Zen Pinball (PSN)

[bcruise]

OS TOP SCORES, UPDATED 1/16/14:

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OPERATION SPORTS ZEN PINBALL TOP SCORES
Table Name		Top Score		PSN Name		Platform
Return Of The Jedi		126,083,209		LingeringRegime		PS4
StarFighter Assault		172,097,520		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Darth Vader		522,466,676		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Empire Strikes Back		161,479,910		bcruise		PS3/Vita
Clone Wars		96,736,248		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Boba Fett		120,153,150		CubFan023		PS4
Plants vs. Zombies		241,616,094		RNunez187		PS3/Vita
Avengers		89,151,693		dogslax41		PS4
World War Hulk		284,705,000		dogslax41		PS4
Fear Itself		71,316,803		Skow		PS4
Infinity Gauntlet		51,184,365		dogslax41		PS4
Spiderman		334,483,864		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Wolverine		78,882,100		bcruise		PS4
Ironman		44,112,000		bcruise		PS4
Blade		91,736,000		Skow		PS4
Epic Quest		77,580,773		bcruise		PS4
Sorcerors Lair		377,590,008		StormShadowz27		PS4
Paranormal		44,766,500		nemesis04		PS4
Earth Defense		66,932,715		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Doctor Strange		76,809,696		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Ghost Rider		37,982,600		Blzer		PS3/Vita
X-Men		69,695,331		LingeringRegime		PS3/Vita
Thor		44,795,000		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Moon Knight		169,231,894		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Captain America		96,758,758		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Fantastic Four		59,172,788		jeffd1331		PS3/Vita
Civil War		15,937,335		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Mars		54,724,000		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Excalibur		62,555,500		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Tesla		34,675,520		Blzer		PS3/Vita
El Dorado		88,727,039		bcruise		PS3/Vita
Shaman		30,267,623		Blzer		PS3/Vita
V12		32,433,204		bcruise		PS3/Vita
Ninja Gaiden		9,919,407		Blzer		PS3/Vita
Super Street Fighter 2		96,106,130		Blzer		PS3/Vita

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!!

[23]

good idea bcruise

im not that stuck on the achievement thing myself but alot of guys seem to like the challenge.

[Village Idiot]

V12 is my worst table by far. I think my high score is like 950k or something, lol.

[RoyalBoyle78]

going to download now

[RoyalBoyle78]

Holy Crap this game rocks, one of the best downloadable games yet. I'm going to have some major fun with this.

[rspencer86]

I'm really focusing in on Tesla right now. Last couple of games I made some good progress (for me anyway), finally completing that first experiment and earning a personal best of 7.6 million.

I'm learning new things about the tables each time I play, and my high scores keep inching towards respectability. This game is definitely fun and addicting, and is great to fire up when I don't have a full hour to dedicate to a sports game.

Hopefully they will patch up the multiplayer issues, because it would be really fun to get some 4-player action with other OS'ers.

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by rspencer86

I'm really focusing in on Tesla right now. Last couple of games I made some good progress (for me anyway), finally completing that first experiment and earning a personal best of 7.6 million. I'm learning new things about the tables each time I play, and my high scores keep inching towards respectability. This game is definitely fun and addicting, and is great to fire up when I don't have a full hour to dedicate to a sports game. Hopefully they will patch up the multiplayer issues, because it would be really fun to get some 4-player action with other OS'ers.

Yeah, the Tesla experiments are a pain. While I was messing around in Easy mode I've seen all the experiments except Teleforce - I beleive you have to beat them all to get that one. They're all tough - I guess the chain reaction one is easiest (it requires less consistency), but you can potentially be dealing with 4 balls for that one - and you blow it if you miss one.

BTW, you change experiments by shooting the electromagnetic field, but instead of using the left magnet once all the targets are down, use the right one - the ball should exit on the right side, and the experiment will change. It doesn't do it automatically - you could do the same experiment multiple times if you wanted to.

[Eton Rifles]

I think I was able to get up to about 7 million on V12 but that was before the server patch to fix the scores.