The ultimate songs for Rock Band 4 will likely be launched subsequent week, ending an eight-year streak of weekly DLC releases for the rhythm sport, developer Harmonix announced Wednesday. The studio’s future work will come to Fortnite Pageant, the Rock Band-like sport mode for Fortnite that launched in December.
Rock Band 4’s last DLC will arrive on Jan. 25, although Harmonix has not introduced which tunes will shut out the sport’s run of almost 3,000 post-launch songs. “We deliberated lengthy and laborious about find out how to body the final blast of RB DLC of this period,” the developer mentioned in an announcement on the Harmonix web site. “The final two weeks will characteristic some tear jerkers that sum up our emotions about this second.”
Harmonix says that each one different reside providers for Rock Band 4 “will proceed as regular, together with Rivals seasons, [and] on-line play.” The studio additionally dedicated to making sure that gamers will maintain the songs they’ve bought, including, “to be very clear, you’ll be able to play the songs you personal inside Rock Band 4 for so long as you want.”
For Rock Band followers searching for new content material, “Fortnite Pageant is the place to be,” Harmonix mentioned. The Epic Video games-owned developer launched Fortnite Pageant final month with two modes: Principal Stage, which is a simplified Rock Band-like expertise for as much as 4 gamers; and Jam Stage, which is impressed by Harmonix’s music mashup sport Fuser.
Fortnite Pageant is free to play and has add-on music of its personal, with a rotating choice of free songs. Harmonix has dedicated to bringing assist for Rock Band 4 devices to Fortnite Pageant, which at present helps gamepad and keyboard controls, someday this 12 months.
Rock Band 4 launched with 65 songs. Harmonix introduced that quantity to greater than 120 with the discharge of the Rock Band Rivals enlargement in 2016. Harmonix has since launched new tracks for Rock Band 4 on a weekly cadence. In latest weeks, the developer has launched DLC together with Beastie Boys’ “So What’Cha Need,” Queens of the Stone Age’s “No One Is aware of,” and Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Street” by the Rock Band Music Retailer.