1398: Pinball FX PS4 \\ Monster Bash (Pro) 29,563,440 pts (rank 30) & other Williams tables
2Trying the rebooted Pinball FX on PS4--starting with a comparison with Pinball FX3 on PS4, the previous PFX version, then trying my fave table Monster Bash and stinking at it even worse than usual for a long time--although this was now on the new Pro mode! And also checking out most of the other Williams tables even though my free first 24 hours "Pinball Pass" expired after a bit so I could only play them for 2 minutes at a time.
My video pinball playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzNDMGo-ow5IWA3JRTHiRJC5
0:00 - Pinball FX3
3:11 - Pinball FX
5:36 - Monster Bash awful play
1:12:39 - high score run
1:18:24 - leaderboards
1:22:00 - Creature from the Black Lagoon
1:26:02 - downloading trials
1:41:34 - Fish Tales
1:46:19 - Twilight Zone
1:48:34 - Space Station
1:51:28 - FunHouse
1:54:42 - Dr. Dude
1:57:10 - Cirqus Voltaire
2:01:04 - No Good Gofers
2:02:52 - Tales of the Arabian Nights
2:05:35 - White Water
2:08:45 - World Cup Soccer
2:14:57 - The Addams Family
2:17:46 - Indiana Jones
2:22:09 - Twilight Zone
2:25:20 - Theatre of Magic
2:28:32 - Safe Cracker
2:31:07 - Attack from Mars
2:33:32 - Medieval Madness
2:35:12 - bit more Monster Bash
2:38:07 - buying Universal Monsters Pack
2:40:37 - "classic original" versions?
2:49:47 - Circle toggles toys!
Finally figured out (had to resort to Google) that the Circle button toggles off the "animated toys"! Kept expecting that option to be on the Settings - Video menu. Shee-oosh. Well, at least it's there; some of those Williams tables were really ruined with freakish animated nonsense across the screen during gameplay--Indy and either Twilight Zone or Addams Family being maybe the worst.
Actually, I kind of like the "enhancements" with "toys" on in Monster Bash: the cabinet interior side art that comes with that setting is really nice, as are the colored flippers...and sheesh I even kinda like the animation they did of Igor, Frank, and the other characters at the top of the table--it's subtle and doesn't distract! Wish they'd been that respectful of the original tables with the rest of them; I have to turn it off in Creature, for instance, 'cause otherwise you have to sit through the creature rearing out of the water every single time you lose a ball! What the heck. And it's too bad you can't save it per table (I'd also like to be able to customize the LCD color per table, instead of just for all of them at once--another nice option, though; green looks good on MB!).
The only table I really seem to care about is Williams' Monster Bash (MAYBE Creature? don't like the layout nearly as much, though; and World Cup Soccer seems okay, I do like shooting goals--not so much the constant spinning ball sound and multiball flashers), and the lighting in the PFX rendition of MB is blown-out and kinda gross (but Creature's lighting is still nice!)! It looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjeuJbehVs originally it was very close to the PFX3 lighting (which is lovely and smooth!), but maybe a little more subdued. So possibly to try to correct that, it looks like maybe with the May 5, 2022 game update to version 0.11.47645 ( https://digitalpinballfans.com/threads/master-list-of-issues-pinball-fx.14353/post-297044 ) they changed the lighting to its current blown-out look. Dang. I wish they could get it back to more like the lovely PFX3 look.
Still, the flipper physics improvements in PFX are amazing--the flippers actually have some give now! So you can do all kinds of light touch catches and things--I mean, in theory, if you're better than me--but they still happen to me sometimes by luck ^ _^--and the multiball interactions are really good, letting you get away with juggling multiple balls realistically on a single flipper and so forth.
The steeper playfield and wider outlines in Pro mode really seal it, those are the adjustments that should have been in Tournament mode in PFX3. Hm the flippers should still be wider apart.
OH. You can skip the useless MATCH FOR EXTRA CREDIT sequence at the end of each game if you set Settings - Gameplay - Williams Pinball Attract Mode to ON. Well that makes no darned sense (why don't they have a toggle for the Match sequence dip switch setting??), but whew at least it lets you skip it!! Huge thanks to @pinballwiz45b for the tip (check his channel, he's super-good at video pinball games and has great videos of them! He's also the guy putting in the work to track the game status and updates and bug fixes and stuff at https://digitalpinballfans.com)!
The UI in this reboot of PFX is terribly clunky and confusing. And I already found two bugs with it: if you mash X from the Match sequence you're stuck at the lounge/cabinet screen, and if you turn off Williams Pinball Attract Mode during the match sequence, you're stuck there. : P
5/12/23
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