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    Few suggestions for JD2022

    Hello Ubi CM / Ubi Dev,

    I have a few suggestions for the next JD:

    Sweat Mode

    I love this mode and when playing solo I only use this one.
    The only missing part is "At the end of the song, on the summary screen, you can't see your score". So when I try to beat my highscore I cannot see if I was near or not.

    Favorite settings

    When playing solo I always use the same settings : "Sweat Mode / Order by score". Starting the game with "my favorite settings" would be great

    World dancefloor

    I know this feedback had already been made, but simply going back to the World dancefloor of JD 2020.

    Splitting rooms by level was a good idea, but the lack of variety is really a feature killer for the WDF.

    - The ranking was giving a feeling of progression (I know it was not perfect, but it was really nice)
    - Having various kind of Battle and not only "3 songs battles".

    I think the creation of the rooms was based on "Casual players could have the feeling they are not good cause they are bottom ranked". But having various kind of Battle soften this feeling : "you're in team, you're against a boss, you choose your song"


    Thanks to all Ubi teams for this game.
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    That's a great suggestion for Sweat Mode. I don't use Sweat Mode specifically because I can't stand not knowing what my score was. I'm guessing someone thinks that some players using Sweat Mode don't want the distraction or interruption of score, but even if this is the case, there is a simple solution that would please everybody. Add a menu option like, "Show score and scorecard after each dance in Sweat Mode." Check or uncheck the box as desired.

    Rather than going back to how it used to be, I would prefer to see the Just Dance team get creative and find new ways to engage dancers on the WDF (or other new immersive experiences besides the WDF). I agree that more variety is needed. Surely, there are many innovative ideas that they could use rather than going backwards. If I really like a feature from JD 2020, for example, I can just go play JD 2020 to relive that experience. When I buy JD 2022, I'm hoping for something new. Every year they seem to advertise a revamped WDF, but usually it is very similar to what we had in previous years.

    I have a few ideas, but surely the creativity of the JD team can do even better. They are welcome to use my suggestions below (or alter them as they see fit, including changing my suggested titles.)

    Disc Jockey Madness. The game would play about 30 seconds of one dance, then abruptly change to a different dance and play about 30 seconds of the dance, and so on. After about 6 dances, it would end. Someone would have to figure out how to cut the different dances into suitable pieces. This isn't like mashups where the same song plays for a few minutes while the coaches from different dances appear. What I have in mind, the song changes every 30 seconds and the coach matches the song. It's not necessarily the beginning or end of a song, some random point in the song. Every time this comes up, the collection of song clips could be different.

    Team Building. This involves a song where the dance has 2 to 4 coaches. If the dance is a quartet, there will be 4 people on each team. The WDF would automatically put people into teams. You don't get to choose your coach. The WDF assigns you a coach. When you dance to the song, you see your score above your coach, but you also see your team members' scores above their coaches. (If you're dancing with friends at home, everybody has to use the same coach. For a feature that just comes up once in a while, that should be tolerable.) The game adds up all of the scores for your team to make a team score. The WDF might remember how well or poorly the event worked out for you in the past and use that to help build more or less favorable teams for you in the future. Maybe the game will use projective scoring in the event that a team member quits in the middle of a dance, so as not to ruin it for everyone else on the team...

    VIP. I liked the VIP dance for Katy Perry's Birthday in JD 2015, except that there was only one VIP dance. It would be cool to have a few VIP dances where you get to see a real person do the dance and try to beat a (reasonable) score. (ideally, it would be a reasonable challenge for the dance on any platform or mode of game play.) There have been a couple of VIP Unlimited dances in recent years, but they didn't get featured on the WDF (at least not with the main dances of the year).

    Backward dancing. Perhaps this would only apply to a select few dances. Make a mirror image of the coach dancing to the song, and score the game for the mirrored dance. This challenges players to know the dances forward and backward. This might be unique to the WDF, if so, then sorry there is no way to practice other than to visit the WDF regularly.

    Relay Dancing. This again involves team members. Perhaps it would involve extreme dances. One member is scored for the first 30 moves of the dance, a different member is scored for the next 30 moves of the dance, etc. You can do the whole dance, but just one set of 30 moves for each person on the team contributes to the team's score for the dance.

    Multiply This. You do a dance like normal, but the scoring isn't normal. During the dance, many of the moves have their scores multiplied by 2, 3, 5, or 10 times. Maybe even a Gold Move can get a multiplier and be worth even more than usual. The highest possible score won't be 13,333, but will be much higher.

    The JD team is obviously very creative. If they are challenged to come up with creative ways to engage dancers in the WDF or new immersive dancing experiences, I bet they will come up with some cool and fun ideas. There will always be some people who like it better the way it used to be, and you can't please everybody all the time. But it might be worth exploring refreshing ideas each year.
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  3. #3
    I agree new features on WDF could be found.
    I said "the WDF of JD2020" because it has more variety compared to the one on JD2021.

    But yeah, having new online features each year is nice too.

    An online ranking system would be great on the WDF (like almost all online games).
    - the feeling of getting better is great
    - knowing where you are compared to other players
    - I like the idea of having a world rank
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    An other great features, in offline mode, would be a training mode.

    The problems to train is:
    - restart a song takes time ("pause / restart / select dancer / waiting for the move you want to understand")
    - the move you try to train could be at the end of the song (on some songs, the last move is a gold one, and it's the only move of his kind in the whole song. And when you don't understand why the move is "X" you have to redo the whole song just to have one more try).

    This mode could provide various help:
    - analysis after a move: what the game detect compared to what it expected (I agree, maybe a bit too much but would be so lovely)
    - rewind: instead of restart a song, go back X seconds in the past
    - loop: the dancer select a begin / end of a sequence and the game play it un loop

    Maybe providing too much help to the dancers is not an orientation you're looking for the game, but a bit of help would be great.
    Having at least the "rewind / loop" would be awesome.
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  5. #5
    Restart a song takes time that annoys me a lot.
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    Thanks for all the awesome feedback in this thread. It was really well organized and stated in a constructive and helpful manner. I'll make sure the team is aware of all the feedback here.
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    Also how about bringing the huge catalog of Unlimited avatars. As of right now, there are a lot of great avatars in JD2021, but having an avatar catalog with JD2022 Songs including Just Dance Unlimited songs brings a lot of customization to the dancer cards
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