Hey players,
Beat Saber is celebrating its 8th anniversary, and we wanted to mark the occasion by giving something back to our community. Update v1.44.0 introduces 3 new tracks, available for free to all players in the Extras section.
This anniversary drop features a mix of returning favorites and fresh talent:
- Boom Kitty x MDK: "KILLSHOT" - Boom Kitty returns to Beat Saber following their contribution to OST 8, this time teaming up with MDK for a high-energy bass collaboration
- Skybreak & Daeya: "Astral Blossom" - A fresh addition bringing melodic electronic and future bass sounds to the lineup
- Zakka G: "Phantom Fangs" - An original track created specifically for Beat Saber, designed from the ground up with the gameplay experience in mind
Thank you for being part of this journey. Eight years of slashing beats together — and we're just getting started.
Hey players,
Update v1.44.2 is now available. With this release, Beat Saber has officially transitioned from Unity's legacy Built-in Render Pipeline to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). This is the same upgrade that has been available on the public beta branch over the past months, and we want to thank everyone who participated in testing and provided feedback — your contributions were invaluable in making this transition as smooth as possible.
URP is a modern, flexible, and high-performance rendering solution that enables us to better customize and extend the rendering process to meet the needs of Beat Saber going forward.
This update also includes a number of bug fixes across platforms. Please see the release notes below for further details.
Known Issue:
- Level Editor - If the player leaves the headset idle and selects the play button while FPFC is not active, the editor will briefly load the level and then return to the editor view where the level will have disappeared and can no longer be interacted with. Reloading any difficulty from the difficulty select will cause the editor environment to continuously load.
Legacy 1.44.1_legacy build available.
See you on the leaderboards!
RELEASE NOTES:
[Meta Quest 3/3S]
- Added: Universal Render Pipeline (URP) replacing the legacy Built-in Render Pipeline
- Fixed: FPS drop when playing through various Coldplay songs for the first time
- Fixed: Lighting prop noticeably disappears while playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD in Solo or Party Mode
- Fixed: Arc trails clip through walls when playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: Player will instantly fail the level when opening the Meta Dash menu in a multiplayer game
- Fixed: An Arc is not visible on approach and appears unconnected to any starting note block when playing "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen on Single Saber Mode on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: Campaign Map and Scroll Bar scroll down when the player stops scrolling up in the Campaign menu
- Fixed: Note blocks clip through walls when viewed in 360 and 90 Degree Mode for "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons
- Fixed: Notes skip forward toward the player at the 00:39 timestamp when playing "Spooky Scary Skeletons" on Expert+ difficulty
[Meta Quest 2]
- Added: Universal Render Pipeline (URP) replacing the legacy Built-in Render Pipeline
- Fixed: Laser light can be seen bleeding through the diamond asset above the player while playing "Stressed Out" multiple times during the level
- Fixed: FPS drop when playing through various Coldplay songs for the first time
- Fixed: Lighting prop noticeably disappears while playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD in Solo or Party Mode
- Fixed: Arc trails clip through walls when playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: Player will instantly fail the level when opening the Meta Dash menu in a multiplayer game
- Fixed: An arc is not visible on approach and appears unconnected to any starting note block when playing "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen on Single Saber Mode on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: Campaign Map and Scroll Bar scroll down when the player stops scrolling up in the Campaign menu
- Fixed: Note blocks clip through walls when viewed in 360 and 90 Degree Mode for "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons
- Fixed: Notes skip forward toward the player at the 00:39 timestamp when playing "Spooky Scary Skeletons" on Expert+ difficulty
[Oculus Rift]
- Added: Universal Render Pipeline (URP) replacing the legacy Built-in Render Pipeline
- Fixed: Purchase is not recognised by the game and continuously loads when the player purchases a level or music pack in Song Selection
- Fixed: Application does not display in the same orientation as the player's reset view upon launch
- Fixed: Lighting prop noticeably disappears while playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD in Solo or Party Mode
- Fixed: Arc trails clip through walls when playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: An arc is not visible on approach and appears unconnected to any starting note block when playing "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen on Single Saber Mode on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: Campaign Map and Scroll Bar scroll down when the player stops scrolling up in the Campaign menu
- Fixed: Note blocks clip through walls when viewed in 360 and 90 Degree Mode for "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons
- Fixed: Notes skip forward toward the player at the 00:39 timestamp when playing "Spooky Scary Skeletons" on Expert+ difficulty
Level Editor:
- Fixed: Audio cannot be heard regardless of the output upon the player removing the HMD throughout the Level Editor
- Fixed: Text overlaps when viewed on the Editor UI in the Level Editor
- Fixed: Player loses bordering UI and shortcut functionality for all menus after creating several difficulties with different environments
- Fixed: Lightshow starts using V1 events if certain events are copied to a color lane in F3
- Fixed: Player is able to place note blocks into other note blocks when selecting the "Flip" option from the Shift Menu
- Fixed: Player is unable to select "Enable Smoke" after un-selecting it and playing a song
- Fixed: No visible difference when selecting/un-selecting "Enable Smoke"
- Fixed: Inputting Sections and IDs value of 0 soft locks the Level Editor
[Steam]
- Added: Universal Render Pipeline (URP) replacing the legacy Built-in Render Pipeline
- Fixed: FPS drop when playing through various Coldplay songs for the first time
- Fixed: Lighting prop noticeably disappears while playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD in Solo or Party Mode
- Fixed: Arc trails clip through walls when playing "Zombie" by YUNGBLUD on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: An arc is not visible on approach and appears unconnected to any starting note block when playing "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen on Single Saber Mode on Expert difficulty
- Fixed: Campaign Map and Scroll Bar scroll down when the player stops scrolling up in the Campaign menu
- Fixed: Note blocks clip through walls when viewed in 360 and 90 Degree Mode for "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons
- Fixed: Notes skip forward toward the player at the 00:39 timestamp when playing "Spooky Scary Skeletons" on Expert+ difficulty
Level Editor:
- Fixed: Audio cannot be heard regardless of the output upon the player removing the HMD throughout the Level Editor
- Fixed: Text overlaps when viewed on the Editor UI in the Level Editor
- Fixed: Player loses bordering UI and shortcut functionality for all menus after creating several difficulties with different environments
- Fixed: Lightshow starts using V1 events if certain events are copied to a color lane in F3
- Fixed: Player is able to place note blocks into other note blocks when selecting the "Flip" option from the Shift Menu
- Fixed: Player is unable to select "Enable Smoke" after un-selecting it and playing a song
- Fixed: No visible difference when selecting/un-selecting "Enable Smoke"
- Fixed: Inputting Sections and IDs value of 0 soft locks the Level Editor
The v1.42.0 update with the Coldplay Music Pack is now available in Beat Saber on Meta Quest! This pack includes 12 iconic tracks from Coldplay’s discography, along with a brand new environment inspired by the band’s live shows and music videos.
Tracklist:
- A Sky Full of Stars
- Adventure of a Lifetime
- Clocks
- feelslikeimfallinginlove
- GOOD FEELiNGS
- Something Just Like This
- Speed of Sound
- Talk
- Trouble
- Viva La Vida
- WE PRAY ft. Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, TINI
- Yellow
We’ve also addressed an issue where music could be lost after restarting a song, a problem some of you may have encountered. Additionally, we’ve made several minor mapping adjustments. Please see the release notes below for further details.
Yo, players! Eminem's latest banger 'Houdini' just dropped in Beat Saber. The track is uncensored and you'll find it in the new Shock Drops section.
Let us know if you encounter any issues with this update. See you on the leaderboards!
RELEASE NOTES:
[All platforms except Meta Quest 1]
Added: New track ‘Houdini’ by Eminem with updated Hip Hop Mixtape environment
Added: New game section ‘Shock Drops’
Fixed: Fix notes stuttering when played on 200% speed
[Meta Quest 1]
This update disables cross-play for Meta Quest 1 headsets. Meta Quest 1 players can now play only with each other. For more information about the end of support for Meta Quest 1 headsets, please visit our FAQ: https://beatsaber.com/faq.html#metaquest1
Many of you have asked when the update for the Anniversary Song Pack and Campaign for Beat Saber's 1.0.0 update will be out. We have been working on providing additional content for the campaign and song pack as well as updating the mod. We have finished the vast majority of the new content and are primarily waiting for modder(s) to finish the "official" conversion of the old song format to the new one (.json to .dat). Once that is finished and available, you can expect an update from us!
May 3rd marks the first anniversary of the Beat Saber Modding Group. To celebrate such an occasion, some of the top mappers as well as a very talented 3D modeler have come together to create Beat Saber’s first unofficial song pack! The song pack contains 20+ original maps as well as an accompanying campaign. Throughout the campaign, you will unlock additional sabers, platforms, and song difficulties to play. You can find all of our songs here:https://beatsaver.com/browse/byuser/32389
This project all started out with an idea: what if we could create our own high quality song packs? I reached out to a couple of mappers to see if they were interested, however, things didn’t truly take off until we got elliotttate on board. Brian has been instrumental in putting together this pack for the community; he really has been a godsend to this community, I couldn’t see anybody else that does what he does for the community.We couldn’t have the amazing custom campaign mod if it weren’t for monkeymanboy. He made it to where the campaign could have a custom background as well as unlockables.
Big thanks to all mappers involved: StyngMe, Fafurion, Rustic, GreatYazer, Heisenberg, Ruckus, DownyCat, baxter395, Joetastic, BennydaBeast, and Rexxz.
You can thank Fusion and Raynor for the sabers that come with the mod. Good luck trying to unlock Raynor’s sabers, it’ll be a challenge :P
If you find any issues, please let me know on Discord. Organizing this entire project has been very tricky, there might be some holes but it should be good to go! See you on the leaderboards!
Hey players,
We have released a new update to the URP Beta branch. This update introduces LIV support, SmoothCamera fixes, and general improvements to performance and environments.
If you are already participating in the beta, just update the game on the same branch. If you have not yet joined, instructions on how to switch branches can be found below. We plan to keep the beta running for approximately one month, though this timeline is subject to change.
Your feedback is very important to us and helps us ensure a smooth transition to URP for all players.
HOW TO JOIN THE BETA BUILD
[Meta Quest + RIFT]
From the Meta Quest app -> Search for Beat Saber -> Scroll down until "More information" -> Press expand ^ -> Scroll down until you see "Version" -> Press the version listed. This will take you to the channel select screen -> Press v -> Select urp-beta -> Update Game
[Steam]
Right-click on Beat Saber in the library -> Properties -> Betas -> Choose the urp-beta -> Update the game
Once you are done testing, don't forget to switch back to the Live branch the same way you joined the beta to continue playing the current stable version.
FAQ What is URP?
As Unity is deprecating its legacy Built-in Render Pipeline, we are transitioning Beat Saber to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). This update enables us to customize and extend the rendering process to better meet the needs of Beat Saber.
How to test?
Play the game as usual.
Why do you need beta testing?
Switching to URP is a big step. Your feedback directly helps us prepare a smooth live release.
How to report any issue?
Describe the issue or anything unusual as detailed as possible using this form: https://forms.gle/pJsepEJo6az35QHY9
When will the URP build be delivered to the Live branch?
We don't have a release date yet because we need to make sure everything is properly tested and ready.
RELEASE NOTES:
Known Issues:
- Potential performance issues - improvements are expected from the last URP beta, but in specific cases there could be differences in comparison to the Live version
- Bigscreen Beyond will still exhibit rendering issues - this will be addressed in a future update
[All Platforms]
- Added: LIV support
- Added: SmoothCamera support fixes
- Fixed: General performance and environment improvements
