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Rock Band Rivals Update Incoming — Rivals Seasons

svgApr 30, 2017NewsNathaniel

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]hythm game developer Harmonix has been bringing Rock Band back throughout this console generation. Rock Band 4 recently had an update called Rivals that allows players to team up and take on community-wide challenges. We’ve recently been informed that this Expansion will soon be getting an update.

While the current system allows for crews to compete every week for top spots on the leaderboards, Harmonix felt that Rivals was placing more emphasis on avoiding demotion and not enough on achieving higher tiers. So Harmonix has proposed several changes, listed out in their blog post.

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The stage show behind the lanes.

Rivals Seasons

So to quickly sum up the updates being discussed, Harmonix wants to make the weekly challenges into part of a greater set of seasons. Each season will be eight weeks long. In order to compensate players for their hard work thus far, Harmonix is going to consider everything up to this point as “Season 0.” They’ll hand out rewards based on what tier each crew finishes in.

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Rivals hub Tier List

From that point on, Harmonix will be changing the way moving through the tiers works. Crews can no longer be demoted and the percentage of crews getting promoted will change in order to balance this out. That could mean that it’ll be harder to get promoted so we have fewer crews in Bloodstone. It could also mean that it’ll be easier to get promoted so that the tiers are still changing about as much every week. The post seemed unclear on that.

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Furthermore, rewards will be based on whichever tier you end in, but also how high in that tier you place. There’s no word on how exactly that will work, but we expect they’ll tell us more as the update approaches.

Glitched Leaderboard

Finally, Harmonix says they’ll be addressing the issue of glitched scores on the leaderboards. Some of the scores on Rock Band 4’s leaderboards use tricks that mess with the calibration or abuse Rivals’ pause mechanics. This makes those scores unbeatable and unmatchable when playing the game as intended.

In response to this, Harmonix is asking their community what they should do about it. One option presented was to ignore it and leave the scores as they are. They could also wipe the leaderboards, causing everyone to effectively start over. They could also target top scores that seem better than should be possible and lower them to compensate. At this time, the boards seem to favor the last option.

That covers everything Harmonix gave us on the Rivals Seasons update. We’ll be sure to cover more, should we receive any more information.

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