Same here. I already posted a bug report about this ages ago, nothing has come of it.
On some tables where there is a significant delay between the table starting to prompt for initials and TPA taking it over - getting Loop Champion on BSD is one such example - you can even start using the...
I'm beginning to wonder how I ever scored 750M on this table. I mean, the score's there, in my high score table and in the leaderboards, and I have slightly better than vague memories of posting it... but when my next best score is 194M (which I just posted, like 5 minutes ago!), well, color me...
It's a regular feature but it's operator controlled. In a coin op environment it makes a ton of sense; in a free play situation, not so much. In fact I think setting a table to free play defaults buy-ins to off.
Garr, here be my predictions.
In no particular order...
F-14
Paragon
Game Show
Surf'N'Safari
Checkpoint
Safe Cracker
Hurricane
Pinball Magic
The Simpsons Pinball Party
Corvette
At least someone has finally figured out why it's a game-ending bug. As far as bugs go, it's an obscure one and the fact it's taken 3 years for the community to track down the reason it happens means you can't really blame FS for not spotting it during QA.
I've never really got along with...
If they bought the table from a private seller who had the machine at home, it would've been set to free play so specials aren't really a concern, like in TPA. Since the rules are the same for everyone it's not like anyone's getting an advantage to scoring.
Tube shot retaining value isn't a bug, it's an operator setting that happens to be switched on in TPA's version.
My guess is the table they bought came with this setting so the assumption was it is correct.
I didn't have a problem but I'm playing at 1080x1920. Later I switched to a 4K back buffer, which really screws with the fonts (tiny!) and alignment of menus.
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