RB3 Request a Feature, Bug Report and Suggestion Thread (no song requests)

[mikeyts]

But now, Hard's so easy that any unexperienced player that tries to move up to Expert from it will wind up massacred.

Oh, and by the way, I play Expert.
I'm just pointing out something I noticed.

Although I've run into a few situations where the Expert chart was too hard for me but the Hard chart was too easy and boring, it's definitely a rare occurrence. Usually if the Expert chart is too hard for me the Hard one has enough difficulty to be fun to play, if not challenging. It may be a difference in what we're playing or just a difference in perception.

They changed the charting rules when RB3 launched to require that every level use all of the frets used in the Expert chart; any note played on the orange fret in the Expert chart has to be charted on the orange fret in the Easy chart. There were some complaints because of that change as some felt that it was unreasonable to ask people playing the Easy chart to move their fingers off the lower four frets.

[Bront20]

It's not like that.
I just think there's been some sort of expanding rift between difficulty levels. There used to be a logical progression:

* Easy: Three frets, about 50% of the notes.
* Medium: Four frets, about 70% of the notes.
* Hard: Five frets, about 90% of the notes.
* Expert: Five frets, 100% of the notes.

I'm not good at this thing with proportions, but at least that's how I always saw it.
You climbed the difficulty ladder as you honed your skills.
But now, Hard's so easy that any unexperienced player that tries to move up to Expert from it will wind up massacred.

Oh, and by the way, I play Expert.
I'm just pointing out something I noticed.

The old progression used to be rough from medium to hard. Now, they have all 5 frets on all difficulties, just sparingly on Easy and Medium. Hard has some fast limits on what they can chart, though I think that changes slightly once you get to the 5 dots/devil's tier.

I stopped going to hard on guitar/bass, as there are only a few songs I struggle with that I can't pass, and no-fail helps me make it though with those, but playing on hard is actually harder for me now, and, at least for guitar (on Drums, I find it helps me get the basics of the beat down better, though I've hit a wall drums)

However, once they defined what you could and couldn't do on Hard, I worried that it could cause issues with folks moving up to expert, but the easier solution is to just play easier expert songs and practice.

[Ahielia]

It's not like that.
I just think there's been some sort of expanding rift between difficulty levels. There used to be a logical progression:

* Easy: Three frets, about 50% of the notes.
* Medium: Four frets, about 70% of the notes.
* Hard: Five frets, about 90% of the notes.
* Expert: Five frets, 100% of the notes.

I'm not good at this thing with proportions, but at least that's how I always saw it.
You climbed the difficulty ladder as you honed your skills.
But now, Hard's so easy that any unexperienced player that tries to move up to Expert from it will wind up massacred.

Oh, and by the way, I play Expert.
I'm just pointing out something I noticed.

It should be like this.
However, it's far from it.

For example, Freebird.
On hard bass, I've gotten 98% and 5 stars, if I paid attention and really went for it, I could get 100% on it easily.
Expert is a whole other story. Last I tried, I could barely get past 70%, and I regularly play expert as it is.

All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix) is another example. Haven't really went for the 100%, so I've gotten 99% on hard. And it's relatively easy. Even harder than many expert charts out there.
Then I try expert. No ****ing way, not only is it faster, but it's got a lot more notes in it as well.
How on earth is that logical progression?

[Ben777]

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[mikeyts]

OT, but could someone point me to the "problems with the website" thread? I'm subscribed, but I can't find it in my list of subscriptions and I forget the title and forum it's in.

[bclewis]

OT, but could someone point me to the "problems with the website" thread? I'm subscribed, but I can't find it in my list of subscriptions and I forget the title and forum it's in.

Huh, there used to be a web support forum ages ago, but I don't see it any more, nor any of my posts there. Maybe there are no problems with the website now :/

[mikeyts]

Huh, there used to be a web support forum ages ago, but I don't see it any more, nor any of my posts there. Maybe there are no problems with the website now :/

Looking around, I was starting to suspect that the forum the thread was in had disappeared, which would explain the disappearance of the thread from my subscribed list. Perhaps that's what's happened.

I was going to complain that I couldn't figure out how to search for songs by R.E.M. in the Song Finder--I enter the artist name in the search term field and it finds no matches. I searched for one of their songs by name and cut-and-paste the artist name from the result to make sure that I was spelling it the same, but still no joy. I've put it in quotes, etc, but nothing works.

[bclewis]

I was going to complain that I couldn't figure out how to search for songs by R.E.M. in the Song Finder--I enter the artist name in the search term field and it finds no matches. I searched for one of their songs by name and cut-and-paste the artist name from the result to make sure that I was spelling it the same, but still no joy. I've put it in quotes, etc, but nothing works.

Hey, you're right. Looks like same behaviour if you search for H.I.M. (You can search for HIM, but it doesn't find Killing Loneliness).

[update: weird, if you omit the final '.', it works! (i.e. search for H.I.M or R.E.M)]

[mikeyts]

[update: weird, if you omit the final '.', it works!]

Strange that I never tried that ; thanks! It's still a site bug--it's a shame that we don't seem to have a place to report it anymore.

Of course, I'd already found out what I was looking for at some fan site list of all RB songs but better late than never .

[Aljarov]

Would be very nice if you could do some sort of keys update for the many, many songs who have obvious keys in them but not supported from older versions. Of course, a discounted update for those that have the original versions would be very welcome (I've about 400 downloaded songs and don't really want to have to pay full whack again).