The Thing Pinball Feedback and Bugs

[Akos]

Let us know what you think of this table, or if you run into any errors that need to be fixed.

Thank you
Akos and the Zen Team

[Akos]

Publicado originalmente por HOGuru:

The time for the 3rd skull in the 'score bleed' challenge of the campaign is currently set way too high. Currently the times are 1:30 for skull 1, 2:30 for skull 2, and 5 minutes for skull 3. It should be 1:30 for 1, 2 for 2, and 2:30 for 3. The bleed adds 5% per second, making it literally impossible to last 5 minutes. The highest I've gotten is 2:46, at which point the bleed was already 400K per second. I did the math and the score bleed at second 300 (the third skull) would be 500 Million. This isn't the kind of table where you can score billions of points in a couple of minutes :)

Challenges has also been revamped in the new update, hopefully this is now doable

[Akos]

Publicado originalmente por Madder Red:

The thing is my all time fav movie so i had to get this. But: Personally i have huge troubles hitting the video mode lane and generally i feel the ball tends to go sdtm way more compared to the other tables. After the ball has been shot it tends to go sdtm if i dont react accordingly in a split second at times.
Also i still dont get how the skillshot should be pulled of at all. The guide ingame isnt clear in that regard at all.

What I do is wait until the C blinked once in MAC and shoot the ball with full force. It should end up in the M just as it starts blinking.

[Akos]

Publicado originalmente por Septon:

When I restart a game my "The Thing" blue beautiful ball keep being reseting to default ball.

This should also be fixed with yesterday's patch.

[Akos]

Invisible walls and balls stuck on nothing - should also be fixed with the update from yesterday.

[Fake News Fredo]

Publicado originalmente por Akos:

Invisible walls and balls stuck on nothing - should also be fixed with the update from yesterday.

No, it's not, just like my and Dookieagain posts said on page 3

[DankWestern]

I keep getting my ball stuck permanently on either side of the board. There's an invisible wall right above the generator on the right, by the spinner, and another one on the far left next to the computer.

[Madder Red]

After playing the table some more, the speed of the ball seems off after the last patch. Sometimes it feels as if the ball slows down to a crawl and speeds up at other times when being hit with the flipper and it sucks the fun out of the table. Still havent being able to start the video mode even once but maybe thats just me.
In general most tables feel like they lack a real gameplay flow, as in you either master the table and can consistenly hit the mission targets (which vary from fair to absurd) and enjoy the "thing"s the game can offer (boss fights etc) or you basically train your butt off to even finish 2 missions if that.
Or maybe this is all just a lack of skill.

[Saethulu]

Publicado originalmente por Madder Red:

After playing the table some more, the speed of the ball seems off after the last patch. Sometimes it feels as if the ball slows down to a crawl and speeds up at other times when being hit with the flipper and it sucks the fun out of the table.

It feels very odd with the left orbit that they addressed in the patch, but I'm not sure if that's just because I spent so much time with the original table that it jumps out at me as off.
And you're experiencing this in other places on the table it sounds like?

I haven't put a lot of time into it since the patch, so the orbit is the only spot that stood out.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Table still buggy af, just got some invisible obstacles today, amazing. In the front of the main event hole some sort of invisible wall stopped the ball from going in.

[Fake News Fredo]

Yeah, nothing is fixed. Got stuck on the right lane on my daily challenge. I tink by now i had it on every lane, that can have tentacles.

[Dal420]

Publicado originalmente por Akos:

Invisible walls and balls stuck on nothing - should also be fixed with the update from yesterday.

Still not fixed unfortunately. Happened three times today. Same spot.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3113661086

Also, the survival mode campaign challenge... I'm number 179 and only two skulls. The only people that have the three skull score are rank 80 and up, so this challenge is only designed for 80 people to beat?

And the ones from rank 13 up with 5 minutes plus should really be looked into. Rank 14 is 3:18 secs, then it jumps to over five minutes. Yeah, okay there.
Seeing people in the news feed getting scores on the Wrath of the Eldar Gods in the 800 billions, so something is up. Cheating should be addressed. Not fair to everyone else. No point in even having a leaderboard in this case.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

This table is the real Thing. Was doing pretty good on a challenge then my ball got stuck, again. Jeez.

[snakeman07]

The random ball slowdown I definitely encounter every time, it's odd.

[BadBilly]

Publicado originalmente por Akos:

Let us know what you think of this table, or if you run into any errors that need to be fixed.

Thank you
Akos and the Zen Team

I own all Zen pinball tables (Pinball M on Steam and Pinball FX with all Zen Studios tables in Epic Games) and The Thing table is way by far the most frustrating to play due to ease of losing the ball straight down the middle. I've literally just had 20 goes and not lasted 20 seconds each time without restarting the game. Do they even play test their own tables? Auto launch balls straight between the flippers, ball exiting left from the MAC bumpers 50% chance straight down the middle. Hit the flares at the top by the 'super jackpot cave' straight down the middle. Frustrating AF so don't play it anymore.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Publicado originalmente por BadBilly:

Publicado originalmente por Akos:

Let us know what you think of this table, or if you run into any errors that need to be fixed.

Thank you
Akos and the Zen Team

I own all Zen pinball tables (Pinball M on Steam and Pinball FX with all Zen Studios tables in Epic Games) and The Thing table is way by far the most frustrating to play due to ease of losing the ball straight down the middle. I've literally just had 20 goes and not lasted 20 seconds each time without restarting the game. Do they even play test their own tables? Auto launch balls straight between the flippers, ball exiting left from the MAC bumpers 50% chance straight down the middle. Hit the flares at the top by the 'super jackpot cave' straight down the middle. Frustrating AF so don't play it anymore.

It's a pretty hard table, I found that the nudge don't help much either. In some cases it makes things worse, lol. I enjoy the Chucky one the most, folks say it's "easy", I say it's a fair table and very balanced difficulty wise.