X1.5...X2...X3, your thoughts?

[Treno]

I find it generally easier to play some songs (if not most songs) with either X1.5 or X2...maybe that's just my play style who knows. All the arrows are so much easier to see What you people generally do? Do people at your arcades look down apon people who play with an increased speed? Let's hear some opinions

[Turboneko]

I tend to play a song on 1.5x once or twice to get an idea of the pattern and steps and whatnot. I try not to play with speed modifiers once i think i have the pattern down but most of the time i end up giving in. If im going after catas or something i play them at normal speed because i figure they were given the highest rating due to their patterns. The speed mods kind of spoil the challenge (see My Summer Love).
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[Treno]

My Summer's Love without modifer is....

[Turboneko]

Ok.. if you look at the stepchart for MSL.. first its 100bpm. Second the whole reason the song is a 9 is because of the shuffling pattern in the middle of the song which at 100 bpm is difficult to read. If you put up the speed to like 2x or 3x it spreads them out so its easier to read the pattern. So basically you are taking all the challenge out of it.
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[Technick]

Same with BAG, if you play that song with a speed mod. it just makes it easier, but on faster songs speed mods make it harder.
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[chaoticdonkey]

Generally, I abstain from using modifiers... playing orion .78 am~euro mix on konamix where there were no mods kind of got me used to reading 1/16th notes... bag is another story... JJR from 3rd mix was good for the learning of random patterns...
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[skelecrypto]

I play with speed mods to increase my perfect count... helps ALOT... i generally try to get the arrows to scroll at roughly 250-300 bpm... that's where I'm comfortable at.
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[Kel_Ichijouji]

Ok, first off, remember I've only played Extreme once! What exactly are the speed mods for? What do they do?
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[Smbu |L©|]

I genenrally play everything at 2x speed, although some stuff I'll play at normal speed(e.g. maxes or something really slow like bag). Although, I can do the maxes with speed mods (1.5x reverse). Although, strangely sometimes I can do slightly better on songs w/o speeds mods. Like on So Deep my great total is slightly less on 1x speed compared to 2x speed(although both were AA's). I don't know why though, because most stuff is usually easier for me to see with speed mods.

Maybe I should play Bag with speed mods. I've only fc'ed it on 1x(87 greats), but I'm sure I could AA it with speed mods. Then I can have three 10 footers AA'ed(counting Max300 and Sakura)

Where I play just about everybody plays with speed mods, so its not looked down on at all.
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[Cookies]

Today I had a revelation. 1.5x is your friend. Using it, my PA went up and difficult patterns(tears, leading cyber) became readable.

The only song I will never use a speed mod on for any purpose is Bag. I like the song too much to deface it by using a mod.

[Rancidfish]

I don't play with speed mods for several reasons.

a) Often, speed mods just make the song harder for me. I differentiate rhythms by arrow color, not spacing, so spacing out the arrows just gives me less time to read.
b) If they do make the songs easier (like bag, My Summer Love, etc.), then I leave 'em on 1x, just to challenge myself.
c) I want to be adjusted to PA songs at any BPM (from 65 to 333... and the occasional 35 when playing SOtR) for oni mode.
d) I'm lazy and I don't want to pick a new speedmod for every new song I choose.
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[Tsunami Forever]

Rancid pretty much summed up why I don't/won't use them either

They make songs generally easier to PA (Why is this?) and I don't want that
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[Steven in America]

I AAAed My Summer Love on x3, so I love speed mods.
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[Trance Of Sorrow]

I usually play with spped mods when I am tryna FC/AA a Heavy song. I will never put speed mods on anything over 200bpm or up. I use it to work on my PA and to space out the arrows so I can read them. Like Bag, JJR, etx...

[Paix]

[Zep]

I only use modes on songs that are so so so slow and have bunchs of arows like BAG


u know slow songs
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On slow songs, it's cheap, but it's the only way i can pass them. I need 2X on My Summer Love. On any other speed I will fail miserably.

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