beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (PC)

Naoki - rumors abound. But Paranoia MAX is from substream, and DJ Taka loves 1999. Almost as much as Naoki loves DDR 4th Mix.

Given that we have too many songs from DJ Taka, Yoshitaka, LED, and Ryu*, and too little representation from everyone else, I think it's safe to assume that DJ Taka is the sound director and he's being allowed to pick nothing but his favorite songs/people. Screw everyone else. Sota has two songs in this game: a required Sirius song (which was cut) and a collaboration with Ryu*. (See above.) This latest patch makes the bias even more lopsided. (Granted, this patch also has zero DJ Taka in it.)

Akira Yamaoka - not at all. He left on good terms to go work for a friend.

if the sd is dj taka, were are good-cool and taq? even the mirrors know that they were friends.
also, i was pretty sure over the blacklist thing. nice to get cleared.

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160302_iidx_ms1603a

"championship #2 “STARLiGHT CUP” announced to open sometime next week. If I have to guess on the details, it'll be similar to the KAC course where we have to pay tickets to access the course and unlock the songs within (in this case, 4 Ryu☆ songs, judging by the name).


In order from top to bottom: personal best only, world top, world average, area top, area average.

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Given the name, I would not be surprised if the song list was just a straight port of the SAY RYU course from copula (waxing and wanding, Time To Air, Critical Crystal, STARLiGHT).

k-chuu: we do have two good-cool songs! And two Sota songs and one Nekomata song. So I think that's still weighted in favor of DJ Taka's bias. But I can't explain the lack of TaQ. Especially given that TaQ's other big fan is LED.

ledgam3r1279 - thank you. I wrote down the order and I'm going to look at a bunch of world-average pacemakers next time I play. I bet they're all way higher than in the arcade. Since the clear rates are.

Silver Spirit - surprisingly 3y3s (long ver) is still the only Seiryu song in the game. All the songs I hinted at are plain old Ryu* songs. But I would LOVE to have the STARLiGHT course (and song) at home! I'm lucky enough to have played it and unlocked in the arcade and I like both the course and the song alot. (I also want the P*Light course but that ain't happening.)

The update added 13 songs. (Three were already announced.) So it must be three weeks of three songs again, plus one week for STARLiGHT. That fully covers March! And I too assume that the cost of keeping the four Ryu* songs is one Infinitas Ticket. Still pretty cheap. It would be expensive if I wanted to grind it and try to win, but **** trying to compete with the people on this server! haha. Not unless your scores are measured in MAX -peanuts.

actually 3 of each so far:
猫叉Master: being torn the sky, サヨナラ・ヘヴン, 水上の提督 (Short mix from ”幻想水滸V”)
Sota: with me..., The Story Begins, Go Beyond!!

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That'll teach me. I went to go check my sources before posting and I went here: https://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eac2dx/infinitas/p/common/info/iidx_mlist.html

Derp, it's missing the DJP unlocks. So I checked Bemaniwiki, and I may have miscounted, but for my own argument I counted:

8x DJ Taka
5x L.E.D.
5x kors k
5x Ryu*
8x Yoshitaka

Out of the 70 currently playable songs as of today. Only one song was double counted: Quell.

So currently they have 30/70 songs. (42%)
Soon they'll have 37/80 songs. (46%)
At launch they only had 11/44 songs. (25%)

Before trying to make a point I suppose I should see what their ratios are in Copula. Maybe these guys actually are half of the 900ish songs in copula? Can't be. I know they have 20-30 songs each, not 80.

In celebration of the IIDX Premium Controller pre-orders going live(?), all secret and past songs will be playable, no strings attached, until the end of March 9.

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160303_iidx_ev1603

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eac2dx/infinitas/p/common/event/iidx_cmp02.html

championship #2 will be available tomorrow, the target songs are:
starmine
rainbow rainbow
Aurora
bass 2 bass

2nd set of March distribution songs coming on the 16th:
高高度降下低高度開傘
CaptivAte～裁き～(SUBLIME TECHNO MIX)
eRAseRmOToRpHAntOM

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160316_iidx_ms1603c

And for some reason, less than a day after the new songs came out, next week's songs have already been announced:
-R3
-ALL MY TURN -このターンに、オレの全てを賭ける-
-THE LAST STRIKER

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New event "Akashic Explore" will be available in a later update.

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160401_iidx_ev1604p

I was going to race here and post that, but then I remembered that I'm the only person who plays Infinitas. So oh well.

For what it's worth the teaser image definitely says "mission select" and it seems to be asking you to get some number of full combos, AAs, etc. And there is a progress screen which shows the player unlocking scar in the earth. So there's that.

Gee, I wonder what the boss song's gonna be...

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Actually I do kind of wonder since Bad Maniacs (the OMES) was on the default list. Some of the regular Parallel Rotation songs were used as DJ Point unlocks. So I wouldn't assume we're owed Mosaic / Sirius Waltz / Almagest / etc. scar in the earth doesn't belong and we're getting that.

Actually ACTUALLY, who says there is a boss song in Infinitas at all?

3:45pm - oh boy the patch is live! Let me get that!

4pm - SA--BA--Me En Ten Su god dammit Konami.

16 songs added!
- 10 of them have unique videos
- 8 of them are from 5th-10th, 8 of them are newer
- the boss song could've been.... gest by anyone after all
- but also there's another old OMES in there
- 7 songs from current in-house artists, 7 songs from former in-house artists
- the other two songs are Ryu* and kors k, of course

Someone else post because I've had 3 posts in the last week all append to each other.

Actually, I'm going to stream this new mission mode thing. https://www.twitch.tv/catastrophe573/

Here is a post to separate yours.

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The new unlock thing is the same as IIDX 18 Resort Anthem. There are three progress bars: normal, hyper, and another. And you get points ("bits") to dump into these progress bars ("layers"). And at certain intervals, you get a chart. The normal path needs less bits than the hyper path, which needs less bits than the another path. And just like how IIDX 18 had Japan Tour (one set of paths) and World Tour (another set of paths) the team says they'll add more layers with more songs over time. Actually, they already have. There's 8 songs in the space layers and 8 more songs in the nature layers.

There are a lot of missions to do. The repeatable ones have a 24 hour cooldown: rank A on lv 1, rank AA on lv 1, rank AAA on lv 1, rank A on lv 2, etc. You've seen all these in the arcade. There's also play 5/10/15/20/30 songs, which you can just cheat with the escape key. And clear 5/10/15/20/30 songs which is whatever.

There are also a lot of one-time only missions. For now those are all just "clear _______ normal", "hyper", and "another". And then again a bunch of songs also have high value missions that say "full combo ____ normal", "hyper", and "another".

Tons of bits are also awarded every 50 songs and every 1000 DJP. The "card out" screen only awards one such award per visit. So I loaded up this patch with 1800 DJP and for the next 18 credits it's like "you got 1000 DJP", "you got 2000 DJP", "you got 3000 DJP", etc.

I've played enough Infinitas in the last 4 hours to have cleared Tokotoko Line chapter 1 (about 45 credits) and I'm only about 33% done with the another bar. So the grind is long. Like blue phase of Tricoro, I don't tink you're supposed to do it in one day. But I'm going to try. Someone in Japan is halfway through the nature layer, but on normal. Noob lol.

I like the songs they put in each layer. They're on theme:
Space Layer
scar in the earth
SPACE FIGHT
GRADIUS -FULL SPEED-
Spica
ANDROMEDA
TYPE MARS(G-Style Mix)
THE SHINING POLARIS
Almagest

Nature Layer
snow storm
gekkou
Lion Suki
Ave De Rapina
kachoufusetsu
Special One
Narcissus at Oasis
Sakura

Are there any more layers or is it just those two?

Just those two. I guess that's 16 songs for this month? Above average.

I played for about 6 hours and I got halfway through the Space Layer on another. And that's with my 'free' bonuses for already having a bunch of DJP and songs played. This is a long grind. Although it gets a lot shorter if you just do the daily, repeatable missions instead of doing the once-only missions like I spent a few hours doing.

Halfway through the Space Layer (any of them) you've already unlocked 6/8 songs, and then you unlock the Nature Layer for whatever difficulty you're on. So I'm not getting Almagest 7A tonight. And then the Nature Layer is the same length as the Space Layer! (Again, for each difficulty.)

Most missions give you 100-300 bits, depending on difficulty, and most missions also only require one song. Now you have to spend your bits on sectors. The conversion rate is 100 bits for a random chance at 3, 4, or 5 sectors. The random conversion rate is just for fun, so you go "ooh!" and "aw". Obviously it averages out to 4 in the long run, and this is a long run. Here's how long the normal layer is:

25 - 80 - 180 - 340 - 575 - 900 - 1115 (get the Nature Layer if in Space Layer) - 1330 - 1880

So, how many bits do you need per unlock, assuming 100:4?

625 - 2000 - 4500 - 8500 - 14375 - 22500 - 27875 (unlocks Nature Layer if in Space Layer) - 33250 - 47000

Lets assume you get 200 bits per song, which is a bit high.

4 songs - 10 - 23 - 42 - 72 - 112 - 140 - 167 - 235

Okay, so 235 songs to unlock Almagest 7N and everything else leading up to it? Fine, but the another layer is twice as long as the normal layer! And the hyper layer is exactly in between. So I'm going to bed without the unlocks tonight.

I guess this means I need to play (235 + 352.5 + 470) * 2 = 2115 missions to unlock all songs on all difficulties. It's going to be less when you factor in my DJP and song bonuses, but ooooooh boy. My play count after tonight is 'only' almost 1200.

and still no taq songs in the game.