As someone who has been playing pretty actively since 2012, yes this is very accurate. But I'm still angry that you called me a hipster. Can't believe this.
Pretty similar except I am still a six digit and decided to take the hipster route and stop farming before I reached 5 digit as I honestly wanted to play for fun haha
i started hipster route at like 400k and gain some stamina and slider reading, then i became a farmer and farmed to 123k by like 4 months and now i cant really farm, because i farmed too much and now i have to improve my skillset to gain ranks again
I stopped farming after my profile was wiped. I wanna get my PP legit, gain rank without farming for it. I still play for rank, but I also just enjoy the game.
I’m not even joking when I say this, this is the most accurate video I’ve ever seen in my life. Down to every detail, except in the video you farm to 5 digit, I didn’t go that far ._. Anyways amazing video, keep it up!
i played solo without any interactions with the community for the first 5 or 6 months, and then my first interaction with the community was in a tourney i decided to play in. so i kinda just skipped the entire pp farming phase since i was "taught" that pp farming is bad also i started osu cauz i wanted to play a rythm game and it was a free one i found, didnt even play any shooter games actively back then :p
Yeah find this rather funny from a somewhat new players perspective. Started playing near the end of 2020. Not gonna lie I've sort of just always been bad in my own unique way. Can't go through a farmer stage if I don't know how to farm. I enjoy alt and tech maps and never got the hang of tablet and as such main mouse. On top of this I've been full alt since I started playing, simply because I couldn't even single tap doubles when I started. I'm currently 84k rank despite these various setbacks. On a side note imagine being able to stream, (cries)
I somehow found both farm maps and stream maps decently easy in my star range, but tech maps... Oh tech maps, it's like a 5 star tech map becomes an 8 star map for me
@@jowoel5073 setbacks as in not having a capacity to single tap because I've never learnt, alongside having my main maps that I play, alt and tech, not exactly giving pp, at least compared to DT or HD HR farmers. NM all the way at this stage, although HR on its own can be fun.
@@tokabe3826 i mean im kinda the same as you. I also full alt and am a tech/alt enjoyer, but i still got to 5k which imo is decent. I spent like a week learning dt, and i went from 3 400s to 12 in 2 days. You just need to put your mind to learning it and its really easy. also Full alt is op not even gonna lie
I'm a bit more old school, in that I started in 2014, but the biggest thing that wasn't covered was the community aspect. I really enjoyed spending hours talking with random people by pressing F9 and finding 1000s of people online. It really opened my eyes to the world finding countries I never knew even remotely existed. I made a lot of friends through it and have seen many fly exceptionally high up in the ranks, even though I was there in the multiplayer lobby their first day of playing. The game was way different back then with streams barely being a thing and videos being almost completely gameplay. I miss those times not for the gameplay, but the community being a lot more interactive and personal. The tech map thing is true, but also I've come to accept farming as a good thing. It brings people to the game and is arguably the biggest map pool for people to choose from. I used to despise farming as it seemed almost as if it was cheating abusing the rank system, but as the years have gone on. Now I see its place and the maps have gotten more creative. I was able to hit 4 digit in 3 different game modes and I consider that an achievement. Not for the number, but the fact I knew I could do it and for so long tried in vain. It was very satisfying, but the amount of time and investment needed to improve to get to that higher level isn't worth chasing to me. I like to hop on and have a default game to play when I'm not up to using brain power or don't have any else in mind. Good video and glad content has evolved into more than mostly gameplay.
I just made it to 5 digit, currently around rank 98k. Took me years to get here (first started osu in late 2017), though, as I've gone through many phases of inactivity. I definitely can understand the whole cycling between pp farming and tech playing for fun, though. You pp farm until it becomes really hard to gain rank because of the pp weighting, and then you relax and play tech for a while, getting better as you do, then eventually you realize you've improved a lot and can get better scores on harder maps. You get some new top plays and gain a lot of pp until you can't gain anymore, and then the whole thing repeats. Every time you go through the cycle, though, you get better, and gain new skills, like streaming, speed, finger control, etc., and over a long process you slowly get better.
Since playing Halo let me know I'm not Kirito, I went into OSU expecting to never improve. Surprisingly though, I picked up mania and actually managed to S rank some 3 star maps after a year of dedicated practice. A half year later and I could only barely pass a few select 4 star maps and I just burnt out. Figured I've given the game enough of my time and dropped it for another 6 months. I came back recently to see how trash I am now and I can S rank the hardest 2 star maps but only A rank the 3 star ones. I think it's a pretty good spot to leave my skill.
The first time I played osu was in the first grade of middle school. Now I'm writing my essay so that I could become a doctor. This video sent me down memory lane. Throughout your video, I had flashbacks of exactly all the things you mentioned in the video. Well, I could say that this is accurate for me.
The whole part where your friends introduce you to the game then they never play again hits hard LMAO. The best part is they always bring up how "Yea without me you wouldn't have found osu." Also kinda funny to see their reactions when your able to beat an 8 star right in front of them, when last time they saw you play you were barely playing 1 stars all while playing below them LOL.
Nice vid, for me it was true until the reaching 5 digit part. I had a friend who was around same rank as me and he was rly good at streams so I got jealous, then Isaw the world cup matches and said "I wanna play in tournaments as well!". Then I started gaining skillset and stopped farming for 2 months. After those 2 months I lost motivation to play tournaments and kept farming until 60k then I cycled through all of this again and today I am a 50k tournament player with 2 speedcup wins :> (I started 18 months ago)
You know what's funny? I'm a 6 digit yet have gone through the "osu hipster" phase. When I started the game, I definitely was a farmer and farmed my way up to top 500k in like 3 days of playtime. But then I hit a skill wall and started to stagnate for 5 months as I couldn't improve (at the time my acc was horrible, that was the reason why I hit a skill wall). I watched for 5 months as I watched my rank painfully decay to around 480k (every now and then I would gain a bit of pp which is why I didn't decay out of 400k). During this time period, I understood that my acc was so bad I couldn't get anywhere but wasn't really willing to put in the effort so then I decided to finally try and "enjoy the game" as everyone said you should do in osu. And yeah I did, my playcount didn't actually dip durastically (I think the lowest playcount I reached during this period was 1000 playcount in February) as I was playing maps I enjoyed. Finally after months of playing osu without getting anywhere, I noticed I was improving, In February I was able to pass my first 7 star, something that I had been trying to do since January (oh yea for context, I'm talking about this year, 2022) and low 5 stars were now fcable. Finally, In March, I had gotten my first 5 star fc in March, my first fc milestone I reached in months (my first 4 star fc was in October of 2021). My acc had improved and I was gaining ranks. The rush from fcing my first 5 star marked the point where I enter my "farming phase" where I was consistently gaining ranks. I'm still in this phase and 1 and a half months after my first 5 star, I got my first 6 star fc in May 5th (literally 3 days ago at the time of writing this comment) which was also my first 200pp play. Yesterday, I got my second 200pp play on a choke on the 2nd to last diff of kimi no bokuen and now I am rank 160k. Sorry for the super lengthy comment, Just wanted to share my experience so far as an osu player. Thank you for reading!
when i first played osu in 2017 i just randomly found out about osu from some random in the internet saying you can get good aim by playing osu. i tried playing it for like 2 weeks and i quitted. in december 2020 i decided to give it another try and just farm my way to 5 digit 98k rank in 2 months and then i started to hit a wall, which now i played offline to quote on quote "Improve" 5 months later i actually went back to my old play and i think "damn i actually improved". i setted like 3 300pp offline which i actually think was impossible at the time. and now trying to play double time on the maps i played 2 months prior of getting back to the game which is those AR9 farm maps and i actually can get decent score. this video actually pretty relatable on some part for me
Actually I'm in my own hipster era. My friend when I was low 5 digit introduced me to actually really good maps, which I enjoy a lot playing, so now in my sessions I play farm and also tech so I don't decay in ranks and I can have fun too.
I've never really been a farmer in the sense that I never really enjoyed playing "farm maps" I went for pp on maps I thought were engaging, challenging, and fun overall. I started playing before farm maps were really a thing the way they are today. Around my peak I fractured my wrist and had to spend a couple months without the game, and when I came back I had multiple tablet issues as well as just having to grind again because of the lost time due to injury. That happened like 5 years ago and now I'm just a super casual that just gets on to enjoy the maps I've grown to love for the most part. I think the fact that most of what I see/hear about osu today is just speed or jump maps keeps me from wanting to engage with newer content.
accurate but you forgot the mapping phase during the self confidence decline into realize you are also shit at mapping leading you further into despair
I personally played active for 17 months now. I had a huge ego until I reached around 150k, never shit on others tho. After that, I literally just became the definition of enjoy game
my storyline to becoming an osu player is: find an old impossible level on 2011 forget about it remember about it on 2019 downloads osu on 2020 stopped at jan. 2021 since 7 year old laptop finnaly broke down and gave up.
i find this pretty... informative. i, a potato phone player of minecraft bedrock who always play at a skywars server can't believe we have this much similarities... especially the enlightenment part and everything that came after that, what a small world
I found osu! long before I started playing it. My sister, who is 12 years older than me, played this when I was ~8 years old. I didn’t know what it was but then 4 years later (2020) I saw a video on the game and I remembered what it was. Im 15 now and have been playing for just under 3 years and god am I happy to be apart of this kinda strange community.
This is honestly wrong from the start for me, I gave up playing competitively years ago when I discovered my ping was too high for online FPS and Minecraft PvP (pre-1.9) to get anything good out of it, so osu! has been more of a game about playing cool maps and seeing if I can pass a higher-star map than I could before or trying figure out how to hit this pattern I keep missing. Really the one thing that's very accurate is the fact that I have no friends who even have an interest in the, even though a few like anime.
pretty accurate except after the funny "hahah i play tech maps for fun" thing and having quit the game for a year im like... came back with focus on improvement and having a positive feedback loop (aka playing shit thats actually fc'able) and starting to improve at skills i suck at and its honestly more fun then when i started out and more motivated then ever
I related pretty well to this. I started off only playing in multi-lobbies. Then found out what pp was right before I became 5 digit so I HDDT farmed my way into 5 digit. While I was 5 digit I just kept setting better plays getting 90% accuracy on most maps. Rank 50k, I started focussing on accuracy and streaming and felt so hardstuck so I just tried to ‘enjoy’ the game with tech maps. After a while I HDHR/HDDT farmed my way till around 13k. I was so desperate after failing my first 400pp play so many times and pushing 4 digit that I slowly stopped playing. Now we’re here, I occasionally hop on, but only play one or two maps until I close the game again. No progression for the past 2 years
dude this was so accurate, at least until the seitching between farming and pretending to enjoy game, i always farm even when i know i suck. never miss an opportunity to gain that precious pp
I have been playing 4 key rhythm games since 2018 (just realized it's been 4 years omg), and I started playing osu!mania in early 2020 (even though I made my account in 2018 and didn't touch it for 2 years lol). As a 4 digit worldwide and 3 digit USA player, I can confirm that this also applies to mania to an extent lol (triumph and regret intensifies)
Oh yes, Triumph and regret... The regret of gaining 501 pp with that goddamn map 🗿 But unfortunately i got restricted cause of downloading a 1GB map pack which didn't even have songs I enjoy 💀 now I have to wait 5-90 days with the support we have.
So for me, this was pretty accurate. I farmed my way up to #1200 until i got so washed up that i want to close the game immediately after i opened it. You forgot one or two things like getting banned at least once in your osu career. I myself finally made it past the "i dont want to play, but i return everytime" - mark and am now mostly inactive. I deranked to 2400# and i couldnt care less. I am happy that i finally managed to get off this game. The community is toxic af and overall its just a speedrun into depression and hand-injuries. This video reminded me of the good old times retryspamming Chasers - Lost [Insane] over and over until i finally got past the first stream and playing big black with HT. Good old times...
Pretty accurate. My journey was basically a year of struggling to improve, then suddenly improving a ton, and then putting my focus into achieving self-made goals (I didn't really know what farming was). After two years, I got a tablet and discovered how easy it was to farm DT, so that was my peak stupidity stage. Had a harsh fall by the end of my third year. Was stuck in a rut with no way out until halfway through my fifth year, when I started to randomly pick up some skill again. Between years 5 and 6, I was at my peak, not playing to farm, but playing for my own self-made goals again. I was FCing tons of maps I'd always wanted to and quickly improving. Then life got busy going into year seven, and before I knew it, I was rusty. I'm over halfway through year 8 now and have been in that last phase you talked about where I just randomly play the game from time to time. I'd love to someday get my skills back, but life is even busier now. I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm done with university, I have jobs now, and that last phase has a strong grip on me. If I ever break it, I'll let you all know lmao... Oh and yeah I went through a hipster phase of "boo farming sucks" between years 3 and 5. Once I began improving again, I realized the key to enjoying the game was to stop caring about how others play and to play for yourself lmao. Believe me, pretending that pp farmers suck and that you're better for not playing "farm maps" is not a unique personality, and nobody gives a shit how you feel about it. Play what you like, and let others play what they like.
ive had times like where i stop farming but then i come back set like 3 new top plays then dip and just go play the normal maps i enjoy because i find farming both boring and frustrating.
I got a addicted to this roblox game called robeats and that game basically introduced me to rhythm games. I searched for rhythm games on google and found osu, and when i discovered theres a mania mode 1 week later i was insta hooked to the game. That was 4 years ago. I may be somewhat of a "new" player to some but now i miss the times where i get so excited beating 2 stars and slowly climbing up. Now its just a random game on my pc that i play once in a while. Im just waiting for that spark to play osu again
Well, that was quite accurate. But i've never farmed. I started playing osu just because i wanted to pass image material (saw it on youtube) and was like "WOW, i want to do the same" After 1 year i passed it, and it was like "ok, i'm done, time to quit" but there is no way out. And i decided to start playing in a same way and my next target was Fushoku Ressentiment (thx to vaxei vid) After another year i passed it aswell. Now i'm here and my next goal is yomi yori. Idk why, but i always play just to pass the map, just to enjoy this "click the circles" game. Sometimes i was replaying maps, but in my head it was "ok, i can fc this one, need to replay it a few times" Enjoy the game guys
today i completed my 1 year in the game . And im now a hardstuck 400k (btw i don't farm pp) who plays 5.5+ star maps (although i fail near the end) . I know passing a 5 star map with 95 % acc and 20 misses isn't gonna give me any ranks , but hey my jumps have gotten a lot better and i can now hold my stamina during streaming for a longer duration , previously i used get tired by streaming 180bpm for 5 seconds lol
That's pretty accurate since I'm somewhere at the platou probably, but when watching this video I was like ' Yeah i did that, and that too' maybe not 100% true to everyone but yeah, right now playing since 2015 and trying to enjoy the game, helping mappers other community members, I just love how many good moments I had and many friends got. Quite nostalgic sometimes
I think there is one thing that should be added in the video. And that is the long break from Osu! until you comeback to it, you see yourself being better, your confidence sky rocketed the Earth Atmosphere, so you decided to intensively play the game for days and hours without touching grass just to get depressed cause you just faced a wall that you can't surpass and now repeating the cycle of taking another break just to do the same thing again
it's hard to go entirely without farming because those maps are just staring at you in the face saying "free pp" so once every so often you give in and gain a shit ton of ranks all at once and mannn does it feel good. then ofc you go back to tech maps once youve maxed out your current pp potential and get annoyed as hell until the cycle repeats
as a mania player this also applies, currently stuck in the last phase after farming to top 50k couple months ago, trying out standard rn to see if anything happens but no signs of it coming back
I got real confused when I saw "rank 97k" near "day one" in the thumbnail. I am at the stage of "getting S on your fav songs and enjoying the game" except I don't know if I'll ever leave that stage.
I despise how accurate it is. But how much? Well, I cannot even quote anything from the video that was false in my case, even the time periods, maps, and PP amounts were right.... Although I feel like I'm regaining that magic now (?). I feel like I'm building up for the second season of osu in my life after having played only 750 maps in the past 2 years exactly, often with there being 0 plays for 2 months in a row with 9 plays in between, and occasional 70 and dropping down by 200.000 ranks, I feel like my third osu eye just oppened and I'm starting to really get back into this game with completely alien to be before mindset (that's also why youtube recommended me this video I guess)
Even accurate to us mania players lmao. I still love playing though, just something about tapping notes to some cool music will always be fun, no matter what type of rhythm game it is
Interesting analysis. Being myself a uh... lets see here.... a yes, "complete and total noob" with about a month worth of play so far, it will be fun to see where my Osu! path leads me... So far, its been: Find "Peer Gynt" in my starting songs, immedietly fall in love with it, grind it out continuously, and be more or less oblivious to the fact that leaderboards exist...
To my relief I never played the tutorial so I did not learn that you could tap on the keyboard, and by the time I got to 5 stars I wasn't ready to give up pure mouse. So I played till I could barely pass low 7 stars and decided it was the limit for me on pure mouse, now I'm an average taiko enjoyer
I guess I'd be classified as a perma hipster? I look down on anyone farming pp and have never actually cared about the rank, but at the same time I don't try to get good at tech maps or anything. I played a lot in highschool I guess, but nowadays I just play every once in awhile since osu is a fairly therapeutic game to play when I get stressed out.
So how my cycle has been going after I came back to osu! Come back: Enjoying game and having fun, also beatmapping. 2 months later: PP farm for 1 day, gain total 450-600pp. After 1 day pp farm: back to mapping.
Back when i first learned what 6-5-4 digits were I decided that I wanted to at least get to 5 digit just to see if I could. I did recently get to 5 digit and immediately lost interest in farming and ranking up on purpose. But I still have fun with the game, whether it's dt, hd, hr, failing to play ez, or the many hours I dumped into laser just messing around with mods there. Point is that osu is a game, and games are supposed to be fun. If you like farming, climbing ranks, and having 98-99% acc as an average, then go ham chief. If you like playing finger control/tech maps with anywhere from 72-86% acc then you do you too. there's no right way to have fun in osu. So enjoy all the hours of tapping your clicky keyboard to the beat of harumachi clover or to galaxy collapse.
Until this point I have not managed to reach a 5 digit rank, despite playing from 2017. However I still enjoy the game, and playing it for fun, 'cause I know that if I would start pp farming, than I would not see the game as one of my all-time favourites. I know, I know I am addicted to clicking circles, but after all that is what this game is about isn't it?
I have 400 hrs playtime and just passed big black last month and decided to take a break because I deserved it, I still havent touched osu ever since, I'll come back again tho this game is special for me.
As I've been watching this video, I've been getting more and more scared because you literally stated exactly what I have done with perfect accuracy thus far and I don't like it.
Relatable as a CtB player. Peaked #293 (at least, don't remember if I got a bit higher) then just came back some times here and there. Now I'm like #770 and lot of things changed: mapping style, pp farm style, star rating, etc. And after this peak I started playing mania and then, same as for CtB, I stopped playing. Now i have lot of inactive month and some times for one month I have an increase in play count then back to inactive and so on
bro the start was so relatable that i got a big smile on my face, i did start osu coz of the discord hype for anime music and at the first day i didnt even tried that much and uninstalled it and the funniest part was that i installed it also after 3 months and then i liked this game lol its beed 2 yrs now
decaying 30k player here. every single thing in here was spot on for me like theres nothing to say more about it. its just purely fact even down to the discord screen share lmfao
Two things: yes I did get better in fps games with osu, and no I don't actively farm I just play the next map that comes up in my map list that was mostly built by friends and multiplayer lobbies
It's kinda creepy that what you said was truly truthful .. Now I am at the stage that I dont want to farm and play like once every week and its fuckn tech 7*+ maps and stream with 40+ misses. This is my 2nd cycle :/
This is too accurate I'm actually scared how you got everything right, (in the 60ks, took the hipster route, random popoffs that made me play for rank again)
1. didn't start because of fps games (but started after seeing a 50 map marathon with subs on one of my fav youtuber's side channel) 2. from 2016 and till today i still play for fun, i do try s/ss my fav maps but again, i do it for fun 3. i will never buy a tablet, mouse go brrrrrrr 4. somehow skipped the mount stupid 5. i do not watch a hell lot of replays and try to redo them 6. oh, almost forgot that i do not pp farm 7. i know that i'm bad, but i will get better 8. forgot to tell that until recently(about a month ago) i only played osu!catch 9. i can try beating a 7 star map, but i will probably fail after 3 seconds 10. i am indeed playing for fun, that's how i started and that's how i will keep playing 11. even if i started playing in 2016 i started playing a lot only recently 12. this vid is actually really interesting, because i've seen where a path of grinding would lead me, still, i'm glad i didn't take that route 13. also, if you find my account, do not trust the "time played" there was no internet because of the war so a lot of hours aren't there
Okay funny enough I actually started osu because one of my online friends knew I really liked mobile rhythm games and was good at them - I've played bandori, arcaea, voez, etc. - so he suggested I try out osu. I actually had never known what it was before and when I started looking into it I recognized it from a few random clips I'd seen. Absolutely got caught up in top 50/100 knockout videos, vaxei caught my eye, I had a small addiction to it before I even started playing myself. When I downloaded it I chilled for like a month, came back to it and it's been a little less than a year and now I have both osu and osu lazer on my laptop and have probably gathered close to a thousand hours on both combined. Cheers and looking forward to the next few years of my addiction lol Also I played mouse for about 2-3 months before stopping around the 3* mark and buying myself a tablet, got up to 4* and bought myself a new one and proceeded to gift the old one to an irl who plays, my new one was a piece of shit despite being supposedly pretty good but thankfully my irl had bought a new tablet themselves so brought my old one back to me. About to break into 5 digit and hoping to start playing 7* maps soon lol, unfortunately no 200pp yet though
This is 97.498828492637% accurate to what i experienced in my whole time playing, but the only difference is that its osu!mania for me. Everything happened exactly like you explained but in osu!mania.
Bruh how is this so accurate? Like the first 4 minutes is me exactly, the only major difference is that I started grinding burst/stream maps instead of tech (currently I'm trying to play longer maps while also dt farming lol). Like everything is so accurate, playing multis early on, streaming in discord vc, wtffff its like so close to my experience. Also I think getting into mapping songs you like is a great way to keep things fresh.
As someone who has been playing pretty actively since 2012, yes this is very accurate. But I'm still angry that you called me a hipster. Can't believe this.
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Pretty similar except I am still a six digit and decided to take the hipster route and stop farming before I reached 5 digit as I honestly wanted to play for fun haha
I started hipster route at like 700K. Of course, there were no actual tech maps at that rank, so I spammed bursts and 3-4 minute maps.
i started hipster route at like 400k and gain some stamina and slider reading, then i became a farmer and farmed to 123k by like 4 months and now i cant really farm, because i farmed too much and now i have to improve my skillset to gain ranks again
I stopped farming after my profile was wiped. I wanna get my PP legit, gain rank without farming for it. I still play for rank, but I also just enjoy the game.
@@pechkurofff same that got me to around 130k as well lol
Lmao, I honestly just want to rank up and be competitive. I want to be remembered so yeah :D
Select few: “goes tourney route”
I’m not even joking when I say this, this is the most accurate video I’ve ever seen in my life. Down to every detail, except in the video you farm to 5 digit, I didn’t go that far ._. Anyways amazing video, keep it up!
You can continue the prophecy don't give up haha
this is not accurate im an upcoming osu champion
gd luck, MaxirauxGD
Bruh that's me man
i played solo without any interactions with the community for the first 5 or 6 months, and then my first interaction with the community was in a tourney i decided to play in. so i kinda just skipped the entire pp farming phase since i was "taught" that pp farming is bad
also i started osu cauz i wanted to play a rythm game and it was a free one i found, didnt even play any shooter games actively back then :p
Yeah find this rather funny from a somewhat new players perspective. Started playing near the end of 2020. Not gonna lie I've sort of just always been bad in my own unique way. Can't go through a farmer stage if I don't know how to farm. I enjoy alt and tech maps and never got the hang of tablet and as such main mouse. On top of this I've been full alt since I started playing, simply because I couldn't even single tap doubles when I started. I'm currently 84k rank despite these various setbacks. On a side note imagine being able to stream, (cries)
what setbacks?
I somehow found both farm maps and stream maps decently easy in my star range, but tech maps... Oh tech maps, it's like a 5 star tech map becomes an 8 star map for me
@@jowoel5073 setbacks as in not having a capacity to single tap because I've never learnt, alongside having my main maps that I play, alt and tech, not exactly giving pp, at least compared to DT or HD HR farmers. NM all the way at this stage, although HR on its own can be fun.
@@tokabe3826 i mean im kinda the same as you. I also full alt and am a tech/alt enjoyer, but i still got to 5k which imo is decent. I spent like a week learning dt, and i went from 3 400s to 12 in 2 days. You just need to put your mind to learning it and its really easy. also Full alt is op not even gonna lie
For me singletapping doubles is easier even though I'm full alt. I'm working on not tensing up on them though rather than practicing singletap.
I just found this video and I gotta say this is hella accurate except for the last part since osu! is now the only game I have passion for.
I'm a bit more old school, in that I started in 2014, but the biggest thing that wasn't covered was the community aspect. I really enjoyed spending hours talking with random people by pressing F9 and finding 1000s of people online. It really opened my eyes to the world finding countries I never knew even remotely existed. I made a lot of friends through it and have seen many fly exceptionally high up in the ranks, even though I was there in the multiplayer lobby their first day of playing. The game was way different back then with streams barely being a thing and videos being almost completely gameplay. I miss those times not for the gameplay, but the community being a lot more interactive and personal. The tech map thing is true, but also I've come to accept farming as a good thing. It brings people to the game and is arguably the biggest map pool for people to choose from. I used to despise farming as it seemed almost as if it was cheating abusing the rank system, but as the years have gone on. Now I see its place and the maps have gotten more creative. I was able to hit 4 digit in 3 different game modes and I consider that an achievement. Not for the number, but the fact I knew I could do it and for so long tried in vain. It was very satisfying, but the amount of time and investment needed to improve to get to that higher level isn't worth chasing to me. I like to hop on and have a default game to play when I'm not up to using brain power or don't have any else in mind. Good video and glad content has evolved into more than mostly gameplay.
I just made it to 5 digit, currently around rank 98k. Took me years to get here (first started osu in late 2017), though, as I've gone through many phases of inactivity. I definitely can understand the whole cycling between pp farming and tech playing for fun, though. You pp farm until it becomes really hard to gain rank because of the pp weighting, and then you relax and play tech for a while, getting better as you do, then eventually you realize you've improved a lot and can get better scores on harder maps. You get some new top plays and gain a lot of pp until you can't gain anymore, and then the whole thing repeats. Every time you go through the cycle, though, you get better, and gain new skills, like streaming, speed, finger control, etc., and over a long process you slowly get better.
Since playing Halo let me know I'm not Kirito, I went into OSU expecting to never improve. Surprisingly though, I picked up mania and actually managed to S rank some 3 star maps after a year of dedicated practice. A half year later and I could only barely pass a few select 4 star maps and I just burnt out. Figured I've given the game enough of my time and dropped it for another 6 months.
I came back recently to see how trash I am now and I can S rank the hardest 2 star maps but only A rank the 3 star ones. I think it's a pretty good spot to leave my skill.
The first time I played osu was in the first grade of middle school. Now I'm writing my essay so that I could become a doctor. This video sent me down memory lane. Throughout your video, I had flashbacks of exactly all the things you mentioned in the video. Well, I could say that this is accurate for me.
The whole part where your friends introduce you to the game then they never play again hits hard LMAO. The best part is they always bring up how "Yea without me you wouldn't have found osu." Also kinda funny to see their reactions when your able to beat an 8 star right in front of them, when last time they saw you play you were barely playing 1 stars all while playing below them LOL.
98% accurate. I'm at the first plateau as a 90k falling to the pits of despair very quickly. Also you deserve more subs, like fr.
Nice vid, for me it was true until the reaching 5 digit part. I had a friend who was around same rank as me and he was rly good at streams so I got jealous, then Isaw the world cup matches and said "I wanna play in tournaments as well!". Then I started gaining skillset and stopped farming for 2 months. After those 2 months I lost motivation to play tournaments and kept farming until 60k then I cycled through all of this again and today I am a 50k tournament player with 2 speedcup wins :> (I started 18 months ago)
I shall inspire to be you, my man
You know what's funny? I'm a 6 digit yet have gone through the "osu hipster" phase. When I started the game, I definitely was a farmer and farmed my way up to top 500k in like 3 days of playtime. But then I hit a skill wall and started to stagnate for 5 months as I couldn't improve (at the time my acc was horrible, that was the reason why I hit a skill wall). I watched for 5 months as I watched my rank painfully decay to around 480k (every now and then I would gain a bit of pp which is why I didn't decay out of 400k). During this time period, I understood that my acc was so bad I couldn't get anywhere but wasn't really willing to put in the effort so then I decided to finally try and "enjoy the game" as everyone said you should do in osu. And yeah I did, my playcount didn't actually dip durastically (I think the lowest playcount I reached during this period was 1000 playcount in February) as I was playing maps I enjoyed. Finally after months of playing osu without getting anywhere, I noticed I was improving, In February I was able to pass my first 7 star, something that I had been trying to do since January (oh yea for context, I'm talking about this year, 2022) and low 5 stars were now fcable. Finally, In March, I had gotten my first 5 star fc in March, my first fc milestone I reached in months (my first 4 star fc was in October of 2021). My acc had improved and I was gaining ranks. The rush from fcing my first 5 star marked the point where I enter my "farming phase" where I was consistently gaining ranks. I'm still in this phase and 1 and a half months after my first 5 star, I got my first 6 star fc in May 5th (literally 3 days ago at the time of writing this comment) which was also my first 200pp play. Yesterday, I got my second 200pp play on a choke on the 2nd to last diff of kimi no bokuen and now I am rank 160k.
Sorry for the super lengthy comment, Just wanted to share my experience so far as an osu player. Thank you for reading!
when i first played osu in 2017 i just randomly found out about osu from some random in the internet saying you can get good aim by playing osu. i tried playing it for like 2 weeks and i quitted. in december 2020 i decided to give it another try and just farm my way to 5 digit 98k rank in 2 months and then i started to hit a wall, which now i played offline to quote on quote "Improve" 5 months later i actually went back to my old play and i think "damn i actually improved". i setted like 3 300pp offline which i actually think was impossible at the time. and now trying to play double time on the maps i played 2 months prior of getting back to the game which is those AR9 farm maps and i actually can get decent score. this video actually pretty relatable on some part for me
i calculated if i were to set all my offline scores online i would be at 40-50k ranks
Almost on my second year but ye, went through the hipster phase and entered the "I play to improve" nerd phase.
Actually I'm in my own hipster era. My friend when I was low 5 digit introduced me to actually really good maps, which I enjoy a lot playing, so now in my sessions I play farm and also tech so I don't decay in ranks and I can have fun too.
Can you tell me those good maps?
Hope you enjoy this maps as much as I do ^^.
@@maxu0 wait the comment with the maps got erased wtf
@@mikuelenmc3014 Weird ._.
@@maxu0 yep it is.
I have never felt so attacked in my life. Every, single, point... I never realised how basic I am LOL
also that weird phase where you try mapping your own maps
And then give up after mapping the first 40 seconds or so
(At least for me lmao)
I've never really been a farmer in the sense that I never really enjoyed playing "farm maps" I went for pp on maps I thought were engaging, challenging, and fun overall. I started playing before farm maps were really a thing the way they are today. Around my peak I fractured my wrist and had to spend a couple months without the game, and when I came back I had multiple tablet issues as well as just having to grind again because of the lost time due to injury. That happened like 5 years ago and now I'm just a super casual that just gets on to enjoy the maps I've grown to love for the most part. I think the fact that most of what I see/hear about osu today is just speed or jump maps keeps me from wanting to engage with newer content.
accurate but you forgot the mapping phase during the self confidence decline into realize you are also shit at mapping leading you further into despair
luckily i don't think i'll ever have the hipster phase because i'm actively aware that it's cringe
just play what's fun for you
@@youribosque9832 i do, i'm still really enjoying the game
@@advu_ nice!
what's fun for me is diversity so i'm playing a bit of everything including jump farm, to each his own :)
kinda scarily accurate bro wtf
though i still do enjoy logging onto the game every week or 2 and just having some fun clicking circles
I personally played active for 17 months now. I had a huge ego until I reached around 150k, never shit on others tho. After that, I literally just became the definition of enjoy game
my storyline to becoming an osu player is:
find an old impossible level on 2011
forget about it
remember about it on 2019
downloads osu on 2020
stopped at jan. 2021 since 7 year old laptop finnaly broke down and gave up.
i find this pretty... informative. i, a potato phone player of minecraft bedrock who always play at a skywars server can't believe we have this much similarities... especially the enlightenment part and everything that came after that, what a small world
I found osu! long before I started playing it. My sister, who is 12 years older than me, played this when I was ~8 years old. I didn’t know what it was but then 4 years later (2020) I saw a video on the game and I remembered what it was. Im 15 now and have been playing for just under 3 years and god am I happy to be apart of this kinda strange community.
That was so accurate that through the entire video I had a feeling that you were watching me all these years...
This is honestly wrong from the start for me, I gave up playing competitively years ago when I discovered my ping was too high for online FPS and Minecraft PvP (pre-1.9) to get anything good out of it, so osu! has been more of a game about playing cool maps and seeing if I can pass a higher-star map than I could before or trying figure out how to hit this pattern I keep missing. Really the one thing that's very accurate is the fact that I have no friends who even have an interest in the, even though a few like anime.
pretty accurate except after the funny "hahah i play tech maps for fun" thing and having quit the game for a year im like... came back with focus on improvement and having a positive feedback loop (aka playing shit thats actually fc'able) and starting to improve at skills i suck at and its honestly more fun then when i started out and more motivated then ever
I related pretty well to this. I started off only playing in multi-lobbies. Then found out what pp was right before I became 5 digit so I HDDT farmed my way into 5 digit. While I was 5 digit I just kept setting better plays getting 90% accuracy on most maps. Rank 50k, I started focussing on accuracy and streaming and felt so hardstuck so I just tried to ‘enjoy’ the game with tech maps. After a while I HDHR/HDDT farmed my way till around 13k. I was so desperate after failing my first 400pp play so many times and pushing 4 digit that I slowly stopped playing. Now we’re here, I occasionally hop on, but only play one or two maps until I close the game again. No progression for the past 2 years
dude this was so accurate, at least until the seitching between farming and pretending to enjoy game, i always farm even when i know i suck. never miss an opportunity to gain that precious pp
Was told about the game because my friend liked it. Not playing for 3 months is accurate lol. 7 years later, I'm still shit
accurate except I have no money to buy a tablet so now I just tell people that "I chose to play with mouse because it's harder"
Boi aint no this too accurate, i didnt expect the tech map phase, that part was scary
I have been playing 4 key rhythm games since 2018 (just realized it's been 4 years omg), and I started playing osu!mania in early 2020 (even though I made my account in 2018 and didn't touch it for 2 years lol). As a 4 digit worldwide and 3 digit USA player, I can confirm that this also applies to mania to an extent lol (triumph and regret intensifies)
Oh yes, Triumph and regret...
The regret of gaining 501 pp with that goddamn map 🗿
But unfortunately i got restricted cause of downloading a 1GB map pack which didn't even have songs I enjoy 💀 now I have to wait 5-90 days with the support we have.
Absolutely correct this is far too relatable. But I already quit so when i come back i just play to revisit those old moments
BRO, im being full serious rn, this cant be any more accurate bro this was literally me not even kidding.....
ok its will be accurate maybe, im still at around 3:20 currently, let's see how this goes :)
So for me, this was pretty accurate. I farmed my way up to #1200 until i got so washed up that i want to close the game immediately after i opened it. You forgot one or two things like getting banned at least once in your osu career.
I myself finally made it past the "i dont want to play, but i return everytime" - mark and am now mostly inactive. I deranked to 2400# and i couldnt care less. I am happy that i finally managed to get off this game. The community is toxic af and overall its just a speedrun into depression and hand-injuries.
This video reminded me of the good old times retryspamming Chasers - Lost [Insane] over and over until i finally got past the first stream and playing big black with HT. Good old times...
Pretty accurate. My journey was basically a year of struggling to improve, then suddenly improving a ton, and then putting my focus into achieving self-made goals (I didn't really know what farming was). After two years, I got a tablet and discovered how easy it was to farm DT, so that was my peak stupidity stage. Had a harsh fall by the end of my third year. Was stuck in a rut with no way out until halfway through my fifth year, when I started to randomly pick up some skill again. Between years 5 and 6, I was at my peak, not playing to farm, but playing for my own self-made goals again. I was FCing tons of maps I'd always wanted to and quickly improving. Then life got busy going into year seven, and before I knew it, I was rusty. I'm over halfway through year 8 now and have been in that last phase you talked about where I just randomly play the game from time to time. I'd love to someday get my skills back, but life is even busier now. I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm done with university, I have jobs now, and that last phase has a strong grip on me. If I ever break it, I'll let you all know lmao...
Oh and yeah I went through a hipster phase of "boo farming sucks" between years 3 and 5. Once I began improving again, I realized the key to enjoying the game was to stop caring about how others play and to play for yourself lmao. Believe me, pretending that pp farmers suck and that you're better for not playing "farm maps" is not a unique personality, and nobody gives a shit how you feel about it. Play what you like, and let others play what they like.
Old player: this is not about fun anymore, this is about competition
I'm in the phase where i enjoy playing from time to time, but it still has the magic feeling. It's a matter of perspective.
The streaming to friends but just being met with annoyment hit hard
That graph is a perfect representation of an osu player starting out
ive had times like where i stop farming but then i come back set like 3 new top plays then dip and just go play the normal maps i enjoy because i find farming both boring and frustrating.
first part was pretty accurate and i feel attacked
half way through tho it got a bit off track
I got a addicted to this roblox game called robeats and that game basically introduced me to rhythm games. I searched for rhythm games on google and found osu, and when i discovered theres a mania mode 1 week later i was insta hooked to the game. That was 4 years ago. I may be somewhat of a "new" player to some but now i miss the times where i get so excited beating 2 stars and slowly climbing up. Now its just a random game on my pc that i play once in a while. Im just waiting for that spark to play osu again
Well, that was quite accurate. But i've never farmed.
I started playing osu just because i wanted to pass image material (saw it on youtube) and was like "WOW, i want to do the same"
After 1 year i passed it, and it was like "ok, i'm done, time to quit" but there is no way out. And i decided to start playing in a same way and my next target was Fushoku Ressentiment (thx to vaxei vid) After another year i passed it aswell.
Now i'm here and my next goal is yomi yori.
Idk why, but i always play just to pass the map, just to enjoy this "click the circles" game. Sometimes i was replaying maps, but in my head it was "ok, i can fc this one, need to replay it a few times"
Enjoy the game guys
Height of stupidity is when we turn on relax to play freedom dive after we watch Coookizi
today i completed my 1 year in the game . And im now a hardstuck 400k (btw i don't farm pp) who plays 5.5+ star maps (although i fail near the end) . I know passing a 5 star map with 95 % acc and 20 misses isn't gonna give me any ranks , but hey my jumps have gotten a lot better and i can now hold my stamina during streaming for a longer duration , previously i used get tired by streaming 180bpm for 5 seconds lol
You can't leave it, there's no a way out. You can argue with it but u need it in your life, you have to accept it. There's always NEXT TIME
That's pretty accurate since I'm somewhere at the platou probably, but when watching this video I was like ' Yeah i did that, and that too' maybe not 100% true to everyone but yeah, right now playing since 2015 and trying to enjoy the game, helping mappers other community members, I just love how many good moments I had and many friends got. Quite nostalgic sometimes
I think there is one thing that should be added in the video. And that is the long break from Osu! until you comeback to it, you see yourself being better, your confidence sky rocketed the Earth Atmosphere, so you decided to intensively play the game for days and hours without touching grass just to get depressed cause you just faced a wall that you can't surpass and now repeating the cycle of taking another break just to do the same thing again
I've been playing osu for 2 years, profile frnono, first half is so, so relatable, I'm literally shocked
as a person who started a few weeks ago i can confirm that i have no idea what i'm getting myself into
it's hard to go entirely without farming because those maps are just staring at you in the face saying "free pp" so once every so often you give in and gain a shit ton of ranks all at once and mannn does it feel good. then ofc you go back to tech maps once youve maxed out your current pp potential and get annoyed as hell until the cycle repeats
as a mania player this also applies, currently stuck in the last phase after farming to top 50k couple months ago, trying out standard rn to see if anything happens but no signs of it coming back
I got real confused when I saw "rank 97k" near "day one" in the thumbnail.
I am at the stage of "getting S on your fav songs and enjoying the game" except I don't know if I'll ever leave that stage.
thanks for the documentary about me
also ngl i was confused af when you commented 727 on my video lmao
Your existence was an inspiration for the creation of this video
So far I’m 200,000 ranks in, I’ve never been through a pp farm map and instead focused on my acc, it’s improving pretty quickly
The osu hipster part was scarily accurate except I didn't unfollow or block anyone
You can't literally quit osu becuz everytime you close it will tell you "see you next time"
I despise how accurate it is. But how much? Well, I cannot even quote anything from the video that was false in my case, even the time periods, maps, and PP amounts were right.... Although I feel like I'm regaining that magic now (?). I feel like I'm building up for the second season of osu in my life after having played only 750 maps in the past 2 years exactly, often with there being 0 plays for 2 months in a row with 9 plays in between, and occasional 70 and dropping down by 200.000 ranks, I feel like my third osu eye just oppened and I'm starting to really get back into this game with completely alien to be before mindset (that's also why youtube recommended me this video I guess)
Even accurate to us mania players lmao. I still love playing though, just something about tapping notes to some cool music will always be fun, no matter what type of rhythm game it is
The thumbnail makes me think the guy went from happy to depressed
Currently at the top of Mount Stupid
Feeling Good.
Interesting analysis. Being myself a uh... lets see here.... a yes, "complete and total noob" with about a month worth of play so far, it will be fun to see where my Osu! path leads me...
So far, its been: Find "Peer Gynt" in my starting songs, immedietly fall in love with it, grind it out continuously, and be more or less oblivious to the fact that leaderboards exist...
I love that Anki is right next to osu in the relatively empty desktop LMAO
on that immersion grind
To my relief I never played the tutorial so I did not learn that you could tap on the keyboard, and by the time I got to 5 stars I wasn't ready to give up pure mouse. So I played till I could barely pass low 7 stars and decided it was the limit for me on pure mouse, now I'm an average taiko enjoyer
I guess I'd be classified as a perma hipster? I look down on anyone farming pp and have never actually cared about the rank, but at the same time I don't try to get good at tech maps or anything. I played a lot in highschool I guess, but nowadays I just play every once in awhile since osu is a fairly therapeutic game to play when I get stressed out.
man i think i speedrunned that graph without leaving 6 digit. a true genius at being the worst
first 3 minutes and 50 seconds is literally my first 6 months of playing osu
The fact that my first skin was also the exact same zero two skin makes me scared of this man for some reason
i actually watched so many osu vids before starting just so i wouldnt mess up and i still somehow started farming
So how my cycle has been going after I came back to osu!
Come back: Enjoying game and having fun, also beatmapping.
2 months later: PP farm for 1 day, gain total 450-600pp.
After 1 day pp farm: back to mapping.
Back when i first learned what 6-5-4 digits were I decided that I wanted to at least get to 5 digit just to see if I could. I did recently get to 5 digit and immediately lost interest in farming and ranking up on purpose. But I still have fun with the game, whether it's dt, hd, hr, failing to play ez, or the many hours I dumped into laser just messing around with mods there. Point is that osu is a game, and games are supposed to be fun. If you like farming, climbing ranks, and having 98-99% acc as an average, then go ham chief. If you like playing finger control/tech maps with anywhere from 72-86% acc then you do you too. there's no right way to have fun in osu. So enjoy all the hours of tapping your clicky keyboard to the beat of harumachi clover or to galaxy collapse.
I heard about the game, I tried it, I got addicted to it, 6 months later: *still 6 digit farming high 3 stars with dt*
Watching this video made me feel attacked as I have never seen something so accurate
Until this point I have not managed to reach a 5 digit rank, despite playing from 2017. However I still enjoy the game, and playing it for fun, 'cause I know that if I would start pp farming, than I would not see the game as one of my all-time favourites. I know, I know I am addicted to clicking circles, but after all that is what this game is about isn't it?
pretty accurate, though "my" hipster stage is playing tourneys. But we all know deep down that after 1 month we always come back for the pp ;)
I have 400 hrs playtime and just passed big black last month and decided to take a break because I deserved it, I still havent touched osu ever since, I'll come back again tho this game is special for me.
its super accurate to when i started except i never became a hipster and never got bored of the game
As I've been watching this video, I've been getting more and more scared because you literally stated exactly what I have done with perfect accuracy thus far and I don't like it.
Relatable as a CtB player. Peaked #293 (at least, don't remember if I got a bit higher) then just came back some times here and there. Now I'm like #770 and lot of things changed: mapping style, pp farm style, star rating, etc. And after this peak I started playing mania and then, same as for CtB, I stopped playing.
Now i have lot of inactive month and some times for one month I have an increase in play count then back to inactive and so on
bro the start was so relatable that i got a big smile on my face, i did start osu coz of the discord hype for anime music and at the first day i didnt even tried that much and uninstalled it and the funniest part was that i installed it also after 3 months and then i liked this game lol its beed 2 yrs now
this is too accurate where i am in the phase of a hipster but one difference is that I started mania…
decaying 30k player here. every single thing in here was spot on for me like theres nothing to say more about it. its just purely fact even down to the discord screen share lmfao
Its not that I want to leave.
It's just that I cant.
After all, Osu says it themselves to make sure you never leave;
"See you next time"
You can reupload this as "The Life Cycle of a League of Legends Player," and it'd be pretty spot on.
Two things: yes I did get better in fps games with osu, and no I don't actively farm I just play the next map that comes up in my map list that was mostly built by friends and multiplayer lobbies
It's kinda creepy that what you said was truly truthful .. Now I am at the stage that I dont want to farm and play like once every week and its fuckn tech 7*+ maps and stream with 40+ misses. This is my 2nd cycle :/
This is too accurate I'm actually scared how you got everything right, (in the 60ks, took the hipster route, random popoffs that made me play for rank again)
1. didn't start because of fps games (but started after seeing a 50 map marathon with subs on one of my fav youtuber's side channel)
2. from 2016 and till today i still play for fun, i do try s/ss my fav maps but again, i do it for fun
3. i will never buy a tablet, mouse go brrrrrrr
4. somehow skipped the mount stupid
5. i do not watch a hell lot of replays and try to redo them
6. oh, almost forgot that i do not pp farm
7. i know that i'm bad, but i will get better
8. forgot to tell that until recently(about a month ago) i only played osu!catch
9. i can try beating a 7 star map, but i will probably fail after 3 seconds
10. i am indeed playing for fun, that's how i started and that's how i will keep playing
11. even if i started playing in 2016 i started playing a lot only recently
12. this vid is actually really interesting, because i've seen where a path of grinding would lead me, still, i'm glad i didn't take that route
13. also, if you find my account, do not trust the "time played"
there was no internet because of the war so a lot of hours aren't there
Okay funny enough I actually started osu because one of my online friends knew I really liked mobile rhythm games and was good at them - I've played bandori, arcaea, voez, etc. - so he suggested I try out osu. I actually had never known what it was before and when I started looking into it I recognized it from a few random clips I'd seen. Absolutely got caught up in top 50/100 knockout videos, vaxei caught my eye, I had a small addiction to it before I even started playing myself. When I downloaded it I chilled for like a month, came back to it and it's been a little less than a year and now I have both osu and osu lazer on my laptop and have probably gathered close to a thousand hours on both combined. Cheers and looking forward to the next few years of my addiction lol
Also I played mouse for about 2-3 months before stopping around the 3* mark and buying myself a tablet, got up to 4* and bought myself a new one and proceeded to gift the old one to an irl who plays, my new one was a piece of shit despite being supposedly pretty good but thankfully my irl had bought a new tablet themselves so brought my old one back to me. About to break into 5 digit and hoping to start playing 7* maps soon lol, unfortunately no 200pp yet though
This is 97.498828492637% accurate to what i experienced in my whole time playing, but the only difference is that its osu!mania for me. Everything happened exactly like you explained but in osu!mania.
Bruh how is this so accurate? Like the first 4 minutes is me exactly, the only major difference is that I started grinding burst/stream maps instead of tech (currently I'm trying to play longer maps while also dt farming lol). Like everything is so accurate, playing multis early on, streaming in discord vc, wtffff its like so close to my experience. Also I think getting into mapping songs you like is a great way to keep things fresh.
This is exactly right down to the skin and everything it just goes further along the process than i am
I literally didn't play this just to "train my aim", it doesn't make sense