I just don't think Activision realized how important it was until Rock Band had too much of a stranglehold on that audience for them to chip away at it to any successful degree. Their community support also didn't really happen until too late, and well after Harmonix made it a Friday morning ritual for a lot of people to hit up the RB forums for the DLC announcement.
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Harmonix announces new RB DLC: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold and Foo Fighters
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I just don't think Activision realized how important it was until Rock Band had too much of a stranglehold on that audience for them to chip away at it to any successful degree. Their community support also didn't really happen until too late, and well after Harmonix made it a Friday morning ritual for a lot of people to hit up the RB forums for the DLC announcement.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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-You "may" want to plug the GH mic in, and go into your PS3's Settings > Accessories > Audio Devices menu and check the sensitivity for the microphone a bit. RB3 is a bit flaky about reading pitches off them otherwise.
-Not sure how the PS3 works, but since the GH:WT guitar, drums, and the RB3 keyboard are wireless that leaves your dongle ports open for at least the GH2 guitar, and a microphone. If the PS3 has any USB ports on the system itself spare then just plug those in, otherwise you may need to invest in a bigger dongle. Is the dongle you currently own officially licensed for RB or third party? Also, the wireless PS3 controller is used to change the mics setting and navigation so that won't take up a port.
- Up to 3 mics can be used at once in RB3, so yeah, bigger dongle may be required depending on if the PS3 has numerous USB ports on it.
I'm a 360 user so I got this baby bundled in with my original Rock Band "band in a box" bundle...
Well, this is weird. And awesome. For a moment I can pretend the genre never died and I'm still in my early 20s. Heartwarming stuff. 
I might just buy one of those songs to bring back some memories. Hell, maybe I'll organize a Rock Band night with some friends. A couple of them actually expressed interest in playing Rock Band again recently.
Also: next-gen Rock Band please (compatible with old guitars and songs, of course)!
I might just buy one of those songs to bring back some memories. Hell, maybe I'll organize a Rock Band night with some friends. A couple of them actually expressed interest in playing Rock Band again recently.
Also: next-gen Rock Band please (compatible with old guitars and songs, of course)!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Activision/Neversoft actually also made their DLC take longer to make.
Guitar Hero DLC after 3 had custom animation, for example, while every Rock Band just has a premade palette of animations each song can use, and they could actually autogenerate all the animation for a song, while Neversoft had to animate each song.
So while this gave Guitar Hero an advantage in having the actual choreo for certain songs, the downside is they had to have more people and time involved in song creation. If Rock Band wanted to do callbacks to the actual music video for a song, they had to do hacks using their ability to focus the camera and use filters, like this.
This is incredible. When all remnants of other music games have been seemingly wiped from digital existence, Rock Band rises from the ashes with new content. I lamented how Guitar Hero and DJ Hero died, along with their music stores. How Lips not only removed their store, but also their leaderboards. And how the Karaoke app existed for a mere two years before disappearing. I gotta thank Harmonix for continuing to support their best franchise. And part of me wants to thank the Foo Fighters because it seems like they can't release an album without having at least a song in Rock Band for it.
PedroLumpy
Member
It's probably a terrible idea, but I could totally go for a new Rock Band.
It's so weird to see the singer do the custom animation, and then it keeps cutting back to that horribad drummer animation. I'm glad they finally got their shit together for GH5 for the drummers, but yeesh.
Doctoglethorpe
Member
I wish my guitar controller still worked. Rockband was my go-to drunk game for a long time, I miss it. I would still play it, but buying a controller now is too expensive with them all being discontinued.
My body is so ready for a RB4, so ready.
My body is so ready for a RB4, so ready.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Speaking of animations, I remember back when "What You Want" by Evanescense came out for RB3 it had this humorous glitch that caused the female singer model to wrench her arm back and do the windmill over and over each and every time the in-game camera cut back to her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzzAxVkUjwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzzAxVkUjwU
Satch Boogie used to be glitched out in RB3 too
It just keeps escalating
I also found a bug that still exists where you can force the game to always load a female singer, regardless if the song is flagged as being sung by a male singer. I obviously kept my band glitched that way after I figured it out.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
I miss the days when RB2 and RB1 would just assign whichever character had the singer slot the singing role regardless of gender. Shit was hilarious, shame they had to go automate the process in RB3.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Be thankful you didn't lose yourself to the void! 1,300 songs so far, and with the new DLC, that number may keep rising!
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Yup, could only download the Foo Fighters track. Got 99% on Expert Guitar (That fucking outro swell) and an easy 100% on Expert Bass. Not bad considering the 2 year hiatus, but a long time out of a game really does effect your performance, felt like I was going to fall out of rhythm multiple times!
EU too? I wonder if it's a region issue
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
UK here, yup. Actually might be a worldwide issue. Only seen videos of "Something From Nothing" uploaded by the usual american RB players, but nothing of the other two, they're usually uploaded a LOT quicker.
FlashFlooder
Member
I neeeeeed a Rock Band PS4. jsut make sure my DLC and controllers work on it please
I will buy 10 copies of this happens. Unfortunately I don't think it is likely due to licensing nightmare.
AlphaTwo00
Member
And where is that thing now?
CastleRybread
Member
Is there a quick way to download all the songs purchased in rock band? Bought an Xbox 360 yesterday in part because I have been wanting to play rb and to play some games with my nephew.
I probably have 4-500 songs purchased so doing each one individually would be a pain.
Glad RB finally got some arctic monkeys.
I probably have 4-500 songs purchased so doing each one individually would be a pain.
Glad RB finally got some arctic monkeys.
Sadly, no. The only thing that helps if you bought a lot of the packs, but there's no mass re-download option that consoles offer, sensible as it would be.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Go through the website, and look through you transaction history and triggering it there. That's faster than going through the console.
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
I neeeeeed a Rock Band PS4. jsut make sure my DLC and controllers work on it please
I don't car about the DLC and I need new controllers... I just want the damn game!
Come on Harmonix!
CastleRybread
Member
nicholasbrutal
Epic Games PR Manager
Totally aware of the Marketplace issue with only the Foo Fighters track showing. I flagged it this morning and we have our top lady on the case -- hope it's cleared up shortly!
So happy to see so much enthusiasm here for both the new content and the franchise. <3
So happy to see so much enthusiasm here for both the new content and the franchise. <3
Maybe you guys would like to see this kind of enthusiasm on a weekly base?
dancrane212
Member
I'd be even more enthusiastic if we could get RB3 on PSN. <3
I just realized that going off Harmonix's usual 5-year contract, any songs signed for the Rock Band 3 disc will expire in 9 months.
It generally holds up since we lost the Lego Rock Band export 5 years after the game came out. Rock Band 2's export expired as well, roughly 5 years after it's release.
It generally holds up since we lost the Lego Rock Band export 5 years after the game came out. Rock Band 2's export expired as well, roughly 5 years after it's release.
jakeellis01
Member
Impressed Foo's song doesn't have keys, that harpsichord sounds really fun.
I understand charting pro keys is much more complex and a bit time wasting but I expected a chart for standard keys (does the game even support that?).
Does this mean Harmonix are phasing out keys?
Still buying all 3 to support the community, bring it on!
I understand charting pro keys is much more complex and a bit time wasting but I expected a chart for standard keys (does the game even support that?).
Does this mean Harmonix are phasing out keys?
Still buying all 3 to support the community, bring it on!
I don't believe Rock Band 3 has an option to have just a standard keys chart with no pro key chart.
The only instrument variants the game supports as being able to be shown as 'missing' are Vocal Harmonies and Pro Guitar/Bass, due to the nature of how they were implemented. The game will even assume every song has Pro Drums support. If a song doesn't have Pro Drums charting, it'll just make every note a cymbal.
We'll have to wait for them to answer it directly, but keys not being charted can happen due to the masters not having separated keys.
The only instrument variants the game supports as being able to be shown as 'missing' are Vocal Harmonies and Pro Guitar/Bass, due to the nature of how they were implemented. The game will even assume every song has Pro Drums support. If a song doesn't have Pro Drums charting, it'll just make every note a cymbal.
We'll have to wait for them to answer it directly, but keys not being charted can happen due to the masters not having separated keys.
Just a heads up, if you plan on buying all 3 of these, Newegg currently has 10% off all XBL credit, including a $6 code. Use promo code: EMCAKKP84
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...1&cm_re=PPSSARIKFJILWS-_-32-416-714-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...1&cm_re=PPSSARIKFJILWS-_-32-416-714-_-Product
Interesting.....I wonder if that is why they are getting the ball rolling now on some DLC. Maybe they are trying to get Rock Band 4 out before the 9 months expires so they can make sure a RB3 export is offered....hmmm.....
You can definitely do it with some metadata fudging after the fact, but they never did it officially and Magma doesn't allow for it.
GotchaForce
Member
Tried late last night to hit the store and it was down. Haven't tried today, though.
Darth Smurf X
Member
Yeah, I originally had it in there but thought it made the post too unwieldy - basically, bullshit it so it works, but there's no 'nice' way of doing it.
Either way, I don't think Pro Keys is that much trouble to chart that dropping keys support from a song that you can have keys for would save you much time. I believe they've always said Pro Guitar was always the most labor intensive charting, something said on stream that it took more time than charting all the other instruments combined. So they probably have a good reason for not having it here.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Both "Shepherd Of Fire" and "R U Mine?" are both finally up on the xbox dashboard to purchase now! "R U Mine?" is a blast to play on Guitar and bass. Bouncy, and plenty of movement up and down the fretboard. Nice and balanced. Better than the Foo Fighters song.
Here's hoping we get "Brianstorm" sometime in the future!
Here's hoping we get "Brianstorm" sometime in the future!