Not too many Oktoberfest owners on Pinside.

86, ouch

I think I want one tho.

Any advice, warnings or praise to share?

Noiyce!

I just bought one a few min ago lol

Should arrive next week.

I'm a German that likes beer, brats, busty women & pinball.

This should work out nicely.

I have a NIB en route

Do I need to replace the coil stops or did those make it onto semi-recent production games?

When I bought a Golden Tee I was basically instructed to open the trackball day one to remove some copper tape. I didn’t listen & soon learned why I was given that advice.

If there’s any must do tweaks or parts let me know please. I will implement ASAP.

Word

I didn’t see any stickies here but found some sort of TSB’s on AP’s website which was cool

Game is en route now. Registered it today to get in front of the thing. Purdy sure the coil kit was stocked by the distro too.

I'm in the club boys!

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Agreed.

Once I get it dialed in the enhancements begin!

The ball often hangs up on a switch under the pops right now. Tomorrow I will dig deeper.

Other than that holy smokes!

Game was nicely packed for the trip here.

Feels very well built. Refreshing.

Reminds me of a bit of a 90's WMS. Campy & loaded.

Bravo AP.

So far I'm impressed. Looking FW to what AP does next.

Love my GT & HOSOI is the man!

Thanks. Foosball indeed. Been thinking of getting a new T-3000 coin op model to replace this modified Cyclone II.

Thanks. So far I've bent the switch as far as I can while still registering. That helped but did not resolve. I have since also increased coil power on the right & lower pop. That may have been the ticket. Time will tell. I have a few other ideas if not.

Will do. I believe it is worth it. Game is super cool. Inga is hilarious!

No McGill... yet.

I have a few Jim Phillips art books. He's done everything BUT pinball. He'd be a great asset to pinball. Without a doubt my favorite artist.

Speaking of art... Someone make an Oktoberfest overlay for the corner of the apron lol

AP, now that we have an Oktoberfest pin maybe go a tad NW & make an Amsterdam pinball. Space cakes & coners!
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So far I have not had the ball hang up in the pops since increasing coil power. Schweet.

Installed new coil stop for the upper flipper. The ball now flys off the yellow ramp & gets stuck behind Otto. Exciting! But unwelcome.

Anyone have that happen? If so what did you do? I'm thinking a clear plastic ramp cover may be required.

Yup. That fixed it. Thanks!

Sho nuff. All is good now.

Thats never happened to me, yet. Speaking of bugs tho. Ever have the right ramp up but the lock insert lit?

Anyone else have the lockdown bar wear the paint right off the side rails & go into the metal on day one?

My lockdown bar has a slight bend & burr digging into the rail. Totally minor but damn it bugs the shit out of me.

Considered getting new hardware from AP but if they're all borked & I'm getting pushback then why bother.

I did

Side note

Played SOBER, or whatever it's called. I was unprepared & unaware of this mode.

Anyway, Super cool!

Played it, or something like it a 2nd time. This was what I got. No lights.

Damn.

Is this the re entry bug?

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Newest code

No tilt.

This was during gameplay.

I went to snap a pic & the ball drained. But as you see it here is how it was during play.

Right arm

As long as most Oktoberfest's have some armor wear I'm good. None, zero, of my Sterns have it. But... I'd rather have armor issues than Stern's PF issues.

Hope the bug gets fixed soon. That sober mode is hilarious AF. I legit started yelling "no way no way" it was so unexpected, funny & cool.

Any idea on a bug resolution?

This mode is so neat!

Do y'all need beta testers still?

Since this is my newest game I play it a lot.

Sometimes my game ejects another ball when it shouldn't. As if it lost count.

Anyone else?

My gut says it's related to the beer barrel or ball trough.

What's the issue with the membrane switch?

Is it false switch registers or a lack of switch registers?

Or both?

My game rebooted when trying to start one handed play

Anyone else?

Happy July 4th gentlemen

Anyone ever have Otto start overreacting?

The dude is almost always moving.

Even when there’s not a game being played.

I don’t recall him ever being so active. The guy is looking back all the time too as if there’s switches being hit behind him.

There’s been so much Otto activity since I woke up today (game left powered up overnight) that I turned the Otto movement feature off.

Any insight would be appreciated. I will probably create a ticket on Tuesday & let y’all know what happened if I don’t figure it out by then.

Appreciate the reply Rosh. On a Holiday Sunday. Dang!

I didn’t see where to test Otto in the menu. Maybe since he’s been deactivated it’s not available. Or maybe I need to look closer. Will investigate more.

Here’s a screenshot of the active switches. Does anything look unusual?

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Otto indeed triggers the “bartender home” switch

Does anything look unusual in this switch testing result in terms of something activated that shouldn’t be?

Thanks

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He’s nuts

Good eye.

I saw that but then it disappeared when I checked again. There’s was another switch that fired like 10 times right when I went into that screen but then never again. Weird. That’s pinball.

Wednesday I plan to pull the history & send it to AP. In the meantime I’m checking for common denominators while playing.

I gotta say, if there was one thing to malfunction just before a July 4th party, I’d want it to be Otto. The game still plays fine without him, in a pinch. Whew!

Did y’all figure it out?

Nice. Good find.

I suspect my issue is similar. Hopefully.

My Otto really does seem lost, looking for something. I’m going to investigate this optic tomorrow.

Thanks