Hard to dial that in quickly on an unfamiliar game. Sparky and some shots, or two sparky and you are going to be at crank it up.

Video / Link / more details on this?

Interesting. Tournament Metallica ruined forever.

Still pretty risky, especially if ball drains left when exiting piston shot though.

No...we got it.

At least Snailman and I did. He tried to do this to me at a public location 2 years ago. The problem? This trick is garbage on a game that has the outlines wide open and ANY LEAN to the left? Get ready for that mother to bounce on the outline metal and right out on the return. It happens a LOT. Ball spin just adds to the unpredictability. It's not worth the drain.

It's a neat trick to pull if you're a top 10 player or you need 15 million points and you're desparate...will it ruin tournament Metallica that this gets out? LMAO not a chance in hell. I'll eat my hat if it has any substantial impact at all in a major tournament.

exactly
i have been doing this for a while to, even during crank it up. i choose fade to black and shoot rt ramp, left piston target over and over back and fourth
when outlanes are wide open, you will lose the ball out the left sometimes, it will moonwalk or hit rail between inlanes and bounce to the left.

thats why it doesnt always work.

well, this is not "new", as surelly lots of others, i was doing this since i play MET

now, not only the right ramp is not so easy, the piston shoot can also became hard when pinball has a great slope (as in tournament)
than IF you still really master these 2 shoots, yes go for it, else not sure its the good tactics...

Yep. And I still do it. I would qualify the above that it doesn't happen "a LOT" on most MET's. It's infrequent enough that it's still a valid strategy. But if you're not dialed in the piston shot, misses to it often have deadly consequences.

The best is stacking it with other stuff. My favorite one ever was stacking it with Lady Justice (this happens all the time, cuz you're hitting ramps), For Whom the Bell Tolls CIU, plus 2x scoring. Profit.

I find my scores to be really inconsistent on Metallica...mostly because sometimes I get unlucky bounces off Sparky and it's game over before I can start that multiball. (And then the consistency of, if I start Sparky, do I come out of it with CIU lit, or close).

Wondering if this would lead to more consistent scoring. Really sick of putting up 6m in a game that matters.