OS TOP SCORES, UPDATED 1/16/14:
We sort of took over the Playstation network thread talking about this awesome game, but it's probably about time it gets its own thread.
I love this game, at least in the single-player leaderboard type mode. By and large, the tables are more challenging than just about any arcade pinball machine I've played. What makes them tough isn't so much keeping the ball on the table, but rather the accurate shots you have to make to score big points. It really isn't that tough to keep the ball from draining through the center once you've played for awhile, but trying to hit those shots and keep the ball out of the outlanes can be extremely challenging. There's a lot of luck involved in pinball, but you make some of your own too.
So I think that's what most of this thread is going to be about - figuring out how each table's special modes work and hitting the shots needed to win them.
I have a few general suggestions for anyone wanting to figure this stuff out (it really helped me on Shaman and El Dorado). They both involve taking your score off the leaderboard and disabling trophies though, which basically means it's practice:
- Slow motion. This one's pretty self explanatory - you can basically hit any shot you want to as long you've got the right timing. Play it long enough and you'll also see just how many shots you can hit with the flippers that looked like they were going right down the middle - you might be surprised.
- Operators menu. Learn it. Each one has several options for increasing/decreasing the difficulty of the table. There are presets for everything from extra easy to extra hard, found in the utilities menu. You can also make individual adjustments with the adjustments menu (and you'll want to if you go extra easy, the ball save timer is only 5 seconds!
).
These two features can help you get through the shots that you might not be able to hit normally at first (or didn't even know about!). Once you know where to aim, scoring big becomes a little simpler.
Oh, and if anyone has any tips for V12, I'm all ears - that one still kills me!!
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We sort of took over the Playstation network thread talking about this awesome game, but it's probably about time it gets its own thread.
I love this game, at least in the single-player leaderboard type mode. By and large, the tables are more challenging than just about any arcade pinball machine I've played. What makes them tough isn't so much keeping the ball on the table, but rather the accurate shots you have to make to score big points. It really isn't that tough to keep the ball from draining through the center once you've played for awhile, but trying to hit those shots and keep the ball out of the outlanes can be extremely challenging. There's a lot of luck involved in pinball, but you make some of your own too.
So I think that's what most of this thread is going to be about - figuring out how each table's special modes work and hitting the shots needed to win them.
I have a few general suggestions for anyone wanting to figure this stuff out (it really helped me on Shaman and El Dorado). They both involve taking your score off the leaderboard and disabling trophies though, which basically means it's practice:
- Slow motion. This one's pretty self explanatory - you can basically hit any shot you want to as long you've got the right timing. Play it long enough and you'll also see just how many shots you can hit with the flippers that looked like they were going right down the middle - you might be surprised.
- Operators menu. Learn it. Each one has several options for increasing/decreasing the difficulty of the table. There are presets for everything from extra easy to extra hard, found in the utilities menu. You can also make individual adjustments with the adjustments menu (and you'll want to if you go extra easy, the ball save timer is only 5 seconds!
).These two features can help you get through the shots that you might not be able to hit normally at first (or didn't even know about!). Once you know where to aim, scoring big becomes a little simpler.
Oh, and if anyone has any tips for V12, I'm all ears - that one still kills me!!
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