Soundscape VR: 2017 News

The Soundscape team is excited to announce our latest free update to SVR is now live! Seven years of hard work have led up to this massive update, we hope you enjoy!

Patch Notes:
NEW SOUNDSCAPE: SILICA SOL
Soundscape's newest world awaits.  Venture to the golden sands of Silica Sol and discover an eternal desert sunset filled with unique plant life, alien minerals, and new audio-reactive art.  Silica Sol is our largest and most intense Soundscape yet!
 
NEW CHARACTER PROGRESSION
Gain experience to level up your character and build community prestige, unlocking new unique abilities while showing off your passion for music!

NEW TALENT SYSTEM
Spend talent points earned to enhance your character and gain special powers.  Get closer to the stage with the "Rail Rider" perk, fly faster with "Stage Sprinter" or even go invisible with "Dark Sunglasses!"

NEW PROFILE CUSTOMIZATION
Represent your favorite songs, albums, artists, festivals and more with new player profiles that help you find others with shared musical interests.
 
NEW VISUAL EFFECTS
New artwork has been hidden in each world, seek out and discover bioluminescent butterflies, crystal spirits, and other dreamlike creations.

NEW COSMETIC ITEMS
Earn 9 new groovy hats, helmets, and masks to stylize your avatar and outfit your virtual persona with the latest swag.

NEW SVR LIVE v4.0
Embark on a shared audiovisual journey this summer at music festivals across North America.  The world's most advanced music stage has been upgraded with all-new mind-melting features.  We've taken SVR LIVE to the next level and you'll have to see it in person to believe it!

Visual overhaul and enhancement of all worlds
- All worlds have received new art assets and expansion of their core visual theme. Discover new spotlights, new planets, new trees, new foliage, new snow, new stage areas, and much more, as well as lighting and shadow upgrades to make each Soundscape more beautiful than ever before.

Performance improvements for all worlds
- All worlds have undergone significant optimizations improving performance. Higher framerates means a more immersive and comfortable experience for longer play sessions. Twilight Thicket is still our most advanced level and designed for users with advanced GPUs, but you can expect to see improvements of 30% or more on framerates, while at the same time improving overall visual quality.

Control upgrades supporting Vive/Index/Rift CV1/Rift S
-Enhanced haptics, controls, aim, and usability for all controller types, including new experimental WMR support.

SVR LIVE performance and gameplay upgrades
- A variety of visual and usability enhancements to our mixed reality stage and art installation mode.

Sonic AI v2 audio-reactivity improvements
- Improvements to beat detection, frequency detection, and visual reactivity to any genre of music, making the world of Soundscape more reactive and dynamic. Phase 2 improvements coming soon.

Real-Money transactions are now available for those who wish to support development
- All store items and character mods can be purchased for free with Harmonia you earn from playing, but we are now giving you the option to contribute to future development with in-game purchases. It takes an enormous amount of resources and effort from the entire Soundscape team to create this alternate reality for you, and just helping us all break-even would be fantastic. We're not in this for the money, we do it for the love, since day 1 over 5 years ago. It's why we built Soundscape to have no music packs, no ads, no selling your data - because we love making this for you. Want to help out another way? Leave a review for Soundscape on your platform(s) of choice and share your experience to help other music lovers find this free software!

Optical Hack unlocked for all players across all platforms
- 3 trippy effects available for free, expandable with up to 25 visual enhancements that you can use to glitch out your friends.

Lighting micro-controller to control and modify each world in tune with the music available for purchase and coming soon
-Includes free Enhanced Optical Hack effects!

Artist Link stage upgrades
-Improved and expanded with brand new enhancements to visualizations, models, and pyrotechnics

Menu and UI enhancements
- New world select screen, new gameplay modes added, and new instructions on how to play any music you want to hear Bug Fixes

-A large number of reported bugs have been fixed enhancing every thing from solo to social play, UI, cosmetic items, music, and more.

What a journey it has been building out the Soundscape Universe for all of you and seeing just how far things have come! We're looking forward to another amazing year of our best content yet!

Patch 4.20 notes:
-Cosmetic items and upgrades have arrived! Equip your character with unique items to identify yourself in the Soundscape social worlds, from neon space helmets to enhanced 4D afterburners. All items are able to be earned through normal game play and purchased through the new in-game store.

-Players can now aquire Harmonia, a new in-game currency. You can earn Harmonia automatically by playing, up to 400 daily (100 every 15 minutes), as well as gain even more from other activities like exploring and finding hidden golden records. There are many wild character upgrades and customizations to come, so start saving up now!

-Spectra Dash is Soundscape VR's first rhythm game mode that you can play with any music, the objective is to jet around and destroy objects that spawn to the beat of your music. You can play single player or multiplayer, and additional UI and display changes have been added to enhance your combo and scoring abilities - now which can award additional Harmonia!

-SVR UI v2 is officially complete! Nearly every aspect has been enhanced to give you the most seamless experience possible. Do more with less clicks and explore new creativity tools, new settings, and much more in a new command center that is intuitive, beautiful, and powerful.

-Additional lighting upgrades in Crystalline Summit and Twilight thicket have been completed, resulting in one of the most high quality visual experiences in VR - if your GPU can handle it!

-Haptics improvements have been made to make flying, shooting, and boosting all feel more dynamic and responsive than ever before.
-Support for Index controllers and Rift S controllers have been added.

-SVR LIVE mode is here! SVR LIVE is a special game mode for live events at music festivals, art installations, and venues. This mode is intended for commercial operators, please email us at [email protected] to request access. We'll be unveiling more information in June, stay tuned to see the future of live music and VR as we debut our live stage v3 at Sonic Bloom in Colorado!

-A large number of bug fixes related to the music UI, haptics, visual effects, social play, and more have been implemented. Thanks for your help in reporting these!

-Enjoy enhanced immersion with new ambient sounds added to each Soundscape. Wind racing over mountains, crickets chirping in the forest, solar sounds from deep space - you'll be pulled deeper into each unique world than ever before.
-Maximum simultaneous player count in each game increased to 240
-Social play live on all platforms
-New visual effects in twilight thicket and crystalline summit
-Player list functionality expanded
-Visualization mode selection enabled
-Optimization improvements
-Many Bug fixes
-More to come next week!

Hey all! BIG patch 2.02 today is now live on Steam and will be on Oculus at midnight MT! Enjoy the many improvements, more to come!

-Dozens of performance improvements and optimizations
-Improved lighting in Twilight Thicket
-Multiplayer characters will now move and fly much more smoothly
-Visualization modes and Chaos modes unlocked and able to be selected via UI
-Scoring HUD now displays correctly in multiplayer
-Swords now display in multiplayer
-Session list upgrades to sort and join multiplayer games easier
-Player list now displays curator and other multiplayer users in session
-Improved visuals and effects on floating lanterns
-New particle effects added
-Crystalline Summit visual upgrades
-Various particle upgrades
-Tree upgrades
-Stability improvements and crashing fixes
-Some magical springtime flowers have been seen sprouting in Twilight Thicket