Metallica - Stern - release 2013

[delarge]

I read Pinside, I read the strategies, I get to the game and the strategy is nowhere to be found in my head. I get a few different multiballs and then walk away wondering why I only hit 49 million and no major high score. I need pinmaster Pete to give me some training I think. My machine is also an unforgiving drain monster and my nudging skills are hopeless. My love-hate relationship with my Metallica. It keeps me coming back for more.

[GORGAR 1]

New songs are up  

V1.51 - March 17, 2014
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  - Loop diverter post NOT activated from shooter lane when a ball is being
    held on the cross magnet for super jackpot.
  - Added "Blackened" and "Ride The Lightning" to the list of songs that
    may be selected at the beginning of the game.  These were the songs that
    were chosen by Metallica fans.
    See http://www.metallica.com/news/20140219-605356.asp for more details.
  - Implemented an adjustment to vary the music that plays during Electric
    Chair / Sparky multiball.  The options are:
               CREEPING DEATH - Always play "Creeping Death".
           RIDE THE LIGHTNING - Always play "Ride The Lightning".
        ALTERNATE C.D./R.T.L. - Play "Creeping Death" for the first
                                multiball; play "Ride The Lightning" for
                                the second multiball; ...
                                (This is the default setting.)
        ALTERNATE R.T.L./C.D. - Play "Ride The Lightning" for the first
                                multiball; play "Creeping Death" for the
                                second multiball; ...
                       RANDOM - Randomly choose either "Creeping Death"
                                or "Ride The Lightning".  Both songs have
                                an equal chance of being chosen.
  - Fixed a problem with the FUEL random award that was allowing fuel to be
    added at the wrong time.
  - Fixed a bug in the algorithm that selects the fake mystery awards to
    display such that it no longer displays the "INVALID" award.
  - Due to the lack of spinners on the PRO (bummer), the number of switch
    hits required to drop to the next level for the "Fade To Black" mode has
    been reduced from 20 to 15.
  - Added speech for Crank It Up mode collect.
  - Added magnet toss to "Battery" mode electric chair hit.
  - Crank It Up modes and The End Of The Line were causing the selected song
    to restart from the beginning.  This has been corrected.
  - Added progress bar to Crank It Up collect/continue display effect.
    Formatted the time remaining with a leading (-).
  - Added kickout warnings for the snake eject and the right eject.  Fixed a
    bug in the logic that was sending out speech for one player's score being
    much lower than everyone else's.
  - Added 4th sparky fry animation.  Tweaked lamp effects.
  - The "For Whom The Bell Tolls" mode was not resetting the song position
    to the beginning when the mode was started.  This has been corrected.
  - Added (adjustable, may be turned off) ball saver to the modes.  The
    default is 10 seconds.
  - Added kickout warning sounds and lamp effects for the snake eject and
    the right eject.
  - Battery mode was requesting adult content speech with the ADULT CONTENT
    adjustment set to NO.  This has been corrected.

[MartyJ]

New code out for Metallica:

V1.6 - June 5, 2014
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  - Added "Blackened" (target) mode for collecting all of the band members.
  - Added an adjustment to award extra coffins from the captive ball.  The
    default is "+1 W/ RETURN LANE" which will award 1 extra coffin if the
    captive ball is hit within ~2.5 seconds of a return lane switch.
  - Corrected some loop logic.
  - Lowered 2nd+ combo extra balls from 100 combos to 50 combos.  Lowered
    the 2nd+ fuel lane extra balls from 40 pistons to 30 pistons.
  - Skill shot and super skill shot lamp effects were (occasionally) not going
    away when their respective awards were no longer available.  (This was
    noticeable when the mystery eject was made for super skill shot.)
  - Reworked the guitar pick targets rule.  Collected band members carry
    over from ball to ball.  Sets of band members reworked to require more
    completions next time around, but not as brutal as before.
  - Added settings for snake eject kick and right eject kick power settings.
  - Changed the increment for the item requirements for qualifying Crank It
    Up from 1-5 to 1-3.
  - Added new right eject ramp-up sound for the right eject kickout.
  - Added adjustments for the cross magnet and the electric chair magnet so
    the user can turn off or lighten the magnet effects.
  - Added an adjustment for the number of shots required during the super
    jackpot stage of cross multiball to bump the super jackpot multiplier.
    The old (hard-coded) default was 4; this has been lowered to 3 to make
    it easier to increase the multiplier.  (Adjustment range: 2-4).
  - Fixed a problem with setting the slingshot power during factory reset.
  - The slingshot power was not being updated after the adjustment was
    changed in the game adjustments menu -- it was only ever updated at
    power-up.  This has been corrected.
  - Fixed a problem with mystery.  The "electric chair" awards were displaying
    the coffin icon, and the "coffin" awards were displaying electric chair
    icons.
  - Increased "Fade To Black" units per level on the PRO from 10 to 15.

[GORGAR 1]

Looks like a cool update it's getting great reviews on pinside 

[Pintoxicated]

 I was very happy with Metallica but after this latest code update it really is a kick bottom game. It is still the only machine that my loyr old will play. There has been plenty of machines come through my doors but I could never get him into Pinball. Metallica has achieved that and for this I am very grateful.

[jennystack]

Is this Table out for Visual Pinball?

[pinsanity]

Is this Table out for Visual Pinball?

No, but there is a different Metallica version available for Future Pinball.

[MartyJ]

New code out for Metallica today (pro readme below)

V1.64 - April 23, 2015
======================

  - Seek & Destroy mode has been changed so it now awards 1 cross,
    1 snake, and 1 electric chair each time one of the main shots (left
    loop, cross lane, left ramp, right ramp, right loop) is made when
    lit.  This allows progress towards lighting "Crank It Up" during
    Seek & Destroy.  This rule change also solves the problem of not
    being able to light the snake to collect SNAKE letters during
    Seek & Destroy, since only a shot on the playfield would allow this.
  - Boosted Seek & Destroy scores from 750k to 1M (seek shot) and 375k
    to 500k (regular shot).
  - Added lamp status on the sparky lamps for electric chair multiball
    and battery mode that indicate progress toward lighting the super
    jackpot and completing the mode, respectively.
  - Added art to the combo high score to date display effect in the
    attract mode.  Changed the font for the combo award and the combo
    jackpot award.
  - Increased lady justice "big value" score.
  - Added design team members to the default (factory reset) HSTD.
  - Increased the display/lamp/sound priorities for the multiball modes
    (Coffin, Cross, Electric Chair, Snake).  Previously, these were the
    same as Fuel/Seek & Destroy, which caused interference.  The priority
    for Coffin was set to something higher than Cross/Electric Chair/Snake,
    as Coffin is rare to get, and alternates between shots and the captive
    ball (so there will be opportunity to see Cross/Electric Chair/Snake
    effects on the shots when Coffin is available on the captive ball).
  - Changed the names of the diagnostic buttons (these are translated now).
  - Fixed a problem with the mystery sound effect not coming through due
    to higher priority sound effects from previous effects taking too long
    to finish up.
  - Removed track #4 from outlane drain sound so big effects will not get
    cut off.
  - Fixed text running off the display.

[pinball god]

So Marty, does this make the game rock even more. Can't remember the last code I played and I loved the game then.

[swinks]

this is a fun video - only pinball related thing is Metallica but alot of fun.

[Crashramp]

I just ordered a Premium Monster from AMD on Tuesday. For those owners out there, what are the mod's you'd recommend? I've ordered with the Sub woofer, mirror blades and Shaker. Also have cliffy's coming and colour dmd will likely be next but I'd love to hear what other people have enjoyed doing to their games.

[swinks]

congratulations on the new game...  

here is a few ideas
http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=10593.new#new

[Crashramp]

congratulations on the new game... 

Thanks Jady, I won't see it until the end of February so I have to hold my excitement for a little while. Really looking forward to it though.

[GORGAR 1]

I just ordered a Premium Monster from AMD on Tuesday. For those owners out there, what are the mod's you'd recommend? I've ordered with the Sub woofer, mirror blades and Shaker. Also have cliffy's coming and colour dmd will likely be next but I'd love to hear what other people have enjoyed doing to their games.

Good one Adam your love it-definitely one of Sterns best titles.

[skywalker]

not sure if the newer ones have them, i upgraded all the flashers to Leds, massive improvement, color dmd is a must