Rocking Legend News

Hi VR rockstars!

In preparation for the upcoming campaign update, this update brings 2 new OST songs along with the current progress about level improvements and rebalancing.

new OST song: "Thundering metal"



new OST song: "Walking through memory"



We also added some additional musical props to the game:



We also addressed a bug some users experienced following the initial logo scene. Compatibility with Oculus link and virtual desktop should be improved.


Changelog summary:
- new OST song: "Thundering metal"
- new OST song: "Walking through memory"
- some levels improvements and rebalancing
- new props in menu and stadium scenes
- level completition dialog shows correctly
the number of played notes over the total
- fixed a possible crash following the logo scene


As always, we are always open to suggestions about future improvements.

Stay tuned for the next updates!

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Hello VR rockstars!

The update brings a new gameplay modifier: "invisible notes":



With this modifier on, notes will become invisible a little before being playable!
Use your musical ears to overcome the additional difficulty, and take advantage of the (albeit little) bonus!

A functional and interactive microphone is now in the studio menu and in-game:



You can use it just for fun and warm up your vocals for now, but more to come for your parties if asked!

The update also contains some rebalanced levels, resulting from the work we are doing for the future campaign update.


A little changelog summary below:

- new gameplay modifier: invisible notes
- functional microphone added
- difficulty rebalancing for some levels
- gameplay fix: notes must always be played in the correct order
- latency optimization
- minor menu navigation improvements
- some performance optimizations

As always, we are always open to suggestions about future improvements.

Stay tuned for the next updates!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/domurosoft
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RockingLegendVR/

Hello VR rockstars!

We are proceeding with the campaign implementations, this update should hopefully be one of the last before releasing it to the public!

The update brings a new gameplay modifier: "bomb notes":



With this modifier on, some notes will be replaced by a bomb one... don't make them explode!


Another modifier is the "no-fail":



This replaces the old "Training" game mode. Your score will have a penalty but you can always play to the end of the song and put a record on the leaderboard!


We also playtested and made some adjustments/fixes to the gameplay to make the game a little more fair/forgiving about errors.
Also made other tweakings to virtual guitar positioning according to users' feedback and lots of polishing around the edges.


Numerous other changes are made, a changelog summary below:

- New gameplay modifier: bomb notes
- New gameplay modifier: no fail
- Some gameplay improvements: discarded some "unfair" errors
- Virtual guitar positioning improvements
- Freehand sensitivity preference is now saved
- In-game UI feedback improvements
- Memory management and performance optimizations
- Audio previews volume fading in the song selection menu
- Training mode is functionally replaced by the no-fail modifier
- Coming-soon campaign button placeholder
- Other minor bug-fixes

As always, we are always open to suggestions about future improvements.

Stay tuned for the next updates!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/domurosoft
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RockingLegendVR/

Hello to all the VR rock stars!
This new update got a lot bigger than we previously planned.

The update brings a new gameplay modifier: "Swap lane":



A new OST song: "Disturbed dreams"



Most of the OST levels have also been improved and rebalanced.

We also improved the menu scene by adding more musical props and improving scene lighting naturalness, while also making some performance optimizations.



We also fixed wrong natural HOPOs in .mid custom songs.
You should need to reimport your custom songs in order to have HOPOs placed properly.

Numerous other changes are made, a changelog summary below:
- menu scene gfx improvements and optimization
- stadium scene performance improvements
- song loading times dramatically reduced
- OST levels updated and rebalanced
- virtual guitar weight approximation
- new gameplay modifier: swap lane
- new OST song: "Disturbed dreams"
- animated 3d laser rays better react to music
- virtual guitar resets rotation on recentering
using physical controller
- fix for wrong natural HOPOs in .mid
(a reimport is needed)
- input is disabled while loading a scene
- fixed a case of missing note release detection
- tap notes are more visible (white tip added)
- longer strum anticipation time allowed

As always, we are always open to suggestions about future improvements.

Stay tuned for the next updates!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/domurosoft
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RockingLegendVR/

Pull-off for tap notes and fix for slowdowns on Open notes



This update addresses the slowdown issue reported while attaching white open notes, and adds pull-off support for tap notes too.