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Update to Rock Band 2 brings new features photo

If you've turned on your 360 to play some Rock Band 2 lately, you may have noticed a new update is available for download. The gang at Harmonix have cooked up some new features for the game and they went online today. Features include the ability to sort your song list by number of stars scored, better handling of hammer-ons and pull-offs and the long-awaited support for wireless microphones (such as the ones which shipped with Lips).

Perhaps most importantly to me as a heavy consumer of DLC, the Music Store now supports background downloading too. Thank God. I would often actually exit Rock Band 2 to download from the Xbox Marketplace simply because I could queue them all up and continue to check out tracks after I'd started one. Adding the functionality to the Music Store is a long-overdue move.

The PS3 version will be getting the update as well, as soon as it finishes Sony's certification process.


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14 comments | showing # 1 to 14

Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 16:46
Xzyliac
F-f-f-finally. Now we just need the update for RBN. I really think that'll be the big one.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 16:46
Xzyliac
F-f-f-finally. Now we just need the update for RBN. I really think that'll be the big one.
milo128's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 16:52
milo128
I think I'll lay off of rock band for a while until ps3 gets RBN. I hate microsft buying stuff away from ps3 :(
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 17:00
Dexter345
Hotness.
DV2FOX's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 17:13
DV2FOX
Hey,you said improved HO/PO...but you didnt said it was for the CHORDS...not good..or is it?..
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 17:21
Xzyliac
@milo128
Microsoft didn't buy away RBN. Sony won't allow Harmonix to put RBN on PSN. I forget why but it's something in the rules.
Shadowiii's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 18:14
Shadowiii
Good update. What they REALLY need, though, is a song rating system and then let you sort by rank. I seriously only play maybe 50 of the 300 songs I have on there regularly, and it would be really cool to be able to sort them and have them at the top of the list.
Stahlbrand's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 18:37
Stahlbrand
Sounds like a good patch.

HO/PO Chords were much nicer in TB:RB, I could do them regularly, for one thing. Whatever change they made worked, as I didn't even have to think about it specifically.

Background DL'ing of tracks is great, if long overdue.
rockydil's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 18:42
rockydil
About time for the background DL'ing. I wonder how noticable these HO changes will be.
Vedicardi2's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 21:20
Vedicardi2
hurry up with the god damn RBN update ):<
milo128's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/25/2009 22:52
milo128
@xzyliac Are you sure? I heard RBN was coming out for ps3 a year after it comes out for 360 so I could've just assumed it was them bribing them or I'm just making up facts.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/26/2009 00:49
Xzyliac
@milo128
They're going to be releasing "best of" packs for the PS3. But not the entire catalouge.

I think the main thing is Microsoft has a much more laid back rule as far as community created content. I mean they charge you $100 but after that they basically give you everything you need and the community is the one who sifts out the shit and rates it and blah, blah, blah. RBN is basically expanding on XNA. However Sony doesn't have a process in place and they would've had to build everything from the ground up and Sony didn't feel comfortable with it.
Release82's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/26/2009 14:43
Release82
So are hammer ons and pull offs easier? I could master them in gh metallica but they own me in RB, never knew why.
Wheatspin's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/27/2009 15:17
Wheatspin
@Release82 The reason you could do them in Guitar Hero (any guitar hero, not just metallica) is because of a thing called a timing window. The timing window is how off you can play a note and have it still actually count. Guitar Hero's timing window is much more flexible than Rock Band's, meaning in Rock Band you have to be more accurate than you do in Guitar Hero. That's one of the reasons I personally like Rock Band better, but that's something totally different.
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