Couldn’t agree more if your a new start up with zero baggage tease away but when you have the stench from years of lies and stolen money lingering your best off cutting the bullshit and showing your hand in full.

Same playfield art is disappointing, no offence to Aurich he did great with the assets Andrew gave him, which if I remember reading a post by Aurich was a abit of a nightmare.

I’d love to see new playfield art, without Aurich or whoever unhampered by mis-management.

Where is that photo from @shmilder?

Thanks! I don’t use twitter or facebook.

The motion tracker could be added to the apron right under the players nose, a screen in the apron could be smaller and far cheaper than the one embedded into the playfield and would allow them to keep the motion tracker aspect alive.

You need to think outside the box a little, no playfield lcd is no major lose, the ammo count inserts are actually a pretty good idea and on sentry gun modes those inserts could be great! Plus the lcd in the playfield was only mirrored from the backbox, put the motion tracker in the apron and you have the best of both worlds maybe even an improvement? No one can say that for certain until it actually gets build and hands are on it though.

Airlock frame is a non issue, old users and new users can and will have it, no one looses out there.

Traditional cabinets would be a good idea and would surely keep costs down compared to a bespoke cabinet.

Either way there’s a good amount of original aliens out there, if the new one does get made WITHOUT any pinheads pre order money (pinball bros you gotto get this one out the door yourselves!) and it brings a revised Alien to the market there will be old owners who want the newer version, freeing up original alien games, hopefully a win win for everyone interested in an alien original or new. Endgame, more pins is never a bad thing.

If they sell 100 @ 10k a pop and in this hobby we know that’s achievable, one strong release can help right the ship somewhat. And then game 2 and 3 get the ship sailing again, I hope they don’t try and do that with Alien off the bat and try to charge 10k plus!

But as you say they also need to prove longevity and that they are not just in this as a one hit wonder in an attempt for them to solely recover some of their lost money. The fact they are making so many changes to Alien might suggest they are in it for the long haul but we need a little solid proof of that.

Regardless what happened, if they hadn’t sold off assets to themselves, we likely wouldn’t be seeing this new 2.0 version of Alien.

While not ideal from the outside, if this was their intention when Heighway collapsed from within and formed PB, it’s certainly a better outcome than letting everything under Heighway just dissolve into nothing, especially if they are going to look after those who lost money with Heighway.

Plus the big point here other than the fact they have said they will do something for those who lost out with Heighway, is their statement about no pre-order money being taken until physical games are with distributors.

They just need to get their pricing right, trying to get the ship sailing again on release one is not going to work for them with the baggage they have from Andrew, this needs to be priced to right the ship and prove they are genuine and it’s not Alien 2.0 with Heighway 2.0 and use games 2 and 3 to get the business out the red and into the black.

Not a bad idea, what’s the best way you could follow up on Alien as a licence, Predator!

Get a Predator game out the door to follow up Alien (tonne of people wanted and probably still want a “good” predator game) and you would gain some kudos for that one.

After that might as well make a new Terminator pin with T1 & T2 together like Alien/s for the holy 80s/90s trinity!

Would have been great to see some new playfield art, I remember reading Aurich posts years ago saying something along the lines of Andrew not giving him a great deal of art assets to work with and what he got was a mix of comic, movie and artist renditions, a new cohesive design would have been the icing on the cake.

Wasn’t there another Alien planned after covenant? But it under performed compared to the studios expectations?

I wasn’t much of a fan of Prometheus or Covenant but the first 2 are all time classics! The directors cut of the 3rd is also pretty good it’s a shame the studio stepped in so much and screwed it up!

So could someone with more experience and knowledge of the existing Alien tell me how the hyperlock chamber has changed on this new version of Alien?

I remember when I was following the original Alien it was a physical ball lock then dropped?