DDR Battle Mode? Good enough? Could be better.

[tsf.ear]

I often find myself bored after playing normal ddr, so i turned to Battle mode hoping that it would be fun. I was wrong, it was mean and threw random gay mods at me, and the mods that were attacking the other player were just helping him read the arrows. liek wtf! So i came to my conclusion:

Battle mode sucks for one reason, you cant control the mods thrown at the other player. DDR/ITG battle would be a lot more fun and interesting if we had more control over mods. My idea is that different step patterns activate different mods, say for example, a song should give you a brief periods of time throughout the song to activate a certain mod on the other player, like a part in the song without any arrows or a pause. This would be called the attack time. Once the player has a charged up attack bar. The player would do a step pattern say LDUR in the breif time and that would activate higher speed for the other player, if done repeatedly the speed will increase to 8x screwing up the other player. This mod would last for 5-10 seconds and the other player would recover to normal. Complex patterns will inflict harsher mods. There should be mods also exclusive to battle mode. In this way there can be a bit of strategy in ddr rather than pure stepping skill(the best player dominating everyone all the time)(you could attack their weakness with mods). What do you think?

I'd be cool to hear "he pulled of an 8x speed attack on the other guy did you see that?" or like "He killed him using the stealth mod" DDR needs some innovation and im not seeing it.

[GackTMN]

Eh..I think a better idea if you could choose your own mods would simply be the < [] > buttons on the machine itself so you can cycle through them during gameplay and select the one you would like, and you could stack them to raise their power. o.o;
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That would be complicated and unfair.
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[GackTMN]

What'd be a little less complicated is instead of just attacking with mods in Battle Mode, you can get a little sign indicating you can smack the person next to you to weaken them or trip them for battle mode.

GANGSTA MOD FTW.
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[Auspher]

The worst part about Battle Mode is the announcer..
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[tsf.ear]

i put this topic on another forum and its getting some attention.
http://www.rgcanada.com/viewtopic.php?p=147859#147859

Papa K wrote:
Hm, this is hard since new stepcharts would have to be made for each song in order to accomodate breaks, and adding in mods with your method would detract from the whole "music game" part of it.

A quicker implementation would be to simply replace a section of five or so arrows with a line of arrows of a special marking (perhaps connected or something similar). Then, you can hit a five note combination that would activate your mod. Of course, since we can use the fact that we're playing a music game now, your timing as well as your arrow combination could determine how good of a mod you'd be using. If you did a speed mod activation combination and FFCed it, 8x might appear, but if you missed everything, it would help them by putting something like C450 on.

[chaos303]

Maby battle mode would be less anoying if they didnt have Big Gay Al as the announcer. "Check out these guys!!!"
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[Auspher]

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I'd rather have him than the female announcer in Universe.
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