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

blackflag

Member
I was on the fence about even buying this. Was going to get the version with just the instrument compatibility thing. All they had was the whole band in a box at target...bought. I'm such a sucker.

It won't go to waste. I bought most of the doc on 360 back in the day.


Edit: what's the best way to dl all the 360 songs
 

KaYotiX

Banned
So wife told me our xbox got the new NXE, does Rockband work on it? If not I'll just install the game on my upstairs Xbone and wait.
 

robotrock

Banned
Twice I waited 4+ hours to connect via chat and never did, so guess I'll try again tomorrow. What exactly did you tell them?

I gave them the code that's on the back of my Rock Band 2 manual, and I said "it's not working in Rock Band 3!!", and then I asked "Can I get a code to export Rock Band 2 into Rock Band 3 please" and ten minutes later I was gold
 

zulux21

Member
is there a place to download songs that you buy but don't click download on in the game?

if I click the song again it just says no data.

the songs ready to download tab seems to be gone now o_O
 

Trogdor1123

Gold Member
I have a few questions regarding this and I am hoping someone can help me out.

ANyone else not being able to connect to the PSN store through the game?

I did the "rebuild Library" thing and nothing happened (which I assume is connected to the first question but want to verify).

How do you get your preorder songs from Bestbuy? I didnt get anything.

Are the drums really picky about where you hit? My wife said the blue specificly was extremely picky and you had to hit the central circle.

Whats the best way to expand your library on the cheap?

I exported rockband 1 to Rockband 2 so I assume I will be able to DL those songs right away correct or will they come via the rebuild library feature?

Is there a way to buy Rockband 2 stuff, as in the whole disc, digitally?
 
Edit: what's the best way to dl all the 360 songs

I just went and browsed all songs and scrolled through them, stopping on the ones that said "Purchased" instead of $1.99. There were quite a few that I did buy that didn't show as such, but I'm assuming they are still working out the kinks. I ended up with 175 songs and I'm pretty sure I bought close to 300. Full albums I bought only had certain songs available... but it's a start.
 

blackflag

Member
I just went and browsed all songs and scrolled through them, stopping on the ones that said "Purchased" instead of $1.99. There were quite a few that I did buy that didn't show as such, but I'm assuming they are still working out the kinks. I ended up with 175 songs and I'm pretty sure I bought close to 300. Full albums I bought only had certain songs available... but it's a start.

Cool so within the game. That's better than having to use download management and scrolling through everything you ever bought.
 

TalesFromHoth

Neo Member
Playing on Xbox One. Twice so far the guitar has somehow gotten disconnected and I need to turn it off and on to reconnect. There's no message, it just stops working. At first I thought maybe the XBO was frozen but it is just the guitar controller. Hasn't happened during a game, just when navigating the menus.

Anyone else getting that or is this an indication I have a bun guitar? (Which would suck...)


I had this happen as well, it would disconnect during songs and even when scrolling the music library. I shut down my Xbox ONE, tuned it back on. Resynced the guitar and all has been well for the last 3 hours.
 

Yaari

Member
gamestop.....then return it within the 7 days because you don't like it lol

Hah, I don't actually have a gamestop here, but I might have to do something like that if I don't find one soon.
Actually, no, we can't even send back opened hardware. If you open it you have to keep it.
 

Kolma

Member
I just went and browsed all songs and scrolled through them, stopping on the ones that said "Purchased" instead of $1.99. There were quite a few that I did buy that didn't show as such, but I'm assuming they are still working out the kinks. I ended up with 175 songs and I'm pretty sure I bought close to 300. Full albums I bought only had certain songs available... but it's a start.

I wonder if this is what's causing the Jane glitch...
Mine too says 175...
 

ViciousDS

Banned
After one day

Guitar is by far the best rock band guitar.....no registration issues at all. Very very happy with it.


Drums.....yes, going to have to mess with my setup more....it's fucking annoying to smack a pad and watch it delay despite having it auto calibrated. Even the standard hits were off target. Also I think my red is skipping or missing. I did the firmware update which apparently is instant in the PC and I still have rolls not registering properly. You can even see it before a song starts that it's skipping.
 
I got 'All The Rage Back Home' to appear in game. Here's what I did, on an XBox ONE.
  • Went into music store, was prompted to update 'Jane'.
  • Update failed
  • A few other songs fail in a similar fashion when re-installing
  • Have multiple songs in my DLC library (found my going to Rock Band 4 in the My Games section). Some of the songs in the pre-order pack are not in this library.
  • Uninstalled 'All The Rage Back Home', but it still showed in the DLC library.
  • Turned off XBox ONE, and unplugged console from power brick.
  • Turned machine back on.
  • Searched for 'All The Rage Back Home' in Microsoft's store
  • Installed
  • Song now works.
I'll repeat this process for each effected song (though I imagine I can just uninstall all of them in bulk, and power cycle only once).
 

ViciousDS

Banned
Also after gold starring and nearly 100% GIMME CHOCOLATE on my second run

I want more baby metal......we definitely do not have enough!!!


Edit: also freestyle solos are the shit.....sometimes though the patterns switch too fast and the game doesn't register a sustain when it asks for it.
 

cakely

Member
Finally finished downloading about 400 DLC songs which looks like most of my old library minus RB1, RB2, Rock Band Lego and RB Blitz. Thanks OCD! Not a particularly fun evening.
 
So I went and downloaded Zero from Smashing Pumpkins. I went back to career mode, and once the first track starts, I see that literally all the characters are bald.

Goddamn it Billy

BILLY_CORGAN.jpg
 

_woLf

Member
Is anyone else having issues on Xbox one with the guitar going completely unresponsive? It still is connected because if I take batteries out it tells at me, but no button will work. Not even the xbox gem button to open the dashboard. :/

Also, the bass drum pedal straight up doesn't pick up double bass hits. At all. :l
 

Kolma

Member
Going to Music Store isn't fixing my Jane issue...
Fully closed rock band, turned off xbox, unplugged xbox, rebooted, loaded up music store..

No update to fix Jane :(
 

ViciousDS

Banned
Going to Music Store isn't fixing my Jane issue...
Fully closed rock band, turned off xbox, unplugged xbox, rebooted, loaded up music store..

No update to fix Jane :(

Delete Jane?

Edit: nvm it's on disc isn't it?


Is anyone else having issues on Xbox one with the guitar going completely unresponsive? It still is connected because if I take batteries out it tells at me, but no button will work. Not even the xbox gem button to open the dashboard. :/

Also, the bass drum pedal straight up doesn't pick up double bass hits. At all. :l

If you are on NXE the guitar will only work inside the game....that's it. Any system related operations will not work such as the dashboard button
 

ViciousDS

Banned
I did delete it.. and it marked all the missing DLC as ready to install.
So i hit reinstall..
AND THERE HERE COMES JANE.
I'm sorry your caps hit me perfect I can't stop laughing cause of the way you said it.

Um, recache the songs? Delete just RB4 the game disc data? Delete all the songs associated with Jane? I'm just throwing suggestions. I didn't have this issue
 
I find that interesting since I don't drink alcohol! I just do me. I also hear people are more willing to sing when they're under the influence, which is also interesting because I jump at the chance to sing!

It's all about social comfortability. Booze has the very convenient habit of making people more outgoing, and willing to do/say what usually isn't considering socially acceptable. When playing during the day, I typically stick to base/guitar - and will jump around a bit during a fun riff.

At night, with a few PBRs under my belt? I will sing every My Chemical Romance and/or Fall Out Boy song in the catalog, and I will spend half of it on my knees wailing to the gods.

Some people are able to go all-out without the assistance, and I envy them.
 

btkadams

Member
RB2 export pack o think it's called
Thanks! I couldn't find that in the store, but I just searched rock band 2 export in my gmail and found the code from my release copy, which I had not used apparently. I guess the rock band website generated it and emailed it to me at one point. Just redeemed it lol. Awesome!
 

Kolma

Member
I'm sorry your caps hit me perfect I can't stop laughing cause of the way you said it.

Um, recache the songs? Delete just RB4 the game disc data? Delete all the songs associated with Jane? I'm just throwing suggestions. I didn't have this issue

If I've learned one thing from Jane.. It's this..

"Jane, you're playing a game you never can win"
:(
 

btkadams

Member
I just read some random article talking about how to export songs from rock band 1/2 into 4... That's not available yet, is it? The OP led me to believe it is not.
 

bigkurz

Banned
I wish we had any idea when the rb1 and 2 songs would be available. I was really hoping day one to hit the ground running, get everything downloaded, and be done with it.

It's nice having access to prior DLC but man is this process a cluster eff. How about one big button that says "download all previously purchased songs. " ?
 

TalesFromHoth

Neo Member
Is anyone else having issues on Xbox one with the guitar going completely unresponsive? It still is connected because if I take batteries out it tells at me, but no button will work. Not even the xbox gem button to open the dashboard. :/

Also, the bass drum pedal straight up doesn't pick up double bass hits. At all. :l


Turn off your Xbox ONE completely, then restart it and resync the guitar. That fixed my disconnecting issues.

I think there is a firmware update to fix issues with the drum.
 

j-wood

Member
Been playing all night, love it except for one thing.

Did they just replace all the solos with the freestyle thing? I want to play a hard solo but seems impossible. Like lazzarrto would have been amazing but...the freestyle shit ruins it. Can you turn it off?
 

btkadams

Member
How's the mic quality with the rock band 4 mic compared to previous ones? I still have the rock band 1 mic. Worth upgrading?

Are the drums any better?
 

PAULINK

I microwave steaks.
Been playing all night, love it except for one thing.

Did they just replace all the solos with the freestyle thing? I want to play a hard solo but seems impossible. Like lazzarrto would have been amazing but...the freestyle shit ruins it. Can you turn it off?

yes, the option is in the start menu.
 

Rewrite

Not as deep as he thinks
Been playing this and omg. The new crowd singalongs are incredible. Thank you Harmonix for bringing them back.

Also, anyone else notice that they just boosted the crowd singalongs more on songs that used to have them? I just played Rebel Yell by Billy Idol and my god, it sounded so incredible.
 
So, i'm sure i missed this, but is there a list of delisted songs we can re-download, if any? I know the Electric Six pack is available on XBO, but you can't do individual songs.
 
Been playing this and omg. The new crowd singalongs are incredible. Thank you Harmonix for bringing them back.

Also, anyone else notice that they just boosted the crowd singalongs more on songs that used to have them? I just played Rebel Yell by Billy Idol and my god, it sounded so incredible.
The one from Friday I'm In Love made it the best instance of that song I've ever gone through. It was a-mazing

For all the missing in Rock Band 4, singalongs returning is a breath of fresh air.
 

Kolma

Member
So, i'm sure i missed this, but is there a list of delisted songs we can re-download, if any? I know the Electric Six pack is available on XBO, but you can't do individual songs.

It was available individual before launch..
But I already owned Gay Bar so i downloaded the other 2 stand alone...
Now I have those and can't download gay bar :|
 
I'm really confused about some of the downloads, like...it says I can redownload Charlene (whatever is here) from Stephen and the Colberts, but when I click it it says I've already purhcased it and I can't download it (I get a content not found error when clicking it) -- does that mean it's been pulled and I can't redownload it for PS4? Or is it just quirkiness?

There are tons of tracks like this and I don't think they quite match up with what's been delisted.
 
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