gstellenberg Hi Gerry, I'm not sure if you've ever addressed this publicly but are you willing to give any insight as to what your future goals are as to the cadence of future game releases? I believe CCR was released around mid-2018 and then Heist was around mid-2020. Are you hoping to get to 1+ first party game releases a year eventually or do you think 1 game every 2 years roughly is your max output at this point? Thanks for any insight and I can't wait to get my Heist in 6 weeks!

Sounds great Gerry. Looking forward to going on the journey

Stern Premiums are approaching $8000, the current price is fine I think. I think Heist was/is an attention getter and gets a lot of people on the fence for a purchase. If their next game is to the same quality and/or even better I think you really start to see mass adoption. Then you’re looking at $12,500 for 2 excellent games and the value proposition really starts to make sense. I think Lexi and CCR look like fun games and probably must buys for a lot of current P3 owners due to how cheap they are but they are probably not driving new sales. I’m really excited for once Multimorphic gets on a yearly release schedule. I’d also love to see one of the smaller time guys like Riot Pinball develop a game for the platform.

Curious if there are any settings to change flipper strength and if anyone has toyed with increasing the flipper strength yet? Maybe I’m just too used to the hyper strength of Stern flippers but I’d love to try the game with a little more snap to the flippers.

Interesting, I’ll definitely have to play around with that. Thanks!

Wow, even after just 2 games it definitely makes a big difference. You’re absolutely right, it almost plays like a different game. Definitely recommend people play around with the flipper strength settings, especially if you’re used to Stern flippers.

I think I settled on 28 as well. Game just feels much more responsive. I think the ball feels more like it's gliding on the default settings rather than shooting

gstellenberg Hi Gerry, was wondering if you could provide some input on flipper strength. Is it at all detrimental to run the flippers at max strength (30)? I'm thinking in terms of the coils overheating especially. I tried a quick test game with the flippers maxed and really like the pop it gives. Don't want to do anything that would have long term negative effects though. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Sounds good, thanks Gerry

For #2 you have to run the crane calibration test in the settings menu. Mine was finicky. I had to run the calibration test multiple times before I could finally dial it in.

Has anyone been able to complete the Demolition mode? I can get to the second “stage” but I get almost no action out of my pops, maybe 1 hit per made loop shot, so I always run out of time. I even lowered the threshold to like 5 pop hits I think and still have not really come close to beating it. Curious if other folks get better action on their pops.

Wow, nudging is definitely the key. Getting much better pop action now.

I’ve had a lot of issue with the crane calibration. I would have what seemed to be perfect calibration through the 1st 2 parts of the test and then have it fail the ball pick up for some reason and then you have to start over. I finally just wrote down the calibration settings that “seemed” like they should work, observed the crane action during gameplay and then manually tweaked the crane settings (not going through the calibration again) until I got everything dialed in. That seems to have resolved my issues for the most part.

Yes, I always noticed the slight movement as well. I think the easiest way to address is to get it “close enough” during the calibration and then do micro adjustments in the actual crane settings without running the calibration again. I think you get much more accurate/less frustrating results.