Differences from Beat Hazard 1?

[TrueWOPR]

Just looking for a list of major differences between the games, I loved the first game but looking at the trailer all I could really gather immediately is "bigger bosses".

[Leonard]

Open Mic is a pretty neat addition since you can now use youtube, spotify, etc. as music sources.

[Obese Daemon]

Well as it's early access steve himself has stated currently the game is rebuilt fresh and at a point roughly level with BH1/ultra and going forward plans to now develop the game further!

[Uzii]

The VOL pickup no longer exists, instead it is COL for colour. This pickup intensifies the color of the visualizer

It looks like all bosses are procedurally generated, which I think is kind of unfortunate, as it actually kind of removes uniqueness, but it is still in Early Access, so maybe we'll get some normal boss ships.

The big new feature right now is the Open Mic thing.

[Coffee]

Open mic apparently only play left channel. Which make it pointless for many songs that are having some instrument more into left or right channel or some have tiny parts of songs that only play in left or right channel so I fear it go out of sync with what you hear.

[Miu]

Originally posted by Louna:

Open mic apparently only play left channel.

This only depends on what open mic mode you pick, Line in doesn't do this and i think it's the best way of using open mic

[death2cupbots]

Originally posted by Louna:

Open mic apparently only play left channel.

Open mic with the desktop audio mode only plays SFX in the left channel. The music plays in both. Line-in is the optimal way to play open mic.

[runtcash]

Open mic is sweet and the bosses are better I think

[Coffee]

Originally posted by death2cupbots:

Originally posted by Louna:

Open mic apparently only play left channel.

Open mic with the desktop audio mode only plays SFX in the left channel. The music plays in both. Line-in is the optimal way to play open mic.

Why they don't play SFX on both?

About line in, my PC won't support audio input via my PC.

[TrueWOPR]

If it's just open mic then I might end up passing until a few patches; nothing personal, just 99.9% of my music listening is .mp3 files and 0.1% youtube.

Still, I've been hearing about more perks so if we can get new sub weapons to mix/match from that would be a major selling point for me personally. Maybe even a DLC that turns it into a scrolling shooter akin to Schmups of old; the enemies could ride the wave patterns as you go along... But at this point I'm just spitballing and putting out some wishful thinking.

Thanks for the input everyone, unfortunately for me "open mic" isn't a selling point. :( ...still going to keep an eye on this though.

[Miu]

Originally posted by TrueWOPR:

If it's just open mic then I might end up passing until a few patches; nothing personal, just 99.9% of my music listening is .mp3 files and 0.1% youtube.

Game supports alot of filetypes so your mp3's should work fine

[REDCODE]

Nobody mentioned an overall improved graphic, per song leaderboard, a new difficulty level (if suicidial was too easy for you). Played BH2 since closed beta, I opened BH1 Ultra and it felt really bad. The new one is really improved over everything, also I had problems with half of my music files on the first, now I can really play any file on my pc.

[Coffee]

Originally posted by RED CODE:

Nobody mentioned an overall improved graphic, per song leaderboard, a new difficulty level (if suicidial was too easy for you). Played BH2 since closed beta, I opened BH1 Ultra and it felt really bad. The new one is really improved over everything, also I had problems with half of my music files on the first, now I can really play any file on my pc.

GRaphics looks similar in the store video.

What about file navigation? Hate the one in the first if you have a lot.

[Sage]

Originally posted by RED CODE:

Nobody mentioned an overall improved graphic, per song leaderboard, a new difficulty level (if suicidial was too easy for you). Played BH2 since closed beta, I opened BH1 Ultra and it felt really bad. The new one is really improved over everything, also I had problems with half of my music files on the first, now I can really play any file on my pc.

How do you access the higher difficulties in BH2? The game itself doesn't say what the prerequesites are and I haven't played BH1 in so long, that I've forgotten how I did it before.

[Amalia Kalio]

Originally posted by Sage:

How do you access the higher difficulties in BH2? The game itself doesn't say what the prerequesites are and I haven't played BH1 in so long, that I've forgotten how I did it before.

Perk unlocks, except they don't take perk slots. When you finish a song, you can (usually) "unlock" 1-3 perks. Once unlocked, you can buy it from the perks page on the main menu.

[AgentFlea]

This looks like the same game -_-

Can't just be a 1.5 update? Please convince me otherwise because this just looks like the same thing plus a couple of updates and features