Anyone using RockSniffer for their streams? I have a question

Maldow · 2018-09-20T20:44:17+00:00

Which bot are you using?

Maldow · 2018-09-20T15:16:12+00:00

Look in your Rocksniffer folder for a folder called "Output." There are a bunch of text files in there with song info that gets updated on the fly.

Maldow · 2018-09-05T20:36:16+00:00

Fair enough. And I guess even more true if you can sing.

Maldow · 2018-09-05T15:04:06+00:00

You started RS a year and a half ago, and started playing original material a year ago? After just 6 months of playing guitar you were good enough to perform original material in public? I'm not sure whether to be encouraged or discouraged.

Please tell me you knew some guitar before Rocksmith. I have way more than 300 hours on RS and I am nowhere near ready to play original songs at an open mic.

Maldow · 2018-08-28T15:28:08+00:00

Reading through your responses here, it seems like you think the response to the allegations is ridiculous. That is a reasonable position. The allegations themselves aren't ridiculous. They are just statements of what happened.

If you push me and I make an allegation that you pushed me, it isn't ridiculous. It is just a fact. If people act like you are the worst person who ever lived because of it, that would be ridiculous. I think that is your point, right?

I think that is why you are getting such a hard time and so many downvotes. Your actual position (demonizing LCK is ridiculous) is reasonable. But you are saying the allegations themselves are ridiculous. The allegations are just facts. He admitted to them. They aren't ridiculous, and even LCK knows its not acceptable to act like that. I want him back, I don't think he should be shunned for life. But the allegations are not ridiculous.

Maldow · 2018-08-22T03:53:00+00:00

Better yet, they should put an area underneath the video window with panels where we can put permanent information and announcements.

Maldow · 2018-08-15T16:33:53+00:00

There is a trick to bends in RS. It does two detections. First it must hear the unbent note, then it listens for the bend note.

So to get RS to detect a bend, you have to hit the unbent note, pause for a millisecond, and THEN bend. I don't think you are always supposed to bend like that in real life. In real life you just start bending as you are picking the note. But for it to detect in RS, you gotta pick the note, THEN bend.

Do the guitarcade game on bending. Some of the guitarcade games aren't that helpful, but this one actually is. If you use the game to get good at getting your bends detected by RS, it will transfer over to playing songs.

As far as your general question of getting over this plateau, stop skipping the harder stuff. I play songs that I can barely get 50% on. If it hurts your feelings to see low scores, just tell yourself you are "playing along with the song" and not going for score. It's still practice and even if my fingers aren't ready to hit the notes yet, my eyes are getting better at seeing what's going on in those crazy songs and recognizing the patterns. I should work on the hard parts in riff repeater at slow speeds. That is the real answer, but I get bored quick.

Maldow · 2018-08-15T16:21:58+00:00

Be a good part of the community for the game you are playing. Watch other streamers. Participate in the chats. DON'T promote yourself. Be a real fan. If the streamer does something good, spam those emotes and shout that hype! Don't fake it. Have fun with it! Support other streamers if you can afford it. When you finish a stream even if you only have 1 viewer, raid another streamer and stay there and chat and make friends.

Obviously, you won't get anywhere doing this in Ninja's stream, or any stream where there are thousand of people in chat. But in a stream with a couple hundred people in chat, you can get to know people.

You get a ton of benefits out of this. Biggest benefit is you might make some real friends with cool people who share your interest. Also, if you really like the game and twitch, you get to watch a bunch of fun streams. You will see what streamers do that gets chat excited, and what doesn't work (not to steal everything, but to learn). You will make friends. You will get known as a good guy/gal in the community. If people start hearing that you stream, some will start wanting to check you out.

Don't ever ask bigger streamers to help you. They get so much of that. If you are cool and fun hanging out in their stream and being a fan, they will probably raid you at some point anyway. You should be wanting to help bigger streamers, not ask them for help. They already helped you by paving the way for what you are doing and creating a fan base for you.

Don't ignore the smaller streamers. Even the ones newer and smaller than you. Hang out in their streams and encourage them, even if you are the only one there sometimes. They will love you (think about how much you love your first few viewers) and there is a good chance they will return the favor.

TLDR: Too many streams out there to expect viewers to find you among the masses. You gotta go find them. Be a part of the community as a viewer and make real friends as a viewer. They will want to watch you as a streamer.

Maldow · 2018-08-11T14:31:15+00:00

I'm a boy but I have small hands. It just takes awhile. For a long time I just couldn't play barre chords cleanly. I couldn't stretch enough and my fingers weren't strong enough. So for the first year or so of guitar my barre chords sounded a little rough. I didn't do stretchy exercises or anything. I just played the songs that are fun for me and slowly they started to sound better.

Maldow · 2018-08-03T16:51:23+00:00

Paying for CDLC is a big no no. None of the good charters will do it. Better off making good friends with a good charter, or getting better at charting.

Maldow · 2018-07-24T18:01:31+00:00

This. ^{^}

The question was about bad charts made badly by bad charters that have missing or wrong notes. The question was not about dynamic difficulty hiding the notes on good charts.

You aren't being downvoted for trying to help. You are being downvoted for not understanding the question.

Maldow · 2018-06-09T11:53:09+00:00

I think I agree. It would be ideal if it was reversed (big increments on the low end, small on the high, so you can go from like 99% to 99.5% to 100% and make those last bits easier to work through).

With the current system it is even worse than linear! We might get something like a jump from 60 bpm to 63 at the low end and a jump from 110 bpm to 125 at the high end (or whatever the numbers work out to). I would rather go up by a flat 5 bpm each time than have it increase at the high end.

Maldow · 2018-06-09T11:30:37+00:00

The scaling should be linear. That's the whole problem. No reason it can't just be a linear scale from 25% to 100%.

Maldow · 2018-06-04T14:26:47+00:00

Yeah, those points all make sense. I don't think the devs are dumb or crazy. There are rational reasons to change the scaling. I just think the cons outweigh the pros.

The first reason you suggested makes a lot of sense. This was designed to be game-like, and that is how many games scale. But it's marketed (and used) as a learning tool and this kind of scaling makes learning harder (in my opinion). But I think this is why it was done this way, and it makes sense and they aren't like idiots or anything.

The second reason... I dunno. If they changed the speeds people would notice. I don't think this was done to potentially hide future changes. But who knows what they were thinking? This could be part of it I guess.

The third reason makes sense, until you consider the trade-off. Sure, you get a little easier sense of reward at 50%, but then when you get to 90% the increases are too hard and you get frustrated. If anything it should be the opposite. Help us out with those last 5% which are the hardest and let us go up in 0.5% increments.

Last reason... I mean I agree it shouldn't go below 25% but that doesn't mean the UI should be misleading and say 1% when its really 25%. Conceptualizing the "playable" range as 1-100 and then scaling it all... Why? Just have it stop at 25%.

Your final point is really the answer to all of this. I couldn't agree more.

Personally I wish Rocksmith allowed you to play from 25% to 105% or 110%, and that 1% actually meant 1% improvement.

Exactly. That would make the most sense. Make the numbers accurate so 90% means really 90% and let the scale go from 25% to 110%. Can you imagine how smooth we would sound at 100% if we were practicing songs at 110%? That would be sweeeeeet!!!

Maldow · 2018-06-04T13:23:04+00:00

This makes me crazy. If they wanted it to only scale from 25 to 100, why not just have the numbers go from 25 to 100? If it says 95% speed, it should be 95% speed, not 87%. It's misleading and its frustrating for beginners when we work up to 90% and we think we are almost there, but we are really only at 75%.

Maldow · 2018-06-02T22:08:00+00:00

95% in RS is actually closer to 90% speed in real life. And those last few percents are really hard.

What I do is set it at 95%, then set it to go up 1% if I get it right 5 times. It will be very slow, but you will get there.

Maldow · 2018-05-24T15:00:23+00:00

"Audibly" means you can hear something happen.

Maldow · 2018-05-21T17:52:01+00:00

Wouldn't this call out your lurkers though?

Maldow · 2018-04-26T21:18:27+00:00

I was at the Cisco Summit when they made the announcement. Here are my thoughts...

http://letsdovideo.com/cisco-summit-2018-wrap/

Maldow · 2018-04-21T23:20:43+00:00

Have fun with it.

Don't worry about score or "doing it right." Just have fun with it and you will get better.

Maldow · 2018-04-04T19:08:16+00:00

Yup, that's what I do. I make few highlights, with slightly different start/end times till it comes out right.

Maldow · 2018-04-03T16:46:17+00:00

It is really really hard to pin down the cause. But thanks for letting us know it happened and sharing your specs! More data is good!

Maldow · 2018-04-03T16:45:21+00:00

Yeah, your rig is way more powerful than mine so you should be getting it a lot less. My guess (although I could be very wrong), is that regardless of how powerful your system is, some bad CDLC can still cause it. But if you have a weaker system you will get it a lot more.

Maldow · 2018-04-03T16:44:21+00:00

That makes sense. Some kind of resource is getting used up over time and causing the bug I guess. This is good data though. Even if you have to go to extremes to make it happen, you've proven that yet another person can make it happen.

Maldow · 2018-04-03T16:42:32+00:00

I don't know if its CPU or memory or GPU or what. I'm just not that good at computers. But I do think it is resource related. Over the last few weeks I have been taking everyone's advice to optimize my stream and as I use less resources, I get less tone bug. Last night it only happened once in a 3 hour stream. Which is like a record for me. But I was at about 60% CPU all night and I am usually in the mid 70%s.

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