Thank you kciaccio for gracing us with this in Houston Tx this weekend
What a blast!
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... and yes, Houston has a plethora of storm troopers.

yeah machine rocked it, played all day and no issues. I think it went over 800 plays...

kciaccio can you confirm that...

I did clean the glass 10 times...lol

So it sounds like these are getting more solid?

Thanks for cleaning the glass!

Game was on non stop from Thursday 1pm until sometime after 1am last night.

Expo ended today at 2pm. When I went down in the morning the machine was turned off. Been on 24 hours a day since Thursday and people were playing until 4am Thursday night and Friday night.

When I powered it up I found a ball stuck up by the right upper flipper. First time during the whole show.

I did a switch test to see if any switches needed adjustment and I Found 3 stand up targets by the ramps not activating and they are all on the same node board. Played with the cable but no luck.

Decided to pull the balls and leave on for looks today.
Show was only 10am-2pm anyway.

Ran like a champ up until this morning.
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Awesome! Mine has been running like a champ since I got it. Only targets that broke. I couldn’t update my firmware but i still haven’t installed the controller they sent me because mine plays great.

People keep hearing the noise on here from a few and they think all aliens have issues. I’m glad I took the plunge and bought it. This pin is awesome and PB keeps making it better.

I got a metal post in my care package. Is it just a back up or does it go somewhere?

Probably the metal post that goes in front of the right upper flipper.
The depth of the original wasn't deep enough and caused the post to move around when hit by direct shots and possibly chip or pool that area of the playfield.
The post you got was probably that replacement.

This one?

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Yep that's the one

Ok, I’ll replace it. Seems to be ok right now but better safe than sorry

Mines been rock solid as well.. so glad I jumped in at the $7k mark. what a awesome game! Top ten coming up!

Are people starting to rank this game yet?

I have been thoroughly enjoying this boat watching thread, but it's really great to see some real world reliability stats coming out from a show. I'm interested in an LE but I am still going to hold off for a bit longer to see how things pan out with the existing games (plus I would like to see an actual LE and not just a render).

I was in on an LE from heighway, with the blue powdercoat, and it was ready to ship to me at the time but I ended up backing out due to concerns about parts and reliability (if anyone ended up with one of those I would love to see pics btw! maybe you even got mine if you got it from Nitro). High hopes for this game and I really hope it keeps impressing like it so far seems to have been.

Wow, that's a crazy bug. Explains a lot of issues people have been reporting though!

You just gave a perfect description of me as well.

Big fix! Strong work Cato and team!

Thanks again for bringing it. It's the first game I've bought without playing first and now I have no regrets.

Does that really say "fly the unfreindly skies" on the playfield?
Never noticed that.

Speaking of boat watching, that Vienna Express is still anchored, and not yet moored. Who was offering to go out there and pick them up off the boat? I'll take you up on it!

Hello , I am not sure if this is supposed to happen or not but I have noticed when I am in a multi ball that after a couple balls drain the flippers will go dead and the remaining ball will drain. Is that part of the rules or is there a problem in the ball trough.

Yes it does but I like the quote beside it even better --- Bug Stomper "We Endanger Species"

Flipper should not be dying unless all the balls are drained

I haven't seen it for some time, but is there a part of Ambush that if you don't do something in a certain amount of time the flippers die? Mine had done this in the past, but it may have been a bug in an old version of code because I haven't seen it lately.

is this like getting booed off the stage during a song in JJ GNR? i hated that and was one of the reasons i didnt get that machine.

No, there is no such rule, and never has been.

I don't know as I haven't played GNR, but I thought it was due to them 'cutting the power'.

Don't hate. Just get better at pinball!

I hear that!!

"Thanksgiving? I don't wanna rain on anyone's parade but we'll be lucky to see these machines by Christmas!!"
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I just want it by the end of the month or first week in December. Looks like I don't have to worry about it being delivered while I'm gone for Thanksgiving though.

Who cares whether the game works or not or the bugs are fixed or not. The ship is moored!

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2.4 seems to have fixed the issues I had with the Xeno. Played a bunch of games yesterday with no issues that I noticed.

Unfortunately, there are major issues with ALL containers being delayed. 60 minutes talked about it on Sunday. They are backlogged by thousands of containers. Nobody is getting their products. Everything is delayed. I think my machine is on that boat and it’s depressing.

Is there anyway to avoid doing factory reset when upgrading? I have a lot of fine-tunings I'd like to keep. I wish there was a save/restore settings menu

You don't HAVE to do a factory reset, however, if you are talking about fine tuning coil power, that is why they want you to reset it. Those numbers change with the new version and will no longer be optimal in many cases. I had this discussion with Cato on 2.3.

I didn't do a reset on 2.3 and had to change settings because of the new coil settings. In 2.4 I did a factory reset and so far have not needed to change any coil settings. Remains to be seen if any tweeking needs done.

The most painful for me was losing the high scores.

Someone had previously posted a delay until 11/17 for that boat, but it's 11/16 and it's moored and presumed offloading. Don't know what that means for customs holds and inspections, but I would assume we could see a delay on that too... but it's quicker to dock than expected, so that's a plus.

So I finally had a.chance to look at my pin.

On the last day of the show that was from 10am-2pm.

This was the first morning I found the machine turned off. I left it at midnight with people playing still.

There was a ball stuck on right plastic by the upper flipper..Common I have seen on the forum, but only happened once at Expo.

I ran the edge switch test and checked switches. The 3 right stand up targets at chest buster and 2 on either side of ramp would not show active when pushed.

They are tied to the same node board so I thought that was the problem. Between that and the hyper lock binding I pulled the balls and set to attract mode for the last 4 hours of Expo.

Checking today, I found those three switches work during game play and single switch test but not on edge switch test...weird, so there ended up be no issues there.

The only thing I have to do to this machine after all these plays is see what is making hyper sleep ball lock bind.

Cato has been awesome. He said he is sending me a rebuild care package of rubbers,coils, and plastics I wanted..

He also asked if I needed any other parts he could send.

Great customer service.

I have not tried the new update yet.

That was the best part, losing my buddies high scores

You are welcome! It was awesome meeting all you guys that have an Alien or have LV on order.

Glad you had a chance to flip before yours get delivered so you have an idea on what an awesome machine you are getting.

Now we are kind of part of a Texas/Louisiana Aliens brotherhood.

11/17 was on the Maersk website for ship arrival.. stupid me did not account that was based on GERMAN TIME, so 11/16 USA time was accurate. I understand that containers can take 24-36 hours to clear customs. Freight company scheduling to Cointaker is unknown, cointaker turn around is unknown. So yeah its a crapshoot on when these are going out.

Correction. Hapag Lloyd not Maersk.

This would be a cool mod for our Alien...Especially since we just have just a piece of plastic that we have now. No wire or lights on it..

yes it would be awesome, but seeing how much trouble the Apron/BEacon modders are having lately this may never come to be.. crazy cool for sure.

I emailed him to see what he could do.

The SV Alien only has a piece of art plastic with no lights or anything.....Having an interactive scene back there of the eggs nest would be awesome.

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Went against the flow and skipped the factory reset and upgraded to 2.4 the old fashion way. Three plays later and I had broken the GM and set a new personal best An hour in and haven't seen any issues what-so-ever. I think we have a winner

Alright. I am in contact and working with the creator PinVision. Sending him pictures and see what we can do with that back wall.