you're not an ass man?

AP and the team should be proud. Looks like they did a great job and learned a lot from Houdini. Well done with this title so far chaps.

Let's get this topic back on tap; a lot of criticisms and focuses on the negatives. Check out SDTM's quick glimpse with Josh Kuglar. The game overall just looks 'fun' and for a good time. Yes, there's some inconsistencies, but let's applaud what AP has done here so far (remember its early); but they packed this game with pinball and fun, all with a theme not many could think had a place in pinball.

You do realize Hobbit holds the royal crown for Math-Depth right? do mode A and xyz modes will be multiplied, etc... And how many modes and multiplier algorithms are there in hobbit? ...nuff said. And I'm Not saying it's a bad thing, as I love that kind of detail to code. I'm just saying, Hobbit is the champ in the Math-Depth department, IMO; though, Pirates is taking a stab at surpassing it.

EDIT: And the first thing I'd do if I ever owned a hobbit is remove the center post, add lightning flippers, open the outlanes, and have at it. That's what's so great about the code, sure there's enough depth to cover a 45+ minute game, but progressing through most the meat of the content and wizard modes can be achieved with a hard setup game like that which makes subsequent games different from the previous.

After seeing the Beatles Pin posted by SDTM; can we now relax on Oktoberfest’s art package and consider it a homerun?

New pins, hard work, long hours, community effort...unsung heroes. Kudos! Looking forward to checking out the VOD replay, but can’t wait to see what comes next (code wise) with OKTOBERFEST.

Not to be too picky. But, pinside shows Oktoberfest as a 2018 game; shouldn’t it be a 2019 game? <Granted it does hit production this year>

Thanks for sharing Zach! How have the animations come along/improved?

rosh can you stack steins? Like maybe per ball, so you can get 2-4 steins built up but lose them at end of ball?

SDTM streaming now btw for anyone interested!

Still not feeling some of the music. If they want the hard rock feel but want to keep it relevant to the theme, they should look at music like Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly.

Haha good point. It’s still early (I hope), so who knows where they go with the music. Some of it good, some of it needs work IMO which is hopefully the missing pieces of code still to come.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looked like super bands were on the flippers? If so, I bet a traditional black flipper rubber would greatly increase accuracy. From my personal experience, super bands suck donkey balls on upper flipper shots like STLE or X-MEN.

In my opinion, display is very important. It ties the entire game together, very much like an insert matrix on the playfield. So the animations themselves really don’t need to be good or ground breaking, but where the focus needs to lie in the display is conveying information to the player - mainly scoring display, followed by rules progression. This is where fonts and information display becomes the key factor, not HD art.

A Good example of this would be IMDN and how features on the insert matrix are tied into the main display dashboard, and scoring features are very legible and easy to follow along.

Poor example would be Aerosmith. They did a good job of showing scores and progression but the fonts and colors used are so washed out it’s hard to follow along with.

Hopefully, API figures out a happy medium for OKF, this game looks very promising and quite fun too. Can’t wait to flip it.

Please do! Maybe a dual option adjustment to turn one on and the other off? I don’t mind having to pick steins, that makes sense. But modes/tents really slow the game down, it seems like they would fit better as a traditional pinball related mode in that some other feature on the game drives what mode is lit (i.e. pops, slings, Ramps, or even flipper buttons like DI/LOTR).

And honestly, It should be like that by default. One of the biggest issues new players have with Pinball is making decisions. Let them figure out later that flipper buttons or switch hits can change their mode.

I’d also advise with not having tents be played til completion; One and done so to speak. Some of the best games dangle carrots for the player to get via modes; LOTR with gifts, IMDN with soul shards and tomb awards, TWD with multi kills and horde. Have players play for perks - playing modes over and over til their complete is a false sense of achievement.