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Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 29th, 2020, 10:36 am
by hazeredmist
Mind you Alex is sickeningly ahead so

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 29th, 2020, 11:03 am
by Marlew
By a nose, but nowhere near Alex though are we?

Your Portal score is a big un! That's the one that's tempting me, I really like the mini game kinda sub table stuff. Great fun.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 29th, 2020, 11:45 am
by hazeredmist
I’ve dusted you on walking dead now btw :) I assume that won’t last long haha

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 1:35 pm
by Marlew
Hehe, just seen that! I'm back in bronze again! I've not gone back to that table yet but I will do.

I did squeeze a few more points out of the Portal table, though ;)

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 4:20 pm
by Alex79
I'm going to have a look at Portal later. Had a quick go on it when I bought it, but not learned all the mini games and stuff yet.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 4:22 pm
by Marlew
It's really good once it starts going crazy and you set off various things at once. Just upped my high score by a fair chunk!
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Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 4:28 pm
by Alex79
Niiiice, broke the top 500 worldwide too!

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 4:30 pm
by Marlew
Cheers! Mad thing (or not, seems to often be the case) is that 80% of that score was on the first ball.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 4:33 pm
by Alex79
Always is, I usually restart if I've not got a good score when I lose the first ball. No idea why that is the case, but I've definitely found it to be true.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 30th, 2020, 4:44 pm
by Marlew
Actually, that makes perfect sense! That'll be why :)

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 12:15 am
by hazeredmist
Checked the scores on Portal

“I was a lion once” :D

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 12:16 am
by hazeredmist
Also agree I generally restart if I have a crap first ball.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 12:19 am
by Alex79
I've been doing the challenges on the Portal Table, it's a pretty fun table actually. Just got the 1 ball challenge to do, which is always the hardest.

Tip: doing the challenges is the best way to unlock the upgrades for the normal play.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 6:47 am
by Marlew
Cheers, I'll try them out.

My 'tactic' for the Portal table is to use the multiball score upgrade and keep going for Test 4. It gives you a decent period of multiball to shoot for ramps, etc. If you can lock the ball a few times in regular play, it also gives you a MB thing. There's also some mad MB mode I found where the balls look like little mechanical such and such and they just keep coming. Not sure how I triggered that but there's a lot of depth to the table, it seems.

Re: Pinball FX3 (Switch or PS4)

Posted: August 31st, 2020, 2:08 pm
by Alex79
The rewind function is probably the most handy for me when going for the 1 ball challenge, I've found.