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Just got done trying the new update. So this is where they were going with post processing, it actually looks pretty good. CBW is a fun table, it has some fun gimmicks.
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Nov 23, 2013 01:21
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Fish flying around? That's a mighty tall Tale.
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Nov 23, 2013 01:41
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LED Grand Lizard Orbitor 1 Whole lot of EMs They had a pretty good selection, even of trash 80s Gottliebs like Hollywood Heat. There were lots of LEDed games including a Xenon with blue and red trailing lights on the infinity mirror. And just before I left someone set up the single most 1990s thing I have ever seen: Color LED RollerGames. My god it is beautiful. The volume was really cranked up. Everyone got a kick out of the ridiculousness. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 01:48
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... or the licensed table Twister?
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Nov 23, 2013 01:59
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roffels posted:... or the licensed table Twister? Is not bright pink with random shapes and plastic cantilevers everywhere. E: oh thought you were talking to me re: most 90s thing Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 02:02
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It's only one table for the next table pack, so it's likely a licensed table.
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Nov 23, 2013 02:03
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As easy and cheap as it'd be to get the rights to the Twister game, I think it's going to be this: http://pinside.com/pinball/archive/pool-sharks/gallery Just guessing based on the fact that it's "Pin-nado", with a screencap from Sharknado, and it'd be a nice continuation of the pool theme started with Cue Ball Wizard in the previous pack. Or it could also be some other shark-themed pinball game.
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Nov 23, 2013 02:05
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I was talking poo poo about Pinball FX2 the other day, and the physics are still weird, but turning off the challenge scores and the popups for target scores has made the game a lot more understandable- there's just so much less stuff cluttering the screen. Plus, the Blade table owns. Edit: Does TPA change the free table monthly? So like, next month, Steam users will have a different table than TOTAN?
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Nov 23, 2013 03:33
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Anonymous Robot posted:I was talking poo poo about Pinball FX2 the other day, and the physics are still weird, but turning off the challenge scores and the popups for target scores has made the game a lot more understandable- there's just so much less stuff cluttering the screen. Plus, the Blade table owns. The new ios update is out. Champion Pub is now free and Cue ball Wizard is really interesting.
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Nov 23, 2013 03:55
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Uh, so I think the new update broke tables with more than two flippers. I tried playing Genie and El Dorado and only the bottom two flippers worked on either table.
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Nov 23, 2013 03:55
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Nope, TOTAN is always free. There's just a rotating "Table of the Month" that you can play for free until the next Table Pack is released. Last month's TotM was Scared Stiff.Lester Shy posted:Uh, so I think the new update broke tables with more than two flippers. I tried playing Genie and El Dorado and only the bottom two flippers worked on either table. Did you try turning off Dual-Stage Flippers in the table settings? Do not even ask fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 03:55
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Lester Shy posted:Uh, so I think the new update broke tables with more than two flippers. I tried playing Genie and El Dorado and only the bottom two flippers worked on either table. Turn off two-stage flippers.
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Nov 23, 2013 03:56
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Do not even ask posted:Nope, TOTAN is always free. There's just a rotating "Table of the Month" that you can play for free until the next Table Pack is released. Last month's TotM was Scared Stiff. This doesn't seem to happen on PC, though?
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Nov 23, 2013 03:56
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Eegah posted:Turn off two-stage flippers. Well I feel dumb. Seems kind of weird to turn that on by default after the update though.
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Nov 23, 2013 04:09
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Speaking of that I played some old Gottlieb that had three lower flippers. The two on the right were controlled by separate buttons. What the hell Gottlieb.
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Nov 23, 2013 04:11
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Luigi Thirty posted:Is not bright pink with random shapes and plastic cantilevers everywhere. I was not. But boy do I want to own a Rollergames. I just sold my Ninja Turtles pinball machine, and Rollergames is on my short list of wants and can afford. But I wouldn't want to give it up.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:40
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King Vidiot posted:As easy and cheap as it'd be to get the rights to the Twister game, I think it's going to be this: http://pinside.com/pinball/archive/pool-sharks/gallery I hope not. It's an ok table, but nothing really special. I've played it a bit at a local BBQ place.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:42
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roffels posted:... or the licensed table Twister? If I were to guess a tornado-esque pinball I'd probably think of Cyclone first. Sorry I misspelled that, I meant Motherfucking Cyclone.
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Nov 23, 2013 05:58
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King Vidiot posted:Goddamn, I got completely stiffed (heh) in Scared Stiff just a bit ago. I was still on ball one, was getting a shitton of extra balls, boned my first Stiff-o-Meter but then nailed it the second time and got the multi-ball. However, I noticed when my balls started draining that there was no indication that they were lost, no noise or anything. So on my final ball, the jackpots kept counting despite the fact that multiball should've been over. When the last ball drained... nothing. The game started going through ball search, the attendant couldn't help because the ball wasn't "stuck" it was drained. So I was having a really good run on the first ball, 44 million and then I lost all of it. I've got that twice in Medieval Madness now. Both times I'd had absolute bombs of Multiball Madnesses with a faster stream of jackpots than what the voiceover can handle.
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Nov 23, 2013 06:32
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Yeah, I've had plenty of other physics glitches and general fuckery on PA tables too, like shooting a ball completely through the crate and into one of the Deadheads lanes in Scared Stiff, or having a ball pass through the flippers in Funhouse. I wouldn't be surprised to find that some of the highest table scores were from people who hosed the game up, either on purpose or accidentally.
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Nov 23, 2013 06:36
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King Vidiot posted:Yeah, I've had plenty of other physics glitches and general fuckery on PA tables too, like shooting a ball completely through the crate and into one of the Deadheads lanes in Scared Stiff, or having a ball pass through the flippers in Funhouse. I wouldn't be surprised to find that some of the highest table scores were from people who hosed the game up, either on purpose or accidentally. The highest scores are all mobile scores with externally fudged stuff. I don't think there's any table bugs for massive scoring you can do or I would have heard of it. Early versions of haunted house had something where a switch somewhere kept firing off constantly, but that never made it to PC and has been fixed as far as I know. TotAN has the harem multiball stuff but that's in the actual table rom and works on real tables so it's a table feature at this point. e: As in the guy with 350 billion on whirlwind and such. You can't get there even with table bugs. It's some sort of registry messing or whatever the mobiles do gently caress mobiles. Nurge fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 07:58
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Some tables do have poo poo you can exploit, and there are occasional platform-specific bugs. For example, I still have the #7 or 8 score on Centaur at 35M or so, solely by hitting the Queen's Chamber. It's easy to hit, it feeds back to the left flipper, you get an EB after six hits or so and it's probably the largest scoring feature on the table. No cheating, just an easy to exploit shot. Scared Stiff has a longstanding bug on the iPad 3 where the kickout under the crate repeatedly shoots the ball up into the deadheads, which repeats the process. Good for several million free points and maybe an extra ball or two per game, though it's not an end-all-be-all. My high score is on the Steam version despite milking the deadheads on my iPad. Then there's tables with EBs that some folks are able to get easily -- Bride of PinBot and Black Hole come to mind. Victory too but I tend to gently caress that shot up a lot and drain more than I gain.
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Nov 23, 2013 08:16
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Eegah posted:Some tables do have poo poo you can exploit, and there are occasional platform-specific bugs. Sure but those are all normal features of the tables. Not the scared stiff one necessarily but the others. I mean if you're going for high scores on almost any table you're going to be mainly shooting one shot over and over, even on real machines. Playing for progression and fun is rarely directly tied to the best scoring on the table. also re: Centaur, the chamber shot is definitely nothing like safe after some testing of that strategy. I guess you can do it in multiball, but still. What platform was that on? Nurge fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 08:43
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I haven't encountered anything terrible score exploits in PA but I did stumble across this one on Williams Collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU759Cglkgo
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Nov 23, 2013 08:45
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I'm about to head to Southern Pinball Festival if anyone wants to hang out. I'm the fat dude wearing jeans, a plain, dark grey shirt, and I'll probably have a red flannel on me somewhere too.
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Nov 23, 2013 15:54
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Tasteful Bulge posted:I'm about to head to Southern Pinball Festival if anyone wants to hang out. I'm the fat dude wearing jeans, a plain, dark grey shirt, and I'll probably have a red flannel on me somewhere too. And a tasteful bulge?
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Nov 23, 2013 19:07
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Live streaming of the seminars from Southern Pinball Festival: http://www.twitch.tv/papatvpinball Mark and Bowen are going to live play Star Trek around 3PM Eastern
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Nov 23, 2013 19:19
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Theory: if they ever get the rights to The Who's Tommy, the teaser image for it will be a black jpeg.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:05
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iOS update fixed the menus and buttons for the iPad air. Having come from the ps3 version, seeing a problem get addressed is a tremendous novelty. Go Farsight.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:23
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Same Great Paste posted:iOS update fixed the menus and buttons for the iPad air. Hey fixed it on the Mini too. Didn't even notice until you mentioned it lol
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Nov 24, 2013 03:25
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Did the Steam update cause Pinball Arcade to run like poo poo for anyone else? Pre update I was getting great performance with all settings maxed, but I had to turn off post-processing afterwards to make it even playable. There's also a new setting in configuration for "focus sensitive input" and I have no idea what it means.
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Nov 24, 2013 03:43
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DrNutt posted:Did the Steam update cause Pinball Arcade to run like poo poo for anyone else? Pre update I was getting great performance with all settings maxed, but I had to turn off post-processing afterwards to make it even playable. There's also a new setting in configuration for "focus sensitive input" and I have no idea what it means. It runs fine for me, but now it's slightly blurry. I guess that was their fix for post processing.  "Focus sensitive input" means the game can retain control of your inputs even if you leave the window. I don't know why you'd ever want that, but I guess there's times when it might make sense.
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Nov 24, 2013 04:16
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The game runs and looks better for me now than it did before the update, and with post-processing on before the update the game looked like low-res, smeary poo poo. Now it looks really smooth, the anti-aliasing works with post-processing on, and the analog nudging has made the game a lot more fun to play.
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Nov 24, 2013 04:22
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King Vidiot posted:The game runs and looks better for me now than it did before the update, and with post-processing on before the update the game looked like low-res, smeary poo poo. Now it looks really smooth, the anti-aliasing works with post-processing on, and the analog nudging has made the game a lot more fun to play. Are you on AMD or nvidia? It sounds like the post-processing issue might have just switched sides. I'm on nivida and it looked fine before, now it's blurry as hell.
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Nov 24, 2013 04:26
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sethsez posted:It runs fine for me, but now it's slightly blurry. I guess that was their fix for post processing. I play on a 2nd monitor in fullscreen windowed and on a controller. I mapped all the keyboard buttons to a key I'll never hit and now I can play and freely do something on another monitor and go back and forth. I really like this, Sleeping Dogs also had this just for controllers and I thought it was really cool. It's less useful for an active game like pinball, but I can respond to someone quickly between balls or whatever without thinking about it or losing focus.
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Nov 24, 2013 04:26
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sethsez posted:Are you on AMD or nvidia? It sounds like the post-processing issue might have just switched sides. I'm on nivida and it looked fine before, now it's blurry as hell. I'm not saying it's not blurry, but before it was all lovely and pixellated (this being with post-processing on) and now it's sharp but there's like a vaseline-lens haze over everything. Personally I don't mind it, I think it looks kind of cool. It's definitely better than what post-processing was like before the patch. edit: Also, when they added the focus-sensitive thing, I had it on before and the game still unpaused once when I hit the enter key out-of-game. It never happened since, but I still lost a ball over it. King Vidiot fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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Nov 24, 2013 04:30
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gently caress! I just doubled my high score on the first ball on Medieval Madness, and lost the second 2 balls almost as fast as possible. Losing that first one just threw my momentum in the toilet.
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Nov 24, 2013 04:40
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iOS update seems to have cleared my high scores and goals. Again.  Think I'm just going to turn off autoupdate and hold off until they release another table I might actually care about (if ever).
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sethsez posted:It runs fine for me, but now it's slightly blurry. I guess that was their fix for post processing. Multimonitor and alt tabbing I guess - I sometimes run Pinball arcade on my 2nd display (my TV) and could see this being useful for switching between apps. Edit - sorry, I see someone above said the same thing.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:25
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