I found him really friendly and happy to chat about his games, despite the fact that he must be asked the same questions over and over again.
It probably helped that this was near the end of a very long night in a Belgian bar

From watching the video, when he's not playing you can see that he's thinking "I wouldn't have done that" , or "I would have shot for this". You can almost see the frustration.

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Not quite "every" machine in England. There's also some in USA and Belgium.

We only talked about Metallica, although he did say that he was working on something to do with Batman. That was over 12 months before Batman66 was announced.

The one from Tilt - Yes

The score "rolls" just after 4Billion (2^32 = 4,294,967,296) To compensate and show you that you have rolled it, the last digit will be a 4, instead of 0. roll it twice and the last digit will be an 8.

However it doesn't then allow you to enter a highscore, as it basically takes 4Bil off your score. To work out your final score, just add 2^32 to your displayed score, and subtract the extra 4

I've done it once - on a Pro. Every other time I've seen it done it's been done on a Prem. "Has anyone else rolled on a Pro?"

All my games are set up completely on factory (except freeplay :-0) to me, anything else is cheating, but I appreciate that people can set their games up how they want. I often see pics from people I know with massive scores, but when it comes to competition they just can't do it. It does make me wonder how their games are set up at home.

It's not uncommon to get mode scores over 100mil with a MB running, which in turn adds 5mil to the multikill bonus. Then take that into another MB and you're set for a fantastic score. Completing LMS almost guarantees an additional 1Billion, such is the scoring.
If I'm going for LMS, I play completely differently than if I'm playing in a comp, it's about taking the risks rather than the safe points. It often ends up with scores below 50mil, but when it does go well, it goes REALLY well.
I think what makes it much harder to get the big scores on a Pro, rather than a Prem, is the lack of the spinners as well as no action lockdown button so no walker bombs. Every shot must be made.

As noted points rack up very quickly the further into the games you get, almost exponentially.

I'm certainly not a Pro, as there's no money outside of the US for the vast majority of competitions. Only been playing 5 years since rediscovering pinball after a 20 year gap. But without wanting to come across as arrogant - I would definitely say I'm a good player. Finished 2nd yesterday in the A Division of the UK League, and have a fair few competition wins under my belt. Non US players just don't show on the IFPA rankings as there's not enough big points tournaments unless you're prepared to travel vast distances to other countries every other weekend, and the expense that occurs.

I never try and stack bloodbath when trying for LMS. In MB my only focus is walker kills.
If you don't stack you get an "extra" MB.

I always take CDC and Arena as my first modes, then Barn, as they're the easiest to get multi kills from. It also means if you do start tunnel or riot those 3 "easier" shots add to the modes scoring, again helping ramp up scores.

Woodburn skill shot is also a fairly safe shot to both light and collect as the ball is always in control.

Shooting the drops, well walker and prison puts the ball out of controll. That's why I avoid them in single ball play.

Going for walker kills and lighting Woodbury, I'm not saying exclude going for drops, just don't make it your main focus. If you miss a ramp shot there's a good chance it's going to hit the drops as you try and get control again.

Just don't get locked in to a single strategy, the same applies to any game.

Shame that's not an option on the Pro

Crossbow is also worth a big payoff for a single shot, I think my X Champion is only about 2 million more as I didn't having anything else lit on the shot, just a walker kill.

The other bonus of shooting for walkers on controlled shots is that it's easier to up, and only cash in when a big shot is lit, this was an 8X shot

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Amazing Riot score, thought I was doing well on 250mil

My current focus is getting Crossbow Frenzy, I keep managing 3 Crossbow kills then bricking the shot to cash in.

Drop targets, well walker and prison targets end crossbow mode - meaning you need to make the shot cleanly

On the Pro it won't award extra balls while the ball save is on, either at the start of a ball or during the start of multiball. Presumably as, without the spinner as on the Prem, it can't confirm that the shot was made legitimately or whether the ball ended up in the shooter lane from the trough.
It can be a real PITA having to wait for the ball save to go off to then make the shot.

Was playing a game last night:
Had Arena running then started Horde. Arena finished on 186mil, while Horde was still running.
One of the Walkers then reached me. I expected the flippers to die, it award me my Horde score then allow me to continue with a ball in the shooter lane.
Instead the machine reset and ended my game. It didn't allow me to enter my initials for high score on Arena.

Is this a bug anyone else has had, or is it a fault with my machine? I've never had anything similar happen before.

Almost,

You can increase the length of time 2x playfield runs for by shooting the standups multiple times BEFORE hitting the tower. Once 2x is running you can't extend it.

My best is over 6bil on a pro - but it didn't record HS because the lowest on the table was over 3bil.
Didn't realise it wouldn't store it otherwise I'd have captured a pic

There's a reason Keith can put up a score over 9bil - it's because he's the best in the world

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Cheers stoptap , I don't even rise to the bait anymore

Knew I'd find it somewhere.
Screenshots from a video recording all the different high scores awarded the first time I completed LMS.
Notice how it just knocks over 4Billion off my score and just awards me 4pts.

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The tunnel shot in the Tunnel Mode doesn't award a cash out value, it ends the mode. Once you've hit the other 4 shots for 5mil each, they relight and are worth 10mil each, etc. etc.

Personally CDC is the lowest scoring high score on the machine I used to have.
I've had riot scores over 500mil with a MB

It looks fantastic.

You need to change the original well walker insert decal - maybe to a 5 year old boy running away?