A question to Safecracker owners (or people who have played it enough to have an opinion): How is the left exit down from the pop bumper area "supposed" to feed? On my game it goes SDTM often enough to annoy me. Is it supposed to feed safely to a flipper?

On a 3-balls-per-game title this issue would have been a showstopper, but since SC is time-based you might say it's not a big issue, but they still feel like cheap, unfair drains.

I just discovered that there is now quite a bit of Safecracker tournament gameplay available, thanks to IEPinball's INDISC 2019 coverage. Quite interesting to watch, and I came away with a realization of two things: 1) I really need to rebuild/tune my pop bumpers, and 2) I need to try playing with the settings they used, as it seemed more interesting than stock.

Adjustments/settings at INDISC (taken from tiltforums):

A.2 04 Starting bonus x at 2x
A.2 10 FIRST WHEEL POS changed to LIGHT LOCK
A.2 13 Vault JP allowed - NO
A.2 19 CONTINUE CHOICE changed from NO to YES
A.2 20 RANDOM KNOB NUMS changed from YES to NO
A.2 21 Max token payout
Left inlane disabled.

There were actually only two games streamed. For some reason it felt like more, probably since it's so rare to see SC at all at these events Here are the two games I found:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/363395618 -- SC starts at 3:29:45

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/363097275 -- SC starts at 5:13:10