General Feedback and Requests

[Akos]

Let us know - well basically - anything you think about the game. Sometimes looks a bit weird, it is not a bug but do you prefer it in a certain way? Great, we want to hear it.

Do you have the best idea for a table? For a Mode or Challenge? Let us know!

To quote the great Mark Corrigan, this is a free-fire idea zone.

Thanks
Akos and the Zen Team

[4MIGO]

Origineel geplaatst door Mr. No_Effs_Given:

The last flip on the "flip challenge" is never counted, and i mean the flipper doesn't move, one move can a difference of Pinball, like you guys obviously know working with after so many years.

Noticed this yesterday too! Basically the last flip triggers the game to end, but the ball should move on untill drain. :)

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Origineel geplaatst door 4MIGO:

Origineel geplaatst door Mr. No_Effs_Given:

The last flip on the "flip challenge" is never counted, and i mean the flipper doesn't move, one move can a difference of Pinball, like you guys obviously know working with after so many years.

Noticed this yesterday too! Basically the last flip triggers the game to end, but the ball should move on untill drain. :)

Exactly. I understand the game ending when it's a timed challenge for example, but imo on the flipper it should count all the points till the last move and drain, which doesn't happen atm.

[TurkeyFace]

Is there a way to add friends who are playing on other platforms?

[Matt Beeching]

Origineel geplaatst door TurkeyFace.ttv:

Is there a way to add friends who are playing on other platforms?

Not at the moment, that would require an in-game friend list with cross-platform search and invite facility similar to Rocket League. It would be a good feature.

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

Can we have a nemesis list as well?

[Matt Beeching]

Origineel geplaatst door Mr. No_Effs_Given:

Can we have a nemesis list as well? :lunar2019laughingpig:

I'm up for that and could integrate nicely with my alternative suggestion.

If a cross-platform / profile management system is too complex to implement or negotiate with platform holders, could a player tag others for a personalised Leaderboard instead?

Although you couldn't search / add specific users on other platforms, you could easily organise a private/friend tournament to locate and tag each other. Friend or foe!

[DawdlingDan]

I would suggest working on the DMD's some more. Yes it's cool to have video clips embedded now but having text simply overlayed on top just doesn't work imo. First, it looks pretty naf compared to the dot matrix displays we had before but most importantly, the text is unreadable half the time due to font sizes, font colour and just conflicting with the video behind too often.
See the chucky table.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3116812644
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3116813219

[Jimmy Dean]

For me, the game is terrible. How is it, I can hit the spinner hatchet in Chucky's Killer Pinball, but when the chance for 1 mil per spin arrives, the ball can't find it's way there. WEG? Terrible. The Thing? I can hit the ramps all day long, but after killing the tentacles, can't make it to the dog bowl to end it, ball either can't seem to get up the ramp, or hits posts to ball drain. DBD? NO. The only playfield I get is before the ramps and loops. Upon ball launch, the opportunity for skill shot, the flipper all a sudden can't hit the ball or if it does, it hits the entrance edge to the loop, and fails. Duke Nukem? Playable, if I don't need to use the toilets or enter the ramps to begin / complete modes. Most days, the daily challenges doesn't accumulate the scores as implied for the attempts per table for overall daily ranking.
Oh well, lesson learned.

[Corma]

Honestly, a lot of the scores could use an overhault. There is so much that doesn't make sense for the daily challenges and tournaments and it's unlockables.

Main problem with tournaments is the grindy spotlight feature and it only being based on points collected (as far as I can tell). The only thing that makes sense to play to grind XP and spotlight is Chucky's Madness (Multiball) mode.

Main problem with daily challenges for me is the "be in the top 50% of all players" badge. Sounded like fun and a bit of a challenge, but many players seem to own only Elder Gods. Meaning, as soon as I play a second table, no matter how badly, I'm in the top 50%.

Problem with daily challenges and tournaments alike are things like the random Extra Ball reward on Elder Gods. It gives 20 Million in most modes and that means having a good chance of reaching 50 Million for another EB = another 20 Million. So, on a 70+ Million score possibly 40 Million were purely based on chance. (I haven't gotten the EB in a couple of days, maybe they removed it, but there hasn't been a patch).

If you (Zen) add a lot of these grindy mechanics, what I don't mind per se, putting a little bit of thought into it's balancing to make it more entertaining, would be really appreciated.

[OhMyLumi]

It would be great if we can add people from other platforms as friends. like add an add friend button to their profiles. Love the game!

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

"Endless Tournament" mastery needs a rework. It says 25 days, but its 25 consecutive days, that needs to be clear. Missed yesterday, now im back to 1, feelsbadman.

[SparkleToe]

Maybe, a way to linking all platform accounts…just a thought so we don’t have to by all the tables once more on; let’s say on Playstation 5 or Xbox.

[Corma]

Origineel geplaatst door Mr. No_Effs_Given:

"Endless Tournament" mastery needs a rework. It says 25 days, but its 25 consecutive days, that needs to be clear. Missed yesterday, now im back to 1, feelsbadman.

Yeah, phone game mechanics like this shouldn't even be in phone games. In games people use to play on desktop PCs it is outright offensive. Want me to take my computer on vacation or in a hospital? Share accounts to have someone else do my gaming chores? C'mon!

Edit: the description for 'Maxed Out' is pretty much the same, did it happen there, too?

I'm back to one (on both), too. But it is just because I reached the next level of the badges. You sure you were reset because missing a day and not as a result of 'leveling up' the day before?

[Jambon Emmental]

Origineel geplaatst door Corma:

Origineel geplaatst door Mr. No_Effs_Given:

"Endless Tournament" mastery needs a rework. It says 25 days, but its 25 consecutive days, that needs to be clear. Missed yesterday, now im back to 1, feelsbadman.

Yeah, phone game mechanics like this should't even be in phone games. In games people use to play on desktops PC it is outright offensive. Want me to take my computer on vacation or in a hospital? Share accounts to have someone else do my gaming chores? C'mon!

Edit: the description for 'Maxed Out' is pretty much the same, did it happen there, too?

I'm back to one (on both), too. But in it is just because I reached the next level of the badges. You sure you were reset because missing out and not as a result of 'leveling up' the day before?

It's not like Zen to cynically and mindlessly ape the psychologically manipulative tactics used in mobile games...

[SparkleToe]

Would like to see a Dean Koontz themed tabels , like Phantoms.