osu!, a rhythm game about clicking circles, has had a new client in development since 2014, aiming to fix some of the issues and “spaghetti code” the previous stable version had. The new client, Lazer, is open-source and works on Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Lazer has finally been made the default download option for new players just starting the game.
Oh man, that’s big news. Lazer’s standard mode been essentially playable since like 2020. Recent updates have been chasing corner cases and adding features with no end in sight.
Wow, I haven’t played in years. Cool to see Linux support!
making the client open source was such a good move
Damn, that’s huge!
I thought they were still ways off from making the switch!ill wait for a client for my nintendo dsi :)
That would be the original Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
Man, I haven’t imported many games but that game and its sequel were some of the best gaming purchases I ever made.
Really tried to get into Osu (even looked into some of those digital drawing boards artists use, just to try to make it feel like the original) but to me the game just isn’t anywhere near the same without a stylus and a resistive touch screen - two things which are outdated tech now - so I don’t think I’ll ever get something that really recaptures it. I’m glad that the basic gameplay is still being kept alive though, even though what I really want I can never have.
I actually played the western release that came after that. Might get into the action of translating it: https://gbatemp.net/threads/recruiting-english-translations-for-osu-tatakae-ouendan-2.620347
r/place made me hate Osu! players.
Because they wanted to have their circle? It was small compared to other ugly things c’mon.
Because they were clearly using bots to do it.
They were a pretty active community, and the first to develop the browser extension that helped you colour each pixel correctly. Then everyone used it. Idk, they were heavily attacked from all fronts because weeb. I don’t think they were botting. There were plenty way more complex projects that finished way too fast for them not to be botted for you to hate the OSU! community that much.
Well, there was a big fight between BTMC and xQc. It was a massive event (relatively speaking), so that’s why everything happened so quickly and immediately always. But I wouldn’t be surprised if some people used bots to help out, but I know that most were real people who just sat there and waited for another pixel.
It’s not as if someone made an LLM out of an Osu bot or anything.
Was it though??
