Personal Goal - 100m on every table=Doable?

[UranusIsBroken]

LOL Excalibur is one tough table. I have the 22nd best score on it, but I still can't tell you if there's a wizard mode. However, the top few scores are in the billions, and unless they went the same route I did, 10x over in one game, then I'm certain one of them knows. However, pinball appears to be quite the international game these days, and a lot of the guys up top aren't of the English speaking variety...so I haven't been able to ask them what the deal is. LOL

[Alipan]

Yeah thats what I was thinking - why not message one of the top guys!

Ive spent a bit of time on the table and can appreciate that doing all of the knights tales in one game must be difficult. In particular Arthurs quest and the one where you have to chase the beast - I forget its name now.

[UranusIsBroken]

King Arthur, and Sir Kay. Both involve making shots to Excalibur. Sir Kay can be particularly maddening when you accidentally hit Excalibur instead of the captive ball to switch routes. Personally, I'm fine with both of those. I have fits with Percival, however.

[Logic_FTW]

Ug Arthur drives me nuts. I've beaten it a few times but never when it matters. I guess wizard mode on Excal just isn't that important scoring wise (as far as i know) The knight missions don't yield thatmany points or free balls. The way to score on that table is jousting, siege (free ball and like 15M~) and spamming the renown mission. (ok thats debateable i know but if you can do it quickly its an easy 6M + EOB bonus) The MB is ok too for scores if you can manage to light them up (hit merlins ramp during the MB after all JP's are cleared)

Anyway, it's 5 difficult missions... The only semi-"easy" one is Gawaine. I suppose if you just went for those Wizard mode (or lack there of) is possible but pts per minute is gona suffer alot.

Also lol at the pinball degenerates who clicked that link...

[UranusIsBroken]

Pinball degenerate. I like the sound of that. A lot. Too bad it's just a little bit too long to be made into a gamertag, or I'd be on it like white on rice.

Fact is, I can't see why every table on FX would have wizard mode EXCEPT Excalibur and Earth Defense. SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING!

Information hoarding should be illegal in pinball.

[rapierdwit]

Pinball degenerate. I like the sound of that. A lot. Too bad it's just a little bit too long to be made into a gamertag, or I'd be on it like white on rice.

Fact is, I can't see why every table on FX would have wizard mode EXCEPT Excalibur and Earth Defense. SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING!

Information hoarding should be illegal in pinball.

Well, extreme does NOT have a wizard mode, so it is possible ED and Excalibur do not too.

[Logic_FTW]

Whats the char length for the GT's? PinballDegen maby? IDK. 12StepPnBll?

Ok, I guess I'm just gona have to focus on beating all those knight missions on Excal now to find out. I like that table alot anyway, but it's gona be a grind. I have been playing SotD but that crane mission is driving me nuts. I thought it was 4 balls you had to release but its 5! I finnaly got 4 and was like phew finnaly... Wait WhAt??!!?? I could use a break from it I guess.

Any way if I can figure it out I'll update. Still trying to devise a plan. Should I go for the FB first or just straight into the missions? I'll figure it out...

[UranusIsBroken]

Whats the char length for the GT's? PinballDegen maby? IDK. 12StepPnBll?

Ok, I guess I'm just gona have to focus on beating all those knight missions on Excal now to find out. I like that table alot anyway, but it's gona be a grind. I have been playing SotD but that crane mission is driving me nuts. I thought it was 4 balls you had to release but its 5! I finnaly got 4 and was like phew finnaly... Wait WhAt??!!?? I could use a break from it I guess.

Any way if I can figure it out I'll update. Still trying to devise a plan. Should I go for the FB first or just straight into the missions? I'll figure it out...

Gamertag length is limited to 15 characters, I believe. If I'm wrong, then I'm certain it's 14.

FB=free ball ??? If you're talking about Excalibur, I would strongly recommend completing the Marching to Battle sequence to earn a quick extra ball, before going after the Knight's Tales. I would also attempt the tales that give you the most difficulty first. If you're going to fail, fail fast and spare yourself the time.

[Logic_FTW]

Gamertag length is limited to 15 characters, I believe. If I'm wrong, then I'm certain it's 14.

FB=free ball ??? If you're talking about Excalibur, I would strongly recommend completing the Marching to Battle sequence to earn a quick extra ball, before going after the Knight's Tales. I would also attempt the tales that give you the most difficulty first. If you're going to fail, fail fast and spare yourself the time.

Yes FB = Free Ball

IDK though I think the jousting would be quicker FB and more points to boot. Siege you have to hit the green lane three times then do the whole ramp thing 9 times (3 ramp, 3 hole, 3 castle) Jousting you just hit the orbits a few times then play a quick minigame... IDK, you do have to joust 3 times but I bet it's close time wise. Plus if you fail a jousting mission it dosen't reset and you can just reactivate it with some more orbit shots... just my 2 cents.

I agree with doing the tougher missions first, I'm thinking this order

1.Arthur (cause I drain from missed excal shots....)

2.Can't remember name... Quest beast one, choose right path (so easy to accsidently fail)

3.Percival (not terrible but it can be a pain)

4.Gawiane (due to my days of joust practice orbit shots are pretty easy for me, I normally get this one first try)

5.Lancelot (it's basicly the holy grail mission, easy)


So we'll see how it goes, I'll have some time tonight and mabey sunday to really give it a shot. If I don't go out this weekend (unsure atm) saturday night as well. Wish me luck.

[rapierdwit]

Updated that I beat Speed Machine's Wizard Mode for a whopping reward of 10m...whoop de friggin do.

[Nekro Neko]

Updated that I beat Speed Machine's Wizard Mode for a whopping reward of 10m...whoop de friggin do.

Not quite 62m per orbit then

[rapierdwit]

Not quite 62m per orbit then

LOL Not quite....and it is TIMED and expires/kicks you out if you lose the Multiball. Who came up with this, the guy who designed Iron Man Ultimo mode? At least Ultimo gives you 1m per hit and 10m for success.

[UranusIsBroken]

Rapier: You should be in 7th place on Extreme. I looked at all the people above you, and the below names are the only ones that I can truthfully believe ascertained their score in a legitimate manner. The rest of the people are ranked in the top 10 in Extreme, but in the THOUSANDS on infinitely easier tables. As if they have all the tables and Extreme is their favorite, AND the table their skills are best suited for. LOL As if. It's a shame the leaderboards aren't an accurate reflection of where one truly ranks on a table. Total farce.

malabouille
HeathenSauce
mallraider75
DRAGON THUG Xx
fesia
Denis Boon



On a good note, I just got over 100M on SoTD, although I still rank 786th. LOL Baby steps. That was my 9th table at 100M+ . Bumped my Superscore up pretty decent too. Got up to 166th.

[rapierdwit]

Rapier: You should be in 7th place on Extreme.
On a good note, I just got over 100M on SoTD, although I still rank 786th. LOL Baby steps. That was my 9th table at 100M+ . Bumped my Superscore up pretty decent too. Got up to 166th.

That is why I picked a static goal. I know what I am shooting for and I do it by beating my own score. Yes, Leader boards are nice but there are very few in Xbox360 history that are actually accurate.

As for SoTD, best score chance (and they way to double that 100m score) is spam the hell out of the mine ramp and activate the multi-ball a few dozen times. Yea, I know it is not your style but just saying

Edit- Just to keep everyone updated (like anyone cares LOL), got up to 80 Million on Speed Machine. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...or wait...those are headlights?!?!!? (Crash...Dead End).

[UranusIsBroken]

Yeah...SoTD is a massive multiball table. It's never ending. The Mine Chaos multiball is a snap to activate. Anytime the ball is on the bottom left flipper, I take shots at loading up for Abyss multiball. Periodically up top the Shark Attack multiball kicks in.

There are three missions I go out of my way NOT to activate, however. The Dive mission blows. having to hit the center, then hit an orbit before the lamps die out just isn't my bag. I also absolutely positively NEVER go out of my way to dick around with the Kraken. That is a serious waste of time. What's that mofo pay out if you actually take him down anyway? The last thing I don't go out of my way to activate is the Mine Probe multiball. If I get to the point where I need it for wizard mode, I will. But I'll already have to have beaten the Dive mission to bother.

Still...can someone please explain to me what it means when Escape is lit on the bottom left? I am absolutely CLUELESS about how to use the left plunger, or how to hit anything when I actually get to use it (which has been like, 3 times in a year). I'm positive I can get really good scores on this if I ever get ANY kind of multiplier. A video showing how to do this would be awesome.