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My gift for Christmas is sore arms from playing Beat Saber. It's a serious workout playing high-difficulty maps.

That map shown in the head video is:

I consider Beat Saber to be one part of the essentials pack of modern VR gaming. As a rhythm game fan, it's what got me hooked on VR, having played it at a VR arcade back when the HTC Vive was considered new. I visited that arcade multiple times and would spend my entire time slot playing Beat Saber. A few years later, I got a Valve Index and it's still one of my go-to games when I use it, alongside Half-Life: Alyx.

Both sabers slashing down hard as mines approach

Water breaks!

Beat Saber is obviously a physically intense game, so I make sure to stretch beforehand. I also take water breaks every few songs or I'll get too exhausted to play well. To help reduce fatigue, I move the rest of my body around with the beat so I'm not just standing still like a scarecrow.

Modding!

One great benefit of PC-powered VR is easy access to modding, and with Beat Saber, modding enables the ability to play community-made beatmaps, which are all I play. Interestingly, my preferences for music in rhythm games tends to be slightly different from my personal tastes. As a result, my collection of maps is very EDM-heavy since the strong beats feel fun to hit in-game.

I also use a camera mod that shows a view on my monitor that's nicer for spectators and screen captures, which is why I have clips of my gameplay. I record with camera settings that roughly approximate what I see and my experience in the headset.

So many maps!

Over the past few years, I've collected a whole lot of maps. I've noticed that the maps I like to download and play fall into four categories:

  1. Really fun movement and patterns
  2. Music from another rhythm game (mainly osu!)
  3. Music I own
  4. Novelty (maps of stuff like "half life 1 medkit type beat")

Here's an example of movement that I find particularly fun, on a map that I like to play a lot as a warmup. Both hands move independently while having a matching rhythm.

Hoohah (VIP Edit) gameplay

Finally, here's a "Bandcamp special", a map I found just today by plugging in names from my music collection into search. Getting to play music I personally listen to is a treat. I think this would count as extremely active listening.

CITRUS! gameplay

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Beat Saber is the best! If you use the BeatLeader mod it automatically saves and uploads replays whenever you beat your previous score on any given map.

Here's my Christmas present to everyone to demonstrate this fantastic ability:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20010657

(Make sure to watch the whole silly thing in all it's glory or you might miss some of the "special moments" 🀣)

I'm 46 and I play every day πŸ‘

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We're you actually spinning IRL when the character/head in the video does it?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yes! I play on a hard floor wearing socks. I spin all the time! πŸ•Ί

In fact, sometimes I slide into position to play! 🀣

Have some more spinning!

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=19582636

This is another... It's an older replay but it still checks out:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=7668607

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah dude, you rock ahha! Such cool showoff considering these tracks already look difficult.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh if I wanted to show off my BS skills I'd post this replay:

https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20047904

😁

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago

What. The. Fuck. Hahaha

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's an older replay but it still checks out

So you tried spinning, and that was a good trick?

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's actually just a silly Star Wars reference. "It's an older code but it still checks out."

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I know. "I'll try spinning, that's a good trick" was a silly Star Wars reference too.

That's an episode one line from kid Anakin that's been meme'd to hell too :)

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I just remembered that I made a gif demonstrating how to spin in Beat Saber!

https://imgur.com/gallery/mm1WVW5

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't have beat saber but this has really made me want to try!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

It's so fun! I've been playing every day for three years now and I'm still ~~addicted~~ having loads of fun with it πŸ˜πŸ‘

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This, Blade & Sorcery, and HL: Alyx are gonna be the first games I get when I get a VR setup.

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recommend you avoid games with continuous movement early on. Moving with joystick feels very bad until you get your VR legs. Also get the Lab, Valve's free VR minigame collection.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 points 6 months ago

One of the first VR games I played was No Man's Sky, on base PS4. Very low res and frame rate, teleport movement possible on foot but obviously not while flying spaceships. And I may have tried spinning a bit (that's a good trick).

Got very sick, very fast.

Nowadays I'm mostly fine playing continuous movement, even relatively fast-paced one. Tunnel effect helps, when it's available.

The only problems are on badly designed games (like those with forced, unpredictable "cinematic" camera movement, don't do that in VR for fuck's sake).

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

I consider Beat Saber to be one part of the essentials pack of modern VR gaming. As a rhythm game fan, it’s what got me hooked on VR

I'm not a rhythm game fan; Beat Saber is the only one I play an it's amazing. It's worth getting VR for this game alone.

!beatsaber@lemmy.ml btw.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I play a lot of rhythm games, and I do play a lot of Beat Saber specifically now. Ragnarock and Pistol Whip (well this one is rhythm-adjacent) are two other VR music games I enjoy.

But I've never had a worse case of sore arms than back when I played Donkey Konga on the gamecube for the first time. I was hooked and played for hours. I didn't notice anything while playing, but my arms were killing me for the whole night after that .

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I hope beat saber goes on sale, my wife wants it but I feel $30 is a bit much.

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

Honestly with the literal unlimited amount of modded songs it's worth more then $30. Just don't start buying music packs at $10 - $15 each. They are horrible to play too.

Buy once for $30 and just get modded content

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I'd say it's worth it just because of the mods available. $30 for the base game while having to pay for any extra song packs is too much, but the functionality and thousands of extra songs that mods bring makes the value much higher.

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it has ever gone on sale.

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It’s never been on sale. I checked all the websites for price history and game deals.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Man. I modded BeatSaber on my Quest 2 years ago and it was a blast. I had so many fun songs to play on there