Sweet. I'll just get the season packs on the PS4 with the cross-discount and hope for a holiday sale for the PC.
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Sweet. I'll just get the season packs on the PS4 with the cross-discount and hope for a holiday sale for the PC.
plagiarize
Banned
you misunderstand me. where do I direct a request to have my tables changed to the PC version from my original picks?
eh, screw it, I'll figure it out myself.
BigWeather
Member
I contacted FarSight through the Kickstarter page and had a nice woman switch mine from 360 to PS3.
BigWeather
Member
No word yet on PS4 / Vita crossbuy? I'm torn on what I'll do -- I love having both console and handheld available. Ideally it'd be PS3 / PS4 / Vita crossbuy but I know that won't happen. =)
No PS4/Vita cross buy, but possible cross discount. See a few pages back .
plagiarize
Banned
if you have 4 or more table packs you can save (presumably) $15 on Season 1 on PS4 (although I don't know that they've confirmed season 1 at $30...). They have confirmed you save 50% off it, if you already own a season pack or 4 or more table packs.
So if you've already bought at least one PS3 table pack, you can buy more vita tables, without paying more overall. that's what I did! spent $15 on three new packs, to get me to the discount level.
BigWeather
Member
Ah, good to know -- yeah I already have both seasons on PS3/Vita so I'm set for all existing tables. Nice to know I can get the existing tables on the PS4 at a discount. Going forward, starting with Season 3, I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed -- I wonder if I can buy PS3 Season 3 (to get Vita) and then PS4 at a discount or is the deal just for the pre-PS4 launch Seasons?
So, I'll get the discounted Seasons 1 and 2 for PS4 no doubt, looking forward to those. Just not sure how to best get both PS4 and Vita tables for Season 3 and beyond (I'm not going to want PS3 beyond the two Seasons I already have).
BolognaSoup
Member
Wow at the comments in the forums on Steam for this game. People are incredibly stupid. Pissed off at this for being free to play but the other tables cost money? Just, wow.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Is it me or is the PC version much easier than the PSN version? I was able to get the super jets in Attack from Mars easily, which was a problem for me. I also got all the standard goals in Taxi on one play session.
I also got all the standard goals in Terminator 2, no problem.
Overall, I'm happy.
I also got all the standard goals in Terminator 2, no problem.
Overall, I'm happy.
plagiarize
Banned
higher resolution (or image quality). locked frame rate (unlike certain vita tables). no input/display lag if you're playing on a monitor.
it's kind of like how I get better scores on Pinball FX2 in portrait mode.
I just freed the genie. Feels good
Anyone know what the latest update fixes?
BTW With the announcement that season packs will be on the Steam storefront too, I'm almost tempted to wait for the... Winter (?) sale? Sadly with the US dollar being worth far too much in Australia, it costs me about 1/3 more for the packs.
Or I could just man up and pay full retail like a boss. Then the same again on PSN when it's out for PS4.
BTW With the announcement that season packs will be on the Steam storefront too, I'm almost tempted to wait for the... Winter (?) sale? Sadly with the US dollar being worth far too much in Australia, it costs me about 1/3 more for the packs.
Or I could just man up and pay full retail like a boss. Then the same again on PSN when it's out for PS4.
Every game/DLC you buy from Steam stays tied to your account forever.
Never mind, I misunderstood your question. Not sure really, I'm not familiar with any other games that do things the way PA is doing them.
When they start running thin on table, there'll still be real tables people want them to do. Guarantee you of that.
Because it'll probably be me
Purple_Tentacle
Neo Member
What's the word on running this in portrait mode? Future plans or not even discussed?
plagiarize
Banned
well, I tried it and it's all messed up currently. you'd think they'd have futures plans to support it since this version is going to get run on tablets. I haven't seen an actual quote though.
they have a virtua pin in the office that they ran STTNG on, so they've got to be aware of the importance of such a thing.
edit: an update downloaded this morning. now V1.19.4. I only had time to fire it up on my work PC to see if post processing was fixed on Intel HD integrated graphics. It wasn't.
BolognaSoup
Member
Added vibration for the 360 controller. Also said something about the menus and they do seem much more responsive when loading tables.
Stupid question time: Does the Steam version automatically show your Steam friends on the leaderboards? Mine is empty and I can't tell if it is because none of my friends have posted scores yet or I need to do something to friend them through PA?
Also - is there any way to merge my PSN leaderboard entries with my Steam ones? Or abandon one or the other so they both feed to the same name?
Also - is there any way to merge my PSN leaderboard entries with my Steam ones? Or abandon one or the other so they both feed to the same name?
Gentleman Jack
Member
plagiarize
Banned
ThreePiMatt
Member
Game looks and runs beautifully on my PC... except there's a solid 1 second input lag that makes it entirely unplayable.
You need to log into a Farsight account to see leaderboards at all. I have no idea what you get when you log into it, since I have no interest in creating yet another account for a game that shouldn't need one.
ouch. what control method are you using?
Yeah, agreed.
What I did a loooong time ago on another forum was just having a thread leaderboard in the OP that goes by the honor system. OP has a list of each table and everyone's best score. I'm down to do that in a future post if the OP just wants to link to the post in the OP.
Or we could all figure out how the hell the leaderboards work and sign up and see if that works.
ThreePiMatt
Member
Keyboard. If the ball is rolling down an inlane and I hit shift at the point the ball is in the middle of the flipper it'll drain down the middle.
plagiarize
Banned
It's not confirmed though. Wait for the facts!
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Someone mentioned on Steam that he had this problem and solved it by lowering max pre-rendered frames in his graphics drivers.
I doubt I can wait until winter sales for this. I played a handful of the tables in demo mode, and I'm probably going to buy one of the packs when I get paid. I've been waiting for so long to be able to play these tables, especially since some of the Farsight devs thought it was going to be out by May or so when I talked to them at Midwest Gaming Classic. I hope they get a handle on some of the bugs though. I forgot which table it was, but I hit the ball out of the table and then it respawned in the plunger, which was kind of funny actually.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
woo I just did 5 billion on medieval madness
Minsc
Gold Member
The threads at the PAF forums indicate this to be the case, the items bought in game are showing up for people in their game's purchase history in steam, and they are able to restore the purchased tables through just steam on other computers.
added_time
Member
I had that same lag and all I had to do was not run the game in fullscreen. I just went to the game options and turned on "Fullscreen Window" instead of Fullscreen and now there is no lag at all.
So it still looks like fullscreen but is actually a window I guess? Either way, there is zero lag now and it looks the same.
any Steam TPA players want to compare scores, add me:
I'm nexen.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/nexens/
One of the things this causes is to disable vsync. You can't vsync a fullscreen window. It will also lower your frame rate. I lose about 5-7 fps with fullscreen windowed on Attack From Mars.
I'm nexen.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/nexens/
except you.
One of the things this causes is to disable vsync. You can't vsync a fullscreen window. It will also lower your frame rate. I lose about 5-7 fps with fullscreen windowed on Attack From Mars.
plagiarize
Banned
sent you a request, although I only have three tables and haven't put much time into any of them yet. It's nice to get a bit of context on scores.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/plagiarize/
for anyone who wants to add me. it'll make a nice change from all the people trying to buy my rare TF2 hats.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Does the steam version even support friend leaderboards?
Where was this confirmed? As of right now there's no dlc on TPA's steam page. You only see the packs once you're in game. I was curious if they would be eligible for a steam sale or not.
I vote for this. It's not that big of a deal. When I was gettingmy PC version of TNG activated it's just an email and password for their website. It may be frustrating that you need it, but it's also so damn painless. Chances are they have most of our emails from the kickstarters anyway.
I believe it was a developer post on the Steam forum that Steam approved just the season packs to be put up at some point.
added_time
Member
I didn't know that... or notice it for that matter but i'm sure i would eventually on certain tables.. so what if I just choose windowed mode and just maximize it manually instead of using the fullscreen windowed option? Would that still disable vsync just because it's windowed or does only the fullscreen windowed option do that?
both would disable vsync.
edit: vsync adds input lag, so if you hate the lag you probably want vsync disabled anyways.
Yeah, this is my concern. After you sign up to their site, how does it find your friends? If it integrates your steam friends list that'd be painless and cool but I have a feeling that may be beyond the team's programming ability going by the state of the game so far.
if I have to manually create yet another friends list it's going be annoying >_<
and if there's no friends leader board filtering at all then what's the point.
That company is weird.
Massively multiplatform engine? check.
Emulated roms? check.
High detail physics sim? check.
Working gui? fuck it, too hard.
Ok, this made me laugh quite a bit. Thanks! I'll be chuckling about it for a while.
Pretty much. Everything outside the part where you play pinball, it all seems to be cobbled together with bubblegum and duct tape.
In some ways, it almost has the feeling of some community hack project. Make the most important part work, and fuck the rest.