I’m a newbie player on osu!lazer and I’ve tried the classic mod. One thing that I realized is that I get better accuracy with this mod on, but it should be just a cosmetic change, right?
I know this question is a year old, but I’m just discovering that this community is on lemmy so I guess it’s better late than never!
So it is not just a cosmetic mode. With the classic mod, your slider head click timing is a lot more forgiving than on normal lazer. You can try it yourself: if you click on a slider somewhat early or late it still registers as a great or 300. This is how it’s done on the classic version of osu!
I don’t know why it started this way, but maybe it was because Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (the ds game osu! is based on) also registered acc like that too.
IIRC, the pp (performance points) system now awards you for playing without classic mode as it is, well, more challenging this way. So take that in mind if you want to climb the osu! leaderboard.
One of the new changes in osu!lazer is that you also need to have accurate rhythm for sliders. Turning on classic mod turns this off. In the mod settings you can turn it back on again, should be called “Sliderhead accuracy” or something along those lines
Ahhh, thank you for the info! How much of a difference did you notice between the new and the classic mode?
It’s for the most part very minor changes, the biggest change is the slider accuracy and how sliderballs move. Most other stuff is very minor that you’d mostly notice with a lot of hours in osu! stable
