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  1. EccentricFlower

    No Pro Mode on PC version?

    I have the season seven pro pack. This table doesn't have Pro mode available. Was it omitted by error or is this some other consequence of the deal with the *******s at Stern?
  2. EccentricFlower

    Lotta narrow shots in this one

    I mean, I know I'm not the best precision aimer and I usually have trouble with a table until I learn it pretty well, but this is one of those where after the first few games I still can't hit ANYTHING. Can't make the magic loop. Can't make the ogre loop. Can't make the magic tunnel or titan...
  3. EccentricFlower

    Anybody ever seen this one?

    I'm not putting it in the bug thread because I can't reproduce it. Yet. Happened while I was playing random tables. Somewhere around the third or fourth table I launched by using the random button, I got this instead of the table. (The table was supposed to be ToTAN, judging from the startup...
  4. EccentricFlower

    Will there be a Season 8? Heck, will there be a Season 7?

    Sorry, this isn't flamebait, I'm just feeling really cynical tonight for various reasons. EDIT: I'm talking about TPA. SPA does not count. In fact, the separation of SPA is one of the things that's making me cynical.
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    The Tale of the Hand

    I notice on IPDb that some of their table images were provided by someone who had a table with no hand (just the ring that would normally hold it in place). Another, later different table image has an aftermarket hand which is a different shape from the original. I also notice in another thread...
  6. EccentricFlower

    Voices

    Seems clear that they got a lot of likeness rights but couldn't afford to get some of the real actors in for the voice work. My spouse the lifelong, die-hard Doctor Who fan listened to a few rounds and is sad they apparently didn't actually get Michelle Gomez (Missy) ... but believes that is...
  7. EccentricFlower

    First Impressions

    After I played this table a couple of times I went back and read the instructions to see if that really was all there was to it. Apparently it was. Make the hands in the order they tell you to. The end. And yet it was a lot of fun and I'll probably be playing it a fair bit more. I guess I like...
  8. EccentricFlower

    First Impressions

    What a weird little table. I like the very Jack Kirby-like art. Apparently Scientist Lady is trying to thaw out Frozen Tube Lady; I want the story of how Frozen Tube Lady got frozen in the first place. (I'm like that. I also want to know the "story" behind the art in Xenon.) I think this and...
  9. EccentricFlower

    Wizard Goals Before Standard Goals - the timeless annoyance

    I don't read the goals in advance and I don't really make a concerted effort to try for them. They happen as they happen. So it's annoying to finally unlock the wizard goals for a table and find that among them is one you've achieved a dozen times but which didn't count because of some standard...
  10. EccentricFlower

    Which "special" balls disable goals?

    I was playing Doctor Who tonight with the TAF "lightning" ball - I pick special balls sometimes for table contrast and it stood out nicely against the predominantly yellow/orange playfield - and then I remembered reading somewhere that because it alters table rules in some way, using it will...
  11. EccentricFlower

    First Impressions etc

    I like this table a lot more than I expected to, especially since I am no fan of baseball. (I had to go look up who Frank Thomas is.) My sympathies to the non-PC players who apparently have had all kinds of trouble with the table. I haven't had any. I find the left entrance to the orbit hard...
  12. EccentricFlower

    Table Bias for Keyboard vs Controller

    I've noticed something a little strange. Now, remember, I'm not a fine-control kind of player. I just thrash around and have a good time. The few tables where I have any kind of reasonably high scores (by the standards of all you pros) or have finished the wizard goals are ones which I play...
  13. EccentricFlower

    Hooray!

    I didn't have anything concrete to say; I just noticed there were no threads here yet and I wanted everyone to know how thrilled I am that they added this table! We get very few EMs and this one was at the very top of my personal wish list.
  14. EccentricFlower

    Favorite lines

    "Stop playin' with the clock!" "Oooh, nice organ!" "You have been terminated. Have a nice day!" It's possible that sometimes I recite these along with the machines. Among others. (I also talk back to them. "C'mon, c'mon, shoot the crane." "I'm trying, damn it!") Three more of mine are in my...
  15. EccentricFlower

    Crane Shot

    The single biggest problem I have with this table is that I can't reliably sink the crane shot - I mean all the way into the opening at center top of table. I always get it a little off and deflect off the car targets, or the wrecking ball when it's in the down position. Moving ball, held ball...
  16. EccentricFlower

    The blue light at the bottom of this table

    "Releases Power Orb when lit" But it's always on, and doesn't seem to actually indicate anything about gameplay at all. Is this a TPA bug or was it a useless light on the real table too?
  17. EccentricFlower

    Lawlor vs Ritchie (Steel Cage Match)

    The comments in the "most overrated table" thread and my REALLY bad reaction to F-14 today made me aware of something. I probably should have figured it out sooner, but I'm slow. A lot of the tables I dislike the most in TPA - many of which are the ones a lot of y'all seem to love the most -...
  18. EccentricFlower

    For Duffers: The BASIC Goals You Just Can't Get

    There's another thread on easy vs hard wizard goals. Klutzes like me, who flail around a lot and can't nudge but have fun anyway, look at a thread like that and laugh. Wizard goals? Some of us can't get all the normal ones. I'm not talking about the tables where I likely won't ever get all the...
  19. EccentricFlower

    Request Fireball (Bally 1971)

    I have been playing this table in, um, a different emulator, over the past few days, and now I am dying to see what TPA makes of it. I didn't know some of these features existed so early. Kickback! Spinning table disc with rollovers around the edges! Captive ball! Multiball! With variable...
  20. EccentricFlower

    Need more strategy from the pros.

    Not gonna necropost on the "first impressions" thread, but I note there that some people seem to think this is a boringly easy table and others think it's one of the nastiest in TPA. You can put me down for the latter. If I had encountered this table in an arcade when I was sixteen, it would...

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