Quelle surprise. Farsight are about as competent as Stern.
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twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Well, at least we have a timeframe...
Well. I just booted up the game on PS4 after a long time and it seems completely broken now. Wtf
It tries to connect to their server and after a bit the screen just goes black, the music keeps playing but I can't do anything.
Same thing happens when I try to push cancel as it's connecting. Black screen and I need to close the application. Fucking hell.
It tries to connect to their server and after a bit the screen just goes black, the music keeps playing but I can't do anything.
Same thing happens when I try to push cancel as it's connecting. Black screen and I need to close the application. Fucking hell.
I have SPA on iOS and it seems to be mostly okay (UI is horrid and buggy, some layouts don't work with some tilt regions on the screen), but I won't be updating it for Ghostbusters at all. Means I can play Mustang for free indefinitely 8)
Think that BS, it can be down to emulation issue as there isn't actually any emulation involved. Farsight have the raw source code so all they need to do is compile it.
Further showing how much people don't really care about TPA at all now, I only just found out/realised that Paragon (ugh) won the poll to be the Season 7 opening table for TPA.
I can't even remember how long it's been since I bought a full season of TPA on either mobile or PC, and I don't feel I'm missing much at all.
I can't even remember how long it's been since I bought a full season of TPA on either mobile or PC, and I don't feel I'm missing much at all.
Thanks. Somehow I didn't see this until now (luckily it's still on sale).
Also I somehow missed the news that Stern Pinball Arcade was finally released in Europe on PS4 two weeks ago.
I didn't notice it either. Season 6 has a pretty horrid selection of machines (dat Gottlieb collection) but for $13AU (the Pro pack was cheaper than the regular one!) I'm not going to pass it up.
Jack The Nipper
Banned
last time I updated this game it broke the game for me sadly
This is the work-in-progress changelog as of April 18th
Much more has been done since then, I'm looking for a full changelog now.
Looks like no sale in the USA, at least at this time. Bummer.
I've generally ignored all of their stuff for a long time because of the unfriendly pricing and business models.
Holy shit my bad, saw this bump in my follows and I missed the date on that.
So it seems most tables (alphabetically) up to Flight 2000 have been updated, with a few notable exceptions. Nothing after that, though, which means a ton of tables still need updates.
What's particularly strange is that some of the tables listed in the above changelog did not push updates.
What's particularly strange is that some of the tables listed in the above changelog did not push updates.
Gunstarheroes
Member
Table hint seems to indicate Wipeout as the next table. I'm ok with that, played it and enjoyed it myself.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Hopefully Season 7 has the Bally Corvette table. That would be great.
And Big Bang Bar, of course, but I'll keep my expectations low for that one.
And Big Bang Bar, of course, but I'll keep my expectations low for that one.
It's good that so many are updated, but none of them update in the Manage Tables menu, you just have to play each table individually and see if it wants to download it or not.
Edit: Apparently Update Tables doesn't work, but if you do Download Owned, it gets them all. Or something.
You have excellent taste, my friend. Can't believe Paragon won (just like Xenon won that poll so many moons ago, despite not being from the era the poll was asking about! Flash should've won that, too. Argh).
Rather than click Update All, click Download Tables and it will start downloading all the updated tables.
100%
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Flash would be great to have, it would be nice to have all of Steve Ritchie's Williams tables.
I want Stern Pinball Arcade to have Terminator 3, though.
Stern has just announced...
Star Wars
(Premium pictured)
Dare I say it, but Ritchie has lost it. At least GoT had some interesting shots, this just looks phoned-in and generic as hell. The art looks woefully generic and cheap (harkening back to Stern's good ol' cut-and-paste days?) as well, like something from one of those cheap kiddie pinball machines.
At least this doesn't give Heighway nor JJP anything to worry about, especially given (I think?) the premium will be priced around the same as a base-model Dialed-In/Alien.
Star Wars
(Premium pictured)
Dare I say it, but Ritchie has lost it. At least GoT had some interesting shots, this just looks phoned-in and generic as hell. The art looks woefully generic and cheap (harkening back to Stern's good ol' cut-and-paste days?) as well, like something from one of those cheap kiddie pinball machines.
At least this doesn't give Heighway nor JJP anything to worry about, especially given (I think?) the premium will be priced around the same as a base-model Dialed-In/Alien.
Haha...harsh, but fair. And here I was all excited to maybe get a machine to replace my Metallica Premium. Is there even any art or is it all just movie shots? Doubly disappointing when you see all the cool original art Fantasy Flight has done for their Star Wars games.
I believe all the art is straight from the movie. Or Disney or something.
Since posted I did notice the kind of cool looking warp wireform between the slingshots, but that's the only interesting looking thing on there. Everything else there looks pretty bland.
I think you'd be better off spending your money elsewhere, TBH. If you don't care about theme, Dialed In looks like a winner. Or go for Alien.
Gentleman Jack
Member
In unrelated TPA News: Goin' Nuts has leapfrogged every other table in the collection to become my most hated table. Just getting the first two balls under control so I can actually reach standard/wizard goals feels like a complete coin toss. I can see why only ten of these things exist in reality. Maybe they made hundreds and the owners of the majority of them sent them into a woodchipper in a cathartic rage.
Stern has just announced...
Star Wars
(Premium pictured)
Dare I say it, but Ritchie has lost it. At least GoT had some interesting shots, this just looks phoned-in and generic as hell. The art looks woefully generic and cheap (harkening back to Stern's good ol' cut-and-paste days?) as well, like something from one of those cheap kiddie pinball machines.
At least this doesn't give Heighway nor JJP anything to worry about, especially given (I think?) the premium will be priced around the same as a base-model Dialed-In/Alien.
That looks like complete shit.
Man, what happened to Ritchie? Lawlor is still killing it, Dialed In is amazing. I'm not a fan of GoT really. I tried very hard to like it.
Ghostbusters *Premium* is pretty great but Batman 66 and Aerosmith have disappointed. Batman is at least carried by a great theme and art direction, Aerosmith is just lame and really ugly.
Sad to see another turd but at least the days of Stern being the only game in town are over. Hopefully Nordman brings hs A-Game with Elvira 3.
I really don't know, to address your question. He's old, doesn't have new ideas anymore (just compare Star Trek to Spiderman), but this seems even more unimaginative. At least GoT kind of had some super tight shots and loops a la No Fear (which this Star Wars kind of feels a little like) but it's like he's become a Borg parody of himself, taking little bits from each machine in his past to put something together. I can see some GoT, No Fear, Star Trek and maybe some Spiderman.
I think the only real resurgence in design that we'll see is when Keith Elwin finally knocks out his first official table for Stern (crossing fingers it's Archer). Until then, we'll be getting the same old over and over, at least from Stern.
I agree with you too, at least on BM66. I played it and didn't mind it for the new tech that was used, but the playfield and everything on it just felt cheap. Like, Stern Transformers-era cheap :/
I couldn't disagree more on the Aerosmith art direction. I think it looks amazing.
The art direction is ace but the table and the build quality feels incredibly cheap. Really insulting considering the price and what it gets you. The LE is garbage compared to JJ for the same price.
Looks garish and fug to me. Too busy. The LCD looks so, so bad. Washed out, flat, primary colors with shitty color relationships and low-budget flash animation. The text graphics look like fuckin Power Point.
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Bride of Pinbot won't load on my new iPad (9.7" 2017 model ). Does anybody have the same problem?
Yup! There were a bunch of tables that didn't work with the latest update on iOS. Most have been fixed, but won't auto-download. If you delete them and redownload they will be fixed, but BoP was NOT one of the ones that was fixed.
You'd think with a month off they'd have learned to not let severe bugs like this through the cracks. Argh.
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Pardon my ignorance, but why does Stern have a separate app?
Licensing. And probably requested by Stern themselves to separate it from all the other tables.
If you're Stern and want to sell people on a game, it's better to say "Download the Stern Pinball Arcade app and pick a table" than "Download Pinball Arcade and look for the Stern machines".
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Thanks. Is AC/DC a good table?
Secret Character
Member
If it's the digital one, then yes. AC/DC rocks. I've played on a Premium in real life and it's one of Stern's better modern machines.
It's not bad, but out of the new tables I prefer Star Trek to AC/DC.
Gentleman Jack
Member
So they can charge people $10.00 per table instead of having to bundle it in a season pass
TheSecondSpitter
Member
So they can charge people $10.00 per table instead of having to bundle it in a season pass
Can't play a trial version on the Stern app......seriously?
I realized that I haven't posted here in a while. The collection has been growing. Three months ago I picked up Heavy Metal Meltdown. This past weekend I got Data East Star Wars. Both are in fantastic condition, especially Star Wars which looks almost brand new. That puts me at four machines now.
I am eyeing up Total Nuclear Annihilation for game #5. I got to play the white wood at MGC and it has an amazing soundtrack and a nice 80's Bally feel to the gameplay, which I like.
I am eyeing up Total Nuclear Annihilation for game #5. I got to play the white wood at MGC and it has an amazing soundtrack and a nice 80's Bally feel to the gameplay, which I like.
Hmmm, interesting. Was hoping we'd get Fathom next :/
In case you missed it, Gottlieb Premier's Wipe Out released on Friday.
Before breaking out the pitch forks I'll tell you that this is actually a pretty decent Premier.
Here's the clue for next month:
*shudder*
So it seems Firepower II is a given. I'm not absolutely convinced that it is FP2 or that it's not a two-pack, which is what they did with the 2nd El Dorado. FP2 is almost identical to FP with only minor variations.
Why is there so much emphasis on the amount of people being fired in the clue? Seems weird, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Pretty big waste of a spot of it's just FP2, though. It's like a big fuck you to those of us begging for all the other Williams tables out there. (Like Fire!)
Before breaking out the pitch forks I'll tell you that this is actually a pretty decent Premier.
Here's the clue for next month:
*shudder*
So it seems Firepower II is a given. I'm not absolutely convinced that it is FP2 or that it's not a two-pack, which is what they did with the 2nd El Dorado. FP2 is almost identical to FP with only minor variations.
Why is there so much emphasis on the amount of people being fired in the clue? Seems weird, maybe I'm reading too much into it. Pretty big waste of a spot of it's just FP2, though. It's like a big fuck you to those of us begging for all the other Williams tables out there. (Like Fire!)
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Still hoping for the Bally Corvette table.
Isn't Firepower II just the same as the first, but with minor rule changes?
The variances are subtle, like the kickout saucer being replaced with a ramp and the alignment of the target banks. Different sound package, too.
Is it worth a spot by itself? Probably not. But I haven't played one IRL.
Was cool to hear Nate from Coast 2 Coast podcast seemingly back at it. He was a big part of what got me super into pinball. He was more positive about the recent Stern releases than I expected but maybe it's easier to be a little more positive when you're somewhat removed from the scene for a while. I'm sure his criticism will be getting him in trouble with them in no time.
Pinball-wise down here we have California Extreme coming up. Aka the pinball/arcade show that would be a 10/10 if they didn't literally sell three times more tickets than they should. :/
Pinball-wise down here we have California Extreme coming up. Aka the pinball/arcade show that would be a 10/10 if they didn't literally sell three times more tickets than they should. :/