New code. Should be released by then

Just entered the club yesterday. Pretty impressed so far. Need to do surgery on the game today tho. The ship shots do not register, nor does the ship lock the balls. They did work on arrival but something happened around game 10 or so. Need to pull the ship cover and open the manual.

Could be a switch or opto, haven't poked inside the ship myself yet to see how its done. One thing to note is that the tie wrapper guy went bezerk on this game and there is zero play in the wires. I had to cut some to free the wires up as I had a couple connectors pull loose from boards. So check that first.

Congrats! Who did you order your game through?

Joe at PinballStar. I ordered early the morning the game was announced

Yea I am thinking opto also. I did hear something hit the bottom of the cabinet similar to the sound a screw makes when it drops sometime during the first few games.. Will update later once I get inside the ship

When you check it out, the online manual has the ship switch numbers in the correct order. (it was updated). There are 3 optos.

Service menu, switch test. shiplock1 closest to the exit of the ship, shiplock2 next to it, rightrampenter closest to the entrance of the ship
http://s4.american-pinball.com/img/support/2022-3/Rampage-Manual-10-19-2021.pdf

see figure 3-5

Joe at PinballStar. I ordered early the morning the game was announced"

Wow its crazy that you are only getting your game now. Its been 5 months since that time and looks like its going to take well over a year to get through all these LOVs at this pace. Supply chain must be crushing AP right now.

Spoke this morning. Sounds like the E-clip that holds the spring came off.
LOV ship down post

That is correct. lost the c clip off the post. Found the c clip in the bottom of the cabinet. Used the link above. All good.
Excellent support form Steve at AP!!!!!!!

So in the club with about 40 games so far. For those that are waiting, I believe you will be happy!

Excellent packaging. My first NIB AP( I had a Houdini HUO from a trade for about 15 minutes) So I was impressed.

Beautiful game. I like the art work. Different style than any thing else I have/had.

Mirror back glass looks super.

The gold powder coating looks solid. I am not a fan of gold powder, but this comes off well.

The apron looks great with the gold inlay. Cannot read the instructions on the left side of the apron. Font is too small. My wife noticed and pointed it out. I told her it was ancient Norse writing due to the theme. She was impressed. My story and I am sticking to it .

Top of the class hardware used under the play field. Very impressed with that.

Sound / sound tracks are outstanding. I struggle to think of a game with a better sound track.

A lot of call outs to help along the way.

A lot of hand drawn pics for display on the LCD. Similar approach as JJP Pirates. I can see how this is not somes cup of tea. Fine for me. Sound and call outs more important to my play.

All the shots are satisfying. The two outside loops are tight but can be hit. The ramps are pretty cool as well. For the two that return the ball to the flippers, a weaker shot seems to get pulled through the bend. The ramp to the ship is very makeable. Reminds me of Dr Who. The two inner loops are really cool with the magnet helping.

Plenty of flipper power to make all the shots

Combo’s are make able and satisfying.

Light show is very good. I prefer colored GI setting over bright white. The lightning show at the end of each ball is top shelf.

Code seems well done. A lot to do and battle sequences are player selectable to head off linear play. Need to study the rules a bit to better under stand.

Plastics look better in person. I like Odin, the skull pile is ok. Only one I do not like is the plastic warrior “collect weapons to unlock” guy. I may remove him when my mod couples mods show up. The ship looks better in person as well

Real knocker that is integrated with game play versus just match/ extra game. Cool idea.

Shaker could be used a little more. Maybe future code.

Overall a very nice package. Will be interesting to see where the code goes. I think more AP games will be in my future .

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Double post. Sorry

Thanks for taking the time to review your new game! Enjoy!!! New code is being vetted at tpf this weekend so you’ll have something new to load next week.

Solid review and great detail sulli10 and I agree that the “Collect Weapons” plastic could be more. Are you putting in the Boathouse mod? I hope it doesn’t block too much view cause it looks pretty nice. One thing I would add to you comments is the sound of the ramps. The make me feel like I am unsheathing a Viking weapon for battle. Adds to the satisfaction of the shots and works so well with the theme.

So made it to Valhalla tonight for the first time. 128M GC for my table.

But I won’t lie, I hit a weird condition which triggered Valhalla on a plunge. I have a recording if you want @luvthatapex2. Short version is… with all 8 tasks complete, I was in Rampage and the ball bounced into the shooter lane right as the mode timed out. I thought it might have triggered Valhalla (which was my hope) but it didn’t cause of timing. Nothing weird yet. So I went to plunge with the expectation of needing to hit the scoop or shooter lane shot again. But the plunge I assume registered the shooter lane switch and went into Valhalla mode. The really weird part was then the game popped up a second ball and fired it off. Two balls didn’t help and I only got 3 of the 9 weapons in Valhalla. I will take it for the first time in the mode.

Also, the 8 tasks light and Valhalla were lite till I hit the first weapon and then just Valhalla was lite. Not sure if that is by design.

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Edit: patched in latest code

I ordered the game in October. It appears I am low on the list. Losing interest for sure. Looking to others for my next pin or may buy an older pin.

Same

I know waiting sucks but given the state of the world over the last two years delays are not unexpected. It's a really really fun pin so I wouldnt give up yet. More and more are being shipped every day.
That being said there other fun games as well you can pick up now. What's better than a great pinball game? 2 great pinball games!

Only two modern games I MIGHT pick up before LoV. Willy Wonka or Godzilla.

Flow with a few tough shots ie crossbow, longbow and dagger…and club isnt easy.

Otherwise the wait is worth it. Be a grown up <——in good fun nothing hateful

Yea, I'm a touch disappointed as well. After seeing both LOV, CCR, and Halloween slooow rolling out. I'm likely not pre-ordering anything again. I could have picked up all three machines from other distros who randomly got stock on hand...e.g. Hemisphere (who had extra CCR SE's already) and Operation Pinball (who had extra LOV's already). For me, moral to the story is don't pre-order, I am seeing time and time again random dealers get one or two on hand you can buy ad hoc, before your pre-order is ever filled.

Now this i can understand a little. I did not preorder the machine.

Logistics (distribution) as FAR Part 37 does need FAR Part 46, Earth wide.

Does anyone have an idea of how many machines have actually been shipped?

Some news from TPF regarding Legends of Valhalla

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/american-pinball-announces-artist-for-next-game-production-schedule-more?fbclid=IwAR3U8m9wwtw9_r3GWeTUJ1q5HU8oLHxFxgqTrKEBEZILI8c3IMxbwRrQHxg

Cool to see the update and happy to see the transparency. Also, really cool to see they will be providing art blades to all Deluxe owners. Looking forward to seeing the art!

Wow, amazing! Inner art side blades is really the only thing LOV was missing.
Looking forward to see what Scott have done.

Yes putting in boat house.Did not notice the ramp sounds until you pointed out. Nice little touch!

https://www.american-pinball.com/support/updates/

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Uploading new code now !

So own this cool game less than a week. Get new code and find out also getting new side art as part of the package.

What is not to love about that????

Updated! Now just need to put some games on it.

Great support and customer service. Hopefully my local distributor gets a few LoV deluxes and I can join the club.

Whenever she yells “Vanaheim Combo!”…we hear “Vana White Combo!”

Added the kracken holograffix artblades. Thought I’d share if anyone was interested. I ordered them awhile back before AP announced the artblades for deluxe owners. They look really good with light reflection.

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Those look nice. Hope to see on other machines

I get my LOV this week. Excited! Loved it at TPF and Expo. New code is great! I'm sure more to come.

Guess I need to follow this thread, wasn't aware new code had dropped! Excited to check it out.

Got my game set up last night. Very impressed right out of the box. Art and sound are A+.
Installing the new code tonight when I get home.

Thanks Joe @PinballSTAR. Always great service!

Those blades look great! I love anything with a Kraken on it.

You order is day 1? Trying to keep track of where the line is at.

Yes. Day 1.

Got to Valhalla and Ragnarok tonight in the same game but didn't beat either one. Darn it, guess I'll live to fight another day!

Wow that’s insane. Well done! If you need a bit more challenge, there are some settings to make it harder!

Haha I was wondering about the pulse the kraken magnet setting on exit. That could be interesting.

I tried to cheese the last battle before Ragnarok and just trap up vs. Hel but apparently you thought of that and it stopped counting down haha.

One thing I realized yesterday is that the Fenrir wolf plastic on the right sling makes things more difficult as he blocks sight on the ball coming down the inlane. So it's tough to adjust to a speed change if it rattles or comes down clean. I was getting annoyed bricking the simple ramp shot and I realized that was part of the problem
Jormunganor blocks the left sling sight line a bit as well but not as much and not so critical.

Anyway, not complaining, just something I noticed.

Haven’t noticed this myself. But now am going to look for it my next games. It’s tough though, cause the look really cool to me. I like that they are there in the design.

I have been trying to figure out how to turn up the music volume without also turning up the callouts. The music is so good but honestly I have a hard time hearing it clearly over the constant callouts. I just want to bump up the music a little bit but all the settings I have changed doesn't seem to make any difference.

The music, callouts and effects are balanced in the mix. There are no separate volumes for music/effects/callouts.

Steven Bowden joins us on twitch.tv/buffalopinball tonight at 8pm CST to play Legends of Valhalla.
We will be playing the latest code release, discussing rules & strategies. Also the programmer and designer will be in chat.

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