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Just Dance App Scoring
Today, I decided to challenge myself to score only perfect moves on a song, as I did, I hoped for the final score to be 13.333, but unfortunately it was 13.202, I also saved the dance and I replayed it over and over, only perfect moves! And my question is, the max score can be achieved only by playing with a PS Camera/Kinect? I know it sounds stupid, but I'm still confused! Thanks
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The overall score seems to involve more than just the sum of your individual scores.
For example, on Xbox One, I have hit all perfects on different songs, but only rarely hit 13,333. When I finally hit 13,333 on Bailar, I learned something about it. For months, I had been scoring in the 13,200's on Bailar. I was studying video, watching my video challenges, trying to figure out what I was missing. I realized I had been missing little details. For example, I hadn't been bobbing my head after the gold moves, and when I started doing this (and a few other little details), I finally started hitting 13,333 on occasion (and in the 13,300's consistently).
It seems a little funny that you can hit Perfect even when you're making a subtle mistake, but maybe they do this for a reason. There are a few hundred (or more) top players who can hit all perfects or nearly all perfects on several dances. If the game told them where they were making little mistakes, they would study video for those specific moves and eventually get them right. As it is, the game can differentiate between multiple dancers who hit the same scores.
Perhaps there are little subtleties on top of the moves that yield the scores that you see on the screen, as I suggested. Or perhaps it tracks how well your complete dance matches data for their professional dancer, and then the scorecard is used to take deductions for little mistakes. Either way, hitting all perfects rarely yields a perfect 13,333.
I have seen players who use a phone or remote hit some pretty amazing scores on certain dances. For example, in 2015 on Wii U, one of my friends had 13,333 on Built for This, so it is possible.
Since Xbox Kinect is more visual, Kinect dancers can study video to try to see why all perfects doesn't result in a perfect 13,333. With a phone or remote, although it is partly visual (you can see the path that your hand has to trace out), other factors like smoothness are harder to see. When I dance to Wherever I Go with a phone or remote, there are a couple of moves that I make with a very gentle grip, while much of the dance I use a stronger grip. This sort of thing is harder to pick up by watching video. I'm not sure how picky the phone or remote is with different aspects of the choreography, but with Kinect my experience is that any loss of points means there was some aspect of the choreography that I was missing or not pulling off correctly (and occasionally it turns out to seem a little tricky, though 2018 seems to have fewer tricks and to be more about who is pulling off the move better).
(Another thing to consider is the score for the gold moves. It just says YEAH if you hit it. On the dance floor, when it shows the scorecard, in 2017 every once in a while I would see a Good even though I had scored all Perfects. It made me think maybe I had hit a Good on the gold move. Maybe the gold move is even a variable score depending on how well you hit it. The gold move does seem to be worth more points.)
Happy dancing. (If someone from support happens to know the "correct" answer to your question, I'll also be happy to hear about it.)
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greekphysics did an absolutely excellent job of breaking it down for tips! We'd love to know if it helps you.
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Oh, I see now, it was a bit frustrating, but thanks for the reply, it was helpful!