Pressing both flippers allows you to fight the prison zombie there and control the magnet (similar to Battling the Power on TZ)...properly timed flips can get one or two hits on the zombie with the magnet and stop a SDTM throw...sit idle, and the zombie can attack you with the SDTM attempt.

It's a good feature IMO, not a flaw.

FWIW, on my game, it's nearly a 100% success (to shoot the zombie) on the crowbar/Borg scene IF timed after the second crowbar strike, with a delay of the same time between the 1st and 2nd strike (as if making a phantom 3rd strike with the timing cue given from the first two). And a poorly timed flip can cause it to drop SDTM instead as well.

If lucky on the return, a second strike can be made, or at times this will wrap it around to make the Riot shot.

Makes sense other games may be a bit different, and tournament games often have the magnet off, but I've experienced it on more than just mine, so perhaps skewed personal results to the whole, but the flippers will definitely control the magnet to help against a SDTM, and seem to react differently, in a predictable manner based on timing.

Works consistently on my game, and seems confirmed by another above, so there must be some way to set it up for it to happen if not working (someone noted that perhaps the magnet is in a different orientation).

If you spent an hour, I imagine it isn't inaccurate timing on yours if you never got it to work, but as noted, it's nearly a 100% success on mine when timed on the count of 3 with 1 and 2 being the first two crowbar hits during the Borg scene (equal time between 2 and 3 as 1 and 2 [too early, and it will often drop as you say on mine]). Can get up to two strong hits on the zombie, enough to trigger the switch.

It's a fun feature, so it would be a shame if it's not working more universally in the same fashion for others.

Could find time to take a video if interested.

Premium with 1.56 (had too much custom audio to want to switch without doing it all again [some uniquely mixed tracks as well for tension]).

I'll see if Marissa has time to hold a camera after work today.

Made two quick attempts. Missed a double strike, but got a strong hit on both tries.

The second clip was taken with the screen in view for a better judge of the timing I'm using.

Sounds like that's the case, and as noted in my 2nd thread post, I was entirely willing to accept that other games are different--that my perception could be based on skewed personal results. Never knew anyone was having a different experience, and having done it on more than one TWD, I had no reason to question it.

Wonder if there's anything about the way my magnet is positioned that's making the difference. Very predictable response on mine, and strong throw (EDIT: Seems answered below).

Drove me crazy when I first got the game, and no setup change could fix it...but given enough time to break-in and settle down, the shot becomes perfect...until it gets waxed, starting the cycle over again. So I just don't clean the game the same as others to avoid the issue returning for so long.

While I see that happening in the video, it's not something I've paid attention to...always just going off the muscle memory/timing after the video/audio cue.

And it's just one tap of the flippers to get the result shown.

On mine, you can indeed pulse the magnet multiple times like on TZ, but it's just one more shot on the return, and requires more luck to pull off--not performed in the video, but it's possible two get two hits total that way (or have the second attempt wrap around into the Riot shot).