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That's a big-ass update. Looking forward to getting it Summer '16 #EUPeaSaNt
Oh shit, no setlists mentioned. HMX pls.
Oh shit, no setlists mentioned. HMX pls.
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Rock Band 4 |OT| We're Putting The Rock Band Back Together
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Shift Breaker
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Stats! FC indicators! Yay!
I've been taking screenshots of my FCs so far. This is nice to see, hope I don't have to do them all again.
I've been taking screenshots of my FCs so far. This is nice to see, hope I don't have to do them all again.
PROh1bited
Banned
Nice. This is a pretty good update. Now get my Doors dlc working!
Sp3eD
0G M3mbeR
Decent update but they still need to fix the quick play song select screen sorting optionsand get rb3's practice mode back (esspecially the vocal practice mode with tones)
It's Comforting to see that they are planning to add things back from previous rock bands and future updates so maybe my issues will get addressed.
It's Comforting to see that they are planning to add things back from previous rock bands and future updates so maybe my issues will get addressed.
TheFurizzlyBear
Member
Awesome stuff. I'm excited for monthly updates. Will be interesting to compare the game from launch to this point next year.
Living Proof
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Still no word on when to expect the exports? (Outside of the RB3 one)
Yeah, not exactly surprised that it wasn't brought up, but I sure was hoping for it. Feature updates are fantastic and much appreciated but for my part I'd much rather know about export plans (and of course when DLC I've paid for will become available). My local group and myself, for the most part, would rather have access to my whole library than any new features-- most of it wouldn't even be used by anyone I play with (except auto drum kicks for the casual party players).
Not demanding it or whining or anything, but they are really pushing how transparent they're trying to be, and insight into this stuff would be much better than anxiously waiting in the dark.
I don't understand how you launch a rock band game without the setlist feature. Sometimes I want to play random songs in the new mode they put in but more often than not, I want to pick EXACTLY what I'm in the mood for playing and so do my friends. We used to all pick two songs each then play a set list and this is totally missing.
It's very obvious that Harmonix had far less money to create this game than previous games but it's still sad that these features got cut or removed. How do you make a new game, that's an iteration, that has less features? I guess I answered my own question, budget.
Also kind of diappointed with the dlc so far. I thought they'd come right out the gate with some heavy hitters but so far there's nothing for me. Let's get Mer De Noms on here and some more Rammstein! I'd love a full Rammstein album.
Instrument firmware updates are available for Mac users now: http://madcatz.kayako.com/Knowledge...-band-4-wireless-controllers-firmware-updates
Unfortunately I keep getting the "update failed" message with both my guitar and drums :/
Unfortunately I keep getting the "update failed" message with both my guitar and drums :/
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I get what they where going for with the show feature, and it really can be fun in multiplayer sessions. But I simply can't get behind the idea that such a simple - and for a game of this kind essential feature - as setlist creation would have been cut because they were solely counting on the shows to replace them. Had to be budget, so I hope it's one of the first features to return.
Now online multiplayer, that is expensive, and I can totally see them implementing it in a paid update.
DLC I think will always be up to personal preferences. Aerosmith or that recent pop package sure are heavy hitters, but do I care about them?
yes
PROh1bited
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Well obviously they don't have as much money as before. They don't have EA and MTV publishing anymore.
Cipher Peon
Banned
At first I was deeply unhappy with the update notes, but then I realized it was me being unreasonable because I'm still very upset about keys and pro guitar getting the boot and I realized I'm pretty happy with the update.
Auto kick has been sorely needed forever, and I'm glad it's here. I won't use it, but it benefits SO many people that I'm glad it's back.
This is INCREDIBLY important for me to clarify because this is one of the things that bothers me most about Rock Band 4. I play on every instrument and I want to play on every song on every instrument on every difficulty, and there is no way that Rock Band 4 makes this information easy for me to get, whereas in Rock Band 3 the information was so clear and accessible. I tweeted at them to clarify already and hope they will respond.
Looking forward to the surprises and the transparency is well appreciated. I hope through fixes that Rock Band 4 can grow into a much better game because I feel absolutely awful about me feeling that it's easily the worst Rock Band game. I want it to do better!
Awesome stuff! Knowing I kicked my friends' butts while playing the song would give me more drive to do better.
Ehhhhhh, not very important to me. Can't really seeing myself using this. I just want to know how I compare to my friends and leaderboards and the insong notifications are just that.
I feel like I'll use it once and that's it. Or every time I beat Lowlander's scores in vocals. I'm consistently in Top 15ish in the world when I sing but he's always in Top 5 and his reign of terror must end at my hands.
Non issue for me. Calibration was just fine through HDMI with 0 lag.
Non issue for me, but I've had a few people ask about it in parties. Neat, but I'd much prefer literally anything else.
AWESOME update. Always liked the Gold Star system but I also kind of liked the Guitar Hero system of giving you another star if you hit all of the notes (but you could still overstrum and stuff). Seems like the best of both. Also showing them ni leaderboards is awesome and I LOVE the fact that there'll be an in song indicator of FC success.
Good stuff. I'm not like foaming through the mouth for it, but it's welcome.
Ehhhh. I like the thought of this, but I'd much rather have dedicated song stat screens for each song. I want to press a button and see how many stars I got for each instrument for each difficulty for the song I selected. I know they're not necessarily equatable or anything like that, but to me that's priority number 2, with keys/pro guitar/bass being priority number 1 with flaming letters.
Neat, but literally near the bottom of my most desired updates for Rock Band 4.
AWESOME AWESOME!
Auto kick has been sorely needed forever, and I'm glad it's here. I won't use it, but it benefits SO many people that I'm glad it's back.
Hopefully this means some of the DLC that I can't redownload will be downloadable again, like the Bon Jovi Greatest Hits
Doesn't affect me.
To me this is the most interesting aspect of the whole bunch. What does this mean? Does this mean that the Quickplay screen will show only the scores for the instrument I'm playing instead of the overall best score? So if I play a song for the first time on guitar and then switch to vocals, will there be no score there like in old games? Or will there be the guitar score when I'm about to sing it?
This is INCREDIBLY important for me to clarify because this is one of the things that bothers me most about Rock Band 4. I play on every instrument and I want to play on every song on every instrument on every difficulty, and there is no way that Rock Band 4 makes this information easy for me to get, whereas in Rock Band 3 the information was so clear and accessible. I tweeted at them to clarify already and hope they will respond.
Doesn't affect me.
Looking forward to the surprises and the transparency is well appreciated. I hope through fixes that Rock Band 4 can grow into a much better game because I feel absolutely awful about me feeling that it's easily the worst Rock Band game. I want it to do better!
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Still no bass boost yet? Fuck! Don't like the idea of having to recalibrate again, I got my numbers just right not too long ago.
At least post-song stats are coming back!
At least post-song stats are coming back!
Mr. Enigma
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Nothing on imports. Of course.
von Stroheim
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All sounds good. But where are my other 300 songs? (Exports)
When can I get my free Doors tracks?
When can I get my free Doors tracks?
demosthenes
Member
This really is amazing.
im so happy for this. I work a very physical job where when I come home my legs just aren't good for the drum kick, my arms are usually fine though so it will be great to play.
plus I enjoy playing more punkish songs but the marathon of base peddle is a pain
sad that the rate how likely a song will show up didn't make it in though.
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Could be setlists are still coming with this update. Wouldn't hold my breath though.
Hmm, I can't find the DTX500 in the UK, and apparently the DTX400 doesn't have proper midi out (only via a USB adapter which according to the official forums can cause a lot of problems). The Alesis DM7x now is tempting but I can't find the additional bass pedal in the UK... argh!
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I'm not from the UK so I can't really help you there, but the DTX500 has been discontinued I think, with the 502 being its successor (found this shop that seems like it has the 540k - the one I have - in stock). Didn't know that the 400 doesn't have built in MIDI, I can see that being problematic. Just note that you'll take quite the hit in quality going from Yamaha to Alesis. Depends on what you wanna do with your kit though, I'm sure it's more than enough for playing Rock Band
If you're willing to stretch your budget, maybe look into some Roland TD15 kits.
Baron von Loathsome
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Here's the latest update on the DLC situation.
The gist of it is that they really haven't fixed anything since October, although they are working on it still. The DOA for SCEE DLC to start popping up again is sometime in December, while SCEA and Xbox still have deeper issues to be resolved with the remaining missing content.
They're promising weekly updates on the DLC situation from here on out, though.
The gist of it is that they really haven't fixed anything since October, although they are working on it still. The DOA for SCEE DLC to start popping up again is sometime in December, while SCEA and Xbox still have deeper issues to be resolved with the remaining missing content.
They're promising weekly updates on the DLC situation from here on out, though.
WOO!
Really wonder if they will add support for the RB1, Europe export pack.(especially in NA)
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Clicking that link awaiting news on the SCEE situation
I hope "early december" means they're targeting before the update.
Living Proof
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Thank you very much for the advice, to be honest I'm worried this could turn out to be a bit of a flash in the pan for me so I'm tempted to just stick with the cheaper options... the 540K is 3x the price of the kits I was looking at, and the TD15 looks fantastic but it's even more money again.I'm not from the UK so I can't really help you there, but the DTX500 has been discontinued I think, with the 502 being its successor (found this shop that seems like it has the 540k - the one I have - in stock). Didn't know that the 400 doesn't have built in MIDI, I can see that being problematic. Just note that you'll take quite the hit in quality going from Yamaha to Alesis. Depends on what you wanna do with your kit though, I'm sure it's more than enough for playing Rock Band
If you're willing to stretch your budget, maybe look into some Roland TD15 kits.
More of a general question - how terrible an idea would it be to buy the DTX400 (the one without midi out) and just play along with the drums in no lose mode? i.e. don't hook it up to the console. I'm not fussed at all on scores or achievements.
More updates for XBox One players on that same thread:
http://forums.harmonixmusic.com/discussion/comment/5215457/#Comment_5215457
Long story short they got some more song entitlements supposedly working on XBone.
http://forums.harmonixmusic.com/discussion/comment/5215457/#Comment_5215457
Long story short they got some more song entitlements supposedly working on XBone.
PROh1bited
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It's supposed to come on the same day according to the announcement.
Because we've already gotten the info about the RB3 export.
So I held off until I could order this from Best Buy with GCU (waiting on the XBox One w/ Adapter bundle). So I knew it was bare bones, I really did.
But some of the design decisions are just baffling. The lack of setlists in Quick Play basically makes it impossible to play the game as I typically used to: choosing specific songs I want to sing (vocals being my main jam) is now a one-by-one process. The Career mode can occasionally replicate this, but even then the "Choice" playlist options are all JUST from the On-Disc songs, and that is some slim pickings as a vocalist (in that if there's two of such playlists in one tour, I'll end up having to repeat songs I know).
I like the Tour structure in Career otherwise. Adding encores is fun! There are little flourishes here and there that impress, but I just find it so flabbergasting thateven given budget, even given rush to market, even given everythinganyone who paid $250 for this as an entry into Rock Band isn't speaking out (even) more.
But some of the design decisions are just baffling. The lack of setlists in Quick Play basically makes it impossible to play the game as I typically used to: choosing specific songs I want to sing (vocals being my main jam) is now a one-by-one process. The Career mode can occasionally replicate this, but even then the "Choice" playlist options are all JUST from the On-Disc songs, and that is some slim pickings as a vocalist (in that if there's two of such playlists in one tour, I'll end up having to repeat songs I know).
I like the Tour structure in Career otherwise. Adding encores is fun! There are little flourishes here and there that impress, but I just find it so flabbergasting thateven given budget, even given rush to market, even given everythinganyone who paid $250 for this as an entry into Rock Band isn't speaking out (even) more.
I think the way the career choices go is that playing for the fans gets you more on disc choices but playing for fame/money gets your more DLC choices
You can make your own band now and some minor audio and instrument fixes. The big patch including all kinds of new shit and a nee gameplay mode is coming in a few weeks.
Skiptastic
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I was excited because I totally missed this news...
...then I saw $14.99. Ugh...
But yeah I'll be paying that when I jump back in next year. Having all the songs in one place will be pretty damn glorious.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Yup, you're sorted for RB1 now, and RB2 if you exported that back in the day.
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Seems like you wanna get into drumming, and Rock Band is more of an afterthought, so go for it I'd say. Maybe "pretend drumming" in RB might feel a bit awkward, but the 400 is an okay enough beginner's choice that you can goof around with a bit. Try the USB adaptor sometime (which you will get anyway maybe, since you might want to get your MIDIs on your computer some time?), and maybe it's even good enough for you to play RB with (I don't really know about the supposed adaptor -> RB4 problems, sorry). Maybe look around for a cheap 450k, since that comes with the infinitely better multi-zone snare.
yay, thanks ^^
PROh1bited
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$15 for 80+ songs? I dunno what's bad about that.
No RB1 or 2 transfers yet though?
Skiptastic
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Just having to pay for it again at that level is hard, especially since I bought the digital version on top of the disc version.
But like I said, I'll be doing it just so I can move on from my Xbox 360.
User 479360
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How much do the extra guitars cost?
PROh1bited
Banned
I'm just happy were getting it. I'd be glad to pay $30 for that soundtrack.
Not available standalone yet. In the beginning of 2016 they should be available.