TWD Club, only walkers not welcome !!!

could someone please confirm what is the state of the well walker switch when the well walker is in its normal resting position. Is the switch on or off when the well walker is not tilted back or forward. I'm having problems with my crossbow and while in the pops the well walker registered a hit and so I'm guessing this may happen when the crossbow loads sometimes. thanks

#8163 4 years ago

ERW

chuckwurt

Well walker switch is normally closed. When you hit the walker, it opens.

#8164 4 years ago

GOD

embryon

Pinside member

Quoted from chuckwurt:
Well walker switch is normally closed. When you hit the walker, it opens.

thank you. Mine is closed. Any idea why a well walker hit might have been triggered in the pops?

#8165 4 years ago

CBS

roar

Pinside member

Hamilton, ON

8y 70,050 1,797 1 15

Quoted from embryon:
thank you. Mine is closed. Any idea why a well walker hit might have been triggered in the pops?

Do you have a shaker motor? Mine will register occasionally when the ball is flying around the pop's and the shaker motor is going off all at the same time... I haven't spent any time trying do adjust it, the whole machine is shaking pretty hard with 3 solenoids constantly firing and a shaker motor going off at the same time.

#8166 4 years ago

DAV

DavidPinballWizz

Pinside member

Lauwe

10y 51,050 1,204 3

Adjust or replace well walker switch.
Also check the Z connector further up the loom.

#8167 4 years ago

GOD

embryon

Pinside member

thanks guys some stuff to consider as yes I do have a shaker motor.

by the way is there any way of working out the stern switch part numbering as I have the roller style switch and was wondering if I can just change the actuators. Being in oz the crossbow eject sw costs $35 and a wait involved. So if I can use the crossbow home sw I have spare that would help for testing purposes

#8168 4 years ago

ERW

chuckwurt

Quoted from embryon:
thanks guys some stuff to consider as yes I do have a shaker motor.
by the way is there any way of working out the stern switch part numbering as I have the roller style switch and was wondering if I can just change the actuators. Being in oz the crossbow eject sw costs $35 and a wait involved. So if I can use the crossbow home sw I have spare that would help for testing purposes

Should be the same switch.

#8169 4 years ago

GOD

embryon

Pinside member

Quoted from chuckwurt:
Should be the same switch.

Thanks

#8170 4 years ago

NIK

imagamejunky

Pinside+ Frequent

Livermore, CA

7y 76,300 1,381 17 47

Ok I'm missing something probably obvious here. I can't find any general illumination test in the menu. I wanted to test some of the leds that aren't in the single lamp test.
Do any of you know where that test is?
Thanks

#8171 4 years ago

NIK

imagamejunky

Pinside+ Frequent

Livermore, CA

7y 76,300 1,381 17 47

Quoted from embryon:
..I'm having problems with my crossbow and while in the pops the well walker registered a hit..

I had the same problem a while back. If you smack the playfield with your hand near the well walker I bet it will register a hit also. I had to do some minor switch adjustment on the well walker and all has been good ever since.

#8172 4 years ago

GOD

embryon

Pinside member

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/custom-apron-cards-printable-versions-only#post-5152243

Quoted from imagamejunky:
I had the same problem a while back. If you smack the playfield with your hand near the well walker I bet it will register a hit also. I had to do some minor switch adjustment on the well walker and all has been good ever since.

Thanks very much will investigate once I'm over my recent surgery

#8173 4 years ago

MAT

f3honda4me

Pinside member

Colgate, WI

5y 104K 3,330 1 11

In the club

DE9D5CBB-2E3C-4F67-AFAD-9746180AC45E (resized).jpeg

#8174 4 years ago

JRP

Gogojohnnyquack

Pinside+ Frequent

Seattle, WA

9y 84,300 1,361 5

Quoted from f3honda4me:
In the club[quoted image]

Did that one come from Indiana?

#8175 4 years ago

MAT

f3honda4me

Pinside member

Colgate, WI

5y 104K 3,330 1 11

Quoted from Gogojohnnyquack:
Did that one come from Indiana?

No, locally from a friend.

#8176 4 years ago

LFS

pinballaddicted

Pinside member

9y 123K 4,412 81

Quoted from f3honda4me:
In the club[quoted image]

Welcome to the club!

#8177 4 years ago

???

mthirkell

Pinside member

Franklin Park, PA

5y 52,800 242 6 15

I understand PinPlay developed a left ramp fix, but I can't get a hold of him. Anyone know how I can get this mod? I'm new to the club and that left ramp is rejecting more shots than I'm comfortable with.

Thanks!

#8178 4 years ago

TCB

Multiballmaniac1

Pinside member

6y 97,800 3,389 2 15

Quoted from f3honda4me:
No, locally from a friend.

Best game I’ve owned from Stern. Brutal fun.

#8179 4 years ago

MCM

Coindropper

Pinside member

6y 89,050 613 8 12

Printable cards if anyone is looking. Hope you guys can use them. Print at 140x75mm or 700x382pxls for stern card size.

#8180 4 years ago

JCH

Rager170

Pinside member

Found this in the sale bin at a local liquor store. Had to pick it up haha.

20190817_104818 (resized).jpg

#8181 4 years ago

JRP

Gogojohnnyquack

Pinside+ Frequent

Seattle, WA

9y 84,300 1,361 5

Quoted from Rager170:
Found this in the sale bin at a local liquor store. Had to pick it up haha.[quoted image]

Topper!

#8182 4 years ago

JCH

Rager170

Pinside member

Quoted from Gogojohnnyquack:
Topper!

LOL

#8183 4 years ago

FEZ

Fezmid

Pinside member

9y 89,300 1,863

Quoted from Gogojohnnyquack:
Topper!

Yes! When you get to LMS, the topper tips over and pours you a glass so you can celebrate!

#8184 4 years ago

TDR

Who-Dey

In Memoriam

9y 117K 11,746 7 12

Quoted from Fezmid:
Yes! When you get to LMS, the topper tips over and pours you a glass so you can celebrate!

That topper would stay full forever on my game then.

#8185 4 years ago

???

kuchiyaji

Inactive member

Unknown

4y 4,150 28

Quoted from gweempose:
Okay, so I just tested everything thoroughly and I think I now have a pretty good handle on how it works. I also now understand why almost nobody ever sees Siege. It's a REALLY hard mode to get to! For starters, I didn't even realize there were two separate stages to Prison Multiball ...
During the first stage, you must shoot the prison walker to score a jackpot. You need to do this six times to complete the stage. Shooting any of the lit arrows or the closed prison doors will open the doors. Prison bombs can be used to score a jackpot, but only if the doors are already open. If they are closed, a bomb will open them, so if you have more than one prison bomb saved up, you can essentially use two in a row to get a jackpot. Once six jackpots have been collected, the Riot shot will start to strobe. You must shoot it to score the super jackpot and begin stage two.
During stage two, the prison doors will remain closed the entire time. You must shoot one of the two ramps and then shoot the prison in order to score a jackpot. To make things even more difficult, prison bombs can no longer be used to score a jackpot. They can be used to score a hit to one of the ramps, but the jackpots must be collected by physically shooting the closed prison doors. Once you score six jackpots, it will say "Siege is lit" on the DMD. This is a bit confusing, because the Siege insert will not actually light until the multiball is over. Perhaps "Siege is ready" would have made more sense.
When the multiball ends, the Siege insert will start to strobe and the next shot to the prison will start it. Once you start Siege, the mode continues until you either complete it or the game ends. The good news is that your progress carries over from ball to ball. I'm not going to spoil Siege, but the rules for it are pretty straightforward.
I hope this information helps. Prison Multiball is actually quite confusing, especially the second stage because both ramps as well as the prison are lit the entire time making it difficult to know what shot you are supposed to go for next. When you add in the fact that you are trying to accomplish all of this while juggling 2 or more balls, it makes Siege an extremely difficult mini-wizard mode to get to. Without the bombs, it must be even harder on the pro. Fortunately, Siege is amazingly cool, making it that much sweeter when you do manage to start it.

Brilliant explanation! Things are much clearer now

#8186 4 years ago

DAV

DavidPinballWizz

Pinside member

Lauwe

10y 51,050 1,204 3

Just to add to this. You can spread the nr of jackpots (12) needed for Siege over multiple multiballs. And since the last update, you can keep track of this on the display during multiball.

The thing is that most people don't focus on jackpots alone but combine a mode in prison multiball, and start shooting the mode shots instead of the jackpots.

#8187 4 years ago

RUM

Rum-Z

Pinside member

Adrian, MI

13y 150K 3,973 29

Quoted from DavidPinballWizz:
The thing is that most people don't focus on jackpots alone but combine a mode in prison multiball, and start shooting the mode shots instead of the jackpots.

That's what I've been doing and I get almost nowhere in my progression towards Siege. I gotta change that and just focus on Prison multiball progression.

#8188 4 years ago

JCH

Rager170

Pinside member

Quoted from kuchiyaji:
Brilliant explanation! Things are much clearer now

This is for Premium/LE, right? I dont know about any "bombs" on the Pro.

#8189 4 years ago

JCH

Rager170

Pinside member

Quoted from Who-Dey:
That topper would stay full forever on my game then.

Seriously. I have no clue how people get the 115 kills or whatever. Actually, on this machine especially, I feel like others are far and away better than I am at the game. I find this table very difficult.

#8190 4 years ago

ERW

chuckwurt

Quoted from Rager170:
Seriously. I have no clue how people get the 115 kills or whatever. Actually, on this machine especially, I feel like others are far and away better than I am at the game. I find this table very difficult.

115 walker kills is impossible for me too. I set my games hard, but not that hard. I think 70-80 kills was my all time best. So hard.

#8191 4 years ago

QUY

FatPanda

Pinside member

7y 141K 7,178 32

I had my best of 58 walker kills the other day, mostly due to the best Prison/Bloodbath MB I've ever had. Made it to phase 2 of Prison MB. Ended up making to Horde that game, but still didn't top my best score (of a measly 455 mill). This is on a Pro. I'm not sure how people can get north of that. I also set my games up hard, but not that hard. Outlanes are closed as far as they can be, which isn't much lol. But everything else is pretty stock. Settings are factory. have had this game for over 2 years now and is my "oldest" game, and I still get excited to play it.

#8192 4 years ago

JCH

Rager170

Pinside member

Quoted from FatPanda:
I had my best of 58 walker kills the other day, mostly due to the best Prison/Bloodbath MB I've ever had. Made it to phase 2 of Prison MB. Ended up making to Horde that game, but still didn't top my best score (of a measly 455 mill). This is on a Pro. I'm not sure how people can get north of that. I also set my games up hard, but not that hard. Outlanes are closed as far as they can be, which isn't much lol. But everything else is pretty stock. Settings are factory. have had this game for over 2 years now and is my "oldest" game, and I still get excited to play it.

yea that score is better than mine. Im at like 390 mill on a pro and ive had mine for like 3 years lol.

#8193 4 years ago

SMD

stevevt

The Pinball Co-op

South Burlington, VT

11y 137K 2,690 1

X management is the answer.

Quoted from FatPanda:
I'm not sure how people can get north of that.

#8194 4 years ago

QUY

FatPanda

Pinside member

7y 141K 7,178 32

Quoted from stevevt:
X management is the answer.

Believe me, I try to utilize it on the most valuable shots, but I either miss, or too busy trying to keep the ball alive lol.

#8195 4 years ago

RUM

Rum-Z

Pinside member

Adrian, MI

13y 150K 3,973 29

Quoted from Rager170:
Seriously. I have no clue how people get the 115 kills or whatever. Actually, on this machine especially, I feel like others are far and away better than I am at the game. I find this table very difficult.

I managed to get to 94 kills last month. I got to 90 and was so excited that I was that close to LMS, then I botched it, drained a couple of balls, and it was game over. I made it that far by managing to string together several Multi-Kills which were constantly running pretty much my whole game and through Well Walker, Prison, and Blood Bath multiballs. With the lit Multi-Kill shots you get 2 walker kills at once, so I must've hit a lot of those shots during the multiballs.

#8196 4 years ago

GWL

gliebig

Pinside+ Frequent

9y 119K 5,424

Quoted from kuchiyaji:
Brilliant explanation! Things are much clearer now

Yeah. I'll probably never see that without taking the glass off.

#8197 4 years ago

JCH

Rager170

Pinside member

Quoted from Rum-Z:
I managed to get to 94 kills last month. I got to 90 and was so excited that I was that close to LMS, then I botched it, drained a couple of balls, and it was game over. I made it that far by managing to string together several Multi-Kills which were constantly running pretty much my whole game and through Well Walker, Prison, and Blood Bath multiballs. With the lit Multi-Kills shots you get 2 walker kills at once, so I must've hit a lot of those shots during the multiballs.

Yes, that is pretty much how I go about it also. I think ive gotten in the low 70's.. I think hahah.

#8198 4 years ago

SMD

stevevt

The Pinball Co-op

South Burlington, VT

11y 137K 2,690 1

Quoted from FatPanda:
Believe me, I try to utilize it on the most valuable shots, but I either miss, or too busy trying to keep the ball alive lol.

This is good news. If you were already good at maximizing the multiplier, you'd be much closer to your scoring potential.

Keep trying to do it, even if it means you miss and get nothing. One of these games, it'll pay off.

My X champion value is 453 million (double scoring 7x Crossbow shot for 238 mil, double scoring 7x Arena shot for 213 mil, and some pity Fish Tank points). Lots of players have much better X shots than this. It's not impossible if you focus on it, and keep from using it (e.g., in multiball) when you don't want it.

#8199 4 years ago

ERW

chuckwurt