Too early for me to tell. The Tron theme, sounds, call outs, and music will be hard to beat though.

Way too early to tell. We need this code update badly before I could make a comparison.

+1 for too early to tell. I love them both for different reasons entirely.

I use photobucket for all my pics, and it seems like photobucket leaves links here instead of the photos. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? With KLOV, I take the pictures with my phone, upload them to photobucket with my phone, and post them on KLOV with my phone. Can't seem to get that to happen here.

As far as the strap goes, I wanted to check the translite before hauling it up.

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Yup, that's me.

Where in my comment did I say I didn't like the dots?

I just noticed on the Blackbird launch there is an unexplained "glitch" looking line in the basketball court.

...but to answer your question. I'm not the kind of person that has to be 100% rainbows and unicorns happy about something or think it's total poo. I simply asked if anyone else had noticed anything on the DMD that they didn't care for or seemed like a glitch.

I'm glad you didn't list depth in there, or I'd have been seriously worried for you

#231 has arrived....Magneto will escape from his cardboard prison when I get back from work hehe

You'd have thought he'd have been able to magnetise some suitable sharp objects towards himself so he can cut himself out!!

I dont think it will be for some time Pete. Borg is on vacation this week so who knows what the mice are doing lol. I honestly have no idea but the timeline has been skewed all ready. Shame too. That Scoring bug should have been first thing done right away upon waisons return from SDCC

Re: DMD animations, and needing a fix:

When hitting the BB scoop, you can skip any animations by pressing both flippers, except extra ball. If you skip any other award, you actually won't even know what you were awarded. I really don't need to see the animation every time, but would like to know what was awarded. I know I got the extra ball. The insert was lit for extra ball, and afterward the shoot again insert was lit. Why force me to watch that sequence every time? All the other awards, you have no idea if you skip it. Super spinner? Maybe. Pops at 4,000? Maybe. 200,000 points? Maybe. But no frickin doubt you got that extra ball!

If the programmers are truly watching and listening to input from owners and people outside of stern, it will take some time for them to formulate what changes should/could be made and then implement them. These games have only been out in the world 2 weeks.

Sure, they could release a quick fix for the scoring, but I'd be willing to wait a couple more weeks for a more complete code update. I'm still having fun with it regardless.

To me, it's absolutely unacceptable for a designer to go on vacation while his game is on the line (w issues).

Just got back from playing it some more and had fun, although the scoring will probably keep me away from spending monies on it till it's updated.
So weird you have to start multiball before getting modes. Interesting idea.

I have Wolvie # 94 and it was made on 7-9-12. I can't find the example, but I did see a post by someone else that showed that the game # wasn't in the order of the build (in comparison to my machine).

My #94 was a requested number, so maybe that caused it to jump line before some random numbers to get it to my distributor with the rest of his batch.

To me it is absolutely unacceptable to release a pin that has obvious problems with the scoring. That one seems pretty basic and obvious. I just don't see an excuse for it. I'm way more willing to give a pass on some QC things like the magnet/spinner noise (which was an easy fix anyway) than something as basic as not properly keeping score. Sheesh.

Screwed me out of my Magneeto Super Jackpot today. I earned that sucker!

I sincerely feel your pain.

Is this when there is a picture of glasses in a case? I don't know why thats so important either.

I didn't know much about Beast but it turns out he joins the Avengers.

I agree, totally unacceptable and it kind of shows a bit of disrespect to customers IMO.

Maybe he's collecting his gear. I know the best mode(ha) dmd image is pretty cool with a CU of his face

Borg is not programming the game... the guys programming the game are there and jamming on it. Let Borgie have a week off!

No where in my statement do I call out Borg in particular or indicate he is doing the programing (since I already know that is not the case). I am calling out the Stern team for releasing code that had scoring errors/problems. Not sure how your response applies to my post.

No way. Owners are having to fix things which left the factory not-working, because there is obviously no floor leadership for LE assembly. Listen to Ritchie talk about the responsibility of the designer when his game is on the line.

In this new age of LE's ($$$$), I think the designer's responsibility is even greater. You have all year to take a vaca, just not during the month YOUR GAME IS ON THE LINE! I haven't really taken a proper vaca in two years, so I have little sympathy. Guys are running around to hardware stores to fix their discs, and trying to figure out Wolverine and Ice Slide fixes on their own, on brand new games? While the designer is chillin on a beach somewhere and the floor is sending games out non-working? Nah, I don't think so. That's BS, sorry.

His role is also to lead the software guys, who are obviously struggling to make numbers add up correctly, so there's a fail there as well.

Not giving Borg a pass on this one. His butt should be right down there on the line with his sleeves rolled up so that owners don't have to invent fixes for things which should've already been tweaked by proper design, play-testing and assembly.

The scoring thing is a flat out insult. If not fixed real soon Stern just lost. Customer that was really in their camp and spending dollars with them. Right now Avengers is making less and less sense to me. What a shame I was throwing money at them.

Been there, felt that. "POW" - Anyone who has scored a Magento SJ will appreciate that...

The glasses is all I could make out, but after looking at it again...it looks like he is gettin the glasses out of a cabinet or something.

I agree. They need to bust out a fix immediately.

I don't have time to read all 96 pages of this thread. Can someone give me the cliff notes version?

Dont worry Lonnie is on it. Is there a knee slap emoticon.

1. X-Men to be released
2. Who will do the art?
3. Comic Based vs Movie Based
4. Waiting
5. Video teaser.
6. X-Men will have Marvel Voice Actors
7. More Waiting and Speculation.
8. Stern Releases Media House Video - Excitement
9. Much More Waiting
10. First LE Games start shipping.
11. First videos of Gameplay
12. Notes made scoring not working right
13. More Games Ship
14. Wolverine hit, Spinning Disc Problems
15. More Talk.
16. Waiting for Update for scoring fix
17. More Talking

You may not pass the pinside X-Men Thread test but at least this gets you up to speed.

Nice Tom!

Glad it arrived safely Greg!

Game looks amazing, lots of cool shots, there are a few minor QC issues, scoring is screwed.

Sorry, dude - I thought you were responding to the vacation thing...my apologies.

Just had my best game ever!

Finished Sentinals, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine, Iceman, Cyclops. I hate that I couldn't really watch the screen to see what happened when I finished Sentinals. I also got to NC during this game but only hit him 1 time before I lost the ball. I LOVE THIS PIN!!!!!!!

I have read this entire thread...

And many of you have not.

That being said, go back and read the reviews on WPT. ... However, when it first came out the rules made absolutely no sense. Once they released the new code, the game went from about a 4 to a solid 7. The drop downs were finally incorporated and the game made sense.

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It's all good. Are you thinking of picking up an X-Men rarehero?

Ever hit a lock shot up the Phoenix lane and it trickle back down through the Beast lane? Sure you have. Well it's not an issue of the ball not reaching the diverter on time. As a matter of fact, I don't even know it that is possible...the diverter stays open quite awhile.

It ends up that it is a software issue. If you take off the glass and pass a few balls up the Phoenix lane when the lock is lit, but not hard enough to get to the gate you sometimes hit it so the ball coming down the Phoenix lane will open the gate....and a short while after this...switch hits from going up the Phoenix lane won't open the diverter. It's like the programing is trying to be smart about what switch hits to Phoenix open the lane and which ones don't, but it gets confused and out of whack.

I don't really know the specifics, but it will just get out of sync on balls rolling down the Phoenix switch and balls rolling up the switch and not open the diverter sometimes when it should.

well i've read it all .. good read i reckon .. better than a book .. sometimes the plot gets lost , but its got interesting characters .. and should have a good ending

Not me. The game is unplayable as is. Fix the scoring only, as fast as you can. Then work on other things.

no you didn't get screwed. The super jackpot score actually counts and works. And after you hit it, all further jackpot scores for the rest of the mb count. That's the one things that does work.

No, actually, I haven't.

Anyone else?

So then the jackpots before I hit the Super didn't count? Haven't been keeping up with all the ins and outs jsut know something didn't count.

I agree completely. I played XM quite a bit over the last few days, but it has definitely got to the point where I'm frustrated with the scoring issue and having less fun as a result.

Where is it?

When is it coming?

No, but I have had it go UP phoenix and THROUGH Rogue with no lock awarded.

Rob if you haven't already, change it to 5 ball. Makes up for the crappy scoring.