On the Houdini Flyer they mention a "upper & lower 3 ball staging/lock mechanisms". What exactly is this? Is that the fact the game keeps balls in different positions like the scoop, the upper catapult and on the left side of the playfield (don't know what it is called)?

I really like the fact that the game has so many balls ready in different positions to surprise you from time to time. In the latest code there is a function to eject the ball from the stage (it is disable by default). So that seems to be another possible locking position.

I got my machine yesterday and love it so far. It looks amazing and the rules are fantastic.

ONLY thing I would like to see to improve is maybe the lightshow: There could be more effects for example when you start Seance multiball or when you get an extra ball. It could also be a bit more like JJP with effects like candles/fire or a glowing dark blue effect for seance. So far it is all just standard colors. Do you think this will improve?

But I am really really happy with the game. Even the catapult is working great (so far). Just had two misses and maybe 40 hits.

I figured out that the table has a physical 3-balls lock on the left side as well as under the playfield. Is that being used in the code? Not that I am aware of. Would be great if these will be used in a future code update.

There could be a wizard mode where you have to lock balls in all of the physical locks (left side. upper catapult, scoop as well as the stage). Once you succeed all balls will be fired back at you at once and you start a multiball. Something like that...

I also saw that the stage can function as a captive ball. Same question here… is it being used?

You can have quite long games. I made it to the Binge for the first time. What a great machine. Just wish the Wizard Mode would have some new, more thrilling music and a better lightshow.

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My catapult went from 100 % success rate during the first couple days to a "not making the shot at all" fail rate. I am trying everything. Cleaning, bending, adjusting… it's weird. I don't see any pattern so far.

I really like the "Most efficient" Highscore. It's a new way to play a pinball machine. You have to get as many point as possible in a very short time as your points per second are counting here. It's like a Speedrun. Here's my best example with just one mode startet and combined with the multiballs and multipliers. Wish other machines would have that as well.

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Same here, but it's going to the right.

I just je a great game. 5 minutes long. Ball 1 and 2 were really bad. During ball three I started Bullet Catch. With the first shot into the trunk I then started trunk multiball, made the first aim shot quickly on the left orbit (easy to hit plus you get more points when you make that shot quick). While playing trunk multiball I somehow raised Playfield multiplier to x3 and started seance multiball. I kept collecting jackpots and suddenly I had 4 billion. I quickly drained after that to check out my efficiency highscore which was 14.560. BTW, there is not enough space on The Highscore screen for 5 digits. Lol. Just wanted to share. This game has so many different scoring strategies. Love it.

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I encountered an annoying bug: Once you finish all stage missions and collect the bonus, after that when you restart any of the missions I immediately got points for that mission but then my machine freezes. No more music. A ball search starts kicking a ball out but the rest of the game is not responding. It happened twice and just before I was able to collect other stuff. I drained the ball and I was able to enter my Highscore. So that's good at least. Please fix this. It ruins a 45 minutes game. Thanks!