Of course it’s ridiculous. It’s now #2 with 29 ratings! I think you are missing the point. This is where pinheads are allowed to be excited about a great new game.

How does one see the latest stats ?

Make no mistake about it, this game is Bad Ass! The hype is real, and this game is the real deal and then some.

It's time for some suprise summer concerts from Iron Maiden.

It would nice to be seeing them soon with all this hype.

Yep. I have over 100 games in on my Pro and agree. It's hard to believe that there's even a better version of it coming out (Prem and LE) that no one has even seen or played yet. It might just break the Pinside ratings scale

Let's see...

1. New, unique layout that isn't STERN's typical copy/paste. Check.
2. Nearly complete code at launch that is well balanced, low level of bugs, addictive, and really fun. Check.
3. Amazing art package. Check.
4. Great call outs and other sounds. Check.
5. Service rails standard on a pro. Check.
6. It's only been about a week, but no obvious breakage areas (i.e. GOTG orb plastic, SW Tie Fighter, XM wolverine, etc.) or major design flaws. Check.

Yeah, I can't understand why people are excited about this game either... must be an awful game if the main things pinside is bitching about is the FONTS used in the display and the band itself.

I'm going to hold my pinside review until I play the heck out of a premium/LE, but I can tell you the rating is going to be up there.

...and here we go again, people who haven’t played it criticizing those who have

Listen, I have 100+ games on mine. I don’t typically rate a game I own this early but it’s the real deal and I could care less if people want to hate it without playing, but I’m giving credit where credit is due.

Ratings are all subjective and opinion based and each machine will click with some and not with others. So go find one and play and see for yourself if this game is for you or not. But There’s only one pin in my mind that has a chance at being better than IMDN-PRO, and that’s the prem/LE hahaha.

Played some more yesterday and was able to get through more of the game. Absolutely love it.

No idea if this helped or hurt me, but I was all about starting multiball, then letting the balls drain so I could get the autofire to feed the upper loop and seeing how many loops I could get going during the ball save of multiball.

Would be cool to see how many balls you could get going around the loop at once. Haha

Wait were you trying to Baratheon this thing up haha

I’ve gotten 2 balls going but it doesn’t last long, that loop is wicked fast!!

You know it!!

I agree that this skews the top 100. MB will be #1 when the remake comes out. ToM will be in the top 5 when it happens for that title. Look at the aerosmith reviews. Each person that "currently owns this game" rates it above 9. That game is a fan layout, a kiss remake, and it's top 20. To be fair, I've done similar with DILE...

Top 100 shows 16 approved ratings, but if you run a custom 100 for last 6 months, it shows 30. Back at the top again. It will be fun to see how it is received as it gets out there the next 6 months. I don't care what they say, this is an exact science...

And it is still ridiculous...star wars was #1 briefly

You can't compare a playable whitewood prototype to a production machine, other than showing a bit of history.
And until you've built your 1st pinball game you don't realize how much work is involved.
I would say the "Stern method" is taking any game concept and converting that into a reliable cost effective mass-produced machine to enjoyed by thousands of pin-heads.

This time the rating might be warranted. This is the best new pin I've played in years, it really is that good. And, I'm not a Maiden fan...

Seems like the animations are of varying quality too though, with that flying bat being the worst offender. The whole bat sequence is really atrocious. I'm hoping that they've just shipped an early version, and that they can fix up the 3d. It'd be a damn shame if these assets remain an eyesore in what sounds like it might be Stern's best game to date.

I think the display is perfect for Pinball. It’s simple and legible. It’s not a video game we’re playing, it’s pinball. That said; yes there is room for improvement but glad it displays info I can see and read quickly while playing....almost like a dmd but better.

Dialed in displays all the useful information you need, but the animations look like Pixar made them. Stern should up their game if a recent startup can produce such magnificent visuals. Yes, information should be readily accessible, but it doesn't have to look like a c-grade college student made the animations.

I guess the LE/prem reveal is tomorrow.

Source? Not insinuating an untruth, but confirmation would make a lot of pinsiders happy!

I'll be at Allentown to try it out.
I hope it's as good as you say it is because I like my music pins.

I’m not a big fan of all of the display/animations, but I love the aces high and hallowed be thy name ones. I also really like how they always display how many more pops, ramps, spinners, targets, and orbits you need...that’s so handy.

Just trust him.

I love the ancient mariner mode’s animations too.

It is, Imo it is the best music pin (maybe not by a lot, as both acdc and Metallica are great, and Guns/Roses is very cool) on top of being the best new pin Stern has made in the last few years. If I liked Maiden, I'd like it even more!

Or they should stick with 2d motion graphics and video for their displays. The vector art used in IMDN looks great, and they could have commissioned 2d assets from ZombieYeti that would have matched the rest of the art package really nicely. There's no need to make terrible 3d models and animate them badly. Again - some of the pieces aren't that bad, but they all look a little low rent relative to modern 3d.

Hope you're right!

Its not a bat, it is eddie aka icarus dont be ignorant!

I was told the Prem/LE reveal is tomorrow as well.

12:01AM......

no, 11:58PM.....

I have an LE on order, can't wait!

The operator that I work for has a pro on location. There has been a line to play since we dropped it off last Wednesday. Friday our Newton ball fell apart. The post came out of the ball and the newton ball and ball behind it went in to the ball trough. Location called saying the game was kicking out 3 balls at a time.

I had a newton ball from Pinball Life, but the shaft was a smaller diameter. I heated the ball up to red hot and then re inserted the shaft along with some JB weld. Has been playing since Sunday afternoon. No call yet.

I was playing Sat and the software got really confused. The song select menu stayed on screen while in game mode. Everytime I flipped the song changed and it would not start a mode. Turned it off then on and game has been functioning normally. .92 software.

Weird. Thanks for the updates of what to look out for.

Hope it makes money and hope your LE is fantastic!

how i said few pages behind, my only "complain", watching live stream, was that the action seems only to be at the upper center, as quite evbd was shooting there... nothing right side (as simply there's nothing under the right lane, pity to not have put a "sneak in" scoop behind the right upper flipper, to add another shot)... and about left side, spinner, target power, or bumpers seems to not really been aimed !?

what now as lots of you have & play this game ?
just a ask...

Quick impressions
I thought that when watching the stream as well, but in real life it didn't bother me much. The drop targets are pretty far over to the right, so I never felt like I was ignoring that area of the PF. The upper left flipper has 2 shots that are also pretty on the right so that may make up for it.

The left ramp/bumper cluster has more happening than you'd think. It has a PF multiplier target there plus the spinner and things to aim for (lit shots, revive, power spinners), another target right in front of it with extra ball/orb, plus the ramp which isn't hard to hit BTW.

Overall the middle of the game has more focus on it, but it seems like a big area for it's size. Still don't know what everything does but I'm getting there.

Left spinner: I shoot for this when I want/need the X target for multiplier. Also great for the revive feature; double outlane save is huge on this game. Lastly, and this doesn’t come into play until you start learning rules and strategies; but that spinner is also used to cycle through your battle modes.

Pops and Ramps: you better believe you’re gonna want to be hitting these if you want cyborg mb. Ramps is probably the hardest power feature to qualify for cyborg mb. Power pops is great to go for if you want to stack it with another power feature for a multiplier power jp.

Target power/orb mystery: such a sweet target. Hard to hit but also hard to accidentally hit. You’ll find yourself aiming for this when you want add a ball in aces high or ROTAM; also, you’ll find this target gets a lot of use in cyborg multiball.

Loops: well, this is fun risk vs reward. Still having a hard time seeing what my loop jackpot values are because the game is so wicked fast. But there’s a high score table for everything and I meant everything! So when your blasting loops with an2X or 3X multiplier and get 60 loops HS or a 200 mil loop HS at the end of your game, you know you did something cool.

The modes do a good job of making you shoot the entire playfield. In "Rime" you start off the mode having to shoot all the left side shots. In "Icarus" you have to combo the ramps. The power features also make it so that you have to shoot ramps and orbits. You have to shoot for ramp combos a lot in single ball play if you want to make Cyborg multiball.

At the beginning of the ball (when ball save is on) I also try to go for that lower left spinner as much as I can to try and light "revive" and also to toggle the modes.

Just got an email from my distributor asking for the remaining payment for my LE. They said LEs have gone into production and should ship in 7-10 days

Anyone else get a similar notification?

Crazy considering they havent showed them yet... screw that. Paying for a pin u haven't even seen lmao..

Who's your distributor and yeah I agree that's a joke full payment for a pin you haven't even seen yet????
If I don't like the LE I will downgrade to a Premium or maybe even a Pro depending on what they look like.

I would sit on that email until tomorrow since it seems more and more likely the LE will be revealed then.

Banks are closed so no need to blindly send money. Payment request definitely gives some weight to tomorrow's reveal!

I think I speak for many when I say
SHOW us the GOODS already!!!!

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The distributors who actually have LE's are driving the ship on this one due to incredible demand. I'll bet there won't be much lag time between payment request and sell to the next guy on the list...

Yes, I did. Said will be ready to ship within 5 days.

The software still has glitches, that's for sure. Sometimes it will drain and the game will not know it has drained for a LONG time. I've opened the coin door mid-game to make sure the trough switches were all triggered and they were, so it's definitely software.

Got my payment request for LE as well... it’s happening!!!

It's Christmas Eve ladies and gents!!!!