Experimenting with Stream, Quick, Skippy, Etc.

Syncopation · Trick Member Joined: 03 Feb 2003

I was experimenting with Stream, Quick, Skippy, Wide, and Stomp mods with Easy and Medium ITG songs this afternoon (PS2 home version). I didn't bother to try Hard or Expert though.

Stream makes sense in almost all cases--it inserts eighth note (blue arrows) in between red arrows, and often results in crossovers or double stepping. I thought this was a great modifier for practicing crossovers and double stepping for songs that otherwise don't have that many of those patterns in the song.

Quick didn't always make sense. Sometimes the steps appeared to have a red (quarter) and yellow (sixteenth) arrow that seemed like it needed to be done with the same foot before the blue (eighth) note arrow instead of alternating feet. The pattern didn't seem like it allowed enough time to "hop" to the other foot before doing the quick pattern. (Is this by design, or does quick add step directions without checking for sensibility of the steps?)

Skippy, of course, added sixteenths in a gallop fashion, different than Quick. Great for practicing gallops, although the galloping tends to get a bit too repetitive.

Echo was interesting--it seemed to add eighth note (blue) arrows almost constantly after the quarter note (red) arrow. However, this seemed to flow almost as well as Stream did in most cases, and is a great way of practicing double steps with the same foot, as well as three or more consecutive steps with one foot when the other foot has the freeze arrow

Wide seemed to add a jump at the beginning of each measure. It started to annoy me as the patterns often started with jump-step.

Stomp seemed to turn practically every step into a jump. Lots of UD and RL jumps in cases where there were a lot of eighth notes. Good for a really slow song I guess, but extremely annoying for anything faster than 130 bpm.

Of those modifiers I was experimenting with, I think I like Stream and Echo the best for adding steps to Easy and Medium ITG songs below 150bpm.

FujiFlame · Trick Member Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Location: Orlando, FL

I find echo to be one of the most enjoyable mods in the game, as long as it's used with a good song/difficulty. One fun song to use it on is Monolith on Hard...holy crap does it become a doggy. It's just a relentless barrage of eight note streams and jumps and little sixteenth bursts all over the place at 195 bpm. Using both Skippy and Ech has shown some good results too. They make Pick Me Up and Tango one of my favorite songs. Using both of them on Hip Hop Jam turns it into like a fucking 12. They also make Disconnected Hyper a lot more relentless, especially with all the mines...it's just like eww.

ThePandemonium · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jul 2005

Putting stomp on Pandemonium Expert turns it into a 20...
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DJTyrant · Maniac Member Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Location: Ventura, CA

Putting it on DJParty makes things really interesting.
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Kaku · Trick Member Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Location: Surrey, BC

Walking on Fire [E] + Quick + Blender = Bliss

FujiFlame · Trick Member Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Location: Orlando, FL

Captain_Jack89 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Location: The Pad

wanna taste of Vertex 2?

Vertex/Hard/Skippy/Throw in some hands if you really want Vertex^2 Difficulty

Subrosian · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2004

FujiFlame · Trick Member Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Location: Orlando, FL

aight I just wasn't sure because some of those mods work better on lower difficulties.

Servb0tKing · Trick Member Joined: 19 May 2004 Location: Torrance, Cali

JonnyD · Basic Member Joined: 03 Dec 2005

Hey guys. Robotix Echo is pretty fun.
Next time you're at the arcade, play Robotix Easy with Echo and Stomp on. It's really fun.

DDr/Spade · Basic Member Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Location: Gulfport

Hello all and i'm new to the sight but not to DDR oh no

i would say ok

mydixiewrecked · Trick Member Joined: 29 Mar 2005

Zero0920 · Trick Member Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Location: Hell

Hehe. Try ANYTHING with all of that row PLUS the following row of mods on. That's fun. Especially ROM-eo & Juli8.
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DemonHybrid · Trick Member Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Location: Matamoras, PA

There's a way to make it (I'm 85% sure) that if you put stream and echo on Robotix Medium, at the speedup it goes:

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If someone would like to experiment with it, please post your results on here. Thanks.
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