Star counts are inaccurate in band play

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

There appears to be an issue, at least on PS3, where if you play a song in a group, while the solo scores will be accurate (as far as I can tell), the star count you are displayed will be wrong. For example, tonight I "gold-starred" China Grove in a co-op setting but the score I got was actually lower than my previously entered score here which was a 5-star.

This may be an argument for putting in automatic star calculation for RB3 songs, provided the data can be entered for star thresholds. Otherwise the star counts people enter themselves will be all over the place if they played in bands.
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**ricecake** · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 4:51 am Post subject:

Hmm, this is disturbing. I've already entered in scores (some from band play), but most were sightreads, so I had no previous score to compare stars with.
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**blingdomepiece** · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada

I am hoping there is another explanation. Meanwhile here are a couple of screenshots from my game. One shows a fairly pedestrian score for China Grove. The other shows gold stars for that song

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Expert Pro Keys: 50/63 GS, most recent The Killing Moon
Expert Pro Drums: 53/83 GS, most recent Free Bird / Oh My God / Oye Mi Amor
Expert Pro Bass: 6/83 GS, most recent Everybody Wants to Rule the World

**psymatiq** · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 642 Location: Denmark

its the same on xbox.. a singel score of 361k on x guitar on freebird solo was 5 stars then i did it online and messed up and got 340k and got gold stars. Im kinda confused how it works tbh.
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**diablocon** · Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 1565 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Yeah, there seems to be something different about how cutoffs are calculated in Band play. Last night I was playing with my brother and I was on Keys, and apparently I was gold starring songs I've had trouble 5 starring on my own.

**epsilon82** · Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 21

Yeah, I definitely noticed this on the first day as well. I was in a band and got a few gold stars, but one in particular stood out as ludicrous, because it was Sister Christian and it had some cymbal/tom stuff on Pro that I wasn't used to at all yet, so I broke combo several times. When it showed gold stars, I knew there was something wrong.

One thing I still can't wrap my head around is how the unison bonuses play into this. In most respects, it's reasonably easy to "separate" the solo performance from the band play, even with respect to calculating the overdrive multiplier differently, but the one thing I can't see them dealing with (without heavy fudging, at least) is how to deal with situations where I hit a unison bonus, but someone else doesn't. In solo play, I'd have half a bar of overdrive, but instead I get a quarter. How can the game possibly account for that?

The strange thing is that the situation I mentioned above you would think would work toward lower scores, not higher. But it's moot if the only issue here is the reporting of the star score, and not the numerical score itself, but I'm not 100% sure of either one's accuracy myself.