Rock Band 2 Bugs - Freezing, Characters Deleted, Band Name Association Broken

[etherb0x]

Hi There,

I managed to get a copy of Rock Band 2 a few days early from my local retailer and tore into it last night with a roommate for a few hours. It's amazing.

The two of each created characters, and I created a band (Kanye West) whose name was registered on Xbox Live. We played for a while, beat a few cities, and then tried to back out of the menus when the game froze.

This created a couple of bugs, which led to a few other problems as I tried to fix them. Listed below:

• When I logged in this morning, my character (drummer) was absent, and no record of it existed besides a name in the band roster

• ... the singer (roommate's character) was being associated with both my gamertag and his gametag, as if we jointly owned the character. I confirmed that this was the same character file by deleting it via my gamertag management options and seeing it vanish from my roommate's options as well.

• I tried to fix all these issues by just deleting everything and starting over, but now my band name "already exists on Xbox" live and we'll be forced to find a new one unless we only want to play locally. Is there any way you can remove the band name from the online database so that we can recreate what we had last night?

[SUGGESTION]
It might be a good idea to let users decide whether or not they want to delete the band name from Xbox Live/PSN when they delete the band locally, as well.

Thanks for your response in advance, looking forward to playing again soon!

Luca

[neopythia]

I am experiencing the same problem. My avatar was copied over onto my friend's profile. Her avatar seems to be missing both in game and in the gamedata folder. Our bandname still exists, but it seems to be connected to an avatar that no longer exists.

I believe this happened when we were changing profiles on the instrument sign-in screen.

Is there a fix for this or have we lost our progress and our bandname?

[-X-]

I have had the same problem. My band has disappeared entirely along with all of my created characters, but my friend's characters are now associated under my account jointly with his. It is essentially the same as the original poster's problem, except that my band data is nowhere to be found at all.

The source was not the game freezing, but, like the second poster, I was also switching profiles on the sign-in screen, in order to make sure I got my achievements rather than my friend, on our respective instruments.

This is incredibly frustrating as I had already logged quite a lot of time making my characters and band, as well as progressing through the tour. I hadn't even considered that I won't be able to make another band with the same name, as the original poster pointed out. If any HMX staff read this thread, please pass this along and try to resolve the issue as soon as possible, as I cant' really safely play any local multiplayer until it is addressed.

[pmchamp]

I also have the same problem. System never crashed, but as previous poster was logging in with different profiles and checking leaderboard. Everything was fine last night, but this morning my character is deleted and bands are missing in the Local tour. The bands are still there, but only available on Xbox Live tour.

[Langfat]

I have EXACTLY the same problem as etherb0x up there. Game froze indefinitely, so I powered down. When I started back up, my main character is gone, 2nd player is now associated with my gamertag, and the band can only be accessed via XBox live tour (although we can't play since the leader is now mysteriously vanished). Looks like this isn't an isolated incident.

All our progress is gone and we pretty much have to start over. We were at ~700,000 fans and well on our way to the $100,000 achievement. Plus, all the solo guitar challenges I did with band can no longer be accessed. I'm disappointed that I'm gonna have to start from the beginning again. Patch please?

[mrmikeysir]

same here,word for word.how can they ever make up for all of our time wasted.

[cupcakemaven]

this is so frustrating! is there no way to fix this? am i really going to have to create a new character and hope she doesn't disappear again? i wish they would address this issue.

[Canadianknight]

Same thing here! Two nights in a row, and my character disappeared. First night, I'm not sure when it happened, but when I logged in this morning, all traces of my character were gone. My wife's character was duplicated under my profile. (My profile is the only XBL-active profile on the machine.)

Re-created my character this AM, and started unlocking songs again. Had friends over tonight, and part-way through the evening, we logged out to switch instruments. WHAM. My character is GONE AGAIN, and now one of my visitors' characters is copied in his place.

This has made the game COMPLETELY unplayable! All progress lost not once, but TWICE! This is a MASSIVE bug and needs to be fixed. I won't be playing again until it is, and I'm debating about taking the game back. SOOOOO angry!!!!!!!!

[Langfat]

Hey Canadianknight, I feel for you, I really do. I lost my progress once, I can't imagine losing it twice. I'm afraid of starting the World Tour again knowing that this could happen at any moment

If it helps them troubleshoot it at all, my profile is the only XBL enabled profile too. Although I didn't lose my character when switching instruments, the game just froze and when I restarted he was gone.

I guess if people really wanted to play the world tour they could periodically back up their RB2 save data to an xbox memory card, but that seems like a lot of work since the game SHOULD just save without issue.

I loved RB1 and the setlist for RB2 is amazing but the World Tour is pretty much unplayable as long as this bug exists. As it happens to more and more people they are gonna get a lot of $hit for wasting people's time.

[mietha]

I wish they would at least address this. It is a VERY serious issue, and I will not be playing any more MP until it is fixed. Very scary situation. Ok, obviously switching profiles in game is a no-no for now, as is playing with xbox live and local profiles at the same time, but has anyone had this happen with both of those not occuring?