Quoted from VisitorQ:

I think you guys should start installing the Led Zeppelin topper on Rush, I mean why wait?

Quoted from VisitorQ:

Cool Sex Swing ^^^

Quoted from OutpostKodelia:

Based on your purchase date, it looks like you got our v1 protector. We offered free upgrades for those folks to the v2 protector, which fixed a breakage issue (I'm going to guess yours broke on the back right side of the lower scoop, right next to the scoop's metal arc... if so, that's exactly what v2 addresses). Anyways, that offer still stands. We'll happily upgrade you to the new version if you're interested in that. For what it's worth, we also make a version we call the "fat lip", where the lip edge extends a couple mm further out to cover up playfield damage. We could send that one if you like. PM me and let me know how you want to proceed.

Quoted from BRW84:

I picked up a Rush Pro yesterday and I've got a question for folks in this group that I sincerely hope doesn't cause any hard feelings. I was super excited to snag this machine based on the reviews I'd seen. I like Rush, I like the art package, I like the code, and I love the callouts and the clear passion that went into this game. What's hanging me up, unfortunately, is the gameplay. I've got my machine at a dead-on 6.5 degree pitch and perfectly level, but it feels like every shot in the game is just too tight. I'm bricking balls all over creation to the point that I'm one day in and already thinking about a trade or sale, and I've never had that experience before (I've owned 22 machines, currently own 12). In particular, the right ramp and the shot through the pop garden feel like they're at least an eighth of inch too tight. I like both flow games and stop-and-go games, and I also like difficult games, but I'm having more difficulty getting dialed into this one than any game I've ever owned, and that includes a Flash Gordon. I'm not trying to rag on Rush -- I desperately want to love it -- but I'm walking away in frustration every game. Did anyone else have this experience and then come around? If so, what was your strategy (beyond "git gud")? I'm a firm believer that it takes at least a hundred games to render a verdict, but I'm closing in on 40 or 50 and I'm just struggling.

Quoted from Reality_Studio:

Is anyone getting multi billion scores on a pro or is that mostly just on premium models? Curious if I just absolutely suck on my pro, or if the premium is much easier.

Quoted from CloverleafKid:

I agree with this. Probably a lot! I'm certainly not one of the "better" players or at least not since I had decades with little to no practice.
I HAVE A QUESTION: Who here prefers to keep a pile of quarters handy and play the game arcade style rather than setting it to "Free Play"? Honestly I haven't gone searching the forum to see if this question has already been discussed or polled. If there's another thread I'll gladly move my thoughts there.
IMHO I say "Just say NO to Free Play". If I can afford to spend thousands on a game then I can afford to keep a roll or two of quarters circulating through the machines. Once I finally get more games I'm going to get some custom made tokens.
I'm a NEW home user, closer to age 60 than the 10-25yo I was when I was around arcade pinballs and video games all the time for one reason or another. I always needed quarters. Quarters or tokens. I was probably hanging by the jukebox with a "radio edit" single version of Working Man playing.
When I started playing Rush Premium this year, the first game I ever bought, I had it on free play. I've enjoyed, but I hate not getting rewarded with a free game when I deserved it with the loud POP. Or hearing the POP upon matching and hearing Alex telling me I have to play again. Like, "Come on, honey, Geddy's telling me to play again, I can't disappoint him."
Anyways, that's my story.
Are you on the side of Free Play or coin op?

Quoted from doublestack:

Possibly thinking of joining this club. Any of you fine members have this game on location, or even at home how does it do with casuals and non pin people?
I want to personally play this game badly, but it would be for location and I'm just not sure on the theme. I've compared it against LZ too, as due to covid both weren't on the radar due to shutdowns. LZ has a more broad theme appeal I believe, but the implementation of the theme seems to be better on rush.
Raymond and crew have done great work with the rules and that's a plus, but to casuals it doesn't mean much unless they are quick to pick up on.
I know very little about rush the band. I was a huge Zeppelin fan, but Zep would have to be a premium and the rush pro is perfectly adequate.
Thoughts?

Quoted from doublestack:

Really? I thought the consensus was the pro was pretty close on this one. On Borg games I’ve not been let down yet with a pro. Need to play a premium now.

Quoted from SterlingRush:

A lot of people have fun on the Pro, but if you’re seriously considering getting one for your home environment(which you should ), step up to a Premium.
Sure, it’s little nuances between the Pro/Prem in mechanical aspects, but it adds more joy to the layout and feel when playing. It gets you the LE playfield without the LE price tag, with the exception of no expression lights, unless you install the Led Zeppelin ones instead.

Quoted from pete_d:

the instruments lane I find harder. The Pro just has a target there, while on the Premium you have to thread the needle and get the ball into the lane behind the drops.

Quoted from cooked71:

Yeh, it’s a great shot on PreLe also. So only difference is the ball capture forks. Then to hold up the shot value you have to keep hitting that target on the Pro?

Quoted from Schwaggs:

That does suck! I’ll send you a replacement.

Quoted from MJK-911:

Believe it or not Rush has the same symbols in the middle of the playfield that match the LZ expression lights/art work. Picking my LZ kit up tomorrow, tired of waiting!!!
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Quoted from aaron6920:

I installed the Gameroom mods listed above. Excellent and simple fix. Knock on wood I have not had an inner loop not register after installing. Great fix.

Quoted from VisitorQ:

What Upper Orbit Fix works best?
This https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1167-gameroom-mods/07010-rush-upper-orbit-ball-retention-plastic
or
This https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1167-gameroom-mods/07010-rush-upper-orbit-ball-retention-plastic
Thx

Quoted from gandamack:

Appreciate the info concerning Spooky machines. Never had one. I will start researching their reputation a bit deeper.

Quoted from VisitorQ:

Works well, highly recommended.
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Quoted from Rexdeanrds:

Has anyone in this thread gotten the "Never turn your back on a monster" Achievement? It seems incredibly difficult to get. Probably the hardest achievement stern has posted to date (would be curious if there are others that are harder).
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Quoted from ScoobaDoo:

Can anyone explain to me in 2nd grade terms what the “percentage shots add to scoring” does in the modes? Does it increase the scoring X% to that particular mode?

Quoted from vikingerik:

This game really escalates and explodes after you get a ways into the gameplay. There are a lot of extra balls that are quite a far distance from the start button - 50 time machine years, 68 ramps, and 5 albums. But once you start getting those, they snowball through into the rest of them. Same goes for the time machine upgrades.
The best thing you can do to make that escalation happen sooner is to get the 10 time machine years for every one of the planet modes, for scoring 100 million. Before starting it, take the time to shoot more records to somewhere around +60% to +80% value, and get more records on the right color, particularly for modes that concentrate a lot of scoring on one shot (left orbit and loop for Working Man, dead end for Spirit of Radio, loop for La Villa Strangiato.)
Once you start getting the time machine upgrades that make the multiballs better, then what happens is you can complete a mode during the multiball, and keep going to shoot more records to light the next one. Particularly once you get the Super Records time machine upgrade, you can be into like +150% mode scores before you even realize it. And you have two more rainbow records placed from finishing that mode and lighting the next one, so now a bunch of shots are at 3x or 4x going into the next mode, on top of that +150%. And then suddenly you're scoring 400 million on Limelight out of nowhere.
And then Cygnus book 2 blows it up all over again - those bloated mode scores feed into the jackpot value here, that gets multiplied *again* by each of the rainbow records.

Quoted from vikingerik:

21,120 is the default bonus if you somehow do nothing to score any bonus at all. That would at least mean hitting no bumpers (drum clock minutes score bonus) or record shots (score color-matching bonus.)

Heh. I'm saying how Rush particularly rewards playing better with a huge amount of stacking and escalating modifiers as you go, more than any other game. Other games like Godzilla also do this in the escalating numbers but not nearly as much in the powerup perks.

Quoted from vikingerik:

The difference with Rush is how it has the most levers to pull that are something other than direct score. No other game has anything like "all game timers extended" or "+2 balls for all multiballs", which all together explode into that "what just happened here?!" feeling. AIQ is probably second in that department if you know the gem powers well. Godzilla isn't quite like that; its escalation is almost all numbers and multipliers; the powerups aren't all that impactful; the allies are temporary and the stuff like the tank or bridge multiball don't change throughout the game.

Quoted from Slogan1111:

So the music & sound are as one volume? No way to seperate those? It's not terrible. I just want the music louder than the pinball sounds! Thx.