Loving this table (Android and iOS)

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I just can't stop playing Firepower, such a great table.

 

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Btw, is it me or are the outlanes unforgiven? It's so hard to keep the ball in field!

 

[Kolchak357]

Yeah those outlanes are tough. There seems to be no time to react to a ball heading for the outlanes. The ball doesn't pause to think like it does on some tables. She just dive right in with gusto.

 

[Fungi]

Btw, is it me or are the outlanes unforgiven? It's so hard to keep the ball in field!

Yes, they are unforgiving. That's why I kinda hate it. They make the STTNG outlanes seem fair. Seriously.

 

[Nik Barbour]

New second favourite TPA table now. It's seriously eating into BK's play time, despite having played this to death in WPHOF.

It's also muscled its way into my top 3 real tables I'd love to own, and there is a very good one sat on ebay for a week - buy it now £750.
I can't......... Damn it!

 

[Matt McIrvin]

Yeah those outlanes are tough. There seems to be no time to react to a ball heading for the outlanes. The ball doesn't pause to think like it does on some tables. She just dive right in with gusto.

As I said elsewhere, the outlanes on Star Trek: TNG are of essentially the same design as the left one on Firepower, and they're deadly too. There's no rubber post at the end of the inlane/outlane divider, and it's recessed a bit behind the lane entrance. If the ball is coming in nearly horizontally, there's no way it's going to choose the inlane. Fear the wrath of Steve Ritchie.

On ST:TNG, though, the kickback on the left is much more helpful, because it's more persistent, and the ball seems to kick out at a higher angle. On Firepower, the kickback tends to send the ball ricocheting between the slingshots, and often as not it'll just fly right back into the left outlane before long (which now has the kickback deactivated).

The only thing for it is to try to keep the ball away from those trajectories entirely, by making the orbit and lock shots. Part of what makes it so hard is that, in TPA, I don't think there's a functioning up-push nudge.

 

[MWink]

I love this table on PHOF (Wii) but I find the TPA version far less enjoyable. As others have pointed out, the outlanes are just brutal on this version. It also seems like the bumpers don't react properly sometimes. The other thing I don't like is that this table has some great bass heavy sound effects that no tablet's speakers can reasonably reproduce. This obviously isn't FarSight's fault but it does slightly detract from the experience. I guess I could use headphones or external speakers but it's easier just to play the more enjoyable PHOF version.

 

[Carl Spiby]

The other thing I don't like is that this table has some great bass heavy sound effects that no tablet's speakers can reasonably reproduce.

My N10 does bass just fine

I can feel the heart beat from Gorgar through my fingers!

 

[Man-Machine]

Firepower is the table I have been playing most lately. Great table from a great era!