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Rock Band Rivals Update Improves Online Multiplayer

The latest update for Rock Band Rivals has fully adjusted the game's online multiplayer component, making life much easier for anyone who wishes to rock remotely.

Ozzie Mejia

February 21, 2018 11:20 AM

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Bands come together and some bands break up. Maybe the drummer moved halfway across the country. Rock Band Rivals hoped to keep the music together through online multiplayer, but it still needed a few tweaks. Fortunately, Wednesday morning saw Harmonix issue the first big Rock Band Rivals update of 2018 and with it came some big changes to Online Quickplay.

Jumping into online multiplayer now looks to be much easier, with players able to join Sessions through invites, searches, via Quick Join, or through creating their own Session. Sessions come with customizable filters, with players able to adjust set lengths and who can add songs. There's also online drop-in, which allows online players to jump into a session in mid-song.

There's even an option to search for users with preferred player stats, which means players can go out and look for players who own the same DLC tracks that they do. But it also means they can look for skilled players to help tackle that one elusive song on Expert.

All of this is available through the new online hub menus. More details on these, as well as the rest of the new early 2018 update can be found on the Harmonix website.

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?