Recorded Gameplay

[Tarek Oberdieck]

A few people asked me weeks ago if I'm able to stream my TPA games. I declined cause my hardware isn't that best. Now I've found a working solution to record games with nearly good performance for the gameplay and the video.
There's a big difference in playing with or without recording, but at least TPA is playable. I can't promise to record my best and hardest games, cause I need the full performance for the game, maybe...
For performance reasons I had to turn the ball reflection off, this looks a little bit poor.

So if anyone is interested, the first two videos:


Class of 1812 video, showing how to manage the million ramp without nudging:

This video show a Cyclone game up to the second replay EB at 12M with a single ball:

Some more will follow in the next days...

 

[Gus]

Very solid shooting. Nicely done Tarek! I can see that those Boomerang 100ks add up on Cyclone, I never considered that shot tbh. Why no love for the Comet ramp though? I guess it's riskier, but I love looping the Comet You're very consistent in relighting the Cyclone, that usually causes me quite a few drains when I try it. Both tables look a little slower/floatier compared to what I'm used to on the iPad, but I could be imagining that. Are the recordings showing the correct speed?

If I can put in a request I'd love to see how you handle Big Shot

 

[Tarek Oberdieck]

Very solid shooting. Nicely done Tarek! I can see that those Boomerang 100ks add up on Cyclone, I never considered that shot tbh. Why no love for the Comet ramp though? I guess it's riskier, but I love looping the Comet You're very consistent in relighting the Cyclone, that usually causes me quite a few drains when I try it. Both tables look a little slower/floatier compared to what I'm used to on the iPad, but I could be imagining that. Are the recordings showing the correct speed?

If I can put in a request I'd love to see how you handle Big Shot

This should be realtime speed, I haven't changed any setting. Maybe the game seems slower with ball reflection turned off. Sorry, someday I'll buy high end hardware.
For the gameplay fun you´re right with the Comet, for the points I've changed my strategy after reading this in the Cyclone thread from vikingerik:

In fact, Cyclone scores exactly as much as Comet: 50K + 100K + 500K per three shots is the same as 20K + 40K + 60K + 80K + 100K + 1M per six shots. But of course hitting three in a row without timing out is a lot easier than six, so prefer Cyclone.

I haven't played Big Shot for a long time, my last game was more than one year ago. I had to train a few hours for a good video. It's not my favorite at the moment, maybe later...


Here's another video, Bram Stoker´s Dracula 15B in 15 minutes with a single ball:

 

[invitro]

Awesome possum, Tarek! Thanks so much for making and posting these!

The vids do seem a little bit slow to me, but not floatier than usual.

 

[Nate]

wow tarek you weren't kidding about the performance TPA goes really slow on your PC, with the scores you get its a crime you don't have a better machine to play on, thanks for posting those man, looking forward to more!