Credit: Image originally appeared on Playstation Blog.The true potential of Beat Saber lies inthe communities that support it, the mods and custom content they havedeveloped to expand its features, and the various ways you can engage incompetition with the thousands of other active players. The base game providesa solo experience with a number of well-crafted charts with five difficulty levelseach but, even with the two currently available DLCs, rhythm game and VRenthusiasts alike are likely to be hungry for the larger variety of communityofferings before long.
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Here you will find an introduction to modding the game,exploring Beat Saber communities, and ways to get involved in competitive play.Modding Beat SaberAfter over a year of development, community mods span all manner of gameplay aspects from simple color changes to advanced multiplayer modes and, most importantly, custom songs. Thanks to an army of modders, the process of browsing and installing mods is a relatively painless one. The mod installer programs have gone through a number of iterations, but modding efforts have recently converged on. ModAssistant is generally regarded as the easiest run-and-done installer to get basic mods set up as of this writing, while BeatDrop is more varied in its capabilities and includes many features beyond just modding. ModAssistant UI Previewhas deep ties with the modding community and their is usually the best place to find the most up to date detailed instructions for basic mod installation and setup for the current version of Beat Saber.
Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game where you slash the beats of adrenaline-pumping music as they fly towards you, surrounded by a futuristic world. The mod repository ModSaber has shut down. This means that the ModSaber Installer will no longer work. Mods are not lost. This is not because of the new EULA. It's not the end of the world. We are in the process of moving to a different service. Currently all mods are available on Beast Saber.
If you are not already aware, every time Beat Saber has an update it breaks many mods as they need to adapt to the requirements of any new features. Often enough, this also leads to small changes in the modding procedure. Please don’t hassle the Beat Games devs or go crazy with negative reviews over this, as it is part of the natural game development cycle for any unofficial and unsupported community content (which all mods are). Mod developers are quick on post-update turnarounds, usually getting mods back up in a couple days or less so fear not if your favorite mod takes the weekend off. Custom Songs and PlaylistsThe ability to create and share customsongs is the cornerstone of the game’s ongoing success from a mod perspective.
Customsongs expand the game’s breadth of content immensely, allowing the community toexperiment with patterns, songs, and mapping features that would be impracticalor otherwise beyond the scope of anything that would be released officially. Withover 60,000 custom song leaderboards, there is more playable content availablein more genres and styles than any studio could dream of releasing on theirown. Whether or not the original soundtrack is your jam, you’re certain to findsome enjoyable maps amongst the sea of custom songs.The core mods installed by default by all of the mod installers provide you with the basic functionality to play custom songs.
With the BeatSaverDownloader mod, you can search and directly download custom songs in game. Once you have a handful of custom songs, you can favorite them to add them to the Song Browser Favorites playlist, or use an external tool like to create custom playlists of them.Some mod efforts have actually allowed mappers to break the original mold for gameplay and make the mapping of songs a more free-form process for those who want some more creative options.
Some of the unconventional features available for custom song creation include extra note lanes beyond the usual four, more flexible wall placement, and more fine control over block position and orientation. Beat Games themselves jumped on board with more creative mapping experiences in an official manner recently with their announcement of for the Oculus Quest version of the game. Beyond Custom SongsCosmetic Mods were some of the earliest developed and have expanded to cover many of the core models and texts in the game. You can change the appearance of the notes as well as your platform, sabers, and avatar to a variety of community-made options.
Most of the available models are housed on. Custom Colors allows you to alter the basic color scheme of Beat Saber, affecting your sabers, note blocks, and lighting. Further cosmetic mods allow you to adjust more subtle features, such as NoteSpawnEffectRemover, which removes the pillar of light when each note spawns.There are also a couple of helpful cosmetic text changes like HitScoreVisualizer, which allows you toenhance and customize the score text you get when you hit a note, or playfulones like CustomMissText which can heckleyou upon every miss. In the same vein are CustomFailTextand CustomMenuText allow you tocustomize more prominent game text or allow it to be randomly picked from alist of options.UI Enhancement isprobably the most regularly useful category of mods. They provide improvementsand extra functionality to most every aspect of the user interface for thegame. Particularly notable when your song list grows are song filtering modslike SongBrowser and EnhancedSearchAndFilters which allow youto browse your songs more easily, and add some extra song stats for the displayedleaderboards if you’d like. There are also a few more unique ones like BeatSaberDrinkWater, which reminds youto stay hydrated, and a couple that generate pop-ups, like NoFailCheck, to make you confirm that you want to run with certainoptions or perform a certain action.Gameplay Changes arealso found within the sea of mods.
DarthMauleffectively transforms two sabers into one two-color saber. ChromaToggle allows for various ways tochange colors mid-game, making for a rather hectic experience. NoArrowsRandom restores an old versionof the randomly mapped No Arrows mode.
GameplayModifiersPlusand GameplayRestrictionsPlus addadditional rulesets to play by, with the latter including such things asfailing on a single bad cut.Streaming Tools have also become fairly well-rounded, allowing a lot of highly-sought streaming functionality. The Camera+ mod is often utilized on streams alongside Custom Avatars to give viewers a superior viewpoint and FOV compared to the standard first person view. HTTP Status allows the game to feed information about the current song, status, and your score to an overlay. Some mods like Enhanced Twitch Chat or Gameplay Modifiers Plus also give you and your viewers ways to interact with each other while you’re in game. There are some other useful non-mod stream tools, such as ItsNovaHere’s HitOverlay package, which tracks the notes you are hitting and feeds them to another overlay you can use. From dj w’s Sky and Neltharion platform demoModding on Oculus Quest is still in the early stages of development, but custom songs are definitely playable.
The sideloading application can help you install custom songs onto your Quest from your PC. You are limited in the quantity of songs you can upload, in the neighborhood of 2GB of song files, but you can always swap in a new batch if you want new ones. If you have an Oculus Quest, can provide a number of other fun or useful, albeit unofficial, applications as well.Custom Content Links. (Custom song curation and rating).
(Custom song repository). (Tutorial hub). (Custom avatars, sabers, and platforms). (Mod repository). (Mod installer). (Mod installer).
(Oculus Quest sideloading tool). (Make your own maps)CommunitiesBeat Saber has a variety of communities, from worldwide and regional-specific social groups to dedicated cohorts for supporting specific mods. Just to name a few, there’s which deals with the custom leaderboards and ranking of songs, which is the overall hub for mods and custom content, and which serves as an all-purpose discord hub for players and game media.Many servers offer some unique content or challenges for their members as well. The unofficial Beat Saber Discord Server has a weekly competition on a new playlist each week and a rank system you can climb based on performance on OST songs and weekly events. Cube Community regularly releases videos of high level or unique gameplay and supports community media projects such as, a talk shows with members of the Beat Saber community.
The Beat Saber Modding Group hosts large events and recently expressed their intent to host 64-player tournaments as a quarterly event starting with Summer Saber Stars. If you’re particularly hyped and want to start your own project, like Ashleyriott has done with in partnership with BSMG, go find a community with a similar interest and make it happen!There are also a number of regional discord servers, both BeatSaber specific and more VR general, to chat and compete with players aroundyou. Every group has a space to socialize and a relatively unique culture so itis worth a shot to hop around and find some places you like to hang out. Thesecommunities are a fantastic way to expand your Beat Saber experience in bothfunction and fashion by gaining access to particular custom content, support, anda variety of people with whom to socialize and compete.Discord Server Links. (Unofficial).Competitive PlayFor most people, their first foray into competitive play is fighting for rank on the global Scoresaber leaderboards. Scoresaber implements a system of performance points (pp) as the metric of skill by which to rank people. Playing a ranked song grants you a score in performance points based on your in-game score, usually less any positive modifiers.
A song may be ranked upon request if it meet criteria set by the Scoresaber team, who then run the map through an algorithm that determines its difficulty and the maximum number of performance points it is worth.Your total pp score is determined by a weighted sum of all your individual song scores, with the highest being worth full value and each lesser score being worth a continually smaller portion of its score value. The performance point system can be rather complex and will be covered more in the final article of this series but generally, the more you play, the more high scores on difficult maps are rewarded over variety of maps played.Competing for leaderboard positions is challenging in its own right, but competitive Beat Saber has spread well beyond just the unofficial rankings with a wide variety of formats and prizes.
The new Mod Manager, thanks to Megalon:This is a temporary mod installer. Keep an eye out for a newer one at some point. This currently only supports 13.2 and doesn't have any rollback function, FYI.BeatMods, the new mod repository, if you need to install mods manually, thanks to vanZeben:.Remember to always run the game once after installing/updating before you start installing mods.If you install mods manually, you have to install/run BSIPA first and it's a good idea to install all of the dependency mods that are required by some of the other mods to avoid conflicts. The dependency mods are:NewtonSoft JSON, Harmony, CustomUI, Ini Parser, BS Utils. Originally posted by:Sad to hear that Beat Saber devs are cracking down on mods.
Very dissapointed in them The guy handling ModSaber and the mod repository had to step down suddenly. I'm not going to say it was a coincidence that it happened on the third patch in a row and right on patch day. It takes a lot of work to update the installer every time the game is patched and it's likely he was already juggling too many things to handle that. Regardless, he had to leave everything to BSMG so it took them some time to catch up and now we have this. It had nothing to do with the devs. This was explicitly stated by BSMG.