Synth Riders News

Dear Riders,


We are excited to let you know that we’ve joined forces with an amazing VR rhythm game OhShape to bring you a brand new song! This joint release is an addition to both games’ growing soundtrack, and is available now, FREE in this update!

Move to the beat if you can take it, let the music fold around you, and pull you into... “Delight” by Jamie Berry!


https://youtu.be/_WMFKXb8HJ0

[h2]Collab Delight Contest[/h2]

To bring our communities even closer together, along with OhShape we invite all of you to enter the “Collab Delight” contest with $1600 worth of prizes! There are three categories to enter: Solo Play and Duo Collab categories focused on high scores, and the Creative Collab category to show off your moves, with each category having three prizes up for grabs:

• First Prize - Exclusive Delight Collab Graphic Tee, Delight Collab Mug or Socks, Plus $150USD Amazon Gift Card
  
• Second Prize - Exclusive Delight Collab Graphic Tee, Plus $75USD Amazon Gift Card
  
• Third Prize - Exclusive Delight Collab Graphic Tee, Plus $50USD Amazon Gift Card
  

The winners of “Collab Delight” will be announced during the special co-developer stream on July 1st, 2020.

More information and contest signup for the “Collab Delight” contest can be found here: https://bit.ly/37hfVCh

We’ve joined forces with OhShape to bring you a brand new song, FREE in this update, “Delight” by Jamie Berry! This infectious addition joins our other free songs as part of the Electro Swing Essentials Pack and features the beautiful vocals of Octavia Rose, and we hope it will have you up and dancing with delight!

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved performance and FPS for Oculus Quest native version
  

BUG FIXES

• Selected difficulty will stick when playing a music pack in Play Non-Stop mode. If your selected difficulty is not available in a song, the nearest available will be selected, and you’ll be returned to the selected difficulty again for the subsequent song.
  

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.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Play Non-Stop now available for use with playlists (PCVR only, Quest coming!)
  
• Shuffle Play toggle available for use with Play Non-Stop for both song packs and playlists.
  
• Non-Stop play now lets you choose the song you wish to start on.
  
• YUR.watch integration updated - Just gaze at the watchface to open and close it, and logout from the watch by gazing at the power button on the information panel, and then gaze at the confirmation button. No more accidental logouts!
  
• New in-game camera option “Swing” where the camera tracks with the HMD.
  
• Some changes to the particle effects in game to improve performance (PCVR)
  

BUG FIXES

• Issue causing game crashes for players using both AMD CPU & GPU has been resolved (huge thanks to the #amd-testers and to everyone affected by this - your patience has been greatly appreciated)
  
• In Force Mode, some stages were not showing the Force Meter (thanks ShizuCheese, GranolaGal).
  
• Display track names correctly in Song Status during Non-Stop Play.
  
• Fixed audio stutter on loading songs (Quest)
  
• Fixed wrapping of large rail scores (thanks CodeTato)
  
• Special sections ending with a rail now complete correctly (thanks Teebo, World_Peace, HeyFalcon_).
  
• Returning from Multiplayer no longer forces you to Rhythm - Challenge
  
• Fixed an issue where rapid selection of songs could occasionally cause one map to play with another map’s audio (thanks Teebo).
  
• Making two custom songs with the same audio file name no longer causes conflicts (thanks Jessi, Exce & Hawkwolf).
  
• Fixed some tooltips in the Twitch Integration menu, and made preparations for additional functions in this area (watch this space!).
  

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.

Make new friends and burn those calories during weekly Synth Sundays fitness workout classes!

Meet Carize and HeyFalcon, Twitch Streamers and Fitness Coaches, who will lead open training sessions in the multiplayer mode of the game (limited slots available!). You too can become a Coach and start your own class for other players to join.

Synth Sundays are streamed live at 1PM PST on: multitwitch.tv/carize/heyfalcon_

You can track your fitness progress in-game thanks to YUR.watch, a VR Fitness Tracker available for everyone in Synth Riders.

#stayhome and #stayfit with us!

Hey Riders,

We are very proud to share with you that Synth Riders is now part of a brand-new "VR Fitness Bundle" along with BOXVR and Until You Fall!

This is a cross-publisher collection of games that combine fast-paced action, intense movement, and electrifying soundtracks, aiming to bring back the fun of exercise and make burning calories more exciting than ever before!

Thanks to the bundle, you can grab all three games with a 20 percent discount. The bundle is flexible, so if you own one or two of the games included, you can still complete your collection saving 20 percent on the missing games.

https://youtu.be/poL7lLj31sI
We are big fans of BOXVR and Until You Fall and believe these are perfect titles for the fans of Synth Riders. We are super grateful for all the support we receive from the Synth Riders community. We wouldn't have made it this far without you!

>>Here's a link to the bundle<<

About the other included games:

BOXVR is the award-winning VR fitness game where you jab, weave, and uppercut your way through workouts in time to adrenaline-pumping music.

Until You Fall invites you to battle through an awesome neon environment and strike down magic-infused monstrosities. Fantasy and synthwave collide in this physically active VR hack-and-slash roguelite.