LE V1.04 - July 13, 2021
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Fixed:
- Game:
- Fixed an issue that could cause a game crash if a display element was
requested before it was initialized.
- Fixed an issue that caused Top of the Charts Challenge to be selected
when the player attempted to play a competition game from the game play
menu.
- Devices:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Electric Magic Device not to raise
on the first shot that should have raised it.
- Display:
- Fixed an issue that prevented completion time from showing during the
Top of the Charts Challenge total screen.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the SONG CHANGE IS LIT display effect
to appear when it was not lit.
- DJ Mixer:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the game to start when a player tried to
exit DJ Mixer.
- Lights:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the light shows to slow down when
Icarus X was started on games that did not have a topper.
- Rules:
- Fixed an issue that prevented the player from re-playing World Tour
multiball from the beginning if they had previously reached World Tour
Victory Laps.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Top of the Charts to end early if the
song mode you were playing matched the song that started Top of the Charts
multiball.
Tweaked:
- Adjustments:
- Removed the "ARE PLATINUM SONGS SELECTABLE" adjustment. Platinum songs
can no longer be re-played until after the player completes "? Multiball."
- Game Timers:
- Changed the Icarus X Timer to pause during Song Select and Tour Select
screens, as well as for other game choreographies.
- DJ Mixer:
- Changed the DJ Mixer playlist to continue to the next song when it is
finished instead of repeating the current song.
- Removed silence from songs in DJ Mixer.
- Display:
- Changed the "Mothership is Lit" display effect to no longer show on the
display after the player drains out of Top of the Charts Challenge.
- Added an attract mode screen to show the current game play mode and
instructions on how to change the game play mode.
- Changed the mode total display to appear after grace period. This gives
the player an accurate mode total if they scored any points during grace.
- Song Select:
- Changed the Song Select Screen to skips songs in which the player has
achieved a platinum record.
- Sound:
- Added a timeout period to prevent the Start Game - No Credits sound
effect from playing repeatedly when the start button or action button was
pressed.
- Improved the timing of the "Tour is Lit" speech callout.
- Lights:
- Changed the action button color to Orange when Band Boosts are maxed out.
- Removed the Hermit arrows from the Zeppelin Jackpot light show.
- Icarus X:
- When using a Band Boost to boost multipliers, the band member symbol(s)
that get(s) boosted will also light if they are not already lit.
- Changed the Icarus X overlay to show the multiplier and timer value on
the display when all band member symbols are lit but Icarus X has not been
started yet.
- Changed the order of Instant Info to show the Icarus X status as the
first page of instant info.
- Combos:
- Changed the base combo value to only increase during single-ball play.
- Boost the combo base value when a target bank is completed.
- +10k for Ball Save bank.
- +15k for LED bank.
- +15k for ZEP bank.
- +25k for ROCK bank.
- Completing a target bank by terminating a combo awards double the values
above.
- USA 1975 Tour Objectives:
- Changed Objective 1 (Shoot 6 Ramps) rules to no longer allow the ramp
that was just hit to progress the objective.
- USA 1977 Tour Multiball Rules:
- Scoring a jackpot now immediately lights a 3x Super Jackpot on a timer.
- When the timer expires, it decreased to a 2x Super Jackpot.
- This is decreased further to a 1x Super Jackpot, which will stay lit
until it is collected or the multiball ends.
- Increased the number of switches needed to light the first super jackpot
to 50.
- Top of the Charts Multiball:
- Added a Platnium Jackpot.
- Platinum Jackpot is lit at the left eject upon going Platinum in a song.
- Platinum Jackpot awards a Platinum Bonus equal to 2.5M * the number of
platinum songs you have * the number of balls in play.
- World Tour Multiball:
- Boosted the maximum tour multiball jackpot +1M for each city jackpot
earned during World Tour multiball.
- Added "Mile Multiplier" which multiplies all miles earned while it is
active.
- Side flipper shot raises Mile Multiplier.
- Mile Multiplier resets back to 1x any time an add-a-ball is awarded
(every 2nd city jackpot.)
- Changed the Right Ramp to award twice the miles of other ramps.
- Electric Magic Multiball:
- Increased hurryup value to 1.25M.
- Changed the multiplier timers to briefly pause at 20x and 40x while
a ball is being added into play.
- Added a display effect to show the Electric Magic super jackpot award
when the ball is first knocked off the magnet.
- Changed the timer hurryup to start at 10x if the score hurryup times down
to 250,000, and 20x if a ball is locked to end the score hurryup.
- Extra Ball:
- Disabled the records extra ball if competition mode is on and the Records
Extra Ball is set to AUTO.
- Song Modes:
- Tweaked the shots in Communication Breakdown. Intro and Verse shots were
reversed. Changed the chorus shots to include the side ramp/target and
exclude the center ramp.
New:
- Lights:
- Changed the mode arrows on the Hermit shots to now blink in sync with
the beat of the song that is playing.
- Display:
- Added instruction screens for Tour Multiballs.
- Can be turned On/Off with SHOW TOUR INSTRUCTIONS adjustment.
- Added an Icarus X overlay that shows the value that Icarus can be started
at when all band members are lit.
- Speech:
- Added speech for Mothership multiball super jackpots.
- Added countdown timer speech for Mothership multiball super jackpot.
- Added "Mothership is Lit - Shoot Top Eject" speech when the mode is lit.
- High Scores:
- Added Platinum Bonus Champion.
- Adjustments:
- "BUILD ICARUS DURING MULTIBALL" defaults to YES.
- Install Competition changes this adjustment to NO.
- "EARN SALES FROM ACTIVE PLAYFIELD" defaults to YES.
- Install Competition changes this adjustment to NO.
- "ICARUS BOOSTS SONG MODES"
- Boosts the value of all song mode shots by +15k per Icarus hit this
ball.
- +5k per Icarus hit this game.
- Adjustment Options:
- ALWAYS (Factory Default)
- NOT IN MULTIBALL (Competition Install)
- NEVER
- Moved to System 2.80
- Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.74.0
- Moved to 0S 2.0.20
LE V1.03 - Internal Release
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LE V1.02 - April 14, 2021
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Fixed:
- Game:
- Fixed a rare issue which could cause a game to get stuck in a reboot
loop.
- Band Boost:
- Fixed an issue that could cause a ball to be added into play when
multiball was not running.
- High Scores:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Icarus X high score to record
incorrectly.
Tweaked:
- Lights:
- Changed the Electric Magic Spinner light show to keep the GI level
consistent as the spinner rotates.
- Moved to System 2.74
- Updated to nodeboard firmware v0.69.0
- Added Standard Audit "Total Power Ons" which will display the number of
times the machine has been power cycled. This audit was added in
system 2.45 and is not included for displa
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