Patch 1.21 NA and 1.22 EU

[grashopper]

Haven't played in a while. Music looping on a couple of the tables I played sounded kind of bad. I only tried Twilight Zone and Scared stiff and they both looped poorly.

 

[Gorgar]

So, I tried loading two different saves (one from April 2017 and one from September 2016 and my bad. The local scores are back! But the Safecracker tokens not so much

 

[Johni3w6]

Same here, but it's a liveable bug.

I agree, for the tables that didn't have an attract sound in the menu, when you play them, they had their sound. Just not in the menu.

 

[The M]

Tables are looking great now! Twilight Zone has some ball physics issues noticeable right at ball launch. Also I tried to change the ball skin and it crashed. Lights look much better on it though. Especially in the triangle. Hope it gets fixed in next update. I am personally testing the first five seasons. I'll keep posting my findings as I hope it is a help. Thanks Tom for working on this. Pinball Arcade is one of my favorite games ever.

 

[gameaddict4life]

The ball lighting is much better now, nice. The overall room lighting is also improved, seems as though there is an overhead light over the table kind of effect when it's turned up which is nice as well.

I had a freeze when booting up World Champion Soccer for the first time. There seem to be random freezes when loading tables. It's happened since the new updates have come in. Also the ramps ion World Championship Soccer still don't have a sound effect. The goals do link to the instructions now so that's fixed.

Overall a nice improvement! The lack of menu music is kind of weird though. I can only imagine how messy the code is for this game. Fix one thing another one breaks, jeez.

 

[jean polito]

Player 1 still can't adjust the camera.

 

[jean polito]

I updated my game this morning and still can't adjust the camera on ball one on any game.

 

[PeacemakerPIN]

Yo! Bride of Pinbot got a complete lighting overhaul, it now looks like the real thing. Bulb 100 Room 0 is amazing!

 

[Silverball67]

Glo-balls can't be select, even bought.

 

[The M]

Yo! Bride of Pinbot got a complete lighting overhaul, it now looks like the real thing. Bulb 100 Room 0 is amazing!

Yes I noticed it immediately. Finally looks proper on PS4. Bride is one of my faves! Ill be testing all the tables through Season 5 this week and will report my findings on the NA patch as soon as I have a full list. But yes the lighting is looking better all around now. Just need all the bugs out, and I hope one day they address the sound issues again.

 

[Byte]

I still have problems with the table bulbs on Flight 2000, the top 4 rollovers look like the letters just pop there instead of a bulb turning on. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[Johni3w6]

Tom, like to thank you for your hard work and great communication with in the PSN community. Glad to see the ball has become a bit shinier and the lighting has improved.
I plan on saving up to buy the rest of the seasons I am missing on the PS4.

Keep up with the improvements.

 

[jean polito]

Is it just me or is anybody else still having problems with the camera. Player 1 on all the games I played this morning still can't move the camera where we want it to be.

 

[Zabu]

Glo-balls can't be select, even bought.

To select the Glo-balls I have to be scrolling right through the balls, if I push left they don't appear. What I do is scroll left past the Stern balls then push right and they show up.

I'm glad to see the PS4 version getting so much attention. There is one minor QoL imrovement I'd love to see, since I already have all of the tables, it would be nice if the main menu defaulted to My Tables.

 

[funchords]

Played Scared Straight after today's 1.21 update. Lighting is better, thanks; except for the Spider Wheel (back panel). Bottom 3 lights are so bright that they look lit even when they're not. Didn't try all the other things you fixed yet, but appreciate them nevertheless and I will get to trying them.

 

[Tom Devaney]

To the people who are having camera problems, is this only happening on certain tables?

Glad some have noticed the BOP lighting fix. For some reason, the wheel on the playfield wasn't doing a texture swap, it was just doing lighting. So it looks so much better once I made the texture swap work.

As for the menu music for some tables not working, it seems like when I rebuilt some files because of the lighting changes, the menu music broke for some of the older tables. I was in a big rush, so I couldn't get to some things. I'll start looking into more things along with getting you all the new table early next month.

 

[AndyD]

Thanks for the patch Tom from the UK, nice progress, a fault ive got is when trying to switch multiball camera to "off" in settings menu, it crashes the game. Dont know if you've spotted that one yet.

Keep up the good work.

Andy.

 

[Byte]

along with getting you all the new table early next month.

Who cares about the menu music if you have the above wonderful music-to-my-ears to enjoy? Thank You Tom!

 

[spoonman]

Tom, thanks again for all of your great work on the PS4 port. It's very much appreciated!

I like that the new lighting, with the room brightness at 0, looks more evenly lit, but it still looks like the gamma is too bright overall, and therefore a bit washed out.

I made some comparisons using one of my favorite tables, TOTAN. I'd love to have it look just like the screen shot on the PS4 PSN Store. Is this possible? Thanks again... Here are the comparisons. The screen shots were taken using the internal PS4 renderer via the Share button option.

Pinball Arcade 1.20

Pinball Arcade 1.21

Pinball Arcade PSN Store Screen Shot

Maybe if there is a way to make a few more notches on the lighting scale so that Room Brightness 0 is absolute black. Im not sure if that is possible, or how much work this might be.

 

[slowtide]

To the people who are having camera problems, is this only happening on certain tables?

Hi Tom!

It seems that deleting all saved data from previous versions solves the problem. I couldn't switch between cameras on all tables, now it seems to be working flawlessly.