Meta is pulling the plug on multiplayer support in Beat Saber for the original Quest headset.
Starting November 2, Beat Saber on the original Quest headset will no longer be able to access multiplayer. This headset was sold between 2019 and 2020, when Quest 2 replaced it. Facebook bought the studio behind the game in 2019, with Beat Games kicking off a series of VR gaming acquisitions in the push toward Horizon.
Quest 2 released in 2020 and Quest 3 late 2023 and Beat Saber multiplayer continues to connect players from Steam to PlayStation VR2 headsets. It will be possible to play the game on the original Quest VR headsets, but Multiplayer will be discontinued and Leaderboards may be phased in at a later date. The reasoning is given is “to concentrate our development effort on our future projects within Beat Saber”.
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left Meta. Meta bought Camouflaj, which gave the platform a left the company rating. Asgard’s Wrath 2 remains didn’t wait long. But what about the half-dozen other studios Meta has acquired in the past few years? Beat Saber Multiplayer should be still playable in the Oculus Quest on November 2, if played from where the game started, streaming via PC. In other words, SteamVR users who still use an original Quest to play Beat Saber on the Rift Store and Steam will not be affected by this change. just-announced Batman: Arkham Shadow