Checking in! Hoping to get mine at Pincinnati this year. We shall see!!

Official club threads are my by anyone that gets to it first after the game ships.

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I don’t use anything. I just pitch my game steep and adjust it until it plays to my liking.

Playfield could be warped. Wouldn’t be the first time.

Definitely not in the game now, and isn’t guaranteed to be there in the future either.

That’s extremely common.

You drove from AZ to play? Brutal!

Haha. I didn’t see the game was down pic.

But how would you have posted that stuff? You don’t have your game yet. And when you do have it, you’ll still be able to post all that.

Anyone could’ve started this thread once one game left the factory.

My point is, no matter who started the thread, we wouldn’t have known this game was down had this other person that saw it, not posted.

What’s the best way to get to the upper flippers for service?

Is it straightforward getting the upper playfield off?

I’m not paying until my game is ready to ship. I bought through Flip n Out.

Care to share what’s required to take it off? Any dos or donts? Looks like everyone is having to take this off for service in the first week. Haha

What issue?

It means everything.

It means more now than it ever has. The fate of pinball rests on its shoulders.

Playfield is upside down. And frozen.

Yeah. No one is going to be able to chat. Haha. You need to follow them for a month to chat.

It’s right side up now, but the video is effed. Frozen for long periods of time.

Best thing to do I have a delay on the reset of the drops to make sure the ball has time to clear the area. Also, on ball search, have the drops drop (if they are memory drops), and stay down for a second or two before resetting.

Yeah. And hopefully have a fix for if it does happen to get stuck, will the ball search fix it or will the game have to be opened up. Would help for location games.

Is the chase ball feature adjustable? Hopefully it will be for people that don’t want that to happen with stuck balls for tournaments.

Changing the drop target reset timing seems to the easiest way and what stern does on games that have had that issue (TWD, AIQ)

Contact spooky for any issues you have. Then report back when it’s fixed to help others that might have the same issue.

If only there was a way to stop all this. Hmmmmm. Hint. I haven’t seen them post in years.

To be fair, it’s the club thread. All folks interested in the game welcome. Just no trolls and shit posters that have no interest in playing or owning the game.

You’d think, yet dummies always find their way into the club thread to rain on the parade.

Why not just hang out in the hype thread? I guess not getting enough attention there.

Or you know, don’t be a jerk. There’s constructive criticism, then there’s trolling. I’ve had tons of conversations with manufacturers that have left to positive results. There’s a right way to do things.

I’ll join ya!

We’re clearly not seeing eye to eye. You think trolling is okay. That’s fine, but lots of us don’t agree with it. You can go about your game issues however you like.

Try drop dead foam.

Search the thread. Already been posted.

Not hard at all actually. Scroll to the top of the page and search there.

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Fair enough. That’s my bad. Thought that post was here.

Played a game and a half. The artwork is insanely good. Just awesome to look at for starters. Haha.

All the shots feel good. Little stop n go with the trap door on the left and the mystery machine. Maybe it was the mode I was in, but I’d rather the horseshoes fly most of the time. Only have the ball stop for like moments. Big collects and mode starts and such.

Upper playfield is MASSIVE! I thought GOT was big.

Didn’t play much up there, but liked the shots.

Oh I see. Maybe I just kept rattling balls in the horseshoe and it was falling in there.

Are modes supposed to have a timer? I feel like I played the lock combination mode for like 5 minutes and it still didn’t time out. Eventually completed it. Haha

Cool. Yeah hard to hear it here.

With how wide the center shot is, it’s not a gimmie to get it to the top playfield. Seems it’s rattling up there somewhere a lot.

Silicone.

Had to leave and play my matches in the tournament.

Not dead yet! But I’m down to my last strike.

Upper playfield flippers would definitely play better with higher power.

Ball would whip around those loops and those standups for Captain would be deadly.

I would suggest waiting to drop reviews on this game until the code is done. Probably better to do it this time next year.

No I meant when it’s done. At least feature complete. Because then you have to go back and update an early review for more progressed code. Rate it now, and your critiques might be NA due to code updates.

Rarely if ever. I might be the only one. Haha. Can’t hurt to try and get others to join the patience party!

Stock is way to easy to keep the ball alive for sure. But it can be made way hard really quick.

Yeah if you do an early review and have caveats in it, and go back and update later with more time on it/finished code, great. I just like to review a game once. So I wait. Haha

Still. 500 plays shouldn’t show anything anywhere except maybe some light ball trails that will easily clean up.

Make sure if you get a show game to change the trough eject power before they start letting folks play it.

Pretty sure that’s a powder coating metal ramp. I guess it could be a painted plastic ramp, but that would be a first for me.

I have, and I’m still not a 100%. Just going with that as that seems more likely than a painted plastic ramp.

Always a gamble to buy a pinball machine. Old, new, any manufacturer.

Trust your gut. Plenty of time to wait and see how the game shapes up. Then buy.

But you’re allowed to dislike/hate anything you want. Not sure why anyone would try and convince you otherwise. Everybody just play what they like.

I think it’s silly to post in a club thread if you have no interest in the game whatsoever. But you 100% do not need to be an owner to hang in these threads.

That shouldn’t happen. Each footprint shot you need to hit twice. Then the bash toy lights for MB start

Yes. Once one goes out, you’re done with that one. When all are out, the bash helmet is all that will be lit.

It’s apparently a maladjusted shooter lane switch.

I think some pinheads literally take in every bit of content whether they like it or not too.

I used to, then it got to be way too much. Was easier when there was one stream, 1 podcast, and one YouTube channel.

Luke told me it’s most likely a maladjusted shooter lane switch. Try that.

What troll? I don’t see any trolling.

Like the start button lock in. Data East love!

The one I played was fine to the center ramp from either flipper.

It’s definitely NOT like Halloween.

Just imagine perfect artwork with perfect shine. Zero imperfections.

They pay someone else to do it. If they can find them.

No. The manufacturer/distributors take care of that.

They aren’t if you use the tools at your disposal. If someone is clearly not contributing to making your experience here an enjoyable one, set them on ignore. Eventually all the bad apples go away.

Good to know. I don’t want to replace screws and have them pop through the playfield.

Like in the combination lock mode. It took me close to 5 mins to complete that mode and there’s no way I should’ve been able to complete it. I screwed up the combination at least 15 times and it still let me complete it eventually. I think if you get the combination wrong 3-4 times, you should fail that mode.

I also think I’m creeper you should get less time between shots or at least have it be adjustable.

Use a ball when testing, not your finger. That’s all I got. Maybe the switch in the shooter lane isn’t registering all the time when a ball is sitting there.

Unless it’s the stranger things kit, it’s not real UV.

Me. I didn’t think it shot clunky. Shots are all relatively easy. The one I played was setup pretty shallow and I plan to up the power of the UP flippers to help with the action up there.

Early early code, so I’m gonna see where things are at at the end of the year when I get mine.

I definitely see it as a more laid back game.

If you’re unsure, they is typically okay.

Yep. That’s why I try to use they if I don’t know the person personally.

I saw somewhere that a player had a negative score. How is that possible?

Also, will the end of ball bonus bug where it gets added to the wrong player be fixed next update?

I like purple cocks.

Sweet! Thanks. I don’t know how the negative score happened, just saw a screen shot.

Because they couldn’t help themselves when ordering before they played it and now want out and don’t care to lose money. Seems silly to me, but so does buying something they weren’t sure they wanted. Haha. Their loss, your gain as they say.

There’s plenty left and lots of preorder spots to buy at a discount. Just get some good time on it and see if you like it or not.

I have surge protection at my box and via surge protectors off the plug. Everything plugged into Alexa here too. Staggered. 4-5 games turn on at once. Each 4-5 games is on its own dedicated 20 amp circuit.

With the stop and go it has, feels like stern POTC to me.

And trips up top are either empty trios where you want to go right back up (tortuga), or when you’re up there, you’re there for a while.

And the horseshoes are long, so not as fast as typical horseshoes. TSPP has similar properties of stop and go like scooby too.

I didn’t mention those games. Only POTC and now TSPP

Also has the same drops area as itchy and scratchy and also the bus is like the heart chest. Can be a while to get the ball back there.

We know. Enough. Stop.

Typically assuming typical show hours and being up for play for 3 days, the game will have around 500 plays on it.

Learning that Captain Culter can just be played over and over? Can we make it so you have to solve a case or play a case to play him again?

Either way works. Right now, I think it’s the same every time.

You have to hit all those twice (they will go out). Once all are done, his head lights for multiball start.

I’ve seen them both, extra shine to the butter for sure, but even the decals look amaze balls.

I’ve noticed no glass rattle on the couple I’ve played and they were plenty loud.

I don’t think that’s an issue with spooky games.

Pinside is great when you customize it. If you leave it stock, you’re going to run into trolls all day.

I’ve tried to convince him to make them. He’s not interested.

I never play with the room lights off. That helps.

They can be used in any pinball machine. They just might get magnetized at some point if the game has magnets. Scooby has magnets.

Yes.

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Pick up some rubbers and a pin mat while you’re at it.

The decals stern uses are very heavy duty and can take a beating for sure.

That’s my plan.

Do you guys share bets code with certain owners? Might be helpful to get different kinds of players to help test.

And those that can stream, even better as I know getting the weirdness caught on camera makes it much easier to squash. Hint hint. Haha

Took me all of 5 seconds of watching that stream to see that it makes the upper playfield action way better.

Contact spooky first thing Monday and they will get you sorted.

Yes it is. It just grabs the ball at random right now per Spooky. I’m hoping that changes to more purposeful usage in the future. Slow shots should still go around.

And spooky_dj can we get a setting to disable the drop target save?

Part of the process of buying from a small company like this. Just be prepared and do your research and you’ll be fine.