First impressions

[mpad]

Nice classic table!
Great Art and Sound.
Been playing a few rounds to check out the new flipper physics and it didn't grow boring on me.
Great table for its time.

I (portrait 1080x1920 dx11) can see a horizontal black line where some playfield textures are stitched together (right trough the bosom and plunger lane), but that is the only issue so far.

Great job FS!

 

[Anderz]

Short but interesting clip about the creation of Xenon

 

[kinggo]

I still wish it was Paragon instead of this two shots game.

 

[masterthes]

It's a fun little game, already on Wizard Goals

 

[dave950lam]

Don't fret, Paragon is coming. 2nd place poll entrants also end up in TPA (ie: Earthshaker)

 

[Kratos3]

Don't fret, Paragon is coming. 2nd place poll entrants also end up in TPA (ie: Earthshaker)

Paragon to end the season FTW. Eight Ball Deluxe would be more than acceptable too.

 

[Gorgar]

Don't fret, Paragon is coming. 2nd place poll entrants also end up in TPA (ie: Earthshaker)

Actually, they don't. We are still waiting on Eight Ball Deluxe and Seawitch.

 

[dave950lam]

And I think EBD and Seawitch are sure bets to make it to TPA. Earthskaker took 2nd place in the poll that Diner won.

Which means we've got a few seasons (at least) of tables to come to TPA.

 

[invitro]

Wow, such boring and easy. Many of you folks warned us, though. At least it's pretty. And has a rap-song soundtrack. Xenon is a trivially easy pick for worst table of Season 4 so far.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

 

[p6800]

Wow, such boring and easy. Many of you folks warned us, though. At least it's pretty. And has a rap-song soundtrack. Xenon is a trivially easy pick for worst table of Season 4 so far.

Right on the money.... Boring as hell this one. A waste of a spot in the TPA library.

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

Which is why Paragon should've been the winner and not Xenon.

 

[Iain]

Very poor table imo, Farsights conversion seems ok but the table is simply one I dont like, dont see me playing this one at all and it will sit on the junk pile with goin nuts and eldorado

 

[switch3flip]

Lol it definitely is a 2 shot table. With a little nudge action on top.
At least the moaning and rest of sounds and music isn't getting as annoying as i thought it would. Nice music even.

But yeah not much depth or variety to it. Tube shots over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

Personally i like the new flipper physics, they're an improvement and lift Xenon way up in playability.

 

[pm1109]

OK Table.
Not much else to say.
Looks pretty I will give it that.
Bring on the next table

 

[SilverBalls]

No one will believe me, but this is the best table in season 4 for me. Better than TAF which I never play.

 

[EccentricFlower]

From the perspective of the non-wizard (I think I'm the only BAD pinball player in these forums):

As I noted (and then took back) in the other thread I started, for the first few games, I couldn't do a thing - way too many STDM drains. But then I realized it was just that this was the kind of machine you couldn't just let the shots go where they would (which, I admit, is how I play a lot of tables). Once I got that, all the standard goals (counting the bugged one) fell in about twenty minutes.

Once I got beyond THAT, I was surprised to find that there really ARE only two shots that matter on this table. In fact I'm startled how basic it is. 1980 and this table's less complex than Central Park?

I wasn't on the forums when the poll for this happened but if a significant majority really did vote it up because of sexy female voice and art to match, IMO y'all made a bad deal.

That said, I do like the music (if it can be called that) and the high theme-weirdness level, and I'll probably pound on it a fair bit more once the goals are fixed.

As I said in the 1.38.x thread, I'm not sure I trust the new flipper physics. I find myself doing things which I was never able to do in thirty years of real pinball, and I haven't gotten all that dramatically better, so I think the physics may be a bit wonky.

 

[Rich Lehmann]

The new flipper physics are great. Are they adding them to past tables and if so when?

 

[fantsu]

Second best table this season so far, only Phantom is better. Beautiful art, awesome audio. Interesting choices for the shots. Not too hard.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Second best table this season so far, only Phantom is better. Beautiful art, awesome audio. Interesting choices for the shots. Not too hard.

You realize the art in POTO and Xenon are by the same person, right? Paragon also has the same artist. The artist in question - Paul Faris - had a habit of using his family members as models. So the model for Christine in POTO is his daughter. The models for the man and woman in Paragon are himself and his wife.

I wonder who he used to model for Xenon?