Pinball Arcade - Tournament March 2017 - Doctor Who - Master of Time - 2144 million

Pinball Arcade - Tournament March 2017
Gold tier on Steam (PC / Mac)
Doctor Who - Master of Time - 2144 million
3rd Place on this table and 6th place Overall

[@Sysaphys]

It's a little upsetting how much I love Dr. Who and this table is so utterly boring and bland. Absolute garbage IMO.

[@chucksgrace3225]

Is there a way to play this cabinet mode without paying their $149 fee? I bought this on Steam for $9.99 but when I tried to play it cabinet mode they told I had to play $149 for cabinet mode, which I'm clearly not willing to do. Are there any workarounds for this in cabinet mode? Thanks

[@lordsqueak]

There is a camera mod which will display top down. That's as far as I know. Not sure about other mods, but If you can find that camera mod, there is probably a forum there with all the info. I gave up on my 3D cab plans just before I started playing TPA, So I'm out of the loop.

[@chucksgrace3225]

@@lordsqueak The only way to play in cabinet mode without paying the ridiculous $149 fee is to first set your windows display to portrait, which doesn't work well for virtual pinball frontends. Just not worth it. I'll wait till they offer cheaper options in the future. It's my wife's favorite show. The only reason I purchased it. I already got it refunded from Steam. Thanks

[@lordsqueak]

@@chucksgrace3225 A lot of people rotate their screens, and aside from non 16:9 aspect ratios, I don't think there is any major problems with it. You can easily just play around with the free table, see if it works for you, before buying any tables. and while you're at it, try out FX3 and zaccaria. ;) (on fx3 you need to request a code, but there is no problem getting it if you just wanna mess around on the PC. )

[@merlijn247]

how can i see the grand champion score on this table?

[@lordsqueak]

There is an online leaderboards you can check out if you want www.pinballarcade.com/Leaderboards/

[@merlijn247]

yeah i know i just got first place yesterday with dr who masters of time (name murlinos) but it doesnt say its a grand champion score or something

[@lordsqueak]

I see your 1,6 billion on the weekly. Sometimes if you have TPA installed on more than one device, the steam cloud sync can overwrite local data with data from a different device. (or so i've heard,, a lot) I'm guessing that might be issue in this case.

[@alaeriia01]

This table is a straight downgrade from the Bally version. The callouts suck, the dots are worse than the average Pinball FX2 release, there's far too little David Tennant, and the physics are way too floaty. Oh, and the main theme is somehow worse than having nothing at all and doesn't change for multiball.

[@mystman1210]

Yeah, unfortunately Farsight has never been able to make anything good on their own. The Pinball Arcade was only any good because they were re-creating already great games. Any time they tried making anything somewhat original, like with this or the Ghostbusters Haunted House re-skin, it didn't turn out well.

[@dommoore6180]

Yeah I was thinking, the original table has character and a sense of fun, this one just throws out slightly cringe worthy quotes to the blandest soundtrack possible and the art is very dim and boring. Even just on a looks and sounds level this is a huge downgrade.