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Rock Band 4 announced for PS4 and Xbox One

So there's NO real way to get Rb2 soundtrack on rb4? Easily the best soundtrack.

I really want rock lobster from Rb3 (i think in rb3?) and need it somehow.
 
Got the Shakes said:
Well I cancelled my PS4 Band in a Box preorder, and ordered the XB1 Band in a Box from Amazon. I have bought all of my 3rd party games on PS4 this gen which is why I had a PS4 copy ordered, but the loss of my RB1 and RB2 exports and DLC was enough to sway me to go Xbox.
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Yeah, same. I would much rather have a PS4 copy but I have literally hundreds of dollars of DLC on XBL. Although the lack of RBN support means my catalog is like, cut in half at least. So that sucks too. I'm still excited for RB4 but every time I read about it I'm disappointed a little
 
suplex said:
Is there any word on when we'll be able to buy drums separately? I only have RB1 drums and don't really wanna buy the band in the box as I have no interest in the guitar and am buying the game digitally.

If it's gonna be a while, is there a difference between the RB2 and Beatles drums?
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Early 2016 for separate instruments. RB2 and Beatles drums will work: PS4 or with the adapter, Xbox One.
 
Got the Shakes said:
Well I cancelled my PS4 Band in a Box preorder, and ordered the XB1 Band in a Box from Amazon. I have bought all of my 3rd party games on PS4 this gen which is why I had a PS4 copy ordered, but the loss of my RB1 and RB2 exports and DLC was enough to sway me to go Xbox.
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Yep, I've been buying multiplats on PlayStation 4 all generation, but keeping my Xbox 360 DLC made getting the Xbox One version a no-brainer.
 
xKilltheMx said:
So there's NO real way to get Rb2 soundtrack on rb4? Easily the best soundtrack.

I really want rock lobster from Rb3 (i think in rb3?) and need it somehow.
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Wait wait wait, I thought RB1 and 2 exports will carry over?

Also, does somebody want to break down pre-order bonuses for me? As far as the pre order songs, do I have to order from a certain place? Does band in a box matter? Digital, physical, etc?
 
xKilltheMx said:
So there's NO real way to get Rb2 soundtrack on rb4? Easily the best soundtrack.

I really want rock lobster from Rb3 (i think in rb3?) and need it somehow.
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superNESjoe said:
Wait wait wait, I thought RB1 and 2 exports will carry over?

Also, does somebody want to break down pre-order bonuses for me? As far as the pre order songs, do I have to order from a certain place? Does band in a box matter? Digital, physical, etc?
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RB1 and RB2 exports carry over, but officially, you're not able to get the RB2 export any more if you don't have it already. (Some people are able to get working codes from EA Support. YMMV) It seems like the RB1 export will soon go down too as the Rock Band Twitter has been reporting it as "no longer supported", although it is still up on both the Xbox and Playstation stores. RB3 export is not supported in any way, but it seems they're looking into it.

As for preorder bonuses (US, at least)...

If you preorder the guitar bundle or band in a box bundle from Gamestop or Amazon, you get a trackpack of 30 bonus songs from Harmonix Bands:

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Additionally, preordering from Amazon nets you 4 bonus songs:

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Preordering a digital copy from the PSN store nets you some bonus songs if you're a PS+ member:

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Preordering a digital copy from the XBL store nets you some bonus songs if you're a Gold member:

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As far as I know, no preorder bonuses for those who preorder just the game itself. I believe that's all out there, though someone correct me if I'm wrong.
 
So will I need the RB1 disc for the export or is the key enough? I'm reading different views on that...
 
Last week someone posted a list of songs that were 99 cents. I'm trying to track that down to get some of those before the price gets bumped up. Anyone know the link to the list?
 
According to the Rock Band Twitter account, they're actively looking into a RB3 export and will probably send surveys to get feedback on requested features.
 
Bauer91 said:
They were saying the European PSN preorder would be coming soon but we still don't know anything... The game comes out in a week and PSN's updating today, if there's still no option to preorder there's not going to be one.
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Thanks, the store updated and it's still not there, so... :/
 
Weird Question.

How's the Bluetooth range for Rock Band 1 and 2 instruments?

How far can they be from the dongle? How far with a brick wall between the is dongle and instruments?

Thanks for any answers.
 
Nice, there's a search engine at the top where you can type in keywords, typing in stuff like "metal" brings up only metal songs being an example. Or part of a specific song name will bring that up!

Also "Metropolis Pt1" confirmed for final tier on every instrument. It's officially this games "Painkiller" or "Llama".

EDIT: Wait there's more, you gotta download every song seperately, no batch downloads of bought songs. Not so hype.
 
Juke Joint Jezebel said:
Nice, there's a search engine at the top where you can type in keywords, typing in stuff like "metal" brings up only metal songs being an example. Or part of a specific song name will bring that up!

Also "Metropolis Pt1" confirmed for final tier on every instrument. It's officially this games "Painkiller" or "Llama".

EDIT: Wait there's more, you gotta download every song seperately, no batch downloads of bought songs. Not so hype.
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Even for exports? So I have manually grab every song from Rock Band 1?
 
Weird DLC region question.

I have a PAL copy of RB3, so I bought my DLC through the UK PSN store.
If I want that to carry over to RB4, I guess I need a PAL copy of RB4?

On top of that, if I buy the RB1 export key, and beg to EA for RB2 export key (I have a US copy), I also need to get their PAL variant, I guess?

Thanks!
 
Update on Freestyle Guitar solos with GH guitar controllers: System knows when there's a GH guitar plugged and the freestyle solos cut out the phases that require the bottom 5 frets and replace them with regular phases that use the regular 5 frets.
 
chunk3rvd said:
For anyone in the UK that hasn't ordered yet - I just got an offer of £96.44 through Bespoke Offers. Combine that with the 18% Quidco they're offering this week and you can get the game & guitar bundle for less than £80
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Cheers for the Bespoke Offers tip. I signed off for that a while ago and had forgotten about the Beat My Price thing.

Submitted now. Let's see what they say.
 
Juke Joint Jezebel said:
EDIT: Wait there's more, you gotta download every song seperately, no batch downloads of bought songs. Not so hype.
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Oof, that's going to be painful... that's a lot of songs to go through. Was hoping for the system to see which songs you had purchased and queue up those downloads.

shiftplusone said:
Is individual player breakneck/regular speed known already?
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Breakneck speed is back with just one speed at launch.
 
Forgive the ignorance, I haven't kept up much since I preordered the Band in the Box, but will RB4 have Double bass drum support? Actual technical support and/or chart support?
 
I've forgiven a lot of iffy things, from omitted features to no ION support, to remain hyped for this game. Not being able to just cue up a download for my songs is another one of those things that I'm willing to overlook.

However, if there isn't even an option to simply sort the store to only show songs that you have purchased, that might be the final straw for me. I'm a father of a new baby, I don't have a ton of time to play anyways and I do not want to spend the few hours a week I can game sorting through the thousands of songs on the store to find the couple hundred I own.

Please, please tell me you can sort the store by purchased songs.
 
superNESjoe said:
However, if there isn't even an option to simply sort the store to only show songs that you have purchased, that might be the final straw for me. I'm a father of a new baby, I don't have a ton of time to play anyways and I do not want to spend the few hours a week I can game sorting through the thousands of songs on the store to find the couple hundred I own.

Please, please tell me you can sort the store by purchased songs.
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Nothing mentioned about it yet, watching the stream all the way through so will post if they bring anything up.
 
Juke Joint Jezebel said:
Update on Freestyle Guitar solos with GH guitar controllers: System knows when there's a GH guitar plugged and the freestyle solos cut out the phases that require the bottom 5 frets and replace them with regular phases that use the regular 5 frets.
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:o I think that was my question
 
a lot of what they've played so far seems really unfun for vocals

especially whatever this song is

its a mess for every instrument


I can't decide if i'm hyped or just nostalgic about rock band yet :\
 
XJF said:
Forgive the ignorance, I haven't kept up much since I preordered the Band in the Box, but will RB4 have Double bass drum support? Actual technical support and/or chart support?
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Fairly certain the RB drumsets have supported plugging in two kick pedals in past iterations (and I remember reading somewhere that's the case here), but not sure if the game will chart the double bass drum or not.

cabot said:
Is there a way I can buy the RB DLC nice and smoothly without hooking up my xbox 360?

EU here
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You can always buy it off the Xbox.com store. It's not very nice and clean, but it should work.

Rebel Leader said:
I have some songs on Rock band blitz, how will that be done? (ps3 to ps4)
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Are you talking about the export of the Blitz songs or DLC you bought for it? For the export, you'll have to do that through the game itself. Any DLC you bought for it is considered a RB purchase. Both should be recognized by RB4 if they're transferable and while we're not clear on the exact process, the game searches your purchase history for the songs you own and you can redownload them.

The Lamonster said:
Can I use the original wired RB1 microphone in RB4 for X1?
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Any wired USB mic should work just fine.
 
So if I had previously exported 1 into 2, and 2 into 3 I should be all set RE: 1/2 right?

I also exported Lego and Green Day, but know not to expect them.
 
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