1422: Pinball FX PS4 \\ The Party Zone - Pro rank 25 - 18,504,760 pts
0Playing Dennis Nordman's table "The Party Zone" in Pinball FX on PS4!
My video pinball playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzNDMGo-ow5IWA3JRTHiRJC5
0:00 - start
7:55 - playing
18:55 - swapped buttons 'cause I was thudding X
32:00 - high score run
38:07 - yellow DMD aw yeah
45:38 - backglass
1:00:00 - a little Dr. Dude
1:11:10 - manual camera
1:14:18 - leaderboards
1:30:41 - Table Guide
Gosh, I like this table! Those looping return lanes are nifty. The whole nutty theme really grew on me. A good selection of nice shots here, and the synthesis of sound and lights/animation is so well done.
I had played a bit too much of Nordman's precursor table, Dr. Dude, in Pinball Arcade back in the day and couldn't bear the thought of more of that theme by the time PZ came along as DLC for TPA, so I didn't try it much or at all back then. I almost passed it up in PFX just due to the lingering burnout from TPA Dude but I'm glad I tried it here, it's so nice!
Gotta remember to switch to the last camera, Manual Camera, and also crank it to max altitude before starting the table--almost top down view that way, easier to see the table.
Totally missed that there's a right-side target bank; didn't really pay attention to that passage behind it, either. : o
@pinballwiz45b 's Master List of Issues for Pinball FX -- https://digitalpinballfans.com/threads/master-list-of-issues-pinball-fx.14353/ -- does include audio sliders like Voiceovers not being set up yet for "most" tables. He added https://digitalpinballfans.com/threads/master-list-of-issues-pinball-fx.14353/post-298109 that "We've seen some improvements over FX3, but there's still work to be done around the Yamaha and DCS sound emulation.there's still work to be done around the Yamaha and DCS sound emulation."
I noticed that even w/ Motion Blur & Ball Trails off, after-images linger behind the ball. https://digitalpinballfans.com/threads/master-list-of-issues-pinball-fx.14353/post-298111
Poking around the interface later, under "Progression" or something I found that I'd achieved the table award for The Party Zone: the game calls out one thing to do for each table to get the award for that table, and for PZ it's getting all the Party Animals into the Cosmic Cottage (or "CosmiCottage"), or something like that--so that's why the award icon has appeared under the My Tables listing for PZ.
New high scores I get appear in the leaderboard right away, that's nice--no waiting around to see where they rank (or having to figure it out manually in the interim ; ).
18,504,760 pts got me to rank 25 on the Pro leaderboard for PZ, gosh!
Had to swap the buttons around because I was annoying myself with the thudding sound of the empty plunger when impatiently mashing X. ; ) Silly you can't remap buttons individually, you can only cycle between pre-set button layouts. : P
Gotta remember to pick a good DMD color when I sit for a session with a table--yellow goes great on PZ. : D
5/30/23
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