Selecting Rockers in Band QuickPlay

[Insignificant_Other]

I'm on the 360 verson, and the option to select specific rockers seems unpredictable when doing a Band Quickplay - sometimes it seems one or more people can select specific rockers, while others are forced to accept a default (meaning "random") rocker with no option to select, even though we've made plenty of rockers for each instrument. Has anyone figured out the logic behind this?

I have noticed that when doing quickplay the game doesn't make you sign in (I have only one 360 profile, by the way, so it's not that a different profile is being selected somehow). Maybe that's the key thing that's missing. If so, is there a way to force a sign-in so you can have access to the rockers you've created?

[High_School_Legend]

Whoever is signed in will be able to select a rocker that you've made for the respective instrument you are playing. I'm not 100% positive, but I believe that if the signed in person is the leader then it will enable the other instruments being played to pick rockers from that profile as long as they aren't signed in to a seperate profile. :)

[sporkBrigade]

This one was tricky for us to figure out, but I think we finally nailed it.

Every character created is associated to a profile. When you turn on the console, whichever controller is assigned number 1 will be signed into your profile. So for our example, let's say that's the drums. When you go into quickplay, you'll see every instrument plugged in waiting to join, and one of them will say it's signed into your profile, in our example it's the drums. If someone else joins the session first, they'll be assigned as the "Leader" of your quickplay session, and everyone else not signed into a profile will only be able to do default characters. The drums will still be able to choose all the drummers created under your profile, but no one else will be able to. If the instrument that has your profile signed in is the first instrument to join the session, it becomes the leader, and your characters become available to everyone else who isn't signed into a profile. So the rule is, if you're not signed into a profile, your characters default to the "Leader" of the band. If that leader is also not signed into a profile, you get nothing. If that leader is signed in to your profile, you get all his/her options.

It may seem convoluted, but it makes sense. Let's say you lived in a household where two people actively used their profiles, and both played rockband. You'd have different characters created under each profile. But if you throw in two more random people without profiles, their characters all default to the "Leader" of the band.

Anyhoo, here's the trick. Before anyone joins the session, see which instrument is signed into your profile, and make sure that person signs in first and becomes the "Leader". If your profile is signed into an instrument you're not going to be using, sign out using that controller/instrument, then sign into the instrument you want to use. Then make sure that signed in instrument is the band "Leader". If someone else accidently becomes a Leader first, they just need to back out, and the "Leader" status will default to the next person who joined the session. Just have everyone back out until your profile is the "Leader", and you'll be all set.

Edit: Just to be clear here, "Leader" in this context has nothing to do with BWT or any bands you've made there. Every quickplay session has a "Leader", and it's usually just the first person to join the session.

[Frederf]

"Sign in" meaning the first person to join the band at the 4-panel instrument/controller/character screen, not "sign in" as in logging in to your Xbox profile.

[sporkBrigade]

"Sign in" meaning the first person to join the band at the 4-panel instrument/controller/character screen, not "sign in" as in logging in to your Xbox profile.

If you mean how the Leader is decided, correct. The Leader goes to the first instrument to join on that screen where all 4 banners are sitting there, whether that person is "Signed in" to a profile or not. If you want your characters to be available to everyone, you just have to make sure that the person who joins first is also the instrument that is associated with your profile at that specific moment.

[Insignificant_Other]

Thanks a lot - the explanation makes a lot of sense, and I'll try it out this evening (but I'm sure you're right).