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V1.7 - January 16, 2016
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V1.7 - January 16, 2016
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- Fixed a problem where Mystery add-a-ball would not add a ball into play if
the only available ball to add was in the Loki lock.
- fixed a problem with the Loki lock post double firing as balls pass thru the lock.
- fixed a problem where the Loki lock did not properly maintain balls as balls
transitioned thru the lock area during multiball events.
- Added dot animations to Battle for Earth wizard mode.
- added "Push Start" button graphics when credits exist.
- Battle for Earth level 2 jackpot speech is now less repetitive.
- added new Stern logo with register R to attract mode
- fixed text on the third shot of each hero (advance hero rule)
- added center spinner display effect.
- added center spinner display graphics to Black Widow mode start.
- fixed a problem with the MAX BONUS X award given by SHIELD.
- fixed a SHIELD display presentation problem (scores not shown properly).
- added an adjustment to allow "Attack on the Helicarier" wizard mode to
carry over to the next ball, default = No, carry over not allowed.
- added spinner rule/graphics to Black Widow advance.
- spinner starts at 5K per spin.
- pops start at 5K per spin.
- added advance pop value to SHIELD award (max pop value = 25K)
- added advance spinner value to SHIELD award (max spinner = 25K)
- Captain America pops now score 20K per pop (instead of 8K)
- completion points given for finishing a VS mode (which can be multiplied
if the final shot has a 2X multiplier on it.)
- removed strobe/pulse style light show from the attract mode light show,
i.e. this light show was designed for incandescent style bulbs. (removed from LE only)
- added an adjustment to score Black Widow ramp shots via the spinner,
default = Yes, Spinner awards B.W. Ramp.
- added speech if flippers are pressed during the attract mode.
- difficulty setting now require less pop bumper hits to finish Captain America battle round.
- added ball saver & ball saver adjustment to "Attack on the Helicarrier".
- added an adjustment to virtually lock balls towards "Loki Multiball"
- all VS modes now show numeral progress towards completion
(instead of progress bars in several cases)
- changed bottom lane rule, i.e. left flipper alternates "LO" lamps, right flipper alternates "KI" lamps.
- added difficulty settings to all the VS modes.
- added VS mode difficulty setting to Extra Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Extra Hard, etc.. presets.
- added "Battle for Earth" difficulty and ball save settings to Extra Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Extra Hard, etc.. presets.
- you can no longer advance Hawkeye if "Attack on the Helicarrier" or "Battle for Earth" wizard modes are ready to start.
- a longer delay has been added between raising the bridge and shaking Hulk's arms, i.e. this helps
to avoid the bridge from getting hung up on Hulk's arm (LE only).
- "Attack on the Helicarrier" wizard mode can now start while the Tesseract mode is active.
- "S.H.I.E.L.D" mystery award now advances Bonus X by "1" instead of "3".
- "Bonus X Hold" is no longer a "S.H.I.E.L.D" mystery award.
- "Bonus Hold" is no longer a "S.H.I.E.L.D" mystery award.
- "Attack on the Helicarier" now shows number of shots remaining to complete.
- Shots to the Black Widow ramp will divert the ball to the Hulk Eject if Extra Ball is lit.
- Shots to the Black Widow ramp will divert the ball to the Hulk Eject for the final shot in "Battle for Earth".
- Hulk drop targets now pause before resetting in case a ball falls back into the Hulk eject.
- Hulk drop targets remain down during Attack on the Helicarrier.
- Hulk drop targets remain down during Battle for Earth.
- Changed rules for Battle for Earth which now has 4 levels.
- added difficulty setting for Battle for Earth.
- added ball save timer adjustment to Battle for Earth
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Magnet to ignore the "disabled" adjustment.
- Added slingshot power adjustment and implementation.
- Fixed a bug with the mystery lit background lamp effect.
- Fixed a translation that was off of the display.
- added German, French, Spanish and Italian translations
- Removed unused tesseract adjustment.
- Got the proper backgrounds to show with the proper shots in the mini wizard mode
- removed a hulk multiball start speech call that is only used on the LE version of the game.
- fixed a problem with the thor escapes capsule award, it wasn’t showing the full explosion reveal, but now it does
- Changed the Hawkeye spell out award so that the letter collected flashes in a different (and more visible) manner
- included the playfield lights in the match display effect, they do a ground pound effect now.
- Black Widow skill shot not available on the Pro model.
V1.4 - February 11, 2013
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- First pass of the redemption system.
see http://www.sternpinball.com/downloads/Stern_Pinball_Redemption_System_Software_Manual.pdf
for details.
- added logic to stop inadvertent hulk movement during hulk multiball start.
- Added up and down movement to the jet in the background of Thor VS Hulk background display effect.
- renamed the VS timer adjustments.
- added installs.
- VS completion and award sounds can now co-exist.
- fixed Avenger mode difficulty. i.e. easy/medium settings were not working properly.
- Tesseract shot arrows can now co-exist with other rules that use the same arrow lamp(s).
- added a redemption ticket(s) displap/lamp effect.
- added loki speech, lightshows & dot effects to loki advance (lock lit), lock, multiball.
- fixed a problem where the Tesseract would score points at game/ball start.
- added new speech narrative to Assault on the Helicarrier.
- added sounds to VS modes.
- add-a-ball awarded during S.H.I.E.L.D. will now resurrect a recently finished multiball.
- added skill shot for Captain America.
- changed bonus scores.
- fixed a bug where tech alert reported broken switches incorrectly.
- added new jackpot display effects to Assault on the Helicarrier.
- adjusted jackpot display effects in the Assault on the Helicarrier.
- Fixed a problem with displaying the number of shots left in the Captain America VS mode.
- Fixed a problem with the Thor background effect in Assault on the Helicarrier.
- added scores to the Captain America vs Loki jackpot display effect.
- changed the ironman jackpot 3 display effect during Assault on the Helicarrier.
- added number of shots remaining to the Captain America vs Loki background effect
- added more VS sound assets
- Fixed the Assault on the Helicarrier super jackpot clouds.
- Changed the Assault on the Helicarrier rotor background so that each jackpot makes the rotor spin faster in the background.
- added VS sound assets
- added more Captain America VS jackpots and super jackpot
- added all Assault on the Helicarrier display effects.
- added more Captain America vs Loki display effects.
- Added more Assault on the Helicarrier dot's to the game.
- Added Ironman jackpot 1 and jackpot 2 to the Ironman vs mode.
- Added background, jackpot 1, jackpot 2, and super jackpot to Hawkeye VS mode.
- added Black Widow VS jackpot animations.
- added Thor VS jackpot and super jackpot animations.
- added new dots for the hulk multiball start display effect.
- added loki lit, loki double jackpot sound f/x
- fixed audit text that overlapped the display screen
- fixed LE/Pro Thor target lamps.
- fixed Captain America pop bumper display/sounds.
- added enemy bar to Captain America
- speech/display f/x now match as each Avenger advances towards mode start.
- Added Black Widow VS jackpot 1 and 2 dots.
- Added Thor VS jackpot 1 and 2 dots.
- tweaked polishing the Ironman VS super jackpot display effect.
- Added a progress bar to the Ironman VS background effect.
- tweaked Captain America Highlight sounds
- added new Loki Level 2 jackpots to game.
- added the super jackpot dots for Ironman VS Thor.
- changed left inner loop score award for Captain America Highlight Mode.
- changed captain america highlight award animation.
- added mode start sounds to the VS modes.
- cleaned up VS mode start/award display effects
- added logic to handle ball passing through the Loki locks during VS modes.
- Shoot Again was not blinking in the attract mode, this has been fixed.
- Added a VS logo to each VS start animations
- removed unnecessary frames at the end of the VS intro movies
- Added two more Loki Level 1 jackpot animations
- Added 1 loki level 2 jackpot animation.
- changed the behavior of the Hulk drop targets/lamps when the Hulk advance rule is not available.
- changed the behavior of the Hulk drop targets during Black Widow VS Hulk.
- add more synced Hulk speech
- mystery now awards 3X
- added Hulk f/x to Black Widow VS Hulk.
- added light shows to VS start/awards
- added Loki double/super JP sound f/x
- Added new sounds for COSMIC letters and super jackpot award during tesseract mode.
- fixed pro->le merge problem with right orbit switch logic.
- Changed Tesseract attract mode lamp strings.
- Added new super jackpot artwork.
- added more light shows.
- Added new COSMIC art for the tesseract mode.
- Added audits for COSMIC during tesseract mode.
- Added a display effect for COSMIC letter during tesseract mode.
- Added more loki dots to game.
- Added black widow vs dots to game.
- Added Black Widow VS background animation to game
- Added Thor vs dots to game.
- Added Thor VS background animation to game
- added new Hawkeye, Iron Man sound f/x
- added sound effects to Black Widow, Iron Man, Hawkeye modes.
- removed unused speech phrases.
- Created entries for each avengers vs speech call.
- Moved/Added speech calls to modes and awards.
- Tesseract mode timer now held at 0 seconds while the cube is spinning.
- Cube spin awards are now NOT awarded during the tesseract mode grace period.
- The Tesseract timer will not time down if the ball is in a multiball device or if the playfield is not valid.
- The Avenger modes are now available during Loki Multiball
- Loki Multiball scoring has changed based upon the number of active Avenger modes.
- added more synced f/x to match, bonus, hulk, game start
- Fixed tesseract switch states to accurately describe the spin direction (these were backwards based on the whitewood).
- Added an adjustment for the number of spins needed for a COSMIC letter during TESSERACT mode.
- Tesseract cube revolutions with super jackpot lit now move the super jackpot from shot to shot.
- Once the tesseract mode super jackpot is lit, it will stay lit until it is collected, or until the player drains the ball.
- Cleaned up the tesseract mode background display effect.
- Added difficulty defines to the tesseract COSMIC letter extra ball adjustments.
- Tesseract mode shot lamps now SOLID ON when available so as not to conflict with Loki multiball lamps.
- Added extra ball for spelling COSMIC. 1st extra ball is lit for spelling COSMIC 3 times, the 2nd, 25 times. These values are on adjustments.
- Added instant info module.
- Tesseract mode super jackpot was not being reset after it was collected. This has been corrected.
- Misc. tesseract fixes.
- Super jackpot was being awarded off of the tesseract targets. This has been removed.
- Changed the super jackpot shot from the left loop to the left ramp (for now).
- Added a light show for super jackpot.
- Added tesseract explode and pinwheel lamp + flasher strings for big light shows.
- Fixed some numbering in the coil table (benign).
- added several full playfield lamp strings/fx
- started work on Hulk multiball full playfield lamp f/x
- added rbg GI lamps to the VS modes.
- added strobing lamps to the VS available shots.
- Added some speech to the tesseract mode super jackpot award.
- Fixed sound/display for tesseract mode super jackpot.
- Added super jackpot state to tesseract mode.
- Added audits for COSMIC letter and super jackpot award for tesseract mode.
- First pass super jackpot award scoring and display effect.
- Cleaned up the tesseract letter award display effect. It now shows the animation for the last letter correctly.
- removed a choreography check to fix a display issue.
- Added Tesseract super jackpot and showing bonus for completing spins for COSMIC letters to light it.
- added sound f/x for Battle for Earth, Assault on the Helicarrier, VS fight modes.
- added different tesseract end music.
- added background gi lamp effects to Thor, Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man and the Tesseract.
- Hulk Jackpots scores are now based on Active Avengers.
- added speech to Assault on the Helicarrier.
- changed synced speech testing.
- GIE objects now have a function to determine background GIE.
- Added super jackpot scoring to tesseract mode.
- Fixed an issue where the player's last score was showing poorly behind captain america during his battle mode
- Modified Captain America battle award to space the pop values apart more and have them use images rather that font.
- Added an better initialization for the pop value system
- Added a check to ensure we don't go overbounds for the pop value score.
- Modified the duration the Captain America battle award, now it waits for the animation to complete.
V1.12 - December 12, 2012
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- added additional Tesseract functionality.
- Fixed the "COSMIC" display effect so it will restart if it is interrupted by another effect.
- Added background instructions.
- Added standup target scoring.
- Added "COSMIC" spellout for a larger award during the Tesseract MODE.
- Fixed a problem in the captain america scoring pop bumper display effect.
- Fixed an issue where multiple sound requests were being made instead of a single one.
- fixed a silence problem at the start of some tunes.
- added hulk eject explode lamp string(s)
- Changed tesseract mode scoring. The shot scores are based on how much the value was built up when spelling "COSMIC".
- Added background for Ironman vs mode
- Added speech to the AOTH and BFE wizard modes.
- Added tesseract speech.
- fixed a problem where ironman was scoring after a left inner loop shot (LE only).
- added new Helicarrier music.
- added new VS fight music.
- added new Terminate music.
- Avenger advance lamps now light properly when the associated rule(s) is disabled.
- bridge ball search now follows Hulk ball search to avoid a collision (LE only).
- Hulk Speech can now be synced to any sound/speech event.
- added hulk throwing bridge (LE only).
- added green lamps only to Hulk Multiball background (LE only).
- added left drop target logic (LE only)
- changed Loki Jackpot flash lamp sequence
- added additional rules/logic to when the ball will pass thru the loki locks.
- Added new tesseract sounds for main play.
- Added in tesseract speech.
- Modified Captain America Highlight mode display to show multiple enemies, rising digits, and a moving background.
- Added tesseract target sounds.
- added LE switch compatibility
- Raised the auto-redemption target score from 10M to 30M (based on how the game scores at the moment).
- added updated extraball art work
- Added Hulk scream and Hulk scream with broken glass jackpots
- added crashing sounds to match effect
- fixed a slight bug with ironman spelling
- Fixed skill shot so text fits no matter the language
- Fixed Random award text that didn't fit on screen in other languages
- changed lamp resources in Black Widow VS mode.
V1.11 - December 4, 2012
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- fixed Hawkeye display f/x spell-out that was off by 1 letter.
- added sound fx from D. Thiel 13/14 .zip submissions
- score awards are now shown for Avenger "Highlight" modes
- There are now 4 wizard mode award levels.
1st is Extra ball lit
2nd is Assault on the Helicarrier
3rd is Special lit
4th is Battle for Earth
- Avengers now advance correctly from Highlight->VS->AOTH->BFE.
- Added new black widow jackpot animations
- fixed broken pop bumper art/animation
- Modified the pop bumper animation to display message scores rather than images.
- Modified the pop bumpers display effect to be more process efficient.
V1.10 - November 30, 2012
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- Changes will be documented after the Holidays.
- Modified some speech calls labeled as fx.
- Modified VS mode speech to randomize properly
- Added VS mode total speech
- Pop bumper Display effects now run faster.
- Added speech to VS modes
- Fixed an issue where arrow inserts weren't flashing correctly during Black Widow VS.
- Added more ironman animations.
- Added more Hawkeye animations.
- fixed a Hawkeye bug where a letter was spotted on the first shot
- Added Black Widow animations.
- added a dossier of Hawkeye with an intelligence header and an intelligence meter for the 3rd advance
- changed the pop bumper scoring rule (now pops go up in value .5K after each session)
- changed debounce on right ramp exit switch
- added/fixed collected/completed speech
- added enter initials music
- added loki lock sounds
- added missing thor lines.
- added bonus x lightshow during bonus
- added mystery sound f/x
- added more hulk multiball sound f/x
- added Tesseract target lit/unlit sounds.
V1.0 - November 28, 2012
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- Initial release.
