pause kill OD

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

is there someone on here that can explain why scorehero is allowing this antic in pathing? it's literally breaking the game to get a higher score. i would just like legitimate reasoning or justification or official policy even on this issue.

**thewinnerisgeeg** · Joined: 25 Jun 2009 Posts: 1886

I think it's because it's in the game without hacking or modifying it.
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**twistedoak** · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 1152

I don't agree with it, as it's obviously a glitch in the engine mechanics and was never intended as a normal mechanics of vocals. However, I also don't agree with pausing to rewind and hit windows, and abusing calibration to get higher scores, yet here we are. It will be argued that the engine allows you to do these things so they must be allowed.
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**IndestructibleSD** · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 1382 Location: Boston, MA

The Rock Band 3 vocal engine doesn't cater towards a competitive spirit in a similar manner to its predecessors. Telling someone they can't pause in a song isn't a rule that can be enforced on Scorehero. The difference is a few frames of OD, which won't result in an astronomical amount points being added to a user's score.

I don't support the changes HMX has made in the engine. Push button activating was really the final straw for me. If the glitch bothers you so much, perhaps stop singing for score so much. I know that's what I, and many other former competitive vocalists, have decided to do.
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**LucasPWNS8907** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 181

**IndestructibleSD** · Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 1382 Location: Boston, MA

Push button being a good addition is debatable. It took a significant portion of the difficulty of achieving high scores out of the game. Perfect timing was what separated the best from the rest in games prior to RB3. The only thing that RB3 has that even resembles its predecessors in terms of squeezing is the fact that you still need to sing on pitch.

So I guess I fail to see why push button activation is "the greatest thing to ever to happen to Rock Band vocals" considering anyone can get a high score just by pressing a button now.
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**Icemage** · Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 3200

**tidus** · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 3:23 am Post subject:

I, for myself, do succeed in seeing the button activation as something alluring, with so many times that I had to feel puny and ridiculous after yelling "WOO!", just to have to restart the song because the OD didn't want to be employed. All for a measly Top 50 score that gets down easily. Frustrating.

Either way, everyone will be able to activate OD as late as possible, but what about the back end of the activations? o_O

And before execrating me for insisting on taking the competitive course: for being the only instrument I have any excellence at, I do want take some steps further and be on the competitive zone on Vocals always when possible.

My 2 cents, bye.
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**BowlZ** · Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 1472 Location: Aurora, Ohio

how being the best at saying woo that latest made people the best singers I'll never know. Button activating makes the best singers the best singers. Seems like a great concept to me.
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**boss1592** · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:55 am Post subject:

i agree with the new mechanics being bad for competitive gameplay, but i do beleive that, for casual play, pause-and-rewind is by far the best pausing mechanic that we've had in rhythm games, and RB3 was definately more aimed at the casual market than the competitive one, so im not gonna hold it against HMX too much.