Conyers, GA
So basically, I bought this game at the best possible time. I can't wait for TPF now! 
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Quoted from smokey_789:Now that you whiney-butts got YOUR update, how 'bout round 3 for Star Trek? .........guessing 12 thumbs down............
Lemme help you with that... +1.
Quoted from Duff:Funny noone has mentioned the mystery. When Is the last time you saw that many things in the mystery. It's like Lyman said " I got you f@k$ ing mystery right here. End of story. That's was good for a laugh.
I was wondering about that lol....seriously, 4 levels of depth? Like here, let me shoot the orbits a few more times into those deadly pop bumpers to try and get more lanes for a better mystery reward LOL.
Quoted from balselly:Not that I have seen. Someone correct me, but mine stays on full brightness during FTB, unless I am doing it wrong. Or do you have to complete a jackpot to dim the GI? Either way, I am starting to regret my Pro decision. Still not 2K in regret, but "re-thinking".
I hope you're wrong, especially given that the pros have incadescent in the GI anyways, don't they? Almost sounds too ludicrous to believe that the GI *wouldn't* dim, but the LED one does?! 
Quoted from Rarehero:Oh yeah, I forgot that Met Pro had Incandescent GI ....but I think SAM era Stern GI is just On/Off. The controllable separate GI zones of ACDC/Xmen/Avengers/Metallica allow for these cool diming and color combo FX.
That's really sh...
Guess I'll never play Fade to Black in CIU unless the scoring is extremely unbalanced in favor of it, or I absolutely HAVE to to get to End of Line. >=\
Quoted from balselly:Pro guys are finding out that they didn't get the bargain they were thinking they got.
Well, given the fact that I like the pro art more, and the choices of powder color Stern used on the premium is exceedingly MEH... I dunno.. 2.5k(?) for a few extra feet of wire, some sockets, and the ball lock mech to me. The cross is kinda cool, but visual only, and I don;t give a poop about the snake jaw honestly....and there's only 6 RGB inserts...not like star trek where it's all or NONE.
Just bummed about the GI lighting is all. This is one of those times where I wish Stern would let people with know-how do what they do best, because adding the GI in should be possible for someone with the patience to do it....but if they don't have the code in the Pro to support it, then it's a completely moot point. Would be interested to see if the LE/Prem playfields are actually routed out any differently to accomodate the 3x GI, and what differences there are on the MPUs to accomodate their LED driving.
I'd consider trading up at this point, even though I have serious SERIOUS doubts about that hammer to be reliable over time. 
Quoted from RobT:Uh....what powder coat on the premium?
They didn't do any differnt powder than the normal black on the premium? That just makes the price difference even more stupid. Especially given what I paid for my game.
Quoted from Purpledrilmonkey:There needs to be a cue of either sound or light to let you know that thing is coming at you.
"SCOOP DA WOOP! I'M A FIRING MUH PINBALL!"
Quoted from SolarRide:Orbits also
Good luck getting a large number of combos off orbits. I never have. Couldn't do it on AC/DC either, but granted, I think it's FAR easier to combo ramps on AC/DC than it is on Met. Feels like the ramp shots on Met are way way way tighter..
Quoted from RobT:By the way, if you really want to know when the ball is coming out of the scoop for timing purposes, simply hit both flippers at the same time = instant ball eject!
Word. I use this all the time. I dunno that I'll be as eager NOW with the CIU animations and the extra mystery awards, but when I knew it was 500k or Fuel, made it a no brainer lol..
Quoted from yancy:add a gobble hole for all I care.
Not necessary, it's already on the playfield. It's called the left outlane.
Quoted from Aurich:Quoted for great truth and justice. Is there a hidden magnet in that lane?
Nope, just the tormented souls of thousands of rookie players.
Quoted from gambit3113:Too soon.
Almost 20 years is too soon?
God, what do I tell the people on facebook that were already making jokes about the lost plane? 
Quoted from RobT:You mean almost 30 years.
Either way...
Quoted from gambit3113:It was a joke. He was getting thumbed down.
Deadpan is really hard to pull off on the interwebz. 
2 months later
Quoted from Rob_G:Are there already super ramps, super orbits etc shots? Maybe the band members could correspond to these types of modes?
No, not yet. The issue here is what are you going to do on a pro?
I mean, you've got pops, orbits, and ramps... but there's no spinners on the 4th one. Super Sparky? Super End of the Line Lane? 
Super Combos maybe.
Quoted from Aurich:This has to rank up there with one of the dumbest things Stern has ever done. Was anyone seriously going to spend $1500 more to get the spinner? Which is a cheap part. Totally boned the game by gimping the Pro artificially like that.
And I mean the whole game, because now Lyman has to either ignore the spinner for the most part, or make rules that are better and make sense for Prem/LE and stupid for the Pro. Nobody wins with that. Should have left the spinner in place.
At least I will have found one thing to agree with you on today.
I'm just glad they didn't cut the metal ramps. Seems almost odd that they cut spinners over metal ramps though.
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