Pinball FX

Sp4rkR4t 2017-12-12 18:02:53 UTC #562

Interesting looking tables and super shiny of them to give them away free for a few days.

Stirbelwurm 2017-12-12 19:27:02 UTC #563

Thanks for the heads up! I posted an announcement in the steam group, so hopefully most people get to see it. Also pretty cool of them to do this. I now also know which table to select next

Blackice 2017-12-13 19:54:05 UTC #564

It finally clicked! Had my best ever go on Mars table I think - Still way behind 1st place, but good enough for 3rd at the moment. Quite a fun table once it gets going.

Neat that they’ve given away 2 new tables too, hope everyone remembers to nab them while they’re free

Blackice 2017-12-14 15:00:58 UTC #565

Also, there’s a sale on the Star Wars tables, 50% off them until the 22nd.

Thermal_Ions 2017-12-14 16:23:47 UTC #566

One thing I noticed with FX3 is that Steam thinks I don’t own certain tables (e.g. half the Marvel packs, Star Wars Unsung Heroes, Medieval and Sci-Fi packs) but I do show as owning them in the game itself. Guessing there’s some sort of bug in how Steam is recognising the tables purchased for FX2 (as these were).

Something to be wary of if I’m not alone, as I almost re-purchased some of the tables I already owned in the last sale.

Fumarole 2017-12-14 18:04:07 UTC #567

For me, the free tables released yesterday didn’t show as owned on the store page until I played the tables in the game.

Jurple 2017-12-14 20:58:30 UTC #568

That is not the case with the older tables, though - I played both tables in the Medieval pack, and all three in the Sci-Fi pack, and Steam still thinks I don’t own those packs.

On the other hand: free tables. Woohoo!

Stirbelwurm 2017-12-17 16:42:45 UTC #569

In our 8th challenge you could see again, that you have even at the end some spectacular scores can be reached, as it has been demonstrated by vasova! Congratulations! We even got three people with scores over 100 million points, very impressive! The next best player has less than half the points, the top three really gave it their best shot.

And since ZenStudios have been so kind to gift us all two brand new tables, our next challenge makes use of that very generous gift!

RPS PFX3 Challenge 9
Table: Son of Zeus
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: 5 minutes, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 7 days (finishes the 24th of december)

Good luck!

Blackice 2017-12-18 10:24:13 UTC #570

I’ll take “best of the rest” any day! Thanks for continuing to run these tournaments, they’re a lot of fun. Will be interesting to see if using a brand new table levels the playing field a bit - although the 5 minutes mode tends to do this anyway.

Imaginary_Llamas 2017-12-18 16:18:31 UTC #571

The 5 min challenge is certainly interesting on Son of Zeus, given that you can start multiballs relatively quickly and start several missions at the same time. My current highscore resulted from having both the Gods and Brawler multiballs going at the same time.

Fumarole 2017-12-18 16:39:00 UTC #572

I feel like I could have done so much better, as on that score I got 85 million on my first ball. Getting 30 with the next two was a huge let down.

Stirbelwurm 2017-12-28 20:56:09 UTC #573

Happy holidays everyone!
Now that I’ve got some time, here are the results of the latest tournament. Congratulations Blackice, who emerged as the best mythological monster slayer around

With 13 players, this was a very popular challenge again, most likely because of the free new table.

Since we’ve got another new and free table, we’ve got to make use of that!

RPS PFX3 Challenge 10
Table: Adventure Land
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: 1 ball, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 7 days (finishes the 4th of january)

Good luck!

Blackice 2017-12-29 10:25:19 UTC #574

Apparently I am, although I only managed it by using Imaginary_Llamas “start multiballs relatively quickly” tip from above, and manically flipping like my life depended on it.

As for the next challenge, I’ve played a bit of Adventure Land previously and didn’t really click with it, so will have to see how I get on with a one ball challenge…

Jurple 2017-12-29 10:34:42 UTC #575

You know, I don’t think I ever got a multiball going on Son of Zeus. How is it done?

I also haven’t touched the volcano section in the upper right yet. I guess I’ve only scratched the surface so far

Imaginary_Llamas 2017-12-29 11:40:35 UTC #576

Congrats Blackice - I couldn’t flip multiballs fast enough to catch up to your score!

Jurple, the Brawler multiball is started by hitting the bumpers at the top a lot, followed by shooting the left orbit a couple times.
The Gods multiball is quite interesting - basically, you can collect balls by shooting the sinkhole just to the left of the volcano ramp. Once you collect at least 2, you can choose to start the multiball or keep collecting more (up to a max of 10!).

A quick aside, the ingame table guides contain a lot of info on how to start the missions/modes etc.

Jurple 2018-01-04 13:37:12 UTC #577

I’m aware of the ingame guides, but they tend to go way above my head. I’m pleased if I can keep a ball in play, never mind shooting that lane three times, followed by hitting that bumper within 4 seconds.

Having said that, I found that I have always clicked away the prompt for Gods multiball. Oops.

I managed to overheat my laptop last week by overdoing it a wee bit with Pinball. Gave me a scare. So I threw some money at Zen to buy a few tables on my kids’ account, so I can play on the family desktop. Well, I guess she can play them as well.

Too bad FX3 does not play well with Steam Family Sharing, though.

Stirbelwurm 2018-01-05 22:10:58 UTC #578

After slaying beasts, we now took a break in the adventure park and as it turns out, vasova is the best blowing up balloons and cutting the line With an impressive score of over 40 million, he managed to take the first place this week, congratulations!

But now the fun is over! Now you have to solve challenges for a crazy AI in our next challenge:

RPS PFX3 Challenge 11
Table: Portal
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: normal, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 7 days (finishes the 12th of january)

Good luck!

Blackice 2018-01-05 22:23:45 UTC #579

Well, I did as well as I expected on Adventureland! Whenever I began to get somewhere the ball would drain down a side lane…

Love the portal table so looking forward to giving it another go.

Thermal_Ions 2018-01-06 03:15:23 UTC #580

Seems I never got around to giving Adventure Land a go. Can’t go past some portal goodness though.

Ffrog 2018-01-07 22:01:44 UTC #581

I’ve been looking forward to this one appearing in the rotation. The Portal table is my favourite table, even though I haven’t played Portal 2 and got stuck half way though Portal.

And I’ve just picked an excellent time to improve my highscore