Due to my lack of pinball skills and high ball drain i tried the following methods:

aligning the flippers with th laneguide - angles felt a little weird and the cradle was too easy.
adding a center post - felt like a random, cheap save, like a crutch.
carrot flippers with the original, later factory flipper angle (slightly droopy) works well. still a hard game, but makes much more fun. Exactly what i was looking for.

This is highly individual so you shoud try out until you are happy. The game costs alot, so make the best out of it.

If your friend did install additional LEDs, this can cause some slight flickering, especially when slimer mode is on.
It seems this mode needs more power.
Additional LEDs could be installed here:
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For the aggressive lighting, you can adjust the flash effect strengh in the menu.
Playing in the dark makes lighting also aggressive, make sure to find the right ambient light for your taste.

cheers

Did anyone change the color of LEDs on the playfield? I changed the white slingshot LEDs to blue and it looks great.
I wonder what else i can do for nice light effects. Any pics?

Sorry, can anyone explain the hype please? I`m not into the scene and this is my first real pinball game.
I really like the game so far and now it will get even better?
I dont understand how this update can generate so much hype and even influence the market.
Is this the case with every game or just with games with a "shitty" code?
Can it have such a big impact on the funfactor?
Is there a live feed i can follow?

Alot of questions

I think this is the right link:
https://www.twitch.tv/deadflip

Are we getting new instruction cards for free from stern?

Am i the only one who thinks that the GB topper looks like a toy?
The plastics surrounding the blue lights should be transparent to look real.
Did they try to diffuse the harsh lights to be less distractive? A real blue light would be cool!

yzfguy

timecode @ 1:40:50
its the last shot from "He slimed me mode".

look what i found

now i know why its no transparent glass on the topper
but i checked out the movie again, it looks toyish there too.
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Caution when testing the gate too much, the coil gets very hot easily.
The coil works as a magnet, if its not pulling the gate you can try decrease the distance with the screw.
In the image you can see how i adjusted it. it stands out a littlebit into the ramp, but not too much.
Just so that it wont influence the path off the ball too much, but enough to make the magnet work.
To help that, i overstretched the spring a tiny bit (caution).

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I bought this game and the carrot flippers 2 months ago and i love it.
Its my first pin and i play nearly every day about an hour.
My son loves it too. Sure its hard, but its easy enough to get you hooked.
The new code will make it even more fun for noobs!

Just had some games with the new code. My first storage multiball went forever and brought me to 2,7 billion. Got about 4 times add a ball... 20x Bonus running. I think the ball save was too heavy, i got bored in multiball and i am just a beginner. at least you cant capture ghosts in SFMB.
My highscore was 1,7 billions on the old code.
The rest felt solid! I love how everything is more clear now.
What about your scores so far?

Cheers

what is factory setting here? mine was on "scene continues", i dont get scenes completed when losing a ball,
but in the code reveal video they said its completed when losing a ball.

thanks alot.

anyone can explain the extraball mechanics please?
what i found is:

- extraball at 50 ghosts

- Added an adjustment called 2ND SCENE COMPELTE EXTRA BALL. This allows a 2nd
Extra Ball to be awarded for completing scenes. It defaults to PLUS 3,
meaning when the player completes 3 more scenes past the first Extra Ball
awarded they will be awarded with a new lit Extra Ball. (I don not understand this)

- random extraball from Tobins

- random extraball from pop pumpers
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yes, the multiball ball saving is set too forgiving.
WARTBY seems to be too easy, everything you have to do is trying to keep the balls in game, no aiming needed at all.
Maybe its becaus i am using the carrot flippers.

check out the ball saves, this is my 6 year old:

i like the carrot flippers better than the center post, since it feels less random but still helps, and you boys wouldnt be complaining xD
there is a slightly reflective shield back there at the PKE, you can also get the mirror mod for it:
https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/502-6990-07
depenting on the build date of your machine you may have super droopy flippers you may correct.
there are much little tweaks which help alot on the game.

I did it without removing... dont do it! the chance is high to damage plastics. later i unscrewed the back wood anyway and thought to my self how dump i was

+1
at least an alternative option would be nice.
the worst is having a good SFMB going on right before Looping Supers and ghost collecting simply stops at 60.
that way you really have to calculate when to start SFMB.
same for PKE frenzy. that means SFMB is unusabel from ~60-100 ghosts??
BUT also before locking in 2 Balls for SFMB it takes some time, mostly i have about 40-60 ghosts at this point
i also often drain from 60-80 ghost because of the required shots.

what also really bothers me is that you can not collect tobins spirit guide during modes.
that double sucks! because at first i have to wait to complete my mode and then i cant
shoot the scoop, because it will also start the librarian mode, which is not always wanted.

please let me know what you think about it!

if you start a new game, push back the plunger and wait for the ball to come out of the trough and hit it as soon as possible,
there is a high chance the ball wont trigger the switch in front of the plunger. its a different, faster way of doing the "skillshot exploit".
Let the ball rest for 1 sec and choose your skillshot, this way it will not happen. even when choosing HBTD you shouldnt hard plunge,
because you can now additionally get the PKE skillshot. so its a 2 shot skillshot now.
i`m hard plunging anyway because it bores me to wach the ball slowly finding its way through PKE

i also find it strange they didnt fix it... in the presentation video they said they did so and even made a ironic joke about it?

this will be changed in the next patch, Dwights statement

Dwight from the tiltforums:
"We were able to reproduce it. In the next update it will be harder to do. I agree its not that game breaking even if you pull it off. Skill shot values are now nerfed from V1.16."
"In the next update I will remove the +10% skill shot option and I will reduce the points you get for getting a skill shot from 10 to 5%"

Anyone have a source showing the actual (2019) intended flipper angle?
I want to go back to original. i allready removed the carrot flippers and made the originals droopy, but i dont know how much exactly.

i started playing pinball 3 months ago with the carrots and the funny thing is, removing the carrots didnt increase the center drain for me.
the droopiness even makes the left target much easier, because the ball somehow wont go crazy so much.

here is my actual flipper angle. you can see the little hole in front of the flipper as orientation.

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what do you mean by "every shot", backhand the right pke ramp?

Thank you, i read alot about this controvers "hole alignment" discussion.
From my research I am think you cant take this rule for each game.
I also see alot of stern games with droopy flippers on pupalar pinball live streams, but maybe im on the wrong track.
I know they corrected the initial very-droopy flippers on GB, also an example against the "hole alignment" theory!?
Do you have any source from stern about this?

you should check the screws on the metal plate at the entrance of the ramp and tighten those.
maybe those got lose over the years.

try different usb stick. i tried 3 until it worked, another member needed 6 sticks

+1 i made the same experience

a am sure they will do some more bug fixing and adjustment, since there are confirmed bugs by dwight.

confirmed

and whats the problem? the money or the space? or you- changing your opinion?
if its the money you can argue "it wont lose its value".

I have a question regarding the nudging on GB.
On other games it makes more sense to me, since the inlanes/ outlanes have rubbers on the top.
Normaly shaking will cause the ball to move outwards, but with the metal rail guide the ball seems
to stick to the metal once it touches it and it will find the way down the outlane.

What is your way to nudge the GB pin? I'm interested in every insight you can give me.

No, they are not magnetized. It's just the extrem bounce difference in comparison to the rubber material.

ah thats interesting, im on my way there. I notice how I'm getting better at ball path travel prediction, but this takes hundreds of hours.
even though, with other pins im much more able to prevent ball draining with shaking when the ball went past the sling.

Is there a training method to get better at this specific skill?
I have some routines for shot accuracy which helps alot, but it looks like I'll never be able to prevent those out lane drains.

thats not what i wanted to hear
but thank you!

another mod

here is the construction link
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ghostbusters-containment-unit-upgrade
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Iteresting view. In this case the swinks's red containment unit could fit your needs well, (if painted!).
Personally I enjoy the detailed model and I think its on par with the library of the LE.

wow looks nice!

I did this so many times, since i tested different flipper angles. you just need the right leverage.
I put the long side of an Allen wrench into the screw head and turn it with a plier for the right leverage.
Once you get used to it, its a very fast fix.

I used them too in the beginning. After I learned how to play i swaped them back and it made no difference in difficulty,
but the shots felt easier. I guess it has to do with the angles. You should give it a try after some time.