Zen Pinball 2 - Venom Pinball

[Captain B. Zarre]

http://blog.zenstudios.com/?p=5006

So apparantly this table was done by the same person as Fear Itself and Han Solo.

I think pinballwiz45b might have a new favorite...

 

[wolfson]

Cap I might have a new favourite as well,can`t wait !!!

 

[Kolchak357]

Is there a release date yet for this?

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Is there a release date yet for this?

December 14th for iOS

 

[DA5ID]

Sooner me thinks


Zen Pinball 2 on PS3, PS4 & Vita: $2.99/€2,99/£2.49, North America December 9, Europe December 10
Zen Pinball 2 for Mac: $2.99/€2,99/£2.49 on December 10th
Pinball FX2 for Steam & Xbox 360: $2.99/€2,99/£2.49 on December 10th
Pinball FX2 for Xbox One: $2.99/€2,99/£2.49 on December 11th
Zen Pinball 2 for Wii U: $2.99/€2,99/£2.49 on December 11th
Zen Pinball / Marvel Pinball for iOS: $1.99/€1,79/£1.49, December 11th
Zen Pinball HD / Marvel Pinball for Android & Amazon: $1.99/€1,79/£1.49, December 11th

 

[Kolchak357]

Cool! Thanks guys.

 

[IGoFirstIndy]

Venom is out for IOS. Def feels like from the maker of Han Solo. Hard, fun and lots to do. The Carnage mini game is great. Zen's been on a tear since the last Star Wars pack imho.

 

[dave950lam]

There seems to be a hiccup when DL'ing on the 360. Zen has been working on it, so keep trying.

 

[Espy]

Venom is out for IOS. Def feels like from the maker of Han Solo. Hard, fun and lots to do. The Carnage mini game is great. Zen's been on a tear since the last Star Wars pack imho.

Is it as easy as Han Solo, in terms of keeping the ball alive. The missions are difficult to beat on Han Solo, but losing the ball is never going to happen if you keep your magna saves stocked up. I had a 3.5 hour game on that one - the longest game of pinball I've ever played.

 

[IGoFirstIndy]

Is it as easy as Han Solo, in terms of keeping the ball alive. The missions are difficult to beat on Han Solo, but losing the ball is never going to happen if you keep your magna saves stocked up. I had a 3.5 hour game on that one - the longest game of pinball I've ever played.

there is a magna save called anti venom. it's much harder to activate. i've had some crazy Han Solo games too, but 3.5 hours is intense. i remember you writing about that.

i could see playing Venom for 45 or an hour at a stretch once i figure it out. it has a good flow but it's definitely harder with more stuff to do. everything has an extra step or a trick to unlocking or puts pressure on you to execute. Just like Han Solo feels like hanging with Han and Chewy on the Falcon. Venom feels like it's from the 90's run of Spidey when they first introduced Carnage. lot of fun. i've only played it a little, but the more i play, the more i like it.

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

there is a magna save called anti venom. it's much harder to activate. i've had some crazy Han Solo games too, but 3.5 hours is intense. i remember you writing about that.

i could see playing Venom for 45 or an hour at a stretch once i figure it out. it has a good flow but it's definitely harder with more stuff to do. everything has an extra step or a trick to unlocking or puts pressure on you to execute. Just like Han Solo feels like hanging with Han and Chewy on the Falcon. Venom feels like it's from the 90's run of Spidey when they first introduced Carnage. lot of fun. i've only played it a little, but the more i play, the more i like it.

I know of 4 ball savers:

- The default one
- Ball Capture (get lucky from the WEB targets)
- Spider-Sense (nudge the ball correctly out of the outlane to save the ball and earn big points)
-'Anti-Venom (complete SUIT targets)

 

[IGoFirstIndy]

I know of 4 ball savers:

- The default one
- Ball Capture (get lucky from the WEB targets)
- Spider-Sense (nudge the ball correctly out of the outlane to save the ball and earn big points)
-'Anti-Venom (complete SUIT targets)

forgot about ball capture.

What do you think of the table so far?

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Pros:
- Theme is executed extremely well.
- Art looks beautiful, lots of dark shades and colors. Probably one of my favorite art packages.
- DAT MUSIC.
- Carnage mini playfield is a novel idea that should be executed on other tables.
- Deep rules remind me quite a bit of modern Stern tables (complete 6 tasks to start wizard mode).

Cons:
- Scoring unbalanced towards Carnage and Wallcrawler Battle.
- At times the table feels like a sequel to the Spider-Man table from the first Marvel pack.
- Alien lanes impossible to hit - at the moment I have only started Planet of the Symbiotes once

 

[IGoFirstIndy]

Pros:
- Theme is executed extremely well.
- Art looks beautiful, lots of dark shades and colors. Probably one of my favorite art packages.
- DAT MUSIC.
- Carnage mini playfield is a novel idea that should be executed on other tables.
- Deep rules remind me quite a bit of modern Stern tables (complete 6 tasks to start wizard mode).

Cons:
- Scoring unbalanced towards Carnage and Wallcrawler Battle.
- At times the table feels like a sequel to the Spider-Man table from the first Marvel pack.
- Alien lanes impossible to hit - at the moment I have only started Planet of the Symbiotes once

Agree.

Any idea how to hit the "e" in jailbreak in the carnage mini game? For the life of me I can't get it.

 

[Jim O'Brien]

This table is great not sure if I'm a big fan with the small area you have to work with down low, but I'm getting multiball quite a bit now the more I play it. Athough that mode isn't to lucrative (to me anyway).

 

[pinsam]

Pros:

- DAT MUSIC.

Funny you should say that. I was just about to come here to moan about the poor music in Zen tables...I didn't like this one either.

(Sometimes they're also painfully repetitive, like the Cantina theme in the 'Han Solo' table. It's a fun tune for the few minutes you hear it in SW Ep IV, but not for hours and hours... The 'Empire' theme is a similar thing.)

Different strokes for different folks

 

[Tabe]

Not a fan of this one. Too small an area down below and just not a great layout in general. Definitely well into the bottom half of tables.

 

[Captain B. Zarre]

Not a fan of this one. Too small an area down below and just not a great layout in general. Definitely well into the bottom half of tables.

If you don't like the layout of this table, you wouldn't like Blackwater 100...

 

[CC13]

Agree.

Any idea how to hit the "e" in jailbreak in the carnage mini game? For the life of me I can't get it.

I was actually wondering if anyone else was having as much trouble as me with the Jailbreak ramp—I manage to get maybe 1 ball in 20 to not brick the shot.

 

[Jim O'Brien]

I was actually wondering if anyone else was having as much trouble as me with the Jailbreak ramp—I manage to get maybe 1 ball in 20 to not brick the shot.

I'm usually hitting it from the right flipper while the ball is trapped, you are talking about the ramp shaped like a question mark on the right side ? This is a tuff table I've only managed 68,253,856 and that is good for 8th place on Android achieved that score by starting Goo on You Ball. Here is a great game I found on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrkzI6kU7hs