Thanks for talking more I depth about the multi kills guys! I've been 1 weapon away from horde many times now and this new info is gonna get me all the way there hopefully. Cannot wait to get back out and play!!

I will try one more time to explain.

HORDE

The 6 "Multikill Weapons" lights in the middle of the playfield (the ones right below the Horde insert) are lit by doing well in modes. Each time you do one of the following, a Multikill Weapon will start to flash:

- Make 2 shots in CDC
- Make 2 shots in Riot
- Make 2 shots in Tunnel
- Make 2 (3?) shots in Arena
- Make 3 (4?) shots in Barn
- Finish CDC mode
- Finish Tunnel mode
- Complete 3 fish tanks (complete a tank, then hit the woodbury shot to re-qualify fishtank shots. They also re-qualify when you lose your ball)
- 10(?) side target completions
- Get 3 Well Walker JPs
- Get 4 Tower JPs

There may be a few more ways to get these, but these are the ones off the top of my head.

The Multikill Weapon lights are lit at random (e.g. collect Barn in one game may light the "knife", next game it may light the "gun").

When you lose your ball, all of the flashing Multikill Weapon lights will light solid. If you light all 6 Multikill Weapon inserts, either solid or flashing, you will qualify for Horde (when you are not in a mode and down to one ball). Hit Woodbury to start.

YELLOW MULTIKILL LIGHTS ON THE 5 MAIN SHOTS

When you collect a Multikill weapon, you will light ONE yellow shot on the playfield. If you hit that lit shot, you will collect a multikill points award, increase further multikill points award, and increase your points total for Horde. When you hit that lit shot, a different yellow insert will light. Hit that shot to collect a multikill points award. ONLY ONE YELLOW LIGHT will be lit at a time. If you collect a second or third Multikill Weapon light in that ball, it will not add another yellow light. But I believe it increases your multikill points award.

Hitting a yellow multikill shot will not give you a Multikill Weapon light.

It can be a bit confusing in the callouts as they say "Multikill" when you light a Multikill Weapon light and when you hit a yellow multikill shot.

No problem!

Thanks for the great explanation!

Now go kill some zombies!

I haven't played the game much yet with the new code. I got to HORDE for the first time last night. REALLY cool mode! I absolutely love the pulsing lighting effect and the DMD animations. This game is just going to get better and better with each new code drop.

May I copy your work for the community rules sheet?

great idea.

For sure

DONE. And Thank you, sir. You shall be remembered long into the Apocalypse for your contribution!

This is the part that had me confused at first. I was thinking that you needed to hit the multi-kill yellow shot first in order to light the weapon insert but it's actually the other way around. If you do well in a mode the weapon insert lights up and then gives you various multi-kill shots to shoot for (points). Hitting the yellow multi-kill isn't necessary to collect the weapon but give you more points and increase scoring potential in Horde.-At least I think I have this right now?

The multikill yellow shot is purely for points and will only be available if you have multikill(s) active (flashing weapon(s)). When you drain, all flashing weapons will turn solid and those multikills are over - there will no longer be a yellow shot available until you start more multikills.

The yellow shot has absolutely no bearing on starting Horde or collecting/completing multikills. It merely scores points (based on mode scoring and # of multikills running in some way) and adds to Horde JP's.

Yup

UPDATE

Here are the defaults for multikill awards (i.e. things that will light the Multikill Weapon lights to get to HORDE)

- 10 combos
- 10 supplies (i.e. complete the drop targets 10 times)
- Complete Bicycle Girl (4 shots)
- 3 Fish tank completions
- 3 Barn shots
- 3 CDC shots
- 2 Riot shots
- 2 Arena shots
- 2 Tunnel shots
- Complete CDC
- Complete Tunnel
- Complete the drops 3 times in Blood Bath
- 3 successful Crossbow shots
- 4 Prison MB JPs
- 3 Well Walker MB JPs

You will. I wasn't even trying for Horde and I got there the other day.

To my knowledge, you are correct on prison although you can just shoot the prison all day as well instead of lit shots. Each time you alternate from shots back to the prison zombie you get a large jackpot and spell letters in PRISON - these are the jackpots required for the multikill I believe. If you get enough (8?) of these jackpots, Siege mode will be available.

Well walker is switch hit based. After 'X' switch hits the well walker will be available for a JP and a letter in WELL will be collected which progresses to your multikill (after 3) and the 'victory laps' stage (after 4 I think?) which I have only ever seen the start of (green arrows light on the prem/LE)

The fishtank multikill is easy if you remember to collect it every ball and/or every time you shoot woodbury, and blood bath is ultimately the easiest way imo to try for Horde. In blood bath you can start and complete anything for multikills - the trouble with bloodbath is getting into it requires you to selectively stop the roaming drop target light. It's hard to remember or control that while constantly trying to prevent drains on this machine.

Could do, but I find the ball savers TWD in general aren't overly forgiving - also I typically try to use the ball saver to hit drop targets for mode starts and/or bloodbath.

Honestly, I find TWD very difficult to form a 'strategy' just due to how punishing the game is. Every game I find I'm battling to keep the ball alive, and my strategy comes secondary to that. Even on challenging games like Metallica or ACDC I find I can at least start out with goals or methods in mind before the game craps all over me. On TWD as soon as the ball trickles out of the pops and requires a slap save off the well walker into the prison magnet, my strategy is all ruined.

I think i read somewhere that 2 successful Woodbury skill shots award a Multikill as well. Can anyone confirm or deny. I seem to remember this being true in one of my hundred games per week. Yeah , its addictive.

At the start of the game, 2 of the three fishtank heads (at least on the LE) are lit. The other is flashing. Hit the Arena shot to collect the last head and complete the fishtank. That's 1 completion. That lights the Woodbury shot. If you hit Arena again, that will not give you progress to the next fishtank. You have to hit the Woodbury shot to re-qualify the fishtank. Once you hit the Woodbury shot, you can start collecting fishtank heads again at the Arena shot. 3 Arena shots will complete the fishtank for a second time. Then hit Woodbury again to re-qualify. Then three more Arena shots to complete the fishtank for a third time. That gives a multikill. Draining your ball will also re-qualify fishtank shots (so you won't have to hit Woodbury)

So in essence you have to hit:

- Arena (to collect 1 fishtank head, and complete the first time)
- Woodbury or drain ball (to re-qualify)
- Arena 3x (to collect second fishtank)
- Woodbury or drain ball (to re-qualify)
- Arena 3x (to collect third fishtank)

I tested this out and in the latest code, you don't seem to get a multikill for 2 successful Woodbury shots.

I don't think it is implemented well in the pro. I'm hoping they address this in the next update.

I would like to see different rules for the crossbow show too in the Pro. doesn't make sense to offer up all the main shots when the Arena only feeds the ball to the left flipper.

See Apollyon's post above.

Without understanding the rules, its essentially 7 right ramp shots to collect heads. Just need a couple Woodbury shots or ball drains spaced properly in them to relight the shot after a full fishtank is collected.

I would imagine the fishtank/head rules will change quite a bit as they are basically a non-feature at this point aside from a multikill opportunity.

I got my high of over 260 million last night with this same strategy. Get WW and BB going together with CDC or riot and just keep the add a balls coming! much easier to get big Jackpots with WW because of the switch hits increasing the jackpots. Plus, caroms off the WW always hit the drop targets to help get closer to the next add a ball. I got 5/6 weapons qualified after one WW multiball. I shit the bead trying to get to Horde though.

Congrats on reaching Horde! I played a few games over lunch today and thought it might be the day I reach Horde but the outlanes just seemed to reach out and grab the ball at every possible chance... Couldn't get much going and will have to try again next week!

Horde in five minutes

Awesome ball one, you make that very difficult machine look really easy to play. Thanks for the video some new things to try...

Played some more last night - it is such a rush when you get things going and that ball starts flowing. But when you miss shots - the game kills you quickly, always making you want one more game.

I got a chance to play some more the other day at the bar and I'm still confused. Somehow I started the Multikill (I think by finishing Bicycle Girl).

The little yellow light lit, I hit the shot and the callout said something about multikill. I'm pretty sure the knife insert lit at the same time. Once I hit the first shot, the yellow light moved to another shot, which I hit, but it didn't light another weapon. The yellow light continued to move as I hit the shots, but it didn't light any more weapons.

Did I do something wrong, or am I missing how this works?

This is the same thing that confused me at first...

The yellow multi-kill lights have no bearing on the weapon lights. Doing well in a mode makes the weapon insert light up which in turn can cause a series of yellow multi-kill shots to light up. Hitting these yellow shots have no bearing in moving towards Horde.

Correct. Hitting those shots just increase the value of horde once you get there. Also, the more multi kills you have going at the same time, the more those shots are worth. 2x playfield plus a lane 2x plus a mode shot that has a yellow multikill lit there too? Whoa baby the points! Haha

OK, I got to Horde the other day playing on location. This is not on the code that just dropped yesterday. So how many successful shots in Horde do you have to make before you get the helicopter animation and it adds another ball? This kept happening but I wasn't sure what was triggering it. Love the game more and more. Can't wait to try the new code!

Same question for me. Read someone talking about adding balls back in horde. How do you do that?

Kill all the walkers in that waive. There is a counter in the dmd saying how many walkers left. Have to hit the right (lit) shots to kill a walker.