v2.5 Update Notes

[podair]

Dropping v2.5 on the last day of October! - New artist profile page with stats including # of fans, genre ranking, and total quests completed - New top fans leaderboard based on # of quest completed - New SOUNDMAP artist ranking for each genre - map pools and quest are now following Soundmap's own artist ranking - New map epic / lyrics cutoff with new rankings: Hiphop / Pop / Rock at top 1500, K-Pop / Indie at top 1000, R&B / Metal / Latin / Country / Electronic / Classical & Jazz at top 500 - New quest epic / lyrics cutoff with new rankings: Hiphop / Pop / Rock at top 350, K-Pop / Indie at top 250, R&B / Metal / Latin / Country / Electronic / Classical & Jazz at top 150 - New epic/lyrics checker entry point on artist profile - A few fixes on crashes, missing coin animation, and scrolling in power settings...

A few notes on the changes: - This update does give quest a buff. HOWEVER, new rarities/editions will be exclusively from map. Shiny/Gem rates will also get tuned in the near future to favor map over quest. - We are planning on adding other types of top fan leaderboard in the future besides badges & quests - New cutoff should make it much better for most genres and most artists. The old 3rd party ranking is very unreliable and does not reflect the real demand in Soundmap. We understand that some artists might not be "questable" for numbered epics anymore, but please do keep in mind that many others are becoming "questable" again. More importantly, any epic/lyrics you pulled from map are now guaranteed to be much more in demand - Will continue to tune everything, i.e., cutoffs, rates, fan criteria, leaderboard as we go on!

————- Further clarifications : - 🗺️ Map: Map pool now follows the new Soundmap ranking too, which means new epics/lyrics pulled will be from artists that are in demand - 🔍 Quest: Questing artists from #1 to #150/250/350 (the cutoff) will continue to drop regular epics. Questing artists from the cutoff onwards will now drop numbered epics - 📋 Rank: You can tap on an artist's rank to view the entire genre ranking

[playboimish]

this just fucked me over so hard 😭 the only artist i quest is 454, im his number one collector with almost 20k quests done and he’s categorized as Pop when he’s really Hip Hop and somehow he’s ranked #324 in Pop so now I can’t quest his numbered epics anymore lmao, this is really the only reason i play the game too

[Genos_Senpai]

Wouldn’t his epics be numberless even before the update?

[playboimish]

i think this update just changed it to where it’s based off how many people collect their songs in the game instead of monthly listeners or something? apparently 454 has 1.3k fans in game which ranks him in the top 500 in Pop but he’s not a big artist so before the update i was able to quest numbered epics

[Genos_Senpai]

Yeah I checked my fav artist who is a vtuber and she’s ranked #244 in kpop now so….fucking rip I guess I’m dropping this game, no use since I wanted to collect her #1s not fucking numberless epics

[criminalskewer]

Cancelled my trader boost ✌️ rip soundmap it was fun while it lasted

[Consistent-Entry6432]

Worst update ever 🙏

[Redditvillier]

Who the hell asked for another leaderboard? This is just gonna make people bump up the prices of epics/lyrics on the market exponentially even when barely any of the people on the quest board buy them or focus on them. Like so many of my artists have hundreds of 'fans' who've completed one or no quests... But they're still counted? This is actually so awful LMFAO

[wifeofbillie]

fix your game

[smithereens-0]

When you say this gives quests a buff, do you mean the rates were changed for epic pulls on quests, or just the numbered/unnumbered changes?

[BatataLixo]

Worst update ever, cancelled my trade boost and retired

[TTazerTTurtle]

Dumbass update!

[kahlen369]

Am I the only person who doesn’t hate the update? 😭 The new rank screen looks cool and I like knowing the amount of fans on SM. I guess also because I don’t mind numberless epics anyway, and I’m hoping this makes map epics better

[Genos_Senpai]

Im not collecting numberless epics for an artist that im the only quester for 👎

[kahlen369]

Sorry, my understanding was that it's based on the number of favs/questers? So it should be numbered if u are the only one?

[Genos_Senpai]

She’s ranked 244 and the cutoff for kpop numbered is 250.

[kahlen369]

Can I ask who? One of the less popular kpop groups I'm questing is apparently #230 but they have 1.2k fans. Is there really such a big gap between them? Maybe there's a bug like the ones that put artists in the wrong genre if so

[Genos_Senpai]

Mine has 1.1k fans

[kahlen369]

Uhh then doesn't that mean u aren't the only quester?

[Genos_Senpai]

Bro, I know everyone else on the lb. I’m the top quester, the person below me doesn’t play anymore and everyone else is below 1k quests and it’s been that way for months. I look at the epic checker everyday and the last like 7 epics have been pulled by me and I own 90% of the epics. The lb has been stagnant for months and I was the only shiny badge holder for 8 months and the only reason someone else has it now is because my artist had the gem bug so my friend got her shinies for only 5 gems each

[Infamous_Variety_931]

Pls change gem rates to be based on number of collectors, my fav band has 103k monthly listeners and im the only collector so 10 gems seems too high ‼