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I can only hope that STLE is shipping with this version. I had a feeling a code update was due in lieu of the papa tv st event this coming Saturday.
Quoted from MurphyPeoples:I had a feeling a code update was due in lieu of the papa tv st event this coming Saturday.
My thoughts as well.
Hey, I feel for you Metallica owners... I hope you get code soon as well. Star Trek needed the update more than Met, however. Its scoring was seriously broken to the point of not being fun to play. Not quite Xmen bad but it had issues.. definitely alpha code there. Expo had 1.25 I believe and it was MUCH better. So looking forward to trying 1.3 as soon as work is over!
The best part of the Facebook update is that they deleted 4 or so comments that said:
Xmen?
Metallica?
Awesome what's up with Metallica?
Etc etc etc
Sigh.
Also I'm thinking that lack of a readme file Is "hopefully" to surprise us with laser projector code being installed and ready to use. That would be icing on the cake after unboxing!!
Quoted from Snailman:One day too late for Star Trek launch party.
Yep....brutal owies here. 
Quoted from Purpledrilmonkey:Does this mean we can start buying Stern machines again?
No.
This is version 1.30 for the PRO owners. No code yet for the LE on Sterns site... hopefully the LEs getting produced now have a working starfield projector ....
Quoted from MurphyPeoples:Also I'm thinking that lack of a readme file Is "hopefully" to surprise us with laser projector code being installed and ready to use. That would be icing on the cake after unboxing!!
Quoted from Brlee2003:I think they only have one programmer so it might be awhile until they get back to older games. I wouldn't doubt that they're working on the next game's code already...
They actually have 6. Lyman, Lonnie, Waison, Mike, Tanio and a new guy.
Quoted from Rarehero:They actually have 6. Lyman, Lonnie, Waison, Mike, Tanio and a new guy.
First time I've heard about a new guy other than Tanio. Any idea who he is? When was he hired?
Mike started the Monday after Expo. George Gomez ran into him at HQ or Emporium, talked pinball, asked him what his favorite game was. He said, 'it's one that no one likes... Johnny Mnemonic' - George says "i did that game" - kid realizes that GG is THE GG and freaks out - gets job at Stern...6363_SPins_1123f.jpg
Just ran it through the Pinball Browser. I noticed lots of new animations, but mostly extensions of existing scenes/modes. Looks good, I like how they are fleshing this out. There are some new match animations now.....Carol Marcus isn't the only one.
Quoted from genex:Mike started the Monday after Expo. George Gomez ran into him at HQ or Emporium, talked pinball, asked him what his favorite game was. He said, 'it's one that no one likes... Johnny Mnemonic' - George says "i did that game" - kid realizes that GG is THE GG and freaks out - gets job at Stern...
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Wow, that's an awesome story. Thanks for sharing. Any idea what his background is?
Quoted from flashburn:Wow, that's an awesome story. Thanks for sharing. Any idea what his background is?
CS at UofMich
Quoted from Part_3:Just ran it through the Pinball Browser. I noticed lots of new animations, but mostly extensions of existing scenes/modes. Looks good, I like how they are fleshing this out. There are some new match animations now.....Carol Marcus isn't the only one.
Good to hear on the new match animations. I don't mind that being one of them, but to have that particular match animation as the only one was pretty dumb...especially for people that have not seen the movie. It should have also have Mission Multiball being replaced with Kabayashi Maru multiball.
Quoted from Gov:Good to hear on the new match animations. I don't mind that being one of them, but to have that particular match animation as the only one was pretty dumb...especially for people that have not seen the movie. It should have also have Mission Multiball being replaced with Kabayashi Maru multiball.
1.25 at Expo had mission MB replaced with Kobyashi Maru. I would assume it's made its way into 1.30
I still don't get why that match animation catches so much flack. I think its a hilarious jab at the uselessness of the scene in the movie.
Quoted from Purpledrilmonkey:I still don't get why that match animation catches so much flack. I think its a hilarious jab at the uselessness of the scene in the movie.
I think it's terrible. For the record I'm 100% fine with GNR's match animation, you want to flash some breasts I'm not mad at you when it fits. But it seemed wildly inappropriate for the theme. I was kind of embarrassed to see it show up the first time when I was showing coworkers the machine.
Quoted from Aurich:I think it's terrible. For the record I'm 100% fine with GNR's match animation, you want to flash some breasts I'm not mad at you when it fits. But it seemed wildly inappropriate for the theme. I was kind of embarrassed to see it show up the first time when I was showing coworkers the machine.
Yeah the group I first played it with about 7 pinheads all agreed it was pretty lame and random. If it had an LCD and those weren't dots I may feel differently. 
Quoted from Rarehero:They actually have 6. Lyman, Lonnie, Waison, Mike, Tanio and a new guy.
I think that may bode well for the future, Gary actually hearing some criticism and reacting to it by beefing up that staff.
Additionally, it may mean that some of the recent games that need a little polish may get it.
Wen I hired kids out of college, I didn't give them something new to do for awhile, I gave them something that was already started, so they could learn by "following the dots left by others" so to speak.
But, we'll just have to wait and see.
Robert
Quoted from frolic:So for those who have played 1.3, does it feel like much of the game is there now?
At work so can't look at 1.3 yet, but 1.25 or whatever at Expo was hugely improved. Warp shots build towards add a ball and awards, KM multiball much better than generic mission MB, and best of all, good mission performance is required to score well in post-mission modes. I doubt it's done but it should be a fully playable game now.
Quoted from The_Dude_Abides:Yeah the group I first played it with about 7 pinheads all agreed it was pretty lame and random. If it had an LCD and those weren't dots I may feel differently.
I dunno. I thought that was the cleverness of it all - it was such a big deal when the film came out so poke fun at it. The fact that it is a cartoon is what makes me laugh. If it were the real scene I'd dislike it intensely (pinball wise 
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Quoted from Aurich:I think it's terrible. For the record I'm 100% fine with GNR's match animation, you want to flash some breasts I'm not mad at you when it fits. But it seemed wildly inappropriate for the theme. I was kind of embarrassed to see it show up the first time when I was showing coworkers the machine.
But it's in the movie... so how does it not fit? Especially in such a tongue in cheek application? Yes it was inappropriate - in the movie - so make fun of it in the pinball machine. It's not like it's even remotely sexy or revealing - to me it's a stab at how dumb it was in the movie and I laugh every time. And hey, most of my firends hate it too so I know I'm the minority here. I just don't get the 'over-sensistivity' from my perspective on this one.
If this upsets your co-workers I'd hate to hear about seeing the ACTUAL movie scene
Quoted from Aurich:I think it's terrible. For the record I'm 100% fine with GNR's match animation, you want to flash some breasts I'm not mad at you when it fits. But it seemed wildly inappropriate for the theme. I was kind of embarrassed to see it show up the first time when I was showing coworkers the machine.
What's wildly inappropriate about sexy women and Star Trek? You have...I assume...watched some of Trek?
Quoted from Purpledrilmonkey:I dunno. I thought that was the cleverness of it all - it was such a big deal when the film came out so poke fun at it. The fact that it is a cartoon is what makes me laugh. If it were the real scene I'd dislike it intensely (pinball wise )
But it's in the movie... so how does it not fit? Especially in such a tongue in cheek application? Yes it was inappropriate - in the movie - so make fun of it in the pinball machine. It's not like it's even remotely sexy or revealing - to me it's a stab at how dumb it was in the movie and I laugh every time. And hey, most of my firends hate it too so I know I'm the minority here. I just don't get the 'over-sensistivity' from my perspective on this one.
If this upsets your co-workers I'd hate to hear about seeing the ACTUAL movie scene
It wasn't inappropriate in the movie....Kirk is a Horndog. It made perfect sense to me. 
Quoted from TomGWI:It wasn't inappropriate in the movie....Kirk is a Horndog. It made perfect sense to me.
It's funny....because one of the new Match scenes is Kirk with his two cat women.....and winking back a the player.
Wildly inappropriate!
Quoted from Part_3:It's funny....because one of the new Match scenes is Kirk with his two cat women.....and winking back a the player.
Wildly inappropriate!
I don't think anything is as bad as GnR but I could be wrong.
Quoted from Part_3:It's funny....because one of the new Match scenes is Kirk with his two cat women.....and winking back a the player.
Wildly inappropriate!
Well at least that has something more to it. That one they had on over and over the last code was pretty lame. I know what scene it was from in the movie but seemed pretty corny and out of place to me and every other pinhead around that discussed it. To each their own as always.
Not a big deal either way I'm sure there are some more important changes to the code worth discussing. Didn't mean to focus on that it was just something I remember being poorly received the first time I played it on location.
Quoted from Part_3:one of the new Match scenes is Kirk with his two cat women
Awesome! 
I don't find the Carol one to be lame....I find it to be great.
Watched the movie with my wife the other day. When Kirk turned around and saw Carol in her underwear and said "Turn around!", she laughed.
Funny that liberal men find stuff offense that women don't.....always cracks me up.
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