Unofficial Official AC:DC track pack opinions thread

**Armisael** · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 462

Also, ultra LOL at the tiering for Thunderstruck. Seriously, tier frikkin' FIVE? You're kidding me, it's gotta be 6 or 7. What were they smoking?

**yzerman** · Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 54

Sent to my local Walmart stores and to Walmart Corporate:

**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

Is anyone playing this on drums? I'm not holding out much hope but I'd still be curious to hear what it's like.
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**DarkestHour** · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 118

Just as a side note, anyone who goes to look for the game and is told by Wal-mart they don't have it should try asking someone else, or to call. I called yesterday and was told they were selling them at midnight. I went to get it today and the guy putting games in the case said it was next week and they didn't have any. So I used my phone and called and spoke to a girl who said that they had them, which they did. I'm at work so unfortunately I gotta wait but I'm excited to play that Thunderstruck intro.

**DSavior** · Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 291 Location: Hawaii

2 Wal-Marts within a 5-minute drive.

1st Wal-Mart. Associate gave me a confused look when I told her what I was looking for, she then asked another associate who gave a stupid "I dunno" look. She snooped around at the counter and lo and behold! There was the game. But only for the XBox360 (I was looking for the PS3 version). She then went into the back to do more snooping around, but she came back empty handed.

2nd Wal-Mart. Guy gave me the "oh, if it's not here then we don't have it" speech and didn't even bother checking.

Disappointing.
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**darkviperd00d** · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 824

my wal-mart didn't have it. wtf? I live in a pretty big city also. Doesn't it come out today.

**thetrout** · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 294 Location: Phoenix, AZ

**pksage** · Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 890 Location: Midwest, USA

**JaoSming** · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 152

i dragged one of them up front to the sign that says its released today and demanded it, then they finally quit that we dont have it, its not out till Tuesday crap

**Chil** · Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 850 Location: Delaware

I'm seriously considering buying this, but I just wish it wasn't 40 bucks. I'll probably get it eventually or I'll ask for it for Christmas.

As far as Thunderstruck goes, I prefer the RB2 version. All HOPOs would be pretty boring, and the added strums would be more fun to play. If anyone is wondering about the technical aspects of how they made the charts different, I'll try to explain.

In RB1, just like GH2, all notes more than 1/12 of a measure apart are strum notes. This is the threshold for what the game determines as HOPO. You can see this in action at the end of the song in the RB1 engine, where there are a few strummed notes as Angus is slowing down the riff. Since the entire intro consists of 1/16 notes, only the first one is strummed.

In RB2, just like GH3, the engine gives the option of changing the mode of any note. That is, what would be a HOPO is a strum note and vice versa. This is handled with just one event in the midi file. I bet if you took a look at the event list in Sonar or any midi editor program, you'd see that event show up for every other note. Whether that event shows up in the on-disc version of the midis is irrelevent, since the RB1 engine would be unable to recognize them.

There is no difference in the spacing of the notes between the on-disc version and the downloaded version, just the addition of the forced mode change event.

PS: Thank you mods for getting rid of the bickering involving the song that won't be named.
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**GQD2008** · Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 215

Here's the deal with Walmart.

It doesn't matter what the walmart building title says ("Walmart" or "WalMart SuperCenter" or "Super Walmart"). It's all based on relative size for the company. What this means is that if the Walmart is not X size or bigger (possibly can hold X amount of stock or is X square feet big), they may not get the game for a FEW DAYS, let alone do a midnight release. There is also a public "hype" rating walmart employs. If the game doesn't meet X amount of hype, it probably won't get a midnight release at the store you are looking at buying it from. RedDevilD and I went to 4 walmarts early this morning looking for it. We went to 4 "Super Walmarts" in which:

1. Did not have the game on any of the consoles.
2. Had the game for the PS3 and PS2. No 360 or Wii version to be found.
3. Did not have the game unpacked but did have it. "It's in the back, but the back is purgatory, I'd wait till about 8am or so before you come back to get it. I'll make some calls to other stores if you'd like."
4. Had the game for all consoles, also the cleanest walmart we went to.
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**yamo5** · Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 1285 Location: Avenel NJ

I think you can order the game on the AC/DC website, so anybody having problems getting it at Wal-Mart... Ya know..

Because Wal-Mart sucks.

**darkviperd00d** · Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 824

**sumo390** · Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 118

Problem solved for Thunderstrucks intro with strums...Put tape on green and just focus on the other four.

**bisq** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 949 Location: Phoenix, AZ

I spent close to 45 minutes waiting for various walmart employees to try to locate the game in back only to be told they didn't get any in

This after showing them their own ad which shows the game on Page 2... Once again, Walmart Fails!

I'm going to try another one later. I'm hoping since it's a supercenter I'll have better luck.
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