Bug reports: Williams™ Pinball Volume 8

[balti]

Heyho all!

Please let us know of any faults you may find in Black Knight™ 2000, Earthshaker!™, and Banzai Run™!

Thanks :)
The Zen Team

[DarkWolf]

Hello,
i tried all 3 tables. Play on 1080p without RT and disabled animations with table view 3. It looks like the ball is darker than on other tables (Dr. Dude, Bride of Pin Bot) and hard to see.

[krobs]

I locked a ball in Earthshaker, the lock where extra ball is at with the cage. Display read movers and shakers, machine froze and spit out two balls, i couldn't move flippers.
Had to press esc to exit. Was only on my 2nd ball, and had just got done with a multiball.
Was playing in classic,realistic 3 ball mode.

[Deli]

Geometry of the ball guides seems a bit out of place on black knight 2000. Significant ball hop at any speed when the ball transitions from inlane to base of the flipper. Could this be adjusted?

[Lambros]

Too many ball drains, score readings on dot matrix seem pointless for low level scores needs to be more streamlined, also why black border i want the full ultrawide screen as my playfield.

[Yakass]

Manual camera setup in earthshaker is broken. Adjusting camera position does nothing

[Chronosv2]

The King's Ransom in BK2K isn't persisting between rounds of play, which is a feature that existed on the original table. Clearing that state between loads of the table makes sense (a power cycle, as it were) but not having that state saved between consecutive plays is a little frustrating. As it stands it's like the table owner is coming over and unplugging the table after every game.
If there's anything that can be done to solve this, I'd greatly appreciate it!

[RichardV]

Originally posted by Chronosv2:

The King's Ransom in BK2K isn't persisting between rounds of play, which is a feature that existed on the original table. Clearing that state between loads of the table makes sense (a power cycle, as it were) but not having that state saved between consecutive plays is a little frustrating. As it stands it's like the table owner is coming over and unplugging the table after every game.
If there's anything that can be done to solve this, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Yeah its not like they haven't had a table with persistent features. The Skrim table in FX3 tracked your level, inventory, stats etc.

[mystman12]

Originally posted by Chronosv2:

The King's Ransom in BK2K isn't persisting between rounds of play, which is a feature that existed on the original table. Clearing that state between loads of the table makes sense (a power cycle, as it were) but not having that state saved between consecutive plays is a little frustrating. As it stands it's like the table owner is coming over and unplugging the table after every game.
If there's anything that can be done to solve this, I'd greatly appreciate it!

This wouldn't really work well with online leaderboards as getting a high score would practically require you to grind until you can start a game with RANSO lit.

[Sorthious]

Originally posted by DarkWolf:

Hello,
i tried all 3 tables. Play on 1080p without RT and disabled animations with table view 3. It looks like the ball is darker than on other tables (Dr. Dude, Bride of Pin Bot) and hard to see.

I noticed this as well; the ball is a dull dark gray color, and looks horrible. It makes it hard to track the ball visually.

[Chronosv2]

Originally posted by mystman12:

Originally posted by Chronosv2:

The King's Ransom in BK2K isn't persisting between rounds of play, which is a feature that existed on the original table. Clearing that state between loads of the table makes sense (a power cycle, as it were) but not having that state saved between consecutive plays is a little frustrating. As it stands it's like the table owner is coming over and unplugging the table after every game.
If there's anything that can be done to solve this, I'd greatly appreciate it!

This wouldn't really work well with online leaderboards as getting a high score would practically require you to grind until you can start a game with RANSO lit.

Even a mode that disables leaderboards (or uses a separate leaderboard) but enables persistence would be nice though. Feels kinda' weird to completely leave one of the table's mechanics out completely.
I've seen it implemented in The Pinball Arcade by making the RANSOM letters session-persistent -- the moment you leave the table the machine is effectively reset and those letters are gone.
I'd still love to see it implemented some way or another, even if it disables leaderboards, because it's such a fun thing to experience and show off and doesn't require you to be an absolute pro to achieve.

[gerthein]

Originally posted by balti:

Heyho all!

Please let us know of any faults you may find in Black Knight™ 2000, Earthshaker!™, and Banzai Run™!

Thanks :)
The Zen Team

The tournaments doesn't work for the three new tables. After playing it's saying "no score available". I'm using the PC version. I wonder "I'm the first person to notice this"
Greetings

[Jimmy Dean]

I am not a pinball wizard, nor am I that good. I think that if you are going to have a kickback feature, it should not hit a post and drain down the center. Tried to use the tilt, and the screen said danger but did NOT affect the trajectory. A 3 ball game should last longer than 12 seconds, even as terrible as I am. I purchased Williams 8 and regret it.

[Brian Reynolds]

I just started playing Black Knight 2000 and a couple times now the camera will switch to a view focusing on the backglass while the ball is in play and it won't revert back to the play field. If I hit the camera switch button the screen shakes like it wants to switch views but will remain focused on the backglass. This makes the game unplayable and I have to restart the table to begin again.

[Pinballwiz45b]

Originally posted by Brian Reynolds:

I just started playing Black Knight 2000 and a couple times now the camera will switch to a view focusing on the backglass while the ball is in play and it won't revert back to the play field. If I hit the camera switch button the screen shakes like it wants to switch views but will remain focused on the backglass. This makes the game unplayable and I have to restart the table to begin again.

Check your controller; might your control stick be reading as if it's off-center? That could be why the camera is going to the backglass.

[Brian Reynolds]

Ugh. Just switched to playing Space Station and the same problem occurred there too: a ball drained and the camera view shifted up to the backglass as the bonuses were tallied up. If I held down the camera control button the camera would revert back to the normal play field view but letting go shifted back up to the backglass. However if I held down the camera control button and then used the left thumbstick to maneuver the camera position around for a bit then when I let go the camera was back and steady on the playfield. This was annoying, but not nearly as terrible as when I had a multiball in play and when the first ball drained (and the rest were still in play) the camera again automatically shifted to the backglass.