Update 2.3.2.a20
Hey Riders,
We’re into the final week of Synthtober Fest, our month-long celebration to mark 12 months since Synth Riders left Early Access and was released for the Oculus Quest! You can find out all the details of events here: https://synthridersvr.com/fest/
(Still not riding those synths on a Quest 2 and would like to? You can enter our Gleam draw to win one here: https://gleam.io/EaGcj/synthtober)
A New Master Difficulty Map for “Revenger”
As a part of continuing to complete our Cyberpunk Pack, you’ll find that “Revenger” by F.O.O.L. is out for revenge, now with a new Master difficulty added!
Advanced Graphics Controls - Now With Obstacle Controls! (Quest only)
Quest players, have you ever played “Phoenix” by Raizer and noticed the stacks of obstacles vanishing? This “obstacle despawn” effect cuts down stacked identical obstacles which helps to keep the game running smoothly for players on Quest. However with the enhanced abilities of the Quest 2, and the ability to tune advanced graphics settings in game now, we’re offering Quest players more detailed control of this despawn effect.
In Settings > Visuals > Advanced Graphics Settings you can now dial up (or down) the walls on the Quest 1 and 2, and even disable “cosmetic” walls entirely! Our algorithm spots walls which do not impact on the game play area and are used mainly to add to the atmosphere (such as the overhead wall tunnels in “Phoenix”), and then these can be turned off to improve performance.
100% Perfect Hits? That’s Incredible!
Now that we’ve seen players getting a perfect hit on every note in a song, we’ve added a special “Incredible” message seen on song completion, and those have their scores marked on the leaderboard with gold lightning bolts. We’ve also improved the accuracy stats percentages display to show decimal places.
Bug Fixes / Improvements
As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server (Invite: http://discord.synthridersvr.com). Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.
If you want to support the development of Synth Riders, we really appreciate reviews left on the Steam/Oculus Store!
We’re into the final week of Synthtober Fest, our month-long celebration to mark 12 months since Synth Riders left Early Access and was released for the Oculus Quest! You can find out all the details of events here: https://synthridersvr.com/fest/
(Still not riding those synths on a Quest 2 and would like to? You can enter our Gleam draw to win one here: https://gleam.io/EaGcj/synthtober)
A New Master Difficulty Map for “Revenger”
As a part of continuing to complete our Cyberpunk Pack, you’ll find that “Revenger” by F.O.O.L. is out for revenge, now with a new Master difficulty added!
Advanced Graphics Controls - Now With Obstacle Controls! (Quest only)
Quest players, have you ever played “Phoenix” by Raizer and noticed the stacks of obstacles vanishing? This “obstacle despawn” effect cuts down stacked identical obstacles which helps to keep the game running smoothly for players on Quest. However with the enhanced abilities of the Quest 2, and the ability to tune advanced graphics settings in game now, we’re offering Quest players more detailed control of this despawn effect.
In Settings > Visuals > Advanced Graphics Settings you can now dial up (or down) the walls on the Quest 1 and 2, and even disable “cosmetic” walls entirely! Our algorithm spots walls which do not impact on the game play area and are used mainly to add to the atmosphere (such as the overhead wall tunnels in “Phoenix”), and then these can be turned off to improve performance.
100% Perfect Hits? That’s Incredible!
Now that we’ve seen players getting a perfect hit on every note in a song, we’ve added a special “Incredible” message seen on song completion, and those have their scores marked on the leaderboard with gold lightning bolts. We’ve also improved the accuracy stats percentages display to show decimal places.
Bug Fixes / Improvements
- Larger font used to display the in-game News and Updates on PCVR.
- Keyboard trigger for color change disabled (thanks cronoiserich).
- Sorting songs by “Newest” working as expected again (thanks everyone).
- Quest 2 note jump speed limited to 2x due to performance issues encountered at 3x.
- Note values updated on Modifier Selection screen.
As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server (Invite: http://discord.synthridersvr.com). Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.
If you want to support the development of Synth Riders, we really appreciate reviews left on the Steam/Oculus Store!