Quoted from Whridlsoncestood:

Question to those with 1/2 billion scores. Did you close up your outlanes? What are extra ball awards? When I get my 150 million games they feel epic. I'm also playing with open outlanes and extra balls off. I've also had the game since the first run of pros with the fangs and honestly must have close to a thousand plays by now
-Jim

Quoted from Direwolf:

I am playing the game exactly the way it came out of the box other than changing it over to free play. The outlanes are factory. I have gotten really good at nudging to keep the balls out of the left lane which is where the majority of my drains were coming from. I have found a little nudge just as it is heading towards the left lane will usually cause the ball to bounce off the post and back into play. I typically backhand the left flipper to the grave markers and try to hit the captive ball to slow down the ball on the way to the Sparky shot. Doing both of those has eliminated a lot of the center drains. And I haven't had too much trouble with the right lane drains.
My 1/2 billion game in that picture has been a one off so far. Everything went just about perfectly in that game. I had a Seek and Destroy that added 83,000,000 and a Fuel that added just over 100,000,000.
200,000,000 plus is what I am normally averaging and I have had a ton of games well south of 100,000,000. I just put up a whopping 15,460,000 this morning.

Quoted from RA77:

my observations so far
as posted on the "difficulty of Metallica thread"
I will only comment on the LE
Players need to remember that Lyman and Code team are genius,
the amazing aspect that some players forget is the "Learning - Growth " of the software
it all comes down to how good you can play as to what code can be opened up,
I am sure many players have experienced this,
you know your replay scores increase as you get better
the modern pinball to me is all about progression !
fresh sounds, new quotes,
Spidey still trips me out with some stuff I have not heard before .
so some of us chase
the ultimate "Wizard mode "
so far I am very impressed with the Metallica LE produced by Stern
The talent of Borg, Sheats and all the team at Stern is exceptional.
so, Pinsiders please
be nice, be patient
you have a great team doing their best to deliver
Ando