Bits & Bops — Patch 1.5.0

Released: 1/9/2026, 9:04:20 AM

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1929290/view/528742445056263125

Summary (AI)

Bits & Bops 1.5.0 adds several gameplay and UI improvements, including increased Almost windows and earlier tutorial cuts in Pantry Parade and Steady Bears. The game is now fully playable in German and better supports Steam client language settings. Various bugs have been fixed, such as correct stage failure recording, separation of keyboard and mouse inputs in endless games, and fixes for localization and camera fading errors. New features include TTS descriptions for endless games, enhanced mixtape metadata support, and playback rate options in the editor. Stability improvements address save file deletion issues and log messages have been added to help diagnose missed Perfect stickers and frame drops.

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The bears now bop in the bird's-eye view of Steady Bears
Pantry Parade and Steady Bears now cut their tutorials earlier if no sets have been hit
Bits & Bops is now fully playable in German!
Extra brake inputs without animations are no longer scored as misses in Moleacano
Deleted save files no longer sometimes return after relaunching the game
The fan translations are no longer loaded by default (broken in 1.4.0)
The background in the Steady Bears tutorial no longer skips backwards in certain places
The tutorial input display no longer snaps to neutral at the end of the Steady Bears tutorial demonstrations
Unpausing no longer counts as an input in "One button" mode
BPM changes in Blacksmith are no longer processed while paused
Endless games no longer exhibit strange behaviour on restart in some cases
The endless games now have TTS descriptions (including optionally during gameplay)
The game now uses the language of your Steam client by default
The editor now has a playback rate option for more precise testing
Custom mixtapes now support more metadata fields
Long property values no longer break the alignment of other fields
Rich tags and control characters are now handled correctly in more cases
Custom mixtapes without music are now playable outside the editor again
All relevant changes since release have also been applied to the demo
The promotional cards and opening screen now say that the game is available for purchase
There is now a dedicated error message for mixtapes containing minigames outside the four available in the demo