Table of the Week Club...week 2 : FIREPOWER

[Locksley]

Bleh... On my first ball my extra ball stuck the camera angle over the plunger
Worked for the rest of the balls though. Haven't heard that was an issue on this table.

Well slowly climbing, but I only got time and composure to play 2-4 times a day. See, this working and earning money is totally over rated! I hope my work will be less in a couple of weeks though so I can concentrate on life, heh.

Like the table, its fast. Wish the sounds didn't cut each other out as they do, not my kind of sound design.
Playing this makes me hope for F14 Tomcat.

Really a stroke of genius this table of the week. Good show shutyertrap!

EDIT: And the table is very forgiving when you bounce it around; tilting is happens very seldom.
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[Slam23]

Upped my 2.4M previous best to 3.2M. Crazy long game with one ball lasting as long as a good normal game. Didn't know what to shoot for after a time and activated MB at least 2 times on that ball! I have the distinct impression that the special also awards an extra ball on this table, and that opens a whole new avenue to explore. I thought that TPA stopped doing that after season 1. Makes it worthwhile to go for that special, essentially an insurance for a right outlane drain, or even better, draining a ball during MB to collect it. Offcourse the game right after this one was disastrous. I never know if this is a letdown/relax effect or just a statistical thing. Having fun though!

 

[ThePinballFan]

ATTENTION PLEASE: ATTENTION PLEASE:
ATTENTION PLEASE: ATTENTION PLEASE:

"Season 2 is out now in Europe"

"Season 2 is out now in Europe"

The long waiting is over, it was so overdue.
Now I will turn on my PS4 and buy the season Damn it!

FIREPOWER here I come.

I'am calling the lurkers out to join us at the table of the week club and tell your friends.
Together we can revive Pinball!

 

[vikingerik]

I have the distinct impression that the special also awards an extra ball on this table, and that opens a whole new avenue to explore. I thought that TPA stopped doing that after season 1.

This stopped late in season 2. I think Haunted House in table pack 18 does it, and Victory in pack 19 doesn't.

 

[EldarOfSuburbia]

This stopped late in season 2. I think Haunted House in table pack 18 does it, and Victory in pack 19 doesn't.

They stopped doing it for every table all the time. In SST, Special awards an EB - but in SST EBs are very hard to come by, perhaps harder than in any of the other "modern" tables.

 

[Iguana]

Status when FP was announced as table of the week:

All time high: 808k, remaining wizard goal: 50k Firepower bonus.

Played a few times with mediocre scores. I usually play FP when I need a short game to amuse me for a few minutes (as opposed to playing a table which has the potential for a marathon game).

I'll be damned if my next try turned out to be somewhat of a marathon. Amazing first ball - utter perfection. Couldn't drain if my life depended on it.

Over a million on the first ball, plus I got my final wizard goal!

Downhill from there, though.

Managed to get my new high score (1,327,560) and a few HOF points to boot. Nice!

It remains to be seen if I'll ever beat my new high score unless the Pinball gods throw me another bone.

 

[shutyertrap]

Status when FP was announced as table of the week:

All time high: 808k, remaining wizard goal: 50k Firepower bonus.

Played a few times with mediocre scores. I usually play FP when I need a short game to amuse me for a few minutes (as opposed to playing a table which has the potential for a marathon game).

I'll be damned if my next try turned out to be somewhat of a marathon. Amazing first ball - utter perfection. Couldn't drain if my life depended on it.

Over a million on the first ball, plus I got my final wizard

And that's why I think this thing is going over well among people. Playing a table with purpose, rather than on a whim.

 

[Fungi]

My purpose was shattered when Jeff leaped over me again.

 

[Iguana]

True in my case, and it's cool to be able to read how the rest of the gang are doing as well as discover a tip here and there.

 

[shutyertrap]

My purpose was shattered when Jeff leaped over me again.

In my head I heard Steve Martin yelling excitedly, "I have a special purpose! Would you like to see it?"

 

[Naildriver74]

This is a no porn zone

 

[EC Rider]

1.4 mil. at start of week wizard goals complete, It took 5 days but finally scored a new personal best of 2.2 mil. On my 3rd ball i hit the lit extra ball,which then instantly went down the right outlane, that was lit for a special giving me me 2 more balls.

 

[Reagan Dow]

Standard goals are done, but not a single Wizard. High score to date is 614K.

I actually own this machine, but I only had it functioning for a month before I tore it apart to restore it. That was almost 2 years ago. Maybe this will stoke the fire to do something about that.

Holy crap. For once in my life I'm a head of you. 749,590 and two of the wizard goals and that was before the contest. Haven't had a chance to play yet w the bug. I'm sure you've already topped me but damn! I'll feel special for at LEAST 60 seconds!!

 

[shutyertrap]

Holy crap. For once in my life I'm a head of you. 749,590 and two of the wizard goals and that was before the contest. Haven't had a chance to play yet w the bug. I'm sure you've already topped me but damn! I'll feel special for at LEAST 60 seconds!!

Apparently you didn't see my post about beating all the wizards and topping 1.5 million.

That sound I hear is someone's balloon deflating!

 

[Fungi]

Yep. I quit. I truly hate TPA's tuning of this table. See you guys Sunday.

 

[Dedpop]

It can't be you so it's TPA.
You just stole my personal excuse.

 

[Fungi]

It can't be you so it's TPA.
You just stole my personal excuse.

This is not a vacuum. Real Firepowers exist. I actually do have something to compare it to. Yes, TPA's version, as well as FP's outlanes, suck.

 

[Slam23]

Well, I'm signing off guys, I don't think I can get any higher than my best score now. Also need to rest my wrists, holding up that old iPad 2 while playing is hard work. Let's see what next week brings!

 

[Kratos3]

Haven't had much time to play this week, but I'm SO looking forward to the next table!

 

[dave950lam]

Another good thing about this Table-of-the-Week is it help make bug report, here's the one I came across:

Infinity bonus - happened after getting MB started, two balls drained at same time somehow tricking machine to put a ball in the plunger despite still having the 3rd ball from MB still in play. Which sets the detection of ball-in-play off kilter. When you lose that ball the bonus starts. This is a bug you need to see in action to see it happen, which can be accomplished with twitch or steam broadcast.

Occasional dead bumper - Having the ball go through a F-I-R-E revolver then sometimes (about 25% chance, more likely if going through E) touching a bumper without activating it, resulting in a near SDTM drain.

Ball Collision Phase drain - During MB if you have a ball headed SDTM, and you use a ball to deflect the draining ball away, and said draining ball is getting close to the flippers down will have this happen: Draining ball gets knocked away, but the ball you hit will suddenly appear behind the flipper you used resulting in loss of ball instead of returning to the flipper. This bug is possible on all MB tables in TPA.

Strange Kickback angles - the kickback will sometime send very oddly angled shots that go to the right slingshot, or to the right outlane. This should never happen. The Kickback should be 100% safe. Never saw a drain risk from kickback on a real Firepower.

Dead bounces on right post between the inlane and outlane. Despite being metal the ball should bounce off the rail separating the right inlane and outlane, but almost every time the ball will hit the end of that rail and drain. Again, on real Firepowers, the ball bounces off the rail, then the rubber above it, and back towards safety.

These are the main bugs I encountered.