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I kinda wonder how much they’ll care about the tables that aren’t making them money anymore. They update and it breaks tables then what’s the incentive to fix it?
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Jun 18, 2018 18:19
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Invalid Validation posted:I kinda wonder how much they’ll care about the tables that aren’t making them money anymore. They update and it breaks tables then what’s the incentive to fix it? Probably as much as they care about Stern PA.
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Jun 18, 2018 20:33
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Honestly I don't see Farsighted continuing as a business after their main source of income is cutoff. I'm sure they're getting a bump from this not-even-a-sale but it's not like anyone's using that shitshow of a Stern app.
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Jun 19, 2018 00:36
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Yeah. I have all the tables in iOS and Steam but that's from years of waiting on sales and whatnot. I expect no continued support of anything from Farsight, pretty much treating this as "get Pinball Arcade before it's dead."
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Jun 20, 2018 01:32
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I dunno if it'll be a full-on application MERGE or whatever, but it sounds like their next step is releasing Stern tables in base TPA. After that, though? God only knows. What a long, weird journey it's been.
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Jun 20, 2018 05:43
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It seems weird me to that FarSight would just lose the Williams license straight up. Doesn’t it seem likely that someone else has it going forward? Who though?
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Jun 20, 2018 06:17
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FishBulb posted:It seems weird me to that FarSight would just lose the Williams license straight up. Doesn’t it seem likely that someone else has it going forward? Who though?
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Jun 20, 2018 06:31
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I mean that’s possible but I dunno
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Jun 20, 2018 07:15
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I thought WMS was bought by someone else who refused to extend the contract?
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algebra testes posted:I thought WMS was bought by someone else who refused to extend the contract?
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Jun 20, 2018 08:30
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They license out Bally and Williams tables for re-release too don't they? Just thinking that maybe they're under the wrongheaded assumption that having virtual tables will make people less likely to buy the Special Edition physical tables or whatever? I mean it sounds stupid but we're not dealing with logical people here.
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Jun 20, 2018 11:45
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King Vidiot posted:They license out Bally and Williams tables for re-release too don't they? Just thinking that maybe they're under the wrongheaded assumption that having virtual tables will make people less likely to buy the Special Edition physical tables or whatever?
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Jun 20, 2018 11:57
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King Vidiot posted:They license out Bally and Williams tables for re-release too don't they? Just thinking that maybe they're under the wrongheaded assumption that having virtual tables will make people less likely to buy the Special Edition physical tables or whatever?
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Jun 20, 2018 11:57
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Ah, I thought the slot machine company bought out Williams/Bally way earlier. I just remember reading the wiki page where it said they moved into slot machines back in like the 90's/00's so I assumed the buyout happened around then.
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Jun 20, 2018 12:03
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You guys who haven't checked out visual pinball in a while should check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BelDzptfg Yes that's actual gameplay of an upcoming release of Attack from Mars!
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Jun 23, 2018 18:17
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mattfl posted:You guys who haven't checked out visual pinball in a while should check this out That looks crazy real. What is this?
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Jun 23, 2018 19:13
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Zaphod42 posted:That looks crazy real. What is this? Visual Pinball 10. A lot of tables are being redone now because people have figured out how to do real high resolution/realistic looking builds using the newer betas of VPX. I can’t wait to put this one in my cabinet.
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Jun 23, 2018 19:20
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mattfl posted:Visual Pinball 10. A lot of tables are being redone now because people have figured out how to do real high resolution/realistic looking builds using the newer betas of VPX. What's the easiest way to find cabinets to download?
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Jun 23, 2018 19:24
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Zaphod42 posted:What's the easiest way to find cabinets to download? When I say cabinet I mean I built a full size virtual pinball cabinet. You need to download visual pinball 10.5 or later and then the tables are easy enough to find. Note: Visual pinball is not the most user friendly thing to setup and get running.
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Jun 23, 2018 20:52
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Zaphod42 posted:What's the easiest way to find cabinets to download? VP Forums used to be the main site for Visual Pinball downloads. As time went on though and various groups got pissy over forum drama, perceived lack of gratitude, etc, etc, then a bunch of splinter sites formed. The main sites hosting tables are: VP Forums MonsterBash Pincab VP Universe VPinball
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Jun 23, 2018 22:16
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:VP Forums used to be the main site for Visual Pinball downloads. As time went on though and various groups got pissy over forum drama, perceived lack of gratitude, etc, etc, then a bunch of splinter sites formed. The main sites hosting tables are: Monsterbash is where you'll find the Attack from Mars when it's released fyi.
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Jun 23, 2018 22:33
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mattfl posted:Monsterbash is where you'll find the Attack from Mars when it's released fyi. Yeah, despite VP Forums still sort of being the mother site, Monsterbash Pincab seems to be the place where the best table makers are releasing their stuff. Luckily I managed to snag their Ghostbusters table off of there before it was pulled, after Farsight got all litigious.
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Jun 23, 2018 23:58
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Yeah, despite VP Forums still sort of being the mother site, Monsterbash Pincab seems to be the place where the best table makers are releasing their stuff. As did I, as well as the update 
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Jun 24, 2018 00:52
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Is there anywhere left to grab the Ghostbusters files? I didn't think farsight would bother with a takedown since you have to buy their table for the dll files anyway
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Jun 24, 2018 04:58
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Nah, you didn't need to buy the table for the dll, you just had to download the game from Steam. There's nowhere that will officially host the file now after the takedown, got PM's?
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Jun 24, 2018 06:30
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Oh dang. That makes the takedown more understandable, I wish they could compromise somehow though. I do have PMs!
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Jun 24, 2018 07:55
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I went ahead and bought seasons 3-6 on PS3 tonight like a big idiot who's bad with money and holy poo poo downloading everything was a drat trainwreck.
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Jun 24, 2018 08:50
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https://twitter.com/PinballArcade/status/1012403895417491456 The other systems should still have a couple more days of availability.
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So I'm FINALLY starting to figure out multipliers and stuff on Star Wars, thanks largely to some guy who kind of showed me how it works. We played a couple of games yesterday...I was definitely better at making shots than he was, but he managed the stupid multipliers so well he kicked my rear end. Does anyone 1) have a good approach to not draining off of the target bank, and 2) a good sequence to max multipliers without having to constantly adjust things? My sequence now is to use Han, +5 tie fighters, get tie fighter hurry up, load up hoth, load up multipliers to 20x, shoot hoth and do the asteroid field, then do the same with video mode (hopefully with a 40x multiplier), usually with a tie fighter multiball in there somewhere. This usually puts me over a billion, but I ALWAYS lose a ball or two to the stupid bank DTFM.
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Jun 28, 2018 21:05
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They just yanked the Pinball Arcade season packs from Steam, but you can still buy them if you have money in your steam wallet and buy them from inside the game itself.
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Pinball Arcade got an update for PS4 to version 1.26 and they took off the Bally and Williams tables. They now have... Gottlieb pack 1: Big Hurt, Genie, Gladiators, Haunted House, Lights Camera Action, Victory - $9.99 Gottlieb pack 2: Wipeout, Rescue 911, Bone Busters, Black Hole, El Dorado City of Gold, Goin' Nuts - $9.99 Gottlieb pack 3: Teed Off, Cue Ball Wizard, Class of 1812, Cactus Jacks, TX-Sector - $8.99 Gottlieb pack 4: Big Shot, Centigrade 37, Central Park, El Dorado, Jacks Open - $8.99 Stern Pack 1: Flight 2000, Mary Shelley's Frakenstein, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Starship Troopers, Star Trek Vengeance Premium, AC/DC Premium - $19.99 Stern Pack 2: High Roller Casino, Last Action Hero, Harley Davidson 3rd Edition, Phantom of the Opera, Mustang Premium, Ghostbusters Premium - $19.99 Alvin G Pack: Al's Garage Band Goes on a World Tour, Pistol Poker - $7.99 Dr. Who Master of Time - $9.99 and Custom Balls: Glow ball pack $1.99, Dr. Who ball Pack $1.99, Gottlieb Ball Pack $1.99, Gottlieb Retro Pack $0.99, Stern Ball Pack 1 $1.99, Farsight ball pack $1.99 So it looks deserted now. I searched for the old tables on the PSN store and was able to buy The Getaway and the Pinbot/Centaur pack.
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Jun 30, 2018 17:35
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lol $10 for their terrible dr who remake
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Jun 30, 2018 20:01
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So they already folded Stern’s Star Trek, AC/DC, and Mustang into the regular TPA client? I wonder if they’re available on the Steam one, too. It’s not much help to me, Ghostbusters runs like crap on my laptop and I can’t imagine the other tables being any better.
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there is a fix for ghostbusters but you have to do it every time you run the game. you set your processor affinity for pinball arcade to 1 core and then back to normal and it clears up the choppiness. also i didnt notice the new sterns in there. i guess if i want them i need to buy them individually through the game since i already have 90% of each bundle
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Jun 30, 2018 20:33
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Finally cracked about bought seasons 6 and 7. Immediately started it up and played Jacks Open.
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I spent like 40 dollars on Pinball Arcade tables recently where if there weren't a deadline I would've strung that out over years, possibly decades.. So, I dunno, losing the license SUCKS but, like, maybe it's good for Farsight? If I owned that company I'd take the windfall and bail out and live comfortably and not give a fuckall. also here's my hot take from a person who has spent an inordinate amount of time considering what tables to buy before they're gone: Adams Family, Star Trek: TNG and Twilight Zone suck rear end.
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Murderist posted:also here's my hot take from a person who has spent an inordinate amount of time considering what tables to buy before they're gone: Adams Family, Star Trek: TNG and Twilight Zone suck rear end. I am coming over and kicking your rear end.
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Jul 1, 2018 03:39
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Murderist posted:Adams Family, Star Trek: TNG and Twilight Zone suck rear end. What in the actual, holy, everliving gently caress is wrong with you man. I mean I'm lukewarm on TNG but got-drat.
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Addams family is a legit bad game with the magnets in because playing it in a try hard fashion is boring as gently caress, but putting twilight zone on that list is unforgivable 
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