Thing to note, shipping out is one thing, but also doesn't account for units picked up from the warehouse direct.

Too many sculpts and powder coating

With only so few machines out there and so many showing issues, there clearly needs to be a slow down in work and an all hands on deck to address the construction of these things.

The issue is scale of problems. So we've had like 50 machines or so sent out only and how many of those so far have we heard of QC issues? Quite a few. Same thing happened with TNA recently, a small run, and lots of reports of problems.

Now comparatively, yea the bigger manufacturers have issues but to the same extent? Doubtful. When you have LE runs of a stern being 1000 machines, then many times more prem, and pro models, a single launch run at Stern in one month is likely outputting more machines than what these smaller companies produce in 18 months. Now with many times as many machines, if QC was same level, things would be a dumpster fire in stern discussions but really they aren't. Yea a bad machine and problems happen, but again it's proportional.

At capacity they can produce 500 machines a week. Stern is huge and is growing again. They pump out an entire LE run of 1000 machines in 2-3 weeks on average lately.

DP I think gets one a week done

Why not do like Godzilla did, when MB triggered, allow player to choose the music they want playing? Folks were whining about the BOC song that always played in that mode getting repetitive, so they added in alternatives you can choose

Dude regrets posting that comment now

I mean us Elivra owners getting brand new runs of the game are going through so many issues with this well produced and old machine run by such a large company. I've had to make several adjustments out of the box, and if you look at the bigger issues folks keep coming up with on this recent run, it seems pretty sketch.

I think early adoption still is a concern for all pins, but for smaller companies especially I simply would never want to be an early adopter so that manufacturing issues get ironed out.

Spooky has made 7 games now, but they also tend to keep changing their procedures and designs, they aren't working with standardized parts or got a set in stone hardware toolset like what Stern has been doing. I think perhaps a change to all new boards and tech on their end was gonna have some growing pains as well but folks really wanted Spooky to move away from the pinotaur stuff

That seems overly generous in protection geez. I can see why some folks thought the early models were waaaay to easy

I understand these take time and they got to be working on new stuff, but it is frustrating to have folks waiting on code and for the machines to be finished from their last game run, while they got a new machine that needs attention, and then they are going to be working on something new already? While I look Spooky, they still need to get their previous games sorted out and still have to prove themselves on this one.

These things are usually shipped in batches, especially to distros which means they would go out at different times as it's usually best to have multiple units ready or to fill a container. Obviously distance is a factor, how much the distro ordered, and as Spooky mentioned before, despite their order number, folks all don't pay at the same time which causes delays in shipping out with a batch and forced to wait till next available space. Then direct vs distro orders are gonna have differences in travel times as well. You also got butter cabinet orders which take longer often as those are made in batches as well separate from the non butter units.

Spooky has gone over it before but theres many variables which affect time of arrival.

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This is where in manufacturing you stop. All hands on deck meetings, you get folks on the page and begin finding out whose doing what wrong. It's great they are growing, but I think perhaps they are growing faster than they can handle.

Problem with Rick and Morty is the license was limited and expired, so they couldn't get more episodes in afterwards

Have to think it's related to them growing and possibly newer staff? Cause while there was some issues with Halloween/UM, it was nothing like what we have seen with Scooby so far, especially all the wiring issues and such. Outside the early tweaks to those machines and the problem with the powder coating on Halloween, the QC issues on those machines were mostly smaller things it felt like, or those who got a bad batch of the same computers. But so far the scooby issues are another level it looks, so perhaps they have really had a ton of new workers who need further training

Scooby support is top tier no doubt. But yea have to question the quality control when some of this stuff is being shipped in this condition.

TNA is done and conplete.

Those target decals have taken a beating. Is t

Sounds like they are going out in order, higher numbers will have to wait likely

Weren't the early machines shipped out with the posts in the top position? That folks were finding it too easy and they changed to moving it down for default?

A month or two, they are done in batches so its a bit random when you get your in.

That looks pretty beat up frankly

Yea I'm in SoFlo and no Scooby's on location

I had that with my Elvira, I would live the pf and basically just make sure all the plugs are in tight.

In case you didn't see it, Eric Stone played Scooby:

Butters are done in batches outsourced, so it takes a good bit longer to get them.

They were live streaming from Hollywood Horror Nights, not a game announcement or such

If you want a CE you might want to put an order in with Spooky as they might be getting closer to the end soon on the CE production. They are reaching the 1000's and folks buying new slots right now are getting numbers in the 1200's, so it sounds like the CE production is going to be coming to an end in the near future.

Assume unclaimed slots if remaining in the run will go to whatever a person buys if they still have time, but wonder if that means waiting for them to finish the production of BSE and SE models after

Wonder if this will work on Halloween? It seems to be the same auto plunge mech and I've been having issue with mine over time getting random weak plunges, I will adjust and it will be fix.... for a while and they it repeats.

I thought they said there had switched to using metal ones after HWN and UM ?

The one thing with spooky games to me that seems to stand out is it always seems that their wireframes are really loud sounding. The flippers have always felt great and have a strong hit to them, but dunno why but their wireframe rails just always have a unique sound and aren't as smooth as other developers

Halloween is also a bit louder in it's mechs. I think it's something to do with the design of Spooky's cabinets? You just hear more of the inner workings of the game than other companies. Was wondering if there is any sound dampening that can be done inside the cab cause like the flippers, the diverters, the ramps, rails, all just sound more on a spooky so there just is more sound coming out of that cab.

Butter is random, as they do them in batches and it can take time, the buttering up process is done by a third party and not by Spooky themselves so they have to wait till they get a batch of cabinets back from the company doing the butter process. Depending on when you paid, your cabinet might have just missed a batch. I know butter for me added like a month and a half wait extra.

Its interesting how everyone was complaining that the game was too easy when it came out. Now it's too hard

The game will keep getting attention for a long time after, but it's production is coming to a close soon and they have big new launch to move onto. In manufacturing you need to keep your production lines moving, what a few are doing with like code and such is just a small part of the whole system, and any time the production line is not flowing in a factory, you are losing money. They simply can't put their whole thing on pause to work on one thing at a time. Thankfully the new games have their own teams and coders working on them, so scooby and halloween, UM, got their own guys as well who will continue to work on them.

Over a year since they stopped production on them, and they still are coding and supporting Halloween and Ultraman and continually improving those games still way beyond their production runs. Scooby is still being sold and they have slots available for it still to offer, they already talked about all to come, it will happen. Ultraman right now has a big update in the works too, so there is a whole lot going on at Spooky at the moment

It's also holiday period, Nov-Dec have lot of gaps in work created which slows things down all the while they are prepping their new product launches.

Yea friend's bond edges look like bad car accident victim right now.

Yea I wouldn't trust that dealer for future purchases with that kind of attitude.

So there's that book case mech we saw teased

If they put in this topper with the original CE, the price would have had to be much higher. Actual mechs, better materials, and an LCD built in? This is completely optional buy in, and your raging?

You got a topper with your CE, others don't, you still got something for your money that others didn't.

That's kind of the weird thing. "top of the line" is such a nothing phrase when pretty much every product never is one and done. It's funny how many "top of the line cars" are not really that, cause of all the optional accessories you have available, package trims, and then limited versions released later.

Spooky put out a product, and advertised what you get for a price. You bought that product and got what they advertised. Them adding an optional accessory later does not change that you bought what was advertised.

Again that's the wrong assumption with all these topper discussions.

No the CE didn't promise EVERYTHING, it promised what was promised. You bought a product that came with X features, and you got that. This is an additional product that was never promised or included in the original sales agreement.

It's like you just want to ignore all the content they have said is coming to the game just to rant about something and anything

No, you get the hurry up score points for advancing to it, but the mode is for the topper.

Coop mode added. The new green ghoul inserts/feature is added. Character perks got revamped. Character chosen also now automatically has their mode lit at VUK. That's whats been brought up so far

The update contains both

They said tomorrow prob

The sculpts on the field are part of mechs, hence they remained. The sculpts removed are all the pure cosmetic ones.

I know early on they had stated that Cutler and the Van were gonna be in all versions, but nothing else was ever stated. If anything them keeping the barrel pop up is surprising, but they did say no sculpts.

You realize if that wall was not there, the ball would fall off the playfield? They didn't just swap out for a plastic, that's a ball guide to keep the ball up there and to cause it to drain to the left to feed the wireframe back to the flipper.

There previous SEs were completely sculpt free as well, so for this to even have the three that are in is surprising. But as has been said, they really should have full PF pics for their different models available ahead of time. The confusion here seems to be the feature matrix graphic was not clear

They said the next main update will have a wizard mode

It's a low scoring game, would adding a zero to end of every score make everything better? It's like No Fear where its common to get games in the billions after a short while just cause they give you insane points for everything.

Score is only relevant to the machine itself

They don't have folks emails unlike most folks with sterns which all connect up with their IC service, so they can send out mass emails.

Don't think so, they said the next update will have a wizard