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Rock Band 4 |OT| We're Putting The Rock Band Back Together

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bigkurz

Banned
This whole system for downloading previous DLC is just a cluster-eff right now.

Is there no better way then adding each song one by one?

And then when I "purchase" a song I owned...if it was part of a pack, i'm unable to "purchase' and download the other songs from the pack. wtf.
 
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Cheat Code

Member
bigkurz said:
This whole system for downloading previous DLC is just a cluster-eff right now.

Is there no better way then adding each song one by one?

And then when I "purchase" a song I owned...if it was part of a pack, i'm unable to "purchase' and download the other songs from the pack. wtf.
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That seems to be an issue they haven't fixed yet. If you bought an entire album or pack you cannot claim them singly.
 
hunchback

hunchback

Member
ViciousDS said:
hey hunchback if my Shure SM58 works with my XLR USB adapter I'll gladly send you guys my mic in my BiaB.....because I know for a fact that the SM58 will be superior than the mic in the box.....its a fricken $100 stage microphone lol
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Wow. That is very kind. If it does work I'll obviously pay for shipping and some dlc songs if you want. Hit me up on PM so we don't derail the thread.

Once again thank you for the kind offer.
 
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j-wood

Member
I'm at work, but it looks like they are starting to put the dlc tracks up on the web store? So I can go ahead and buy these, and play them in rock band 4 right?
 
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Adam Tyner

Member
This is miserable.

Went through two different Bluetooth-capable laptops; couldn't get either to install the firmware on the PS4 instruments.

The overwhelming majority of my DLC just has little flashy dots in the in-game store, no matter how long I wait. If I directly select them or try to use the regular PS store, I get a message saying the content's not available for purchase. If I try to select Packs or Albums, everything's empty.
 
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FaintDeftone

Junior Member
What a crappy launch. It seems NOBODY got the Xbox One version bundled with the adapter. A few friends had it preordered since it was announced and still didn't get one. Why didn't they tell people about this? So frustrating.
 
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brandtron8000

Neo Member
bigkurz said:
This whole system for downloading previous DLC is just a cluster-eff right now.

Is there no better way then adding each song one by one?

And then when I "purchase" a song I owned...if it was part of a pack, i'm unable to "purchase' and download the other songs from the pack. wtf.
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I'm on PS4 and I was able to get all my track packs and albums last night. All I did was search the word "pack" on the PS4 store, then scrolled all the way down to Rock Band 4. They had all the packs up there already and downloading them triggered the download of each song in the pack.

Also, you can filter the type to albums when you're in the all add-ons section for RB4. I was able to get all my albums except The Doors which I got with the launch discount, since that Doors launch pack was free for RB3.
 
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FyreWulff

Member
Terrordactyl said:
Aww yiss

Edit: FIFTY US DOLLARS WUT these guys are just bleeding me dry
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They were 40$ new for RB3, so that's pretty close considering the upgrades (full analog signal)

That being said if you can locate RB3 cymbals they will work with your RB4 kit. Doesn't matter which platform they came from
 
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Cipher Peon

Banned
Got the Xbox One Band in a Box bundle without a preorder!

After playing guitar for a few hours (Still Into You was the absolute first song played, of course) I have to say that at the moment, Rock Band 4 has been as big, if not bigger, step backwards from Rock Band 3. Every minute I play, I notice more and more missing and the more and more I feel let down. It's a sad feeling because I love Harmonix and Rock Band so much. Blargh.
 
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_woLf

Member
Cipher Peon said:
Got the Xbox One Band in a Box bundle without a preorder!

After playing guitar for a few hours (Still Into You was the absolute first song played, of course) I have to say that at the moment, Rock Band 4 has been as big, if not bigger, step backwards from Rock Band 3. Every minute I play, I notice more and more missing and the more and more I feel let down. It's a sad feeling because I love Harmonix and Rock Band so much. Blargh.
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What are you noticing missing, just for example?
 
.hacked

.hacked

Member
So I went through the dlc on ps4 and my wish list was 371 songs that is over $742.00+ in dlc



Omfg!!!!

Cut it down to 30ish, now if I could get them to dl that would be great, about 10 of them show purchased but can't dl them.
 
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MrCaliaztec

Member
Had just enough time on my lunch to pick these up and drop them off at home... Now I just need to survive 6 more hours till I can play it! Haha

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MindCollizion

Member
Installing update, should've started it while I was putting together the instruments, oh well. Picked up my band in a box for ps4 from best buy, simple enough. Received the email with my digital code, all is well so far.
 
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ShabbadooJr

Member
Went to Best Buy to pickup my preordered Xbone Guitar/Game bundle and Transformers, and saw at least 2 BIAB, non-preorders, for each system. I picked up an Xbone BIAB, in addition to my preordered Guitar/Game bundle. Also saw 2 preordered BIAB, 1 for Xbone and 1 for PS4. So my Best Buy had good supply. I didn't see the Guitar/Game bundles out however, but they had my preorder in a separate spot from the BIABs that wasn't visible so maybe there were more of those as well.
 
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cosine

Neo Member
Just verified that they added all my Blitz songs to my Rock Bank 4 add-ons for PS4. Downloaded and ready to play!
 
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Conscience Falls

Member
While Amazon customer service told me that I would be getting the game today regardless of the e-mail, that I received stating a ship date of next Tuesday, it has not shown up. Had Prime and priority shipping on it so I'm fairly annoyed by this.
Canadian Thanksgiving is ruined </3
 
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evanmisha

Member
Conscience Falls said:
While Amazon customer service told me that I would be getting the game today regardless of the e-mail, that I received stating a ship date of next Tuesday, it has not shown up. Had Prime and priority shipping on it so I'm fairly annoyed by this.
Canadian Thanksgiving is ruined </3
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Yeah, I had a fun conversation with customer service myself over precisely the same issue.
 
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TheFurizzlyBear

Member
ViciousDS said:
yes, see if it says buy now or whatever the op was talking about when its already installed. I think it just shows a price and when you click on it for the store page it says installed.
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Iv been getting store errors for a large chunk of the day so I can't validate one way or the other. I can say everything I have gotten downloaded is working in game at least.
 
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Conscience Falls

Member
evanmisha said:
Yeah, I had a fun conversation with customer service myself over precisely the same issue.
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I assume they told you the same story? I'll contact them again tonight after my midterm, but I can't imagine it'll speed up the process any. I'd go hunt around town for the BITB for Xbox if not for the price guarantee I'm supposed to have with Amazon.
 
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Cipher Peon

Banned
_woLf said:
What are you noticing missing, just for example?
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Besides Keys and Pro Guitar/Bass (which is a huge loss for me and already made me down on the game) and online play (which doesn't bother me), I noticed from a few hours of play that there's:

- No ratings
- No album grouping
- No calibration option in the options while playing a song
- No stars screen that shows you how many stars from each difficulty you got for each instrument for every song
- No goals
- Doesn't display song plays

All of the little things that made Rock Band 3 my 5th favorite game ever are gone. Someone on Twitter called it an alternate timeline sequel to Rock Band 2, which is a perfect analogy. My problem is that I poured 600+ hours into Rock Band 3 and loved every moment of it making it my favorite music game ever, while I thought Rock Band 2 was merely great.
 
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Lady Siara

Member
To anyone who didn't know what the scoring difference was between all of the new features:

Static fills give you 2400 points but you can drop combo.
Dynamic fills give you 2000 points but you can drop combo.

You can still skip activation on these, just don't hit the final green note.

Freestyle guitar solos give you points both during and after the solo but not as much as doing it normally.

Don't know the exact values on guitar or if there are any.
 
Rewrite

Rewrite

Not as deep as he thinks
My best buy had already sold out of all the band in a box/guitar bundles and there was only 2 physical copies left.
 
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cosine

Neo Member
SenseOffender said:
Wait, really? Is the only way to get these by going to the Add-Ons? And are they all singles, or is it an entire pack?
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I found them in add-ons. They were all singles but downloading was easy because its only what you own, Just go down the list and hit x.
 
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ViciousDS

Banned
Lady Siara said:
This fellow says he has an easy way to install all of the DLC on XB1. I've already downloaded everything by hand or I'd try it out myself.
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will try when I get home in an hour and a half.....on break now....going to be the longest 1.5 hours of my life EVER!!


gwiz210 said:
Do rock band network songs transfer?
Any news on a new rock band network type service?
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they do not and harmonix has stated none of the RBN songs will come over. Sounds like if they do....they will be re-licensed and re-charted




also....to pre-order the cymbals from madcatz or wait for amazon/best buy



I can't decide.
 
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ricen-beans

Member
Kolma said:
mine was just tossed in, it was at the bottom.

ALSO best buy forgot to give me a preorder code :(
So I have to wait 24-48 hours till a specialist can email me one :|
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So Best Buy hasn't sent me my pre order code either. Who did you contact and how, to get this fixed?

Your local store? Bestbuy online? A phone number? I'm desperate lol.
 
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libregkd

Member
Cipher Peon said:
- No album grouping
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From the streams and such I've seen it seems like there is like...quasi-album grouping?

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When you sort by artist, it's then sorted by album name, then track listing on the album. It is missing the headers though that were in RB3 which sucks and hopefully we get them back. It shouldn't be too much of an outlandish request since it's already sorting by album anyway.
 
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ViciousDS

Banned
MindCollizion said:
Newest guitar, to the ps4. I pressed the little connect button by the ps button on the guitar and im on the main menu, but the light just keeps blinking red and blue.
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have you tried plugging the USB into the console with the controller?


ALSO

update your firmware using a laptop/PC....apparently you need bluetooth to update the guitars.....


http://madcatz.kayako.com/Knowledge...-band-4-wireless-controllers-firmware-updates





Diect link to PS4 Stratocaster firmware.....its an exe file

http://www.madcatz.com/downloads/updates/rb4/PS4RB4GuitarFirmwareUpdate_v114.exe



ALSO ALSO

Press and hold the pairing button on the instrument for 5 seconds until the LED starts flashing red and blue alternately
On your PlayStation 4 system, use the DualShock 4 controller to navigate to the following menus in sequence:
Settings
Devices
Bluetooth Devices
Your instrument should appear in the list of devices - select it and then answer 'Yes' when the console asks if you would like to connect to the instrument
Assign the instrument to a user on the system and then you can use the instrument in Rock Band 4
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