Reopening the 99% FC debate

**Anexa** · Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject: 99% bug :(

I'm not exactly interested in posting scores here anymore. I suck at score whoring, and I only cared about RBN stuff (read: Amberian Dawn), so I'm not overly concerned about the score part of things, but I did run into this today.

I'm not familiar with the past experiences with this.. I never played TB:RB or GD:RB (not interested in band specific games, nor either of these bands) so this was the first time I ever ran into it.

Essentially I FCed (or at least in theory?) Army of the Damned (nice song btw, pick it up if you haven't already). I never broke combo throughout the entire song, but I ended up with 99% at the end. I was disgusted.

I busted my butt and FCed it again (had difficulties with being too loud due to lyrical voice so I had to work around till I could sort it out) and AGAIN ended up with 99%. I happened to be recording both times. I went through the videos and double checked in case I missed something, nope 99%.

It's kind of disgusting, I feel a little ripped off. Is this just a bug? Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps I'm not sufficient enough? How do I consider this in my personal goals? Is it an "FC"? It is a bare miss?

My score landed me 2nd place on the leaderboard.. short by 3,444 (or somewhere around there, less than 4k by a few hundred) points. Now, if it counts me as 99% (as if I broke combo) that is a potential 4 thousand points right there which would actually place me in first.
Or is score unaffected in this bug?

Blah either way I'm rather disheartened about it. :/
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**ShiftBreaker** · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 4708

Theoretically, would it be possible to get a 98% FC or 97% FC if you got an awesome on every phrase on a song, but only just? I know it may be difficult to only just get an awesome on every phrase on a song, but I am curious to see how much this glitch or non-glitch as it is can affect songs.
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**bclare** · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston

You can only keep combo by getting about 980/1000 or higher, although maybe the cutoff is slightly below that. Either way it might be possible to get a 98% FC but only just barely.
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**LucasPWNS8907** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 181

what about this "glitch" in full band if you're posting a full band FC? does the vocalist have to not miss out on any ticks or is the 99% FC legitimate? it sure looks awful on the stats screen (luckily, i haven't run into this problem yet but the day i do i will be pissed).

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

I have one "99% FC" so far and I actually expected it, because it was a phrase I was kind surprised to get Awesome on instead of Strong (I got lost on a phrase and mumbled it). My accuracy was 39994 out of 40000 I believe. If you are getting 99% FCs, I would reconsider whether you are actually nailing every phrase.
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**LucasPWNS8907** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 181

here it is! finally, the proof of no dropped ticks but still a 99%

here ya go, i'm not sure if they're viewable to the public since they're on my facebook. if they are unviewable let me know and i can find another site to host them.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=803006292005&set=a.803006252085.2408596.21425048

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=803006257075&set=a.803006252085.2408596.21425048&pid=42485985&id=21425048
thanks to my friend, bear, for capturing this

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

Glad we got proof finally.
Personally I say if you get gipped out of a 100% by the above (full accuracy), an obvious glitch, than you can post a 100% in the leaderboards. If you do not have full accuracy than I think it still has to be a 99%, because well...you don't have full accuracy xP
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**MetalPanda** · Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 201

Funny to see ''FINALLY the ultimate proof is THERE!'' and yeah... need Facebook to see, ah well.

**LucasPWNS8907** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 181

**CyberRaiza** · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 1194

My two cents is that regardless of what we've known to be the legitimate arbiter (final stat screen) the breakdown for every section is obviously more legitimate because it doesnt glitch. So instead of defaulting to something we know is wrong because we're afraid and uncomfortable to move away from our comfort zone and accept a change lets use common sense and change the "arbiter" to the correct breakdown.

an FC is an FC and 100% of notes hit is 100% of notes hit (regardless of what the glitched final screen says).
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**LucasPWNS8907** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 181

"Imageshack is popular and no account is required. Photobucket is also a choice but you do need an account there. Both are public and that's where most the pics attached to scores here are hosted. Once you host it somewhere you can just embed the photo here using the [IMG ] tags then the pic will show instead of the link."

i am a failure lol i can't get the images to work

just look below at the post from someone smarter than me that knows how to do this shit lol. those images below are what i got

**PlexShaw** · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 332 Location: London, UK

These?

**Hobo111** · Joined: 27 Dec 2009 Posts: 3414