Beat Saber Adding New Blocks For More Rhythmic Mayhem
The popular rhythm game Beat Saber, available on virtual reality headsets like PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift, will introduce brand-new block varieties in a coming update. The VR experience, developed by Beat Games, immerses players in a neon environment and tasks them with using swords to slice blocks to the beat of a song. By February 2021 Beat Saber sold four million copies, likely making it the most popular virtual reality game on the market.
Beat Saber combines rhythm reaction and immersive combat, allowing players to slash flying blocks with a pair of swords. The red and blue blocks move to the beat of the chosen song, and the player must slice each block with the sword of the same color to create an intense dance routine. The popular title has also received post-launch support from Beat Games, with a song editor released about a year after launch. This tool lets players add custom songs to the rhythmic project, with one example being the addition of «Toss A Coin To Your Witcher» to Beat Saber by a fan of Netflix's Witcher series.
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Revealed by Beat Sabervia Twitter, an upcoming update will add brand-new block varieties to the VR rhythm experience. Usually players simply slice blocks once, but new types will add even more challenge to the experience. A long segmented block, called the Slider, seems to force gamers to follow through a strike in a certain direction in order to maintain the song's rhythm. Faint lines can also be seen leading into other blocks, which may be a new training mechanic or another new type of block that requires extreme precision to hit correctly. On Twitter Beat Saber's lead level designer, known as Freeek, revealed
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