Beat Saber News

Linkin Park and Mike Shinoda are back in Beat Saber with a brand new music pack featuring their new and iconic hits, together with an exclusive unreleased song “Already Over” from Mike Shinoda.

Linkin Park and Mike Shinoda’s music can’t be neatly defined by just one genre, it crosses from nu-metal, to hard rock and hip-hop. Players will have the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the following pulsing tracks:

- Already Over - Mike Shinoda
- Crawling - Linkin Park
- Fighting Myself - Linkin Park
- In My Head - Mike Shinoda & Kaliee Morgue
- Lost - Linkin Park
- More The Victim - Linkin Park
- Numb/Encore - JAY-Z, Linkin Park
- Remember the Name (feat. Styles of Beyond) - Fort Minor

To celebrate the latest launch, we’ve updated the original Linkin Park Music Pack (2020) with an enhanced environment and levels, including Arc & Chain Notes. Players can easily switch between original and new levels. This is available as a free update for anyone who owns the original music pack, players simply need to update their game.

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Release Notes:
- Added: new Music Pack Linkin Park x Mike Shinoda with 8 new tracks, featuring the exclusive new song “Already Over” by Mike Shinoda
- Added: Remastered the Linkin Park Music Pack (original Standard beatmaps now found in Legacy gamemode)
- Added: New environment Linkin Park 2.0
- Fixed: Black screen issue when the user exits the ‘Settings’ menu by pressing ‘Ok’
- Fixed: stages' elements flicker when starting a song in multiplayer
- Fixed: Incorrect usernames issue when playing in a custom Multiplayer lobby with one or more spectators
- Fixed: Main Menu screen stuttering and distortion when first loading up the application after the Warning Screen
- Fixed: Remastered and two of the newest ‘The Weekend’ songs' bring up an 'Error Loading Data' and become unavailable after the user goes into the 'Settings' menu and presses 'OK'.
- Fixed: “Waiting for players” message appears head locked when loading into Multiplayer
- Fixed: Not loading ColorW in environments

[Level Editor]
- Added: Simple support for Legacy Characteristic
- Fixed: The Beatmap editor prompt message is head locked towards the top of the user's sight, hard to read
- Fixed: Headlocked VR camera

Hey players,
We've just launched an update featuring an upgraded Steam SDK version, bug fixes, and various tweaks. Check out the full release notes:

• Steam SDK updated to a new version
  
• Tweaked: Index controllers default position to fit better
  
• Tweaked: The Weeknd environment
  
• Tweaked: Multiplayer visuals
  
• Fixed: “Search” for All Songs and Favorites (Search box correctly refreshes for All songs and Favorites)
  
• Fixed: Black screen after exiting the Tutorial
  
• Fixed: Various Multiplayer stability enhancements
  
• Fixed: Occasional game crashes happening while playing
  
• Improved: Better results while using Search bar
  

Let us know if you come across any issues.

Slash and dance to two NEW hits, 'Die For You (Feat. Ariana Grande)' and 'Less Than Zero' or get the expanded 12-song The Weeknd Music Pack. But wait, there’s more news: if you own Imagine Dragons or Panic! At The Disco Music Packs, you can now easily switch between original ‘Legacy’ beatmaps and the recently updated ones.

Get the two new hits from The Weeknd or the full expanded 12-song Music Pack. Now available for purchase as additional content for the game.

Song List:

• Die For You (Feat. Ariana Grande) – NEW SINGLE
  
• Less Than Zero – NEW SINGLE
  
• Take My Breath
  
• Can’t Feel My Face
  
• How Do I Make You Love Me?
  
• I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)
  
• Pray For Me
  
• Sacrifice
  
• Save Your Tears
  
• Starboy (feat. Daft Punk)
  
• Blinding Lights
  
• The Hills
  

Release Notes: Game:

• Added: Songs Die For You (Feat. Ariana Grande) and Less Than Zero to The Weeknd Music Pack as additional purchasable content
  
• Added: Legacy Maps for Imagine Dragons and Panic! At The Disco Music Packs
  

Level Editor:

• Added: Per-difficulty color scheme
  
• Added: Per-difficulty environment
  
• Fixed: Loading of unsupported characteristic
  
• Fixed: Version parsing
  

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Enjoy the new music and see you on leaderboards!

One Saber fans rejoice! We added new One Saber levels for the songs 'Don't Stop Me Now' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (Queen Music Pack). But that's not all, check the full release notes. ⬇️


Release notes:

• Added: Queen One Saber levels ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
  
• Updated: Queen ‘One Vision’ cover art
  
• Fixed: First person flying controller
  
• Fixed: Offset settings in controllers settings tab are following the correct axis
  
• Tweaked: Queen light shows and maps
  
• Additional bug fixes
  

Give it up for one and only - Queen! Slash to the beats of one of the most iconic rock bands in music history and experience Queen's legendary music like never before. The Queen Music Pack is packed with all the great hits. Enjoy the pumping anthems you know by heart in a brand new custom environment, featuring silhouettes of each band member.

Track List:
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Don’t Stop Me Now
- I Want It All
- Killer Queen
- One Vision
- Somebody to Love
- Stone Cold Crazy
- We Are The Champions
- We Will Rock You

Release Notes:

Game:
- Added: 11 new tracks from Queen, including new environment with neon-glow silhouettes of legendary Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor
- Tweaked: Arc Options - hiding Arcs will disable haptics
- Tweaked: Back columns in environments
- Fixed: Several Arc and Chain interactions
- Fixed: Arcs are not connected to Chains tail

Editor:
- Added: New Audio spectrogram
- Added: Click to select for box groups and event boxes
- Added: Ctrl + Space and long space to return to start beat on pause
- Added: Show each Chain Link passing beat line separately
- Added: Rectangle selection to event box groups
- Added: Return on Pause
- Added: Update of chain links display - properly dimming links behind beat line
- Fixed: Contrast of button states
- Fixed: Note feedback in Zen mode
- Fixed: Scrolling precision calculation
- Fixed: v1/v2 laser rotation preview
- Fixed: Endless loading issue while creating new beatmap
- Fixed: Events not cleared on repeating open
- Fixed: Laser rotation in v1 going crazy
- Fixed: Contrast for pressed / selected and disabled state
- Fixed: Note feedback audible in Zen mode
- Fixed: Precision slider calculation
- Fixed: Paging for v2 events

See you on the leaderboards!

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