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[as2-somegrey]

Unfinished experimental mod that has been sitting around on my hard drive for a few years;

Relaxing grab-it-all (mostly :D), similar to AS1's [as-nogrey] song tag!

While most spikes have been converted to color, the rows still remain!
Each spike awards 600 points, but destroys a colored tile on the grid.

Early in the song, the caterpillars will be a great source of points, but as your match multiplier increases, you'll have to start considering if the destruction of colored tiles is worth it!

Match multiplier is permanently increased by collecting matches and grabbing power blocks.

Colored traffic awards 300 points on hit, and as the bonus for a big cluster has been disabled, you'll want to grab all the colored traffic for most of the ride, except for:

Before power blocks (same behavior as original);
Before the end of the song, as the Clean Finish bonus is enabled (25%)

Traffic has been sped-up, but also tweaked to be easier to grab (less quick alternation between lanes), and generally adjusted towards more rhythmic mouse movements!

Per-ride RNG has been disabled.

Traffic has a more generous sideswipe window, and lane splitting has been brought back!
(Like in AS1, you can sit on the lane markings, to collect from two lanes at once)

Track shape generation has been adjusted for spectacle! (made with Shepian Classic V2 skin in mind)
The track may sometimes crash into itself as a result, but it's totally worth it :D
The more extreme shaping may cause errors with the "Dusk" skin (depends on the song), but other skins seem fine.

The road has been widened to simulate the '4:3 stretch' look of AS1 (why can't this be done by the skin? :|)
This looks nicer, and makes better use of the width of the screen, but you may want to increase mouse sensitivity, and the puzzle grid isn't as wide as the road anymore, which could be visually bothersome at first.

The extra width also may cause issues with skins that don't scale properly (rings on "classic", for example (fixed in Shepian Classic V2 :p), though most skins seem fine).

I uploaded this mostly so it doesn't just rot (better to put it up as-is than to forget about it completely), but if it gets any interesting feedback, I may still update it (could remove the increase in road width, for example)!

Any feedback is very much welcome! :)

Made with Shepian Classic V2 skin in mind:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2123631843

NEW VERSION: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2287700206