Sticky for ZP2 table bugs

[Wodzu]

Avatars table:

1. Repair the engines mission. Captain America was already in a hole and I've played with IronMan. Another hole was flashing indicating that I should hit my ball into it but every time I was hitting the hole the ball has been returned to me. Quite frustrating, I had to just lose this ball to be able to play further (I could not lock it in a quinjet or change at HQ).

2. Just today, my ball literally fell out of the table!!! It was after I've hit Black widow ramp.

3. I was continuing the same game when the bug nr. 2 occured. I've entered the avengers mode, I had Ball Save turned on. However, drained balls did not show at the starting positions. I have 3 balls on their starting positions, they are not reentering hte game, two balls are missing. Do not know where they are. I can not break the game in any way. Saving and entering the game did not help... I can move my flippers and I can nudge the table as much as I want... very frustrating

[shogun00]

I would like to report a possible cheating on Blade (same to Marvel Pinball).
In fact you get 50000 points of EOB (I think, I do not recall more) when you change night and day.
So just keep pressing the launch button to do scroll night and day for a long long time.
With the X10 multiplier bonus, you have 500,000 points EOB.
2 changes night/day, you have 1 million points
200 = 100 million
2000 = 1 billion

I don't need this method shameful to make billions on the table but some people are able to spend several days with the button pressed to make huge scores, cheating, cheating, cheating.
I don't play it again at the table until the glitch is present and scoring erased.

Sorry for the translate.

For the record, my third place score came from completing the wizard mode about six or seven times in one game. I never paid attention to the EOB bonus, so I didn't know about this cheat.

[opelgt1969]

Game: Zen Pinball 2
Version: PS3
Region: North America (USA)




Please look into this issue as it renders the game largely unplayable for those of us who find motion control nudging the natural way to go!

I also have some suggestions for the team:

- Please give us back View #6 from ZP1. The closest match in ZP2 is View #2, but it's zoomed out too far. Please give us View "2b", which is the same as View #6 from ZP1.
- Adding a view-lock in the options would be fantastic, especially if you play with View #2 (or my proposed "2b"). This would prevent people from accidentally changing the view during intense moments in the game.
- Allowing each player to use their own controller during hotseat multi would be grand.
- It would be nice if we weren't force to zoom in on the launcher before launching the ball.

Keep up the good work. I'm a software developer myself, so I get it. Hang in there.

Thanks, and I will see you all online sometime.

ThePiedSniper

What I did about the view problem is remap the "view change" to the triangle button, this seem to help a little when trying to use the X button for ball saves. I also would like a view lock along with being able to set the flipper sensitivity on main menu instead of in option menu in each game , but I can understand why it might be adjusted only in each game.

[MarkItZeroSmoky]

pvz multiball

I see the earlier posts about this during zomboss final mode, but it just happened to me during the twopeater/threepeater mode, with the diggerzombie mission activated. Ball drain, i have one in my flipper, ball loss. It also seems to have forgotton i have extra balls! I figured id keep playing to see what happened after i lost the one during multiball, but i noticed it displayed ball 2 on the dot matrix. Also no solid light on seed save, indicating extra balls. But i had 4! I was on my first ball!

Thatll really be terrible if this happens during the tourney!

[Hypno74]

Blade CHEAT

I would like to report a possible cheating on Blade (same to Marvel Pinball).
In fact you get 50000 points of EOB (I think, I do not recall more) when you change night and day.
So just keep pressing the launch button to do scroll night and day for a long long time.
With the X10 multiplier bonus, you have 500,000 points EOB.
2 changes night/day, you have 1 million points
200 = 100 million
2000 = 1 billion

I don't need this method shameful to make billions on the table but some people are able to spend several days with the button pressed to make huge scores, cheating, cheating, cheating.
I don't play it again at the table until the glitch is present and scoring erased.

Sorry for the translate.

[ThePiedSniper]

Issue / Requests

Game: Zen Pinball 2
Version: PS3
Region: North America (USA)

There is a serious issue in ZP2 regarding using motion controls for nudging the table. This has affected every table I've tried, and I own all the tables except the Marvel ones.

I haven't found an exact way to reproduce it, but it happens frequently enough at random--almost guaranteed once per game--and most of the time it happens many times throughout the game session.

Basically what happens is that the table will occasionally nudge itself. This can happen at any time during the game--be it while using the flippers, while the ball is being pinged around the table, or when launching the ball. In fact I have seen it happen between games. I have actually set the controller down on the floor and seen the table nudge itself--repeatedly--while the controller shakes about in response, even if there is no game in progress.

I have tried this with two different DualShock 3 controllers; one of them was factory new. It happens on each controller at about the same rate. Using a Sixaxis controller (with no rumble/vibration capability) does seem to alleviate matters somewhat, but even it is not immune to the phantom nudge, though this controller will not shake in response of course.

I might be inclined to attribute this to the sensitivity of the motion sensing, but I would think that setting the controller down on a flat surface without touching it would cause the issue to go away, whereas I assure you it is still there. Additionally, ZP1 still works fine in this regard; I can go back to ZP1, with either a DualShock 3 or Sixaxis, and the motion control nudging works as I would expect.

Please look into this issue as it renders the game largely unplayable for those of us who find motion control nudging the natural way to go!

I also have some suggestions for the team:

- Please give us back View #6 from ZP1. The closest match in ZP2 is View #2, but it's zoomed out too far. Please give us View "2b", which is the same as View #6 from ZP1.
- Adding a view-lock in the options would be fantastic, especially if you play with View #2 (or my proposed "2b"). This would prevent people from accidentally changing the view during intense moments in the game.
- Allowing each player to use their own controller during hotseat multi would be grand.
- It would be nice if we weren't force to zoom in on the launcher before launching the ball.

Keep up the good work. I'm a software developer myself, so I get it. Hang in there.

Thanks, and I will see you all online sometime.

ThePiedSniper

[johny_dmonic]

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.

this just happened to me..but i can move the flippers..but the balls are not getting replaced once they drained. avengers assembled was activated right after losing up a ball but lighting up the last letter (in my case it was 'M'). vita version btw.

[Mammouth]

2 bugs in the french translation :
- El Dorado : in the escalation mission, it says "Le corde" instead of "La corde".
- Iron Man : at the beginning of the "Mandarin Impact-Beam" mission, the 2nd line of the 3 lines text is in english

[BarbieBobomb]

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

[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?

[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.

[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]

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.

[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]

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.