TheVision wrote:
AtrocityExhibition wrote:
Fucking bastards, so I need to get that 1.23billion again on BOP.
Still, it's an easily beatable score.
It's really not that hard Vision, you just need to get the BILLION shot lit when you complete the woman (it's a random award off the BIG WHEEL spin you get when you complete her), the rest of the score is off the 'rest of the game' as it were.
You can basically split scores on BOP into two components.
1) The billions come from the BILLION shot, you can get in multiple times, I think back in the Visual Pinball days I had a score of 7 or 8 billion, just by getting that shot multiple times. (That was a looooooong game though.)
2) Everything else (the tens/hundreds of millions if you will) comes from all play outside of the BILLION shot. The BIG WHEEL has an award of fifty million on it, which is handy, you can keep whacking at the unlimited million ramp in the middle of the table too (although it diverts it off to the plunger after you've done it 6 or 7 times, note how a real table DOESN'T allow you to keep repeating one single action indefinitely like Pinball FX does).
The skill shot can get very valuable too, it's pretty easy to get that up to 25x or more, which makes the 200,000 award seriously worthwhile.
The main tactic with BOP is not to lose the ball (well duhhhhhh), what I mean is, it's not a table you want to have the ball(s) bouncing around on too much, as it's quite a 'close' table with lots of ramps and loops, any misses tend to be punished pretty quickly and harshly, and the drains can be greedy too.
There are loads of extra lives to be had too, so it's always worth aiming for those as part of the game.
The only problem with BOP really is that it's quite a repetitive table, probably as basic a ruleset as you'll encounter on a Bally/Williams table, so games can go on for a LONG time without too much variety.
As I said before, one to kind of get into the groove with, preferably after a few ales.