Sticky for ZP2 table bugs

[snakeman07]

Actually, the bang back doesn't count if the ball save is turned on. I was able to confirm this in my last play through.

Very nice, good to know

[75hDeadMan]

Thor game breaking bug

I encountered this bug today on Thor. Had it happen once in MP and it seem to carry over to ZP2. Sometimes, when you shoot the ball up the serpents ramp, or a ball is released in a serpents ramp (during the beginning of a mission or multiball I believe), and you hit the launch button to open up the hole on the ramp, sometimes you can accidentally time it where the lift hole actually pops up when the ball is right above it and launches the ball off the table. it is impossible to tilt or recover it any way and you have to restart.

[snakeman07]

I encountered this bug today on Thor. Had it happen once in MP and it seem to carry over to ZP2. Sometimes, when you shoot the ball up the serpents ramp, or a ball is released in a serpents ramp (during the beginning of a mission or multiball I believe), and you hit the launch button to open up the hole on the ramp, sometimes you can accidentally time it where the lift hole actually pops up when the ball is right above it and launches the ball off the table. it is impossible to tilt or recover it any way and you have to restart.

Haha! That's funny, but yeah, hopefully it get's fixed. I want to try it now, though

[ER777]

I encountered this bug today on Thor. Had it happen once in MP and it seem to carry over to ZP2. Sometimes, when you shoot the ball up the serpents ramp, or a ball is released in a serpents ramp (during the beginning of a mission or multiball I believe), and you hit the launch button to open up the hole on the ramp, sometimes you can accidentally time it where the lift hole actually pops up when the ball is right above it and launches the ball off the table. it is impossible to tilt or recover it any way and you have to restart.

Its really strange how some of these bugs cause you not to even be able to tilt anymore. They should put some sort of gameplay status check option in the pause menu. If it can't find a ball in play then it should tilt or something so the game could at least move forward. Just getting to a point where you're completely stuck is the worst thing that can happen, especially if you're in a record game like Caper_26 mentioned above.

[wims]

Thor is full of bugs with Xtraball :

Odin'gift doesn't work (already said) but that's not all!

Golden apples bugs too. 60 first apples deliver an Xtraball, ok... but for the next it looks like a random award.

Exemples :

Game 1:
Ball 1:
60 apples : Xtraball
120 apples : Xtraball
180 apples : nothing

Ball 2 (ball 1.1) :
60 apples : Xtraball
120 apples : nothing

Game 2:
Ball 1:
60 apples : Xtraball
120 apples : nothing
180 apples : Xtraball

...

As Odin says, "something is wrong"...

[Loc_Dog_]

Two bugged games in a row on the soon to be tourney-time Plants vs. Zombie;

First: Sent a ball up the mail ramp and it just stayed there. The box front flap didn't open. I tried to nudge. All I could do was get a glimpse at two green balls as they roll slowly up barely past the mailbox then slid back down. Couldn't tilt. Had to quit.

Second: Was about to start the mission with the underground zombies when I started what I thought was a muti-ball seconds before (but maybe it was seconds after). The odd thing I noticed was that it was only two balls...about halfway through the mission I lost one of the two balls and then the DMD started rattling off EOB bonuses (like the Zomboss/muti-ball bug when you lose a ball). The camera the went over to it's "launch view" but the other ball was still in play. I was able to keep this ball in play until I hit the mailbox ramp where it didn't "lock" but didn't come out. I was able to continue like "normal" after that by launching the ball (there was no skill shot available). Later when I started a multi-ball two balls tumbled out at once followed by two more in single file. Four balls total.

This is the third time I've played in two days since not touching this game since it's first week after guessing/learning it would be the tourney table. All three games have been bugged (with some form of multiple balls at the root) and two of them resulted in a premature end to the entire game. The first two would have set personal bests, the last did set a personal best even with the lost ball in play.

[Dorktron2000]

Just lost a 1.2B game on Avengers with no way to save or tilt. I had Avengers Assembled activate right when I lost my last ball. Four balls shot out, like normal, but I couldn't use my flippers and all the balls drained. The camera panned over to the Avenger balls on the side and Thor was missing. And the camera sat there and there was nothing I could do. I exited the game, saved the game, came back and the same view was still there. Very frustrating and makes me wants to stop playing until Zen gets these bugs figured out. That was my first billion point game too.

[wims]

Just lost a 1.2B game on Avengers with no way to save or tilt. I had Avengers Assembled activate right when I lost my last ball. Four balls shot out, like normal, but I couldn't use my flippers and all the balls drained. The camera panned over to the Avenger balls on the side and Thor was missing. And the camera sat there and there was nothing I could do. I exited the game, saved the game, came back and the same view was still there. Very frustrating and makes me wants to stop playing until Zen gets these bugs figured out. That was my first billion point game too.

See just before, I've posted 2 videos where I was over 20 billions... and this bug forced me to restart.

Be carefull, the similar bug comes when you lock 2 balls too quickly in Loki's hole, on the last step of motors mission.

Agree with you, this is really frustrating... and I'm really disapointed to discover ZP2 tables have the same bugs, already mentioned on this thread by many players since tables are released (Epic Quest, Sorcerer's Lair, etc)... Zen told it's a cost to upload a fix patch on MS and Sony servers, but they upload their updated games with the same bugs... Really strange strategy.

Some of them make the tables unplayable (Paranormal, Avengers)...

On FX2 we have download the Fantastic 4 fix without glitch, well... but we're still wainting the leaderboard reset.

I wonder this thread deserve something better.

[Piccalilli]

Have a bug to add to the list. I bought a couple of new tables last week, and I decided to put them on both my Vitas before a trip. (I use my 3G when I'm traveling, and the wifi is our family handheld.) I was playing PvZ on the wifi one with my daughter while the tables downloaded on the second system. Normally keep the wifi off and periodically update scores/trophies, but forgot after the downloads. When my husband opened ZP2 to install the tables on the 3G for me, it kicked me off the network. As a result the highscore that I set has never uploaded to the leaderboards. It lists 56M as the highscore when finishing a PvZ game on the wifi, but the rankings on the leaderboards don't register it even after a week.

[shogun00]

When my husband opened ZP2 to install the tables on the 3G for me, it kicked me off the network. As a result the highscore that I set has never uploaded to the leaderboards. It lists 56M as the highscore when finishing a PvZ game on the wifi, but the rankings on the leaderboards don't register it even after a week.

Just play another game and when you get to the tally screen, your highest score will be uploaded to the leader boards.

[Piccalilli]

Thanks, Shogun, but I've already tried that. No luck. I think the difference is that the signout was caused by both Vitas accessing ZP2 at the same time. It hasn't updated no matter how many games I've played for the past week.

[surf1der]

Thanks, Shogun, but I've already tried that. No luck. I think the difference is that the signout was caused by both Vitas accessing ZP2 at the same time. It hasn't updated no matter how many games I've played for the past week.

The PSN is down today for maintenance. http://us.playstation.com/support/an....htm?a_id=2185

Nobody will be able to upload any pinball scores until the psn is restored. I think the article says it will be up again around 4 pm PST. The psn outage is likely the source of your problem if it started today. If it not, I suppose it is something else.

[Piccalilli]

This bug started a bit over a week ago. It was a week on Friday. I've been trying to update it since it happened. I'm only a few million below it after playing a few games this morning (this morning's score uploaded fine), but it's a weird glitch all the same.

[sui99]

Two minor issues:

1) Street Fighter 2 - German Version

The table rules sheet was obviously copy pasted straight out of google translate. Quite hilarious.

2) Ninja Gaiden

I'm not able to post local scores. The screen where you enter your initials never shows up and the local highscore list only shows the predefined scores. I have no idea what may have caused this. Are others experiencing the same issue?

[BarbieBobomb]

Thanks to everyone who has sent bug reports! I will be sending these to the team!!