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Same experience for me, plays very nice. It's an improved Cyclone with a nice multiball and without those punishing ramps. If you miss them on Hurricane it is of your own doing. It's a good thing that the EB's are finite (except getting lucky at the wheel) otherwise the usual suspects would go...

I kinda like Hurricane, learning to control the MB is where it's at and where Cyclone is lacking. Also those shots on Cyclone were tight as hell and Hurricane is a lot more forgiving. Never played Comet so no comment there.

I don't know what it is with this week's TotW but I keep improving on this table, I'm now at 39M and change for #9, just below Dizzer2012. I was a bit angry with myself that I didn't push through over his 40M but when I think about starting this week at 17M for my previous best, I'm very...

I'm on the fence with those rewards. On the one hand I really like that the KS succeeded and that wouldn't have happened without the new tiers. I also like that I got a good value reward for my 85 bucks, not the usual special balls/skins whatever. On the other hand I would hate it if it hurts...

Nice one Crooker! And interesting to hear about physics differences between platforms, this is not the first time that we have noted differences which can make some strategies void on the other platform. I really want to state here that I was not the first to notice the left flipper to TLE...

Well, it worked for me, what can I say? I will add that it is a bit more complex than just hitting any target. I find that I try to hit the L the most because this will return the ball often to the left flipper. But it also matters which targets are still up or down. So results may vary I guess...

I would love to see Rescue911. It may not be a top 10 Pinside/IPDB table but I have good memories of it. The first time I actually played it, I was with Roy Wils, one of the best if not the best Dutch pinball players. He was also one of the top ranked TPA players in it's first 2 years, but he...

:) I have a growing suspicion that Farsight put something in this table's script along the lines of: "IF Airlock=closed AND ball=in bumper area THEN steer ball towards right outlane". I've been thinking about how to deal with the situation in which you have the ball on your right flipper, all...

The key to this table and prolonged games is mastering the ricochet shot to the TLE targets into the drop targets from the left flipper. This either drops targets in the lane and returns to the left or right flipper, nudging required in about 10-20% imstances I would say, or shoot through the...

Amen to that! I couldn't get the playing time in on console or PC, so I'm strictly on iPad. I'll play anywhere with Wifi.

I went over and told them what happened.... :)

God, I just love this kind of information, it's kind of our "killscreen" sort of thing! It's just awesome if the programmer thought like this: "what if somebody reaches 255 damsels? Nah, that won't happen....but on the offchance it will, let's leave those lights on". You can't find this in any...

Guess what happened guys? Farsight KS'ed the table and it got totally funded!

:) I actually have a colleague doctor who put her email on constant out of office assistant because she got fed up by all the email. Maybe Farsight should visit the Disney offices live and just totally crash the party over there.

Good analysis Karl, I think along the same lines. Shadow and Congo are definitely gamers games but not strong licenses to appeal to the casual gamer/funder. I still keep hope out for Indiana Jones. That would be probably a mega license to cover, but it is also a very strong license to appeal to...

Your life sounds great! ;) serendipity is your middle name IJ would be great, TSPP would be great, LOTR would be great. The Shadow is a very good gamers game as pinball machine, but may not have a big KS-funding attraction. They may pull it off without though. LOTR could very well be in the...

That's nice intel. Not that I actually get that far so often myself, but still. Only way though to test those ROM issues is by doing it ourselves, because no player will ever have gotten that far on a real machine.

If that last statement is correct, does that also imply that any table that has TPA rollover detection has no scoring limit to it? Because any new table that comes out with rollover limits, is essentially a game of chicken at start: who wants to sacrifice a very good game to go over the next...

We're putting up nice pocket money for the next KS for sure. After the 13K spike on the 9th it has tapered off considerably. Kicktraq now has it trending for 68K, that means a head start of around 14K for the new KS!

Prolonged exposure to pinball forums will help :) When I made my first foray into online pinball communities I got lost in all those acronyms. I do think they are actually mostly used with the more familiar/famous pins, not necessarily the ones with the long names. Monsterbash is 11 letters but...