First Impressions

[Brandon Garvin]

I like playing the table (on Android), it has a good challenge and some interesting shots and plays okay. I like short ball time games that are challenging and this one definitely fits, and it's satisfying when you nail the spinner after it is charged up, or make the jump when you need it, or hit the lock ramp.

Definitely there are some fairly impactful bugs that I really hope they fix (I have had the "bonus time" kick in and screw up the other player in a two player game, and some other strange behavior particularly in two player games), but the most annoying thing for me right now is how hosed the high scores are on Android - not only are they way too high (lowest is 14 million, and I have yet to break 4), but they are out of order which is bizarre: from first to fifth place, in order, are the scores 50m, 79m, 35, 14, and 55. I expect to get to 14 million at some point but it may take a while to get to 55, I'd like to see that fixed. I may need to reinstall the table, I guess.

I'm not sure why, but you seem to have the wrong high scores! The high scores are supposed to be the following:

ZAP, 11,630,450,
LIZ, 7,375,990,
SKL, 4,611,230,
ONE, 2,022,840,
EYE, 975,630,

Could you try deleting and redownloading the table to see if it fixes the problem? If you don't know how to do that, all you need to do is the following:

1. Go to the Main Menu (first screen after opening the game)
2. Enter the options menu (cogwheel in the top right corner)
3. Select Manage Tables
4. Find Bone Busters in the list and select it
5. Press Yes on the prompt to delete the table

 

[Gorgias32]

No dice, I deleted and re-downloaded the table and the same scores are there. Has anyone else reported this? I downloaded it initially the night it came out on Android.

Scores are (in the exact order):

BBS 50,553,300
SEA 79,020,430
GLE 35,289,910
WIN 14,128,490
AGN 55,644,650

 

[Xanija]

No dice, I deleted and re-downloaded the table and the same scores are there. Has anyone else reported this? I downloaded it initially the night it came out on Android.

Scores are (in the exact order):

BBS 50,553,300
SEA 79,020,430
GLE 35,289,910
WIN 14,128,490
AGN 55,644,650

I can confirm I have the same (weird) high scores on my Android tablet.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

I can confirm I have the same (weird) high scores on my Android tablet.

Those scores were the ones in the initial (Android) Beta build, which I flagged up and were fixed in a subsequent build. (I proceeded to screw up my scores by then loading a save that didn't have any Bone Busters scores in it so they all got reset to zeroes, and the local high scores did some really strange stuff after that. But that was my fault.)

 

[Xanija]

They must have slipped back again in the release build. I didn't install any beta build.

 

[Brandon Garvin]

We're working on a solution for the high score problems on Android right now, it should be in the next update (I don't know when that is, though). We suspect that a previous update might have had a broken high score file, and that anyone who downloaded that update will have the wrong high scores for Bone Busters.

 

[Rich Lehmann]

We're working on a solution for the high score problems on Android right now, it should be in the next update (I don't know when that is, though). We suspect that a previous update might have had a broken high score file, and that anyone who downloaded that update will have the wrong high scores for Bone Busters.

Are you working on the weird ball and flipper behavior? If the game is no fun to play who cares what the high scores are.

 

[Brandon Garvin]

Are you working on the weird ball and flipper behavior? If the game is no fun to play who cares what the high scores are.

Could you be a bit more specific, or even better, provide a video of the problem? I admit that I do feel like the table can be a little on the fast side sometimes, and the plunger does have a tendency to not exert enough force, but off the top of my head I don't know exactly what you mean.

 

[relaxation]

Any status on 'tilting the machine after the ball drains' ? because it's going to come up during tournaments or H2H play where the optimal play is to tilt out a large Jogger path on purpose.

to be more specific, that's when that 'score: 0' screen pops up

 

[Brandon Garvin]

Any status on 'tilting the machine after the ball drains' ? because it's going to come up during tournaments or H2H play where the optimal play is to tilt out a large Jogger path on purpose.

to be more specific, that's when that 'score: 0' screen pops up

I've got that in the database with 100% reliable reproduction steps, so hopefully that will be fixed soon!

 

[Flipperkoning]

Can't get Wizard. One Goal is not working... Do these clowns test it before they release?

 

[FlippyFloppy]

Can't get Wizard. One Goal is not working... Do these clowns test it before they release?

Sorry about that, are you referring to the 3 million jackpot goal as well?

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

I'm pretty sure I've got both the 3 Million Jackpot and the 3 Specials and neither goal has registered.

 

[relaxation]

Use ball control [pro] or Thing ball [addams family balls] to maximize the Opera Jackpot and collect it the next game with those off, is how I cut time off and got it to register for me. When going to collect it I made sure not to hit any other switches once the shot was made.

 

[FlippyFloppy]

I'm pretty sure I've got both the 3 Million Jackpot and the 3 Specials and neither goal has registered.

We'll look into it, thanks for the report!

 

[Heretic]

flippy yer response ona daily basis to the community is very impressive kudos kid

 

[Kolchak357]

Can't get Wizard. One Goal is not working... Do these clowns test it before they release?

I think you can report a bug without name calling.

 

[zmcvay]

I'm pretty sure I've got both the 3 Million Jackpot and the 3 Specials and neither goal has registered.

3 million Opera Jackpot registered after the 4th time I got it. I've gotten 3 Specials twice now without it registering. Since Specials give you an extra ball and you can get only 1 of those per ball, I'm wondering if it won't trigger while you have an extra ball already collected.

Edit: Nope. Collected the 3 specials before getting the extra ball. No Goal.

 

[FlippyFloppy]

flippy yer response ona daily basis to the community is very impressive kudos kid

Thanks

3 million Opera Jackpot registered after the 4th time I got it. I've gotten 3 Specials twice now without it registering. Since Specials give you an extra ball and you can get only 1 of those per ball, I'm wondering if it won't trigger while you have an extra ball already collected.

Edit: Nope. Collected the 3 specials before getting the extra ball. No Goal.

Were looking into it.

 

[Heretic]

its what i pay you lot for anyway