Baron von Loathsome
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Rock Band Rivals |OT| We're Still Putting The Rock Band Back Together
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Yes to both.
Susurrus
Member
So maybe yall know the answer to this.
Back in thr 360 RB days whenever we would visit each other for rock band parties, we could bring over our hard drive with DLC and our profile and saves on it to plug into the host xbox, and it would merge our libraries and allow us to both log on.
I am fairly new to RB4 and XBone as a whole, is there an equivalent for this gen? I have 890 dlc, and my buddy is new to it and just picked up the game and set. He wants to host, and I don't particularly want to disconnect and lug over my system and everything. I don't particularly have the means to host anyway.
Back in thr 360 RB days whenever we would visit each other for rock band parties, we could bring over our hard drive with DLC and our profile and saves on it to plug into the host xbox, and it would merge our libraries and allow us to both log on.
I am fairly new to RB4 and XBone as a whole, is there an equivalent for this gen? I have 890 dlc, and my buddy is new to it and just picked up the game and set. He wants to host, and I don't particularly want to disconnect and lug over my system and everything. I don't particularly have the means to host anyway.
Shift Breaker
Member
Sweet, getting both. For some reason I just resigned the DLC schedule to bring throwbacks and RB VR tracks, so I'm at the stage of my life where I'm finding more Cyndi Lauper as a brilliant surprise.
TheExhaustedWalrus
Member
Man I've been waiting for Ain't It Fun for so long.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Chart Previews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OioLDmCTILk
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" looks fun as all hell on guitar!
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" looks fun as all hell on guitar!
Susurrus
Member
Option B looks like its what I was doing on the 360 minus the profile part, which is easy enough. His internet connection is a bit lacking so downloading 891 DLC is a bit daunting, but a hard drive should be no problem. I'll just re-purpose my 360's external since I don't even have RB3 anymore. Thanks!
MorshuTheTrader
Neo Member
I know the fig failed, but is there still the possibility that a pc version may come eventually? Or is the dream dead?
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
With Harmonix's current lack of extra funds and the poor sales of the most recent rhythm games on the market it's pretty much dead really.
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Here's this week's stem confirmations, impressions and first playthrough scores for this week's "fun" related DLC!:
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 2 | Drums: Tier 0 | Vocals: Tier 4]
Expert Guitar: 188,295 | 100% Notes Hit (894/894) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 120,732 | 100% Notes Hit (499/499) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Ain't It Fun" - Paramore - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 4 | Drums: Tier 3 | Vocals: Tier 5]
Expert Guitar: 155,967 | 100% Notes Hit (1021/1021) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 198,116 | 100% Notes Hit (1028/1028) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Stem Confirmations: "Ain't It Fun" has properly seperated tracks. No muffling of other tracks when missing notes on your own instrument, considering it's an RB:VR track I'm not surprised it has legit stems! "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" is the same which is a surprise considering Cyndi's other song "Time After Time" didn't have stems. Stem enthusiasts can safely pick up both tracks this week!
DLC Impressions:- "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" apparently expresses that we ladies, as a gender just want to have fun in life and nothing else! And to be fair the song gave me a ton of fun on guitar. Lots of alt-strumming single notes with chord hammer-ons and a crazy little solo made of crazy fast short bursts of alt strumming and really bizarre hammer-on snaking towards the end! Fantastic guitar chart. The bass is pretty fun as well for a tier 1 chart, plenty of steady bouncing up on down the fretboard. So yeah, well worth a purchase on both instruments!
Never thought I'd be saying this about a Paramore song but "Ain't It Fun" is easily the best overall song of the week. Guitar is a blast with tons of off-beat and bouncy strumming between single notes and chords and some fun as hell hammer-on snaking all around the fretboard towards the latter half it always switches thing up throughout, the bass is just as good lots of bouncy hammer-on snaking all over the place and lots of fun double strumming in between, much like the guitar chart it never stays the same for too long. Fantastic and the first Paramore song in the game I've actually enjoyed!
Get both, one of the best weeks in a long time surprisingly!
"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 2 | Drums: Tier 0 | Vocals: Tier 4]
Expert Guitar: 188,295 | 100% Notes Hit (894/894) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 120,732 | 100% Notes Hit (499/499) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Ain't It Fun" - Paramore - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 4 | Drums: Tier 3 | Vocals: Tier 5]
Expert Guitar: 155,967 | 100% Notes Hit (1021/1021) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 198,116 | 100% Notes Hit (1028/1028) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Stem Confirmations: "Ain't It Fun" has properly seperated tracks. No muffling of other tracks when missing notes on your own instrument, considering it's an RB:VR track I'm not surprised it has legit stems! "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" is the same which is a surprise considering Cyndi's other song "Time After Time" didn't have stems. Stem enthusiasts can safely pick up both tracks this week!
DLC Impressions:- "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" apparently expresses that we ladies, as a gender just want to have fun in life and nothing else! And to be fair the song gave me a ton of fun on guitar. Lots of alt-strumming single notes with chord hammer-ons and a crazy little solo made of crazy fast short bursts of alt strumming and really bizarre hammer-on snaking towards the end! Fantastic guitar chart. The bass is pretty fun as well for a tier 1 chart, plenty of steady bouncing up on down the fretboard. So yeah, well worth a purchase on both instruments!
Never thought I'd be saying this about a Paramore song but "Ain't It Fun" is easily the best overall song of the week. Guitar is a blast with tons of off-beat and bouncy strumming between single notes and chords and some fun as hell hammer-on snaking all around the fretboard towards the latter half it always switches thing up throughout, the bass is just as good lots of bouncy hammer-on snaking all over the place and lots of fun double strumming in between, much like the guitar chart it never stays the same for too long. Fantastic and the first Paramore song in the game I've actually enjoyed!
Get both, one of the best weeks in a long time surprisingly!
Good review, Juke. I'm going to pick both of 'em up.
They also laid off a lot of people that would have overseen the PC version and were involved with RBN, like HMXNordee (who used to post in the RB thread here)
Low chance of it working out without all that experience and talent in that specific area.
I mean, job lifespans in gaming are generally short, but it's gotten to awkward levels with Harmonix as they've had to stop like 3 of their minishows for their stream because people that "star" in them get laid off. Note that this is more common with them because they let any employee get on the stream instead of 'approved' marketing types, but in turn it makes industry turnover rates a tad more obvious.
They also laid off a lot of people that would have overseen the PC version and were involved with RBN, like HMXNordee (who used to post in the RB thread here)
Low chance of it working out without all that experience and talent in that specific area.
I mean, job lifespans in gaming are generally short, but it's gotten to awkward levels with Harmonix as they've had to stop like 3 of their minishows for their stream because people that "star" in them get laid off. Note that this is more common with them because they let any employee get on the stream instead of 'approved' marketing types, but in turn it makes industry turnover rates a tad more obvious.
It's really good to see them getting back on track with stems recently. I wonder what the issue was for that stretch? Saving costs? Maybe Rock Band VR forced their hand a bit.
Cipher Peon
Banned
YES IT HAS BEEN OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
One of the greatest songs of all time from THE greatest band of all time
AIN'T IT FUN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Affeinvasion
Member
I saw that there was a hot fix released. Boot up the Xbox. 7.8 GB update. What the hell you doing HMX?
PROh1bited
Banned
That's an Xbox thing.
Got that yesterday as well. Wish the XBox servers were as fast as the Steam servers. It took me probably close to an hour to download that 8GB update.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Getting Freewill. And if you don't have Go Your Own Way from the export, get it.
hmmm... I was going 95mbps to get the update.. guess it depends where you're located.. I always gett near my top speed (120mbps) when there's an update..
Not sure if it was a coincidence but my guitar kept dropping and resynching every couple of minutes, after the update it went flawless!!.. it was definately an xbox update but maybe there was a fix for my problems...
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
A great week and if you're one of those folks who never got the RB2 export, and a great week for folks who have too! Excellent.
Here's the legacy guitar chart for "Freewill" on RBVR for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnoM7VozH-o
Man, that solo!
Don't think there is sadly. Gotta scroll through them all manually!
Here's the legacy guitar chart for "Freewill" on RBVR for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnoM7VozH-o
Man, that solo!
X Shagrath said:
Don't think there is sadly. Gotta scroll through them all manually!
Shift Breaker
Member
This is great.
Now give me 2112 back, damn it.
Now give me 2112 back, damn it.
The individual Metallica tracks are now available on NA PSN for those who already owned them. Previously just the pack itself had been made available, and as someone who only picked up "...And Justice For All" I'm glad to finally play it again!
...And Justice For All
Blackened
Ride The Lightning
...And Justice For All
Blackened
Ride The Lightning
Finally, after almost 2 years of waiting, I can play them on drums again.
Also, the singles for Blood Sugar Sex Magik are up as well for previous owners.
Adam Tyner
Member
...and Enter Sandman and Battery, not that we can play those in RB4.
I hate that if I want to play Metallica tracks I need to plug in my PS3, re-sync one my RB guitars and pop in GH: Metallica.
I'm 100% with you on this one. Would instabuy full albums.
Also, I'm still looking for a crew on Xbox One, if anyone needs someone (expert guitar/bass/vocals) drop me a message!
chronic_archaic
Member
Is the 360 adapter still expensive? I need to get this...
The wireless one? Depends. It's only going to go up now that Mad Catz is defunct, so the wireless adapters out there are the only ones that will exist. If you look around, you could probably find a cheap disc copy that still has the adapter with it.
The wired one for MIDI Drums is always expensive
148 here. There's probably a few more eligible songs, as I don't have any DLC post-RB3.
pete_clarf
Member
I sent you an invite this morning if you've not seen it yet. We had a spot open up!
What's all this patriotism doing in my Rock Band. Blegh.
The challenge runs through July 4th/Independence Day, more than likely.
Murica, #MAGA, etc.
ukeI didn't get this for whatever reason, but I've just requested to join!
Many thanks!
Juke Joint Jezebel
Member
Well, it's time for stem confirmations, impressions and first playthrough scores for this week's DLC!
First Playthrough Scores 29th June 2017
"Freewill (Vault Edition)" - Rush - [Guitar: Final Tier | Bass: Tier 5 | Drums: Final Tier | Vocals: Tier 5]
Expert Guitar: 246,009, | 100% Notes Hit (1129/1129) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 257,301 | 100% Notes Hit (1001/1001) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 3 | Drums: Tier 2 | Vocals: Tier 3]
Expert Guitar: 206,666 | 100% Notes Hit (836/836) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 189,211 | 100% Notes Hit (978/978) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Stem Confirmations: Well, this week's Fleetwood Mac offering for those of you who don't own the RB2 export is 100% legit, much like the original disk release there's no muffling of other tracks or general downgrades when missing notes on your own instrument. Freewill also has properly seperated masters which isn't too surprising considering that the last 21 songs across both the main game disks and DLC are legit as well. Both tracks are a safe purchase this week!
DLC Impressions: "Go Your Own Way" is a classic, a nice balanced mix of fun and variety on both guitar and bass. Guitar is solid across the board with a ton of steady strumming switching between single notes and chords up and down the fretboard along with a pretty nice solo as well which is overall pretty engaging with some frequent hammer-on movement. Bass is pretty good as well. Lots of steady single note strumming and lane changes throughout with a few fast gallops dotted throughout to try and catch you out as well. Overall, one of the most balanced songs in the game so if you haven't got the RB2 export, then buy this track right now! "Freewill" is outstanding on guitar, the meat of the song consists of a hell of a lot of movement back and forth, zig-zagging between strummed single notes and short bursts of two and three note chord strings. The solo is crazy hard with a lot of scraping movements up and down with rapid hammer-on snaking and fast alt strumming. A good mix of fun AND challenge. The bass is outstanding as well, much like the guitar you've got a lot of horizontal movement all over the place and a kick-ass bass solo which has you constantly strumming and galloping between constant lane changes up and down the fretboard, and it's a long solo too worth 30,000 points for hitting 100% notes, easily one of the best bass charts in the game! Overall, a godly song and up there with "Pull Me Under" and "Africa" for the best RB4 DLC available. Get it!
First Playthrough Scores 29th June 2017
"Freewill (Vault Edition)" - Rush - [Guitar: Final Tier | Bass: Tier 5 | Drums: Final Tier | Vocals: Tier 5]
Expert Guitar: 246,009, | 100% Notes Hit (1129/1129) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 257,301 | 100% Notes Hit (1001/1001) Full Combo | Gold Stars
"Go Your Own Way" - Fleetwood Mac - [Guitar: Tier 3 | Bass: Tier 3 | Drums: Tier 2 | Vocals: Tier 3]
Expert Guitar: 206,666 | 100% Notes Hit (836/836) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 189,211 | 100% Notes Hit (978/978) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Stem Confirmations: Well, this week's Fleetwood Mac offering for those of you who don't own the RB2 export is 100% legit, much like the original disk release there's no muffling of other tracks or general downgrades when missing notes on your own instrument. Freewill also has properly seperated masters which isn't too surprising considering that the last 21 songs across both the main game disks and DLC are legit as well. Both tracks are a safe purchase this week!
DLC Impressions: "Go Your Own Way" is a classic, a nice balanced mix of fun and variety on both guitar and bass. Guitar is solid across the board with a ton of steady strumming switching between single notes and chords up and down the fretboard along with a pretty nice solo as well which is overall pretty engaging with some frequent hammer-on movement. Bass is pretty good as well. Lots of steady single note strumming and lane changes throughout with a few fast gallops dotted throughout to try and catch you out as well. Overall, one of the most balanced songs in the game so if you haven't got the RB2 export, then buy this track right now! "Freewill" is outstanding on guitar, the meat of the song consists of a hell of a lot of movement back and forth, zig-zagging between strummed single notes and short bursts of two and three note chord strings. The solo is crazy hard with a lot of scraping movements up and down with rapid hammer-on snaking and fast alt strumming. A good mix of fun AND challenge. The bass is outstanding as well, much like the guitar you've got a lot of horizontal movement all over the place and a kick-ass bass solo which has you constantly strumming and galloping between constant lane changes up and down the fretboard, and it's a long solo too worth 30,000 points for hitting 100% notes, easily one of the best bass charts in the game! Overall, a godly song and up there with "Pull Me Under" and "Africa" for the best RB4 DLC available. Get it!
Affeinvasion
Member
I wish the DLC would go on sale.