Led Zeppelin (Pro)
Stern, 2020WOW! I finally reached “? Multiball”, and it is truly fantastic. I’m not sure I’ve ever had a heart pounding experience as much I as did while playing Zep. Super cool wizard modes, and the intro to ? Multiball is just great. Scoring does seem to get out of hand with the unlimited victory lap supers for 30 seconds, but it’s still such a great feeling nailing those ramps. If you haven’t played it yet, do yourself a favor and find one!
8407D3B7-3999-4A55-AAB4-0F1AC1EBBA9F.jpegQuoted from mrossman5:Yep. I did have extra balls enabled, but limited to 3.
The new update definitely seems to increase scoring. I had 32 X bonus which totaled over 100 million.
So you just have to get that bonus 54 times... easy! 
Quoted from apessino:So you just have to get that bonus 54 times... easy!
Even with the higher bonus with the new update, I do agree 5.4 billion seems ridiculous. My previous best was 2.7 billion which also seemed crazy, but I didn’t get to top of the charts or “?”. Looking at the rules, I never thought I would have gotten to the main wizard mode as getting all platinums is quite a task, but I didn’t realize top of the charts is very similar to sea of simulation. The mode just cycles through all of the songs you haven’t played yet, and makes it pretty easy to platinum them. Every time you “beat” a song in that mode, it also adds a ball along with a ball saver. I scored around a billion in that mode, 2 billion in “?” and got most of the other points from world tour and mothership multiball.
I get excited when I hit 974 points in King of Diamonds. Adjusted for inflation that's....not even close.
Quoted from Snailman:Shots are really fun to hit and combo. That’s for sure.
My biggest score came prior to the last updates, and was all about big Icarus X. I would have qualified ? Wizard mode, but it wasn’t in the code at that point. [quoted image]
Damn! Nicely done. It really is all about timing when to use the multipliers.
Quoted from Snailman:Shots are really fun to hit and combo. That’s for sure.
My biggest score came prior to the last updates, and was all about big Icarus X. I would have qualified ? Wizard mode, but it wasn’t in the code at that point. [quoted image]
I had a slightly higher score than that unfortunately my camera was broken and i cant show anyone.(not true)
Quoted from Jamesays:I had a slightly higher score than that unfortunately my camera was broken and i cant show anyone.(not true)
My camera is always broke when I put ridiculous scores 
Quoted from mrossman5:Damn! Nicely done. It really is all about timing when to use the multipliers.
Hats off to you both, those are truly mega-high scores.
This game is coming together really nicely. Folks who haven't played one yet have a real treat in store, for sure.
Quoted from Vitty:Man, I have yet to break 1 billion on any of my stern games lol. Shows me just how much my skills have to improve
yea, I can't hit a billion on sterns. some bally/williams but never JJP or Stern.
Quoted from Vitty:Man, I have yet to break 1 billion on any of my stern games l
Get yourself a Game of Thrones, or maybe a Batman 66?
this past weekend the highest score in the entire tourney was around 100 million on a zep pro by very good players.
Guess it just pends how its set up. The pitch, feeds, posts, tilt, settings, Flipper rubber type/color. Scores between one game and another is pointless. one feed can change the game. The Stranger things pro at the tourney had a nasty feed from the mystery when it kicked the ball out to the left it came down, nailed the sling, and went where it wanted. Mostly led to right out lane drains with a too tight of a tilt to nudge to save. Never saw anyone go over 250 million the entire event on that.
Setup matters.
Quoted from VanishingVision:Do the newer Sterns ever turn over at a certain score?
According to Lyman, “The latest version of the code uses 64-bit scoring, so you should be able to score 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 points now before it rolls over.”
He was referring to #the_walking_dead_le
Quoted from silver_spinner:this past weekend the highest score in the entire tourney was around 100 million on a zep pro by very good players.
Guess it just pends how its set up. The pitch, feeds, posts, tilt, settings, Flipper rubber type/color. Scores between one game and another is pointless. one feed can change the game. The Stranger things pro at the tourney had a nasty feed from the mystery when it kicked the ball out to the left it came down, nailed the sling, and went where it wanted. Mostly led to right out lane drains with a too tight of a tilt to nudge to save. Never saw anyone go over 250 million the entire event on that.
Setup matters.
Just played in a tournament where 50 million won most games EASILY. haha.
Quoted from Snailman:Icarus go brrrr
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Holy shitballs!
Great scores! I have a strange question about scoring I can’t figure out.
It seems that when playing a multiplayer game that player one is able to score very high point values 10-16 mil. immediately on if they’re able to hit lit lanes/ramps. However, once player two begins those same shot values are half as much? 4-5 mil. Does anyone notice that? It doesn’t seem to matter the song choice either...any help would be appreciated Thanks!
Quoted from Booneweiser:Great scores! I have a strange question about scoring I can’t figure out.
It seems that when playing a multiplayer game that player one is able to score very high point values 10-16 mil. immediately on if they’re able to hit lit lanes/ramps. However, once player two begins those same shot values are half as much? 4-5 mil. Does anyone notice that? It doesn’t seem to matter the song choice either...any help would be appreciated Thanks!
Buggy code per usual in every stern release. Will get fixed in a future update I'm sure.
Quoted from Booneweiser:It seems that when playing a multiplayer game that player one is able to score very high point values 10-16 mil. immediately on if they’re able to hit lit lanes/ramps. However, once player two begins those same shot values are half as much? 4-5 mil. Does anyone notice that?
Welcome to discussion on pinside! (noticed it was your very first post)
No, I have not experienced this. I've played a lot a LZ, and understand the scoring pretty well.
1) Make sure you have the latest code, or encourage the operator to install the latest code. Visit Stern's website under Support and Game Code to see which is the current code rev. Among many modern games (and certainly not just Sterns), there are sometimes score variables in the code that don't get properly reset or kept unique between players. And I've found that each pinball company fixes those scoring bugs very quickly.
2) Initial song shot values are nowhere near 10-15M per shot -- I believe they start out less than 1M. In terms of difference in value for what you perceive to be the same shot, I would guess that P1 had their Icarus playfield multiplier running, while P2 did not. There are also some nuances of how LZ song shot value builds within a song, and even within one *section* (chorus, verse, etc) that do no carry to your next song or section.
If you have a video you can capture this behavior and share it, I'll try to help that way, too. I'm on one of the game's programmer's (Raymond Davidson) Discord servers and message/discuss LZ with him regularly.
Quoted from Snailman:Icarus go brrrr
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remind me Jack D. on Oktoberfest with a stucked target on RING TOSS... 
Quoted from RipleYYY:remind me Jack D. on Oktoberfest with a stucked target on RING TOSS...
Hahaha. Yeah, I think I recall a video of that.
Note: in my case on LZ, there's no malfunction. I did make note on another forum that the tilt is loose.
Mainly, it's a LOT of nurturing the multiplier garden by shooting L orbit combos, and cashing them out with the Super Band Boost action button. Must be able to live catch on the LZ copy that you play to make this work.
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