JJP got weird on the naming here. I don't think the "Limited Edition" is actually limited at all. It's just 'the fancy one' - the Collectors Edition is the 'limited' release at 150.

The new code needs a new version of the phone app for compatibility -- so maybe they're just timing the 2 together. That's what he meant.

For Ron.

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Look at it. Sticking up there like it’s flipping me off. Same to you, door mech.

I don’t see DI protectors on cliffys site. Is ordering those an ‘email him’ situation?

I’m torn between dialing in my dialed in, and just playing it.

On the one hand, the left flipper doesn’t come up quite as far as the right. On the other hand, it’s still fun to play

I adjusted mine in test and the annoying bit is it’s inconsistent. I think I ended up on -110, and it’s pretty good, but it doesn’t always work. I tried -120 and it seemed wildly violent.

Mine is at the second line on the bubble, but if I throw my phone on the PF I get 9 degrees. Which seems wrong.

I also tried it with my oldschool WMS 'angleometer thing'. Who ever used those? It's so damn tiny you can barely read it -- but it looked like about 8 on that one, but I may have not had it at 100% straight.

This is the video that cemented the LE for me:

Without the ramp lights, the upper left corner of the PF on a standard is so dark during lightshows.

Everybody has different tastes when it comes to what's important -- none of the other LE features mattered to me. If the LE was just powdercoat and invisiglass I would have 100% went with the standard, no hesitation. Don't really care about the back wall city thing either.

But the lightshow on this game is so important to the overall package (for me!) that I had to go LE to get the ramps. Without them that whole upper corner is dark ... lacking. It's a big hole in the beautiful lightshows the game does. That one detail was enough to get me to spend the extra bit alone.

Also they're a saturating single color that would somewhat nullify the effect of the games light shows.

It's not about it being 'too dark' -- it's that it IS dark, in a lightshow. So like, on a color wash across the playfield: if you have the ramps, the color carries over the ramp area -- if you don't, there's a big hole in that wave. You know?

The visual impact of the masterful use of the full RGB has this big gap in it without those ramp lights.

I almost wish the midfield magnets would pulse slowly after a theater drop to pull the ball off center.

I thought that was part of the intent - to give you the possibility of feeding the upper flipper. It's obviously not just a "go to the pops" thing because the's just one small hole.

DIE makes a phone that can cause 'quantum events'. DIE loses phone. Average joe finds phone. Average joe gets hit by lightning with phone. CRAZY SHIT HAPPENS.

The aristocrats.

I tried doing it the adjustment thing way, but then the trapdoor didn’t hold open as far and there wasn’t proper clearance for the ball. I’m still in a no win situation.

Is there a collected 'common issues with DI and fixes' thing like somebody did for ... some other game that is escaping me at the moment?

I have the theater guide with the harsh edge I'd like to fix, but I'm not sure about the best way to cleanly re-shape it. I kind of want to adjust my lock ramp to come down farther left than the dangerous point it does now, but with how the ramp edge goes over the nut it's not just a simple move and tighten down affair -- has anybody done an adjustment there? Bent the ramp? something else?

I think I finally have my trap door working well. I tried all the basic advice I'd seen from others, but was still having issues. In the end, the screw on the bottom of the drop coil on mine was loose so the coil would rotate and the catch/release would get screwed up.

The game they were playing on wasn't fully loaded with the new animations yet due to them still processing/rendering elsewhere.

And the ramp LEDs for the 2 ramps in the upper left, and the lit back panel.

The ticket scratching is just based on movement in the camera. If you just move your body a bit, that counts. You don't have to specifically wave your hand.

You're a statue when you play? Really?

Hole wear isn't really about the surface like mylar would protect thought, is it? It's more about the edges that it bangs into.

You get 'Ripley' letters for completing modes, but there's not a shot to collect. You just get them when you meet the requirement.

I lobbied for this on the stream of the new code. Ted said no way.

While I'd be all for new/varied animations on the screen - 11 more modes seems like massive overkill. It's not like they'd be functionally much different than the ones already there.

Turn down the power of the sling coils a bit, or put a second rubber ring around the posts under the original — if You’re having a consistent problem with it.

Not sure about anybody else, but I can't even tell the drones do anything while playing. The only time I notice the propellers is if I'm testing something with the glass off. I could see buying a new set to just save until you want to sell the game so that you can have them working and not take a ding on the price from some complainer -- but I can't see spending money on new ones to just burn them out again. Hell, maybe I'll go unplug mine so they don't wear out and then plug them back in if I ever sell it.

You're just raw-dogging the sim card hole currently? How is it holding up?

Ted posted this last week:

The wording of that "waiting on a few items" makes it sound like he's waiting for others to provide him with things, so likely more of the rendered animations.

It would be really cool if there was interplay between the theater modes and stacked items. Like if you’re doing the kilowatt drops and you hit the spider tartget, a spider appears on the front drop. Or if you’ve got the drone captive ball and you hit qed the front ball has electricity swirling around it.

Don’t expect it happen, just would be neat.

I got lotto mode a few times on the beta and didn't notice any difference in how it played. Did you disable the camera in game with that new option or anything? Strange.

I haven't ever had an issue with that wireform, but I have the game at the recommended angle and didn't jack the flipper power way up.

I was going to say 'just disable it, who uses that garbage anyway' - but searching the online manual for bluetooth it doesn't seem that's possible. Doh!

While you're at it [Ted], how about give us a setting to just leave the thing out without the game complaining, since nobody uses it anyway.