It is Friday Party time. Let's see some photos

...and I with you as well...

Andrew any ideas on when we might get to see Alien LE artwork?

How much does air freight add?

2nd game shipped today?

I'll go out on a limb here and guess:

"Two more weeks!"

Correct.

That works for me.

That is ridiculously low. I would expect that to come to US $1000 fully insured. Easy.

$350 is a great deal. Maybe because of current airfare rates? I paid more than that to have STI deliver one game from North Dakota to Georgia.

Wondering if Mr Thiel might be receptive to separating sounds into left and right audio channels?

Imagining what would happen if that was taken a step further into 4 channels with a sound card/amp upgrade and a pin sound bar?

Alien Dolby Surround for the discerning home audiophile!

Wow, that is cheap shipping!

2 weeks after that?

Probably best to just round it up to 2 weeks.

Will we see ramp lighting?

Looks awesome!!

Nope...dammmit

Are there additional import duties ordering direct to the United States?

Excited for the video, but put the glass on please next time. You can't even hear anything over the flipper sounds with the glass off.

The Alien sound package is VERY stereo and dot one. About a year ago I added a subwoofer to my studio setup so that I could understand the contribution of low frequency stuff when I added it. There are times in the Alien sound package when audio only a subwoofer can reproduce makes a difference (Aurich encouraged this low frequency contribution). Very soon now I will be mastering all the sounds for the amp/speaker setup of the Heighway cabinet.
For spatial audio cues to work at all given the geometry of pinball speaker placement they have to be exaggerated and dynamic. I do this wherever possible. Even the music benefits from the spaciousness of a stereo mix. Reverb effects of dialog put in a resinous Xeno cave are much richer in stereo. Balls moving around orbits and ramps have proper and dynamic audio location effects.
I've been working on this package since Jan 2016 and it has really come together.
After I have a chance to flip and tweak, flip and tweak I think you will be real happy.
(and yes, there is lots of Hudson [in stereo])

This game could potentially have some of the best sounds ever in pinball.

Often!

Looks like a LOT of fun with cool shots. Looking forward to more gameplay videos from buyers now.

Interested in hearing and seeing more modes from the "Aliens" tree. Looks great!

Is there a direct output for an external subwoofer.

This looks really fun! How do the weapons work?

Damn, that video just sold me on the game! Deep and unique rules that cover both films, lots of toys, tons of shots and great audio. I'm in.

Nope, not enough toys for you Panzer

Jk, you aren't as dumb as you seem sometimes.

Hit launch button to activate ala troll bombs. 5 weapons each with a different effect. I'd have to look up rules, but they range from score multiplying to activating a temp ball save.

Dumb because I question Stern's poor playfield quality when they are charging upwards of $15k for games? lol Thankfully with Alien we won't have to worry about playfield issues, gotta love Mirco made playfields

Damn. I may have to ditch TBL for this bad boy.

Bummed for your situation with DP man, hope you get out of it safely no matter what game you end up with!

Ok Spock, thank you! Nothing to worry about then?

btw, I love my BM66LE and I'll readily admit, this pin goes way past what i get with Batman.

Yet, Andrew will absolutely kill it when these pins start getting out there.

Home F ing run with this pin Heighway!

I'm glad you are liking your Batman. I'm hoping to play one soon that was just recently put on location locally, looking forward to playing it.

Yeah, Alien is really looking slick. Out of all the newer higher priced games I think Alien is offering a lot of value due to its feature set and deep rules offering.

You earn weapons by winning modes or completing the five weapon standup targets around the playfield. If you have more than one weapon, you can select amongst them using the Extra Ball button. Launch button fires the currently selected weapon. Each weapon has a different ability, always earned in order: VP70 Handgun (Advance Bonus X), Ithaca 37 Shotgun (spot 2 Xeno hits), M56 Smart Gun (spot "best" lit shot), M41A Pulse Rifle (start 2X playfield), M240 Flame Thrower (start short ball saver). Advanced players can strategically use the right weapons at the right time to make much goodness happen. But they don't get in the way of casual players. (You could just jam the launch button as your ball is draining and hope that 2 Xeno hits is enough to start Ambush Multiball or something.)

In addition to their abilities, weapons that haven't been used contribute to multipliable end of ball bonus, and also boost scoring of the mini-wizard and final wizard modes.

Is this a widebody pin?!
Looks good so far, love the right vent shot from the top left flipper to the right bottom flipper.
Looking forward to my kit, in the meantime I enjoy that other great pin from Heigway

sounds like lots of fun and I am really liking your style on rulesets.

do weapons carry over form ball to ball?
if you use a weapon on Ball 1 (i.e. advance bonus X), will the next weapon you gain be m240? or do you always restart at the first weapon after you use them?

last question on this >>> will this be a selectable option in menus? i.e. weapons carry over between balls (Y/N)? restart weapons gained order after weapon used (Y/N)? You would of course set default to be your intent.

I think the background sound, those deep space sounds, really nailed it! This will make it a deep space horror.
The playfield looks great. Love the screen and the video.
It looks like the left side of the bezel for the playfield glass is not that wide as with FT? Is this another version. If so this looks far better than that wide version. Hope this is the final version.

This game is going to be HUGE! It is a widebody, you know. Lots going on and as great as it looks and sounds and plays, I feel the lighted ramps will set this game on fire. Heighway Pinball to ramp up production and get these games shipping faster.

I've got my go-to technique, thanks!

In regards to music is all the of the music recorded for the game currently in the game? My only critique of the game (it looks really good) is that the game seems to possibly be missing a general upbeat ass kicking main audio track that I think would fit theme. I may not have heard the main track very well yet either. Does the main audio track change depending on which film mode is being played?

I can understand a main track for Alien based modes being a bit more subdued but the one for Aliens should be more of the ass kicking vibe variety, lol.

I have watched this vid like 10 times now. So excited to get to play it again soon. I really like the left ramp now.

If someone shoots another video, please have them focus on showing what shots are back-handable.

I almost feel like i'm nitpicking, but the ball says its locked and then is released. maybe there was already balls in the lock.

Can we assume normal behavior will be the balls being retained in the lock. My main concern is that everything is working as it should be upon shipping. I know one of the features is a ball being released from the lock when "draining" out of the left and nudging properly.

Interested in knowing as well if the ball lock can indeed lock 3 balls or if its a virtual type ball lock.

Was there an upbeat ass kicking audio track in the Aliens movie? I would be fine with dark and forboding audio cues to accentuate the tension and atmosphere but I agree something uptempo and quick perhaps as reward to a task completion. I'm betting Mr Thiel has that covered. I found it really interesting when he mentions "Balls moving around orbits and ramps have proper and dynamic audio location effects." That's the kind of nuance that will be appreciated in the home enviornment to be sure. And to have sub woofer frequncies all mastered and built in... beautiful.

Looking forward to the custom Mother callouts. That works so perfectly for this game's specific audio info.