When I found out about this but didn't know the actor I was pulling for Simon Pegg, but this works. Good for Stern, credit where credit is due. Now let's see how the actual update is, but they filmed a video and announced something ahead of time. Two things we didn't think they knew how to do!

The Raid is awesome, but it's Indonesian, not Japanese.

That's Emporium, a barcade in Chicago on N Milwaukee Ave. Nice place, check it out if you're in town. Good selection of vids and pins, and they take pretty good care of them all.

You'd lose that bet!

Everyone has to remember this stuff takes time. Stern has to write a script, not worth doing until Karl signs on probably. He does, and offers to record a promo from the set. Of course they take that, it's great press for a new game! But then they write the script, Karl has to approve it, maybe make edits, send back to Stern. They get it set. But after that Paramount has to approve it, goes through the Star Trek licensing approval process. Say you get all that, green light! To find time for Karl to record it. Then someone has to do the editing and coding to get it ready for release.

Obviously I'm guessing a little here, but I know enough to bet that's pretty accurate.

It's not about "sides", it's about reality. Shit takes time. People on forums don't want to hear that, but it does. It takes me weeks to get people my translite designs, there's just crap you gotta wait for. If I had to wait for a Karl Urban photoshoot to finish it would take a lot longer!

Stern had two choices:

1) Announce hot new update early, so people would have to wait, but it would build buzz on their new game.

or

2) Wait until it was ready, and then try and get people to care when they've already moved on to guessing what's after Mustang.

1 has the most upside, aside from impatient people on the internet.

Well it might be both technically, didn't SR say the next update was going to fix opto issues and not to mess with them?

I checked, we're both right.

If the Kickback "Rescue" kicker misses sometimes, don't adjust it physically. There is new software coming VERY soon that makes the Kickback kick the ball back up the playfield nearly 100% of the time.

I say nearly, because when playing ST, the ball is speedy wild, and anything can happen!

The same goes for the Warp Ramp sequencing lights which don't always chase the ball on every Warp Ramp shot. Don't adjust your optos or anything physical, they are likely working fine. The software fix will be grouped with the kickback fix, and again, issued VERY soon.

Actually it's pretty helpful. Now we know for certain it hasn't been recorded yet, like some of us guessed, but that it's still happening. People need to let go of this notion that Stern is going to give you a date. Hell, I don't want to give people a date for my AC/DC translite, and it's super close to ready. But I have to make sure the test prints aren't wrong somehow, I have to wait for the printer to be able to do the run, I have to wait for shipping. If I give a date it's probably going to be wrong and I'll feel like an ass.

It's funny that SR would say it's a code issue, but only some people have the problem. Maybe some kind of timing thing.

Yes please, just like Monster Bash's Phantom Flip does.

I seriously would just wait for the update, SR specifically said not to touch your optos and that a software fix for that issue is coming. Annoying, granted, but at least they know it's a bug and say a fix is coming soon.

The negative attitude is really unhelpful, even if you're feeling frustrated. We know Stern is reading these threads, giving them attitude isn't going to motivate anyone to work harder. Also the flashers work fine, they use them during attract mode. Frankly I hope they don't use them too much in the game, they're seriously bright.

As a Metallica owner you should know better than anyone that they're still working hard on these games. You should also have known what it was like to buy a game before final code, it requires some patience. They're telling us it's being worked on, hang in there.

I do wish Stern would add at least a tease sentence or two instead of just posting the video. Even a vague "we're really excited about the upcoming Karl Urban pack, we know you're gonna love it!" would be better. That promises nothing, but it doesn't feel like a random old video just appeared in their timeline. If they want to add "coming soon" or the like, hey, all the better.

That said, they're doing a lot better now about things when it comes to the updates, so I'll take the improvements.

Either way I'm confident it's coming along well, the video is probably a good sign, and my game is looking forward to the update whenever it's ready.

We do know they're reading Pinside, so I choose to believe I have that kind of influence. HI JODY!

It wasn't.

I would be very surprised. I'm with Eskaybee, patience is what's needed now. We know they're working on it, we know they want it to be great, we know they're listening to us, and that's more than we (publicly) had for Metallica. So we just need to let the process play out. I would personally rather wait a little longer and have it be better than wish that it was rushed and potentially fall short.

The audio is recorded, we know that, but it's waiting on the code to be done. I don't think it's really that close. Wish it was, I bet we'll get some rumors when it's closer. I'd rather they take a little longer to get the code right if they need it then rush though.

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