Local Multiplayer Different Scroll Speeds

[sassafras]

First off sorry if this has been posted before, the search button isn't work with the new forums, and this ISN'T A HYPERSPEED REQUEST OR COMPLAINT.

I noticed today while playing with my wife and a few friends that the scroll speed for the instruments defaults to the lowest difficulties scroll speed. What I mean by this, I was playing expert guitar while my wife and friend were playing easy drums and bass, my scroll speed for guitar was the same speed as everyone else's, significantly slower than what I use to playing single player on expert guitar. This caused a huge problem as the notes on the charts became compacted and it was much more difficult to read the notes.

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this and if HMX had any explanation why they decided to go this way instead of keeping the normal scroll speed for each difficulty.

Everything else in the game blows me away, you guys did an awesome job and keep up the good work with the DLC.

[erickOnasis412]

yea i did notice the speed slowing down a little.. i didn't really think it was a huge game changing experience though, but it does take a few seconds to get used to.. i didn't notice the crowding of the notes though

[sassafras]

The notes are more compacted due to the amount of notes on the expert difficulty and the scroll speed of the easy difficulty. It's not that I can't adjust to it, it's just an inconvenience and an odd decision in programming. But thanks for making me feel more sane and I wasn't just imaging the scroll speeds changing.

[DrEvyl666]

Well, if you want to talk about odd programming decisions related to scrolls speed, try doing vocals using the "static" display of lyrics. Holy mother of God, I would like to kick the person who came up with that idea square in the beanbag.

They set it up so that the speed of the scroll changes between phrases! This is especially fun when you have one of the "percussion" sections come up... and you're following along through it, and then the next bar comes up scrolling at twice the speed of the previous bar... then the following bar goes back to the original speed. It makes it nearly impossible to get 100% on the percussion sections.

If you wanna see a good example of this, load up the song "Epic" on vocals, and set the options for static lyric display.

What they were thinking when they did that, I'll never know.... but there's a lot of things in there that make me ask.. "Did you guys actually PLAY this game before shipping it?"