One of my favorites from the RB2 setlist, this song just has it all going on!
Sounds awesome, fun to play, has some nostalgia to it; the only thing really missing is difficulty but squeezing more than makes up for that lol
And as always: nice timing on those drum entrances, Joker.
This score went spectacularly - I did a run of this song a while ago but figured out a harder strategy for some more points with a mid-whammy reverse tick act leading into chorus 1 which is immediately followed with another difficult whammy sequence to get just over the 50% mark and allow another act before verse 2.
I don't think it's possible to actually do that without dropping some ticks from the last sustain leading up to the OD phrase but this run had the sustain drop relatively minimized.
Other than that there was also an extra 100 points from my previous run with a pretty tough squeeze leading out of chorus 2, getting to that red note in the verse pattern requires some really great timings all around.
Oh and since all that wasn't enough I once again put the whole run on the line going for a fairly small amount of reverse ticks in the last chorus - and hit it perfectly with no leftover frames of OD on the back end. Insane.
These ticks all around were awesome, ended up almost 25 points higher than my first finished run with this strategy. The first act is especially hard to balance since going too early will require a counterproductive tick drop to hit the last note early but going too late causes point loss from the reverse ticks themselves - most attempts would enter verse 2 with ticks in the low x00s so an x13 was noticeably better than usual.
It's also challenging to maintain sustain ends in general with settings that allow enough early whammy to make this strategy possible at all, there's only a few frames of lenience to hit notes after sustain gaps that short without losing ticks.
I definitely dropped a tiny amount of points throughout the run from that but didn't see many that were bigger than just a single frame so that's pretty sweet.
This updated score beat:
- 1st place on SH by 1136 points
- My old score by 740 points
• Rock Band 3 Deluxe // ...
Modifiers used:
- 60 FPS Venue
- Post FX disabled
- Highway: 25% Transparency
- Streak: RB4 Alt Dark Blue
- Overdrive: Keys (0.69, 0.69, 0.69)
- Gems: RB3
- Strikeline: RB2
- Flames: RB4
- Sustains: RB4
- Lanes: Why do lanes like to hurt so much?
- Score Box: RB4
- Stars: RB3
- Font: RB4
- Solo Box: GH80s
- Track Rails: Slim Bright
- Beat Lines: RB3 Blue
- Overdrive Bar: RB3 Blue
- Multiplier Ring: RB2