Is anyone making ramp plastics to stop airballs yet?

I'd buy one!

I will buy one too

Ive tinkered making a few.....surprisingly, it needs to be only a few mm in front of the targets to work.

I imagine we will see a few choices coming out.

I'll buy one from ya for sure!! Let us know if you want to make a few for sale. Hell I will take 2

So, is the LE any more forgiving than the pro. I'm seriously considering the premium, but the pro at a local arcade kicks my ass so badly that it's sometimes borderline not funny. Hard is fine, but this feels ridiculously hard (and yes, I know I'm not very good)

I would be in for one of those ramp plastics as well.
I've recently added the Pinball Universe fix Kit: the outlane plastics and floating centre post both seem to really help. I did have to use a different screw to attach the post to the plastic as the one provided didn't properly fit. However, the kit was a breeze to install and I'm very happy with the results.
I think the ramp plastic would be a very welcome mod to reduce the airballs.

Premiums are shipping?

Test machine, Stern frequently sends Logan machines to test in the wild

I think so. Mostly because the magna slings are no where near as aggressive as the regular ones.

Past 200 ghosts, and whether its coincidence or in code, some neat tricks from the magna slings.

I've seen it hit the left saucer, more frequently after 100 ghosts

Over 200. I had 2 balls flung up the left orbit to top lanes.

Last was the code that has the ball frozen. More often its doing a little dance before a bizarre fling,
but past 200 on multiball, I had it grab 3 balls, and they spun!
Like in X-Men LE, when the center disc grabs all the balls!
Not a fast spin, more like a rotating in the palm of your hand, then flung outward!

Just something unexpected in the middle of multi ball!

Also, seems the cat appears a lot more as the ghost totals rise.

Love the music in the higher modes too! Sweet!

What would they be testing?

I thought the opposite. I played an LE this weekend and compared to my Pro, the airballs were out of control on the LE. That left ramp really throws that ball around. As for the aggressiveness of the magna slings, I thought they were not responsive enough. There were a few times the ball hit and just rolled off and drained as I was expecting them to bounce off.

I'm not trying to be biased or trying to justify the LE purchase but think the magna slings are great. They seem to respond nicely on my game with standard exchanges between the slings and then throw in a random unexpected move. What I like is that they really make you feel uncomfortable having the ball out of your control as you cannot anticipate what may happen at all. My flipper responses to the ball hitting a sling is like trying to pick up a $100 bill from the road thats connected to fishing line and someone keeps jerking it away from me each time I get close. Really can frustrate you and put you off your game. I like that.

The manga slings are FANTASTIC.

It's hard to believe we were all so worried about them and it turns out we should have been worrying about outlane guides.

Interesting.....the only place I get any airballs are off of the stationary targets. The Scolari Brothers targets don't give me any to speak of, and the left ramp has never given me one that I can recall. But the stationary targets....happens all of the time. It is interesting how different games have their own personalities. I wonder how much is a result of degree of tilt....I have the playfield at 6.8 degrees, and I have meticulously leveled side-to-side at both the front and the back of the game.

This morning I 3D printed a Terror Dog for my machine. It came out pretty good I think, good enough for me =)

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Your terror dog looks cool. Nice work.

+1 exactly what I am hoping to do too! Sweet!

Was this a Public 3D file?

Yeah that looks great, perfect for that spot. Now to light up the red eyes.

Yes, this is the one I used. I resized it since it's pretty big to start. Obviously I maintained the ratio and just changed the longest axis to 58mm. You might want to go a hair smaller if it's going on a pro and you might be able to fit the back end a little more under the plastic.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:385156

To give you a little better idea how it fits in there. The back is right up to the ramp so if you go a bit smaller you can probably fit it in there better.28818184636_196a937b5a_o_(resized).jpg

gotta 3d print yourself some money to buy more pins!

OK, who brought the Dog?

You can adjust the power of the magna slings, that may help. I can't wait to play with that feature and crank up the slings.

I did, so now can we quit asking? lol Love the game, but man that callout gets old at times......Brings back memories of when I brought the ugly girl to the party. (It was late, and I had been drinking heavily.....my story and I am sticking to it)

But really...nice mod

Yeah that callout is ridiculously tiring after a while, I just hit both flippers and skip it. There needs to be random callouts on this game, they are the same and always in the same spots every time you play.

I believe there are a ton more call outs in the code so maybe a new code release will change it up.

Same thing with GOT -- tons of unused callouts left, which you can listen to in Pinball Browser. Hoping too they'll address the repetition.

and now, the "play the game" GB

found from which part of the playfield these 2 smalls parts (thin, 1cm long, with some transparent, red & black) are coming ?
was playing, than my eyes saw something "flying", due to a ball contact i suppose...

honestly i'm checking since 15 minutes, and i still dont know !
i was afraid for a clearcoat piece (round a insert as example...), but all seems OK

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edit : the parts are to be switched, the black sides are next to next

Could it be from the translite name badges of the characters?

to remain in the theme : good guess, but wrong

I thought it was interesting that the last Facebook Stern video shows their Ghostbusters with Carrot Flippers installed.

Pretty telling of how brutal the game is, and how the flipper gap was probably a bad choice when even Stern themselves install longer flipper bats on their own machine!

Yeah that pretty ridiculous, wouldn't it be crazy if later run GB's had a normal gap

Its entirely possible, seems they might have done that to play test the game with that flipper set up. Without the center post mod I probably would have given up out of frustration by now. I might even remove the post and just install the carrot flippers I have, just to see what we like best.

Yep. Factory / Designer - purists minds are now blown. Interesting indeed!

My guess is it's is a piece of the subway track..

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mine is a pro... :/

of course, i spend more time on it, checking all around, but still didnt found the solution

It still has the track decals doesn't it though, just on Pro it is on the left ramp unlike the LE which has just the metal ramp then the track decals down to the subway?

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You may want to call your distributors and ask this..."out of all the LE's you have shipped how many are reported ghosting?" If you look on here it looks like about 10 or so folks are speaking of it. So I have spoken to 2 distributors and both stated they had not gotten one call or complaint about it after shipping LE and Pro models. So it makes me ponder, is it just a couple batches of playfields, or a small % of units overall are just badly produced? Either way I find it interesting to figure out how bad it is. A few folks on here with the issue seems a lot, but maybe the reality is like 1 in 10 LE units have this issue. Any thoughts?

Of course a distributor will tell you that, they are in the business of selling you games- not giving you advice to not purchase them.

I really like the game, but man, these redundant call outs are getting old quick. I cringe whenever I hear "who brought the dog" every time. The game is so tough that every game is pretty much Who Brought the Dog, Spook Central, We Got One, or Spooked Librarian- which can get old quick.

I'm really just thinking after owning STLE that I'm not a fan of Dwight's coding style. Hate to say it, but Lyman and Keith's code is just on another level, and this code seems to simple and basic to me. The multiballs are so lackluster. Literally impossible to hit a wizard mode.

I know there will be plenty of people who disagree with me, but this machine at first is awesome but unless Dwight ups the quality of the code, will get old quick to me.

I hate even saying that, because I've waited so long for the game and it's a dream theme to me.

Even if I wanted to sell it, the playfield is ghosted so I can't.. thanks Stern !

Just hit both flippers right when you hit the mode shot and it will skip the sound and video clip.

Not being sarcastic, can someone explain the following to me:

1. I realize I can unplug the shaker, but why does it not turn off completely when you turn it off in the menu? Or am I missing a setting somewhere? I have it set to "not installed" and it is still fairly active. I don't mind it except at the start of the multiball (goes crazy), but I would like to turn it off when my wife is sleeping. Between that and the fishtales fish slamming around, it keeps her awake! lol

2. I get the reverse flippers, and actually like the challenge.....but does anyone else have issues with it switching back and forth between regular and reverse during the multiball? I have had it happen a couple of times and it is confusing to figure out. You end up losing several balls each time it switches. Is it supposed to be that way?

PS....KPG, just hang tight. I am sure the code will get better. I know they won't admit it, but the developers do follow these threads, and our concerns and criticisms will be heard and hopefully taken into consideration. For a first run of code, this is pretty good, although I do agree, those callouts get old.

I read somewhere the flippers change back/forth when a captive ball is hit.

I can see that sucking tho

1) Unplug it if necessary. Easy to do.
2) Captive ball switches between reverse and normal flippers.

Agreed. If the flippers are gonna reverse, I'd rather just have them stay reversed, like in TSPP's Springfield Mystery Spot, because I like to cross my arms and play with reversed flippers (which works well for me and is actually fun, IMO). If the captive ball is constantly getting hit and reversing the flippers back and forth, that seems like it would be virtually impossible to play.

The book stacking captive ball is the key, whack it to swap back to normal and back to opposite flippers again...

I've read several people offering the same feedback on the reverse flippers. I would assume it will be addressed in a future code update or maybe a menu setting that prevents the flippers from reversing when the captive ball is hit would work?