Are Harmonix going to patch this?

[Nerazzurri]

I'm kind of disappointed by the fact that you can't do harmonies online. Since I'll only be playing by myself most of the time or with people who have no interest in the Beatles.

I hope they'll add that ability online. Since, it won't be impossible to do. But I guess if they decided to not do it on disc they won't. Oh, well.

It's just a letdown for me since I probably won't use harmonies offline.

/end rant

[fuselage321]

You can do harmonies online, they just ahve to be on the same console.

[Nerazzurri]

Yeah, I'm saying I can't do that.

[ArchangelZero]

What, be on different consoles?

That puts too much of a strain on the online connection, even the XBOX can't handle that.

[PCTraitor]

It's impossible to do harmonies with someone you can't hear.

[Elmakai]

I'm really disappointed by this. This was the feature I was looking forward to the most in TB:RB. Since I live in a small town, and the very few people I know that want to play this like to sing, I was hoping to sing harmony with people online. Why can't the game simply support more than 4 people online?

I understand the reasoning behind linking 3 mics to 1 controller, so that way a console can support the extra 2 people (console's max is 4). But couldn't online play simply support 6 people? I can't imagine it being that hard.

As far as hearing harmonies go, you wouldn't need to hear harmony with the person playing online, only the actual singing in the game. If the person online was singing off-key, then that would make your harmony quite a bit harder.

[Abcmsaj]

Yeah.. this needs to be fixed. I have a friend who likes to drum and sing, and I guitar and sing, and we can't do harmonies over XBL... it's disappointing.

[Elmakai]

What really bugs me about this is there is no way Harmonix didn't think about this during development. I can't imagine someone saying "You know, we got the bass, guitar, drums, and vocals to multiplay with each other, but people won't want to sing harmony online. We shouldn't bother putting that feature in."

[ThePaska]

What really bugs me about this is there is no way Harmonix didn't think about this during development. I can't imagine someone saying "You know, we got the bass, guitar, drums, and vocals to multiplay with each other, but people won't want to sing harmony online. We shouldn't bother putting that feature in."

I'm sure they went out of their way to try and make it possible for harmonies to be done accross consoles. I just think it is not possible to do and do well. Similar to how you can't hear the singers voice across consoles when playing online in Rock Band.

They do this so that the gameplay is optimal. It is tough to get rhythm games to play correctly online when every little bit of timing and accuracy matters.

[T-Hybrid]

I don't think people quite get why you can't do harmonies across consoles. Look at how it's configured.

All three microphones are tied to one 360 controller.

Read that again.

One 360 controller...

It's still a four player game, but the vocalist is connected to three microphones. And if you remember how harmonies work in this game, any of the three can switch to any part at any time.

So not only would you need to somehow have one 360 controller connect across multiple consoles (impossible?), but you'd need to figure out a way for all three singers to be able to get feedback quick enough to know who would take which parts of the harmonies. Because they could potentially switch based on who's able to sing what.

I don't think it's possible given the 360 infrastructure, let alone the game itself.