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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epsilon" data-source="post: 193562" data-attributes="member: 381">Yeah, the Power is ridiculously strong. It seems like it's just random as to whether the ball is completely unaffected by it or puts up an invisible wall. It only behaves normally when the ball is moving EXTREMELY slowly in that area. Hopefully they tweak it a bit to make it more realistic. But everything else feels pretty much accurate insofar as the limitations of digital pinball allow. Yes, that means that the table is probably too easy, but it's hard to see what they could have really feasibly done outside of scripting some really unfair things into it. I know I'm probably not in the majority on this, but I'd rather the table be relatively easy than super frustratingly difficult.They certainly seem to have compensated for the general ease with some brutal Wizard goals, though. I don't think I'll ever complete them. I already have the two easy ones (Tour the Mansion and the 3X Jackpot, which of course I got on my first game when it didn't count but kept choking on for like my next 5 games after that.) I think I should be able to get the 100 Bear Kicks eventually if I really put effort into focusing on it. Even in my best game (1.9 billion with probably like 10 balls at least) I only ended up around 70-75, but I also didn't really focus on it. I figure my strategy will be to just focus on progressing the Mansion, only stopping to collect EB's when available and just go after the ramp exclusively.The other two I don't think I'll ever get. The closest I got on the Million Plus was 6 or 7, and that was only since it seemed to count Jackpot shots during multiball as progress toward that. As easy as the table might be, the outlanes are still pretty dangerous and the Power-enabled modes can really screw you too. The ease of the table is more related to how readily EB's can be had than it is necessarily that easy to keep a single ball in play long enough to hit the toughest shot in the game 10 times.The 4-Way Combo is probably never going to happen either, although that one I guess I could just get lucky if I keep trying long enough. The second and third legs of that combo are just brutal. I'm probably able to hit the final shot with about 60-70% accuracy at this point, but even if I'm lucky enough to get the 2nd shot through the bumpers unscathed the ball is always RACING around that orbit, to the point where it's a total crap shoot as to whether I can even get close to hitting the left ramp. And then there's still a chance I miss the last shot (which would be infuriating considering I can normally hit that pretty easily.)I think the only chance I might have to improve the odds is if I can somehow trap the ball on the right flipper after it's returned from the center ramp. I haven't really tried, but it seems like for the most part you have to just take a shot or the ball will end up on the left if you just hold the flipper up. I wonder if the speed of the ball through the bumpers might be faster when hitting it straight from the ramp return, which in turn makes the left ramp harder to hit. I'll have to experiment with that a bit. But I don't think I'll lose any sleep over it if I can't get all the goals here. If nothing else it'll give me some reason to keep coming back (not that I really need any.)</blockquote>

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