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<blockquote data-quote="etamme" data-source="post: 50804" data-attributes="member: 1971"><p>First things first - I love PBA, and I love that I can play real tables on my Nexus 10. </p><p></p><p>I have one "major" complaint with PBA, physics. I joined a pinball league at my local pinball arcade and practiced Theater of Magic on PBA b/c I had never played the table before - all great, learned the table and set the second highest score on the machine when I played it at the arcade. That said the physics in PBA are nothing close to resembling reality.</p><p></p><p>Three physics issues that are most prevalent to me are the following</p><p></p><p>Float: The ball seems to behave as if it were a really light weight plastic ball it seems to lack significant momentum/mass.</p><p></p><p>Spring/bounce: This one is insane. You can't even catch the ball in PBA. The flippers must be made of flubber (that hyper springy material that comedic mad scientest created). </p><p></p><p>Weight: this may be the single element that affects the other two - I dont know. The ball just moves too freely, it just seems to not have the mass to be controlled.</p><p></p><p>Ok - so I know that one of the joys of pinball is that every table is different. I want to be clear that I am not trying to say that PBA should model the exact TOM table that I have locally - but the physics are generally so so so far off that I think it is a more generic issue. Also - I want to be clear that I am not just complaining here, I am trying to provide constructive feed back.</p><p></p><p>Does any one have thoughts or comments on what I have said?</p><p></p><p>-Eric</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="etamme, post: 50804, member: 1971"] First things first - I love PBA, and I love that I can play real tables on my Nexus 10. I have one "major" complaint with PBA, physics. I joined a pinball league at my local pinball arcade and practiced Theater of Magic on PBA b/c I had never played the table before - all great, learned the table and set the second highest score on the machine when I played it at the arcade. That said the physics in PBA are nothing close to resembling reality. Three physics issues that are most prevalent to me are the following Float: The ball seems to behave as if it were a really light weight plastic ball it seems to lack significant momentum/mass. Spring/bounce: This one is insane. You can't even catch the ball in PBA. The flippers must be made of flubber (that hyper springy material that comedic mad scientest created). Weight: this may be the single element that affects the other two - I dont know. The ball just moves too freely, it just seems to not have the mass to be controlled. Ok - so I know that one of the joys of pinball is that every table is different. I want to be clear that I am not trying to say that PBA should model the exact TOM table that I have locally - but the physics are generally so so so far off that I think it is a more generic issue. Also - I want to be clear that I am not just complaining here, I am trying to provide constructive feed back. Does any one have thoughts or comments on what I have said? -Eric [/QUOTE]
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