Of course this was the one you paid attention to.... FML

I have both those games. I haven't dug into Zaccaria too much and Pinball Arcade doesn't run right and I haven't tried to fix it, it runs waaayyyy too slow right now. I'll eventually get around to figuring out but the Williams block of tutorial is probably going to take the better part of 6 months and for some stupid reason I'm thinking of making a "and the rest of the tables" follow up to the 2 million player video because stitching together a video with 50 different tables wasn't hard enough... might as well do what 77 more tables I don't know that well.... ugh. Thanks for the complements, I try to say something interesting about each table before diving into the game mechanics either to give context for the table for new players or so experts have something worth watching since they probably already know the tables better than I do. I have access to Stern's Jurassic Park and Godzilla tables in my local mall so I will probably get around to looking at Pinball Arcade and Stern's Pinball arcade a little closer but I don't think either of those products are getting updated anymore so I'm not in a rush.

@@JeffersonRedeyes Sounds like you've got a lot planned, looking forward to seeing it, cheers!

I pretty much only play PC nowadays. There is just too much of a benefit to owning a PC over any console and given that I need a decent PC for video editing, script writing, learning game design with a game engine like Godot or Unreal 5 it makes sense to save my money on consoles and focus on getting the best PC I can because a good gaming PC can handle doing all of those other things. I am currently running a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor with 16 gigs of ram. My PC cost about $2,000 close to two years ago and that's generally what you want to shoot for cost-wise because you're not looking for top of the line but you want something that will last about 5 years before it needs replacing, Steam game sales are frequent and there is a library of thousands of games to pick from on PC and since both Microsoft and Sony are focused on the PC market many of those formerly exclusive games are available now as well. There is no wrong way to play pinball but if there was, the underpowered Switch would probably be it. I regularly get my butt handed to me by a PS5 player but he is legitimately one of the best players in the world. He also complains about the lack of table sales on the console which is how I know Steam is the best version price-wise.

Thanks for the response, that’s why I’m thinking of building a PC also for gaming. My computers are just pretty much normal productivity speed. What GPU are you using? And are you playing at 60 Hz or 120? 4K? Thanks again really appreciate it.

The pull rates are pretty basic, it's mostly random dumb luck and the card packs don't matter too much unless you are hunting for a specific foil card.

@@JeffersonRedeyes that’s good to know man, makes me wonder if there are any good mods out there that can make the more rare packs result in better pulls

@@RRalosky21 the only way a mod like that would work for me is if the mod followed actual pack-in rules like MTG card boxes where you are guaranteed a certain number of specific rarities per box but that would require the game to track each individual pack which I seriously doubt it does as the results of any given pull are generated when you open the pack.

Of course you must honor your family tradition! I'll take mechwarrior 5 over anything published by Bethesda, Ubisoft, Blizzard or EA it's not even a a hard question and thank you for your timely comment as I was going to say I would have no problems at all with prebooking Mechwarrior 5 Clans which I just looked up and it comes out next week. You can't pre-order but on OCT 16th I'll be playing it.

I thought that was a little low for you on a table I know you like. I believe they said they will be changing it so tournament scores hit the leaderboards in a future update.

Then you should try the getaway since you aren't on the leaderboard and it's part of the Williams Pack 1. Also I just posted a double redline mania video for that table which will be up tomorrow.

yeah, often things get settles out of court and locked behind NDAs which I think is a sad miscarriage of justice and against the public interest.

One you buy a table you own it. The same was true of previous Pinball FX games as well, even if you own the table and Pinball FX loses the license to sell more of that specific table you own you still get to keep that table. I want to say the Pinball FX 3 Archer table isn't available anymore but since I already own it I will always own it and PinballWizard35b still owns all of the tables he's ever bought for every version of Pinball FX so you don't have to worry about paying twice.

@@JeffersonRedeyes thank you😊

@@JeffersonRedeyes can I also ask you a question; will there be more pinball tables coming soon to pay for? Will there always be more? How much more money can I possibly save? I want to get all 116 different pinball table machines (111 from PinballFX and 6 from Pinball M) but if there is going to be more in the future, we'll have an endless amount of pinball tables to play and I will have to spend more money Should I just get the 116 pinball tables now what I saved up for and buy future table content later on?

@@isaacheres1354 if you are on PC there are frequent sales on Steam. They are much less frequent on PC. They seem to come out with several new tables a year but I don't have any inside connection telling me their business plans so I only know what they post in Pinball Bytes on YT and updates through the steam page. Buy whatever you are comfortable with whenever you feel like buying them. I got almost all my tables on sale but I also make Pinball FX content so it's in my personal best interest to buy the tables immediately to make reviews and guides.

@@JeffersonRedeyes I play PinballFX on the PS4 not on PC

it's better than ever, never too late for a good game. Clans is supposed to come out 2024 but no release date.

It works better than sounding like a faulty AI in the comments section. No human could have come up with that sentence structure.

I have no idea. I uninstalled after finishing so I would have space for Space Marine 2.

If you're talking about Zen Original tables like the new Goat Simulator table the display is a normal graphic interface which often plays related scenes from Goat Simulator 3, I have a review and tutorial coming out in 15 minutes for that table. If you are talking about anything in the Williams collection the reason those DMD displays are not updated is because they are as faithful recreations as possible. Not only are they trying to recreate accurate physics and sounds from the real machines but that also means recreating the DMD display faithfully. Sometimes this isn't possible with copyrighted music as Party Zone and Creature from the Black Lagoon are missing a lot of the music the real tables featured and sometimes the artwork needs to change, I believe Uncle Fester needed to be changed on the Addam's Family backglass because of likeness rights. The Williams tables are a great preservation and representation of the real world tables that exist and you can actually see the rapid evolution of pinball in the 90's by recognizing new features like color DMDs or two-level playfields and magnasave which were introduced in 1980 in the original Black Knight table. Black Knight 2000, the sequel is one of the table I expect to see in the next Williams Collection 3 pack. For real tables accuracy is the most important thing which is why the DMD remains unchanged.

Have... ..HAVE YOU NOT?!??!!!

@@JeffersonRedeyes I’ve never seen it

@@KuddlyDragon Dis fuggin' guy, I swear

Thank you, I was really happy with how the video turned out.

I think Zen have been killing it with the new tables. I'm hoping for Black Knight 2000 and Maybe Elvira's Party Monsters (but maybe not likely for licensing reasons) in the Williams pack coming soon-ish.

@@JeffersonRedeyes agreed and those two tables would be awesome. Really looking forward to new Williams tables.

it's worse, it's made of Scotts

Absolutely phenomenal game, I will be returning to see what else is in store. I never expected to draw Mario or Link from a reference and there is a ton of actually useful information about how pixels are perceived by the viewer and it's all done in a way anyone should be able to comprehend. When I get to the pinball it's not going to be about the physics, it's the underlying principles of how to build a pinball machine and showcasing how the sprites the player is drawing can be utilized in game creation which will help the player understand that they will eventually be capable of making an entire game on their own. Eventually I want to build my own pinball IDLE game and I also want to build a JRPG with a strong but sneaky focus on education by using various quizzes to grant bonus modifiers like doing 10 simple 1 digit addition problems for a minor damage boost that increases as the difficulty of the problems increase or by having the player solve geometry problems while crafting for a bonus multiplier to resource generation or even having multiple kingdoms that speak different real languages with a series of language primers allowing the player to gain access to unique materials if they can learn how to communicate with the locals. Video games have an astounding potential as educational material, I believe i owe my own love of trivia to brute forcing my way into Leisure Suit Larry as a teen by memorizing all of the answers to the "adult" trivia that acted as an age gate. Unfortunately most attempts at educational software are hamfisted like MathBlasters making the education the primary focus instead of creating an interesting game kids would want to play first and foremost and then implementing the educational stuff as something the player would want to engage in because it enhances their ability to enjoy the game part of the game by imparting more power to the player. Pixel Art Academy has managed to blur the lines between game and education in exactly the way I believe it needs to be blurred to be engaging enough to be an effective educational tool. I apologize for the wall of text but I am quite impressed and I'll probably use this as the framework of a stand alone review since this is exactly what I want to see more developers do with educational software. I believe we need alternate forms of easily accessible education and we need it yesterday because the school system isn't keeping up but that's an entirely different conversation. I do want to end by thanking you because I have already learned something new and I will continue learning new things and that's worth much more than the price of entry.

@@JeffersonRedeyes I should also mention, the instructions for the Pinball project were planned to be much more elaborate, with references of real pinball tables and such, so you actually get an idea how other pre- and post-war machines did things. But I ran out of time in the end. Hopefully one day I will manage to put those instructions in as well (and common pinball parts like slingshots etc are also still missing). p.s. I can def relate to the Larry trivia problems. :D

@@Retronator The games worth buying get post launch support and I expect single dev indie projects to move along slowly. I would love to see the additional information make it's way into the game eventually, I watch the 4 part "history of pinball a lot" as I familiarize myself with the table to make guides. One of my viewers just hit 2nd place on FX Bride of Pinbot with 2 billionare's clubs today and I know I can do 3 to beat him. I'll keep learning to draw pixels and I'll make a point of highlighting Pixel Art Academy in my table guides. I'm about to go back to work on scripting guides for all of the Williams tables now that I started hitting wizard modes all of a sudden last week and started actively hunting the backglass awards for doing so because all of a sudden that's a thing I can do now. I'm probably going to try drawing mario on stream in a few hours. I have an off stream save game where I drew Link instead. I'm very interested in seeing how the lessons progress and looking back through the devlogs to see how this all came into existence. .