Stern Pinball Arcade first impressions

[relaxation]

I won't play all tables with wrong leaderboards until there are clean. Btw, you're TX-Sector score is really good. Is this also an accident from another table?

Yes it was and still is. I haven't bothered with either game and the leaderboards continue to be jumbled about, haven't played Masters of Time and I bet most of those 73 in front of me on BBI aren't there on purpose.

 

[xAzatothx]

Surprised there hasn't been a Stern update recently - seems a long time?

+ Resolution change issue
+ Controller issue - unable to remap bumpers on my 360 wireless controller
+ Star Trek crashes

any word on when we might get an update or are they holding off until the next table release?

 

[switch3flip]

Surprised there hasn't been a Stern update recently - seems a long time?

+ Resolution change issue
+ Controller issue - unable to remap bumpers on my 360 wireless controller
+ Star Trek crashes

any word on when we might get an update or are they holding off until the next table release?

Yeah it's really ridiculous the Star Trek crash hasn't been fixed already. It's a gamebreaker and should have been adressed ASAP, esecially when they got info on when it crashes (modes getting timed out). If they're waiting to include the fix with other updates that is just plain stupidity and even more frustrating, I mean I can still play the game with overly bright tables, I can still play the game even if I have to set brightness levels every time or alt+enter or whatever, but the crashing is a complete gamebreaker and is acute to fix, my head can't wrap around it. They're sitting on this gem of a flagship table with a contract from the worlds biggest pinball manufacturer, charging $10 for it, it is the display window for things to come, and they STILL can't get it running without crashing while pushing out and working on fixing Cactus Jacks?????????????

If I was Gary Stern I'd be fckin shetting my pants!!!! They are making everyone involved looking like complete clowns!!!!

 

[lettuce]

Is this game dead?, haven't heard any new news or developments from FS on it since Xmas!!??

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

Is this game dead?, haven't heard any new news or developments from FS on it since Xmas!!??

1. Beta testing is ongoing on Android; I can't speak for other platforms.
2. The release date for Ghostbusters was given as March, so perhaps expect news soon? (Yeah, I know, quite a bit to ask....)
3. No idea if a release date was ever given for Whoa Nellie.
4. Maybe would be nice to get announcements for new tables beyond those two. Batman '66? Aerosmith? Older tables?

 

[Naildriver74]

No it's not dead. Tables will be slow to come out. As far as news from Farsight you should be use to that by now. Keep your fingers crossed we may get something this month.

 

[Gorgias32]

I had a chance to play Aerosmith the other day on location, it's a really fun game - hope they do include it in SPA. I have to think they got the license.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

The challenge with Batman '66 and Aerosmith isn't going to be the license (again, I am making the assumption that digital re-creation rights are baked into whatever licenses Stern have), but the new displays. Going forward every new Stern is going to have those displays, so it stands to reason SPA will needs to be able to handle them, but it will probably require more programming input.

 

[Joelpbafan]

They said on twitch stream they have until end of April on Ghostbusters

 

[kaworu]

They said on twitch stream they have until end of April on Ghostbusters

"they have" wait or what?

 

[HotHamBoy]

The challenge with Batman '66 and Aerosmith isn't going to be the license (again, I am making the assumption that digital re-creation rights are baked into whatever licenses Stern have), but the new displays. Going forward every new Stern is going to have those displays, so it stands to reason SPA will needs to be able to handle them, but it will probably require more programming input.

But Stern knew that they were going LCD, they surely considered that when conceiving the app. Seems silly to say they want to support new tables and not realize this challenge.

Unless Farsight promised to do more than they were certain they could.

I'm wondering how they're even going to do some of the Ghostbuster Premium features...

 

[Kolchak357]

"they have" wait or what?

Big big trouble

 

[Gorgias32]

"they have" wait or what?

I interpret this from a developer's perspective, "we have until end of April" would mean that's how much time they (the dev team) have to finish testing and stabilization. It also implies that there is a hard deadline, possibly similar to the contractual deadline that led them to release the unfinished Android version before it was baked.

 

[Cyberleader63]

I thinking of deleting SPA and going back to Zaccaria

 

[Kolchak357]

I thinking of deleting SPA and going back to Zaccaria

Or you can just play both. I won’t tell.

 

[Cyberleader63]

Just checked, I am still ranked number one in Zaccaria time machine.
You can call me CHAMP

 

[Crazy Newt]

Will the Steam version be updated today?

 

[pm1109]

Will the Steam version be updated today?

Let's all hope so.