microtubule
Member
So stoked this is finally out on Steam!! I purchased Season pack 1 so far and will pick up pack 2 at the end of the week.
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plagiarize
Banned
I make no apologies for this post.
Post processing is still messed up on AMD cards though:
Post processing is still messed up on AMD cards though:
So the trading cards for TPA. I rarely if ever use the emoticons or the coupon earned from completing the badge, so would selling them be the right thing to do? So far the cards I have can easily be sold for more than 50 cents each, and I'm planning to use the market to help me pay a little less for Season 2.
microtubule
Member
plagiarize
Banned
I was about to ask about that!
It's only in certain camera angles, and seems to effect some tables more than others.
plagiarize
Banned
I am so buying the first G-Sync monitor that rotates, looks beautiful in portrait mode
the ASUS VG248QE is getting the upgrade board, and it rotates. just a heads up!
I never thought I'd say this, but holy hell this is awesome in portrait mode! My el cheapo monitor arm stand thing has paid itself off already. Next-best thing to having a virtual pin, being able to 'tate and tilt the monitor.
Really, REALLY surprised how well it works. Far better than portrait on iPad.
Really, REALLY surprised how well it works. Far better than portrait on iPad.
Hah, you think the cutting of flippers is bad in that... have a look at Funhouse!I was about to ask about that!
It's only in certain camera angles, and seems to effect some tables more than others.
PS. That high score? I don't know how I did it, but I got it with that exact same camera view... flippers cut off and everything! Without a doubt, the 'tate mode with a tilted monitor is easily the best way to play this. Every game is so much easier for things like shot timing (hell, I could do it without seeing the lower flippers!).
No idea if it registered my high score though... up came the high score screen (with the five "local" high scores), then it went straight to this blank screen with no menu (Escape, no other keys worked). So it could well not have submitted it
Edit: Damnit, didn't fucking submit! I would've been ranked around 300th anyway, but still... ARGH. God damnit, Farsight.
plagiarize
Banned
Hah, you think the cutting of flippers is bad in that... have a look at Funhouse!
PS. That high score? I don't know how I did it, but I got it with that exact same camera view... flippers cut off and everything! Without a doubt, the 'tate mode with a tilted monitor is easily the best way to play this. Every game is so much easier for things like shot timing (hell, I could do it without seeing the lower flippers!).
No idea if it registered my high score though... up came the high score screen (with the five "local" high scores), then it went straight to this blank screen with no menu (Escape, no other keys worked). So it could well not have submitted it
Edit: Damnit, didn't fucking submit! I would've been ranked around 300th anyway, but still... ARGH. God damnit, Farsight.
you hit back instead of select. seems to be a new bug, or feature I guess. that sucks about the score though.
plagiarize
Banned
I experienced it a number of times last night. I haven't experienced it before.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
It looks like there was a leak in the Steam news page announcing the table season passes being available for purchase outside of the game.
The tables in pack 20 are El Dorado: City of Gold and Cue Ball Wizard. Eight Ball Deluxe and Sharkey's Shootout have to wait another day.
The tables in pack 20 are El Dorado: City of Gold and Cue Ball Wizard. Eight Ball Deluxe and Sharkey's Shootout have to wait another day.
Season packs now available on the Steam marketplace now. I literally bought them in-game hours before... after mucking around with adding funds to Steam wallet ($50 top-up, $25 top-up, $5 top-up, then after realising $80 wouldn't be enough for the Pro packs... another $10 top-up :/).
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Hopefully we see more Stern tables, new and old, in season 3. I'm not expecting Metallica or the new Star Trek, but there's a lot of stuff from the Stern Electronics/Data East Pinball/Sega Pinball/Modern Stern that could be easily acquired.
plagiarize
Banned
I'd kickstarter me some Jurassic Park. Also, I'd love to see Rollercoaster Tycoon too. It's probably my favourite of Pat's Stern work.
Wonko_C
Member
All I want is TRON Legacy, and (If what they said about doing original tables in the future includes computer pinball recreations,) I'd love to see StarQuest 2049 from old DOS game Hyper 3D Pinball/Tilt!, it's music is soothing.
Minsc
Gold Member
CoH2 isn't F2P, I think that's a part of it. Also I think a part is the DLC for TPA is tiered (some DLC is included in other purchases, or requires other specific DLC to work).
Easily acquired without a Kickstarter? I doubt there'd be all that much. Apollo 13 maybe (no Tom Hanks likeness), but all the (decent) DE/Sega games I can think of would have some kind of significant entry point as far as licensing goes:
WWF
Jurassic Park (though probably not that bad, I don't think many actual actors were featured on it?)
Baywatch
Last Action Hero (though if Arnie was happy with T2 getting licensed...)
Some that *could* be likely:
Tales From the Crypt
Tommy
Godzilla
Viper Night Drivin' (show off the night lighting on PS4?)
Simpsons (DE)
Stern games kinda likely, but are Stern so they are crappy and I hate them*:
Rollercoaster Tycoon
WPT
Elvis (licensing *could* be a bitch?)
Sopranos
Simpsons PP
Striker Xtreme (oh god I hope not)
NASCAR/Grand Prix
Sharkey's Shootout
T3
LotR
*I haven't actually played any other than TSPP and that was actually pretty good, but I hate both lazy licenses and stop-go Lawlor-style games... so there
*Also, all of these bar WPT are Whitestar, which I believe are the ones that Stern said they currently have emulation working with. And I'm also sure it's been heavily hinted that RCT is indeed locked in as it was namechecked in passing in some interview with a FS employee some months back.
I'd probably rather see some of the cheesy Gottlieb knock-off pins like that Miami Vice one and Genesis. Although I'd love to see Godzilla.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
The Miami Vice one is called Hollywood Heat, and it sounds like a good table. I would try it.
I would think Viper Night Drivin would be a great one, maybe with the NASCAR one too. Monopoly would be an easy license, I think. And as for the old ones, I'd like to see Seawitch, Iron Maiden, Quicksilver, Viper (no, not Night Drivin...) and maybe Orbiter 1. And Data East could add Checkpoint (first ever DMD game), Tommy, and maybe Jurassic Park and Guns N Roses.
I would think Viper Night Drivin would be a great one, maybe with the NASCAR one too. Monopoly would be an easy license, I think. And as for the old ones, I'd like to see Seawitch, Iron Maiden, Quicksilver, Viper (no, not Night Drivin...) and maybe Orbiter 1. And Data East could add Checkpoint (first ever DMD game), Tommy, and maybe Jurassic Park and Guns N Roses.
Guns 'n' Roses = never, ever, EVER happen. Apparently Axl is insanely tight on his likeness or something. Others I agree with though! I just thought you may have been thinking all the licensed ones that would likely never make it a la South Park etc. I think there's a cluster of games that aren't really good enough and don't have strong enough licenses for them to appeal to a wide enough audience.
I believe Seawitch was kind of on the cards as well, especially after there was some thing on PAF about how the designer of it had died fairly young or something. I'll see if I can find the story.
Edit: This:
So it doesn't mention anything about the likelihood of it appearing, but I'm sure I've read in other threads that it's likely, particularly because the poll it was in, it came in second (missing out on first by a tiny margin) to Flight 2000. So I reckon we'll see it sooner rather than later.
I believe Seawitch was kind of on the cards as well, especially after there was some thing on PAF about how the designer of it had died fairly young or something. I'll see if I can find the story.
Edit: This:
So it doesn't mention anything about the likelihood of it appearing, but I'm sure I've read in other threads that it's likely, particularly because the poll it was in, it came in second (missing out on first by a tiny margin) to Flight 2000. So I reckon we'll see it sooner rather than later.
plagiarize
Banned
RCT is a great license, and it has an amazing ramp that I like almost as much as Insanity Falls.Easily acquired without a Kickstarter? I doubt there'd be all that much. Apollo 13 maybe (no Tom Hanks likeness), but all the (decent) DE/Sega games I can think of would have some kind of significant entry point as far as licensing goes:
WWF
Jurassic Park (though probably not that bad, I don't think many actual actors were featured on it?)
Baywatch
Last Action Hero (though if Arnie was happy with T2 getting licensed...)
Some that *could* be likely:
Tales From the Crypt
Tommy
Godzilla
Viper Night Drivin' (show off the night lighting on PS4?)
Simpsons (DE)
Stern games kinda likely, but are Stern so they are crappy and I hate them*:
Rollercoaster Tycoon
WPT
Elvis (licensing *could* be a bitch?)
Sopranos
Simpsons PP
Striker Xtreme (oh god I hope not)
NASCAR/Grand Prix
Sharkey's Shootout
T3
LotR
*I haven't actually played any other than TSPP and that was actually pretty good, but I hate both lazy licenses and stop-go Lawlor-style games... so there
*Also, all of these bar WPT are Whitestar, which I believe are the ones that Stern said they currently have emulation working with. And I'm also sure it's been heavily hinted that RCT is indeed locked in as it was namechecked in passing in some interview with a FS employee some months back.
I'd probably rather see some of the cheesy Gottlieb knock-off pins like that Miami Vice one and Genesis. Although I'd love to see Godzilla.
So there!
Ah, that makes some sense I guess, still is completely wacky in any case.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Thing is, isn't the IP rights to RCT I'm flux after Atari US declares bankruptcy or something?
plagiarize
Banned
I have no idea how difficult the rights are to get to any of Stern's licensed layout. I'm just saying of the Stern/Sega/Data East library, RCT and Jurassic Park are the two I'd most like to see, and that I'd be willing to throw money in on a JP kickstarter.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
I'd be willing to toss some money at a JP Kickstarter, too. Who doesn't love dinosaurs? Communists, that's who.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Everything is now back to normal for me, except for my No Good Gofers standard goal set achievement still not showing as unlocking. Any advice on what to do here?
Yay!
I sent FarSight an email the day that Sony changed their status. I got a reply today that says essentially the same thing.
Farsight said:Yeah, we're in talks with them right now. The game has been done, it's just minor things we need to get taken care of to meet Sony's requirements. If we don't make launch day, it will be very soon after
Dr. Zoidberg
Member
Glad the DLC is now listed in Steam for no other reason than it can now go on sale, which is likely the only way I will ever purchase it.
I wish that the packs contained Sorcerer and Jive Time. Those are the only two tables I would miss from the console version and it probably means I'll never be able to totally replace it with the Steam release.
I wish that the packs contained Sorcerer and Jive Time. Those are the only two tables I would miss from the console version and it probably means I'll never be able to totally replace it with the Steam release.
Minsc
Gold Member
Sorcerer should make it out in Season 3 I think. And Fish Tales (fingers crossed), people are guessing it an awful lot in the PAF thread for upcoming tables.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
plagiarize
Banned
That's good news. They still might make launch day! Yay.
I mean, sure I've decided to play the PS4 version and then decide if I want to buy tables for it over the PC version, but either way, when that drops, finally, I drop money on tables. I'm still leaning PS4, but we'll see how it shapes up. The PC version is really nice, but I do love the idea of sharing great moments and all that.
Browsing through a Kotaku post and saw this:
Thought I'd share
http://kotaku.com/from-wii-sports-to-youtube-itself-readers-share-more-l-1464010144
Thought I'd share
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Huh, so El Dorado City of Gold is a reskin of a table called El Dorado that was western themed?
Pinball is cool
Pinball is cool
Minsc
Gold Member
I get the feeling it may be more on AMD's shoulders, as Nvidia's drivers run it correctly. Hope I'm wrong, but I'm not expecting it to be fixed anymore until DX11 is reworked in to the game sometime next year.
The killer is that Farsight have literally not said anything about it on the PAF forums. At all. Not an acknowledgement or anything :/
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I don't see WWF's happening, unless they mess with it (WWE switcheroo) and I don't how it would work for the likenesses of HH, Macho Man, Undertaker, Yokozuna, Bret Hart and Lex Luger. I mean, could be costly and I'm not sure it could even come out if not "fixed" as WWE? I thought that was the reason, despite many people clamping for them, the WWF arcade games were never re-released on XBLA/PSN/etc
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Sorcerer's lights and sounds are mesmerizing.
BolognaSoup
Member
So there's no way to essentially force portrait mode on a normal monitor?
Minsc
Gold Member
Shouldn't you be able to just set your display to portrait in the windows display properties? I have the choice to, but haven't tested it. After doing that, the configuration tool for TPA should let you select portrait resolutions.
what do you mean? If you set your desktop to portrait in windows it will play as portrait in-game. The nature of the monitor itself doesn't matter.
I think the adapter number is for SLI/Crossfire users to choose to use one card or the other.
In other news, if they do make it so we can put game and backglass on separate monitors, I will be seriously tempted to build a dedicated TPA machine.