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With the Williams tables announcement, I became quite nostalgic of my Pinball FX2 playing days. Can't believe it is over 5 years since I last properly played. I still have my Xbox 360, but Zen is not releasing the new tables on that anymore. To my surprise, I stumbled on the fact yesterday that all the new Pinball FX3 tables has been and will presumably be released on Zen Pinball 2 on Mac. I didn't even once consider that as I assumed that as Zen Pinball 2 was the equivalent of Pinball FX2, that it won't receive further support.
I downloaded it, saw the Sorcerers Lair played smoothly and installed Back to the Future. It looks and plays brilliantly and I would dare to say even better than from what I remember FX 2 played like. So, I have a few questions and a few things makes little sense and I hope somebody can shed light (and give hope they might rectify it
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1. Is the physics engine for the new tables e.g. Back to the Future, the same as FX3? I assume that the Williams tables will get the same "realistic" physics engine tuning as on all the other platforms where they will release it.
2. Why on earth can't you save a game on exit? It is annoying as I these days only have an hour at most to play and to get anywhere score wise on e.g. Sorcerers Lair, a game will take a few hours. I assume that the Williams tables will be much harder to keep the ball in play so that should not be such a big problem.
3. Why are there no online leaderboards? I didn't think I would miss it as I never played online or tournaments, but it is nice to see how well you are doing on a table by seeing what other scores players put up. Is there an online leaderboard that keep track of the top scores across platforms?
I'm still looking forward to the new tables and will play them irrespective if Zen makes any of these changes to Zen Pinball 2 but it would be great if they can look at these things.
I downloaded it, saw the Sorcerers Lair played smoothly and installed Back to the Future. It looks and plays brilliantly and I would dare to say even better than from what I remember FX 2 played like. So, I have a few questions and a few things makes little sense and I hope somebody can shed light (and give hope they might rectify it
) -1. Is the physics engine for the new tables e.g. Back to the Future, the same as FX3? I assume that the Williams tables will get the same "realistic" physics engine tuning as on all the other platforms where they will release it.
2. Why on earth can't you save a game on exit? It is annoying as I these days only have an hour at most to play and to get anywhere score wise on e.g. Sorcerers Lair, a game will take a few hours. I assume that the Williams tables will be much harder to keep the ball in play so that should not be such a big problem.
3. Why are there no online leaderboards? I didn't think I would miss it as I never played online or tournaments, but it is nice to see how well you are doing on a table by seeing what other scores players put up. Is there an online leaderboard that keep track of the top scores across platforms?
I'm still looking forward to the new tables and will play them irrespective if Zen makes any of these changes to Zen Pinball 2 but it would be great if they can look at these things.
So far not a peep from anybody that can do anything about it.
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