Tom Devaney
FarSight Employee
- Dec 13, 2017
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Hey everyone. So the past couple weeks I've been working on the bugs that were unfortunately introduced into Pinball Arcade on the PS4. And I spent a lot of time on the lighting as well (I will go into that on a different post though). Here's the things that I added:
Patch 1.21
Features Added:
-Presence, which allows you to see what tables your friends are playing
-Added settings menu underneath main menu's options
-Added global table lighting values that change the lighting values for all tables
-Added brighter ball and option to turn off in settings
Bugs Fixed:
-Controller image now shows camera lock button
-Leaving table after beating friend but before posting will no longer prevent beating that friend
-Fixed Fireball crash
-Fixed Elvira and the Party Monsters crashroperly read in now
-Lighting settings are being properly read in
-Bulb brightness saves now
-Fireball doesn't crash on loadup
-Fixed bug where you lighting settings wouldn't save if same as last table's settings
-Friends leaderboards shouldn't show friends who don't play the game
-Fixed Creature from the Black Lagoon's flyer
So before I started working on the bugs, I managed to get a new feature into the game. Presence. You might've seen how one of your friends was playing Fortnite: Battle Royale, and it tells you how many left alive there are in their match. I added something similar to Pinball Arcade, but it says what table you or your friends are playing. Here are some photos showing it off.
Playing a table
https://imgur.com/LRKq254
Playing a challenge
https://imgur.com/h4eUrYp
Participating in a tournament
https://imgur.com/6bq6LPd
So another thing is that I added a lighting menu. This can be found through either the table pause menu or main menu, Options->Settings->Lighting. I decided to add two global lighting sliders, so that if you want all the tables in the game to be a certain value, yet you don't want to go through all 90 tables in the game and manually update them, you can do it through this. I personally like to have all the table on 0 table brightness and 100 bulb brightness.
Another reason I decided to make a dedicated menu was because I added a ball brightness feature. By default, this will be turned on for everyone, but you can change it if you like. It's just like PC where a light follows your ball around. Here are some photos of it.
Unlit
https://imgur.com/d7vrKt3
Lit
https://imgur.com/3OFqMKl
It's not insanely bright, but it definitely makes a difference. I'll be curious to see how you guys feel about it.It definitely helps when your table is 0 table brightness.
So that's about it for the most part. I've changed several other things, but I wasn't able to include them in the update history as I already requested translations. As for lighting, I'm going to create a separate thread for lighting, as it is a big thing. I will be trying to come in early tomorrow, so that I can get this patch out. I'd estimate the sometime in the afternoon though it'll be out.
Patch 1.21
Features Added:
-Presence, which allows you to see what tables your friends are playing
-Added settings menu underneath main menu's options
-Added global table lighting values that change the lighting values for all tables
-Added brighter ball and option to turn off in settings
Bugs Fixed:
-Controller image now shows camera lock button
-Leaving table after beating friend but before posting will no longer prevent beating that friend
-Fixed Fireball crash
-Fixed Elvira and the Party Monsters crashroperly read in now
-Lighting settings are being properly read in
-Bulb brightness saves now
-Fireball doesn't crash on loadup
-Fixed bug where you lighting settings wouldn't save if same as last table's settings
-Friends leaderboards shouldn't show friends who don't play the game
-Fixed Creature from the Black Lagoon's flyer
So before I started working on the bugs, I managed to get a new feature into the game. Presence. You might've seen how one of your friends was playing Fortnite: Battle Royale, and it tells you how many left alive there are in their match. I added something similar to Pinball Arcade, but it says what table you or your friends are playing. Here are some photos showing it off.
Playing a table
https://imgur.com/LRKq254
Playing a challenge
https://imgur.com/h4eUrYp
Participating in a tournament
https://imgur.com/6bq6LPd
So another thing is that I added a lighting menu. This can be found through either the table pause menu or main menu, Options->Settings->Lighting. I decided to add two global lighting sliders, so that if you want all the tables in the game to be a certain value, yet you don't want to go through all 90 tables in the game and manually update them, you can do it through this. I personally like to have all the table on 0 table brightness and 100 bulb brightness.
Another reason I decided to make a dedicated menu was because I added a ball brightness feature. By default, this will be turned on for everyone, but you can change it if you like. It's just like PC where a light follows your ball around. Here are some photos of it.
Unlit
https://imgur.com/d7vrKt3
Lit
https://imgur.com/3OFqMKl
It's not insanely bright, but it definitely makes a difference. I'll be curious to see how you guys feel about it.It definitely helps when your table is 0 table brightness.
So that's about it for the most part. I've changed several other things, but I wasn't able to include them in the update history as I already requested translations. As for lighting, I'm going to create a separate thread for lighting, as it is a big thing. I will be trying to come in early tomorrow, so that I can get this patch out. I'd estimate the sometime in the afternoon though it'll be out.
