Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 51: John Wick Reveal & Travis' TED Talk!
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 51: John Wick Reveal & Travis' TED Talk! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf and Travis Murie John Wick is finally here! We discuss our initial impressions of the...
Highlights
- GTF code update was 18 gigabytes and took over an hour to install
- Leaving GTF coin door open too long causes capacitor failure that disables all coils
- GTF multiball lock failure is a known issue documented on Pinside with multiple owner complaints
- GTF has magnet switch reliability issues where 50% of time lock magnet doesn't engage despite green light indicator
- GTF co-op/team mode requires four-player setup and only activates on ball two of player two
- GTF audio drops out intermittently when too many sounds play simultaneously
- American Pinball's code developer may be outsourced rather than in-house
- IFPA president's response to supplemental lighting concern was 'don't be a wuss'
Notable quotes
“Every issue that we ran into are known issues... there are GTF owners that are defending it, but my plea is like there is so much potential in that game. American Pinball really needs to step it up.”
“If the software is flaky, what are you going to do? Hardware issues kill fun, but software issues are different – you can fix software.”
“The game thinks there should be two balls locked, and the second ball has pushed the first ball out... the game doesn't keep track of balls correctly.”
“Ball two of player two is when apparently you choose your team... did they not think about this at all?”
“This code update was supposed to help with some of these issues. But what I'm reading is people have submitted videos showing exactly this ball tracking issue.”
“I was embarrassed to say I'm enjoying this game because of how many negative experiences people have had.”
“I lowered the buck power. Previously it was pushing the ball out 100% of the time. Now it's like one out of every five times.”
“Give me a consistent and reliable game. That's something that is not easy to do... and it's not a good look when a stream doesn't go well.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Fox City Streams / Fox City Winter Bash· event
- TPF (Texas Pinball Festival or similar event)· event
- Bond / James Bond· game
- GTF (Game Title Not Specified - Tank-based Game)· game
- Labyrinth· game
- Valhalla· game
- Flippin' Out· organization
- IFPA· organization
- Lumberjack Johnny's· organization
- Pinside· organization
- Charles· person
- Jared· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joel· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Pin Monk· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
- Zach Minney· person
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