Hahaha. Whoever trolled Kaneda into these announcements is a gentlemen and scholar. Well done.

Technically he’s supposed to stop the podcast. But we all know that ain’t going to happen.

Second the cabinet and back plastic being very disappointing.

They are clearly cutting costs to improve margins. Smart move, but it shows.

I also highly doubt the more expensive version is anything more than cosmetic upgrades.

Maybe a legit backglass (hopefully)
Nice powder coat (hopefully)
Hi res, hi gloss cabinet art (hopefully different cabinet art too)
Oh and flippers that don’t feel like mush. Haha

Way better than the Heighway ramps. They are really nice.

Flipper are crazy weak stock. Hopefully they have strength settings and hold up against long play periods.

Those light blocks as all the ball guides are very very cool too. Seems like they are pretty robust when I saw them at Pinbrew.

A piece of plastic atop stand offs.

Con. Crappy back plastic instead of a backglass or translite against glass.

Any links to a solid rulesheet for the game? Going to put good time on one today.

I’m confused on how to light a mode. Do I just need for the ball to pass through each inlane then shoot the airlock?

Outlanes or inlanes?

Okay thanks. Might be a good game to do some shatzing.

Do any of the shots in alien always feed the pops? If not, what’s the best way to shoot the pops if you need those or top lanes?

Weapons question.

Can you have more than one weapon available at a time? How do you use the current weapon? Can you switch the current weapon you have available to use if you can have more than one in your arsenal?

Thanks everyone!

Looks like when the hypersleep lock is lit, the diverters are on. Also if you combo a ramp to the opposite orbit, it will divert.

Just got done playing the one at Comics 2 Games in Florence Ky.

If you’ve never been here, make sure you make the trip if you can and you’re near it. Great spot.

This game played SO much better than the prototype at Pinbrew. I had lots of fun on it.

It needs some tweaking though. Orbit switches didn’t seem to work, nor the left ramp. If either orbit or that left ramp were lit for something, I never got credit for it.

Because of that, I was unable to get the diverters to come up and feed the pops.

Xeno MB worked pretty well. The magnet didn’t always grab the ball at the start. So the xeno would just eat nothing. Hyper sleep ramp was smooth.

Overall, I think this will be a great game assuming the issues I encountered were simple switch errors that aren’t hard to fix. I’m not well versed in proximity switches.

I wouldn’t worry about that. The process take only a second. I doubt the tongue ever gets damaged.

I was wondering how to switch them when I saw there was no extra ball button. Haha. For today I just used whatever was currently on the screen.

I’m assuming this. I scanned the playfield and the only physical switch I saw was the shooter lane switch. Maybe an opto on then left ramp. Definitely not an opto on the right ramp.

Just telling my experience in these exact situations. The odds of it taking a direct shot from the one ball in play are minimal. Plus the tongue looks very robust so I’m sure it can take some hits.

Honestly I don’t know how the magnet would grab the ball in certain instances. You can clip the side of the targets and send the ball directly left or right. Not sure how the magnet would catch the ball in those situations.

Side art I didn’t look closely at. The backplastic is the exact same, but they did seem it put something behind it so it didn’t rattle all over the place while you played and nudged.

Armor was the exact same.

Thankfully the stock flipper power was great. Bodes well for others’ impressions of this on location.

There are no physical locks for ambush. But yeah this would work for sure. I’d want my free jackpots though. Haha

yeah a completely dark game, and use of a flasher effect for when the ball is being taken off the playfield would be really cool.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinball-brothers-alien-remake-owners-club/page/16#post-6272127

I’d Mylar the edges, but that’s just me.

The flippers are much stronger stock than JJP.

I’ve never seen scoop damage on a new game home use with Mylar to protect the edge of the artwork.

That’s a first! Haha. Cliffys always change the gameplay of a scoop for the worse, so I avoid them at all costs. The lane guides are great though.

I want to get a stream together for this once I can get back and get more time on it. I’ll make sure and post here if I do.

Flippers on the one on location near me are great. All shots are made easily. Much better than the prototype I played. And way better than stock JJP flippers.

Doesn’t matter what’s happening in the video. Haha. These games’ flippers are plenty snappy. I know from experience dude.

Just watched that video. Hard to tell, but the flippers seemed okay. The prototype I played would barely make the ramps. You had to be PERFECT on all your shots.

This video looks like what I’ve experienced with the production games. Which is more than adequate.

Hey Scott. You going to get one of the new ones? I’ve been playing the one at comics to games down here and it’s been pretty solid so far. Apparently more bug fixes coming soon.

You can adjust the switches to be more stuff. Mike just chose to have them that way since they were too sensitive at first.