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Plaguefox said:
I could have broken memory, but I recall one of the developers mentioning that gold stars were not just awards for playing as accurately as possible but also for smart OD pathing. If you don't overdrive at all (or overdrive poorly) and get 100% you get gold stars?

Or imagine if you get 100% but you also overstrum a hundred times, keeping you from ever completing an energy section; do you still Gold Get?

I'm lame, I can get gold on all of three songs, but I kind of understand Gold and 100% being unlinked accomplishments.

Edit: Oh, I missed this.



Some songs weren't just nearly impossible, they were proven completely impossible, even when exploiting the game code to squeeze out extra points. That's the most likely reason they reduced the point total for gold stars.
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Could be wrong, but 100% is actually just number of missed notes and missed strums inverted from 0% of all notes in a song. (I think that's how GH3 had the bug for 101%)
 
is it sad that the day the game hits on 360 im gonna search for vids on youtube of some of the menus and songs?

yes, yes it is. release RB3 on ps3 simultaneously harmonix, please. i beg of you.
 
I tried going into a shutdown mode to ignore the game, but I failed. :lol
I guess I'll play a little Enter Sandman to wish it goodbye.
 
Bah so you can do the transfer now?

im thinking of doing it now and trading in the game before the TIV plummets (It might have plumeted already) but i still got like 700 achievments to go, never did the ESL either :lol
 
DID I JUST IMAGINE THAT, OR DID THE GAME NOT SKIP THE BACKGROUND MUSIC 4 TIMES WHEN "LOADING ADDITIONAL CONTENT"?

MEGATON.

*edit* Yep, it's totally gone. This is amazing. It's so much quicker when you start the game up now. I'm far too happy about this.
 
Ten-Song said:
Same here. Also far more songs I feel the urge to delete and never see again. Mostly the stuff that's just covers, but then again, I will also take much joy in finally being able to hit a delete button on Creep, Flirtin' With Disaster, In Bloom, Next to You, and Highway Star to name some...
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Why...., why would you do this D:
 
TheGreatDave said:
DID I JUST IMAGINE THAT, OR DID THE GAME NOT SKIP THE BACKGROUND MUSIC 4 TIMES WHEN "LOADING ADDITIONAL CONTENT"?

MEGATON.

*edit* Yep, it's totally gone. This is amazing. It's so much quicker when you start the game up now. I'm far too happy about this.
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Really?

Holy shit that was annoying.
 
TheGreatDave said:
DID I JUST IMAGINE THAT, OR DID THE GAME NOT SKIP THE BACKGROUND MUSIC 4 TIMES WHEN "LOADING ADDITIONAL CONTENT"?

MEGATON.

*edit* Yep, it's totally gone. This is amazing. It's so much quicker when you start the game up now. I'm far too happy about this.
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WHAT
please let this happen for ps3 too, it irritated me as well. lets hope they fixed the thing thats VERRY rare, VERRY rare indeed, but annoying one the less.

sometimes the game lags behind the music and it skips a part. lots of people had this but it happens almost never, still. if you have a FC and that happens you want to knock someone out. :P
 
Tiduz said:
WHAT
please let this happen for ps3 too, it irritated me as well. lets hope they fixed the thing thats VERRY rare, VERRY rare indeed, but annoying one the less.

sometimes the game lags behind the music and it skips a part. lots of people had this but it happens almost never, still. if you have a FC and that happens you want to knock someone out. :P
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omg I thought I was the only person to get this since I never see it discussed :lol

Only happened after the first PS3 patch that brought the loading additional content screen.
 
Struct09 said:
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Tiduz said:
WHAT
please let this happen for ps3 too, it irritated me as well. lets hope they fixed the thing thats VERRY rare, VERRY rare indeed, but annoying one the less.

sometimes the game lags behind the music and it skips a part. lots of people had this but it happens almost never, still. if you have a FC and that happens you want to knock someone out. :P
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That's happened to me a couple of times, once today actually. I'll let you know if it happens after the patch before you get it!

Finally gold stared Sprode. Now I can go back to liking the song.
 
cool stuff happening with rock band, and I can't get my 360 online for 5 days :(

PS: I am going to miss through the monsoon, it was one of my few gold stars!
 
TheGreatDave said:
DID I JUST IMAGINE THAT, OR DID THE GAME NOT SKIP THE BACKGROUND MUSIC 4 TIMES WHEN "LOADING ADDITIONAL CONTENT"?

MEGATON.

*edit* Yep, it's totally gone. This is amazing. It's so much quicker when you start the game up now. I'm far too happy about this.
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You're not the only one. That made my afternoon. Well, next to receiving my Value Pedal MKII two whole days early!
 
McBradders said:
You still got me... :lol

Sorry :(
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We should play soon, we haven't for awhile. I bet you're way better than me at drums now though, so we'll keep it friendly and co-op.

The gold star cutoff being lowered is paying off for me. Working Man Vault now has a gold star limit of around 230k. I just got 248,085, quite a bit over that, but the old limit used to be around 255,000.
 
Ok so my Rock Band didn't tell me to update when i turned it on and i can't figure out how to do it. I have PS3 by the way.

Also i downloaded Skullcrusher and Living On The Corner... through the playstation store, since the Rock Band store wouldn't let me (says i already purchased them) and i played Skullcrusher on expert drums but when i try to play On the Corner... it stays on the loading screen forever. The song never starts i've been sitting here for over 10 minutes with a loading screen. I restarted the game 3 times and every time same problem. Anyone else have this happen or know how to fix it?
 
Wouldn't the most sensible Gold star cutoff be the equivalent score for a 100% FC without Overdrive? It's still nearly an average 4x multiplier, but guaranteed to be hittable on every song.

Seems to me if you can FC a song, you should get gold stars. Maybe I'm wrong...
 
MrOctober said:
Ok so my Rock Band didn't tell me to update when i turned it on and i can't figure out how to do it. I have PS3 by the way.

Also i downloaded Skullcrusher and Living On The Corner... through the playstation store, since the Rock Band store wouldn't let me (says i already purchased them) and i played Skullcrusher on expert drums but when i try to play On the Corner... it stays on the loading screen forever. The song never starts i've been sitting here for over 10 minutes with a loading screen. I restarted the game 3 times and every time same problem. Anyone else have this happen or know how to fix it?
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The update is only for 360 right now
 
apparently a ton of people are having problems with the DLC on PS3. MC Frontalot is definitely broken. They are aware of the problem and are fixing it now i guess.
 
Charron said:
Oh, hey, nobody mentioned it yet. Title update! Song exporting! Gold star cut-offs lowered! Other stuff!
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I thought it was confirmed all the non-exportable songs were covers?

I won't miss Paranoid, but fuck you Activision for GH Metallica. Seriously.

And Run to the Hills isn't exportable? Why not? Did the music game industry piss Iron Maiden off or something?
 
Duck said:
I thought it was confirmed all the non-exportable songs were covers?

I won't miss Paranoid, but fuck you Activision for GH Metallica. Seriously.

And Run to the Hills isn't exportable? Why not? Did the music game industry piss Iron Maiden off or something?
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Clearly GH:Iron Maiden is confirmed.
 
sublime085 said:
But you can still get 100% while breaking your combo the whole time.

Which would mean a low ass score with gold stars. It'd be nice if it recognized FCs.
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See, this is one of my problems with the whole gold star thing in RB. I'm used to GH2 and to a far lesser extent, GH3 where gold stars mean exactly that: 100% on a song. Frankly RB's gold stars feel more like compensating for the fact that they nerfed everything and four stars are the new three. So instead of gold stars actually meaning something they're now just a slightly more challenging 5 stars since getting 5 stars basically means "I was more or less able to complete the song without screwing it up so badly that it was no longer recognizable".

This got me thinking, actually, has anyone ever tried to see how low they could go? Is it possible to actually get 2 stars on a song? In a way this is even more interesting because you've got the challenge of trying to skim down as low as possible, but still keep just enough going to prevent failing out. A shame there's no way in-game to keep track of your lowest score though. It would, if you're listening, be a very interesting BotB challenge if the system can be configured to work with it.
 
Belgand said:
This got me thinking, actually, has anyone ever tried to see how low they could go? Is it possible to actually get 2 stars on a song? In a way this is even more interesting because you've got the challenge of trying to skim down as low as possible, but still keep just enough going to prevent failing out. A shame there's no way in-game to keep track of your lowest score though. It would, if you're listening, be a very interesting BotB challenge if the system can be configured to work with it.
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Silver says so.
 
Duck said:
I know you're being cheeky, but if that were true we'd see Iron Maiden in World Tour.
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Clearly it's a last minute deal, just like the Rush exclusivity they've purchased!

Just exported and deleted tracks. I kept all my Euro tracks, but I got the main RB1 songs down to Flirtin' With Disaster, Gimmie Shelter, Here It Goes Again, Highway Star, Maps, Outside, Pleasure (Pleasure), Say It Ain't So, Wave Of Mutilation, Welcome Home and Won't Get Fooled Again.
 
Belgand said:
This got me thinking, actually, has anyone ever tried to see how low they could go? Is it possible to actually get 2 stars on a song?
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Yes, I got 2 stars on bass on one of the harmonix band songs, i believe it was one of the freezepop songs
 
NameGenerated said:
That'd just be too awesome.
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If you like playing the same guitar riff over and over again.

DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN

*squiggly guitar that makes no sense*

DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN

I do want The Prisoner though. That's a rockin' track.
 
Just downloaded the PAX pack on PS3, it's definitely fucked. Just hung on the loading screen when I picked the Frontalot track.
 
Belgand said:
This got me thinking, actually, has anyone ever tried to see how low they could go? Is it possible to actually get 2 stars on a song? In a way this is even more interesting because you've got the challenge of trying to skim down as low as possible, but still keep just enough going to prevent failing out. A shame there's no way in-game to keep track of your lowest score though. It would, if you're listening, be a very interesting BotB challenge if the system can be configured to work with it.
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You can get 0 on easy drums in Silver.
 
TheGreatDave said:
If you like playing the same guitar riff over and over again.

DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN

*squiggly guitar that makes no sense*

DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN DUDUDUN

I do want The Prisoner though. That's a rockin' track.
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Not every Maiden track has gallops, there are quite a few of them that do right enough.
 
Duck said:
I thought it was confirmed all the non-exportable songs were covers?

I won't miss Paranoid, but fuck you Activision for GH Metallica. Seriously.

And Run to the Hills isn't exportable? Why not? Did the music game industry piss Iron Maiden off or something?
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If GH metallica is full band and just like GH Aerosmith as in lots of band videos history of the band, digital versions of the band and Jason and Cliff its gonna be amazing.

Having said that. Band Exclusivity is Ass. But why EnterSandman and not Battery then.
 
Nisa65 said:
Not every Maiden track has gallops, there are quite a few of them that do right enough.
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I'm sure they have tons of songs that don't do that, but based on the 3 or 4 Iron Maiden songs I've played in video games, I'm not that concerned about the idea of not playing any of their songs again. They're the last band I'd want a GH dedicated to.
 
Grecco said:
If GH metallica is full band and just like GH Aerosmith as in lots of band videos history of the band, digital versions of the band and Jason and Cliff its gonna be amazing.

Having said that. Band Exclusivity is Ass. But why EnterSandman and not Battery then.
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I'm pretty sure Battery was licensed at an early date, likely around the same time they licensed Enter Sandman and the Metallica pack, before the GH Metallica deal was even struck. With Enter Sandman in RB2, they would have had to relicense it after the GH Metallica deal.
 
Wow at the update. Your time is up Creep, no more seeing my score being 200 points under a gold star! Oh yes, you will be mine.
 
Xevren said:
Wow at the update. Your time is up Creep, no more seeing my score being 200 points under a gold star! Oh yes, you will be mine.
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I just tried it and got 10k less than my previous best. I fucking HATE that song.
 
OH, FUCK... I just downloaded the newest update so I could export and this update is broken, too. The game is freezing in the same place again now. (at the point where it's about to load my DLC)
This makes me almost certain that Rock Band 2 won't work with my gamertag/HDD, either. I'm not even going to buy it until I rent it first.
 
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