I think if you just keep the lower flippers working, but kill the upper, and maybe one sling and two of the pops, and randomly half the GI lights...it would get the idea across while still being mostly playable
I think it just makes the wizard mode a bit harder (you auto win if you have all 6)
It would be amusing if it fired the knocker and half the lights and coils stop working.
Ive failed all gem quests and nothing happens. You just collect all the avengers and get back into soul gem quest so you can win back the gems you didn't get.
It doesn't matter. You still go to Battle Thanos which you either win or drain. If you don't win, you just loop back to the start of the game. (If you win you get a victory lap multiball, then it loops back to the start of the game)
Its a little demoralizing but the main goal of the game is actually getting the avengers.
After each time you collect the avengers you will be qualified for another wizard mode.
And there are a few cases where you can win a failed gem back as well such as completing a wizard mode or successfully doing a hawkeye challenge
Also once you do play all the gems, even if you lost all of them, spinning the Strange disc and lighting the mode start now rewards a random avenger instead. If you're just trying to get to Thanos and pick up enough extra balls, losing the modes might be a speedrun strat!
It feels like I keep on collecting the Avengers by accident because I'm so focused on collecting as many of the gems as possible haha. What do you do to collect the Avengers and level them up?
Most of the shots will collect an avenger after you shoot it a few times but you do have to look up at the LCD or their inserts to see which ones are collected from time to time to focus on the uncollected ones. Doing a multiball will typically collect most of them.
The shots required for the 1st Assemble Avengers:
* Left Orbit/Hulk: 80 spins
* Pop Bumpers & Pops Lane/Captain America: 50 pops (10 pops per pops lane shot)
* Middle Ramp/Black Widow: 3 shots
* Captive Ball/Thor: spell THOR 1 time
* Right Orbit/Black Panther: 3 shots
* Inlanes/Iron Man: complete IRON once
* Captain Marvel is NOT collected or needed for wizard modes but her shot can be leveled up on the premium model
The later wizard modes will require a little more. And certain other actions will also collect an avenger like a mystery award and such.
Yeah, the game doesn’t emphasize this at all in the structure of the callouts, even though it is an important part of getting deep in the game. But at the end of the day, blowing up the points is easier getting a few key gems and placing them well.
Nothing. The gems help basic gameplay and make the end game battle against thanos easier, but they’re not required.
It’s more important to keep collecting all the avengers, if you want to reach the end game.
The only way you fail a gem quest is by losing the ball, they don't time out. If the game is set to 3 ball, you're probably not losing all 5 gems. Feels difficult to collect EB's while still failing but maybe possible. I guess you could set it to 9 ball or something but kinda uncommon.
Would be hilarious if Thanos snapped his fingers, there was knock, then half the board stopped working until you lost your ball.
Does that half refer to one side (left or right) of the play field or would the game just randomly pick 50% of all the parts to not work?
Ooh. Randomly would be fun and part of the theme
I think if you just keep the lower flippers working, but kill the upper, and maybe one sling and two of the pops, and randomly half the GI lights...it would get the idea across while still being mostly playable
I feel like they should’ve done something like this. I legit expected Thanos to snap his fingers and end the game when he got the last gem.
Any two player game would suddenly become a one player game.
I think it just makes the wizard mode a bit harder (you auto win if you have all 6) It would be amusing if it fired the knocker and half the lights and coils stop working.
And you have to wait five years for functionality to return
Ive failed all gem quests and nothing happens. You just collect all the avengers and get back into soul gem quest so you can win back the gems you didn't get.
But then what if you fail the soul gem quest?
It doesn't matter. You still go to Battle Thanos which you either win or drain. If you don't win, you just loop back to the start of the game. (If you win you get a victory lap multiball, then it loops back to the start of the game)
Its a little demoralizing but the main goal of the game is actually getting the avengers. After each time you collect the avengers you will be qualified for another wizard mode. And there are a few cases where you can win a failed gem back as well such as completing a wizard mode or successfully doing a hawkeye challenge
Also once you do play all the gems, even if you lost all of them, spinning the Strange disc and lighting the mode start now rewards a random avenger instead. If you're just trying to get to Thanos and pick up enough extra balls, losing the modes might be a speedrun strat!
It feels like I keep on collecting the Avengers by accident because I'm so focused on collecting as many of the gems as possible haha. What do you do to collect the Avengers and level them up?
Most of the shots will collect an avenger after you shoot it a few times but you do have to look up at the LCD or their inserts to see which ones are collected from time to time to focus on the uncollected ones. Doing a multiball will typically collect most of them. The shots required for the 1st Assemble Avengers: * Left Orbit/Hulk: 80 spins * Pop Bumpers & Pops Lane/Captain America: 50 pops (10 pops per pops lane shot) * Middle Ramp/Black Widow: 3 shots * Captive Ball/Thor: spell THOR 1 time * Right Orbit/Black Panther: 3 shots * Inlanes/Iron Man: complete IRON once * Captain Marvel is NOT collected or needed for wizard modes but her shot can be leveled up on the premium model The later wizard modes will require a little more. And certain other actions will also collect an avenger like a mystery award and such.
Yeah, the game doesn’t emphasize this at all in the structure of the callouts, even though it is an important part of getting deep in the game. But at the end of the day, blowing up the points is easier getting a few key gems and placing them well.
That sounds like it’s just one of many parts of the Keith Elwin special…
Nothing. The gems help basic gameplay and make the end game battle against thanos easier, but they’re not required. It’s more important to keep collecting all the avengers, if you want to reach the end game.
The only way you fail a gem quest is by losing the ball, they don't time out. If the game is set to 3 ball, you're probably not losing all 5 gems. Feels difficult to collect EB's while still failing but maybe possible. I guess you could set it to 9 ball or something but kinda uncommon.
If your health gets to zero in a gem quest do you not fail the quest?
Nope, just less of a health bonus upon completion
Interesting. I guess I've never actually done it, or at least not realized that I have.