The Stern rules say "Portal lock is lit via combos or grid bingo award. Once lit the disc opens up to lock a ball. Portal lock turns the next quest into a multiball."

Combos- (4 for the first one)
Completing Hawkeye Challenge
A computer grid award can also light it

here are some mods i have on my machine. still deciding which ones to keep are remove. 1st shows captain american shield and thors hammer in back field and captain america shield on lock down and 3-D Tesseract Flasher mod . second shows Thanos shooter rod. 3 rd shows decals at exit ramps. Have not seen any blades that I am excited about yet but hope the Topper won't be $999 or I will pass.

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I dont usually chime in on mods as im not big on many and it all taste. Its your game. Do what you like. That being said...the tesseract is super out of place. It has nothing to do with this version of the story and even if it did it would already be in gem form.

Is it a pro thing for the Thor lights? On the LE/premium the Iron Man inserts are warm but the Thor letters are cool.

Holy hell. Wtf error (I hope) is causing Mezel Mods shipping rate a set of plastic protectors to be over $28usd to Ontario?
Hey Mezel guys, i know you frequent pinside. Help a Canuck out lol.
Protector $27usd
Shipping $28.11usd
Shipping weight: a few ounces
Shipping dimensions: 8×3×3 inches should suffice.
Something is wrong here.

Computer always gives me IMMB locks in .92 version... Haven't tried .93 yet.

Dunno, haven't seen a Premium/LE IRL. I'll check the Pro THOR sign since I'm taking pics of it now for the bracket. It may be cool, just not the bluish light the sign with electricity kind of demands.

Will certainly buy a premium in the future. Mods id consider are the sanctum and tower. Other than that, I haven't seen anything that caught my eye. Shooter rod is fine, but I'm on the fence. Would like to see a better glove and I see someone is designing it. Too each their own. If you like it leave it in.

Tower and sanctum or vires improved plastic are brilliant! The thanos face isn’t for me but it’s still creative and offers up a nice visual boost for those that like it, but the rest of the mods I’ve seen for this game are pure junk!

Keith and crew did a great job of packing this game out, there’s not really a lot of places to put things and everything is already there that needs to be.

Arrived this morning going on the wall next to my LE.

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Let the opening commence...

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Enjoy! If it makes you feel any better it’s well worth the wait.

Agree with you, crazy high prices. Stern should be ashamed of trying to take such advantage of us for $40 worth of material. Also, it’s not hard to “sell out” of anything when your allotment is only 2 or 3, which is what many of these distributors only buy. Think Stern has made themselves look greedy and bad with this high price decision. Black Knight and Munsters were $399 and look like a bargain now. Both those toppers are so much better than what AIQ or TMNT are offering at more than double the price.

The fact that I can purchase a PlayStation 5, and an RTX 3080 graphics card for the price of that plastic topper, should tell you everything about how outrageous that price is.

Fuck off STERN.

Good comparison and does show what big time price gouging Stern is doing. Some say toppers are worth more down the road, but think that was when they were selling for $399. Now no one in their right mind will pay you more than a thousand for some flat plastic and LEDs down the road. Stern has killed that idea and made themselves look so bad with this very greedy decision. Would think AIQ topper will also be $1,000.00 for just LEDs and flat plastic. The Chinese who sold those parts to Stern for literally pennies must think we are crazy in the western world paying those sucker prices. As the saying goes: a sucker is born every minute, lol.

Really hoping Stern ends up sitting on a pile of these, with few buyers, sending a message to them, we won’t be “bam-boozeled” with their high price gouging any more.

In my best Simpson's Comic Book guy voice, "Actually, there is no gem form of a tesseract in the comics. It is called the Cosmic Cube and was developed by the evil group called A.I.M. Since in the comics they are separate entities, and the pinball machine is based on the comics and not the cinematic universe, it is okay to be used".

Having said that, it is not my favorite mod. I do love the plunger though.

Anyone else start having issues with the ball walker mech after .93? Mine worked great until I put .93 in. Now it has to kick up and down a couple times to move it from the first to second stop.
Maybe just a coincidence and my walker needs adjustment.. is there a way to get .92 still to see if it works properly again?

If AIQ topper is $999 Stern can f**k off with that topper too

Keep them at $599 and I’ll buy and that’s still giving Stern a monstrous profit, $999 and your straight up taking the piss out of your customers.

Prefer all my games being played topless.

Good luck finding either one of those though, people are paying insanely high prices for the 30 series nvidia crap, and nobody I know is getting a PS5 anytime soon. At least with Stern you will get something before Xmas.

I haven't had any issue with the walker in the new code. I installed it pretty soon after it was released and I've played a few hours on the new code now.

Overall, since I adjusted my walker last Sunday I played 5 hours that day and 1 to 2 hours per day every other day this week (including today) and all balls are moving through it the way they're supposed to. I've had had zero issues with multiple balls between fingers or fingers getting stuck.

I’ve got two 3080’s and have two PS5’s on the way for Thursday (not scalping, second ones are for friends). If you know where and when to look, they’re certainly attainable!

I am, was anyway - until the entire mech broke.
Was hoping I had a good mech but appears not

Even after .93, it was still not right and was still behaving like my previous posts. I still believe my issue could be fixed with code

Calling Stern for replacement subway mech

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Not "Robot Rock" from IM2? Gotta leave some love for Daft Punk.

3080s are more attainable once everyone realized NVidia screwed up on them and they're essentially accidentally crippled. Waiting until early 2021 to buy the revised cards is the way to go.

Ok my subway mech was working perfectly fine Before I just updated the new latest code and now its giving me problem on the last Third gate it won’t hit the ball up to the scoop.. is it just me ???? Dammm you stern. Looks like the last gate gets week and the mech doesn’t reach to hit the ball..

Mine is also causing problems after the .93 update. I haven’t tried adjusting yet.
If anyone has .92 link they can share I would appreciate it. Before I start messing with the mech I’d like to see if it’s ok in .92

NERD ALERT!

What was your build date?

So........

The game is working fantastic out of the box. No little issues that I've seen others posting...... Yet.

*Deep sigh*

The stupid issue I have right now is my ramp optos are plugged into the wrong places....

I got into soul gem, and hit the black widow ramp literally 9 times in a row without advancing. It was weird though, as it was giving me points and "working"

Open the game up, Did a switch test.

Fat ramp is reading left ramp, black widow is right ramp, etc. Etc.

I mean, it's a stupid bad silly error, but why is this not caught during the final testing that stern says they do on every game?

I know people rag in their quality inspection, but this is really a silly miss.

I am going to swap the connectors around and figure it out, and relative to what I'm reading it's not a big deal, just silly.

30 second job, and all is well.

I just feel bad for anyone who isn't versed in pinball tech.

It's simple to those of us who understand it, but would suck for someone who just bought a machine because it was a cool purchase or they wanted to entertain the family.

Always two sides to every coin.

Chances are these types would never know there’s an issue. Haha

Not sure what you're referring to here. The last finger doesn't hit the ball up to the scoop. That finger is just supposed to lower so the ball rolls past it and then the ball just rolls into the VUK. If the last finger isn't lowering enough for the ball to go past then it could be an alignment issue. If the ball is rolling past the finger but not making it to the VUK, then it could be because just past the last finger balls have sometimes been hanging up at the end of the center channel that the fingers poke up through because there's no taper at the end of that channel.

Gravity is doing all the work to move the balls in the mech though. When a finger lowers the ball is just supposed to roll past it to the next finger or into the VUK if it's going past the last finger. Once it's in the VUK then it's popped up to the wire.

You are at least the third person it’s happened to, including me. Minor issue, agree it should be caught. There are a lot of opto plugs under the pf, but interesting how it’s the same opto being plugged in incorrectly. Maybe they are labeled incorrectly..

If you haven't tried testing the walker mech in the Subway Lock Test menu item under Diagnostics then it might be worth a try so you can see how/where it's not working correctly. That test walks the ball through the locks from start to finish so you can see how everything is working and where a problem area might be. All you have to do is enter Subway Lock Test, pull out the interlock switch, and drop a ball into the open disc and watch it progress through the lock spots. You'll be able to see how well the fingers are aligned in the center channel as they go up and down and if the mech acts up you'll have a chance to see where it's acting up.

Doing that test and checking alignment is at least worth a try if you're having issues, especially since tweaking the alignment only requires lifting the playfield up, loosening the nuts on the metal frame of the mech, slightly changing alignment, and re-tightening the nuts. When I adjusted mine last week I thought I had it at first but then when I started playing again a couple fingers were sticking so I just did another quick re-alignment.

I'm pretty sure the harness was made incorrectly... They were plugged in and the wires matched each other by color, so now that I have reversed them (making the game function properly) the wires don't match anymore.

I did swap the wire labels though, for future testing purposes if ever there's another issue.

LoL

Likely very true

His outline design is not friendly. I think JP is harder only because the shots seem tighter, easier to lose control (and then outlanes). Also the slings seem to get into their own game that we can just watch. I own both and they have made me a much better player, all about maintaining control.

Glad to see it’s not just me! I had two 300mil plus games back to back thought I was finally getting a handle on the game next 10 games 10mil if I was lucky.

Definitely find Maiden and JP harder overall but they can all equally kick your ass over and over again before having that one game where everything just clicks. All amazing games too but this time the theme was something I loved, so it puts it at the top spot.

BTW has anyone got their subway out their game currently or a warranty spare/the old broken mech to hand?

My best game I only got 2 gems (failed the soul gem, ugh) but then did black order multiball, and won battle royale. Score 500M+, which was almost double my previous best score. Is there a thanos battle after this? I thought I basically completed the “story”. I’ve done better doing a bunch of easy combos before taking the portal shot even when it’s open.

Check your settings it could be set to “walk through”. Feature adjustments but can’t recall the number.

There are three metal fingers that should usually be up to hold balls. There is a lever under those fingers that holds them up. If that lever is stuck so that it's not holding the fingers up, then nothing will be there to stop the ball. Have you lifted the playfield to see if the lever that pushes up against the three fingers is stuck? The lever is connected directly to the plunger for the coil on the mech.

Yeah, this theme does nothing for me. Glad you like it! The more I play AIQ, the more I'm liking it. Nevertheless, the ball/game times are MUCH shorter than IMDN and JP (for me, at least). I found IMDN had very long ball times and was the easiest of the triumvirate (by far).

I’m so loving this game! Installed a couple Mezel mods yesterday!

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So this happened on mine on location this weekend while I’m traveling out of state of course. Is the fix just some slight bending I assume? Been on location about 3 weeks with no issues until this.

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Raise the gauntlet ramp up just enough to allow any ball that jumps onto the upper rail of the Marvel ramp, to pass under, problem should be solved after that.

What is your games "born on" date?