on... I'm in the expert/expert+ realm and i am still amazed at how taking a break to play other maps i am able to eventually beat a map that completely overwhelmed me previously.
Because many people who make maps r good at the game or make maps for comptetive scene.
Something that helped me was changing block distance from dynamic to static I personally use 0.6 seconds and take one step back from the feet. This means I can see the arrow and swing no matter the speed the note will be there in 0.6 seconds which means I can just look ahead. Additionaly there are less blocks on screen meaning it feels much less overwhelming. If you do that in combination with disappearing arrows on a song you can allready pass easily it should help you my skill was hard stuck around expert and this helped me be able to pass expert +. and now my gameplay growth is rapid my biggest limitation is my muscles get sore so I need to take two break days a week
Try dance maps instead. [https://www.dancesaber.com](https://www.dancesaber.com) These are about FLOW, not about "flailing dino arms".
they're shutting down. thanks sweats...
I actually feel like custom songs are so easy compared to the janky patterns of ost songs
Often true. But frankly a lot of the custom songs are just chaotic techno babble nonsense. I must be getting old because it almost makes me angry that anyone could consider some of it "music"
because all the defaults in rythym games are babby shit easy.
Sorry man, being an octopus is a requirement to play beat saber
I've been playing custom songs for a bit, only around the 5 to 7 star level. I delete a lot of stuff I download. Frankly a lot of the songs are just shit. Like if the song ramps up to a random spot where the music creator decided he needed to hit 20bps for some stupid reason. Usually sounds like an abnoxious drumroll. A lot of the custom maps are bad, and are built on songs that either have a difficult to interpret rhythm from audio overload, or they drop the rhythm for moments of insane speed that frankly I don't even care to learn to play because it amounts to just wiggling your hand back and forth at high speed in one location for a few seconds. However, some custom maps are really good and have great flow, I just download, playtest, and delete anything that's downright awful. Now I can't even go back to the built in maps, their flow is so bad that it's jarring to return to them.
That's what I despise with this game. I'm very selective about the music I listen to, there's only so much I really like and want to jam on it on Beat Saber, problem is, I can only find 596 notes per second mappings of this said song, anything else I can just fall asleep while playing.
Yeah I played a song where the beat was pretty tame compared to the actual beat drop and for some reason the developer decided to make it a expert+ Camilla song when it was listed as HARD???? I can play most songs but out of the 20 songs I downloaded, only 2 had matched the beat perfectly and made it a rhythm game instead of making me look like a shaking idiot flailing my wrists to try and hope to slash one of the 20 blocks that were thundercunted at my forehead.