Guitar Hero 3 Bugs and glitches

**adcurtin** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Ok right now I'm pretty damn pissed, so this is gonna be a rant.

Guitar hero 3 has at least 5 serious bugs that need to be worked out, here they are:

1. The most important by far. When somebody quits, I need to be given a win, at least one that counts toward the 500 wins achievement, but probably one that shows counts toward wins on the leader board too. The quitter should be given a loss if they are even tracked. This should hold true for when an opponent quits before any notes are played, and the score is 0 to 0. I have maybe 300 wins now, but I've probably had at least 80 people quit on me, some in the last note of the song (this just happened on The Way It Ends, and is my motivation for writing this).

2. In game lag that causes missed notes. This has happened to me only two or three times, but it is very frustrating. I am playing a song, and all of a sudden the fretboard stops for 1/2 a second then jumps and I miss a note. This is also an important bug that needs to be addressed, because it can affect outcomes of matches.

3. The search system is horrible, there are a few things wrong with it:
the timeout doesnt happen fast enough, sometimes when going to quickplay, I wait around 4 minutes on the Joining Game... screen before it actually joins a game or says game not found. Also, when it tries to join a game and fails and says no games found, create or cancel, I should still be able to press blue to refresh instead of going back to the menu. The manual search also rarely ever results in a joinable game, all of them are no longer available or fail to connect. Recently, something has been so bad that I couldn't connect to any games at all, I had to host my own. My xbox also seems to freeze a lot on the joining game screen, this has probably happened 5 to 6 times. Many times, guitar hero just sits on the joining game screen, but since the xbox isnt frozen I can go back to the dashboard. This has happened about 5 to 6 times also. The strangest glitch I have come across happened yesterday, when I went to quickplay, it said joining it may or may not have gone to a loading screen, then failed and spit me back out at the main menu with the character select features overlayed (it gives some insight to how the game layers different things). I t also displayed the opponents gamertag in the upper left. I went to quickplay again, and was instantly put into the same game, but when I selected my character, he showed up where the opponents character should have been, and his character showed up to the left side of the screen (seen when the camera panned after we were both ready). This has only happened once, but I've had similar things happen many times, such as the displaying of an opponent's gamertag in the upper left when at the main menu.

4. This and the next are very similar, and not very annoying, but still worthwhile mentions. When I activate star power, the game seems to skip a little, as in bug 2, but this is less detrimental, and usually doesn't affect anything but visuals (whereas 2 affects note timing too).

5. Also when I activate star power, the next note or two on screen sometimes disappears exactly like an amp overload, but in Pro Face-Off
(usually they are holds). This and 4 are very reproducible, and have happened to me dozens of times. I can try to upload a video if necessary.

Thats pretty much it. I would really appreciate it if Neversoft did what they could to fix these problems, particularly the first one. (I understand that #2 might not be possible to fix).

**jisberg13** · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 467 Location: Braidwood

I totally agree, on all of them, it gets annoying
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**this1neguy** · Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 5444 Location: Flint, MI

/agrees with all. These are all common issues and a patch/simple fix is GREATLY needed for XBL. Wonder why I haven't bothered to do Life of the Party/Search and Destroy?

^this^.
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**Bagged** · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 78

**UltraMegaOK1988** · Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 311 Location: Philadelphia, PA

^ What bagged said. Plus...

1. You do get a win when an opponent quits on you. I know this 100% for sure because I checked my total wins before I played a game, and checked it again after someone quit on me and my total went up by 1.

2. I have had the game-search (everyone has that 1 red latency bar) issues, but I have never experienced in-game lag. This leads me to believe that your lag issues are due to your console or internet connection.

3. I think they should completely revamp the search system and model their anonymous match-making system after something like what Warcraft III has on Battle.net.

4. I have never experienced this. Sounds like a disc/console issue.

5. Never experienced this. Sounds like a disc/console issue.
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**adcurtin** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

**egraves7** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 520

As far as your 2nd point goes, it isn't necessarily an online thing. It has happened to me whilst offline. I'm willing to bet that it is an issue with your disc, whether dirt or a scratch, etc.
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**adcurtin** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Here are some pics of what I was talking about with the gamertag in the upper right corner:

and

http://bayimg.com/IaJPeaaBJ

**adcurtin** · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 39

Here's another really bad glitch: I downloaded the WoW single and now every time I try to save, it fails, coop, single plaer, whatever. I try to save to my memory card instead, still fails.other people have had this problem and related it to the WoW single, but I still have the problem after deleting it. However, I deleted both the 4th of july song and the WoW single and it works now.
I would like to let Activision know that I will not be purchasing GH:Aerosmith, because GH3 has problems, plus they can't seem to realize that I have friends that want to be able to get achievements too. Why can't they give coop achievements to the 2nd player if he's signed in? Rock Band does, and I think unless Activision can get their act together, I will refrain from purchasing any more of their products. The online play is GH:A is still flawed, I sat on the "Joining Game..." screen for a good 10 minutes (I left and did something else and came back to see it still hadn't timed out. It should time out after 45 seconds maximum, I don't want to spend more time looking for a game than playing the game. And the refresh button is still missing when it fails to join the game.
Also, some more rants. I'm thoroughly glad they made the achievements in GH:A stackable, so I don't have to play easy medium or hard, but then they made all the stuff in the store so expensive that if I want to get the other achievements (buy all characters, guitars, songs), I still have to play expert 3 times, 5 starring everything or almost everything. I think GH should go back to GH2's system where you get all the money for lower difficulties too, and one run through expert 5starring everything gives you enough money to purchase everything frm the store. (I rented GH:A, that's how I know about all this crap.)

EDIT: having either the 4th of July single or the WoW single downloaded makes it so I can't save properly.
EDIT2: I also won't be buying any more DLC for GH3 for fear that it won't allow me to save.

**PMCkitty102** · Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 194 Location: Benton, Missouri

**xXBenDstrawXx** · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 85

1. You are online playing someone (pre-planned) and either you or the person you hooked up with ends up with their game disconnecting. Usually, the game still goes for the other person, and your opponent's notes are all missed, but the sound plays. Sometimes the notes are played as well (AH GHOST!)

2. If you constantly miss notes in a row, and don't hit any for a while, the audio suddenly dies out, and the opposite (usually bass, unless co-oping) guitar's audio keeps playing.

Comments welcome.

**RomeBravesBoy** · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 156

**Rapstah** · Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 868

The skipping glitches have never happened to my PS3 version, but the times I've played the 360 version at a friends place I've noticed them in every song. Yes, they are annoying.
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