RBN songs and the Random Song option

[Xenigma]

No reason to guess, it's already been verified that there will be a new "Sort by Location" for RBN songs. They'll even have their own icon in the list, just like the "1" for RB1 songs, and the "2" for RB2 songs, and so on and so forth.

That's good! I remember being deeply saddened that the Lego icon didn't carry over into RB2, instead reverting to the standard DLC logo. :/

[NoThru22]

I already posted the two reasons that the songs won't show up in mystery setlists. Just because I'm too lazy to look up the original quote doesn't mean my post should be ignored.

[Bront20]

I think they were just sitting around the conference table planning RBN one day and said, "Ya know what? We hate Mystery Setlists, I don't even know why ever we put them in the game in the first place. F* those things! RBN songs aren't going to show up in them. Done and done."

I knew it!

No, but seriously, yeah there's a reason for it, I just can't remember what it is. It's in a post somewhere on the Creators site.

Someone above mentioned due to not verifying the difficulty so they don't mess that up. That seems as good a reason as any.

[recharge138]

Its a shame, I love doing mystery setlists.

But still in random quickplay! Yay!

[revengefan]

Now that the RBN is up, I thought I would update this with my findings.
I was able to get RBN songs to show up in Quickplay if I chose the Random Song option.
I was not able to get any RBN songs to show up in Make a Setlists in Tour mode unless I specifically chose them. I went into the 8 song Make a Setlist, and chose 8 random songs, I then cleared the setlist and repeated this multiple times. Never once did an RBN song show up.
In summary, it looks like the only way to play an RBN song in Tour is to specifically choose an RBN song.

[Santa Claustrophobia]

No, but seriously, yeah there's a reason for it, I just can't remember what it is. It's in a post somewhere on the Creators site.

Someone above mentioned due to not verifying the difficulty so they don't mess that up. That seems as good a reason as any.

My guess would've been since the RBN songs are stored in the RB2 save folder, the game isn't smart enough to look there to pick songs and it was probably too complicated to get working in the update. Maybe for example the game would randomly decide to look in the RB2 folder for an RBN song, but if there were no songs it would just keep looping back on itself looking for songs that weren't there.

It's just going to get confusing when RB3 comes along.