- Song Beater UI and language update - 8 March 2021
New refreshed UI with customization options. Selected theme can affect colors of UI or you can setup your own. Streamlined UI will enable us to add more modes and features this year, stay tuned :-) Translations to 6 additional languages: Czech, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese Gameplay improvements: better visual and audio feedback for hitting beat orbs, now you can distinguish well executed moves more easily. Last selected difficulty is saved to player profile.
- The "BIG UPDATE"! 😍 - 22 October 2020
New graphics Modern user interface with always available quick game settings at the bottom Real life boxers promotional photos for your fitness motivation 10 new avatars for multiplayer and streaming Themes improved. E.g. Egyptian theme is now populated with even more animals. New content Brand new game mode called "THE CLUB" for extreme calories burning and huge scores. Choose any song you want and it will be played in a loop with constantly increasing speed. Hit special bonuses with your head for extra score. (There's a new song called "Welcome to The Club" in Volume 2 which is a good fit for this mode) 6 new songs added to Volume 2 (that makes total 51 songs and videos in the game + 8 custom songs currently available for download from our server + any custom songs in ModSaber format you download from 3rd party servers or create in the provided Song Beater Editor) 2 new Steam achievem…
- Real 360 and themes update! - 9 March 2020
"Real 360" mode New game mode and environment "Real 360" transports you to center of a high-tech rotating space station. Beats will be coming at you from all directions (including above and below!) but the challenge doesn't stop there. You will be also bombarded by red drones and need to activate your shields (using trigger button) to block them. :-O Flying dragon theme Brand new theme with moving mountains, fog and lightning. Oh and you are standing on a flying dragon. :) Theme enhancements Existing themes have been optimized and improved for better visual experience. New settings Haptic – you can now adjust haptic (vibration) feedback of your controllers (both amplitude and duration) to achieve desired feel New custom balls art – dealing with coronavirus situation and need something to cheer you up? You can select new virus or biohazard symbols and symbolically destroy these threats t…
- 20000 Beats Under the Sea - 2 February 2020
Brand new In The Deep ocean theme filled with wild marine life – corals, jellyfish, octopus, singing whales and small and big fish including sharks circling around sunken ship in front of you :) LIV mixed reality support – now you can stream and be part of the game (for best experience switch to roomscale mode in game settings). Looking forward to see someone in scooba gear playing new ocean theme! :D Custom songs tab now allows simple download of new songs from our server. We will keep adding new songs in the future this way without the need to update the whole game. (And for modders out there, you can take advantage of this system, simply replace URL in patch.txt file with your own) Improvements of existing themes and gameplay – performance and visual improvements (better water in Dark Island theme, fixing entrance flickering in Egyptian theme etc.) Plans for near future: 2 new game m…
- Winter update - 24 December 2019
New Winter theme 5th game environment (theme) has been added. This one is unique - it moves as you play, hope no one will get snow-sick ;) Favourite songs You can now use heart button to mark your favourite songs and sort the songs by your favourites. Custom songs videos We have enhanced support for custom songs. You can now add video file even to 3rd party formats (info. json or info.dat). For more information visit our page here: Song Beater - Custom songs Optimizations and bugfixes Video playback in Island theme has been fixed.
- Modding update - 19 November 2019
Seated/roomscale mode New setting for seated/roomscale experience. We are experimenting with autocentering vs respecting roomscale boundaries in SteamVR. When you start the game in "seated" mode the game recenters to your current headset position (and you can also recenter anytime in the game by holding B button or touchpad right for 3 seconds). When in "roomscale" mode, there is no recentering and your position is absolute within your guardian system. Please give it a try and let us know which setting works best for you so we could make it the default :) Audio modding You can replace sounds of individual weapons and of ingame announcements "miss" and "fail". Go to Settings/Modding, set audio modding ON and exit the game. Then replace WAV audiofiles in ..\\Song Beater_Data\\Modding\\Audio directory with your own and start the game again. Colors modding You can now view/specify colors fo…
- Free weekend + competition! - 8 November 2019
Haven't tried Song Beater VR rhythm game yet? Now is the perfect time! Play it for free till Sunday, enjoy 45+ songs and videos in 4 different environments, smash the beats with your bare fists or variety of weapons. Don't fancy to play alone? Song Beater supports multiplayer! Join multiplayer lobby to play directly against another player or enter championship for massive multiplayer experience. (EDIT November 11th) COMPETITION HAS ENDED! :) Do you enjoy the game and want to keep it after free weekend is over? We have you covered. All players who will play new custom song "We're Coming In" by SmaXa will compete for 15 game keys! Select the song from Custom songs tab in Fitboxing mode and choose any difficulty you like. You can play as many times as you want to place at the top. The competition ends on Sunday 10th at 11 AM PST (19:00 GMT). Top 3 players from each difficulty will be rewar…
- Full release update! - 13 October 2019
After months of constant improving our early access version with regular updates we bring you the ultimate "Full release update", which will pave the way to full release of the game. 16 new songs and videos (so there are now more than 45 songs included in the game!) – Named "volume 2" pack, starring Canadian songwriter and singer Mikalyn, French musician Dizaro and more. 3 new game environments (themes) – Dark tropical island, Deep space and Ancient Egypt. Existing "Early access" theme was improved as well. Championship multiplayer mode – Want to compete with any number of players all over the world at the same time? Now you can, Championship mode brings automated roster of songs playing non-stop, you can join anytime and select your preferred difficulty level as well (you can see number of players participating in each difficulty, after finishing the song you see your overall placement…
- Update #9 (instant shock) - 6 September 2019
Instant shock This new gameplay setting will test your reflexes and reward you with 10% score bonus. When ON, the balls will be spawning in a much shorter distance in front of you thus giving you less time to react. You can think of it as of some kind of martial art practice. :) Camera setting (For streaming or showing your gameplay to friends who gather around your monitor/TV/projector :)) You can now switch between cameras (first person, external static, external moving) and avatar types (Winston or anime character) in the game settings. You can also still use Escape and function (F4 etc.) keys in desktop game window and mouse and arrow keys to adjust the camera view.
- Update #8 (need for speed) - 30 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2Fc29a764c036a269e965f459c41ef7e6924a283fa.jpg 3 new game settings! If you are learning basics of the game or just want to enjoy whole song without the fear of failure, turn "No fail" option ON (your score won't be saved to leaderboard tables though). If you just need to take things a little bit slower, adjust brand new "Song speed" setting to 90% (there will be -10% penalty to your score). If you are already a pro and want to spice things up, turn the speed all the way up to 150% (you will receive +20% score bonus). And the gameplay becomes quite hilarious as a side effect, see for yourself :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni1qhxOH3oY If you want to focus on achieving the highest score, you can now setup "Score per hit" display to show just accuracy (ACC) or just power (POW) of your blows.
- Multiplayer & promotion! - 23 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2F230312a7dfb0416581d6a85c4281745628c9358b.jpg Update #7 is here with brand new features and announcements: Competitive multiplayer You can now compete with your friends or random players by playing the same song at the same time side by side! Whoever wins scores one point to new "Beaters" leaderboard. Ingame footage: https://youtu.be/MA4AMnpHicU How to play? Select "Fitbox multiplayer" and "Play Random" to enter the lobby. Join another player or create your own room and wait for someone to join you. Use popup menu (B/Y on touch controllers or touchpad right on SteamVR) to leave your current song or room at any time. Join our Discord server to let us know your thoughts. We will be enhancing and optimizing multiplayer in upcoming updates. Sales promotion We are starting 2 weeks long sales promotion now! If you are…
- Update #6 and plans! - 16 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2Fe7b047974ce74ac6afde6693cb4b677f14875c48.jpg Sixth update with new features and content is here! 1 new song (so there are now 30 total!) – View by Ametryo Enhanced unicode support for player names in leaderboards – players from Japan, Korea, China, Russia etc. can now enjoy their names in full glory. :) Optimizations (shaders etc.) – as we are currently working on mobile version of the game for GearVR/Oculus Go and potentially Oculus Quest, we apply some of the improvements to PC version as well Plans! Multiplayer! We are already working on multiplayer mode where 2 players can stand side by side and play the same song at the same time (each with own set of incoming balls). We hope to release it in our next update on Friday 23rd, stay tuned! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243%25E2%2580%25A6
- Update #5 - 9 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2Fa3bedfc68bcc0b6d363c4c8e1843f9f72970ec27.jpg Fifth update with new features and content is here! 1 new song (so we have now 29 total songs!) – Brand new vocal version of popular Bad Love track by Niwel Phasers enhanced: – You can now shoot in full auto mode (keep your trigger pressed* and the pulses will be synchronised with song's tempo, you just need to keep aiming) – Each phaser can hold up to 33 rounds and there are 2 ways to recharge them. – If you are overwhelmed by incoming balls use your phaser's blade attachment to destroy them in melee combat instead. Each destroyed ball will recharge your phaser with 10 rounds. – Or bring your phasers together so their blades touch, this way you can fully recharge them in a matter of seconds. – If you are low on ammo (10 rounds or less) you will hear new voice cue "Re…
- Update #4 - 2 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2F87674274f16f7f59f3bd00614a7752a03bed9a0e.jpg Fourth update with new features and content is here! 2 new songs – Island by Jarico and All Night by Peyruis 7 existing videos are now playable as ranked songs as well (so you can choose whether to watch the videoclip in the background or play the song with effects and obstacles instead) Leader kings table now sorts players based on total points instead of simple victory counts. You get 1 point for each victory in gentle difficulty, 2 for light, 3 for normal, 4 for intense and 5 for impossibru. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2F562a5da5fe49bfad122dfe7654e3a6f98f28eaae.jpg Tonfas should be easier to handle if you want to perform complex moves such as rotating the longer end in front of you. Staff can now be held in any hand. Br…
- Update #3 - 26 July 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2F22b10c1c14c3ad8c78fcf6c59865e73a63657cb2.jpg Third update with new features and content is here! 4 new songs – When You're Comin' Back Around (videoclip) by Norwall, Rollercoaster by Declan DP, I Saw a Ghost Last Night by Leonell Cassio... and Sven by Party In Backyard with special minecraft-like treatment, check it out! :) https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2F686917d470c41ee6498c245335ce6c15f5d15d0d.jpg Laser obstacles – Several different types of horizontal and vertical obstacles coming at you, some of them even moving from side to side or up and down! :) They now appear automatically in all ranked and custom songs (not videos), you get +10% score bonus for them. You can turn obstacles off in game settings, but you will lose this score bonus so choose wisely. ;) Life bar…
- Update #2 - 19 July 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2F7bb99059aca67f08a39563f895cfcbf7b00590e9.jpg Second update with new features and content is here! 2 new songs – Minute and Wrong 4 Me by DIZARO. Difficulties up to Intense should be on par with other songs, but boy are we excited about who would be even able to finish Impossibru on these two. Visit our Discord server to let us know what you think! :) https://discord.gg/2cPXfwx Leader Kings – We have noticed some of you are quite addicted to conquering as many leaderboard tables as possible (which is a good thing, naturally). This new leaderboard table gives glory to such players with most leader positions secured across all songs and variants. :) Free Style improvements – We have adjusted Saw in previous update (more precise cuts and better behaviour), now we have applied the same treatment to Blades and Tonfas.…
- Update #1 - 12 July 2019
First update with new features and content is here! 4 new songs – newest single Triumphant by Axl & Arth feat. Dustin Paul, Something for Nothing by Jimmy Burney, Alundra in Videos section; This way by Scomber in Ranked songs; Retro Beats by Mem in Custom songs (if you are interested in creating your own songs, you can open this one in level editor for an inspiration :)). Ranking system – you are now rewarded for playing ranked songs (in fit boxing mode in normal, intense or impossibru difficulty). Your total score in ranked songs determines your current rank level https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35243056%2Fa2b1487b4be0294e1536ceca442d1ff59e0e6eee.jpg Leader glory – when you or any other player place at the top of the leaderboard, all players in the world are notified about this extraordinary achievement (so they can either pause in awe or try to beat yo…
- Thank you & upcoming update - 7 July 2019
First of all huge thanks to all players who have tried our game so far, the reception is overwhelming and motivates us to further improve the game for you. Speaking of improvements, we are already working on an update scheduled for friday 7/12: At least 2 new songs in form of videoclips including fresh single Triumphant by Axl & Arth! :-) Ranking system for players. The more you play the higher rank you achieve. Manual setting for floor/height adjustment in case in-game recentering doesn't cut it for you. Adjusting import of custom songs in ModSaber format – as our balls are bigger than in other games ;-), the near ones can intersect. We will probably rotate them to face each other or reposition them slightly.
