Ghost Ray ULT, beam by beam

The chart at a glance

1. 1

   Read the shelf: ULTIMATE 8, 1,076 notes

   Ghost Ray's ULT chart sits at ULTIMATE 8 — but the shelf number hides the real cost. This is the note-count wall of the launch ULT charts: 1,076 notes at 175 BPM, more than Hyaloüyne's level 10. The song card also advertises its harsher sibling: Ghost Ray FBD, level 10 with 1,484 notes, the densest chart in the game.

   

2. 2

   Start from the finish line

   This is the run the page walks toward: EX+ at 097'827'412 under the FULL LINK banner, MAX LINK 1076 — every note in the chart still linked. The judgment row tells the story: 1,033 + 29 EXACT, 14 NEAR, zero BREAK. FULL LINK does not demand perfection, it demands survival: the moment a note leaves the chain, the banner is gone. Even the card's MISS HP 13 is just the toll of those 14 NEARs.

   

Opening: six lanes, two beams, one resting cursor

1. 3

   One hand, six lanes, no excuses

   The playfield spells its lanes out — SHIFT · A · S · D · F · SPACE — and at 000'000'000 nothing is moving yet, the last calm moment of the chart. Park the thumb on Space, the pinky on Shift, and let the three middle fingers own A, S and D. Ghost Ray's diagonals will drag the cursor across the entire field; the keyboard hand must not budge.

   

2. 4

   The twin beams open the song — and return to close it

   The first signature arrives at once: two cyan field beams pouring down the middle lanes side by side, an EXACT printed under each. Learn them here, because the same motif reprises deep in the back half. The beams are Field geometry — rest the cursor between them and let both settle at once, instead of chasing each one on its own.

   

3. 5

   The first long slab sets the Field rule

   Barely twenty notes in, the chart sends its first extended slab curving down the centre lanes. Field notes are areas, not targets: put the cursor on the path the head will travel, hold still, and let the tick trail stamp EXACT underneath. Chasing the edge is how NEARs are born.

   

Midchart: diagonals, staircases and wide panels

1. 6

   Split the job: the cursor glides, a finger holds

   A third of the way in, Ghost Ray shows its real trick: a long cyan beam sweeping diagonally from the top left while a yellow hexagon hold feeds on the keyboard lanes below. The beam's angle stays constant, so pre-decide the path and glide; the hold takes one finger and no attention. Two limbs, two jobs, no overlap.

   

2. 7

   The staircase is the song's signature

   Around the halfway mark the chart plants its trademark: a purple slab climbing from the bottom-left corner across the whole field, EXACTs stacking at its base as it rises. The play is patience — set the cursor at the foot of the stairs, let the slab climb through it, and resist the urge to ride ahead of the head.

   

3. 8

   Wide panels want your centre of mass

   The back half opens with broad rectangular panels sliding across the middle lanes, framed by a yellow flick wedge on one side and a green triangle on the other. A panel this wide covers three lanes at once — stand where it passes over you and spend the spare motion on the flicks, never on the slab.

   

4. 9

   What the brackets are telling you

   Outoki's hands-off chart view makes the Field's contract visible: white corner brackets frame the capture zone each wide panel wants to occupy. In this render nobody is home — the BREAK counter in the corner climbs past 1,200. The brackets are the game telling you where the cursor must already be when the panel arrives.

   

The last hundred notes, and what failure teaches

1. 10

   The climax is one crossing, not two beams

   Past note 1,000 the finale sends a curved purple beam across the twin cyan lanes, and this frame catches the intersection: three EXACTs on one sparkling line. The whole section is decided at that crossing point — everything before it is positioning, everything after is recovery. Move at the crossing, nowhere else.

   

2. 11

   The last wall covers the whole field

   At 1,049 of 1,076 notes, a full-width purple triangle spans every lane at once. There is no side to escape to — pick the centre of the panel, make the smallest corrections that keep the sparkling edge alive, and hold. Twenty-seven notes later, the chart is over.

   

3. 12

   The same chart, abandoned

   Outoki's render ends the way every neglected dive ends: DIVE FAILED at 019'052'250, every keyboard note broken, D rank on the card. Set it beside the EX+ run at the top of this page — same chart, same 1,076 notes, and a seventy-eight-million-point gap made entirely of input. The cursor field forgives even less than the keyboard does.