Pinball FX 2 Million Player Celebration and Buyer's Guide | 50 Must Own Tables!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- I started playing Pinball FX a year ago and I'm breaking my high scores and climbing the leaderboards like I never thought I could. Pinball is fast approaching the 100 year anniversary of it's invention and games like Pinball FX are helping to preserve the past with recreations of amazing real table while paving the way to the future of a hobby that was at death's door not that long ago but Pinball FX has a huge library of tables so I'm here to help you first time players find the best tables at the best value and I'm making tutorials because it's no fun beating you if you aren't good enough to put me to the test so I'm going to teach you how to play so I can face a real challenge but beating me will be a moving target because I'm getting better every day and many of the games I played to make this video were legitimately personal best high scores for me which are approaching the top 100 in the online rankings.
Thank you Zen Studios for the amazing tables and congragulations on 2 million players... may they all watch my tutorials and subscribe.
I'm currently working on the Williams Table Guide and Reviews, this was a monster of a video but now that it's finished the Williams Pack 1 guides should be finished shortly after.
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Found your channel a few months ago and have watched a lot of your Pinball FX videos, really appreciate the length and quality of the vids! As a newer player myself (got into PC pinball about a year ago), Pinball FX is what got me hooked and it's my most played of all the pinball games but I've also gotten a lot of enjoyment out of The Pinball Arcade (though its a bit dated) and Zaccaria Pinball, if you're looking for more great games! Looking forward to the coming vids!
I have both those games. I haven't dug into Zaccaria too much and Pinball Arcade doesn't run right and I haven't tried to fix it, it runs waaayyyy too slow right now. I'll eventually get around to figuring out but the Williams block of tutorial is probably going to take the better part of 6 months and for some stupid reason I'm thinking of making a "and the rest of the tables" follow up to the 2 million player video because stitching together a video with 50 different tables wasn't hard enough... might as well do what 77 more tables I don't know that well.... ugh.
Thanks for the complements, I try to say something interesting about each table before diving into the game mechanics either to give context for the table for new players or so experts have something worth watching since they probably already know the tables better than I do. I have access to Stern's Jurassic Park and Godzilla tables in my local mall so I will probably get around to looking at Pinball Arcade and Stern's Pinball arcade a little closer but I don't think either of those products are getting updated anymore so I'm not in a rush.
@@JeffersonRedeyes Sounds like you've got a lot planned, looking forward to seeing it, cheers!
@@JeffersonRedeyesStern really ran bad even on a gaming Laptop while The Pinball Arcade runs fine. The problem with TPA is that you can no longer purchase all the great Bally Williams tables anymore. I have all the TPA tables on PC, PS4, and Android. The Pinball Arcade was great at the time as it was the only game in town and released a lot of Bally/Williams tables. It was great fun buying the season pass and waiting to see which table was next as they released them often with 1 table per month. I don't recall how many tables TPA lost when they lost the Williams licensing, but I think I have over a 100 tables for it. They use to have some Bally/Williams tables that Pinball FX still doesn't have. Space Shuttle, Pinbot, T2, Gorgon, 8 Ball Deluxe, Taxi 🚖, Centour, Fathom, Scared Stuff and others. So it will be disappointing for new people who can't play or buy those tables.
TIL Pinball FX and Pinball M are the ones to have 🤘🏼
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Yes but it's a bit of a downgrade compared to FX3 and FX2 in a, lot of ways.
FX3 has better physics, lighting, etc. FX2 has 3d depth mapping so games, can run in 3D if you use reshader and some 3d glasses.
FX on the other hand feels a little more animated, and has not as great physics in my opinion (shared by many others as well). Not to say it's bad at all, it's just not the same. One thing I will say about FX is the engine it's on, can scale into the future and beyond, on many platforms, and many levels of hardware as well. Also, Zen serem to be proving they are totally up to the task of making FX version run on everything but the toaster, so it's kind of a win for all.
Oh, one other amazing thing about FX and M. They have trained it extremely well with DLSS a 3060ti can run the games at 4k with dlss on and only use about 38% GPU. Stays extremely nice and cool. DLSS off, or fx3 at 4k, you are running 99%, loud fans, and you can feel the heat lol.
such good content!
I am personally only interested in the real recreations of the Williams tables, and I turn all those horrible extra animations off.
Great video Geoff!
Great video thank you very much. I currently play with a switch, which I know is not the right hardware. I need to get something better trying to decide console or computer. If I may ask, what do you play on? What is your computer system? Configuration? Thanks very much really enjoying it. Keep up the great work.
I pretty much only play PC nowadays. There is just too much of a benefit to owning a PC over any console and given that I need a decent PC for video editing, script writing, learning game design with a game engine like Godot or Unreal 5 it makes sense to save my money on consoles and focus on getting the best PC I can because a good gaming PC can handle doing all of those other things.
I am currently running a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor with 16 gigs of ram. My PC cost about $2,000 close to two years ago and that's generally what you want to shoot for cost-wise because you're not looking for top of the line but you want something that will last about 5 years before it needs replacing, Steam game sales are frequent and there is a library of thousands of games to pick from on PC and since both Microsoft and Sony are focused on the PC market many of those formerly exclusive games are available now as well.
There is no wrong way to play pinball but if there was, the underpowered Switch would probably be it. I regularly get my butt handed to me by a PS5 player but he is legitimately one of the best players in the world. He also complains about the lack of table sales on the console which is how I know Steam is the best version price-wise.
Thanks for the response, that’s why I’m thinking of building a PC also for gaming. My computers are just pretty much normal productivity speed. What GPU are you using? And are you playing at 60 Hz or 120? 4K? Thanks again really appreciate it.
You can turn off those scores showing up on screen if you want to. I can't stand it on real tables because it's so unrealistic. I don't remember how because I did that back in early access.
As for the early payments with their in-game purchases, everybody complained including me because we just didn't like the idea and didn't understand it. I ended up loving it and I assume many like me never talked about really liking it after we complained at first. It was killer because they did the purchases which meant that cross-platform accounts may have been possible. For example, PC and console etc with only buying the tables once for any platform. Also, they could do sales anytime they wanted without dealing with storefront waits etc. What I miss most was the more tables one bought at the same time, the cheaper each table got. They got incredibly cheap if you bought like 5 or more tables at the same time. Last but not least, table releases could be much sooner as they could drop one at anytime, unlike waiting for 3 tables to package as one package on a store front. I regret complaining but never taking it back because it could have been much better in the end.
Whitewater is weird because it doesn't play much like The Pinball Arcade version. It's so different, easier, and better, or more fun on TPA. I don't why but could it be that the European version is different or one company really messed up or something?
I played High Speed in real life back in the day and FX doesn't do that super loop justice because it was so much cooler and faster in real life. It's one thing that can't be re-created in video games.
Why don't you do a series about getting better playing at playing these tables? I don't know if anyone does this but I'm not that good on many tables most of the time. Sometimes I get a good run from time to time but I never improve overall, Wizard Mode isn't that realistic of a goal for me, especially on the non-Williams tables. It's been out for years and while I don't get better. This sucks!
I make table reviews and guides too. I just released one for Medieval Madness and I'm about to record Junkyard and The Getaway.
I have not made a guide about hot to get better at playing the tables because I would mostly just be repeating some really well made ball handling videos that I used to lean how to play initially.
I usually try to highlight any techniques I find useful on specific tables in the guides but I might talk to NClearBlack about a making a general players guide to pinball techniques, he's far beyond my skill level and he's still improving and I used to tell him "Wizard Mode isn't that realistic of a goal for me" about a year ago.
The best advice I can give anyone is that you're going to shoot your best games when you aren't really trying and good aim is far less important than paying attention to how the ball returns and learning how to react and sometimes that means not flipping if the ball is going to land between the middle to the front of the flipper because it will safely bounce to the other flipper where you can get it back under control. If you're tense or excited you'll probably miss your shots and remember the ball is in motion so you have to adjust for the ball velocity so the faster it's moving the sooner you need to flip for the ball to leave the flipper at the same point it would if the ball were moving slower. It's super weird to tell people that the less you care the better you'll play but it works.
More insane? Moon Knight is LITERALLY insane.