neilpinbot
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Fantastic work FARSIGHT it's running good on our £380 HP laptop (we just bought it from currys in sale). only tried it so far with default graphics setup. So will experiment tonight after work.
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It's out! (PC Initial Release Discussion And Feedback)
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Well just added more funds to the steam wallet this morning, relaunched the game and it's still reading as (ERROR) in the season packs, when I go to purchase it pauses then kicks me back out to the table select screen...I can play any table....just have to play the demo versions.
Haven't tried a table pack purchase yet as I wanted to get the whole season pack as I thought it was cheaper...
Downloaded the game at about 10pm last night GMT....was there an issue at that point from a european/uk standpoint?
I did install this to my D: drive.....didn't think that would be a problem...
Also can't login to my PA account....this is all beginning to smack of a "reinstall".......Joy!!
First time using steam....gotta say...pretty sucky on first glimpse....
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Brian C Hayes
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Cool I have this on potrait mode on a 32 inch screen and whilsts its not ideal in terms of it being squashed somewhat its still bloody amazing ... anybody know when the Cabinet versions are coming out ?
Played the game yesterday for like an hour so here are my initial thoughts.
I really love the Pinball Wizard theme on the menus, but sadly that is the only thing I like about the menus.
The free table was nice and the actual game play is good and nothing to complain about that. Rock solid physics and nice feel to the game.
Then there are the textures. You really, really need to get some hd textures for the tables and the floor around the table. The table background is ok'ish but the other textures are a total mess and I don't even know if the floor is floor or just some pixel vomit...
Back to the menus. This is by far the biggest issue for this game. The menus as horrible in every way. First of all it seems to be some weird hybrid of keyboard and mouse driven menu where I couldn't go back in a menus using keyboard, would it be too hard to make 'esc' go back in menus?
The keys were at least rebindable but because menus are so bad I couldn't even tell what the alternative key was since it got clipped off the table...
Then after playing an hour for the free table I decided to go buy extra ones. The horrible menu experience continues here. I actually got the season pack menu to bug out so that I could only click through the tables since rolling or arrow keys stopped working.
The overall information displayed there is just bad. At first I didn't even see the prices since they were hidden in a wall of text and then tried to buy one table and that was even worse. Price was something like 7 euros so I assume it was not just for that one table but couldn't even tell that. And there was no clear info anywhere what was the "pro" mode and why should I pay extra for those.
Mike and anyone else at FS. You could really improve a lot on the menu front. The confusing and bad menu experience made me not to buy table packs or tables yesterday but luckily for you I am determined to get them. But for lot of other people who are not so big fans, are just put away by these things and you lose sales big time. After all it's free to play game so a lot of potential people trying it for free on Steam.
I really love the Pinball Wizard theme on the menus, but sadly that is the only thing I like about the menus.
The free table was nice and the actual game play is good and nothing to complain about that. Rock solid physics and nice feel to the game.
Then there are the textures. You really, really need to get some hd textures for the tables and the floor around the table. The table background is ok'ish but the other textures are a total mess and I don't even know if the floor is floor or just some pixel vomit...
Back to the menus. This is by far the biggest issue for this game. The menus as horrible in every way. First of all it seems to be some weird hybrid of keyboard and mouse driven menu where I couldn't go back in a menus using keyboard, would it be too hard to make 'esc' go back in menus?
The keys were at least rebindable but because menus are so bad I couldn't even tell what the alternative key was since it got clipped off the table...
Then after playing an hour for the free table I decided to go buy extra ones. The horrible menu experience continues here. I actually got the season pack menu to bug out so that I could only click through the tables since rolling or arrow keys stopped working.
The overall information displayed there is just bad. At first I didn't even see the prices since they were hidden in a wall of text and then tried to buy one table and that was even worse. Price was something like 7 euros so I assume it was not just for that one table but couldn't even tell that. And there was no clear info anywhere what was the "pro" mode and why should I pay extra for those.
Mike and anyone else at FS. You could really improve a lot on the menu front. The confusing and bad menu experience made me not to buy table packs or tables yesterday but luckily for you I am determined to get them. But for lot of other people who are not so big fans, are just put away by these things and you lose sales big time. After all it's free to play game so a lot of potential people trying it for free on Steam.
Hi there, I just signed up to also report that I'm getting the blurry / jagged / aliasing effect when post-processing is enabled. I posted more details in the bug thread, I have an AMD HD6970 using Catalyst 13.9 driver.
Luckily the game still looks good when post-processing is turned off so I consider it a minor issue until its fixed. I already own all the tables on Android and I'll be buying them on PC too.
I also wouldn't mind seeing the menus and backgrounds improved for the PC version in the future, but again that's minor as the tables themselves look and play great.
Luckily the game still looks good when post-processing is turned off so I consider it a minor issue until its fixed. I already own all the tables on Android and I'll be buying them on PC too.
I also wouldn't mind seeing the menus and backgrounds improved for the PC version in the future, but again that's minor as the tables themselves look and play great.
JPelter
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The funny thing is the tables that actually do have slight slowdowns for me are non-emulated (EM) tables.
FS, you should really, really consider changing the business model for this game for pc. Don't treat is a mobile platform because it is not one.
You are missing a ton of sales just because the stuff can't be sold through steam as a standard way. I know Valve made you to do it in game, but maybe that is a sign that it could be improved a lot.
Individual tables, table packs, season packs and pro versions all of those is just too much. If I would be in charge for the PC title I would just put in season packs and individual tables and sell the pro upgrade as a side thing that would affect all tables.
I bet Valve would be ok with that and let you list all the DLC like that on the steam page and sell it directly. Your sales would go up because more people would buy those extra tables and season packs and you could actually take part of the Steam sales events which are HUGE for the volume sales.
You are missing a huge opportunity here just because you are sticking to a release ways of the other platforms.
You are missing a ton of sales just because the stuff can't be sold through steam as a standard way. I know Valve made you to do it in game, but maybe that is a sign that it could be improved a lot.
Individual tables, table packs, season packs and pro versions all of those is just too much. If I would be in charge for the PC title I would just put in season packs and individual tables and sell the pro upgrade as a side thing that would affect all tables.
I bet Valve would be ok with that and let you list all the DLC like that on the steam page and sell it directly. Your sales would go up because more people would buy those extra tables and season packs and you could actually take part of the Steam sales events which are HUGE for the volume sales.
You are missing a huge opportunity here just because you are sticking to a release ways of the other platforms.
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Hi all, I've just started to play this, seems good so far 
but when i go to buy the season packs in stead of a price it says error? also i registered but everytime i try to login it fails! I agree with Roope, i think FS are missing a huge opportunity as i seems to be a right pain just to buy tables
but when i go to buy the season packs in stead of a price it says error? also i registered but everytime i try to login it fails! I agree with Roope, i think FS are missing a huge opportunity as i seems to be a right pain just to buy tables 
goo_back
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Season 1 came out last year, season 2 is still in progress. New things are more expensive.
Any there any good links for optimizing/troubleshooting performance issues?
I have a fairly new Sony laptop, i7, Windows 8.
The menus are painfully slow, and the table (TOTAN) is unplayable. TPA CPU usage is near 100%.
I've tried windowed and full screen. Post processing and reflections turned off.
I've never used the laptop with Steam until today, and never used it to play games. So I'm sure some tuning is in order.
I have a fairly new Sony laptop, i7, Windows 8.
The menus are painfully slow, and the table (TOTAN) is unplayable. TPA CPU usage is near 100%.
I've tried windowed and full screen. Post processing and reflections turned off.
I've never used the laptop with Steam until today, and never used it to play games. So I'm sure some tuning is in order.
I'm getting the same thing too (ERROR) in price area and goes back to table menu! Also registered but everytime i try to login it fails
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