Bagaball and launch controls

[Chewable C++]

I noticed that for the daily event some of the people that are frequently near the top on other tables were also on top for Bagaball.

This is surprising to me as I see no way to be particularly consistent on it... at least on this platform.

I can't check on mobile, but I wonder... is there are more precisely launcher control on mobile? Like a touch dragging mechanism? If so, them this version ought to allow you to do the same with the mouse.

And there's no nudging - I assume that's also intentional?

I guess it's possible that they're just incredibly good at timing it, but I haven't even managed the daily scores after many dozens of attempts at it.

[A-Jey]

+1

[stray_pengo]

I'm on mobile, and I confirm that the provided control is touch-dragging.

I'm surprised to hear that it's not available on PC. It should be fairly easy to emulate with mouse, as Chewie said.

[Chewable C++]

Originally posted by stray_pengo:

I'm on mobile, and I confirm that the provided control is touch-dragging.

I'm surprised to hear that it's not available on PC. It should be fairly easy to emulate with mouse, as Chewie said.

In that case, I'd go as far as to say that it's critical to support this on PC because otherwise the playing field for dailies/seasons, which are cross-platform, is not even close to level :p

[dave]

Having quickly given up on accurate launch control on these tables (even with a controller's right joystick), I play Bagaball the same why I played / abused my grand-uncle's 70s-era Pachinqo machine... just launch all the balls as fast as I possibly can and see if I can get them to hit each other ;-) This game doesn't make nearly so much of a racket, though.

(Edit: Deliberate misspelling of the Japanese mechanical bagatelle game 'cause Steam thought I was trying to embed a slur or something.)

[Chewable C++]

Originally posted by dave:

Having quickly given up on accurate launch control on these tables (even with a controller's right joystick), I play Bagaball the same why I played / abused my grand-uncle's 70s-era Pachinko machine... just launch all the balls as fast as I possibly can and see if I can get them to hit each other ;-) This game doesn't make nearly so much of a racket, though.

Mouse launch controls were added a while back, so it should be much easier now, though it's still quite random.

[dave]

Thanks! I don't think I'd discovered this gem of a game before that was added... I'm sure it was worse when/if it was just trying to time the duration of a click!