x6 Multiplier for Bass

**rabies** · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: x6 Multiplier for Bass

Maybe I was hallucinating, but playing bass in multiplayer last night, I noticed that I went past the normal x4 multiplier, and got all the way up to x6!? ..and once I got past 4, it would flash text along the lines of 'bass groove'. The problem is, I didn't see it go to x12 or anything when I triggered overdrive.

Seems they really changed around the way the bass scoring/system works....I'll have to investigate more.
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**TopGearFTW** · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

yeah bass does get a 6X combo as it max. wheras the other instruments stay at 4X. i dont know why they made bass 6X, i thought it was because generally there are less notes in a bass riff, and the bigger combo is to make up for it
as for overdrive making it 12X i dunno
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**shinma** · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 14 Location: northern nj

from the wikipedia article on RB:

The bass guitar player can raise his/her multiplier to 6x, as opposed to the traditional 4x, because as noted by a GameSpot preview, "bass can get a little dry sometimes."

this makes sense, but i don't know if there is any documented info anywhere on why they upped the bass multiplier to x6...
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**Fedora** · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 2286 Location: Des Moines, IA

It makes sense though. Good bass is all about a steady groove, and it makes it more important to keep the combo up on the bass as opposed to the other instruments.
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**coastercrazy10** · Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:40 pm Post subject:

It won't say x12 for bass for a few reasons:

You can only play bass in multi player
in multi player mode, the overdrive is tracked up by the score, not by the individual instruments

You can get a x12, but it won't say it. You have to combine the multiplier by the score and the one by your individual instrument.

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I've found that if you have like 2 people and one of them can FC the bass parts, you get gold stars really easily as long as you got good overdrive use. On songs with a lot of bass notes, with a 6x you can gold star with tons of mistakes. On songs with bass chords, you'll be gold starring way before the song ends. 6x for the win.

**Jarun79** · Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Quincy, IL

So if Drums, Guitar, and Bass all activate Overdrive at the same time, and the band multiplier is x6, does Bass get a x36 multiplier?
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**Jarun79** · Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Quincy, IL

We actually had this going the other night with me on Bass, but I was so busy playing that I couldn't pay any attention to the score which is why I asked.
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