I used to play another rhythm game, but it wasn’t nearly as advanced as Etterna, so I’m still figuring out some of the settings. Lately, I’ve noticed that I always press slightly too early, to the point where almost all my judgments end up as “Great.”
I’ve already tried increasing the scroll speed to 1000, which feels fine for gameplay, but it didn’t really fix the timing issue. I also tried adjusting the global offset (made it positive by pressing F6 twice), but that just made the songs feel off and unsynced.
I know it might sound like a small issue, but I’m pretty sure my accuracy would actually be better if I could fix this early-hit problem. Any tips or suggestions would be really appreciated!
play with no audio and see how early or late you are. if it is still early, reset your audio sync back to 0
figure out what works to make you not hit early or start playing by audio instead.
increasing scroll speed helps to hit later, but it only works up to a point and then the notes are moving too fast for the game to be playable. you can also try moving the entire notefield up or down in customize gameplay. you can also change the visual delay (not the audio offset). in some games this is called moving the judge line, relative to your receptors. what it would do is move where the perfect hit position is relative to the receptors. if you move it to the early side, you can hit “early” and get perfect hits
I think I’m still mixing up early vs late and negative vs positive offset, because I get confused between negative and positive in both “audio offset” and “visual delay”.
If I’m consistently hitting early and I want the judgment line to move slightly up to better match my timing, should the offset be “negative” or “positive”?
honestly i dont know whether a positive or negative offset in any of the available offsets is early or late. i just know one is one way and the other is the other way. its the kind of thing you can just try and its obvious
generally, a “positive offset” with respect to the judgment offset of a note should mean “late”