Rock Band Blitz – Rumors and Facts

[kiggidykev]

Was "Once Bitten" confirmed to be part of Blitz, or perhaps it could be a piece of upcoming DLC? The Blitz page has the four other songs confirmed, but not that one.

[grumblevolcano]

according to this Rock Band 3 on-disc songs wont import to Rock BAnd Blitz and Harmonix has no plans to export RB3 yet

Cipher would be disappointed as he can't play Misery Business in RBB.

[Sayburr]

Adding the following from OXM

“Each of the lanes on Blitz’s track represents an instrument (drums, bass, guitar, vocals, keyboards), while within each lane, you have two sub-lanes that let you play different notes on that instrument. Several control schemes are available, but in the one we used for our hands-on demo, LT and RT move you between the five lanes, while the D-pad and the A button shift you between an instrument’s two sub-lanes.” – OXMonline

The game has a single difficulty level – “game’s lone difficulty level” - OXMonline

The gameplay reminded us of the shreddiest game ever, Guitar Hero III — at times, you get the same videogamey sense of spamming notes rather than playing them — except much more fluid and fun. - OXMonline

[Sayburr]

... adding the following to the first post:

"There were two reasons we settled on two [lanes for each instrument]: one was that the modern controller is better suited to two [lanes] instead of three [like the gameplay of] Frequency and Amplitude. But I think a more fundamental reason is that the choice was to let you focus a measure or two down the track as you play through and let you strategize about what your'e doing to do. And we found that if we took a little mental load off the beat matching and made it just a little bit easier to comprehend; you had the mental space to think about the strategy of what you're going to do to maximize your score." – The Verge

In order to make all [playable Rock Band] songs compatible with the completely different gameplay of Blitz, the engineers at Harmonix created an algorithm they came to know as "Blitz-ificiation." That systemic process happens on song loads, remapping the original five-note gameplay to Blitz's two notes. When asked if that approach created any complications, like tracks that weren't fun or too difficult, Nordhaus said, "Fortunately so far we've been able to fix all of those by just tweaking the algorithm. So we don't expect that there will be any manual changes to any of the songs when we ship the game." – The Verge

[Sayburr]

Was "Once Bitten" confirmed to be part of Blitz, or perhaps it could be a piece of upcoming DLC? The Blitz page has the four other songs confirmed, but not that one.

It is in the menu, as seen in this video: http://www.g4tv.com/videos/58009/har...ck-band-blitz/ @ 2:25 mark... heck, it might be upcoming DLC... I will mark it as a rumor...

[Pankrazzo]

One difficulty level? My god this will be terrible.

[Lowlander2]

DToid interview

You get to see a snippet of how legacy DLC transfers, in this case "Bang Camaro" by Bang Camaro. Notice how a complex guitar solo is reduced to rapidly alternating between two buttons.

Notice how my interest wanes.

[FujiSkunk]

One difficulty level? My god this will be terrible.

The songs themselves will provide different levels of difficulty. Remember those six tiers?

[Lensnart]

I have no interest in the actual game at all, but it has Pumped Up Kicks so i will buy it just as an RB3 track pack.

[TheDescent]

One difficulty level? My god this will be terrible.

Audiosurf have 1 difficulty level, and many ways to play. I think this one is sort of the same.

DToid interview

You get to see a snippet of how legacy DLC transfers, in this case "Bang Camaro" by Bang Camaro. Notice how a complex guitar solo is reduced to rapidly alternating between two buttons.

Notice how my interest wanes.

Notice how a complex guitar solo is reduced to rapidly clicking between 5 buttons.