TZ New Video Up on Twitter

[smooverr]

Hey All,

Real quickly, FS just posted a new TZ video on their twitter feed. I'd post the link but I'm on my iPad.

Cheers!

Edit: Here ya go

 

[spoonman]

Looks fun.
I'm not totally familiar with the original machine.
What's the deal with the gumball machine? Can you fill it with pinballs or something?

 

[mmmagnetic]

Looks fun.
I'm not totally familiar with the original machine.
What's the deal with the gumball machine? Can you fill it with pinballs or something?

It releases the ceramic "powerball" (if I remember correctly, haven´t played it myself yet either).

 

[esp2000]

This looks like a lot of fun. Cannot wait.

 

[grashopper]

Was really hoping to see the powerball in the video
I'm hoping that a different camera angle would help to see the upper left flipper.

 

[DaPinballWizard]

Awesome. Can not wait. Looks great.

 

[DaPinballWizard]

Looks fun.
I'm not totally familiar with the original machine.
What's the deal with the gumball machine? Can you fill it with pinballs or something?

The gumball machine is filled with pinballs and the powerball. The ceramic powerball plays differenly than the pinballs. Once the powerball is obtained from the gum ball machine, you need to put it back in the gumball machine or lose the bonus points you obtained. Don't worry, the game won't let you forget to " put it back" and that, "it's not yours".
There are mods to fill the machine with colored balls that look like real gumballs, but the table wasn't released that way.

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

Looks fun.
I'm not totally familiar with the original machine.
What's the deal with the gumball machine? Can you fill it with pinballs or something?

Shoot the left and right ramps to light "Load Gumball" on right orbit. Shoot the right orbit to score 10M+5M (limit 25M) and release the next ball from the gumball machine. Repeat until the Powerball is released.

When the Powerball is released, the table will demand that you "put it back". The Powerball is not magnetic and bounces and spins differently, and is generally a right proper pain to deal with, so put it back by shooting the right orbit.

Doing so starts Powerball Mania, a 3-ball multiball where you aim to send balls up the right ramp to the Powerfield. Defeating the Power during Powerball Mania awards a Mania Jackpot, worth 50M to your end-of-ball bonus. (So don't tilt!) You can do this repeatedly until you lose all but one ball, but again, you don't actually score any of the Powerball Mania points until your bonus collect.

 

[Nik Barbour]

Posted this before - but aren't the pop bumper colours wrong?
I thought only prototype machines should have the 3 colour bumpers (to match the skill shot zones).
Production machines should be...

Edit - right at the bottom of the ipdb TZ entry there is a pdf you can download with this guy who asked the same question. He tracked an unmodified machine and the correct order for the 3 coloured types is as Farsight have it. Red=upper left yellow = upper right orange =lower.

Did production machines have 3 colours though? I could have sworn one I saw recently only had 2 colours.

 

[Kevlar]

There's that strange colour pallet again....are they using the doom engine?

 

[night]

There's that strange colour pallet again....are they using the doom engine?

I think it is because they set the environmental lighting to 'warm', perhaps to change the mood. So far so good, the vid looks great.

 

[pghjerry]

is the Golden Earring 'Twilight Zone' song in it? I didn't hear it in the trailer


edit: Never mind i hear it

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

Did production machines have 3 colours though? I could have sworn one I saw recently only had 2 colours.

There was a botch in the production run which resulted in some tables having the red and orange caps reversed (so that the "red" skill shot lit the orange bumper), but they should all have 3 colors as far as I know.

 

[Nik Barbour]

There was a botch in the production run which resulted in some tables having the red and orange caps reversed (so that the "red" skill shot lit the orange bumper), but they should all have 3 colors as far as I know.

Thanks Serenseven!

 

[sellenoff]

Mine has all 3, so I'm pretty sure it was part of the production run as you suggested.

There was a botch in the production run which resulted in some tables having the red and orange caps reversed (so that the "red" skill shot lit the orange bumper), but they should all have 3 colors as far as I know.

 

[Carl Spiby]

Was really hoping to see the powerball in the video
I'm hoping that a different camera angle would help to see the upper left flipper.

On a real machine it's pretty hard to see the upper left flipper, I usually re-flip it so I have a good idea of where it is when the ball is coming.

 

[Sean DonCarlos]

On a real machine it's pretty hard to see the upper left flipper, I usually re-flip it so I have a good idea of where it is when the ball is coming.

Yep. You can also move slightly to the right when shooting the piano so you can see the flipper unimpeded. Just be aware of the plunger's location so you don't impale yourself.

 

[Kolchak357]

Yep. You can also move slightly to the right when shooting the piano so you can see the flipper unimpeded. Just be aware of the plunger's location so you don't impale yourself.

That's what I do too. Haven't impaled myself yet.

 

[grashopper]

Ah thanks for the flipper info guys. That is going to take some getting used to.

 

[esp2000]

I have only played the actual table twice and that was some time ago so I will be learning how to play this table from scratch again. Looking forward to the challenge though.