I also have encountered very few of the issues described above (I have a Pro), save for the ball drain issue coming out of the pops (which I'll be fixing with a Williams post this week). And my prison magnet throws that ball all over the place. I've found that the SDTM issue can be largely eliminated if you hit both flippers to cancel the animation.

I think the theme integration is pretty good (barn, prison, CDC, well walker, riot, fish tank, arena, tunnel, crossbow, bicycle girl, etc.) and will only get better if they replace the callouts.

I'm in love with this game right now. None of my other pins have gotten any attention in the last month. I replaced all of the insert LEDs with colors and warm whites, frosted purple and orange on the back panel to look like a sunset, and I'll be putting warms in the GI this weekend. It looks so much better now. I also ordered some mods from Pinball Refinery. I think this game will be totally badass once the code is finished.

eh???

Totally agree. Like what you like. Your reasons for not liking it are totally justified based on your experience, and opinions can change. There are plenty of games that I hated at first but grew to love (LOTR), and there are several that I immediately liked and grew to dislike (CV).

I'm hoping there's a future code update that adds a brief ball save right after the prison magnet is activated. That would alleviate a lot of concerns about the prison magnet. Mine rarely drains SDTM, but when it does, it's bullshit.

I didn't know which one to buy specifically, so I ordered a couple different sizes. If this question hasn't been answered by another Pinsider by the time I get my order from Pinball Life, I'll let you know.

Well, to be fair, TWD has a cannon too (LE). Plus the Prison, which itself is a bash toy (bash to open the doors, bash the zombie head once the doors open, as well as the Bicycle Girl bash toy (LE).

While I agree that the spinning disc on Tron is superior to the prison magnet on TWD (I own both games), that magnet has caused plenty of badass moonwalking on my machine.

It was posted in another thread that replacing the post sleeve by the pops with a Williams sleeve prevents a shit-ton of drains from the pops (the Williams sleeve is a bit thicker and usually sends the ball to the left flipper). I installed a red one today, and while it still drains from time to time, it seems to happen A LOT less now.

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=3304

Totally agree. I'm a Pro guy just trying to blend in with these nice LE folk.

I had my first 100M game today. I got to Horde, but had no idea what I was doing. I lost my ball immediately. My Horde total was a paltry 100K.

I'm going to play a Pro that's on location here in Phoenix this afternoon and compare it to mine. Update coming later today...

After being spoiled by my increasingly-heavily modded Pro in my game room, I played a Pro on location last week. I can see why people who haven't played a dialed in home use example are disenchanted by the game on location. It's just not the same experience.

The light show is virtually non-existent with the stock white LEDs everywhere, the prison doors didn't register lots of hits (and got stuck shut multiple times), the Well Walker didn't register hits consistently, lots of drains from the pops, lots of SDTM drops from the prison magnet (game was still running old code), and you couldn't hear the game all that well due to all of the other games in the arcade.

Save for the occasional pop drain, I don't experience any of those issues at home, so I can totally see why someone who has only played TWD on location (or at least played the machine that I played) would think this game's a turd.

Not yet. How do you get it going?

Does it say something like "SEIGE!!!!" when it begins? I thought I heard something like that the other day while I had a long prison mb going, but I didn't see the insert lit up or anything, so I figured probably not.

Same here. I pretty much never look at the DMD when I play.

Agreed. I always watch the animations when others play, but when it's just me playing, I never look.