Highlights
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| 🧩 V-Slice mod support | Play mods made for the official game (Polymod, .hxc scripts) next to your Psych mods, with no porting. |
| 🌐 Online multiplayer | Host or join a match by IP and play a song against a friend: each player sings one side. The port opens by itself (UPnP), there's a chat, and a missing mod can be sent to the other player. |
| 🎓 Tutorials | A "Tutorial" button on the menus and editors: Boyfriend zooms into each part of the screen and explains it. Mods can add their own. |
| 📸 Screenshots & Gallery | F3 takes a screenshot anywhere, with a flash and a preview; the Gallery shows them and saves copies. |
| 🎤 V-Slice menus for everyone | Freeplay with the DJ, Character Select, the Results screen and the sticker transition, for Psych songs too. |
| 🎮 New gameplay options | Play as Opponent, Health Drain, Break Timer, Lane Underlay, Ghost Notes, Hold Note Covers and more. |
| 👥 Extra characters | Add more singers to a song in the chart editor (a duet, a third character...) and pick who sings each note, with no script. |
| 🛠️ Better editors | Box selection in the chart editor, mouse tools and undo in the other editors, plus a new Character Select / Results editor. |
| 📜 More scripting | New Lua and HScript functions, callbacks and properties, listed in scripts.txt. |
🧩 V-Slice (Polymod) mod support
Put a V-Slice mod in the mods folder and it shows up in the game like any other mod.
- Scripts:
.hxc scripts run through Vortex's own interpreter: song, stage, character, module, dialogue, Freeplay and results scripts.
- Content: V-Slice charts (
-chart.json / -metadata.json, every difficulty and variation), stages, characters (Sparrow, Packer, multi-sparrow and Adobe Animate atlases), song events (FocusCamera, ZoomCamera, SetCameraBop, PlayAnimation, ...), note kinds and dialogue conversations.
- Utility mods: a V-Slice mod with scripts and no songs of its own (a custom pause menu, HUD or camera module) runs on the V-Slice songs of every mod, like on V-Slice.
- Playable characters: a mod's playable characters appear in Character Select and bring their own Freeplay DJ and results animations.
- Built-in base game content: the V-Slice versions of the base weeks, stages and characters come with the engine, so mods that depend on them work without the official game installed.
- Made for mods targeting the V-Slice 0.8.x API (the one from 0.8.0 up to the latest 0.8.6).
🎤 V-Slice menus, for every mod
Each of these is an option, and Psych mods get them too.
- Freeplay style: pick the classic Psych Freeplay or the V-Slice one, with the DJ, capsules, the "NEW" badge on songs you haven't played yet, favorites and sorting.
- Character Select: switch characters (press
TAB in Freeplay) like in the official game.
- Results screen: ratings tally and rank animations (Perfect, Excellent, Great, Good, Loss) after each song.
- Sticker transition between Freeplay and the songs.
🌐 Online multiplayer
- Host Game waits for a friend; Join Game connects with the host's IP (port
8888). CTRL+V pastes the IP.
- No Radmin or Hamachi needed (when the router allows it): hosting asks the router to open the port by itself (UPnP) and shows the IP to send to your friend (
C copies it). If the router can't (UPnP off, or an internet provider that shares one IP between many homes, called CGNAT), the screen says so, and a VPN like Radmin still works.
- Choose your nickname in the lobby (
TAB).
- Chat:
T opens it on any screen of the match (the lobby, the song, the results). Its key can be changed in Controls.
- The other player's preferences:
P in the lobby shows them (downscroll, middlescroll, lane underlay, ghost tapping, note skin, offset, FPS). With the option Online: Opponent's View, you see their notes the way they do: going down if they use downscroll, with dark lanes if they use Lane Underlay.
- Sending a mod: if the host picks a song from a mod the other player doesn't have, the other player is asked if they want it (with its size, and a warning that mods can have scripts). If they accept, the host sends the mod's files, it's installed and turned on, and the match starts. A mod they have but turned off is only turned on.
- Each player plays one side of the chart, and both see each other's notes, misses and animations as they happen.
- Match setup: after picking the song, the host chooses how the match is won (Score, Misses or Accuracy) and the sides; the other player watches it live.
- During the song, the other player's score, misses and accuracy are in a corner, with who's ahead. Getting knocked out loses; if nobody is, a results screen shows both players side by side and who won.
- Health drain added by a mod for the opponent's notes is blocked online, because the match already handles health.
- Scripts can check
onlinePlay / onlineHost to change mechanics that would be unfair online.
🎮 Gameplay
Gameplay changers
- Play as Opponent: play the opponent's notes while the computer plays Boyfriend's.
- Health Drain: every note the opponent hits takes a little health (it never kills you).
- Speed Up on Miss: every miss makes the song 5% faster, up to 2x.
- Ghost Notes: two notes of the same character close together leave an afterimage of the first pose, in the animation the character was in.
- Only Sick: anything worse than a Sick counts as a miss.
- Random Chart: every note goes to a random column (notes at the same time never land on the same one).
- Random Scroll Invert: every 16 beats, the receptors may glide to the other side of the screen, and the notes turn around with them.
- Fade In / Fade Out: the notes appear only near the receptors, or disappear before reaching them.
- Random Note Speed: each note comes at its own speed.
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