EldarOfSuburbia
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I can't get into the tournament in the new UI beta. It gives me the welcome message and everything, then just dumps me into the table selection screen. Back to the old UI again....
Things are heating up on steam. 571M is the current #1 score, and Moovenstein and Eldar joined the fray as well.
It's a shame you can't see the current tournament scores online anywhere as far as I know. Would be interesting to see how PSN and Mobile is doing as well, and just generally monitor the situation without launching the app.
16 players on PSN. Top is 464M from Massive_Drake76. #4 is 355M now but will be 400M+ IMO.
I tried and it's still possible to cheat using a realtime memory editor, giving yourself unlimited balls and 255x bonus.
Good luck winning the translite...
I'm assuming farsight can detect that? If not oh well. I'm going to give it my best shot anyway. I just assume people are playing legit unless proven otherwise.
The problem is the flipper delay on PS3 makes the timings on the platforms slightly different. It's pretty impressive he's doing so well on both.
Yep, that 660M by Maestroreese will be difficult to beat. My own 450+ score came quite quickly, typically a round in which I played loose without a defined gameplan, everything just clicked (although it was certainly not the perfect 10 minute game). I haven't been active in tournaments before, I don't like the pressure of having to play at a certain time. I was intrigued however by this one because of the time limit. And it sure impacts playing style and choices you make. Normally I would have a very patient gameplan for TAF, working steadily towards EB, and therefore Mansions (some of which I let time out, think Seance ), and therefore Mansion Tours.
This tournament I can think of 3 main strategies:
- Multiball via Greed. Pro: if you can maintain it long enough, you get shots at multiple double and triple jackpots. You can try to stack it with Cousin It for an additional 30-40M. Con: it takes 5 Greed Shots and then 3 balls to lock. Takes a lot of time to setup with a heavy penalty if you mess it up.
- Mansions. Pro: a lot of quick scoring possible, and quicker ways to MB. If you get a Mansion Tour, it's 50M bonus. I got to Mansion Tour once within 10 minutes when I was aiming for it, so it's possible to do. Con: the scoring with a lot of Mansions isn't that great and you'll have to relight the Chair every time with a Bear Ramp.
- Comboshots + Maxed Graveyard. Pro: comboshots can add up quickly. You'll get the Million Plus that gets better with every shot (max 10M) and if you pull off the 4-way combo, it's 10M guaranteed + the 5x Graveyard that maxes at 20M (5x 4M). All in all it could be 45M for a quick roundtrip. It makes sense to quickly max the Graveyard, and therefore get the corresponding mansion. Also, the Train Wreck will save the Graveyard value if you drain in between. Con: the combo is not easy, especially the Bonus X shot from the right flipper towards the bumper Alley and then onetiming it up the Million Plus ramp. Also, getting quickly to the Max Graveyard Mansion will take some luck/time and/or risk (only the bumpers change the current mansion).
I'm leaning towards the Comboshot + Maxed Graveyard strategy, but ironically had my best games if I just took what the table gave me...
I too have been going for mansion and best i have done is complete in 6 and 1/2 minutes for a score of 275 million or so. I Feel if i could do it on the first ball, I could get a score of 350 million or so.
I have no idea how anyone can get to 500 mllion+ .
im playng ont iPhone 6. Maybe it is easier on a iPad and larger devices?
I've been going for a quick Tour The Mansion. My best time so far is 4:27. Drain quick multiballs. Get one jackpot in main multiball, then drain. Actually play Seance because you can't waste time timing out The Power (also, it's worth 30M). In TtM, get the EB, play through Cousin It and Mamushka, get bonus multipliers, then drain. Then it's all about getting bonus multipliers, mansion rooms, and draining to collect bonus. It takes 10-15s to plunge and drain; the clock stops when you drain. So at the very end use up your EBs plunging and draining. Try to avoid collecting T-H-I-N-G because it takes soooo long.
Isn't anyone going for the 4M Graveyard and 20M Swamp? I think that's how the pros play it...