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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spyk Saturn" data-source="post: 237699" data-attributes="member: 6072">So I absolutely love this game! I am so happy to have found it but I have two major issues that, after playing a real pinball machine for the first time in years because my area has nothing anymore, are really just killing the experience for me.   I'd like to start off by saying this game is very important to me and many of you may think that that is silly, but a short explanation is we haven't had pinball in my area sense I was probably about 12 and am now 28, I work long hours and this is my destresser as I have no time for the long games I used to play in my youth, and I can not yet buy pinball machines as I plan to until we get the house to put them in (which will be in about a year or so). So as stupid as this sounds, this game means a great deal to me being born and raised in the arcades and on video games.    Now going into the actual issue. After playing Star Trek TNG in the newly opened pinball store at my local mall (CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY JUST OPENED THAT UP!), my suspicions that I kept saying weren't real and put off as not having played a pin in a long long time were realized. There is a TON of flipper lag and the sensitivity on the flippers leave you unable to do many of the flipper skill moves needed leaving the game almost only playable by tilt mechanics, ball trapping when able, dead flipper passes, and accuracy. Changing to the triggers instead of bumpers helped a bit but not totally. Changing the mode on my TV from and to game mode did nothing. When I played the actual TNG table today I found my self easily able to do many of the flipper tricks I can't on the game (passing the ball from flipper to flipper by tapping it over as it reaches the edge is one example) and hitting the ball way too early for the first few games because of how used to the video game I was. I researched the ever living hell out of this online and I found that the internet seems to be divided between people who say there is no issue and people who say there is an issue. I have found no solutions for those that say there is an issue that have worked for me. I have also scoured this forum under PS4 and haven't been able to find this topic so I do apologize if it is somewhere here for PS4, if you link me and its not one of the solutions I said I have tried, I'll be glad to take it. Does anyone have a fix for this? I tested the lag issue and I can literally hit the flipper and my finger come all the way off and just as its off the flipper finally hit. It's a quick movement, but definitely obvious it takes that long for it to register. Also the flipper sensitivity. I dunno if this ties in with the lag, or if the physics just are not there yet, but the unrealistic way the tapping feels is pretty hard to work around although using the triggers does help. Anyways done rant. Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.</blockquote>

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