Stern UV kit, spinning arcade sign from mezel mods, and the stern lighted dice shooter rod are a must

Guys, please take a minute to rate this game. It absolutely deserves a great rating here on pinside IMO. Especially the Premium and LE. It's such a great game that still has that "one more game" feel after hundreds of games played.
The premium hasn't even reached the threshold of 25 ratings to be included in the top 100. Only 15 people have rated it so far.
I know, some of you will say "the top 100 and the ratings don't mean anything". You're entitled to your opinion. I respectfully disagree.
Thanks

Ha, turns out my phone does have slo-mo. I didn't think I had anything that would do that. Will give it a try and see what's what. Thanks

You make a valid point

Check, check, and check! (If only the damn shooter would actually LIGHT!)

I have the glow rubbers on my AFM, and they're cool and all. But doesn't the greenish hue look like crap on ST? Doesn't really match anything.

Nope. My 4-step plan for world domination of this game:

Step 1: Don't rate the game. Let the pre-judgmental idiots around here continue to think the game sucks.
Step 2: Wait for Stern to discontinue production due to disappointing sales.
Step 3: Rate the game highly and watch as everybody realizes what a great game it truly is (like what happened with GOT).
Step 4: Profit.

Most of them do these days. It's an excellent diagnostic tool. If you can't get it slow enough to see what's happening, send me a link to the video and I'll slow it down even more.

Don't want to turn this into a Pro v. Premium/LE battle. But I like the Pro better for 2 or 3K less. The two premium/le features are underwhelming for me. Even the most ardent supporters of this game think the magnet lock just absolutely sucks. And the projector is all a matter of opinion. Does nothing for me. I prefer the Demogorgon emerging from Hawkins lab rather than a drive-in theater.

For those that have put the new ramp on is it digging into your playfield as well? It almost looks like it's cut through the new mylar. I'm getting an unsightly white line forming where it touches that is very noticeable after 2 days when the ramp is up. I tried cleaning it with novus but it only got marginally better.

Maybe adjust the ramp position sensor underneath so it doesn't drop the ramp quite as far down, so the ramp is still making contact, but it's not digging in as hard.

ok cool, Didn't realize there was a sensor down there for it. Will take a look

One switch tells it when it's up, one tells it when it's down. You should be able to make it stop sooner by bending the "down sensor" switch arm a little so it triggers sooner.

If you need more than that, maybe you can loosen the collar on the drive arm and advance/retard it for a bigger change.

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What success rate do you have with the dialed in lock mech?
I followed Sterns instructions and the reject rate is probably close to 80%

Okay so what’s different with your mech now?

Are you using the LOTR coil on both flippers or just the right?

Harnesses for the fan kits are done. Just waiting for the first production samples to test. Everything else is ready to go.

I'm doing temperature testing on Iron Maiden coils this weekend to see what kind of temps it throws out for long games, too.

I found the switches but there is not a lot of play there to adjust. While I had the glass off I took a look at the ramp closer both up and down before doing any adjustment and perhaps there is another issue. The ramp doesn't sit flush on the left side when the right side is completely flush and kinda digging into the playfield. Looks like about 1mm raised starting about a quarter into the ramp on from the left. This was something Pablo had me look at with the old ramp but it always sat flush all the way across so I didn't have to adjust it. Not sure what the process is for that.

I tried taking the slo-mo video and I was able to capture two successes and a few failures that I think should have gone in both high and low. There were a few that were pretty far off that I couldn't figure out how to edit out. My phone is old so lucky I was able to do slomo at all

Video here

Timecodes: Successes at 0:20, 4:05
Possible rejects high: 0:43, 1:00
Possible rejects low: 1:55, 2:27, 3:45

the rest of the shots were either wildly off or questionable on if they should make it. All shots were from the left flipper. I have 0 success so far from right flipper.

Getting it on youtube was easy, getting it off the phone I'm still working on. Can stick it on dropbox once I figure that out.

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In my new LE with Jan build date it was rejecting every single TK lock shot. I adjusted the coil position on the backside of the backboard so that the arm gap when triggered is about the width of the ball no more. When that didn’t work I noticed the measurement from ramp to top of arm was greater than the 2 inches so I bent that down until it was. When that didn’t work I adjusted the ramp as far downward towards the bottom of the playfield as possible. Bingo bango that did the trick. I still have had one or two rejects but most make it now. Thanks to chuckwurt for posting the stern guide to adjustments.

For what it’s worth having never played the game before, I can hit the demogorgan shot without issue from both flippers.

I was able to get the video from youtube and slowed it down some more, although with the speed of the ball, it doesn't help much more.

You might be able to loosen the hex screw for the collar that has the bump on it that triggers the switch to advance it a little so it turns off before the ramp is pushed too far down.

Just received the ST shooter rod. No directions! Anyone know where to plug in the LED lead? Fits in one spot on the board but doesn't illuminate

The code to illuminate it hasn't been released yet, so dark shooter rod and bitter tears for you.

Someone was looking for photos of the shooter rod installed. Here ya go.

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Well...that's one way to light it up.

After HOURS of tries and slo mo video, adjusments, fine tuning, the TK Lock does NOT work with the ramp cover: the ball bounce on it 90% of the time and does not climb the arm, then gets rejected.

If I replace the ramp cover with a cardboard one, with the same shape as the plastic one, then the TK Lock works with a success rate of 90% and flipper power set to 210.

My game is setup at about 6.8 degree.

I HOPE that Stern will provide some fix for this mech.

Any really good video reviews of the latest code and full ruleset? My wife wants to watch one and doesn't want me to teach her.

Thanks. Yep, I was looking and didn't see one.

Got it! thanks

Sounds good,thanks

Where is attract mode in settings I can’t find it

Not in there yet, if you're talking about the setting for the ramp behavior in attract mode.

Thanks bro but No I’m just trying to find setting to turn attract mode on or off I can’t find it

Had my best first ball(might have been 4 extra balls in there) then it kicked my ass 2 straight balls. I have the demo shot perfect now. LOVE THIS GAME!!!

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Thanks!
Finally knocked my son off of Grand champion

Let us know your final demo adjustment method...thx!

Mine was hitting low so I needed to lower it. I removed the thick black washers labeled #19 and added 2 thin metal washers in their place. It also worked better with my old ramp.

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I also removed the stand off directly under demos chin, and just added a nut to hold that screw in place.

Anyone know when we're getting another update? I'm picking up a shooter rod and want it to light up.