Light plunge, Shatz the left inlane 25M plus 10 second ball save

#2 is echoes of Congo. Surely not an accident.

Nope... 25 M vs 5 M. Shatz target is above inlane.

#3 Change to soft plunge to flipper, then shatz ball into left inlane and up to hit shatz target.

Of course simply soft plunge to flipper then hit shatz target may work too. If at all possible.

I am totally missing something with the super skill shot: I hold the left flipper button down before plunging, which lights the insert for super skill shot, but as soon as the ball passes the opto after the plunge the super skill shot light goes off and even though I am hitting that top switch it does nothing.

I am sure I am doing something wrong and stupid, but any obvious ideas what that is? Does it clear the super skill shot chance if you drop the lower left flipper?

Premium. Maybe I’ll have to readjust the captive balls (again). Good suggestion, I will check.

I believe I did a soft plunge to left flipper and shot right orbit which awarded me 8 mil

Checked switch test: No misfiring switches. I can’t even get super secret skill shots to work, even if I simulate them with the glass off.

One possibly related thing... when I do attempt any of the super skill shots, a song isn’t chosen and any flipper press keeps changing the songs with the ball in play until a switch is finally hit. Is this normal?

When I trigger the shooter lane switch by pressing it down, it triggers the kicker about a second later. I can see it is registering a bit when I stop pressing it.

The shooter lane switch seems kind of flimsy, like it is flopping around (see pic) Is it supposed to be floating like that?

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My embarrassment turned into amusement when I accidentally found this one!

What other game has this many skill shots? Its crazy. It seems like Stern is just letting these guys do pretty much whatever they want on this game (which is good).

Nice thing too is you can turn ball save off for regular play and/or the skill shots. This will probably be used in tournaments.

This soft plunge to the inlane has me baffled. I can hit skill shot, but never that inlane for sss. Guess I'll keep trying.

Solved. Shooter lane switch wasn’t registering >90% of the time on ball (amazing how explixitly pressing it works 100% of the time... I am dumb) Thanks for your suggestions!

Found a new super secret skillshot: soft plunge to flipper and then hit the bullseye. Was either 6 or 8 million.

That Newton ball is a major pain in the ass to adjust just right.

Just got the houseball drain to the outlane SUPER skill shot worth 25m....nice surprise...+ ball save of course.
Ball before that---full plunge and then hit 3 orbits in row off top rt flipper 15m I believe, but SUPER skill shot.

The problem is, I am never actually pulling the plunger anymore - there are so many good light skillshots I am just bumping the plunger on every start!

Thanks for documenting this as I think I have the same issue as couldn't get the super skill shot with glass off.

Update.

I also made mistake of using finger to test shooter lane switch - works 100%.

With a ball rolling over it - 0%!

I have one of these on while I was waiting for cliffys.

https://pu-parts.com/iron-maiden-shooter-lane-protector

I guess it has altered the switch gap so I need to open or close the switch - not sure which yet!

And there I was wondering why on earth I couldn't get the super skillshot!

Also got this skillshot awarded after making a full plunge around the orbit and then immediately draining through the left outlane.

Played some games last night with a friend and of course he got two secret skill shots. When I asked what did you do? His response...I don't know. doh!!!

Just want to say how much f'ing horsesh-t this is..

This literally destroyed my final round at Bat City. There's no bloody way in hell that thing should be worth 25 million. Relative to most of the other scoring in the game, if someone were to dial this in and make it all 3 balls in a tournament...75 million points. That's going to be *well* over 10% of their score, and if it's set up like the one in that tournament was, it's more likely that 75 million will be closer to 50% of their total score.

Just absolutely DERP A DERP DEE DERP stupid. Congo did it right, value and difficulty. IM screwed this one up and it needs to be adjusted down a little, or at LEAST nerfed in tournament mode. It's definitely not nearly as hard as some of the others.

Thanks, I'm not keeping up with all the IM threads..I've barely even been on here the last two weeks, and much to eveyone's enjoyment I suspect... so I'm glad to announce that's a likely trend to continue. LOL.

Hold Left flipper up, full plunge, and one time shot to the orb = 10m, plus boost power jackpot X. (+5 seconds ball save if enabled)

I’ve tried numerous combinations of only the right flipper up as well as both flippers up. Haven’t found the others yet.

This just happened to me last night in competition and I was looking for this thread to complain lol
Total BS...that’s a ton of points.

This is dope, thank you!

Any updates on the revised skill shot points for the revised software?

Most curious about #1, the soft plunge straight into the left outlane, in regular (not tournament) mode.

Soft plunge directly to the left outlane is now 20 million. v1.02

Soft plunge directly to the left inlane gives five or six million and some ball save, probably +5 seconds.

Still haven't found the MXV SSSS. I'm resisting the urge to remove the glass and try everything by hand.

so just to clarify - for the standard super skill shot ("Hard plunge, which drops to upper left flipper. Hit Super Jackpot target to collect.") - you want to plunge it hard enough to get part way up the loop and drop down to the left flipper?
(when i hard plunge with the left button on the ball mainly goes all the way around to the upper right flipper. wanted to make sure i'm not missing something obvious....)

I got this a couple of days ago. I think I did a hard plunge to the upper left flipper, hit it around the orbit back to upper left flipper then into the area with the color changing beacon. Basically like the normal 15 million skill shot but with an orbit first. I got 55 million I believe.

Pull the plunger back all the way and then let it go back in maybe 20% should get you close to having it stop half way around the orbit and drop back to the upper left flipper.

It seems like the best shot to go for is the shot to the left outlane. Reasonable chance to get it, plus if you miss you may get the left inlane or the ball to your flipper without hitting a switch to try for the bullseye shot.

Would you agree?

That's my exact plan assuming ball save is on. Sometimes you even get lucky on an errant flip and hit the right orbit.

I so rarely pull off the "congo plunge" that I gave up trying for it. My plunger doesn't have that "controllable" feel to it.

Which version do you have? I have an early pro with a softer plunger spring than all the premiums & LEs I've played. So much better for soft plunging, but it can be hard to set up the top flipper skill shots.