Friday, March 12, 2010

Moving past the "ROCK BAND 3 kids"

This week we gained 23M points (1,009B t0 1,032B), allowing us to move past the "ROCK BAND 3 kids" for 12th place in the "All Songs" Leaderboards. Our next target is another PS3 band, "Heart.", which is 10M points ahead.

We played 33 songs, including last week's new DLC (Disturbed pack + singles), plus our worst songs by rank. We improved on every song we were not in the top 365, often improving our old score by 800K or more. All songs were played with the optimal line-up, except for the last 8-song set. Phoenix had an amazing performance on drums (see highlights), so he got a much needed break in the end by moving to vocals.

Highlights:
- Stars breakdown for the 33 songs: Gold stars (18), 5 stars (13), 4 stars (2, for "Downfall" and "I.V.")
- Sylvie was the "Top Performer" for the most songs (19), followed by Bongoo (16), and then Phoenix and Raikan (3 each)
- Bongoo had the most FCs (4), followed by Sylvie (2) and Raikan (1)
- We get 2M points for a song for the first time in a while ("Panic Switch")
- Phoenix did a great job playing "2 Minutes to Midnight" and "Mr. Brightside" back to back without missing a beat. Even better was his masterful performance during "Aesthetics of Hate", which allowed us to get a Gold star for a very tough song
- Sylvie's funniest wah-wah bass moments were during "Ride the Lightning" and "Celebrity Skin"
- We needed to hit the Big Rock Ending for "Kickstart My Heart" to get 1M points, but the drum pattern to hit was amazingly difficult...
- After about 1 and a half years playing RB2, we see a new image in the loading screen!? It had something to do with a tour with "Vanity Calamity"

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