The Official Rock Band Discussion Thread - Page 21

eff that, juke box hero is fun, and I'm the designated drummer .

I've even had the guys offer to have their GFs watch my kid so I can come drum for them, LOL.

My yellow pad crapped out today. I had ordered a box to send the drums back when I requested the one for my strat with a broken strummer. They have been OK but never very responsive with rolls but I could live with it as I didnt have to do too many and I wanted to give them some time to work any bugs out. Hopefully they have things right and I will get a good drum set. Just sucks, I probably won't them back until after Xmas The family wanted me to bring it Saturday to the family get together.

the yellow pad completley crapped out? Have you tried taping the head down a little so the hits register?

all these problems with the RB instruments......

think they'll have the problems ironed out by the time they release the drum kits by themselves?

I'm planning on picking up the drum kit when they get available.

yep, taped it down and nothing. I can hit it as hard or as light as I want and nada.

Speaking of warranties, I received my replacement guitar today!! Too bad it was just an empty box, serenity now!!!! Oh well, sent new email, time to see what happens.

Did you offer up your CC# for an immediate replacement? If not then thats how it works, they send you an empty box, you put the broken one in and once they get it they send you the replacement.

For what it's worth I had a very long talk with one of the hardware guys there on Thursday as I am STILL waiting for my replacement guitar from an RMA on the 21st of Nov. They are currently on the 4th revision of the Guitar but there has been no revisions to the drums.

An the folks that got the free game email, you'll be waiting awhile. As of last Thursday they were still trying to decide how many games you get to pick from. 3 or 5 was the current debate, once that's settled then they still have to figure out the actual games you get to choose from. There is roughly 5000 folks that received the offer if anyone is curious.

Got an email with the games..quite a few to choose from. I ended up getting skate. for the 360. i'm sure it'll be on the gaming news sites, if it isn't arleady..with a list of games that are available

Yeah got the mail too, I have skate. which I highly recommend to anyone who doesn't have it so I'm trying to decide between NFS Pro Street and FIFA.

eta looks like those got lousy reviews so now I'm thinking NHL 08 even though I've been a 2k hockey fan for the last 8 years.

I was having issues with my guitar registering two "hits" randomly when I'd strum. Although not a huge pain, there were times when it's flare up and make the game unplayable for short periods of time.

This evening I pulled the guitar out of the closet and noticed that the strum bar was at an angle. I unscrewed the guitar and found that the short spring attached to the strum bar was bent in two areas. I removed the spring, and the guitar seems to be working fine.

Not suggesting anyone tries this as a fix if they have the same issue I was having, but thought I'd post it as an FYI.

-JR

I picked up RB last night at my local Gamecrazy store. They had 6 in stock which is a surprise because the BB, CC, Target, etcs had zero. Anyhow this gift is for he family and my 9 and 7yr old are going to very happy. Im a bit nervous about the issues you guys are reporting about the equipment, but it sounds like there is a process in place to help folks out. I have an xplorer guitar already so we are primed to have fun with a full band! I'll report back later on the fun we're having!

On Easy, you could probably just hum as long as you get the breaks right and vary your pitch in the right direction. Take advantage of the floating arrow/pitch indicator before phrases or words start to get an idea of where you are. Also, you can sing an octave lower (or higher? that's what the spandex is for) and still get full points.

The vocal tour took me a while because I waited until the house was empty!

I picked up a box from BB yesterday and it had November date on the bottom, although I haven't had a chance to test it out I'm hoping it's from a newer and improved batch.

I bought RB for xbox on release day from Kmart. I have not opened it yet, but have been following the equipment issues.

Can someone summarize what to look for (production date, etc) without opening the box to tell if I have "newer" hardware? I may to a buy/return if I can find a newer version in a local store. Thanks.

I was hoping the dlc would be up today, I really wanted to play Buddy Holly this morning.

there's a delay on the XBL side. It will probably still go up today sometime.

good, my last final is today so maybe it'll be up when I get home from that

I am not a big fan of the RB guitar at all. I MUCH prefer the wireless Les Paul from GH III that I use always when playing RB. To me it just is much more responsive and easier to press the buttons.

The dlc is now up and getting positive reviews on gaf.

For those of us stuck at work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHY3Pe_6V4w

t-minus 45 minutes till I'm home playing my iron lung while kicking chairs over in my living room.

I'm trying to access the support site at EA and when I try to put in my email and password for my account it keeps saying internal service error. I want to replace my guitar but it has been doing this all day.

Will they send the replacement to Canada even though it's not out here yet? I bought my bundle in the states...

It asked me right now to download a patch. Does it brick (turn off) the ability to use the guitar hero controller???!?!? I'm not going to be the first to download it. It asked me twice so i'm sure its for rock band.

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so far i dont see any differences. i have played at least 5 different games since the last time i played rock band and i know if you played tony hawk project 8 after playing five different games it cleared some of the data that was saved on your drive. i wonder if that might have something to do with it??

I believe the update is for the new community features - the Rock Band message board is down and promises the new community will be unveiled when it comes back up.

just finished vocal career on hard, might be able to do it on expert but that'll be a little ways down the road

yep, it should hopefully be a lot better than the crap GH site but yeah I actually visit those boards a lot so I'm in a bit of with drawl.
Also just want to say the three new trackas are pretty fun.

Finished solo guitar on hard!!!!! I'm so freaking excited. I was stuck on Molly Hatchet for a couple of weeks, and last night tried using the solo frets instead of the normal ones - that got me through the solo quite easily (75%, instead of the usual 45-50%). Only three starred it, but still passed!

Next I think will be vocal expert, and then drums hard. Love this game.

DaverJ's view on a couple of the new DLC on drums:

Buddy Holly: Quite possibly the easiest song in the game. Straight-forward beat with occasional crash, mostly single kick drums. I got through it with 5-stars on Hard at 96% first time through. A great warm-up song. **** (out of 5)

My Iron Lung: Mostly easy beat with unexpected tempo changes. Not my fav Radiohead song, but certainly not the worst and works well in a band setting. *** (out of 5)

Also recommended downloads: I Fought The Law (****), Roxanne (*****), and I HATE to admit it but My Sharona (****) is annoyingly fun to play.

DaverJ give joker and the theif a try it's super fun on drums and the guitar part is a good warmup.