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Good to hear watching my vids is helping improve your game. 2 Billion in Adams Family is a damned fine score, especially on the Pinball FX version. Well done!

You're welcome. The main secret to scores like that in CFTBL is to multiply jackpot scores during multiball with the left ramp before trying to score any jackpots. Catch one ball with the left flipper and use the right to keep hitting that ramp until 4x is up, then start hitting jackpots. I do much better in this game if I play slow and methodically, more so than just about any other

I'm working on a strategy guide for this table that I'm pretty sure a lot of players will find very helpful, especially with respect to amassing bigger scores. Also includes a couple of very useful tricks that I didn't show off in this clip. Should be ready to go in a couple of weeks

lol

Still slaps

Still rocking. Also, it's not even that old...

Yeah, I would have made this clip years ago if I had the hardware and software available to do it, but up until just recently I didn't. To make a clip like this one needs Doom to run at ultra nightmare graphics while recording at 4k at a minimum of 120fps, and editing software that will let you work with 120 fps footage

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Honestly I don't think there's a whole lot to compare or discuss when it comes to pro mode vs classic. Pro mode is just "tournament mode" with a steeper playfield. I do think it's great for practice and honing reflexes and in some ways I prefer it, but because Zen decided to only provide it with tournament mode settings, the tables kind of become a shell of their former selves. The moment to moment on-ball play is great but there's less depth to the overall game once you strip the rules with tourney settings. I would like to see a pro mode with regular ruleset as well as tournament mode, but I'm not holding my breath for anything Williams related from Zen whatsoever.

Yeah, sometimes you just get on a roll :-)

Thanks mate. That's years of experience honed on real machines manifest on a simulation. I think it speaks pretty highly of Zen's accomplishments in recreating these as faithfully as they have

Yeah, you're probably right about that. Funny, after I published it and watched it back I saw another issue with them and regretted not fleshing that out a little more. I kinda regret leaving out a couple of tricks as well so I might do a fuller version soon and if so I'll try to redeem myself

Yeah, it's tough for sure. Really got to have your eye in for STNG because missed shots are usually punished!

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it

By trying my best to consider the tilt bulb timeout duration and being aware of how many tilt warnings I have already generated. Same way I try to avoid tilting on a real machine

Thanks for the comments. STNG is a tough nut to crack, struggling to crack my own PB as well. One of the hardest pinnies ever made, which makes it my favourite. This might help give you a few ideas: czcams.com/video/aTl-4w5g4_U/video.html

@@scootinlootinnshootin683 Thanks for the response man. Since I left this comment I finally beat my old high score but only by a 100 million or so; I didn't even move up the list lmao if you scroll down from your #1 spot you'll see me sitting at #25 😆 I'm trying though. I came real close to getting my second Final Frontier!

I'm on PC and use a modified X-Arcade Tank Stick which does a respectable job of simulating playing a real machine. I did try a keyboard setup initially but I play much better with a tank stick

@@scootinlootinnshootin683 thanks so much! Just got into Pinball pretty recently (specifically pinball FX)and have been playing on Xbox… lol. The flipper lag as well as having so little/no control to do micro flips and precise movements because of the Xbox triggers is getting a frustrating. I’ve been wanting to find something like that X Arcade Stick so I can move over to pc and have a more realistic playing experience for a while now. Anyways, thanks so much for the response!

I spent a ridiculous amount of time in amusement arcades as a kid, probably started playing when I was 10 years old. I played competitively for almost a decade and worked as a pinball tech for a few years. I've also owned a few machines of my own. I took a big old break from it for a couple of decades but Pinball FX sucked me back in. I'm 52 years old now. So yeah, I've played way more than my fair share :-)

Yeah I went through a phase of "Piano Bad" for a bit although since this game I decided I should just practice that shot and stop missing it. I have made a few adjustments to my approach to TZ more recently. I'm still not focusing on the piano much, but I'm not ruling it out either. My new tactic only incorporates a small change, but it has big practical application in numerous modes, especially Powerball mball. Its much easier demonstrated than explained so I'll upload a new clip of TZ soon so you can see what I've started doing differently.

Mind you, you need to be able to do it without generating tilt warnings.

@@w0mblemania I can simply use the dpad now, as long as it's not frequent, it doesn't matter how hard you press

@@lucapacucci285 Hmm, that doesn't work for me. Have you adjusted your controller dead zones?

I don't believe so.

I've never timed the tilt warning cool down period, but I'm guessing it's around 15 - 10 seconds. You'll get 3 warnings before the next nudge gives a tilt

thanks!@@scootinlootinnshootin683

You don't get a warning for a single nudge unless you do a second nudge within a few seconds. Pro mode is a lot stricter

Thanks. I use to own a real STNG machine, and you should have seen me play that. Highest score on the real thing was 266 billion. I would have beaten that score on the Pin FX version if Zen hadn't messed with the Extra Ball ruleset, which essentially removes at least half of the available EBs.

@@scootinlootinnshootin683 Nice, have you tried out the Pro mode in Pinball FX at all? I once tried it, but it was too brutal for me.

@@PixelPulsePlayer Yep, started playing pro mode a few weeks back and have mixed feelings on it. I actually like the speed of it (which actually makes some aspects of some tables easier), but what I don't like is that pro mode essentially removes a lot of the potential strategies, because there are no EBs and certain game modes and scoring shots simply don't work the same way. Pro mode is really just "tournament mode". I'd like to see the same physics / ball speed, but without EBs etc removed, and without the outlanes maxed out. If you play pro mode enough and then go back to classic, it feels slow, sluggish and sleepy. In my ideal word classic would play more like pro mode (perhaps not quite as fast) but with all rules in place and outlane posts set at the midway point. I really shouldn't say things like that though, because whenever I say something I'd like to see, Zen usually go off and do the exact opposite

Thanks. That's years and years of pinball experience and ingrained muscle memory translated to digital pinball. Its a testament to how well Zen have created a simulation that mimics the real thing. Pretty much every technique shown works much the same way on a real machine, with a similar degree of difficulty (except for the nudge pass, which is infinitely easier with digital pinball).

You're welcome and thank you. Hope you got a few pointers by watching

That's "The Power" magnet in Adams Family, which makes the ball very tricky to predict and handle during multiball and Seance modes. Its the very worst part of that game.

@@scootinlootinnshootin683 Ah that makes sense, I didn't know that the Adams Family had this feature as I have not played it much yet.

Indeed 👍