Mechanics discussion for Blitz

**insomniacdude** · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 13

Does anybody know for sure how the checkpoints are divided? Is it just the section breakdown that shows if you take a song into practice mode in RB3? I don't know if that's 100%, because there's always a gate before a solo.

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There always seems to be a break when a solo starts unless it's directly followed by another solo i.e. Spoonman.

I am curious though about the Ziltoid songs on RBN. What's the one that has a bunch of one note solos in it? By Your Command? How does that work on Blitz?

EDIT: On the subject of solos, seeing as it's not too far off topic, what's the most amount of points that anyone's managed to get out of solos in one song before the 35% limit kicked in? Somehow Thunder Kill '65 managed to avoid the solo limit and I got 100,000 from all 5 perfect solos, but are there any more solos in songs that have been managed to be squeezed in? Also, and somewhat more useful to know in retrospect, but do solo bonuses also count towards your star count as they do in RB3? It could lead to an explanation as to why they are limited to 5k/10k/20k, irrelevant of length and amount of notes.
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**espher** · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:41 am Post subject:

I just wanted to note that the OCD completionist in me is not happy with the fact that anyone can jump in to polish off your goals and snipe credit.

I was grinding through a bunch of the goals I have left and about to hop over to RB3 to do Hardest Button to Button for the Jack White goal, and I noticed someone flew in to get that song to finish the goal.

Seeing 4,615 coins in my list of nice, multiple-of-ten numbers is annoying. :|

(Edit: I will not be denied my Grohl Goal, mind you.)
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**Barfo** · Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 2596

So i did a little bit of exploratory playing to try and figure out some mechanics. Used the song Master/Slave by Pearl Jam due to it only has 3 lanes (no vox), and its realtively slow and short. The two issues that I was interested in exploring first were the question of what exactly leads to the choice of home many notes you need to hit for a multi up on a lane, as well as trying to figure out a rough idea of what relation there might be between the star cutoffs.

Don't have the data in front of me right now (on jr legal pad at home), but i made some definite progress on the first point. The song has two checkpoints, so three sections total, and what i did was I attempted to count notes on each lane in each section to note down the amount of notes that occur in the section (note occurring right at the checkpoint counts as being in the section before the checkpoint), and the number of notes needed to be hit per multi up. First off as you might expect the amount of notes needed for each multi up seems to be constant based on the section (regardless of current multiplier and reproducible on separate runs). I was not able to count each lane in each section of the song sometimes the note density was too high to do at full speed (eventually ill try and dig out my gamebridge and generate some vids that i can then analyze at slower rates to get better counts), but for the 7 or so sections i was able to count there was a single relation that explained all the data: # notes per multi up = # of notes in section / 9, with the result seeming to be rounded up or down to the nearest integer. So for example first section of the drums has 112 notes and takes 12 notes per multi up (112/9 = 12.44 ~= 12), while one of hte other ones (i forget which one withotu the data in front of me) had 68 notes and took 8 per multi up (68/9 = 7.55 ~= 8). The number 9 seems very predictable too, as with three lanes to level up, and with 3 multi levels needed to cap each section 1/9 is an equal portion of the notes in each section to just cap all tracks. I hypothesize that for songs with 4 and 5 instruments, that the constant may be 12 and 15 (needs to be tested).

In terms of star counts I only just barely started but it looked like there was a fairly predictable pattern to the 1,2,3 star scores. What i was doign was playign ot very close on the onscreen meter then hitting individual notes until one triggered the star award, whcih then bounds the cutoff by the value of the note hit. I can then go back and do similar narrowing by going for exact scores. Sepaking of that, I also nabbed this little bit of fun:

Things that make exact sores easier in this game are the automatic no-fail, and the huge variety of note options at any given point since you have 3-5 lanes ot choose from. Things that make it tough are the extremely variable points per note (since the note value evolves over the course of the song), and the finale points which mean that to get a given exact score you actually have to stop before the target score and let the finale points push you to it.
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**jawnintendo** · Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 1202 Location: Edinburg, VA

Yes there is a reason I'm posting this.

The score breakdown doesn't add up to the total score. What happened here?

Also, there is no way in hell that Super Drums can end in anything other than 5 or 0.
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**espher** · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:14 am Post subject:

**Yusuke** · Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 1663

If anything, i'm wondering why you only score 2k on your super drums. I dont think ive ever scored that low on a super instrument.
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