Quoted from KingBW:Keith just posted that there will be another update but it will be after the JJPOTC comes out.
So Q1 2018? That's still 6 months off.
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Quoted from KingBW:Keith just posted that there will be another update but it will be after the JJPOTC comes out.
So Q1 2018? That's still 6 months off.
Quoted from PanzerFreak:Here's a summary of what Keith said about the Hobbit and the changes coming to the game on the latest Head2Head pinball podcast. Sounds like very cool and welcoming changes. Please listen to the podcast as there's a lot of interesting information in it from Keith from over the course of his career.
1. Said with the Hobbit they put a ton of crap into the game, didn't want to make it the same as LOTR. Said JJP went over the top with 31 mode idea and that the whole point of the game is to give you unprecedented breadth of playability. Compared WOZ as LOTR 2.0, Hobbit as WOF 2.0.
2. Said there's so much different stuff to do in the game. Mentioned Hobbit multiballs are no slouch, said Into the Fire has 5 stages, Barrel Escape 3 or 5, and Battle of the Five armies 7 stages. Keith compared the multiball stages of the Arkenstone modes to individual modes and really the Hobbit can be considered to have 40+ modes.
Code changes
1. There and Back Again is the name of the super wizard mode. Doesn't want to give too much away but it will concentrate on beating all 31 modes. Mentioned he doesn't know if it will tie everything together (could be referring to also having to beat Arkenstone modes in addition to beat all book modes)
2. Scoring tweaks for a lot of stuff
3. Beast Multiball is being rewritten by Joe Katz and he started working on it last week. Keith said Beast MB will be a lot better
4. Behavior of game changing somewhat. The 31 book modes will have a star raiting assigned to them, 1-5. The number of stars you have completed going into an Arkenstone mode works into bonus. Also, the highest star mode beat affects scoring of your next qualified wizard mode. For example the One Ring mode, an easier mode, will likely be assigned 1 star and Keith said if that is the mode completed when you go into an Arkenstone mode your bonus won't be as high compared to going into it with a 4, or 5 star mode completed.
All of these changes sound awesome and in my opinion will lead to the Hobbit having a master code ruleset on the levels of WOZ and LOTR
This all sounds great. Did he give any indication when we might see these updates? Last we heard it was in the spring after POTC shipped. Has that changed to summer or even fall?
From the JJP Live thread:
Not streaming today, but we have something special planned for next week Friday.
New. Hobbit. Code.
LIVESTREAM. @3pm Central 07/06/2018 on https://www.twitch.tv/jjplive
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