Easy (mod)
Easy
Reduces overall difficulty - larger circles, more forgiving HP drain, less accuracy required.
Reduces overall difficulty - notes move slower, less accuracy required.
Reduces overall difficulty - larger circles, more forgiving HP drain, less accuracy required.
Reduces overall difficulty - more forgiving HP drain, less accuracy required.
| Acronym | EZ |
| Type | Difficulty Reduction |
| Default shortcut key | Q |
| Game modes | |
| Score multiplier | 0.50x |
| Status | Ranked |
| Incompatible mods | Hard Rock (HR) |
Note: For the lazer version of this article, see: Easy (lazer mod)
Note: For other uses, see: Easy (disambiguation)
Note: For the full list of all mods, see: Game modifier
The Easy (EZ) mod is a difficulty-reducing game modifier that halves all difficulty settings of a beatmap.
In all game modes except osu!taiko, the Easy mod grants the player two additional lives per play. If the health bar drops to zero, the game pauses to remove one life and slowly refills the health bar to approximately 80%.
The game signals the start of the refill event by playing the skin's readysound.wav file. Once the health bar finishes refilling, the gosound.wav file plays, and the beatmap resumes. If the player runs out of remaining lives and the health bar empties completely, the play fails normally.
osu!
In osu!, the Easy mod decreases circle size (CS), approach rate (AR), overall difficulty (OD), and HP drain (HP) by half.
Comparison between a regular play (left) vs a play with the Easy mod enabled (right) in osu!
Many players find that the Easy mod does not lower the difficulty of high-density beatmaps. The halved approach rate creates a dense, visually cluttered playfield that makes reading the beatmap difficult.
osu!taiko
In osu!taiko, the Easy mod decreases the slider velocity, overall difficulty (OD) and HP drain by half.
Notice
The amount of hits that are required to finish a spinner is reduced to the value of the OD.
Because players cannot fail mid-song in osu!taiko, the mod does not grant extra lives. Instead, it lowers the health requirement needed to fill the health bar, allowing it to fill much faster than normal.
osu!catch
In osu!catch, the effects are the same as in osu! with a few parallels and adjustments: fruits fall slower (halved AR), fruits become bigger (halved CS), and two extra lives are granted.
Due to the single-axis movement of the game mode, the larger fruit sizes and slower drop rates can present the same readability challenges found in osu!.
Comparison between a regular osu! at play (left) vs a play with the Easy mod enabled (right) in osu!catch
osu!mania
In osu!mania, the Easy mod reduces overall difficulty (OD) and HP drain by half, and grants two extra lives. Slider velocity and default key counts remain unaffected.
Trivia
- When watching a replay where an extra life is used, the game skips the health refill animation and continues the play as if the No Fail mod were active.
- In multiplayer, the extra lives mechanic is disabled in the Tag Co-op or Tag Team Vs. team modes.