Definitely a problem. If you can catch the ball coming down the right orbit from a plunge you can just go straight to backhanding. Apparently there's some options/rules to make MB more difficult though, I've heard you have to bash down all the drops and get the ball in the scoop in back or something? Still the same shot though, and we know how tournament players love a repeatable shot. Requiring a random target, or completing a reactor, or something, to relight locks would be much better. Especially when multiball also gives you the score multiplier...

But is there any reason not to be making all those other shots when you're already in multiball? I don't see why you wouldn't just cradle up and pick shots off while you've got a spare ball or two waiting (and double scoring to boot)

I'd love to play one but sadly I don't see one coming to my area any time soon. I'm not good enough to play 2 ball for a long time either, but every video I've seen of Game of Thrones (which has a similarly small lower section and punishes you for missed shots) multiball being played in tournaments involves a lot of controlled play and none of those players seem to have much trouble with it. I'm sure if they could just shoot the middle ramp to light locks as well as collect them they'd loop that ramp all day before taking any other shots. The danger of the green targets relative to the other shots makes that strategy less viable there, but on TnA I don't see the lock shot being any more dangerous than the other shots (in fact I'd imagine especially once you've finished that first drop that it's actually safer than the standups?)

F-14 doesn't have lock stealing (unless it's a setting that's always been off when I played)...

F-14 is cool though because it will just relock the balls off their plunge, so they don't lose them. Possibly the best physical lock handling I've seen