Harmonix Details Full 'Rock Band 4' November Update, Including 5.1 Support, PS4 Streaming Audio, & PS4 Touchpad Overdrive

Posted Oct 26, 2015 at 05:09 PM PDT by Brian Hoss

Hopefully, December will be much bigger.

In the short history of 'Rock Band 4,' players have had an interesting time navigating the game's unprecedented support of DLC and legacy instruments (review here), and the interesting part will continue as Harmonix works on fixing bugs and adding features.

Harmonix had been targeting late October for a big patch, and that patch looks now to be inbound on November 2nd. Harmonix has already announced that several features (and hopefully 'RB3' song export) won't come until December.

Here are specific updates and fixes planned for the November update:

FEATURES

Allow custom characters as band stand-ins

Session musician screen now displays custom characters as well as the prefab characters

Quickplay now uses the most recent band's stand-ins to populate characters

5.1 surround crowd audio support and mic volume adjustment

Added functionality to support vocal overdrive deploy with touch pad for PlayStation 4

Added support for streaming audio for PlayStation 4

LEGACY INSTRUMENT SUPPORT

Fix for Xbox One = Lefty flip issue for Guitar Hero drums

Fix for PlayStation 4 = Guitar Hero: World Tour Guitar does not deploy overdrive when tilted

Fix for PlayStation 4 = The Beatles: Rock Band guitar unable to auto-calibrate

BUG FIXES

Fix to make it possible to earn guitar solo achievements even if you have guitar solo cues turned off

Fix band contribution for vocals when non-vocals deploy as well as code cleanup around vocal points

Changed facial expression for the shellposemetal_low to be less goofy

Tour fixes:

Fixed issue where City list can contain empty Cities if song content is uninstalled

Fix for issue with Tour Choice stuck in locked City

Fix for crash if player unlocks a City through a Tour that they've unlocked with a Fan Gig first and not attempted any Gigs in

Fix character preview getting stuck open when going into difficulty select/gameplay (and then continuing to be open when you go back to the shell)

Text fixes to address formatting issues

Fix for various crash bugs

If the December update does include everything that Harmonix has been teasing, then the post-release support for the game will have been pretty impressive. If that continues into 2016, then 'RB4' will be the platform game that Harmonix and Mad Catz have been promising since the announcement.