High Scoring Strategy Guide for Paranormal

[Sildorian]

Are there any particular bugs to look out for on Doppelganger multiball?

My game glitched last week on Levitation multiball after 4 hours play and I vowed not to return until the table is fixed.

I could be persuaded to try this method though if its not so buggy..

My game just glitched It was my first run after reading the guides (and I think my third or fourth on this table ever).. I got the full 18 Balls, was on ball #14 with 890M.. and on my way to score my very first billion ever..

I was very carefull not to trigger any known glitches.. kept my fingers off the levitation multiball and never touched the upper left flipper, when the ball came down from the mansion.. so here is what happened:

During the game, I locked the second ball in the film reel and managed to get a skillshot after that. It was the first of the three-step-skillshot and the second I hit it, one of the balls from the film reel fell out. Since there are moments when you have to choose a phenomenon or something on the score-screen, I lost the second ball very quick and wasnt sure if that was a bug or some feature I haven´t encountered before.
Soon after that I startet the Doppleganger-Multiball and scored 1 Jackpot right away.. but since there was an empty space in the Film Reel, it turned without giving me a second ball. My first ball locked was rolling around in the triangle and now theres nothig I could do.. I waitet a while and tried tilting the game.. now it is tilt, but the ball keeps rolling around in the triangle.. so I have no way to finish it.

So even with Doppleganger there can go something wrong, but I think this bug would´ve caused problems with any of the multiballs.. if you ever encounter a situation where the game gives you a second ball without having activated a Multiball-Mode, you should think about drowning both balls an lose one of your balls rather than breaking the whole game.

I don´t think Im gonne touch this table again as long as there´s no patch

[Zuprichy]

I don´t think Im gonne touch this table again as long as there´s no patch

Well, no one should, there are too many bugs now...

[Nekro Neko]

Just had a fatal glitch was on ball 1.6 with a score of 936m with a jackpot at 10,100,000 each (20m for Super and 30m for Mega) as well at that point.

Will start over I guess but that will be later now.

My glitch came from a nudge on the table as it went out of play. Essentially, the game was tricked into thinking the ball is in play when it went out and didn't feed the locked ball back to the play field.

If that hadn't happened I believe it could have been a 10bn point game.

[Alipan]

Sympathies Neko, I had a similar thing happen to me.

Unfortunately some people do seem to be completing their games - I know this as I now have 2 friends who I have beat on nearly every other table with much higher superscores than me. All because of Paranormal.

[Alipan]

Oh and thanks for the feedback Sildorian. I think I will leave this table alone for now...

[Zuprichy]

Oh and thanks for the feedback Sildorian. I think I will leave this table alone for now...

Totally agree.We'll pick it up again when it will be its turn in Nekro's tournament...

[Alipan]

Yeah hopefully it will be patched by then.

Actually one of my reasons for doing the tournament is to improve my scores on the lower scoring tables and tables I have neglected.

Then hopefully if Zen do re-calculate the superscore all the work Im going to do on tables like Extreme and Speed Machine will have been worthwhile - bwah-ha-ha....

[Zuprichy]

all the work Im going to do on tables like Extreme and Speed Machine will have been worthwhile - bwah-ha-ha....

With all the good intentions, i know i won't put too much time in these..Not very spectacular, to say the least.

Not even sure the SS change will happen that soon...but surely i too hope so!

[Oskari14]

Looks like the Trillion is broken!

[Nekro Neko]

My game is still active but I had to stp for the night. Here is how my score has evolved so far.

Mins Score Difference
0
30 207m 207m
60 677m 470m
90 1710m 1033m
120 2832m 1122m
150 3795m 963m
180 5261m 1466m
210 7646m 2385m

240 9147m 1501
270 12095m 2948
300 14545m 2450
330 17782m 3237
360 21820m 4038
390 25636m 3816

The gap is the end of Ball 1 + 5 EBs. Currently only B2.2 with a Jackpot of 40m

[fedire]

...with a jackpot at 10,100,000 each (20m for Super and 30m for Mega)...

I may be misremembering, but aren't the Mega Jackpots worth 4x the jackpot value? Also, I could only ever get Mega Jackpots on 3 of the missions: Spontaneous Combustion, 4th Dimension and Wizards Cube; has anyone managed to get Mega Jackpots on the other 2?

[Nekro Neko]

I may be misremembering, but aren't the Mega Jackpots worth 4x the jackpot value? Also, I could only ever get Mega Jackpots on 3 of the missions: Spontaneous Combustion, 4th Dimension and Wizards Cube; has anyone managed to get Mega Jackpots on the other 2?

On doppelganger the Mega Jackpot is when you get it in the "wrong" hole forcing you to meet your doppelganger and ending the mode.

My current game is now up to 62bn and a Jackpot of 65m

[wednesday]

Yes, Mega jackpots are worth 4x, super jackpots are 2x.

[Nekro Neko]

Okay, I've now passed Cloda and surprisingly jop (he popped up after I got Clodas superscore as the next target, he must've just posted a score). They both had massive scores, Cloda on 105bn and jop on 160bn. I'm now scoring 13bn every 30 minute period (Jackpot at 115m). I'm on my last 6 balls now with 190bn on the scoreboard.

Average ball time.

Balls 1.1 - 1.6 = 35 minutes. (Ball 1.1 actually lasted 102 minutes alone)
Balls 2.1 - 2.6 = 125 minutes.

Total time so far - 16hrs 30mins

[jop87]

Awesome score nekro!
Will be a nice 2nd place!
I wasnt as good as nekro and cloda (and zuprichy, holy sh*t dude! ) in raising my jackpot.. 'only' had 87million in the end. On ball 3 I just wanted to finish since i completed all goals i had set. Becoming pinball king was one of em, but Nekro is gonna snatch it back.

Off topic: R&B patch due to superscore inflation --> spiderman tourney.. and now this.