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Synth Riders 2019 Rewind

[h3]Happy New Year![/h3]
As we enter into 2020 with a whole new set of exciting Synth Riders features, and with so many huge things planned, we thought it would be fun to look back at the past year’s accomplishments and get a little nostalgic.

You guys have been the most amazing community we could ever ask for and we couldn’t have gotten here without you! Let’s start this 2019 rewind by looking at some of the top Synth Riders songs that you most enjoyed playing this past year.



The most played song was "Lazer Pink" by Sunset Neon. This is a great EDM song with “synthwave” influences that also broke the mold beyond this very genre. We want to give a huge shout out to Omotea for their fantastic video featuring this Sunset Neon classic, and getting a quarter of a million views while at it!


https://youtu.be/rrUQHC-8D6Y


Your second favorite map this year was another Sunset Neon classic, “Tonight” which has become Synth Riders’ very own 80’s rock n’ roll anthem. ). Nobody captures the essence of this song on the game better than Touge, who nails the appropriate costume for this song on his underrated video masterpiece.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQsR9kFC09g

Your third favorite song was "Enemy" by Blue Stahli, one of the harder electro-rock songs in the original Synthwave essentials pack. Xoxobluff really shows off getting her leg and core workout for the day playing below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-IQnL2Rhg



As far as difficulties in the game, “Expert” was the most commonly played difficulty in 2019, followed closely by “Hard,” which we feel is just about when the game starts to get interesting.

It’s really important to us that Synth Riders is fun for everyone, regardless of their skill level, but we know that it is in the higher level of difficulty, such as Expert or Master,
that really cause you to move your body, experience some of the finer game mechanics and truly feel the music when you play. We’re glad so many people have been experiencing it at these levels

If you’re not there yet, make a resolution that 2020 is the year that you get there! You got this, we’re all behind you! (join one of the Synth Riders Discord groups to meet players, get support and tips)




Lastly, we just wanted to highlight a few of the major features we added in 2019. We’ve been working around the clock to make Synth Riders the best game possible and we think you’ll be very impressed with our 2020 roadmap. Coming up in the pipeline are new song packs, a complete overhaul to the UI, a more robust music discovery system, new features, game modes, and our much awaited multiplayer version, which is already being tested Get ready because in 2020, Synth Riders is about to become a whole new game!

Thanks again for making this year so special for us! We can’t wait for 2020, where we’ll actually get to meet some of you in the new multiplayer mode when that releases very soon!


[h3]Here’s to 2020 and another amazing year with you guys!![/h3]

Update 2.1.8 - Friends Leaderboards!

Hi riders!

Just in time for the holidays we are excited to announce an early version of Friends Leaderboards

We also have a few extra updates:
- Party mode leaderboards by difficulty
- Loading performance improvements
- Bug Fixes

We have loved to hear your feedback and are working hard to optimize the game to its fullest potential.

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Update 2.1.7 - Party Mode!

Here are the fixes and improvements:
- Loading time improvements
- Party Mode is now available, you can find it at the bottom of the song selection menu
- UI improvements
- Mods interaction improvement

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Full Release is now live!

Hi everyone!

We are proud to announce that we are leaving early access! Our community has been integral in getting us here and we’ll continue to lean in on your support to move forward. This is just the beginning.

We will continue to improve the game, build new features and add new songs. Our immediate focus will be to bring multiplayer to life, with more features forthcoming, such as new power ups, stay tuned!

it doesn’t mean that we finish the journey, it means that we actually started, we have great plans for the near future and we are excited one of our main focus will be multiplayer in companion with a bunch of power ups, Synth Invaders and new music will come as well. Stay tuned!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65-KEXgZGI

Today's update:


Visuals:
- New stage called “The Monolith”
- Graphic improvements in all the stages
- Dynamic lights improvements

Development:
- Performance improvements

Music:

A new music pack with 5 songs from Ninety9 Lives:

1. “Underdog” by Kastra
2. “Paris Night Walk” by Roy
3. “Id” by Ben Lepper
4. “Spectrum” by Axtasia
5. “Outburst” by Never Modern Talk


New song over the FIXT Essentials Vol 1 Music Pack:

1. “Into the Void” by Celldweller (Exclusive early release)
2. “L.O.V.E.” by PRIZM
3. “All Night” by PRIZM
4. “Phoenix” by Scandroid


As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our “Official discord server” Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.

Your energy moves us forward, thank you to all of you for making this happen!

Update 2.1.5.8

Hi everyone! we are happy to announce our last update before our final release!!!

Here are the fixes:

- YUR connection bug fix
- Performance/Bug Fixes
- Custom Stages <https://github.com/shogoki-vnz/SynthRiders-CustomStages>

As always we welcome your feedback and bug reports on our Official discord server. Please use #bugs-report to make sure that we see your feedback.