Rhythm game mainstays Harmonix had a panel on the final day of PAX East. During this panel, the dev outlined its plans for the future of Rock Band 4. There were several smaller announcements, as well as one bombshell reveal: online multiplayer will at last be arriving for the full-band rhythm game.
While no firm release date was given, Harmonix is currently targeting a Holiday 2016 window. It also teased a major expansion is headed our way in the fall with big new features, but said more about that will be shown off down the road. Not only that, but it revealed that May will see some characters from Gearbox's Battleborn become playable in the game to celebrate its release. It's a bit of an odd cross-promotion, but we'll take it nonetheless. Elsewhere, it said that double kick pedal support for the drums in the game will be added in May.
Finally, as far as other big news goes, Harmonix shared that practice mode will finally be making its way to the game starting in June. This, as well as many of the other things that Harmonix announced, is great to see, as it appears to be successfully targeting highly requested features.
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Wow, I haven't gotten around to playing Rock Band 4 yet but it sounds like there were a TON of features just plain missing from this release! It's sad to hear that too, because I was excited for the 'revival' of plastic instrument games.
They'll get back to form. People forget that they are basically an indie studio now and online multiplayer would have been tough at launch for something this huge.
That being said, I'm excited about the expansion. Hopefully it's good.
Lastly, they are taking way too long with the promised exports. Rb2 was supposed to come in February and it isn't out yet. Rb1 hasn't even come out in Europe yet. They need to fix this asap.
@Azikira It's still a really good time, but yeah at launch when you compare it to past entries in the series, it was practically an "Early Access" release. But it's slowly but surely working its way towards what everyone wants it to be.
@ztpayne7 Yeah exactly! Without the backing of someone with funds like EA and MTV had, a full-on Rock Band game is a pretty monumental undertaking when you think about it. And wow some of the exports still aren't out? I have RB4 for X1 because I had tons of DLC on 360, and in North America, just about everything has been available for a while now!
@gbanas92 yeah. Unfortunately, in America, PS3 users only have the rb1 and rb3 exports. We were supposed to get the other exports right after Xbox one, but something must have gone really wrong. They missed the deadline and they resolved not to miss any more deadlines like that until they know they're gonna hit it, and stopped talking about deadlines. It's really weird and unfortunate. I'm really missing the 3 remaining major exports (rb2, Lego, and green day).
@ztpayne7 Yikes! They are way more behind in that area than I had thought they were! That's a pretty lopsided amount of available content from region to region!
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