Rock Band 3 Score-tracking is Live!

**iammax** · Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 438 Location: Westchester, NY

Hmm... are you going to add RB3 under our current RBN section, or add the RBN songs to RB3's section?
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**RJUCPU** · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1827 Location: Scottsdale, AZ

With regard to the 3-Part, while I agree there isn't nearly as much activity here as in other categories, there is still a decent amount, especially with regard to DLC.

I have a suggestion:

Why not allow "less than 4" to be submitted in full band? In my opinion, this would be similar in mindset to allowing lower difficulties in the expert submissions. If you play with less than 4, you can expect your scores to be lower/your ranking lower. But if you just want to enter them and keep track you have the ability to do so. I know we play frequently in 3-part as do a few others (Ripley comes to mind) so while it may not be competitive in it's own right, there are a bunch of them and this could allow people to still enter them and track. Any combination of 3 could be entered and that's a huge amount of separate leaderboards that could be removed while still retaining the independent scores.

Maybe when submitting under the full band screen you can make the choice "NULL" or something to signify you didn't use that instrument (and when this is chosen, possibly gray out the NS and Percent etc).

I think this could work and... as an added bonus... this would also take care of the scenarios where the song has a missing part. We've seen more and more of those so it could be a way to keep all the various 3-part combinations tracking without having an entirely different set-up for them.

Doing something of this route would save a lot of clutter isolating score tracking to Solo, Co-op (2-part) and Band (maybe a better verbage than full band). Band would consist of any combination above 2 as you would/could feasibly enter 3-part, 4-part and 5-part (since with 5 parts only 4 score anyway and it's limited to local play).

Band obviously will need the most categories as you simply cannot place it in 2 categories but I don't think you would need to break out all possible combinations. Five player band play will be restricted to local play and only four instruments score. Harmonies would be an issue, because even though it's also restricted to local play, the scoring difference is quite large so would not be fair to online bands which make up the large majority of scores. However, I don't see a need to break out all possible combinations as that would dilute the leaderboards significantly. Maybe it could be simple enough as [Band] > Standard / Pro-Mode (whereas Pro-Mode would apply if 1 or more instruments played in this setting similar to the difficulty level now) > [Vocals] Solo/Harmonies. Hope that makes some sort of sense.

Lastly, it seems that Joe mentioned you cannot have certain combinations such as Guitar/Bass/Keys (&/or vocals, don't remember exactly) all at the same time. I'm not sure if this is online only or if it includes local play. Nor am I sure what the consequences are (maybe they just don't all get scored). In either case, it's something to take into account as it could affect the ability to even enter scores with various instruments in Band play.
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**Prong1978** · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 2257 Location: Flint, Michigan

I apologize if this has been covered, but is there any plans to add and "ALL" systems selection for scores like there is on the GH side? I think it would help unite players if there was a single leaderboard to check out (in addition to the separate systems).
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**xXxLagacyxXx** · Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 416

**chocotricks** · Joined: 21 Oct 2008 Posts: 94

Plz add ds version when your ready of course I know you said you might get to it but I hope you do get to it xD lol kthxbye
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**MasterNobody** · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 2791 Location: Duxbury, MA

While I think the discussion regarding band scores is great and should continue (I like a lot of what RJ said, it goes well with some of my ideas)...

Could we pretty pretty please get DLC and imports tracking up? I wouldn't imagine it would be too hard to do, I really badly wanna be able to upload my new AoH, MLW, and EJN scores and the like =/
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**JosJuice** · Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Sweden

yayz, it seems like imports/DLC are up.
There's a weird glitch though, every GDRB song shows up twice.

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

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

Sorry for not updating as I went along, but I wanted to complete my list first.

The issue with the GDRB imports being duplicated has been fixed, and pro drums have now been added for all the newly added material.

Here's a list of updates that were made:

Please keep in mind that the scoring engines are not compatible between RB2 and RB3, so you must submit your scores within the appropriate section under the game where you played the song.

If you find anything that's wrong or still missing, let me know.

I'll probably revisit band tracking after I add support for DJ Hero 2, which is long overdue now and shouldn't take too long. I'll also try to see what would be involved with adding the DS version here, but that's not as high a priority at the moment.
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**RJUCPU** · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1827 Location: Scottsdale, AZ

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**MasterNobody** · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 2791 Location: Duxbury, MA

Thanks so much for adding the DLC JCirri!

**twistedoak** · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 1152

Those who voxtar/ do two parts at the same time would greatly appreciate co-op tracking as well. It's hard enough to compete with 2 person groups let alone a full band...

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

A couple of notes my more anal retentive mind noticed (PS3 Expert Pro Keys page):

1) When I look at my score history in RB2 I can see the note streak and percentage for each score. When I click on my score history in RB3 I only see scores.

2) Possibly related, but sorting by streak or percentage does not work. Doing either gives you the result of sorting by tier. Sorting by timestamp, score, rank, and rating (e.g. stars) do work, as does sorting explicitly by tier.
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**Bmad965** · Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 129

Speaking of keys, there's still no DLC showing up for regular or pro keys.
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