SketchTheArtist
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What's different from the Rock Band 2 complete package compared to the first one?
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"Angina's tough!!" Rock Band 2 Track And Spec Info (& Dreams) Thread
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SketchTheArtist
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Sp3eD said:
What's different with the guitar and drums set then?
SketchTheArtist said:
Gamespot actually has an article that just went up about this so that'll be easier, but otherwise:
Guitar
- Auto-calibrates
- Removable headstock (not neck)
- Updated look/feel
- Less mushy strum
- Quieter buttons
- Recessed/protected pause button
- Back of neck slightly textured; annoying screw near headstock removed
- Battery compartment that doesn't require a screwdriver to access
- Improved tilt sensor
- Better internal reinforcing on neck to reduce flexing
- Wireless on all platforms
Drums
- Velocity-sensitive
- Ports to upgrade with 3 cymbals +1 pedal ($30 for package or $15 per cymbal) from Madcatz. Will work like pads in songs, but will play different sounds during fills and in drum trainer mode
- Metal reinforced pedal that doesn't fall off when you lift up the drums
- Quieter pads with more bounce
- Optional Ion drum kit ($300) a low-end electronic drum kit that comes with a RB brain, but can use a proper drum brain
- Markers for adjusting to the proper height
- Wireless on all platforms
Plus, of course, updated reliability across the board as is typical with second-gen hardware. This is all off the top of my head, but it should be just about everything.
SketchTheArtist
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Thanks a lot guys!
Sp3eD said:EDIT beaten
BTW : I thought I read that the guitar now has some sort of accelorameter in it now (or something close to the tech of that) to make star power function every time.
I know GH4 does for sure, but I thought out of all the E3 videos somebody said that about RB.
I don't know if they announced that specifically, but they said they fixed it so, uh... super maybe?
BigBlackGamer
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Ryu1999 said:
same day as the game HMXSean said. Sept. 14th
GotchaForce
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so you cant buy cymbals for the RB1 drum? can I still use it for GH4?
TheGreatDave
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robut said:
No. Yes.
I know I'm replying to an old post but:
https://www.drumrocker.com/preorder/
It's $360. So $300 for the drum kit, $360 for a brain, $50 for another cymbal and $40 for another kick pedal. $750 (before tax and S&H) to turn the ION kit into a (non gimp) drum kit. Pass.
Saerk said:
https://www.drumrocker.com/preorder/
It's $360. So $300 for the drum kit, $360 for a brain, $50 for another cymbal and $40 for another kick pedal. $750 (before tax and S&H) to turn the ION kit into a (non gimp) drum kit. Pass.
BigBlackGamer
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yea no full bundle at launch. 
Sp3eD
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BigBlackGamer said:yea no full bundle at launch.
I hate that they are doing that. My only hope is that they make the intruments the same price as #1 standalone. $60 for wireless guitar and $80 for drum. That will make it about $200 on launch day for the makeshift pack (and I guess I will eat the $30 mic that would be in the bundle to get it early).
So if those prices hold true, for me on launch day it will be,
$60 game
$60 new guitar
$80 new drums
$30 cymbal pack
$5 RB1 transfer pack
$235 on launch day!
And I know I am weak for RB stuff and will probably buy the mic that has the buttons on it (I think that is another $30-$40) so over $260 day 1.
EDIT: And I bet I will buy the Bass with the double strummer too. God I am pathetic
Harmonix needs to make a game system dedicated to rock band only. I would buy it.
Still fascinated and annoyed with the lack of a bundle on launch day - in fact, I don't even understand it, especially if the standalone instruments are going to be available. As someone who doesn't have any instruments, having been borrowing from someone away from their system for the summer, I might end up just buying everything separately (eating the extra cost) in order to keep Rock Band going ASAP as opposed to waiting a month.
Sp3eD said:I hate that they are doing that. My only hope is that they make the intruments the same price as #1 standalone. $60 for wireless guitar and $80 for drum. That will make it about $200 on launch day for the makeshift pack (and I guess I will eat the $30 mic that would be in the bundle to get it early).
So if those prices hold true, for me on launch day it will be,
$60 game
$60 new guitar
$80 new drums
$30 cymbal pack
$5 RB1 transfer pack
$235 on launch day!
And I know I am weak for RB stuff and will probably buy the mic that has the buttons on it (I think that is another $30-$40) so over $260 day 1.
EDIT: And I bet I will buy the Bass with the double strummer too. God I am pathetic
Harmonix needs to make a game system dedicated to rock band only. I would buy it.
Wow no bundle? that sucks. But what's this new mic with buttons? What purpose do they actually serve? regular 360/ps3 buttons?
Sp3eD said:
It eliminates needing the controller to use it. It always seemed wasteful to drain my controllers batteries when I didn't need to. Hopefully they don't price this up at the first rumored $60 range. $30 would be just right
Bestbuy.com's got it up for pre-order at $60. I'd imagine since it's essentially a controller, you're going to get charged full "controller" price for it.
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49837
I think I'm going to go this route and go wireless mic for about $50 or so. The DIY job doesn't sound hard at all.
BigBlackGamer
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Sp3eD said:I hate that they are doing that. My only hope is that they make the intruments the same price as #1 standalone. $60 for wireless guitar and $80 for drum. That will make it about $200 on launch day for the makeshift pack (and I guess I will eat the $30 mic that would be in the bundle to get it early).
So if those prices hold true, for me on launch day it will be,
$60 game
$60 new guitar
$80 new drums
$30 cymbal pack
$5 RB1 transfer pack
$235 on launch day!
And I know I am weak for RB stuff and will probably buy the mic that has the buttons on it (I think that is another $30-$40) so over $260 day 1.
EDIT: And I bet I will buy the Bass with the double strummer too. God I am pathetic
Harmonix needs to make a game system dedicated to rock band only. I would buy it.
yea thats alot of coin. lets not forget that Sept.14 is conviently the start of a new week. stores will get it on monday and they probably will have some big ass DLC megaton for the launch of RB2.
fivehorizons
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didnt see it posted
Sp3eD
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BigBlackGamer said:
Sept 14th is a Sunday. Games that come out those days (almost all major Nintendo releases and their system launches) always ship early into stores to be avalible. If we were talking about a Tuesday I would understand, but Sunday? RB2 is trying to have a day in retail by itself
BigBlackGamer
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well thats even better. RB2 sunday.
BigBlackGamer
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I reserved my wireless drum set at GS just incase. 10$ for a peice of mind is fine by me.
AndresON777
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What is this RB1 transfer pack for 5 bucks? To transfer the old songs you just can't buy the $60 game?
BigBlackGamer
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ChrisGoldstein said:
there will be a fee involved in transfering the songs from RB1 to RB2. HMX has said it will be no more then 5$.
BobsRevenge
I do not avoid women, GAF, but I do deny them my essence.
That's fair. I'm sure they wouldn't if they didn't have to pay some royalties and whatnot.BigBlackGamer said:
Sp3eD
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BobsRevenge said:
They have to re-lisense all the songs with the artists under the "DLC contract" instead of a disk based ones (my guess is labels get a cut per download track thus this would pay for each song per RB1 pack downloaded).
Very fair in my eyes. I've been enjoying the shit out of this game for 9 monthes, and to have 50+ songs come back into another game is something I will complete support.
whatdidyousay
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I just stuck my head in here, so can someone confirm something for me? There won't be a bundle (drums, guitar, game, mic) during launch on Sept. 14? But they're selling those 4 things separately?
BigBlackGamer
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correct sir.
AndresON777
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BigBlackGamer said:
Well not too bad, I'm still stoked about them replacing my guitar with a new one for free...and I bought the game in December of last year. I never even use the guitar but my brother and one of his friends damaged it on hard/expert. I've taken pretty good care of my drums no one has played them, I broke the pedal but I got a decent wooden one from ebay. Only bad thing is you cannot play barefoot because your foot slips.
whatdidyousay
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BigBlackGamer said:
Where/when was this mentioned? I looked a few pages back and didn't see anything...
BigBlackGamer
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whatdidyousay said:
hmxsean on the rock band forums said so. he is a developer for RB. so his word is gospel at this point.
Also EB/GS/Amazon sites suggest the same thing. Bundle for 360 in October and standalone instruments/game on sept. 14th.
Still kind of baffled as to why HMX has not put out a official press release with the date and pricing though. Do they not think this is a big deal?
whatdidyousay
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BigBlackGamer said:
Okay, didn't mean to doubt you and your awesome avatar. Any news on pricing if they're separate?
BigBlackGamer
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whatdidyousay said:
it's looking like it will be 90$ for the drum set and 70$ for the guitar. I don't think there shipping a stand-alone mic as I think mad catz will have theres ready at launch with all the buttons on the mic itself.
whatdidyousay
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BigBlackGamer said:
Crap. I wasn't going to get the instruments this time around but reading that Gamespot article has me seriously considering it.
Will RB2 instruments work with GH4?
BigBlackGamer
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whatdidyousay said:
for 360 yes but for other platforms it's really up in the air. Since all the RB2 instruments are wireless both have to conform to the MS standard of wireless tech. Red Octane has said though that when you plug in the RB2 drums that there game will change and "fit" into the RB2 drum set.
So we're all pretty hyped up about Rock Band 2, right? Well, from the information I've gathered, there are still some things I wish they'd included. Please correct me if any of this stuff is in the game:
Basically, I want the song selection and setlist creation to work just like iTunes more or less.
- Ability to rate songs (1-5), for all instruments
- More statistics. For example: Most played songs, never played before, PPS (points per second) etc
- More sorting options, especially using the above features. I would like to sort all my songs by rating, rank, most played, new ones etc etc. With a library of more than 500 songs it will be one mess scrolling through them all with the current system
- Ability to save playlists. I think they just confirmed that we won't be able to do this
- Faster load times, heh
Basically, I want the song selection and setlist creation to work just like iTunes more or less.
BigBlackGamer
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They are adding new sorting options I know that. Faster load times will also be possible when the new dash update comes out.
The other stuff I'm not too sure.
2/5 aint bad.
The other stuff I'm not too sure.
2/5 aint bad.
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