I'd like to increase the flipper strength but I'm concerned about chipping. I don't know why a ball should be able to hit the bottom of the flipper? I would have thought that the rubber would be thick enough to prevent that but it wasn't and the chip out was the result. I don't know if you noticed but I was able to backhand a ball up the dice lane from the left flipper and with current flipper strength, the balls just make it up the lane with not a lot of power to spare.ĭid you notice that the left flipper has a chip out of the bottom of it? When the flipper strength was set higher, that happened and these are new flipper bats and new rubbers from PBR. One thing that the current set up does is that it does not restrict balls from getting up from the 'Dice lane' to the SOUL lanes at the top. Great idea, I have thought about that as well and looked at gates online. Balls can get stuck there as you can see in the video. Note that I don't have a wall up by the top right standup because I'm still trying to figure out what to do with that portion of the game. Here is a video of game play to show some of the new table behavior. All of this required plugging holes, drilling new holes, moving mechs and lights but in the end I think the effort was worth while.

I had to move some lights, move the blocking post mechanism, move the location of the lower peg (to enlarge the entrance) and print new walls that 'armor' the inner aspects of the opening to reduce the elasticity of it to direct more balls into Perdition. The Perdition Lane was much more involved. This now allows the ball to get up to the top kicker saucer on occasion. I reworked the left Dash Kicker assemblies so that it is aimed more towards the top of the playfield. The miniposts protect against 'death lane' losses and also open up the in/out lane opening. These include moving the mini-posts from just above the in/out lane wire to above the outlane wall, re-aiming the Dash kickers and reconfiguring the Perdition Lane entrance. This past week I've gotten back to Cuphead and made several changes that I think are improving game play. I had forgotten how much fun that was and how nice it was to work on vpx where I actually know what I'm doing! Instead collaborated with Bord and worked on some visual pinball tables. I took a break from working on Cuphead because I really didn't like how the dash saucers were kicking and also the Perdition entry was too hard to get into and I needed some time away from the project.

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