“Do you have what it takes to be a star?”
-Old game description
RoBeats! (sometimes referred to as Robeats) is a Roblox MMORPG rhythm game created by RobeatsDev. It includes many aspects such as Gears and Minis to boost your score while maintaining the classic vertical scrolling rhythm game gameplay.
Gameplay[]
Similar with every other rhythm games, players will need to press the notes in rhythm. RoBeats follows the classic Vertical Scrolling Rhythm Game (VSRG) gameplay, with 4 lanes. There are only 2 types of notes while playing: notes and long notes. Unlike some other VSRG games, long notes in RoBeats requires player to release in time in order to avoid missing. There is also the fever mechanic that boosts the player's score temporarily if they do well enough, however the boost will go down if they misses.
In RoBeats, players begin with access to every Easy Songs and a copy of Monday Night Monsters after completing the tutorial. They can either play a song solo, or compete against 2-4 players for extra rewards. In multiplayer, players can choose to either play on Compete Mode or Casual Mode. In Compete Mode, players can play with gears meanwhile in Casual, they can only play without gears.
There is no main objective of the game, however players can do various things such as completing daily missions and getting to the Star rank, or crafting gears in order to get higher scores while playing.
Songs[]
See also: Song List
RoBeats have many genres of songs from various artists. Each songs have elements, where specific gears can score better depending on elements. Songs are categorized in different difficulty levels, ranging from 1 to 39, with higher numbers meaning more challenging maps. To unlock more songs, players have 4 main options:
- Buying songs from the daily rotation in Song Shop using either Coins for normal modes or Stars for hard modes.
- Using the Song Machine to get random songs.
- Crafting songs using notes. This is mainly used to craft a Hard mode, but can also be used to craft a Normal mode if a song has an Easy difficulty.
- Subscribing to RoBeats VIP and getting access to all songs in the game until their VIP subscription expires.
There are also EXTENDED CUT Songs which are only obtainable from opening EXTENDED CUT Box or subscribing to RoBeats VIP.
Currency[]
There are two type of currencies: Coins and Stars. Coins are the main currency as they can be obtained through a lot of different ways and can be used for many purpose, meanwhile Stars are the secondary currency, which is harder to get but can be used to buy Hard difficulty directly, better gears, and more.
Collection[]
Main article: Collection
The Collection is a feature in RoBeats that keeps track of every collectable item in the game and allows the player to track their progress. The items tracked by Collection are:
Gears[]
Main article: Gear
See also: Mini
Gears are accessories that players can mainly obtain through the Gear Shop or by Crafting them using blueprint. Gears provides extra effects to the gameplay, such as Fever Time increasing the length of a fever, Beat Points increasing scores for songs with Beat element, and more. Gears can be very helpful when it comes to playing multiplayers with Compete Mode, completing weekly missions or competing in the weekly leaderboard. There are also Minis, which is an extension to gears. Unlike gears, the minis can be slowly upgraded when players play more, as they get EXP each play.
Leaderboards[]
Main article: Leaderboards
The leaderboards is a mechanic where players can compete with other players to earn rewards such as titles, blueprints, boxes, and more. There are 3 types of leaderboards: The weekly leaderboards where players can choose 4 out of 8 chosen songs to compete in, the event leaderboards where the leaderboard is hosted in the current artist featuring event and resets every 15 minutes, and the weekly mission leaderboards where players compete in weekly missions.
Teams[]
Main article: Teams
Teams is a mechanic where players can form groups to compete in the teams leaderboards, for the one week reward of buffed element points and perfect points. The teams leaderboards works by doing tasks such as completing missions in order to get points for the team. Other than the leaderboards, team owner or admins can also purchase bonuses with Stars in order to give bonuses for the team members, such as increase Mini EXP per plays.
Artist Featuring Event[]
Main article: Artist Featuring Event
Featured artist events are weekly events that feature songs from a certain artist or special occasions. The events allow players to play songs by the featured artist, whether they own the songs or not. Players can obtain event points for completing the featured songs, which can be used to purchase certain rewards such as the featured artist songs, dances, minis, stages and more.
Tips[]
For gears-related tips, please see the Gear page.
- Similar with many other games and especially with rhythm games, practice is key to improvement. It is recommended to start with songs that match their skill levels and then challenge themselves with slightly more difficult songs (eg. Difficulty 18 to 20), rather than immediately playing a very hard song that they can't play. It's worth noting that many difficulty levels in this game are inaccurate, with some songs feeling more challenging or easier than what they're labelled as.
- It's worth saying that there is no way to improve quickly. Players shouldn't rush themselves to try improve as fast as possible, RoBeats (and other rhythm games) is a game where players will only improve slowly by practice.
- For players using PC, it is recommended to use a keybind that uses both hands, one for the left side (Track 1 & 2) and the other for the right side (Track 3 & 4). This is to give them more space when playing. The more popular keybinds are DFJK, QWOP, ASL;, and ZX,. but it's recommended to experiment and see which keybinds they're most comfortable with, as it varies with every players.
- It's recommended for players to experiment with settings to see which one will improve their gameplay, for example changing notespeed to be faster or using 2D mode may help with gameplay. This varies with every players so just continue experimenting until finding a setting that they're comfortable with.
- Playing different maps may help with improvement, as they can learn different patterns.
- Despite what some players may say, playing with the default 60ms Perfect Time can improve timing. Playing with higher perfect time and getting used to it will make players struggle playing Casual Mode matches where it's set to 60ms only. This can also affect the player's experience in other rhythm games.
- When starting out, it is recommended to play on Casual Mode instead of Compete Mode, as new players would get unfair disadvantages in Compete Mode against players with gears.
Official Roblox Event[]
Main article: Roblox Events
A Roblox event is a special occasion officially created by Roblox, lasting for a limited time and involves different objectives which includes rewards. RoBeats is involved with some Roblox events, namely:
- RB Battles Season 2
- Flux Listening Party
- 24kGoldn El Dorado Concert Experience
- Tate McRae Concert Experience
- Soccer Mommy Listening Party
- Fashion Klossette Designer Showcase
- George Ezra's Gold Rush Kid Experience
- Joan Listening Party
- The Games
Crossovers[]
Main article: Crossovers
RoBeats has collaborated with different games and players could usually complete a task in both games in order to earn rewards. There also has been small or indirect collaborations which usually only add songs or items in the game. RoBeats had collaborated with:
- Tower Heroes by Pixel-bit Studio
- Make a Cake! by thebenster
- Sound Space by Sound Space Studio
- No-Scope Arcade by Iconic Gaming Studios
Gallery[]
![An old RoBeats advertisement from February 15th, 2018[1]](/wiki/File:Roblox_waifu_ad.jpg "Roblox waifu ad.jpg (104 KB)")
Trivia[]
- Despite the game displaying ASDF as the default keybinds, there are actually more default keybinds available without changing it in the settings.
- Track 1 (the left-most lane) have: A, J, Q, U 1
- Track 2 have: S, K, W, I, 2
- Track 3 have: D, L, E, O, 3
- Track 4 (the right-most lane) have: F, ;, R, P, 4
- The city in RoBeats is referred as "The city that never stops dancing" from the old RoBeats trailer.
- The oldest known footage of RoBeats was the PRE ALPHA FOOTAGE uploaded by spotco himself.[2]
- RoBeats once had a website called "robeats.net" where players could access the game page from the domain. However, the domain has expired and is no longer functional.
- The fever mechanic originally had two modes: Auto and Manual. By default, it was set to Auto, which works like the current fever mechanic. However, pressing the spacebar would switch it to Manual, where the fever bar gets filled up but the player had to manually activate the fever by pressing the spacebar again. This mechanic was commonly used to get higher scores. The mechanic was removed for unknown reasons.
- There is an older playable release of RoBeats from December 10th 2016, titled i miss old robeats. There is only one song in the game, being Welcome to Monday Night (Debug).
- RoBeats uses the osu!mania mapping editor to create maps for the game.
- On April Fools Day 2019, spotco renamed the game to Rhythm Simulator as a joke. Dances were also added in this update.
- RoBeats peak concurrent players was 30,080 players on November 19th, 2020, when DJ's Sword of Agility was found during RB Battles Season 2 event.
- RoBeats have various official toys available to buy in stores such as Walmart.
- RoBeats was the winner for the Best Audio Design category in Roblox Innovation Awards 2022.[3]
- RoBeats was one of the 11 featured games in Halloween on Roblox.