George Klepacz
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I keep seeing people saying how TPA's physics seem "floaty" and I'm not sure what they're referring to exactly. Thanks.
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Can someone please tell me what "floaty" means?
- Thread starter George Klepacz
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- Feb 22, 2012
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Floaty means that the ball seems to lack weight and merely hover over the playfield rather than actually making contact with it. By the way, the ball was "floaty" on the PBHOF Collections, but doesn't feel that way at all on TPA in my opinion.
- Feb 22, 2012
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Exactly...
- Feb 19, 2012
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Yeah, PHOF was on the floaty side.
TPA is much better, and it'll be nice to see some physics improvements over time. I know Farsight is planning to still tweak it a bit. To me, the ball almost seems too fast at times. Sometimes it seems like the ball accelerates and comes down the inlanes and onto the flippers quicker than it usually does in real life, which also causes the flippers to seem stronger. If they work that out, plus tone down the bounciness a bit, we'll have the most realistic pinball simulator of all time.
TPA is much better, and it'll be nice to see some physics improvements over time. I know Farsight is planning to still tweak it a bit. To me, the ball almost seems too fast at times. Sometimes it seems like the ball accelerates and comes down the inlanes and onto the flippers quicker than it usually does in real life, which also causes the flippers to seem stronger. If they work that out, plus tone down the bounciness a bit, we'll have the most realistic pinball simulator of all time.
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- Mar 17, 2012
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Indeed. I've saved many, many balls from the outlanes on MM after a bad slingshot just because the ball took 5 seconds to leisurely get over there. It really does look like it's levitating at times.
Bowflex
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- Feb 21, 2012
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Floaty is to pinball as pitchy is to American Idol. It's not an official term per se, but you know it when you see it or hear it. I could hear Randy Jackson saying, "yo dawg, I thought Medieval Madness was just ah-ite on the original PHOF collection. It came out strong but the ball physics were floaty, dawg. And the sound emulation was too pitchy for me."
- Feb 19, 2012
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Ha, I like that analogy.
Bob Albright
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- Feb 19, 2012
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Lol! And you know this from experience?
Jimmy Gambrill
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So you've actually played TPA? I guess so since you're in Texas. This was pretty much my only gripe with the William's disc, the floaty ball physics. Glad to hear it's been fixed, TPA is truely going to be perfect I believe.
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Nik Barbour
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Whilst were on the subject, on an earlier thread I saw someone say "spamming the flippers" and wasn't sure what they meant.
Guessed It means repeatedly flipping quickly.
Guessed It means repeatedly flipping quickly.
- Feb 19, 2012
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You got it.
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