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Download Mod Assistant Modassistant download mod assistant ModAssistant. Tweak your experience with the infamous Beat Saber game with the help of this user-friendly PC mod manager that uses mods from BeatMods. What's new in ModAssistant 1.1.23: Change Log: Updated OneClick Installer to work with the new BeatSaver instance (thanks @legoandmars) Added error handling for pats and hugs. Beat Saber is a virtual-reality rhythm game available on Steam. The main goal of the game is for users to slash the beats of intensely pumping music as it flyes towards them in a Sci-Fi futuristic world. As its name clearly states, ModAssistant is a super easy-to-use mod manager designed to help users apply mods to Beat Saber. The app uses the databases provided by the BeatMods portal. For such a lightweight application, ModAssistant features a series of pretty nice features. These include installed mod automatic detection, a mod uninstall wizard, support for OneClick Install, a complex theming engine, localization support, and something called dependency resolution. To use the app, users have to make sure that Beat Saber is installed on their computers, and that the game has run at least once before attempting to mod it. Please note that this also applies when the game in question is reinstalled. Users should keep in mind that all mods are moved into an Old X.X.X Plugins folder on the first launch to avoid any version-related mismatches. The next step is to check off the mods that need to be installed via the Install (or Update) button located on the interface. The same goes for removing the mods, a process that can be accomplished via a single click on the Uninstall button. More information about the app is available on the official GitHub repository, and a detailed guide about all the aspects regarding modding is available here. 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The following guide is for the PC VR version of Beat Saber only. Modifying the game doesn’t seem to be possible on PSVR and the Oculus Quest has a very different process that changes regularly, depending on which tools are currently available. This guide is up to date as of February 2021 for version 1.13.2 of Beat Saber. We’ll try to keep this guide up to date as much as possible, but sometimes it can be hard to keep up with all the patches and changes to the modding tools. If you’re using a newer version of Beat Saber and this article hasn’t been updated, it’s likely that the process remains exactly the same. If not, let us know in the comments and keep an eye out for an update. Tools and Sites. There are a bunch of different tools and sites you can use for Beat Saber modification. For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll be using Mod Assistant for installation and first-time setup and the site Beast Saber to find and download custom maps. Although we won’t cover it here, if you want to read up on an alternative for managing your custom maps, check out BeatDrop 2. While we prefer using Mod Assistant to keep things simple, it is possible to manually download and install custom maps yourself, without any external tools. To see how, scroll to the bottom of this guide. Setting Up. Before getting started, we suggest making an account on Beast Saber and downloading the latest release of Mod Assistant from GitHub. You might also need to know the install location of Beat Saber on your system . If you simply installed the game through Oculus or Steam on your standard C:// drive in the default location, then you shouldn’t need to worry. However, if you have your games installed in a custom location or you have multiple drives with different programs installed across them, you might want to locate your Beat Saber install folder location now (you should be able to use the Oculus app or Steam to find the location). In this instance, the folder you want to select is the one called ‘hyperbolic-magnetism- beat-saber’. Also, make sure you’ve run/played Beat Saber at least once on your system before proceeding or installing any mods. First Time Install. If you’ve never installed custom maps on your copy of Beat Saber, you’ll need to install some plugins and mods that enable third-party map support in-game. When Beat Saber updates, your custom maps may or may not be intact/enabled. For example, previous updates (such as going from 1.6 to 1.7 of Beat Saber) did not disable or remove any custom maps. However, patches and updates do have the potential to break mod support, so you’ll have to check on a case-by-case basis with each new update. In this event, a new version of ModAssistant will be released to work with the new patch. As of the most recent 1.13 patch of Beat Saber, ModAssistant is up-to-date and should work with Beat Saber. For future updates, there’s a chance you may have to repeat these steps again, perhaps with some changes to accommodate for a new patch. To set up a first-time install or update your modded Beat Saber after a new patch: 1. Open up ModAssistant.exe and agree to the terms of use. You don’t need to install Mod Assistant — you can place it anywhere and open it from wherever, whenever you want to use it. If Mod Assistant can’t find you Beat Saber install folder, it will ask you to locate it. Point it toward the folder you located earlier, if so. 2. Open up the Mods tab. When you open the mods tab, all of the prerequisite mods for custom maps should be automatically ticked. There are a whole bunch of others you can install, but for the purposes of this tutorial, just click the “Install or Update” button in the bottom right for now. You only need to install the basic, pre-selected mods to play and install custom maps. NOTE: On the left hand side, you’ll see a drop down menu indicating your Beat Saber version. Sometimes, after an update, the latest release of Mod Assistant might not technically support the latest version of Beat Saber. In this case, Mod Assistant should warn you that your Beat Saber version is newer than what the program supports. It should also ask if you want to proceed anyway. In the past, we’ve successfully been able to proceed anyway and just continue the process with the most recent supported version of Beat Saber selected in Mod Assistant, even if it doesn’t completely match the version we have installed. While we didn’t run into any problems, this might vary on a patch-by-patch basis or might change in the future. 3. Wait for mods to finish installing. Once mods are finished installing, you’re ready to install some custom maps. Install Custom Maps. If you didn’t change any of the preset mod installs, then Mod Assistant should have installed a tool that will allow you to search for and install custom maps in-game. You can find this on the left hand side of the Beat Saber main menu next to release notes. There will be a tab reading “Mods”. Clicking on that tab will offer the option “More Songs”.
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