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

evanmisha

Member
By resyncing you mean going into bluetooth devices and connecting that way right? Tried holding the dpad up and strummer down/up and neither made any difference. Seems properly fucked.

I mean whatever process you use from the batteries being out of the guitar for 30 seconds, putting them back in, booting up the guitar, syncing it to the console, and starting the game.
 

evanmisha

Member
Xb1. Managed to locate the dlc tracks I purchased but I cannot see anything from rb1 or 2

Oh, I thought you meant the RB1 disc tracks were showing up for you. I was mad jelly

D-pad isn't an analog input. just whammy is. (and the effects toggle but that works magic to not have a bad neutral)

It might be is actualy d-pad.
Mine is totally f-d on guitar and It's a PITA to navigate xbox one home with it. Hopefully they fix it in a firmware update.. I dont want to have to RMA my best guitar ;-;

Well, that sucks.

whoops dubz
 
So do I go beg Best Buy to replace it or write Harmonix and get a new guitar for the 200 dollar game I just bought a month from now?

Might just end up returning the game and buying it later or something. Annoying.
 

AwesomeMeat

PossumMeat
Has anyone had any luck getting multi-song packs that you own to work on XB1? They are still showing as if I need to buy them again.

EDIT: Nevermind. I see that I just have to do it song by song from the packs.
 
For anyone needing an easy FC/Gold Stars, Short Skirt/Long Jacket is a ridiculously easy song on Expert Vocals/Harmonies.

Almost all talkies with a rare pattern that is repetitive, easy to sing, and starts in the middle of a talkies phrase so you can get some practice. I would have it FC'd because I didn't break my combo, but the 99% glitch makes a fool of me once again!

Gold Starred Centuries, Uptown Funk, and Short Shirt/Long Jacket on Harmonies!
 

evanmisha

Member
yall fcing tracks and I'm over here downloading dlc with one hand and obsessively refreshing psn webstore with another like monsooOOOOON
 

Triz

Member
Spent 20 minutes trying to sign in on Xbox one with guitar to no avail. Maybe I just don't know what the hell in doing wrong. Can only sign in with a controller.
 
I think uh.... Dead Black (Heart of Ice) may have replaced Visions as my favorite on disc song. That was really, really good. The blast beats aren't at a ridiculous tempo so it's manageable and the sections aren't super long either. Really, really fun on drums.
 

Yaari

Member
I had an order with Amazon.de. On 18:36 I got an email telling me not to worry, everything was on schedule. Then on 21:20 I got an email saying they couldn't complete my order. Jeez.

Back to square one.
 

Neil_J_UK

Member
Anyone had any issues with the XB1 RB4 Fender? Played a few songs fine, then I just failed a song on a simple part because the strums either weren't registering, or registering too late.

There doesn't seem to be a firmware update for this, though.
 
Done singing for now. Five starred Feast and the Famine (much harder than it lets on) and The Impression That I Get (doable).

Going to guitar it up on Career with my band "On Gods and Queens"!
 

DarkOneX

Member
Just got my email for my Amazon preorder songs, FYI.

Same here, wierd thing is I just redeemed it and the product said Rock Band 4, redeemed it and it says

Success!
You now own Rock Band 4.

Would be funny if they accidently sent out a code to get the digital game instead, but I doubt it, probably just the way they titled the DLC...
 

Matticers

Member
Man, I suck at this now. Haven't played since Rock Band 2. I think I just have to get used to this new guitar. I was used to the old Guitar Hero guitars where the buttons were more spaced out.
 

hollams

Gold Member
Really miss the BASS BOOST feature it really made playing the bass awesome with my system the bass was booming around the room now not much so. Please bring this back.

I really never liked the Rockband guitars but so far i've really like this new version. the strum bar is still a little tall for me but it feels a ton better than the other ones.
 
Best Buy doesn't have any extra copies of the band bundles and they don't offer individual guitars so my only option is to return the entire band in a box and buy it later. What a fucking shit show.

If only I could refund all the dlc I bought.
 

bender

What time is it?
I really never liked the Rockband guitars but so far i've really like this new version. the strum bar is still a little tall for me but it feels a ton better than the other ones.

That's and losing my X360 library of songs is what is holding me back. The prices for the Les Paul GH controller are insane. I could never get used to the strum bar on recessed buttons on the RB guitars.
 

evanmisha

Member
I'm having the opposite issue. Fished a cheap Guitar Hero controller off Kijiji to tide me over til my bundle gets here tomorrow and I vastly prefer RB instruments, so I'm struggling.
 

Kolma

Member
Anyone else having issues with the 30 preorder songs?
I downloaded all of them, can see them in my RB4 manage memory stuff on xbox one.
But they don't show up in game (only some do)
I have tried refreshing song cache.
 

darknil

Member
Spent 20 minutes trying to sign in on Xbox one with guitar to no avail. Maybe I just don't know what the hell in doing wrong. Can only sign in with a controller.

I don't know how it works on X1 but it was the same for me on PS4. I had to do this:

- Join as a guest guitar
- Press Start on the guitar and change the profile from there

Also, sorry to ask this probably again, but what's the official news on RB1-3 tracks availability? I've done the exports in the past so I don't know when I should be expecting those tracks.
 

cakely

Member
I'm thinking maybe I should wait to download songs.

I used the marketplace to get 227 songs, but going through the "buy more songs" list there are clearly more songs that I've bought when I dig into the list. I added about ... twenty more songs to my library but I managed to crash the game.

No sign of RB1, RB2, or Lego Rock Band tracks yet, even though I had them all in Rock Band 3. Do I have to do something special for these to show up?
 

Raide

Member
Anyone else having issues with the 30 preorder songs?
I downloaded all of them, can see them in my RB4 manage memory stuff on xbox one.
But they don't show up in game (only some do)
I have tried refreshing song cache.

Mine keep appearing in the list, I download and install and then they still appear in the list to download and install. Lol
 

Kolma

Member
I'm thinking maybe I should wait to download songs.

I used the marketplace to get 227 songs, but going through the "buy more songs" list there are clearly more songs that I've bought when I dig into the list. I added about ... twenty more songs to my library but I managed to crash the game.

No sign of RB1, RB2, or Lego Rock Band tracks yet, even though I had them all in Rock Band 3. Do I have to do something special for these to show up?

No exports are out yet
 

ViciousDS

Banned
opened the box......smelled the fresh new rubber, quiet drum pads, sexy slim guitar put it all together. Put all the cardboard back and set the box to the side. I go to put the game in......oh shit, I didn't see/grab the game out of the box. After searching its smacked to the left of the box on the outside against the cardboard....whew.

Now updating drums....installing on NXE for the hell to see if it works
 
Strumming up doesn't work at all anymore so it must be related to that. Could try opening up the back I guess but I don't see that going well. Oh well.
 

evanmisha

Member
Strumming up doesn't work at all anymore so it must be related to that. Could try opening up the back I guess but I don't see that going well. Oh well.

Yeah, for some reason your guitar thinks the neutral position is higher than it should be. I don't know enough to theorize how that happened outside of situations remedied by my earlier recommendations. If it is a hardware issue, I don't know what to tell you
 

Kolma

Member

Yaari

Member
Is there anywhere you can buy the new microphone without buying the whole setup?

Not official peripherals, but Microphone should be easy to sort out. I wonder if the regular headset might work.

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So while I got a delay confirmation, some people on the HMX board say their pre-order is still being labelled as being prepared. Theres a very very small chance that mine might also get shipped apparently I guess.

It probably won't happen but I really hope it does. If I have to get it from Game UK, I won't get my 34 free songs, and I won't have it til next week. I wish they had a chat, Amazon.de. They don't.

Damn.
 
Question, friends!

This one is for the guitarists! When you play, how often do you sing along, dance, jump around, fall to the floor, headbang, etc?

I am because I do all of these above CONSTANTLY and want to know if I'm in the minority. I get REALLY into it and makes some songs (Uptown Funk and Bombtrack) a BLAST
 

styl3s

Member
My guitar refuses to sync with my xbox wtf is going on.

I just press the xbox home button to turn on right? tried the little sync thing absolutely nothing happen its just flashes.
 

ViciousDS

Banned
I can sadly confirm

the

AT2020
ShureSm58
Blue Yeti
Blue Snowball


DO NOT work in RB4 at least on the NXE dash....so sadly I can't give up my RB4 mic :(


My guitar refuses to sync with my xbox wtf is going on.

I just press the xbox home button to turn on right? tried the little sync thing absolutely nothing happen its just flashes.



did you hit the sync button to the left of the bluray drive slot lol
 

VexyWexy

Member
"Character customisation is limited when it comes to the physical aspect of your character, you can’t set custom characters to fill empty band slots when you don’t have friends playing"


This is probably irrelevant to most people, but not being able to create your whole band is a major bummer for me.... I was so happy when they added that in RB3.

I caved in and took advantage of the 25% off at Target. While you can't create your own bandmates you can select from some premade ones, so my all female supergroup lives on, and I'm pretty happy about that :3
 

styl3s

Member
I can sadly confirm

the

AT2020
ShureSm58
Blue Yeti
Blue Snowball


DO NOT work in RB4 at least on the NXE dash....so sadly I can't give up my RB4 mic :(






did you hit the sync button to the left of the bluray drive slot lol
i 100% forgot that button was there disregard my stupidity. Also, is the only way to listen to headphones while playing through the actual controller cause i dont see a audio jack on the geetar
 
Question, friends!

This one is for the guitarists! When you play, how often do you sing along, dance, jump around, fall to the floor, headbang, etc?

I am because I do all of these above CONSTANTLY and want to know if I'm in the minority. I get REALLY into it and makes some songs (Uptown Funk and Bombtrack) a BLAST
There's a very strong correlation between my real-life showmanship and the amount of alcohol consumed beforehand.
 

Kolma

Member
To folks saying creation is limited, I read that u need to buy more styles by playing career. This true?

yes, without career mode you have like 5 hairstyles to choose from.

Aside from all that. you can't choose how skinny/built your character is which is annoying. It is NO WHERE NEAR the awesomeness that was RB3's Character Creator.
 
I can confirm that you can do freestyle solos with the GH3 guitar. Wasn't sure if you could since it doesn't have high and low frets, but the game doesn't seem to care. You can play the high and low sections just fine on the lone five frets.
 

inner-G

Banned
Not official peripherals, but Microphone should be easy to sort out. I wonder if the regular headset might work.
Ah well we have RB3 Mics, I was just thinking the new one would be an upgrade. Don't really care about the guitars and drums
 
Got my BIAB earlier, opened it up and everything looks and works great.

Unfortunately, only got a chance to play a couple songs before work, but I'm pretty pleased with my experience so far.

Surprised by how much I enjoyed even the tutorial of the freestyle solos. Not sold on the pre-selected drum fills yet though.
 
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