In on the CE

My .02 so far:

9 ball paths on the main playfield. Layout doesn't blow me away, but it looks fun. Basically just about everything else seems off the charts.

1: Shot under the upper flipper
2. Right orbit
3. Right ramp
4. Extra ball shot through the pops
5. Scoop
6. Middle spinner/loop to pops
7. Ramp or inner orbit (not sure what it does) shot from upper flipper
8. Left ramp
9. Left orbit

- light show should be the best of all time
- love the moving spotlights
- happy the band did callouts
- thrilled with theme integration in general and the assets they have
- art looks great
- 21 songs is awesome
- I like what I'm hearing about song jackpot risk/reward
- all the non mechanical "toys" are cool... the guitar pick spinners, drum sticks, tophat, axl on top of the skulls, amps, hi hat, cymbals
- the light rails looks awesome
- wifi updates...about time this happened

I'm not sure how fun the upper playfield stuff will be, but it looks cool and is great theme integration.

That's what I'm thinking...I guess it could be on one of the orbits, but I bet it's there on that shot from the 3rd flipper

Good catch...I would say that's a safe bet considering that screen grab

Anyone else think there will be more songs released at some point for this pin? (like Metallica had)

I don't want to get into a DLC debate about whether or not it should happen...I just think it will. There is a new song Guns has called "Hardschool", that Guns N Roses nerds (like me) know about. It's a bootleg and it's awesome. I would love for that to make it on the game at some point.

Here are the songs I wish the game had:

- Don't Damn Me
- Get in the Ring
- 14 years
- Back off Bitch
- The Breakdown
- Locomotive
- There was a Time
- IRS

I thought there was a good chance we'd have a new Guns song on the pin considering the precedent of "Ain't Going Down" on the Data East pin.

Turns out we did get some new tunes in the form of tracks from Slash...just not new full band songs.

Hardschool is a song that will likely be an official song on the long rumored new album, but with Guns n Roses no one has a clue when/if a new album will ever happen.

It could be Knockin on Heaven's door.

Although it's a cover, they made the song their own, and it's a been a staple of their shows forever. It's their biggest song not to make the pin so far.

I know we have the tophat, but I would like a Slash figure like this one in here.

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The art from the tour (a lithograph from every show) depicted the band as skeletons. Different artists created these, but Arian Buhler is the best and did a lot of them. His lithos are featured on the LE and he did the CE artwork as well.

These are the lithos I have from the tour. The lithos are collected by a lot of people and some of them go for thousands of dollars.

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I'm on that forum. It's like a lot of the internet...weird, angry, and bitter at times, but there are some great people on it as well.

My understanding of the rules so far is that your probably focused on playing enough songs to get to a particular album mode (although 3 minutes worth could easily be done on one song)

You have to play all the album modes to get to the wizard mode, but not all the individual songs.

I guess it wouldn't be impossible, but it would complicate licensing. You had some different bandmates back then.

- Izzy Stadlin
- Steven Adler
- Matt Sorum replaced Steven
- Gibly Clarke played with them a lot

I'm not a big fan of being in multiball all the time, but I'm not worried about it. All that can either be tweaked by JJP in the default code or the settings tweaked in the menu I'm sure.

I like the ruleset from what I've read. It's straightforward.

1. Hit band member shots
2. Start song at the scoop
3. Play a song from each album for 3 minutes
4. Play all 4 album modes
5. Hit spinners and spinning record to start Slash solo mode
6. Visit all the cities in tour For tour mutiball
7. Play Not in this Lifetime wizard mode

Piece of cake

They really need to dial back the multiball in the code, or have ways to adjust in the settings. It definitely seems the game was designed around that though with the ball lock.

I do wish it had one cool mechanical toy.

Other than that the game looks like a blast.
I like the orbit from the upper flipper and the main orbits flowed nicely. Ramps look good and the ball doesn't stay long in the upper playfields.

I hope they use the long shot from the left flipper to the axl lane (the extra ball shot) a lot in the code. I like challenging shots like that. Keith set that kind of shot up perfectly in JP2.

Fix the forever being in multiball, and this will be a really fun game I think.

How do you travel from city to city?

Agreed. Hopefully they listen to feedback and adjust, or at least give players the option to adjust things in the settings.

This is definitely a pattern with JJP. Hobbit, POTC, and now GnR seem to multiball you to death.

They had different band member then. It might not have been impossible, but licensing would be more complicated.

JJP didn't get access to old stuff...just Not in This Lifetime tour stuff, which is what Slash wanted the pin the to be about.

Steven Adler
Matt Sorum replaced him
Izzy Stradlin
Gilby Clarke played with them a lot

I just read through the manual, and was about to point that out. I didn't see an add a ball settings in the songs modes. They need to add that.

I like the layout and the shots look fun to me.

I really don't have a problem with what's there...I just wish there was one mechanical beast of a toy in it.

I'd like to see JJP hire Elwin.

Maybe I'm being greedy, but based on the rules (having to play 3 minutes from each album) regarding qualifying album modes, I would like to see more songs added to the game from the UYI albums and Chinese Democracy. I know they basically followed the Not in this Lifetime our setlist, so it makes sense from that standpoint, but I think it would be better if the albums were represented with more songs.

This would make sense because the game is basically nudging you to balance your song selection from the albums, but the songs from said albums are not balanced.

Right now you have:

9 from AFD
6 from UYI I
3 from UYI II
3 from CD
1 from Lies (although Lies is not an album mode)

With that in mind, here would be my selections if I were picking them. (Really if I had it my way, the whole discography would be there)

UYI I - Don't Damn Me

UYU II - 14 Years, KOHD, Get in the Ring, Locomotive

CD - There Was a Time, IRS, Sorry

I paid my deposit, and haven't talked to my distributor since. I'm excited about it, but it will get here when it gets here. No worries.