The chat interface got some love, with the “show chat” button, tab completion and nickname highlight alerts. The automatic error submission system debuted, xfire compatibility was implemented, and the main menu and editor interface received makeovers (with new icons by LuigiHann).

Users are now able to see what other users are doing in their user panels, as well as interact with them by clicking to spectate. No joke, Bancho went live this month, and so did the user panels of Extended Chat as you know them today. The idea was to create a server component for the osu! family, which handles communications between users and removes the irc dependency. Various other performance tweaks were made, including the introduction of the frame limit toggle and a number of other graphical options. Performance optimisations saw a decrease in 82% for loading the song selection screen (via a new format for the local beatmap database). Animations could be storyboarded for the first time, and the skin selection screen was added. Users became able to take screenshots, import and export replays. To counterbalance February’s new mods, the Relax and Half Time mods arrived to make life easier for players this month. He somehow managed to draw himself away from the osu! codebase for a full month, and therefore there were no major updates (and the community was quite stagnant during this time). Minor tweaks are made to gameplay, such as non-active circle dimming. peppy could now send universal announcements to all osu! players. New sorting methods were added to the song selection screen. Many new quality skins were submitted by early skinners ( Holiday by LuigiHann, WindWaker by awp). Tooltips are now present explaining all the various buttons in the osu! menus and editor interface. Songs can be edited by dragging them into the osu! window. Players could spectate other players (and spectator data was sent raw over irc!). Replays could be watched for both local scores and online plays. Audio controls were also added to the main menu, which also now plays a random song on startup. Avatars and basic stats were displayed in game (using an http-based communication). In-game chat was added, as an IRC client built from scratch and connected to a standard irc server (no bancho yet). This introduced the status of pending and ranked maps and helped organise the rapidly growing collection of user-submitted beatmaps. The “Beatmap Submission System” (BSS) was made public, allowing users to easily upload and share their creations. Background is osu! development using Visual Studio) IRC usage example (See the “ssh” and “osu!” windows.

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