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Post: 40797099_1 created on Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:51 pmPosted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:51 pm
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Post 1. Intro and Tips and Q&A Post 2. Contest Info Post 3. My Highest score so far Hey everyone, it seems a lot of my friends aren't that great at pinball and I seem to be pretty good at it so I thought I'd make a thread to help people get a bit better at it. If you'd like to submit tips or advice then feel free to share it with me or anyone in the thread. If you would like to ask question ask in the thread. I just started this so I won't have a ton of tips just yet, but I'll be adding as time goes by, post, chat, have fun, tell me what you think. Other pinball help threads: Pinball Guide made by the #1 Pinball player to date: ~The Official Pinballer's Guide~ Popular thread with some interesting tips. PowerUp Your all access guide to the basics of pinball. Pinball Guide Instruction Manual and Noobs guide to pinball. Instruction Manual. I am in no way saying these tips will be make you a pro directly after reading it, but I can say if you follow these tips your sure to do alot better. Tips: 1. Use your power ups. Its ok to save them once and a while, but if you really wanna get far then don't be cheap on saving them. 2. Don't spend all your time trying to get to one place on the board. If something is hard to reach like that 3rd grunny, or that annoying 4th fish then don't focus too much on it or you might end up losing a ball when your not paying attention. 3. Don't spend the whole time just repeatedly mashing the paddle buttons. Wait for the ball to land on the paddle so that you can aim where you want to shoot the ball. 4. Bumping has been an important role in almost all aspects of gaia, this goes for pinball as well. Your space bar can help you out when your trying to slip into the Slots or get that annoying V in vote. 5. Wanna catch that 4th fish so that you can level up your bait, sometimes mashing the paddle works, BUT you can let the ball roll to the end of that top paddle till you can barely hit it and it usually causes the ball to spin back into the lake and hit the 4th fish. TADA!!! 6. For you multiplier whores, a trick to hitting those grunnies is letting the ball roll to the end of the bottom left paddle and then hitting it as its rolling off, this causes the ball to USUALLY hit the top two grunnies at the same time. -My usual strategy for getting the third grunny is as follows: When you destroy or rebuild Gambino's Mansion, the ball will fly out and land on the right paddle. the moment lands or stops moving (not the moment it hits exactly) you hit and/or hold the right paddle, this should send the ball flying into the side of the arena and down into the grunny. 7. I believe the easiest thing to hit is Gambino's Mansion, there are quite a few ways to hit the viles or cans. -The best way to hitting them is to let the ball roll to the end of the bottom right paddle and hitting it just as its falling off. If you smack the paddle next to them at just the right time you can actually hit all 3 at once. -Now sometimes you only end up hitting the two tops cans or viles but not the bottom, a trick to getting that bottom vile is using the bottom right paddle. Hit the ball just as it gets to the end of the paddle (not as its falling off it), this should let the ball hit the arena walls and bounce towards Gambino's Mansion, but before it gets there hold the left middle paddle so that is rolls downward into the vile or can. 8. The Vanhelson's. If your like me, you hate them. Usually its cheap and annoying to beat right? Well wrong. The best thing you can do is save your sticky paddles to use against them. No other power ups work in there. Ok, I'm experienced enough to know that you don't want to shoot the ball from any of the middle paddles, the middle paddles seem to screwed up. The outer paddles seem to work just fine, the sticky paddles will limit a few of your shots but when they run out you should be able to reach some letters you weren't able to before. Just try to keep the ball on the outsides and you should be good. 9. Multi-balls or Bag of Marbles are great for points but hard to control sometimes, What you want to do is shoot the guild ramp for a 5,000 point bonus while Multi-ball is in play. 10. Having trouble getting in slots?, After the ball shoots out of the store , where you snag items, hold the left paddle so that you catch the ball, afterwards let the ball roll down to the tip of the paddle, take a shot at the ball as its falling off of the paddle. (this can be a difficult shot and the ball might possibly hit the wall instead and bounce somewhere else). If done correctly that should let you hit it into slots, if you thinks its gonna fall back out then use the bump function to push it up farther. Using the bump button will almost always let the ball roll into slots when in the ramp. 11. I just recently tested a theory. I wanted to see if you shot the ball upwards and paused the game, would the ball be able to still hit something like the zurg or rock puppy when you unpaused it at the right time. Well it worked and this means you don't have to chase the zurg or rock puppy around during the whole game. Just shoot the ball just under one of the paths they take, pause it and wait for them to get over the ball, release the ball and TADA you get a hit. Now this takes some time cause you actually have to wait for them, but if you usually have trouble catching them than this will help ya out quite a bit.(I'll have more on this later so you don't have to figure out where to shoot the ball) Power-Up tips: Each and every one of your power ups has its own advantages but you can also use them in combination. - Floaties can be one of the best power-ups, though I think them to be second best, but they work really well if you use them in combination with Bag of Marbles, or on a Multi-ball. In doing this you can keep one ball in the launcher and juggle around two balls, which isn't as hard. Also since it still counts as a multi-ball when you have them out, you can constantly shoot the balls into the guild ramp for a Multi-ball bonus that gives you 5,000 points. When you finally lose both balls you'll have an extra in the launcher just waiting. ^^ - Insurance policy isn't the most useful if you constantly hit Gambino's mansion, since every time you destroy it, the left kickback activates and everytime you rebuild it the right activates. You can though, use it with the Multi-ball or Bag of Marbles power up, it'll help catch a ball if your not paying attention and if you have enough, you can repeatedly shoot a ball to the right side while Multi-ball is in play and let it slide into the right kick-back, this will allow the ball to shoot into the guild ramp and activate the Multi-ball bonus. - Sticky Balls are wonderful for fighting the Vonhelsons, if you didn't read already, to help keep the ball from falling off into the pits. Much like the other power-ups, sticky ball is great in combination with, Multi-ball or Bag of Marbles to help hold the balls in case you can't quite focus on all 3 or 2. - Fish Nets are kinda the worst power up as I see it since they're so easy to get and you almost never use them. Use them as soon as you get them cause saving them up will not help anything since you don't lose the upgrade if you lose a ball. - Bag of Marbles.......nuff said. - Fools Gold is similar to Fishnets but harder to get and a bit more useful, my advice, use them while you got them. -Stuffed Armadillo, save them, use them, sleep with one by your side, all around one of the easiest to get but incredibly useful if you want to keep playing a long game. If your not so great, I'd suggest using them while you got them. Q&A Q1. How do I get Vanhelsons Castle? A1. You must destroy and rebuild Gambino's Mansion 4 times. You can keep count by looking at the word GAIA in the middle of the game that lights each letter green for everytime you rebuild it, once all 4 are glowing green the castle will appear. Q2. What do I do if my games freezes? A2. As much as I hate to say it, you can't really do anything about that, you'll just have to start a new game. If you can't select a new game then you'll have to exit out the window though I don't think you'll be able to keep your items. Q3. What if my ball gets stuck but the game still seems to work. A3. This has actually happened to me. You can press the button at the top to restart it, don't worry you'll still recieve your rewards from the game. Q4. How do I activate multi-ball A4. You have to activate trade 3 times then shoot the ball in guild ramp the third time. Q5. How do I pause the game A5. Your press "P" it stands for pause. Don't you get that? |
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