Pinball FX 2 - bugs/issues and recommendations

[BarbieBobomb]

Ok moderators, please give me some good news here. I love pinball fx2. My family and I have been playing a lot this past month on my cabinet. I have purchased ALL of the tables. We have logged a large amount of local high scores on all of the tables.

Today when I opened up fx2 the playfield monitor was in the default 0 degree orientation so I knew something was wrong. I went into the settings and found that all of the defaults were selected. I changed everything back to my personal preferences including 270 on the orientation. Then I realized that ALL of the local high scores are gone. ALL OF THEM!

This is completely unacceptable. Please tell me where these local high scores are stored so that I can find them. There must be a file somewhere that can be accessed.

This exact thing happened soon after the fx2 update which enabled the screen rotation, but I didn't think much of it because I hadn't logged a bunch of local high scores at that time.

I'm running a high end rig in my cab with windows 8 and all quality gear.

Earlier this morning I rolled back my nvidia drivers to a previous version in an attempt to remove ball stutter on future pinball but that should have nothing to do with pinball fx2 and the stored preferences or stored high scores, RIGHT??

Please help out.
Nick

Oh NOOOOO! I will check into it--so sorry to hear this

[Imagamejunky]

VERY upset right now

Ok moderators, please give me some good news here. I love pinball fx2. My family and I have been playing a lot this past month on my cabinet. I have purchased ALL of the tables. We have logged a large amount of local high scores on all of the tables.

Today when I opened up fx2 the playfield monitor was in the default 0 degree orientation so I knew something was wrong. I went into the settings and found that all of the defaults were selected. I changed everything back to my personal preferences including 270 on the orientation. Then I realized that ALL of the local high scores are gone. ALL OF THEM!

This is completely unacceptable. Please tell me where these local high scores are stored so that I can find them. There must be a file somewhere that can be accessed.

This exact thing happened soon after the fx2 update which enabled the screen rotation, but I didn't think much of it because I hadn't logged a bunch of local high scores at that time.

I'm running a high end rig in my cab with windows 8 and all quality gear.

Earlier this morning I rolled back my nvidia drivers to a previous version in an attempt to remove ball stutter on future pinball but that should have nothing to do with pinball fx2 and the stored preferences or stored high scores, RIGHT??

Please help out.
Nick

[tizerist]

It turns out you can reset the Epic Quest table by clearing all audits in th operators menu. So that, fixes my only complaint about it really. (About it levelling up)

[allmodcons]

I am always trying to use as many bouncier rubbers as possible on my tables. I love them, it makes the table more like a real one. Try the Star Wars: Episode V for example

That is interesting to know that the table designers have the choice for these settings rather than it being a Zen policy, and it does explain why some tables feel better (in my opinion) than others. I play your Star Wars table often in my cabinet as it is one of the better ones and I really like the uncluttered layout.

Cheers

[deep]

Feature request:

Bouncier rubbers and flippers to make gameplay closer to real pinball. I don't care if I cannot post scores with this setting. If this could be added to a pro-mode which also increases the flipper gap this would be most welcomed, and would make me quad re-buy the tables for my XP steam setup.

I am always trying to use as many bouncier rubbers as possible on my tables. I love them, it makes the table more like a real one. Try the Star Wars: Episode V for example

[allmodcons]

Feature request:

Bouncier rubbers and flippers to make gameplay closer to real pinball. I don't care if I cannot post scores with this setting. If this could be added to a pro-mode which also increases the flipper gap this would be most welcomed, and would make me quad re-buy the tables for my XP steam setup.

[ericleroi]

I would like an option to improve the resolution of the reflections as they seem a little blocky; this may have been mentioned elsewhere before..

I would also appreciate more camera angles and the ability to move the DMD to a second display.

Have all the tables on the 360 and appear to have bought them all again for Steam. Looking forward to more tables soon ...

For those with bloom issues, SweetFX will sort this out for you

[tizerist]

Ok I'm sorrY if that sounded a bit blunt, I agree, it is awesome. Yeah I dunno, perhaps an option to lock at a level. It would take a lifetime to reach the real goodies, but....the playing field would be more fairly balanced.
The whole concept of 'those three balls' is a bit skewed otherwise.

[LeanderL]

Epic Quest is great the way it is. It resembles an RPG with level ups and disabling XP would rip the heart out as the table is all about character progression, fighting monsters and loot. There are many other tables without the level ups so there's a fun table for all personal likes and dislikes.

[LoadedWeapon]

Yep I would say just play and have fun.. Epic Quest is more of an arcade game than pinball and I myself love the concept.. I really don't care about high scores I just play it when I can and enjoy them all very much..

[Roo5676]

Is there any plans to put an option into Epic Quest so that the table doesn't level up?
That idea goes against the concept of pinball, the playing field is not level, and I am loathe to even record my high-scores because quite frankly I don't feel that I've earnt it, because most of the work was done on my previous attempts.
Please remove this feature or allow those of us who like tables to be fair to be able to play it normally.
This was really, really, not one of you guys better ideas. And thats putting it politely.

Well obviously people are split on this. I've heard a lot of people say they love the leveling concept and want to see it more. I do like the table a lot -- it's a unique and fun concept -- but I agree the scores are skewed based on how much you've played and I wouldn't want to see it used across the board, either (which I doubt they are planning).

I don't know how they would be able to remove or change anything on it at this point, either. What would you do, lock you to a certain level or something? What level? 1? You're not going to get any high scores then. 100? People would say that wasn't fair. And what equipment would you have? That affects the monster fights.

Just play the table for fun and don't worry about the score so much (there are tons of other tables for that). I wouldn't expect it to be a tournament table or anything.

[tizerist]

Is there any plans to put an option into Epic Quest so that the table doesn't level up?
That idea goes against the concept of pinball, the playing field is not level, and I am loathe to even record my high-scores because quite frankly I don't feel that I've earnt it, because most of the work was done on my previous attempts.
Please remove this feature or allow those of us who like tables to be fair to be able to play it normally.
This was really, really, not one of you guys better ideas. And thats putting it politely.

[BarbieBobomb]

Yep--for some reason the Steam forums are "hidden to users" but I can still see it. Looks like we'll have to call Valve and see what's up. Thanks for the reports!

[ZenPinballFan]

More smaller mistakes:

1) Biolab: the instructions of the minigame in which you have to feed or cheer up the creature are in English (German version)
2) Biolab: left tube/ramp not visible, image not shown (already reported by other players)

I reported the invisible left tube twice already. It's so annoying! I can't even play that table because of that!

[ZenPinballFan]

Hello, MuddyWolf. Welcome! I don't know what's up with the steam forum. I've tried to access it myself, but it's not working.