AUDICA: Rhythm Shooter update for 18 April 2019

Hey everybody!

Today we’re excited to add two brand new songs to AUDICA! Today’s release brings _AUDICA’s _soundtrack to a whopping 16 songs, with plenty more on the way. The two new songs available today are:

• 3Lau ft. Ninja – “Game Time”
• M-Cue – “Predator”

In addition to new songs, AUDICA’s 0.1.6 release brings a handful of changes including:

• Song Previews – You can now hover over a speaker icon on the song list to hear a preview for that song.

• Community Maps Improvements:

  • Added "Mapper Mode" option to the settings to allows you to start playing at a later point in the song, to make it easier to test targets later in the song.
  • Let melee targets be affected by grid offset so community mappers can experiment more with melee target placement.
  • Included authoring for all difficulty levels in the "example_maps" folder.
  • Minor updates to mapping tools.

• Scoring Tweak - Shots with perfect aim now automatically count as having good form, regardless of gun position.

• Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where certain styles of swings could cause double melees to be missed.
  • Potential fix for an issue where some Vive controllers might double-shoot in some rare circumstances.
  • Fixed issue where Community Maps would show the wrong number of stars.

In case you missed it last week, we also announced the _Audica _Creator Initiative. As part of this, we have released our tool set and documentation for authoring songs in AUDICA. These tools empower our incredibly talented modding community to create their own authoring for songs on _AUDICA’s _in-game soundtrack.

More information can be found in our blog from last week, or in the documentation included alongside the authoring tools in the game files.

We’re excited to see what you create! Be sure to share your creations and download others in the #audica-community-maps channel in the official Harmonix Discord server: Discord.gg/Harmonix

Speaking of Discord, thank you for continuing to share your feedback and thoughts on _AUDICA _since we launched into Early Access! If you’re curious about what’s being worked on next for the game, you can always take a peek at our roadmap on Trello: https://trello.com/b/VLEw3nkw/audica-development-roadmap

Thanks!

• Team AUDICA