Rock Band guitars having problems with the “downstrum”? |
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by the hammer of Dan Zuccarelli! |
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So I was a few hours into playing Rock Band tonight when I was prompted to install a patch. “Hmm, that seems soon” I thought to myself… “Wonder what’s wrong?” But before I knew it the file was downloaded and I was back to playing… or so I thought.
On fast notes (machine-gun notes) I noticed all the sudden I was missing every 4th or 5th note! I hooked up the GH3 guitar and had no problems whatsoever. Went back to the RB guitar and it started happening again.
So I hit the Rock Band forums and it seems I’m not the only one, not by a long shot.
Seems some people had problems out of the gate, but a bunch of people are reporting problems post-patch. Both platforms are reporting problems but is more commonly reported on the 360 side, probably on account of the patch.
And it’s mostly related to downstrumming on the guitar. I actually tested this out myself but doing entire fast patterns with nothing but upstrums and had no issues, but downstrums caused many missed notes.
So anyone else out there? Hopefully we’ll hear something official soon.
8 Responses to “Rock Band guitars having problems with the “downstrum”?”
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Muffin Man on 21 Nov 2007 at 10:23 am #
Jim Squires on 21 Nov 2007 at 10:48 am #
Wowzers. I’ll take “Reasons I’m glad there was a delay in Canada” for 500, Alex.
Dan Zuccarelli on 21 Nov 2007 at 11:18 am #
oh god, I’m still happy! I’ll just drum and use the GH guitar till my fingers bleed
Santos Gonzalez on 21 Nov 2007 at 1:32 pm #
@ Muffin Why don’t you just buy the standalone game?
Muffin Man on 21 Nov 2007 at 1:45 pm #
Region locked isn’t it? And I want the drums! (I’m in UK by the way, not Canada)
Swiftwulf on 21 Nov 2007 at 3:35 pm #
Just picked up the rock band set myself, havent opened it yet though. I did however try the guitar at best buy the other day and i have to say i dont really like it, id rather use the old x-plorer controller.
bs angel on 21 Nov 2007 at 4:28 pm #
I played this last week at Best Buy, well actually I should say I tried to play this last week at Best Buy. The guitar was broke and would only strum up, but even the up strums only worked about half the time. They said it was the third guitar they had been through in less than a week so they weren’t going to replace it until the weekend. Just another reason why I won’t be purchasing this game.
Xav de Matos on 22 Nov 2007 at 6:09 pm #
CANADA LAWLS.