Synth Riders News

Hi Everyone!

We have some exciting news! Having heard from our community, especially on discord we are proud to announce update 2.0.7.

Improvements
- Special notes and long trails now stay in place every time
- Better performance when loading screens
- Improvements in the calibration settings
- Improvements on the hitboxes

Features
- Obstacles
- A new stage called ‘Neon Dreams’
- Color customization

New Songs
- Occams Laser - Satanic Panic
- Jeremiah Kane - Vampirevania

Editor improvements
- Timing issues with the metronome
- 5 types of obstacles
- An option to copy and paste notes
- Bookmarks
- Improvements in free camera rotation and position

We hope you enjoy all the new features we have built for you. Feel free to connect with us over discord to discuss anything related to Synth Riders. Thank you to all the beta testers for your fantastic support.

Best,
Synth Riders team

Hello everybody!

We have great news to announce!

• We added the fastest song of the game so far (180 bpm!) by the legendary Wolf and Raven. This Beatmap was made specifically for working out so we recommend stretching before you play :)
  
• We fixed the problems with hit detection! If you're still having trouble, please let us know.
  
• We improved Boxing Mode to make it more effective. Now you can turn Boxing Mode off simply by pressing the triggers.
  
• And finally we are proud to announce our official editor! Users can now create their own Beatmaps to play with Synth Riders! We're incredibly excited to see what the community comes up with. So get creative by downloading the editor here! - http://editor.synthridersvr.com/, after you finish creating your Beatmap there is a folder in the Synth Riders' game called "CustomSongs" where you have to drop the .synth file.
  

Ride the Synth!

We have a major update for everyone! We’ve been listening to all your feedback as we try to make this the ultimate VR synthwave experience.

A major request was simply that the game was too short! So we added Easy, Normal, Hard, and Expert levels to all the songs to create a game that was easy to learn but hard to master. We also added 5 new songs from top Synthwave artists:

• Scandroid - Neo-Tokyo (Dance With The Dead Remix)
  
• Sunset Neon - Tonight
  
• Powercyan - Space Rock (PYLOT remix)
  
• Robert Parker - End Of The Night (Feat. Doubleboy)
  
• Dance the Dead - From Hell
  

We heard that we needed to refine our game mechanics to add new challenges and improve playability. We’re releasing:

• Different colors for Right and Left handed notes
  
• An Energy Level system allowing a user to fail a level after missing too many notes
  
• A new scoring system based on Speed and Precision
  
• A new settings panel with audio, graphics, calibration and gameplay options
  

And we know that people loved the visuals and the ambience so we decided to double down. We implemented:

• New environmental music for loading and menus
  
• Two brand new Cyberpunk stages
  
• Stunning new visuals across the whole game
  
• Performance improvements so the great visuals can be seen on most machines
  

Finally, we’re excited to announce a Beatmap Editor! This will allow players to map notes to their own songs and play. While we’re not releasing it as part of this update, you can check out a first look in the video section.
Link: https://youtu.be/UnNTjGVc6KQ

Let us know your thoughts in the comments and most importantly Ride the Synth!

• Improved performance for a broader range of computer setups.
  
• Enhanced visuals, interactions and functionality of musical notes during gameplay.
  

• Enhance videos to look more retro with the new glitch effect accessible via the settings panel.
  
• Turn on/off sound effects that play upon hitting musical notes during gameplay via the settings panel.
  
• Added new game mechanic "Boxing mode" accessible via the settings panel. When "On" the notes will be valid only when punched and will give 2X more points, when "Off" the notes can earn up to 50% more points by hitting them faster during gameplay.