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Harmonix has released a significant patch for Rock Band 2, which adds and fixes a swathe of features. It's out now on Xbox 360 and is apparently in certification for PlayStation 3.
Chief among them is a new Audition mode for the Rock Band Network, where users can upload songs from their PCs to try them out using the game's tools.
The Network is currently in closed beta, but opens up in the coming weeks according lead designer Dan Teasdale on the Rock Band website (spotted by Joystiq).
Background downloads and the ability to stack multiple songs will soon be reality, and the patch also enables Xbox 360 wireless microphone support.
Hammer-on and pull-offs are being improved, too, and the Ion Drum Kits will soon be velocity-sensitive. Finally, there's a Sort By Stars option coming to the Quick Play mode, so you can see which songs you have played and mastered at a glance.
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barnard666
28/09/09 @ 08:46
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sounds good - I wish they'd get rid of the drum fill bit though...its really crappy and whilst I play a drum fill and hear the beats out of my TV half a second later it just ruins all my fun
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terminalterror
28/09/09 @ 09:41
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The sort by stars is better than nothing, but fundamentally broken as it doesn't take difficulty into account, so you have no idea whether a song has 5 stars because you have aced it on expert or because you aced it on easy.
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@barnard666:
Have you seen the drum overdrive mechanic in The Beatles? A glowing green note appears in place on one other note, rather than covering a whole section with a fill, which it quite like. The fills are amusing if you've got a little creativity to go on, but I do find myself being lazy with them and just tapping a couple of pads and waiting for the green note at the end.
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kinky_mong
28/09/09 @ 10:01
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Some good changes but I wish the Music Store bit could be updated to be better. I tried to download some older DLC last week and it was no where to be seen on the game's music store, so I had to trawl through the marketplace on the dashboard to find them.
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Doctor_What
28/09/09 @ 10:09
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All I want is a better framerate on the PS3 version. That would make me a happy chappy.
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Ace_McCloud
28/09/09 @ 10:21
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What do you mean by "background downloads" and "the ability to stack multiple songs"? Maybe stupid questions...
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What do you mean by "background downloads" and "the ability to stack multiple songs"? Maybe stupid questions...
On the former, if you buy something, you have to sit on the download screen and wait for it to complete before you can play it. If you go back into the game, it just sits on pending until you exit RB2. Therefore, background downloads would mean you can buy something, then exit the music store and keep playing while the song downloads. I presume the latter means you can add a bunch of songs to a basket and then check out at the end, rather than having to go buy, download, buy, download. |
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terminalterror: I haven't looked at it yet so I'd be unable to say but I can guess straight away that this will be good for expert players who like to see what songs they have or haven't yet gold starred.
I guess with the other difficulties you still get to see your top score which can serve as 'some' (if little) indication of what difficulty it's been played on. You're still going to have more points if you've 5 starred a song on Hard than on Easy I imagine!
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frycrayola
28/09/09 @ 11:39
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Sort by stars is a great addition. For too long, the illogical, unnormalised scoring was the only indicator if you'd played a song, with no way of knowing if you'd five-starred it.
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curtlikesmeat
28/09/09 @ 11:39
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Did they fix the female singers singing male songs thing? Can you now have a male and female singer in your band? They're probably saving it for RB5 or something - back of the box feature!
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The sorting by stars feature is broken. It only puts songs into a star category if you beat your previous score on a song. So, if you did particularly well once, and are unable to do that well again, it shall forever remain unplayed, according to the game. Which is depressing.
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frycrayola
28/09/09 @ 19:07
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That's a bit crazy there, Mr Mott*. Looks like I'll have to start beating old scores.
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itsgood2slide
28/09/09 @ 22:01
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"Wish they'd let us use our xbox 360 headsets as microphones, like the Guitar Hero games. Oh well."
Rock Band 1 let you do this. Presumably Rock Band 2 does too..? |
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