Universal Pinball Arcade - (by FarSight)

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  1. bigrand1

    bigrand1 Well-Known Member

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    Seems like this dev already does that, just not on purpose. :D
     
  2. LordGek

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    Badda boom! ;)
     
  3. shyguy3

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    The update is out now with black night and creature from the black lagoon.
     
  4. thevagrant

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    And game center!
     
  5. geoelectric

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    Ooh, Black Knight was a fave of mine. This is good news!
     
  6. h_A_Z

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    What's the difference btw the Free and 0.99 ones?
     
  7. sladeums

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    $0.99 one include Tales of the Arabian Nights full table unlocked (limited free play on all other tables).

    Free one includes no full tables (limited free play on all tables).
     
  8. Capricornman

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    Oh this is good news
    Hopefully GC will come one day!
     
  9. sladeums

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    It's out with this update ... but implementation kinda (unsurprisingly) blows.
     
  10. Capricornman

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    Ok thanks!
    Oh no that's too bad
    Guess there will be another update
    It's all worth it though:)
     
  11. psj3809

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    Well i'm happy we have another two tables, bought them this morning. Been playing on them a few times, all good so far. Pinball Arcade is really turning into a great little app, think thats 10 tables so far isnt it ? (Might be 12 have to check)
     
  12. Capricornman

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    Just updated the app and my icon is blank white
    Also when I go to preview the new tables the app crashes
    I hope it works itself out
    I want these tables:)
     
  13. psj3809

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    That happened to me a while back when i updated the app. In the end i delete the app and had to re-download the tables. A pain but the app turned back to normal.
     
  14. Capricornman

    Capricornman Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for letting me know
    I will do!!!:)
     
  15. Capricornman

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    Works fine now:)
    Excellent!!!!!!!
     
  16. djflippy

    djflippy Well-Known Member

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    I love Black Knight! Updating immediately.
     
  17. your personal robot

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    Both tables are great. Really love Black Knight playing it for the first time. Everything's running fine on my iPhone 4.

    But what's with these HORRIBLE "OWNED" batches... they look so ugly. Should be enough to show the user what tables are not purchased, but telling you with an ugly green sticker what you already own makes no sense... I want tese things gone!
     
  18. famousringo

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    I haven't really sunk my teeth into the new tables, but I thought I'd drop some feedback on the app changes themselves.

    So there's Gamecenter support, but it's a little underwhelming. There are achievements for people who care about that sort of thing (I don't), and there is a leaderboard. Singular.

    That's right, we don't get to table scores, just a composite "Hall of Fame" score derived from your performance on all tables, making it about as meaningless as comparing gamer scores on Xbox (you bought more games than me, congrats).

    What's more, you still get nagged to log in every time you boot up the app. Only now, Farsight has set up their own online service in front of Facebook. So what the hell, I figured, as long as I don't have to sign up for Facebook. I signed up, I logged in, and I declined to link up my Farsight account with my nonexistent Facebook account. Apparently that still doesn't get me access to any kind of table leader boards. Asking for Farsight leader boards just gets me an error for not linking to Facebook. All the Farsight account has done for me is get rid of the annoying login page at startup.

    Well, the app really does get better every month, so disappointing though this is, I have every reason to expect Farsigt will get this right... Eventually.
     
  19. Maythius

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    I can give an explination on the leaderboards. Last time I checked, gamecenter only allows a limited number of leaderboards; I dont know the exact amount but its probably Between 15-20. The developers have mentioned that there will be 40+ tables... How would they make gamecenters limitations work? Also, besides using facebook they developed their own leaderboards outside of gamecenterm you just have to make an account. I think they did an amazing job on this update!
     
  20. LordGek

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    What you say here plus there doesn't seem to be a way for devs to cull bogus scores from GC (but evidently any hacker can add them in just fine).

    Also I really like the idea of being able to compare my score with those playing on PS3, XBOX 360, Android, or whatever other flavors it comes in eventually.
     

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