GH:WT Vocal Activations

**chobes1124** · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 64

First off - no, i'm not looking for star power paths for vocals. that being said...

In general, when is the best time to activate on vocals? I notice that it gives you the points after the final word in a phrase... so should i activate right before the final word finishes so i get points then, or will it only give me points if i activate in the beginning of a phrase? or how about the middle?

I hope i am explaining that correctly... I'll try to show what i mean too. Should i activate...

|....words words words words wooooords wooooooords words | words..
..^here?....................................^here?..............................^here?.....^here?

Also during the freeform sections, i tried activating star power to see if it would raise my score on those parts, and I don't think it does. Has anyone else tried this and gotten any results?

**wildbillkickoff** · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 469 Location: Tampa, FL

I'm making this guess based on my whopping six songs of experience--

It looks like each phrase has a max of 500 points, times your multiplier. So, the best time to activate is when you can get the most phrases under overdrive. I would start from a phrase perspective-- if they go like this:

--|wordwordword|--------*wordword|-wordword|-word|-------wordword|

Then where I put the star would probably be the best time to activate.

Within phrases, it seems to depend on how much of the tube you can fill. The only other thing to note is the freeform sections. Your multiplier counts toward those as well, and it stacks with the freeform multiplier as well. So, let's say you get a 450x7 freeform-- take that 3150, multiply that by 8x, and you just got 25,200 for a phrase. What I don't know is whether the freeform only counts the end of the phrase or if it has to be active for the whole thing.
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**TheThirdDay** · Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 4357 Location: Toms River, NJ

So this is kinda the start of vocal squeezing then?
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**chobes1124** · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 64

**wildbillkickoff** · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 469 Location: Tampa, FL

Vocal squeezing was already started in RB/RB2. In fact, as easy as it is to FC songs vocally in the RB series, squeezing is the only thing that separates vocalists over on that side. (That and the ability to hit broken talkies.)

I think that with button-push activation, unlike RB, there will be more variety as to which paths are "optimal". I also don't think we'll ever get to a consensus about "optimal", because of the way vocals are scored. Because you receive star power for each phrase you complete while not having star power activated, it is also possible to build star power extremely quickly-- it'll be interesting to see whether it will end up being more important in some areas to build SP quickly rather than to have it active for a short scoring burst.

(Incidentally, I hit a 90x(x8) freeform two days ago in Hotel Cali with 8x active-- which gave me over 57,600 for a single phrase. To me, this just about breaks the game vocally-- the whole rest of the song, roughly 50 phrases, I scored 169k. I have a feeling were going to be pathing towards freeforms and praying we get a good multiplier.)
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**Vosty3** · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 155 Location: Washington State

Im not gonna even bother this game's vocals are so frustrating/annoying

**shinycow17** · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 261

umm I'm pretty sure this should go in the vocals section
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