Rock Band 3 Deluxe // The Perfect Drug FC // 210,145

This song is great! Mostly known in this game for its legendary drum chart (I must have watched IBitePrettyHard's video of this song on RB2 at least a dozen times way back in the day) but the guitar part has a few tricky strumming parts as well.
Going for score was also quite challenging; for the most part the squeezes get progressively more difficult as the song goes on so it felt somewhat exhausting to have to go as hard as possible on the timing windows after playing through the whole rest of the song to get there.
The hardest acts by far were the good ol' fashioned double squeeze in the broken up blue strumming bit, and then the final act leading to the outro.
The double was pretty fair really, but the mental pressure of potentially missing and having to play through 3.5 mins of the song again is always a big factor.
The other challenging one comes right after it - you need pretty spectacular whammy to be able to act on the green note leading to the break, but doing so gets more than 500 extra points that would otherwise be impossible by having to start mid whammy on the RYO chord.
Also need as much whammy as possible to hit the orange sustain on the back end in the outro, I actually missed it on most of my attempts from playing a bit too safe but was determined to not make that mistake again so went all out on this run and surprisingly had multiple leftover frames lol.
Had to drop a few sustain ends from the delay requirements but that happened on literally every run; my highest ticks with a missed squeeze was only a single point higher at x46 so getting everything this well is quite satisfying.
Other than ticks there's a few more points left with absolute insanity; at a tempo of 149 bpm it would barely be possible to double squeeze on 8th notes for the first 2 acts with nearly 2x frame perfect timings - but like... good luck stringing together the entire rest of the run for a 5+ minute song after that.
This score beat 1st place on SH by 1281 points.
Modifiers used:
- 60 FPS Venue
- Post FX disabled
- Highway: GHWT PS2 Tiki
- Streak: None
- Overdrive: Bass (0.57, 0.09, 0.05)
- Gems: Rocksmith
- Strikeline: RB4 Alt
- Flames: RB4 Legacy
- Sustains: RB2
- Lanes: You make me hard
- Score Box: RB1 Red
- Stars: RB3
- Font: Impact
- Solo Box: GH3
- BRE: When I'm all soft inside
- Track Rails: Sunset
- Beat Lines: RB2 Red
- Overdrive Bar: RB3 Red
- Multiplier Ring: RB2

[@djx1100REBORN]

I’ve been trying to fc this on the 2nd track pack for ps2 but the background effects are pretty harsh on the eyes on ps2 FMV quality haha

[@Radekore]

I can imagine - they usually go pretty hard with the effects on NIN songs lol. Looking forward to your FC video to see them in action!