Pinball Arcade - (by FarSight) - Universal App

[bruab]

Twilight Zone update is out!

The other table is Scared Stiff.

Since I backed the Kickstarter, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do now to get the table.....

[your personal robot]

Wow!!! Huge surprise. But yes, I'm a backer as well. What happens now.

[famousringo]

Originally Posted by bruab

Twilight Zone update is out!

The other table is Scared Stiff.

Since I backed the Kickstarter, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do now to get the table.....

Heh, yeah, I'm in the same spot. I expect we're going to be sent promo codes that unlock the table at some point. Struggling not to just buy the damn table now for the instant gratification.

It would have been nice if Farsight could've sent out a message before the patch, but maybe the patch came out faster than they were expecting/prepared for. Not sure how these things work, but maybe they needed the patch to go live before Apple would generate codes for them.

[psj3809]

Originally Posted by bruab

Twilight Zone update is out!

The other table is Scared Stiff.

Since I backed the Kickstarter, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do now to get the table.....

Scared stiff was out previously. Just bought Twilight Zone, really good. This is a great app, 19 tables in all now!

[your personal robot]

That's what they say on Facebook:
"Log out of your Pinball Arcade account and then log back in. You should then have access to the table."

Let's try...

...hm, not working so far.

[BohemianCoast]

Originally Posted by Rudi

Strange with that difference in difficulty between old and modern tables from farsight. BLack knight, Big Shot,Black hole, gorgar, Taxi haver ralistic difficulty like real tables. Modern ones like bride of pinbot, scared stiff, monster bash,Creature from the black lagoon... are far to easy.
If you play the tables on visual pinball, most of the tables are just right in difficulty. No difference between old or new ones.

I don't know what PA are thinking of, really. Pro Pinball got it right, when they decided that if you were making a machine for permanent freeplay use it had to be really hard; much harder than an arcade machine would be. But most of the modern tables on Pinball Arcade are vastly easier than the real thing. I'm not a particularly good player, and I got the wizard mode on Scared Stiff the first time I'd played the table. That's just silly. I don't want a pinball game to take several hours and require me to burn through the wizard mode several times to get a hint of the high score table.

It's annoying, really. I love this game, supported the KS, have bought every scrap of DLC apart from the ludicrously priced pro tables (I am not sure they run on my iPad 1 anyway)... but keep wishing that the games would play like real machines and that they'd fix the incessant bugs. I'd like them to get a graphic designer to sort out their menus too, but that might be pushing my luck a bit.

[bruab]

Originally Posted by psj3809

Scared stiff was out previously. Just bought Twilight Zone, really good. This is a great app, 19 tables in all now!

Right, it's just a pro version upgrade for Scared Stiff.

[bruab]

Originally Posted by your personal robot

That's what they say on Facebook:
"Log out of your Pinball Arcade account and then log back in. You should then have access to the table."

Let's try...

...hm, not working so far.

How is that possible? How would they know which account goes to which kick starter backer?

[your personal robot]

Tried again and again, now it seems to work!

[HerbertKornfeld]

Originally Posted by BohemianCoast

I don't know what PA are thinking of, really. Pro Pinball got it right, when they decided that if you were making a machine for permanent freeplay use it had to be really hard; much harder than an arcade machine would be. But most of the modern tables on Pinball Arcade are vastly easier than the real thing.

This. I just bought Twilight Zone, the pro version actually, just as I’ve bought every other table in this collection. I got it the second it became available. So when I say what I’m about to say, don’t confuse me for a hater.

I just played my first game of Twilight Zone. This wasn’t my first game of this table in Pinball Arcade, mind you, this was the first time I’ve ever played this table, anywhere. I got a multiball on my first ball, and before the end of the game, I had unlocked three of the five “Standard Goals”. I had no idea what I was doing, I was just trying to keep the ball in play.

It was fun, and I’ll surely play it loads more, but after that first game, I went back to the best pinball table on iOS, the one that’s been occupying my time for the last week. I went back to Revenge of the Rob-O-Bot. [App Store] [AppShopper] [Developer’s Site]

It’s a brand new table from a bunch of pinball newbies, but it’s more fun than anything in Pinball Arcade or Zen Pinball, at least to me. After playing Rob-O-Bot for the last week, playing Pinball Arcade again felt like everything was in slow motion. It feels super floaty now, and unrealistic. Rob-O-Bot, on the other hand, it feels more natural. The ball moves quickly, and it just feels right.

And speaking of the difficulty, that’s another point in Rob-O-Bot’s favor. Like I said, I’ve been playing that table off and on for a week. On Game Center, as user “jhamdotme”, I used to have the third highest score. I’ve fallen to seventh, lately, as more people have been playing, but despite this, I’ve never seen a multiball. It’s in there, I know it’s possible. I’ve seen it in the trailer. But instead of just getting it from blind luck, on my very first ball no less, it’s something that I’m going to have to earn. I’ve completed four of the five missions several times, but I’ve never quite finished the fifth. When I do, I’ll get that multiball, presumably, and it’ll be sweet.

Twilight Zone is no doubt the better designed table, I’m not arguing this. In time, as Farsight tweaks their engine, I’ll maybe even prefer it to Rob-O-Bot. I hope that this is something that they’re working on, because with a free update it’ll instantly make all of the tables I’ve bought, on both iOS and on the PlayStation, that much better than they already are. But right now, I prefer how the ball moves in Rob-O-Bot, and that’s what makes it more fun to me.

So should you not get Twilight Zone? No, of course not. You should definitely get it, and every other table that they make, on every system that you have. But here’s my advice. If you were going to get the Pro version of Twilight Zone, maybe just get the regular version. With the $3 that you’ll save, buy yourself Rob-O-Bot, instead. You’ll have more fun with this upstart new pinball table than you will playing around with the “Pro” features, and as an added bonus, you’ll have saved yourself a penny. Win win.

PS Touch Arcade moderators, why no front page love for the best new pinball table in the App Store? In the last week, you’ve given front-page coverage to Monster Pinball HD and to a crappy year-old table from Gameprom. Rob-O-Bot is worthy. Just give it a try. You’ll like it, honest. But if you’re still not convinced, read some of the fawning praise here at Touch Arcade or over at the Pinball Arcade Fans forum. I want more tables from these guys, so please, buy their game and make them rich.