Masem
04-03-2010, 11:51 PM
Both me and my friend each have a problem with a "broken band" as described here: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169011
(This is 360, and we're remote, so it's over XBL)
Now, before the title patch for the open RBN store, we would once in a while experience two glitch problems beyond the broken band problem above:
* As the guest player in my friend's broken band, the game would sometimes fail to show any response from what my friend was doing - their multiplier meter wouldn't change, they'd appear to be missing all their notes, and while I would see flashes when they got OD, it never showed up. The score also did not reflect anything they were playing. This would run the length of the song, and after the song was over and band was bowing, all of a sudden, there would be the star "dings" and we'd get the scoring screen which showed the expected final score of both of us playing. Workable, but annoying, and likely not connected, but worth mentioning.
* When this glitch above does not occur, we have experienced the case where the guest player's systems will freeze (forcing that one to hard-reset the 360), while from the host player, it appears we have simply disconnected. This is unpredictable beyond when it happens - right before the score would normally be displayed between tracks in the middle of a setlist (regardless of game mode). This was maybe.. once every 10 -15 songs? before the RBN patch, but has been more frequent since that point , say every 5-7 songs. I will note this is only recent. We completed the Endless Setlist together back in August 09, so obviously got through 80 + songs without an issue then. This is only since our bands have been "broken" per the link above. If there are others besides us playing, they will be frozen too when that happens. As best we can tell, we have yet to experience this on friends with bands with much fewer (if any) DLC than us, or if we create a new band and play in that.
Now this freezing is one problem, but now we are seeing freezing happening elsewhere in the game - typically going from the Practice room into Tour/Challenges, or in one case going from setlist selection to the game; these have only appeared since RBN was patched in.
I strongly believe this has to do with the amount of DLC we have and when some save operation is made on that band file, locally or remote, that triggers the problem but this is only speculation. However, it is now starting to get in the way as opposed to a mere annoyance before.
(This is 360, and we're remote, so it's over XBL)
Now, before the title patch for the open RBN store, we would once in a while experience two glitch problems beyond the broken band problem above:
* As the guest player in my friend's broken band, the game would sometimes fail to show any response from what my friend was doing - their multiplier meter wouldn't change, they'd appear to be missing all their notes, and while I would see flashes when they got OD, it never showed up. The score also did not reflect anything they were playing. This would run the length of the song, and after the song was over and band was bowing, all of a sudden, there would be the star "dings" and we'd get the scoring screen which showed the expected final score of both of us playing. Workable, but annoying, and likely not connected, but worth mentioning.
* When this glitch above does not occur, we have experienced the case where the guest player's systems will freeze (forcing that one to hard-reset the 360), while from the host player, it appears we have simply disconnected. This is unpredictable beyond when it happens - right before the score would normally be displayed between tracks in the middle of a setlist (regardless of game mode). This was maybe.. once every 10 -15 songs? before the RBN patch, but has been more frequent since that point , say every 5-7 songs. I will note this is only recent. We completed the Endless Setlist together back in August 09, so obviously got through 80 + songs without an issue then. This is only since our bands have been "broken" per the link above. If there are others besides us playing, they will be frozen too when that happens. As best we can tell, we have yet to experience this on friends with bands with much fewer (if any) DLC than us, or if we create a new band and play in that.
Now this freezing is one problem, but now we are seeing freezing happening elsewhere in the game - typically going from the Practice room into Tour/Challenges, or in one case going from setlist selection to the game; these have only appeared since RBN was patched in.
I strongly believe this has to do with the amount of DLC we have and when some save operation is made on that band file, locally or remote, that triggers the problem but this is only speculation. However, it is now starting to get in the way as opposed to a mere annoyance before.
