Beat Saber News

Hey players, we've just released update 1.34.0, featuring the new Original Soundtrack 6 with 4 songs composed exclusively for Beat Saber by the community-beloved artists: Lindsey Stirling, DragonForce, Camellia, and Far Out. But that's not all, we have one additional surprise song releasing soon after! 🤫

OST 6 Track List:
- Lindsey Stirling - Heavy Weight
- Far Out - Lift Off
- DragonForce - Power of the Saber Blade
- Camellia - Tempo-Katana

The OST 6 is a free update for all Beat Saber players and all songs are Content ID free so you can stream them without any limitations.

The update also includes a bunch of new tech and fixes for all platforms, check them below.


Release notes:
[STEAM]
- Fixed: After adding a song to Favorites, a user is not able to select the song in Favorites until re-opening the Favorites list
- Fixed: Default position for Valve controllers (Z position fix)
- Fixed: The 'X' button cannot properly dismiss the pause menu, gameplay flickering briefly before the menu appears again

[Level Editor]
- Added: New easing types with Circle, Bounce, Elastic and Back
- Added: More options for strobes - soft strobes and option to pick strobe “off” color
- Fixed: Several event “hover” issues
- Fixed: Few BPM-related issues


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Experience rock legends – The Rolling Stones – in Beat Saber. The new 11-song music pack features some of their biggest hits like "Paint It Black," along with new tracks from their latest album “Hackney Diamonds.” Get the pack and play now.

Tracklist:
- Angry
- Bite My Head Off
- Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
- Gimme Shelter
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Live by the Sword
- Mess it Up
- Paint It Black
- Start Me Up
- Sympathy For The Devil
- Whole Wide World


Release notes:
- Added: The Rolling Stones Music Pack including 11 songs and a new environment
- Added: Main Menu The Rolling Stones takeover
- Updated: Credits
- Improved: saber slash SFX sounds are respecting the overall volume of the songs
- Fixed: The player is able to slice the blocks while they’re despawning

[Level Editor]
- Added: Notes Per Second indicator
- Improved: BPM Tool
- Fixed: Debug “Overdraw” mode

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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.