Gold stars on Rockaway Beach and Sick Cubed even possible?

**Zgf72** · Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Atlanta, GA

See title. I've FCed Rockaway Beach and Sick, Sick, Sick but can never seem to get gold stars. Any good paths?
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**Sully** · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 4570 Location: Tampa, FL

Sick Sick Sick is defiinitely possible, Rockaway Beach is thought to be impossible.

Perhaps Krim will divulge his Sick Sick Sick path.

**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

**Fedora** · Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 2286 Location: Des Moines, IA

I'm 100% sure rockaway beach is not possible, but I've been wrong before.
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**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject:

I ran Sick Sick Sick again and got a score better by a few ticks, so apparently I remember the path. I'll work on getting a video up, but I make no guarantees.

EDIT: Sick, Sick, Sick Gold Star vid is up. Starts at first Overdrive phrase due to size constraints.

**PeridotWeapon** · Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 1072 Location: Pittsfield, MA

Likewise, I don't see how Rockaway Beach is possible. It's like a Bass track took a holiday and went over to see how the Guitar end of the world lives. There's very little variety in the chart to strategically use Overdrive, and not enough Overdrive available to make up for that limitation.

Bang A Gong hasn't been done yet, either, and the only Full Combo is about 5,000 away from the 5GS cutoff. I wouldn't say for sure it's impossible yet, though - it's more likely that nobody's cared to even TRY.

1,048 notes of finger-stretching chord crap, and it goes on FOREVER.

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**Zgf72** · Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Atlanta, GA

Hey Krim thanks for the OD path, got my gold stars now

Sucks about Rockaway Beach though. That, coupled with the fact that my yellow and blue drums pads are F'ed up on my drums and when singing it's almost impossible to do short phrases like on Blackened or talky parts in general, I think Harmonix has several broken areas of this game that they need to tweak.

Edit: And I also gave Bang A Gong a try and FC'ed with no gold stars either. WTF is up with these songs...I'm a completionist, I must have all gold stars!!!
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**Sully** · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 4570 Location: Tampa, FL

Couldn't they add an OD phrase to the songs that can't be gold starred?

**PeridotWeapon** · Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 1072 Location: Pittsfield, MA

That'd be a quick fix, yes, but at the same time, it's effectively erasing the scoreboard for that song, as the maximum possible score - and possibly the optimal Overdrive path - would be completely changed.

I'm not too keen on the idea of them dropping the requirements for Gold Stars like they did on the PS2 version, either. If they were universally easier to get for all songs, it'd kill a lot of the appeal.

**Zgf72** · Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Atlanta, GA

Perhaps if they were aware of which songs that happened with they could release a patch that awards the gold stars for just 100%ing the song (in just those cases, anyway), so if you've already FCed the song you could get the gold stars and not have to worry about your scores changing or anything with more OD. But they're all DLC so I'm not sure what they'll do about that, but hey a guy can wish.
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**PeridotWeapon** · Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 1072 Location: Pittsfield, MA

Well, they aren't ALL DLC, but they are the biggest culprit. There's at least a quartet of Bass songs that haven't been Gold Starred yet in the standard setlist, five Drum songs, and another four Vocal songs. Granted, some of those are because people just aren't good enough to get the job done yet, but I guarantee a few of them won't be possible by the current formula.

100% = GS would take some of the fun out of it, but for perfectionists, that's probably the easiest patch that wouldn't affect the scoreboards ...

**hiddenzombie013** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1766 Location: Tampa, FL

**PeridotWeapon** · Joined: 30 Jun 2007 Posts: 1072 Location: Pittsfield, MA

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