Making online bands?

[OBdude7]

I wondered something about this game. How the hell do you get different band members from other places in your band. Do you have any try-outs for your band. Or do you just get some random people and make a band? Or do you play with people and ask them to join your band?

[rspooky]

<p>the opportunities for this from a community point of view are enormous!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.rockbandgame.com/file/smile/biggrin.gif"><img src="http://www.rockbandgame.com/file/smile/biggrin.gif"><img src="http://www.rockbandgame.com/file/smile/biggrin.gif"> </p>

[Rainer7]

Yeah or people within an existing community will make their own band.&nbsp; Like 'The IGN Band' or 'The Game Informer' band for example which would include staff members from their respectable jobs.<br>

[Kumori]

<p>I imagine it will work like any other clan system. Here's my version of how it should (and might, potentially) work:<br></p><p>When you first start up Rock Band, you'll log on, maybe do a quick play (or the equivalent), and have a blast rocking out to whatever song happens to be up. Maybe you liked that singer, and want to see if she's already in a group. You send her a message (via an in-game iteration of the 360/PS3 messaging system), and she says no, she's not in a band yet; she only recently joined and is looking for one. You then send her an invite to your band, Bloody Fingers, and she accepts. From then on, when she's online (at this point, I degrade into wild speculation), you can let her know that you're going to be playing a gig, and she can follow a link to the wait room of whatever song is up. (Here, I kind of envision a rock-ified version of the Halo 2 lobby, for example, or even something 3d, like a Home-ish version of a backstage room) Meanwhile, your drummer and bassist (who you invited earlier in the same manner) show up, and the four of you play the gig together, record your playthrough and upload it to the server for others to view. </p><p>While I'm thinking about it, this goes out to Harmonix: you should include a mode where you can watch bands jam in real time. Nothing quite like watching other people struggle through the same hard songs that you have trouble with.&nbsp; <br></p>

[ELMago]

I wonder if the bands made will be for good or if its just like a Play now type thing where anyone can link to the song your playing? I like a more for good thing it would be sweet! and yeh they migh be alot of drop outs or even people ya got to kick out the band senerios! whatevers gonna happen its gonna be sweetsauce! My PS3 and I cant wait!

[bsox9292]

I would like to see a battle of the bands. Where there is tryouts and if you make it you perform head to head against other bands for a title. That would be pretty cool

[Blue88]

From what I've read, there'll be a matchmaking system similar to Halo 2's. So you log on, it matches you up with people, you play, etc. You should be able to make friends/clans.

Battle of the bands is a great idea.

[poopiedeloopie]

[QUOTE=bsox9292;1481]I would like to see a battle of the bands. Where there is tryouts and if you make it you perform head to head against other bands for a title. That would be pretty cool[/QUOUTE]

WOW, yea, i never thought of that, but that may be hard since it would probally lag since their are (up to) 8 people...but that would be fun

[Kaboobi]

Frequency and Amplitude played fine even over dialup, and the timing was even more strict than in GH. Don't worry, I'm sure the netcode will be fine and lag free.

[wealthyman2]

Frequency and Amplitude played fine even over dialup, and the timing was even more strict than in GH. Don't worry, I'm sure the netcode will be fine and lag free.

yeah but did thoughs games have as much background effects, that Rock band is going to have?

[Kaboobi]

Yeah, considering it was 4 people fighting over 6 tracks with powerups and some really nice graphics.

[teamnitros]

the information going over the net would only be the possitions and user data for the game, the actual rendering of the game and such wouldn't require the net feed (each light on the stage wont be synced) so heavy graphics or not shouldn't matter, especialy sence they have the specific specs for the systems, they can tailor the bandwidth usage and information exchange so that it will work best with whichever console you are running it on.

[n0r3mac]

my guess is that you can see who is online and who isnt busy playing a song and you just say "hey u wanna jam with me?" and if u like the way they play u can ask them if theyll be in ure band

[Spraynwipe]

From what I've read, there'll be a matchmaking system similar to Halo 2's. So you log on, it matches you up with people, you play, etc. You should be able to make friends/clans.

Yep, I wrote a blog post about it a while ago. It's not idential to Halo 2's (since it's a different game with different needs), but it's built from the ground up to help people play easily regardless of whether they just want a quick game with strangers, to meet up with their bandmates, or to do other secret stuff that is yet to be announced.

[OBdude7]

The thing I wonder is about will there be soloing in this game. I mean what if you just wanted to play by yourself against other people or something. Because maybe some people don't let being in bands and just wanna play by themselves.

[Rainer7]

Yeah you can play solo.

[VocalKnight]

The clan system could work pretty nicely. It'd also be nice to have some sort of rating system for other players.

[sa_nick]

The clan system could work pretty nicely. It'd also be nice to have some sort of rating system for other players.

I don't know about a rating system, a low rating might discourage players that aren't super-good. Perhaps something that shows achievements rather than rating people on a scale from 0-10 or whatever.

[miketoast]

Yep, I wrote a blog post about it a while ago. It's not idential to Halo 2's (since it's a different game with different needs), but it's built from the ground up to help people play easily regardless of whether they just want a quick game with strangers, to meet up with their bandmates, or to do other secret stuff that is yet to be announced.


Secret stuff, I don't even wanna know what that is dude!!!!