by Penguinator » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:15 pm
I've been playing TS! a lot lately and learned while experimenting with nudging that bangbacking outlane'd balls is totally possible. Once you get the timing down, you can save at least 15% of the drains. I actually avoid doing it during ball save time though, since each up-nudge is almost guaranteed tilt warning and you eventually end up draining one the balls with the trapping flipper leaving a huge hole in your defenses.
I also managed to do it in FJ just about an hour ago. BRUSA is obviously impossible since it lacks the center pin (not sure if possible with airbag though).
In order for a real machine to give a "normal multiball" , the ball saving would have to be programmed to launch another ball the moment the current ball rolls over a outlane trigger (instead of only after an actual drain), just like in TS!. Technically it is realistic, but I have no idea how many (if any) real machines behave like that.