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Steam News10 July 20205y ago

Holodance 1.3.1: Finally, Popular Maps in Music Library

Section Popular in Quick Access When you enter Quick Access in the Music Library, there is now a section Popular, right on top, with three collections of beatmaps: Played by Most Players The beatmaps played by most othe

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What changed

2 fixes1 addition6 changes1 removal
  • Maps
  • Performance
  • Server
  • Fixes
  • Gameplay
changedBest Challenge for YouThis one may not give you any maps, yet. It uses the ratings for gameplay, to avoid maps that just don't have fun gameplay, but also filters with a very rough heuristic based on your current skill level, and the skill level of other players multiplied with their challenge ratings. This will become more useful the more people actually play different beatmaps with varying difficulty levels and rate them.
changedBest Challenge for YouAlso, eventually, it will filter by the weapon and play style. It doesn't do that, yet, so you may get maps for shooting that aren't really that great for shooting.
changedBest GameplayThis one just filters by the gameplay rating, so it should give you a larger variety of different maps with different difficulty levels.
changedBest GameplayBoth, Best Challenge for You and Best Gameplay currently also filter by players that have actually played the map. The minimum there is three, so if you are the only person that played and rated a map, it won't show up, here ... yet. This whole area will improve over time.
changedPhotosensitivity Comfort SettingArena Selection Area: Made the bright yellow snare dark orange, and also increased the minimum distance of all these items to reduce stress when there is photosensitivity. You can disable the particle effects altogether but in order to be able to do that, you first have to active the settings (via pause, by pressing the A/X/Menu key for a second), enter "Comfort" and disable flashing. This also disables quite a few other things that were flashing in the game - but I'm not sure I caught everything. But this should already make a huge difference. If you are photosensitive (i.e. if you get headaches or worse from flashing lights), you should also disable the particle effects in the performance settings because these effects also tend to "flash".
changedPatch Notes in DetailMajor Refactoring and Cleanup on the Server. In fact, the server just moved to a different provider with this update.

Holodance changes

changedThis one may not give you any maps, yet. It uses the ratings for gameplay, to avoid maps that just don't have fun gameplay, but also filters with a very rough heuristic based on your current skill level, and the skill level of other players multiplied with their challenge ratings. This will become more useful the more people actually play different beatmaps with varying difficulty levels and rate them.
changedAlso, eventually, it will filter by the weapon and play style. It doesn't do that, yet, so you may get maps for shooting that aren't really that great for shooting.
changedThis one just filters by the gameplay rating, so it should give you a larger variety of different maps with different difficulty levels.
changedBoth, Best Challenge for You and Best Gameplay currently also filter by players that have actually played the map. The minimum there is three, so if you are the only person that played and rated a map, it won't show up, here ... yet. This whole area will improve over time.
changedArena Selection Area: Made the bright yellow snare dark orange, and also increased the minimum distance of all these items to reduce stress when there is photosensitivity. You can disable the particle effects altogether but in order to be able to do that, you first have to active the settings (via pause, by pressing the A/X/Menu key for a second), enter "Comfort" and disable flashing. This also disables quite a few other things that were flashing in the game - but I'm not sure I caught everything. But this should already make a huge difference. If you are photosensitive (i.e. if you get headaches or worse from flashing lights), you should also disable the particle effects in the performance settings because these effects also tend to "flash".

When you enter Quick Access in the Music Library, there is now a section Popular, right on top, with three collections of beatmaps:

Played by Most Players

The beatmaps played by most other players. Those are the ones you want to go to to compete on the leaderboards. But be sure to pick one with a difficulty that will be entertaining for you. The first few are very easy and might be quite boring for more advanced players. But there are few around difficulty 5 to 6 that should still be fun for most.

Best Challenge for You

This one may not give you any maps, yet. It uses the ratings for gameplay, to avoid maps that just don't have fun gameplay, but also filters with a very rough heuristic based on your current skill level, and the skill level of other players multiplied with their challenge ratings. This will become more useful the more people actually play different beatmaps with varying difficulty levels and rate them.

Also, eventually, it will filter by the weapon and play style. It doesn't do that, yet, so you may get maps for shooting that aren't really that great for shooting.

Best Gameplay

This one just filters by the gameplay rating, so it should give you a larger variety of different maps with different difficulty levels.

Both, Best Challenge for You and Best Gameplay currently also filter by players that have actually played the map. The minimum there is three, so if you are the only person that played and rated a map, it won't show up, here ... yet. This whole area will improve over time.

Photosensitivity Comfort Setting

Arena Selection Area: Made the bright yellow snare dark orange, and also increased the minimum distance of all these items to reduce stress when there is photosensitivity. You can disable the particle effects altogether but in order to be able to do that, you first have to active the settings (via pause, by pressing the A/X/Menu key for a second), enter "Comfort" and disable flashing. This also disables quite a few other things that were flashing in the game - but I'm not sure I caught everything. But this should already make a huge difference. If you are photosensitive (i.e. if you get headaches or worse from flashing lights), you should also disable the particle effects in the performance settings because these effects also tend to "flash".

Patch Notes in Detail

  • Major Refactoring and Cleanup on the Server. In fact, the server just moved to a different provider with this update.

  • Beatmap InfoFixed issue that sometimes, both the leaderboard and the web-based beatmap info would show up ... at the same time.

  • Fixed Bug: Procedural Maps would cause trouble when saving the Beatmap to the Server

  • Finetune GameplayFinally added option "Allow Catching Orbs with your Head" that you can disable if you'd rather not accidentally catch orbs or drops with your head. This is on by default because that was the behaviour we had all along. But now, you can also switch it off. But keep in mind that catching orbs with your head can also give you a decent bonus.
  • Photosensitivity Comfort Setting ("likes flashes disabled")Arena Selection Area: Made the bright yellow snare dark orange, and also increased the minimum distance of all these items to reduce stress when there is photosensitivity. You can disable the particle effects altogether but in order to be able to do that, you first have

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