Your Rock Band Epic Fail of the week

[orioles35]

Mine has to do with set up. Got my RB3 kit, played it...tough to calibrate, so I messed with that awhile through RB tools. Then realized through freestyle mode that one of my cymbals was double hitting. So I sent that back, MadCatz lost my order, so I had to call and get them to send me a replacement. Got that back in and spent an hour calibrating the hard way...play, adjust, play, adjust.

So I got that resolved, then the "L" bracket kept falling down because it wasn't installed over the little "lip" on the drum kit post. So I changed that and in the process, the bracket/wing nut got stripped. So I got two rip ties, hooked them together and wrapped them around the post and "L" bracket.

Then finally lowered the blue/ride cymbal and raised the green. So I think, at least right now, everything is set up and working correctly after a month and a half with the game.

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

Do you have to have the track pack? Can't you complete the goal simply by purchasing the related songs as DLC?

The goals that are related to songs on that disc:

Bass:

- "Parade Your Snazz" - from "Holiday in Cambodia"
- "Funk In Public" - from "Funk #49"

Drums:

- "Each Must Know His/Her Part" - from "Closer to the Heart"
- (California Uber Alles counts toward "Buncha Punks")

Vox:

- "Understand about Competition" (also knocking out "Just Another Band Out of Boston") - from "Peace of Mind"
- "Pompatus of Love" - from "The Joker"

Disc is $20.

You know what, I'm better off picking up the Mission of Burma and Dead Kennedys packs, "Funk #49", "More Than A Feeling", "Peace of Mind", and "The Joker", for my $20, and have a dollar left over so when I get my Bing rewards I can pick up "Closer to the Heart", "Rock and Roll High School", and "I Fought The Law".

This will give me three more vox goals, one more guitar goal, and the rest of the bass goals. The three songs I'm getting later will provide the remaining drum goals.

The true epic fail is that the game isn't updated with new DLC goals. This seems to be their way of saying "Hey guys, these old legacy DLC songs exist, they're still fun on legacy instruments, come on and buy them instead of the new songs we're breaking our backs to license and put keys and harmonies in". Oh well. At least the Queen Updated pack will count towards two goals that only specify playing Queen DLC.

[AeonFrodo]

Alright, while playing Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One before online with others, I was on a roll with the song until... the guitar strap came undone in the middle of the song. So, I couldn't really pause the game and had to deal with the playing bass while holding up the guitar controller. Not only that, the person playing on Easy Mode Guitar somehow failed the song and I couldn't get 1/4 overdrive I needed to prevent us all from failing. To add further to my pain, the vocalist had a full bar of overdrive that could have been activated on several occasions to save the guitarist. What an epic fail.

[Kawalimus]

I played through Oh Yoko! in practice mode and hit a whopping 41% of the notes on expert pro keys. Ugh! I really wish I could do this one since I love the tune. It just absolutely kills my hand.

[madillma]

One word: LLAMA

Trying to play through every song on Expert Pro Drums for goals. All you need to do is 3-star all of them to complete the song progress goal. I was 4-starring just about everything in the impossible tier with a couple 5-stars thrown in and then I got to LLAMA. Good God. I have only tried it once but I barely 2-starred it and it's hard to imagine I'll be able to improve on it enough for a 3-star. So that ONE fricking song is keeping me from completing the entire setlist on Expert Pro Drums. Boooo.

I have 5-starred it on vox and bass, so at least it's not a total loss. I have yet to 5-star Beast and the Harlot on any instrument, although I have come very close with both bass and vox.

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

This damn "Heading to Venus" goal is driving me nuts. Here's the procedure I'm going through:

1. Turn on No-Fail
2. Start goal
3. Sit through a long-ass intro, two ****ing verses and two ****ing choruses
4. Pick up guitar before solo
5. Play solo
6. Choke solo as I watch a little note whoosh by my note hitter
7. Hit "restart song"
8. Toss guitar down in rage
9. Go back to 3

Since my hands are sticky, I slathered Vaseline on them and the neck of the guitar. It sorta helped, instead of choking the first zig-zag I choke the second one, then the third. I might just be able to make it.

The fail is on the part of whoever put the achievement in Lego in the first place.

[lilfurbal]

So I got that resolved, then the "L" bracket kept falling down because it wasn't installed over the little "lip" on the drum kit post. So I changed that and in the process, the bracket/wing nut got stripped. So I got two rip ties, hooked them together and wrapped them around the post and "L" bracket.

My cymbals seem to go down on their own and they are attached to the little lip. The pole slides through the bracket and you can't tighten them enough to keep them from sliding through. Poor construction really. I ended up stripping one of the brackets to realize that no matter how tight you make it it's unable to keep the cymbals up. I then just settled with putting black electrical tape around all the brackets to the poles. Now they're all perfectly in place.

This really could have been designed better o,0

[exploder]

I stille can't make a good gene simmons...somebody get me a formula!

[DavyinaToga]

Another drum failure for me. I realized during my second attempt at Roundabout X Drums that the red-blue section in the middle is all single and double paradiddles. Right after I discovered that, my drum **** the bed and the crowd meter plummets. I haven't gotten through the section yet, even though I can play the pattern. I dunno if I'm rushing the beat or what, but those diddles should not be giving me this much trouble!

[TheHundredDollarHeadache]

I looked through the pictures I took of my characters - or rather of the TV displaying the characters - and realized I'm still not happy with them to some extent. Looks like they're all getting deleted again and re-made, wasting valuable time that could be used practicing Pro Keys.

Why couldn't they just let us change facial features of characters after creation?