Beat Saber Multiplayer: I haven’t seen anyone else talk about it, so here goes.
tl;dr it’s kind of shit.
I’m only going to talk about Quickplay. There are private rooms also, which I don’t have enough friends to try (sob). In QP, you get to choose your difficulty and which packs to include (e.g. built-in packs only or all of the ones you have.) Then you get matched with 1-4 other people (total 5) and each person can choose a song. The song you all play is chosen randomly from among selections and play starts. You play your chart and other people are way off in the distance playing their charts too. You couldn’t possibly pay attention to them. Whoever is the currently point leader gets to loom large, projected into the middle of the arena, but you barely notice unless it’s you (in which case you see no projection.) If you fail you get to spectate, either from a distance or from behind any player. At the end, scores are tallied and ranked… and that’s it. That’s it.
Notably there is:
- no skill ladder. you’ll get matched with whoever
- no penalty for bailing at any time
- no way to restrict packs (HOLY SHIT ANOTHER CAMELLIA SONG!!!)
- no way to interact with other players at all other than waving
- no real reason to ever play this mode