tx sector difficult table to play???

[neck6969]

I remember this table form back in 1988, at a holiday camp in England, i remember putting in money for several games & playing the table for ages, getting high scores & replays! so i was so looking forward to playing this table HOWEVER ive just been playing it for over an hour & i want to throw my computer through the window!! IT just dosent play the same as i remember, It seems too 'bouncy' hard to control & drains balls far too easy, this is my opinion & i presume there will be people out there that love it & they are experts blah blah blah but this table will be archived & never to be played again! Roll on next month ha ha.........

[Brock]

Messaggio originale di neck6969:

I.... this table will be archived & never to be played again! Roll on next month ha ha.........

That's a shame, stick with it, it's fun!
It certainly is a contrast to Last Action Hero where you can trap just about anything that comes at the flippers, and the kickers above the slingshots lead to some crazy lateral movement and outlane drains, but after a coupla hours on it I think I can say it's probably my favourite Gottlieb so far.

[all2easy]

Real tables can be customised.

My experience with real tables is that the flippers are really weak and the ball is constantly trying to drain - because the owner wants to make money. My other experience was that bumpers above the flippers on a real table are way stronger than anything I've seen in videogame pinballs.

Of course the problem with physics on a videogame is that you are dealing with integers, in terms of the playfield effectively being a finite space. What this means is if you were to program real and only real physics into the table you'd see some really weird ♥♥♥♥ happening - so I'm assuming the PBA guys reference the real tables and tweak phyics on a per table basis to get things as close as their reference model.

In short, the virtual table is different because they don't have the real machine you played.

[dave]

I did find it surprisingly challenging to lock a ball on this table. At least you only need to lock the one. I still can't hit the ramps reliably, but I'm getting pretty good at picking off the drop targets I need to get the power level advanced. The magic ball-catching sticky flippers that started happening a while back when they rewrote that bit of the emulation helps ;-)

[Common Sense]

Clearly you were a pinball wizard back in 1988 as tx-sector has a reputation for being quite challenging :3

Skip to 8:33 ish for about an hour's worth of several people struggling with theirs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN9w1imDHIQ