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Die Hard Trilogy Preview - What if Die Hard Got a Pinball Machine!!

Mystery Pinball Theater 3000·video·1h 15m·analyzed·Nov 22, 2023
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TL;DR

Die Hard Trilogy VPX preview showcases Data East-inspired homebrew with three films, multiballs, and villain modes.

Summary

Manu from Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 and guest Astro showcase an early preview of Die Hard Trilogy, a VPX homebrew pinball machine inspired by 1990s Data East design. The project, in development for over two years, features three multiballs based on the first three Die Hard films, multiple villain modes, and a passion-project approach to rules and art direction. The stream demonstrates gameplay mechanics including lock systems, ball-save features, and an innovative out-lane replacement saucer, while encountering technical difficulties typical of beta testing.

Key Claims

  • Die Hard Trilogy has been in development for over two years

    high confidence · Astro stated: 'We've been working on it for over two years. And we were finishing up Blood Machines... in the middle of Blood Machines, and we were finishing up The Lord of the Rings.'

  • The game is designed as a '1990s Data East machine' interpretation of Die Hard

    high confidence · Astro explained the concept: 'let's make a Die Hard pin that looks like a Data East—like if they had made Die Hard instead of Lethal Weapon, kind of... if Data East had access to an LCD screen.'

  • Die Hard Trilogy features five modes, three multiballs, and two Wizards

    high confidence · Astro stated: 'There's five modes, three multiballs, and two Wizards, and it's all in the game already.'

  • The three multiballs are based on the first three Die Hard films only

    high confidence · Astro explained: 'The three multi-balls are all based on each of the... First of all, it's Die Hard Trilogy. We just ignored the last seven or eight of them that they made. So it's just the first three.'

  • The physics were modeled after Last Action Hero

    high confidence · Astro stated: 'I modeled the physics after Last Action Hero, because we had just released Last Action Hero.'

  • The right out-lane was replaced with a saucer mechanic inspired by Blade Runner

    high confidence · Astro credited Slam Tilt: 'I'm going to give Slam Tilt credit for that because I had the idea from the Blade Runner machine, because the Blade Runner machine doesn't have a right out lane.'

  • The game has a definitive ending with a final score (game over condition)

    high confidence · Astro explained: 'once you beat everything, the game ends. So there's like a final score.'

  • iSquared Dan implemented a monthly leaderboard API for VPX, a first for any VPX game

    high confidence · Astro stated: 'iSquared Dan wrote an API for us so that there will be a monthly high score on the attract that will reset every month. That's already working and implemented.'

Notable Quotes

  • “The whole concept was, let's make a Die Hard pin that looks like a Data East—like if they had made Die Hard instead of Lethal Weapon”

    Astro@ 8:21 — Core design philosophy of Die Hard Trilogy—retro Data East aesthetic approach

  • “Everything is like—we just kept referring back to the Data East era. Plastics, art, toys, everything.”

    Astro@ 17:29 — Design methodology showing strict adherence to 1990s Data East constraints and style

  • “Everyone that worked on this machine loves Die Hard. It's a passion project, and it shows.”

    Astro@ 9:04 — Highlights team passion and love for the IP, distinguishing factor for VPX projects

  • “This table just pushes the envelope for everything.”

    Manu@ 15:23 — Host's assessment of the technical and creative ambition of the project

  • “Don't punish the player... originally, that was going to kill you. Right. And then Whizball made it into a positive.”

    Astro@ 25:23 — Shows iterative design process and philosophy of positive feedback over punishment

  • “We completely separated the multiballs and the modes. They don't... stack.”

    Astro@ 34:44 — Deliberate design choice to prevent score runaway and balance gameplay

  • “You have to super jackpot all three multi-balls. If you fail to, it locks the Wizard. You can't get the Wizard.”

Entities

Manu SmithpersonAstropersonDie Hard TrilogygameSlam TiltpersonWhizballpersoniSquared DanpersonDecoypersonData EastcompanyLast Action HerogameBlade Runnergame

Signals

  • ?

    announcement: Early public preview/beta demonstration of Die Hard Trilogy VPX machine on streaming platform

    high · Extended gameplay showcase with designer commentary on mechanics, rules, and design philosophy

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Deliberate constraint-based design approach: 'if Data East made Die Hard in the 1990s' with strict adherence to period-accurate art, physics, and mechanics

    high · Astro's repeated references to Data East constraints, physics based on Last Action Hero, and decision to reference original machines for every design choice

  • ?

    design_innovation: Novel out-lane replacement using saucer mechanic (inspired by Blade Runner) that converts potential drain into positive play opportunity via hurry-up

    high · Detailed explanation of saucer replacing right out-lane, converting drain scenario into add-a-ball opportunity with DIE spell completion

  • ?

    product_strategy: Game has definitive ending (game over) with final score, preventing infinite play and requiring score optimization through bonus management

    high · Astro explained: 'once you beat everything, the game ends. So there's like a final score... you're going to have to min-max your bonuses'

  • ?

    technology_signal: iSquared Dan created first-ever monthly resetting leaderboard API for VPX games with persistent monthly rankings

    high · Astro stated this is 'a first for any VPX game' with unique name requirements to avoid score overwrites

Topics

VPX Game Design & DevelopmentprimaryDie Hard Trilogy Machine MechanicsprimaryData East Design Aesthetic & PhilosophyprimaryMultiball & Wizard Mode ImplementationprimaryHomebrew Pinball Community & Design PassionprimaryTechnical Implementation & Leaderboard FeaturessecondaryPlaytesting & Beta FeedbacksecondaryPinball History & Retro Machine Referencesmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— Strong enthusiasm from both host and designer about the project. Despite technical difficulties (VPX crashes, Zoom audio issues) and the designer's frustration with his own gameplay performance, the tone remains upbeat and celebratory. Community participation evident through chat engagement and shout-outs. Minor frustrations with technical glitches balanced by excitement about game features and mechanics.

Transcript

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Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. We're all fine here now. Thank you. Welcome to Mystery Pinball Theater. I'm Manu, and um... Yo, Astro, what are you doing? Are you streaming right now? I'm streaming. I'm literally streaming, bro. Oh, my bad, dude. I just Did you use the zoom link? Yeah man I thought it was Like for whatever Alright hey My bad Ladies and gentlemen Astro Hey Hey gang I thought we were just hanging I didn't know it was going to be like people watching That's alright I guess it's 11 Oh it's Tuesday I don't remember asking you a god damn thing I did leave that one Alright Alright And I left that one unfortunately Thank you friends So that little sketch You said leave this one I Oh wow he took a picture of Key and Peele I didn't know you could do that I didn't know you could do that So everybody We have Astro Or I have Astro Because there's no one else here Except me and Astro Astro how are you doing my man? I'm alright My For some reason This computer is like Super smooth And this one says I have a slow connection I think Zoom is Oh No you look fine Freaking out I was frozen on your stream For a little while Oh right Okay I think it's a Zoom thing though It's a Zoom thing Let's get a good look at you You want to get a good look at him? A handsome mister Maybe a tour of my computer room here Get toys and me and a candle You made all that shit, didn't you? Everything in there you built with your hands I whittled it It's all whittled from driftwood You're a talented mofo These are all McFarlane toys I bought on the internet oh really yeah every single toy on that thing there's a mcfarland i'm obsessed with mcfarland damn whittle it just a little bit i'm thinking the same thing um pirate so astro why are you here why are we here what are we doing today some premium i was talking to man man who i don't know if you guys know this man who dms me every day like much every every day and i'm like yo man I'm working or I gotta go to the store and he's like listen he said tonight he was gonna play PS2 or something I was like what are you doing tonight he's like I'm gonna play PS2 and I was like that sounds lame as hell I said you wanna just show everybody Die Hard and he was like I guess so that's why I'm here that's literally how it went by the way I haven't had dinner yet Hollywood have you had dinner Astro I had dinner yeah it's it's 11 it's 11 15 or 11 06 definitely uh lasagna not homemade like the referred like not frozen either it's like from the deli at the grocery store you know like the one that's refrigerated yeah yeah pop that baby in 20 minutes good to go and I ate a whole sleeve of Ritz and I'm halfway through my second sleeve of Ritz god damn please tell me I got this what is that yeah baby yeah baby that's the pizza resistance that's American that's how you know Terry Red Terry Red can't get that okay it's illegal it says canadian in french i didn't know american was a flavor it is no it's american cheese oh is it a cheddar cheese it's america it's american cheese so um so astro is correct in that entire story y'all may think it was made up i do dm astro pretty much every day every day and and that was whose intro sound is that sounds good doesn't it is that sonic oh shit i want to hear mine i want to hear mine do you my intro sound go how did you make that is that like ai that oh okay that is actually pinbot without the vocal um enhancements that's just so it doesn't sound like a robot yeah that's just courtney at raw raw dogging it you got court you got courtney raw bro so there you go um yeah so that is a true story i was uh you know it's happy thanksgiving by the way everyone um a little bit harder thank you marty he has a die hard on for you for man uh sonic says i also play a new pinball game today on ptpk and it's xeno tilt xeno tilt is fun so so yeah sonic i was gonna play a game called flip nick which i will on another stream because i was like yeah there's nothing going on really man why what's up and astro was nice enough to be like bro let's give people a peek at uh die hard and i was like are you serious man who's been testing it and giving really good feedback and then i thought it would be good for him to play it and have everyone watch so they could give feedback too so it's kind of like i mean and you're gonna and you're gonna you're gonna find broken things anyway and then we'll be embarrassed it's fine i'm on the front line now i feel i feel like all right hey what's up fliptronic um okay so uh yeah so let's let's take a look um so you so astro first of all this is why i'm starting without the game up because number one i want to show people the light show and the way it comes up it looks really cool um and uh i also want to just ask why can you tell people a bit about this project and why you tell us what's up man tell us what's up well we've been working on it for over two years and we were finishing up blood machines no no i think i was actually in the middle of blood machines and we were finishing up lord of the rings and uh i just got the idea like you know whenever people post like dream themes that aren't made yet everyone always brings up diehard and i was thinking to myself yeah there should be a diehard pin and then i was thinking to myself it should have been made in the 90s right like it's different if you make a diehard pin now so the whole concept was let's make a diehard pin that looks like a data east like if they had made diehard instead of lethal weapon kind of you know what i mean so uh I didn't add that font Thank you Flipstream there's a font I have to add Go ahead So anyway that was kind of the thing And then we wanted to you know Make it all crazy with pinup So it was like if Data East had access To an LCD screen So that was kind of If Data East before it was bought By Stern and current Stern Had a baby Because I thought well I won't get into That stuff but whatever so anyway is this a like is this like a you you love die hard yeah everyone that worked on this machine loves die hard yeah so it's it's it's it's a really a when you play it it's a passion project and it shows like everything kind of flows together and it's like the best call outs and it's it's it's really a labor of love for everyone involved which i think is unique for a vpx project because you know sometimes you'll get someone like joey who like loves it right and then the coder isn't necessarily in love with you know leather face or whatever it is so it's like i gotta be honest bro bro i i love joey to death but joey stopped sending me um pictures of games that have people dead and maimed and destroyed on them because i was like bro i i love you i i can't do it i i'm not i'm not that guy who likes that stuff they just get gorier and gorier. Once he figured out how to rip assets and put toys in the games, I was like, alright. Joey's hilarious. By the way, Joey has a shout-out on the playfield. So I stole the insert credits from Monster Bash idea, you know, the light-up. So they're on the playfield. And I put Joey's name in there. And then Joey was like, why is my name on there? And I was like, because you're awesome. I love you to death Alright let's stop burying the lead And I'm going to switch to this And then I'm going to make sure the game's not muted And I'm going to press start I can't hear anything anymore Manny Oh you can't hear me? It got muted somehow Are you okay? Uh oh Astro got muted I'm going to make sure I'm going to keep talking I'm going to leave and come back blah blah okay leave and come back blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah he'll leave and come back i'm gonna let him go and he'll come back um yay technology thank you paul yeah i i figured something happened on his end but we'll see and i'll start this up as soon as i have to come have to come see you see tomorrow hollywood i held the video for you oh you guys are talking about something completely different okay got it um yeah so this is super cool so yeah i've I've been beta testing. I'm sure a lot of people, there are a few other people maybe in chat who've been beta testing. I feel like, hey, thank you for the bits. 102, why 102? What's the significance of 102, Flipstream? Oh, you need the link again? I deleted it. Son of a bitch. All right, fine, Astro. Attention, Molly. Somehow our viewers have started a hype train. We are currently at level one and rising. All right. There you go, Astro. Love you, bro. Thank you, guys, for the hype train. This is really hype for a diehard, I know. Hey, let me make sure this is working. um so a couple people in the chat probably also have been um how you doing bro you back you got me hello hello hello astro astro hello hello hello i'm back all right all right yeah we in business i was stalling but i was basically saying there's a couple people probably a couple people in chat who have beta tested i my first impression of this was actually um uh what's that game with clint eastwood why am i forgetting the dirty harry dirty harry yeah that's a data east also isn't it that is a a williams table that's a williams table um yeah but that has like the gun and the whole thing, but this doesn't have a gun. But anyway, here we go. Ready? One, two, three. Press play. Press play. Everybody be quiet. Everybody be quiet. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. You crashed it already. Wait, wait. Astro, I knew that was going to happen. I knew that was going to happen. Something was going to blow up. and it was vpx i'm gonna refresh i'm gonna reboot i'm gonna reboot completely why are we even in this hobby you know i know what are these people being paid for you know what uh bill gates would say at this moment six hours later and that's six hours later yeah you say six hours later he'd say i want a new wife he would say well that's why we're not shipping windows 95 just yet you remember that remember that moment where they said melinda who that was my impression of bill case i don't remember asking you a goddamn thing or as i like to call him william pork cullis why oh that's it remember me yeah remember you were saying that my my jokes were too intellectual they are very you're just too fast for me like in the rift theater you're you you need to you need to pull back i need to dumb it down i know i know you need you really do in the rift theater especially because you won't get votes because people would be going yeah i know the people that watch you i know you gotta all right lowbrow lowbrow so i updated the beta of this and the beta that you had a nail buster create some new stuff for you guys um we'd be dumb there's this this table is pushing the freaking envelope um when it comes to um everything. This table just pushes the envelope for everything. Don't crash. Yeah, there it is. Look at that. Look at that beautiful... How do you do that? And it's Christmas! That's... That was Christmas. Christmas. This is from scratch, old Greg. I love that. Now, I've zoomed in the DMD. Astro, do you want me to zoom back out? It looks full screen, doesn't it? Well, no. I have one screen that has the DMD inside the wrong font. Fuck you, flip screen. I mean, if it's not cutting off the score or nothing, it's fine. It looks good. No, it looks good. This is how I faked Batman when we did Batman. I zoomed into the thing. Terrible scores. Tell us a little bit about this game now, Astro. I'm going to just let you talk through. So, old Greg's point, it is 100% original, but themed after, well, not themed. The inspiration was Lethal Weapon 3 and then Data East machines in general. So the art style, the sort of shots, the toys, it was kind of like if you turned it into a diehard machine out of the data. So anytime we had a question or anytime there was like, you know, you're going to see the skill shot, right? Like Manu was suggesting we need more information on the skill shot. And I sent him a screenshot of the Star Wars Data East skill shot. And I was like, this is the information on it. And then he wrote back, you know, we have modern technology and you can add more stuff. And I think I just sent him the screenshot again. And I was like, if it's not on. So, yeah, everything is like we just kept referring back to the Data East era. Plastics, art, toys, everything. Habit trails. and I modeled the physics after Last Action Hero because we had just released Last Action Hero anyway that's what it is there's five modes three multiballs and two wizards and it's all in the game already I'm going to fire this up this is so cool this is your typical that's your tie fighter yeah that's exactly the yeah it's the tie fighter going back and forth i love it all right i'm gonna try and kill this guy and then and then trap up you get some decent perks damn it you get some decent perks if you can um and they get better and better if you can um oh okay okay i doing something i would never do with this game is waste the ball save so you can talk So I can talk Never waste the ball save in this game So let's talk about... What do you want to start talking about? I can point things out on the screen, too. So the three multi-balls are all based on each of the... First of all, it's Die Hard Trilogy. We just ignored the last seven or eight of them that they made. So it's just the first three. and it's uh nakatomi plaza is one of the multi balls uh the airport slash airplane is the second one is that the that's not katomi plaza that's not sorry yes of course sorry go ahead have you seen the movie die hard i don't worry ma'am i speak jive oh good okay go ahead it's the only building on the machine Nakatomi Plaza I'm the worst person to demo this so for so yeah but it's fun though isn't it so it's on the so it's kind of like the Stranger Things or Rush or any of those where you hit the two stand up targets at the bottom of the ramp, light the lock shoot the ball into the lock and it'll kick the ball up and hang it off the side of the building until you lock three balls flip screen thank you airplane is hit the captive ball until the scoop above it is lit you lock it for a two ball multiball and then up the left side of the ramp goes up to central park and there's a oh that's my favorite this is my favorite this is my favorite so if i get the ball up there you'll see that there's a magnet and use the flippers to select which lane you want the ball to drop you got to light all three lanes and the taxi moves you move the taxi three times you get a multiball That is so cool! Yeah. Let's just start there. When you light a villain, we'll talk about villains. Okay. That is so cool. Uh, okay. Now, what I need to do is, I am John McClane in this, right? Yeah, sure. The player is John... Oh, here we go, here we go. I don't know why I obsess on that third... Yes! No! Damn it! It doesn't matter? No, the other thing to realize is those three lanes go different places. So you can use it as a ball return. So the left side drops it into the pops, the center one drops it to the left in lane, and the right one drops it into the right orbit. But you can also use it as a way to direct the ball. You know what I mean? So let's say you know You want to make the villain And you got it on the right flipper You could try to do a post pass But we purposely made post pass does not work Oh I could post pass on this Yeah you can try It's in front of all these people right now First try let's see it So you got the skill shot I got 2 million and a 7 second ball save what's up scoot i am the best goose what's up scoot oh you want me to post pass what is i want you to try you might be able to do it left right oh no shit wait wait i will do it all right you know what i'm not gonna no you know what astro i'm not gonna show the people how to do it but it could be done oh all right just yeah i'm not gonna show them i'm not gonna show them dalton could do it is Dalton here dude it's crazy that mr. scooters in the chat it's my fifth and sixth favorite streamers in one place I'll let you figure out which one's man who which was good all right I'm just gonna play right now so there is so let me light locks so boom that's one all right there's the other you know I love the airplane lock though the airplane lock is freaking baller I'm collecting bullets well that was good that was good all right we're gonna roll over the eat no we're not gonna roll over the eat because that's not the way to do it. Come on. Yeah, so one thing, it's kind of hard to see with the lighting. It's kind of high contrast-y, but on the right side, there's only one out lane. The right side doesn't have an out lane. Yeah. Kind of had a ball save. I had a ball save, and I... So you're talking about, let's do this. So there is a saucer where the outlane should be. I'm going to fire this over there on the side. And basically, if you make it in the scoop above the airplane, it'll fire it hard enough that it'll come into the inlane and shoot over that. But if it were to fall like a normal outlane would, it'll land in that saucer and kick it to the upper flipper. And that's a hurry up. So if you spell die, it lights the ambush target. And if you make that saucer, it starts a hurry up. We're stuck in the track mode. Let me do this. This is why we're still not shipping yet. This is why we're still not shipping yet. Because the game was in a track mode while I was playing. Let me do this again. the fact that the game does not have a right out lane does not make it significantly easier but it does it because it goes over there a lot bro yeah and those would all be drains yeah and those would all be drains that's kind of kind of crazy that you guys where what is that based off of where did you get that idea You know, I got to give slam tilt credit for that because I got the idea from the Blade Runner machine because the Blade Runner machine doesn't have a right outline. Right. I was playing Blade Runner and I was like, this is pretty sweet. And then I figured out that saucer mechanic, so it justified not having it. And originally, Wizball talked me out of it. Originally, that was going to kill you. Right. And then Whizball made it into a positive. He was like, don't punish the player. So the idea would have been if you spelled die and then made that, it killed you. But we changed it. So you want to avoid spelling die? That would have been what would have happened, yeah. But we changed it to... Harry's having a stroke right now. All right, hang on. Let me do some... I'm hitting all the skill shots, but I'm not making any progress in the game. And I would love for you guys to see some villain mode. So I need to collect enough... Right now I need to collect enough bullets, right? This is the part of the movie where John McClane is kind of getting his stuff together. He's thinking about what he wants to do next. He's sizing up the occasion. Oh, here's your mystery, which is cool. It goes in the elevator. Oh, it lit villain! It did? It lit villain for me. Okay, good. Yeah better to be Better to be lucky than good That's exactly right So villain is the hardest shot in the game Look at that reverse I can't post Wait a minute I almost did it Say that Aha Oh Sweetheart have I ever lied to you Sweetheart, have I ever lied to you? Our gal's the best. Let's go villain. Let's go villain right now. Missed. You guys see that flipper that's up there, too? By the way, on the next blender bake, we're moving that spotlight, so you'll be able to see the flipper better. Oh, I see. there's a spotlight covering it. It is a challenging shot. I don't think it's unfair because all pinball machines have that, I call it the guardian scoop, right? Yeah, or the scoop on Godzilla. Yeah. Oh, I got a park lock. Look, the car's moving. The car's moving. The car's moving. Look, everybody. Did you see the taxi move? Come on. Usually I get a random bounce into the... Okay, backhand. Oh, no, no. Oh, and dude, the duct way on the right side. Yeah, that was all... The lighting on that was all oxen. He came up with having it black out. Yeah, I gotta make that shot so you guys can see What I'm talking about There's the It kind of does it right there too Where it goes in the airplane Yeah There you go Oh, the reject Now if you don't want to If you don't want to do this forever There you go, there you go You can start your You can start your Your multi balls So like I'm trying to get that shot for you guys so you guys can see an actual villain attack but what I would normally do is if I take two or three shots at it I go okay forget it I'm gonna light locks I'm gonna do something else and once I think about doing something else the ball goes right in there I mean yeah I can pretty much make it every time but it's just it's just one of those shots where you gotta find it and then once you do it's like you know what I mean yeah Okay That attract mode is just like Jumping in It's totally It's totally broken now Yeah But we'll keep this train running So we're gonna keep going I'm gonna get that villain mode I'm gonna show you guys Who's the easiest villain Do you think Astro I think I know who the easiest villain is But who do you think the easiest villain is Easiest has probably Katya What The safest Do you mean safest or easiest the easiest is the detonators but that's also the most dangerous yeah okay Katya murdered me though yeah zoom keeps crapping out I can hear you again I couldn't hear you for a minute you got me okay I got you Kat Kat is probably the safest in terms of shots, but easiest is probably Hans. Hans is the easiest, yeah. Also, I know why Zoom is doing that. It's on my end, I think. So I will address that. I had to reinstall my whole computer again. So something's a little different. Let's get some locks. Let's light some locks. Let's light some locks. The game is challenging, you guys. challenging. Alright, light lock. Let's see what I can do here. I'm sure pin strats will have the wizard up before we even release it. Light lock. There's some bullets. See what I mean? You go and do some other stuff for a little while. There's a lock. Okay, so we're going to try... So if you look at the LCD screen, it's tracking his bullets. You have to fill your magazine in order to start a villain. And I believe you start with seven bullets, six or seven bullets. Hi, Jeff. I didn't see you there. And by shooting the collect bullet inserts, it gives you more bullets. And then when you get to 15, you can start. Yeah, it starts you. Oh, it starts you with 10. Well, you have 10 right now. And then you can actually combo them and get more. Yeah. Yeah, if you can get bullets rapidly, you can double up. It is dangerous, though, to put the ball in such a wild state on this game. So what I usually do is I'll do that, and I'll do that. 14. You can't spam the same shot over and over again, is what I was told. Yeah, so the shot you just made turned red. But that counted. You should have 15 now. oh and you did your hurry up so see now the villain shots lit no i'm not the reason i'm frustrated is right now i'm playing probably the worst I have ever played in my life on this game. These are the lowest scores. I was not necessarily blowing the game up, but I wasn't doing this bad. You know what I mean? We can just ball control it. It's fine. No, I'm not doing ball control. You're going to have to exit again. Oh, no, it worked that time. Yeah, because I'm a bad mofo. Let's get some lights. Let's lock some lights. Lock some lights. Let's get some ball locks while we have a ball save. So I got to shoot it into the tower, right? The left side of that ramp will go into the tower, yeah. So that ramp's like a double shot. Jesus Christ. I want it to go in the top. I don't want it to go anywhere else. You know what I'm saying? But why are you, like, slab saving it? He locked it, see? And see, the ball kicks out on the side of the building. So you lock three... It's a physical ball lock on the side of the building. You guys got virtual locks working, too, you know. Yeah, well, the park is virtual locks. Yeah. And the plane. Yeah. Okay, how many bullets do I have right now? You have ten. Ten. The save Ladies and gentlemen The freaking save Who's the man Who's the freaking man You the man I'm the man new You the man man new Oh yeah Eleven I'm doing some dangerous stuff bro You're playing pinball No risk no reward Request for fifth element table next Alright When I finish the other five I'm committed to We'll get right on to the fifth element Astro can you Can you collect bullets while you're in a multiball No So we completely separated the multiballs and the modes. They don't... But in a multiball, you can get the mystery. It's an add-a-ball. Right. Sound cut out again. Give it a minute. I'll be back. Okay. And when he comes back, I'll have my villain mode. 13. I'm going to lock another ball. I'm back. No, there's no stacking. And we did that purposefully because there are two wizards. There's a multiball-specific wizard and a villain-mode-specific wizard. And we thought that the score would get to run up if you were able to stack your mode and your multiball. Oh, also, you can only play the game once. But once you beat everything, the game ends. So there's like a final score. So for people to like really blow the game up, you're going to have to min-max your bonuses and stuff. And we haven't even gotten to that yet because he hasn't started a villain. You know what's funny? The first time I heard of a game over, and I know they exist before. The first time I heard of a game over was on Godzilla. Yeah, Godzilla does it. But what else has a game over? Is anybody in chat? There's another game that has a game over. Is it Jurassic Park? Is it all Elwynn tables? TNA, yes. Yes. You know what? I take that back. The first game that I learned that had a game over was TNA. Yeah, because TNA was out before Godzilla. Yeah. Makes sense. T2? Video games, man. No video games. No, Terry. You know, you and me are old enough to go back to the days when video games never ended. First time I saw a game over on a video game, I was like, yo, give me my quarterback, man. Uh, yeah, T2. Does Terminator 2 have a game over? We're doing a multiball. There you go. What's my goal during Nakatomi Plaza Multiball? So, it's essentially Godzilla Multiball. You shoot all the lit shots, and then... Okay. to get the super jackpot you lock a ball in the tower so you get all the lit shots and then you gotta lock a ball in the tower And then you can lock however many balls you have left in the tower And then you do it again and you can get a second super jackpot And so this is a good time to talk about, there are lights on top of the vault. That cylindrical metal thing on the left is the vault. And in order to get the vault wizard, which is the multiball wizard, you have to super jackpot all three multi-balls. If you fail to, it locks the wizard. You can't get the wizard. So you have to complete all three of them in one game to get the vault wizard. He's super close to getting the super jackpot right now. Now you just gotta shoot the tower. I believe in you. Don't believe in me! What is wrong with you? You were so close to getting the super. I was so close. I was so close. I didn't want to spoil it when it happens. I don't want people to see stuff they shouldn't see. But see the light on top of the tower turned red because you locked it. Yeah. I'm still at 14 of 15 bullets. Yo, bro. Seriously, that was the closest I've ever gotten to that super, though, right there. Well, you know what? The bullets might be broken. Remember that happened to you before when you were playing? Oh. Were they stuck? Yeah. They should be blinking when you come back. Okay. Oh, my God. 21 with no villains. Come on. Yeah, you should restart the game. It's pretty good. 21 with no villains. Three days. Oh, and this would be a good time. I don't think you have it activated, but we will add score, but eventually. We're not sure we're going to get it done before the release. It might be a patch after the release. But if you go into the script right now, you can turn on the iSquared leaderboard. That's already working and implemented. So at the top of the script, you pick a unique name. So this is a first for any VPX game, is that iSquared Dan wrote an API for us so that there will be a monthly high score in the attract that will reset every month i see your name is the astro nasty 69 69 so i change it you can change it whatever you want just know that if you make the same make it unique because if someone else has the same name it will overwrite your score you know what i'm saying oh so don't make an mpt3k because someone else is going to make it yeah but it'll only matter if they beat you it'll just look like You scored it. You know what I'm saying? Should I throw some numbers in there? It doesn't matter. Oh, we're back. Alright, I'm just going to keep it... I'm going to keep it MPT3K... 3K. MPT3K 3K. mtc3k 69 69 69 like you did mpt3k one two three four five i actually didn't do that scampa did that one two three four five it's the same um it's the same code i have on my luggage what um so this this this game consists of three diehards or two diehards three diehards is in this game three because it says trilogy because i'm an idiot um how are you guys getting five villains out of three diehards did i miss something have you not seen the movies i saw diehard i don't remember asking you a goddamn thing hey thank you no that was for you astro um i saw die hard one and i a lot of times i may have seen normal we're all fine here now thank you so the two the two from the first movie are hans and uh carl the guy with the gun and the blonde hair on the left there right so hans and carl and then simon and katya are from die hard three and then colonel stewart is from die hard two Oh, okay. There you go. Okay. All right. I got you. That should be a... Oh. Yeah. So speaking of Scorbit, your best friend in the whole world is doing the achievements, right? This is going to be probably the first table to have actual achievements. as opposed to those lazy ass pink credibles who didn't do achievements this is going to have them those pink credibles man that's what they're known for their laziness I know the shortcuts you know as well as I do Astro that they're probably not working on anything right now When they made Batman 66, they were like, we'll just throw some numbers in there. That shot is so hard. My God, that shot is so hard. We'll just throw some numbers in there. It's not a big deal. It doesn't need to be super accurate. No. Manny went and played it once, took some notes. I did. I rented it twice, but I only played it once. Okay, here we go, guys. Fishbowl was like, could you drive back there? And he said, absolutely not. You got your nose. I'm so try-harding right now. Oh, I got the sneaky lock. The little sneak in. The little sneak in from the back. I would love it if you could start a villain right now. I would, too. The two of us would. No, I'm up. Oh, I was in Central Park for a minute. I had to go visit Central Park. Boop. It's hard to get control of the freaking ball. Gotta live catch it, man. Maybe the mystery again? I'm missing all chat. Maybe Manna needs to watch the movies for homework. Yeah. Well, I don't need to watch Die Hard 1. I remember Die Hard 2 was on the airplane, but I don't think I've ever seen Die Hard 3, believe it or not. And I saw one of the... That's the one with Samuel L. Jackson. You haven't seen that one? That's the best one. Samuel L. Jackson is in the Die Hard movie? Yeah. Haven't you noticed the clips of him playing? So yeah, we got the villain. Look, there's a picture of him. If you look next to the lock, see the airplane lock that's blinking? Yeah. You see the guy holding the water jug? Oh, there he is. Samuel L. Jackson. How was it possible, Astro, that I was giving you guys any feedback on this game at all that you said was useful? You said that earlier in the stream. No, he was giving us – so we already implemented some of them. The player up on the skill shot, the red blink, we added making the end score longer. Pinball stuff, not diehard stuff. So anyway. Three days late. You pick somebody. So five villains, you get to pick the one you want with the flippers. And then after you select one, so pick one. Well, okay, I'm going to pick Hans because he's easy to me. All right, pick Hans. Should I start? Okay. Well, you got to pick. So now you get to pick die hard or die harder. So with die hard, if you fail the mode, meaning the timer runs out, you get to keep your ball and keep playing. But there's no permanent reward. If you do die harder, you fail the mode, you will lose your ball. The flippers will die and you will drain. So you run out of time? Right. So if you run out of time, your flippers die. Yeah. But if you complete die harder, you get a permanent bonus for the rest of the game. And in this case, it makes your mode timers longer. Mode timers longer. So this is why I start this guy first because the other ones can get easier if you can do this. Yo, yo, when you play this, guys, don't listen to Astro. Always die harder. Don't do this die hard. No. No. Right, Astro? If you get the detonators before the time runs out, sure. Why would you bother dying hard when you can die harder? Let's go. Because you can try again. All right. Let's go. Add more time. Add more time. There we go. Well, in this case, it wouldn't have mattered. Died either way. Yo, that ball comes out of that thing hot, man. I forgot. We did a full-ass orbit. can i play hans again or no yeah so the villains are repeated are repeatable until you beat them and then they're not the multi balls are not you can only play the multiball once well let's try another thing then i'm gonna try i'm gonna try and get um the multiball up at the top where um what do i have to shoot to get up there i keep forgetting the left side of the ramp right? Yeah. So the ramp, it's kind of hard to see because it's a little dark on the stream, but the ramp is split in two. So the left side of the ramp goes up to the top, the right side of the ramp blocks a ball, which is what just happened. And what's cool about it is the ball can also go crazy. Like, if you hit it weird, sometimes it'll fly up onto the habit trail, sometimes it'll just jump over into the pops, so it's a little unpredictable if you hit it wildly. See, there's certain games that like to be like... So some games are okay with you trying to trap every time. And some games really don't like that. Like a game like Ghostbusters really doesn't want you to be trapping. Which is ironic since there are ghost traps in the game. That is correct. I'm trying to hit that shot now and it takes... But you're saying you have to complete Central Park three times? so that's like a long that's a long kind of long game kind of multiball that is going to be out there right but we kind of figure we kind of figure that you would except the mystery can give you one okay and then and also if you're real suave about it you can get more than one light while you're up there you can? if the ball starts to fall you can get it to trigger and then you can pull it back up with the magnet. Oh, that's hard. I can't even. I'm just saying, you can. It's possible. It's possible. So you guys have done it. Okay, I got you. I got you. Let's see. I'm going to keep trying, you guys. You guys, this is Astro. He's the designer of this particular game, along with the amazing cats in the VPW team. Yeah, so I can shout out everybody real quick. Yeah, please do. So the game started with me. It was my layout that I had drawn. Like, I hand-drew it out on paper. Then I hooked up with Daphine, and Daphine started to implement my drawings. And then Daphine and I kind of went back and forth until we came up with this. So it's a collaboration between us two for the final layout. And then originally Fluffhead was coding it, and then Fluffhead got busy. so Oxen was helping and then eventually we landed on Wizball who made Shovel Knight he did all the heavy lifting on the code he was very adamant that he didn't want to do anything but the code so we'd be like what do you think of this look he's like visually I don't want to be involved at all and we were like okay he gave us a lot of a lot of positive positivity. The game used to be really mean. When I designed it, I designed it to be awful to you. And Wizball was like, this game's too mean, you need to make it nicer or people are going to hate it. So that's why we got rid of the ambush killing you and he made it easier to collect bullets and things like that. Originally you were going to lose your bullets when you died. He got rid of that so now you get to keep your bullets, it doesn't start over, things like that. um then oxen came in did all the light shows flux did uh it was gadank and flux together and um cyberpez all did blender work apophis has been helping out um six toe was helping out yak he's gonna do a mirror on the back wall for us that's missing by the way that's not in the game yet the back wall is going to be a mirror right um rod did the vr room by the way guys the vr room is sick it's the roof of nakatomi and there's a helicopter that flies around it looks incredible rod outdid himself built it from scratch nuts um i sent him like a 3d model and he's like this isn't gonna work i'll just build it from scratch and i was like all right oh wow really yeah um so yeah i'm like full-on vr so you know for me it's it was important to have a cool vr room i got rid of my stand-up cab so i just use a stubby with my vr headset now hey can you send me like just your vp18 directory because i can't get my vr to work 100 Oh, yeah. You know I got you. I'm going to have to cut you. Oh, you should do her last, though. Did you see what her reward was? Yeah, double score. Double your current score. I just noticed. She's Quill. She's Quill. She's Star-Lord. Double your current score, guys. I need orbits. Mr. J. Crane wants the game to be mean. He wants the mean Astro Nasty edition. Oh, really? It's already mean. The way that comes out of there is very mean. Give me more time. Oh, I got one X on my playfield. So Astro, this is probably going to die. Okay. oh yeah so uh the playfield multiplier i didn't talk about that yet all right all right i will i will get your game bro this is not going to defeat me i will learn it i listen to me astro for a minute i will learn this game i i have it i have not seen you complete one drop catch and they're pretty easy from the Orbit. Just throwing that out there. Just saying. I want some feedback. I will do this. This is one of those games where when I was, when I am still testing it, when I was testing it, I would play a game and I go, all right, let me try one more time. Let me try one more time. See, this is just me holding the flippers up. Don't hold the flippers up in this game at all keep them down um um one more game i got this i can do one more game i can do one more game i learned hans and i learned katya a little bit i don't even know what the other cats are all about like i'm not even how do you get playfield multipliers i was about to tell you that so the three drop targets you see the three drop targets in front of the pop so if you drop the three drop targets, it lights the playfield multiplier insert, and then if you hit the pop, it gives you two. And then if you do it again, it gives you three. It's like Game of Thrones. It's like the battering. I'm going to give everybody a nice close-up of the playfield, and we're going to light it up. I know it's sideways, but so right here, there's three stand-up targets. So go ahead, say that again. You drop the stand-up targets, and then it'll light the playfield multiplier, which is blinking blue right now. And then if you hit the pop, it'll activate the two times. If you do it again, it'll activate the three times. There's a timer. You know what I'm saying? It's exactly like the battering ram. And then one of the modes, I think it's Colonel Stewart unlocks. It might be. It actually might be Carl. I forget which one. One of them, their reward is it unlocks the four and five times. Oh, wow. The Die Harder. I think it Colonel Stewart because Hans gives you more time Yeah So Stewart then it either Stewart or Carl one of them Gives you It unlocks the four and five times And then your scores go nuts. So if it were me, I would probably do... Stuart first. Because those playfield multipliers work during multiball. Damn, I keep the flippers up so much. I haven't had dinner. I told Hollywood I haven't had dinner. I shouldn't try to attack this game with no dinner. What's the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken? Colonel Sanders unlocks the 12 herbs and spices. Let's see if I can light a playfield multiplier. I'm just going to try one thing at a time every time. Let's see if I can light a playfield multiplier. You know what my favorite part about this whole machine is? Are the police cars. That was like a crazy idea I had for the slings. And I was like, what if we added like matchbox car looking police cars to the slings and put the flasher inside of them? You are on your way to develop to being a... It looks cool as shit. I love that right there. And Frisco, I forgot to mention, Frisco, he did all the sound effects. Like, you know, the backbox. And only about half of them are in. Like, we're going to add sound effects to the slings, to the... Like, everything that should have sound effects that currently doesn't. Right. Like, rollovers. Man, I can't hit that one. That one. That one. It says play field. Okay, I got it. You have two times right now. Oh, wow. This is a whole different strat. You just got three times. This is a whole different strat, you guys. I got three times nothing right now. I've got nothing going on. Let's see if I can get into a multiball. I got nothing multiplied by three. Come on, Manu. What do I have to do? Go ahead. One thing we didn't talk about was the The holly targets So the five stand up targets spell holly As well as collecting detonators You know And that gives you a ball save Oh It's like on the LCD It spells holly Yeah And those are from the small stand up targets I knew that and I completely forgot it Yeah So your holly targets are Where did I put my glasses Your holly targets are H You don't want to know paladin H L We have L L We have an L there We have an L Oh two L's L L and a Y Right there Cool I do though I think the vpx file right now is like 350 megs and then the puff is like 1.1 gigs it's massive it's pretty big yeah oh we got start villain ready so let's do another let's do one more villain if I can man that god damn it trust me i've hit that shot many times tonight i just it's just not happening yes anyway we are uh we are pushing for getting this to you guys by christmas so hopefully it'll happen that was a nice picture of your beanie i know so you're saying uh you're pushing for christmas how far away do you think you are christmas yeah yeah um but it's pretty close it's pretty close yeah i mean it's it's playable it's amazing it's it i'm it's it's weird i'm so i do my best when like someone very knowledgeable about the game is like talking to me in my ear literally so i thought i had a good handle on it um and you just told me a bunch of stuff that i kind of didn't know like i didn't even know that the central park does actually feed to different places i managed to get it to come down this wire ramp right safely to the flipper yeah that's the center would i would I choose that all the time? Maybe not. Maybe I wanted to drop at the pop so I can get my playfield multiplier. I just played a different game. The pops are for Carl, which you weren't doing, but you fight Carl. And you have to hit the pops to damage him, so you would shoot it up there. But also there's that left habit trail you probably didn't even notice it only works during uh nakatomi plaza actually it might work in a couple but see that left habit the left habit trail so yeah instead of there's a diverter inside the tower so if it doesn't need to go to the park it diverts it down there back to your flipper down this way right yeah exactly that one instead of going i was i was trying to figure out when it now like i said when i said i was beta testing i've only been beta testing for about a week right Can you say like maybe a week? Was it a week or two weeks? I don't know. Maybe it was a week or two weeks. So, yeah, the game is deep. There's a lot packed on the play field. The one thing I really like about the play field too is, you know, the DMD is nice, but all your information is on the play field. So once again, it stands up to the, you know, Manu, Terry Red theory that all the information should be on the play field. And everything Locke related is green. just like it is in pinball yeah which i realized i heard you say that like on a stream like a year and a half ago and then and then i was like all right anytime anything's lock related it's got to be green because man who said so well what's what's crazy is that i see the central park locks are green i so i didn't even follow my own your own advice yeah the whole the whole park is green I'm gonna do one more game and I'm gonna let you guys ask hey StadiousRhyme what's up it's two star we're gonna wait for our Bambi our Bambi review that's my favorite review I ever got was my two star on Lord of the Rings hey StadiousRhyme how are you let me turn that back on so you guys can listen to some of the cool sounds that airplane lock I love it I love it when the airplane goes up yeah the airplane's on like a piston and it raises it when you lock a ball I got that idea from the best toy in all of pinball you know what it is little deadpool nope greatest toy ever, highest budget, best toy ever put in a pinball machine. The Godzilla Tower. Nope. It's the Angel and Led Zeppelin. That's... Highest budget toy ever conceived for a pinball machine. Which also could be seen on Cactus Canyon. That's the beer mug. Not the Dildo and Bond. Not the Dildo and Bond. And also in Elvira. Party Monsters. They were like, we're not going to make the blimp move. We'll sure as shit make the angel bounce up and down. Welcome, Raiders. What's up, Fiend? Thank you for the raid. I thought you were being serious. Yeah, it's like a dude on a stick. Yeah, it's a dude on a stick. I love it. Fiend, thank you for the raid. That's the big mech on Blood Zeppelin. Name another mech. Well, there's the whole thing that comes up in the middle Yeah, but that's only on the premium The premium, yeah I've never seen a premium I've only seen a pro We've got a premium at Free Go Watch Listen, Led Zeppelin is kind of a fun game though It's a little over It's weird, but It's not as bad as people say It's weird, yes it's like sexy ugly sexy ugly yeah it's like that you know that person you saw in school whether you're a dude or a girl who's like they're a little weird looking but I'm really into them you know what I mean but you would but you would you definitely would yeah yeah they're weird looking but I would who am i kidding you would this is the kind of stuff you would never hear george gomez say in a in a pinball premiere hey george george you remember that that girl in high school that you know she wasn't that good looking but you know you would george would be like oh yeah yeah i know exactly trust me god knows i know okay there we go there we go there we go you guys can all leave it's just gonna be me and astro just saying stupid shit for the rest of the stream so thank you for joining here we go pick somebody astro for our final villain do carl because then you can see the fight bars i made okay carl with the fight bars there we go yeah i made it like all that the adam driver effect We dying hard, we dying harder Oh yeah, so it must be Stuart Is the unlock the multiplier Because that's Max and Ebaldon Carl's is the worst Alright We're gonna die harder How do I feed the pop? I told you It's the upper it's the left shot on the upper playfield. The left exit is the best way. I kind of get up there. Oh, I just hit the pop once. Yeah, you can hit it from down there too. So essentially, McClane's health bar is a timer. And then the more shots you make, you damage Carl. So it's a race, basically, to add more time. So see, McLean's health went back up Shoot I'm so glad that's not a drain It went around the pop bumper Center Oh, not center Well, the spinners also hurt him It's the left side on the upper plate It's the spinners and the pops I see he just damaged him There you go Die motherfucker Yippee-ki-yay motherfucker Left side left side right Yeah yeah yeah Boom pops Yippee-ki-yay motherfucker Oh you're tearing him up You're tearing him up You're tired right now Left left left left left Oh, I did it! I pulled it out! I pulled it out! I pulled that shit out, bro! You beat him! Yeah! I don't care about the drain! You killed him! That's a good thing to end it on. Nice. Congratulations. Aren't you glad I told you about that trick up there? that was a 12 that was a 12 million bonus so this is the actual we based this on the actual like punch screen at the beginning of the movie when McClane enters Holly's name in the directory bro oh my god talk about exhilarating oh my god that was amazing Okay, so did you ever imagine a game that you designed made someone go batshit crazy on a stream? Would you ever imagine that that was that's where we're going? Yeah, man. I want to see the ice cord bleeder board. You should be on it now. Nice. I'm going to look at that one more time. Check this out. You're tearing them up. You're tired right now. I pulled it out from Central Park. I pulled it out from the wrong one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, I did it. See, that's what I was talking about. If that was during regular, you would have lit two lights there. Oh, man. You know what I'm saying? Is that just the line of code in the table last year? Is what just the line of code? Oh, I don't think you turned it on. What? You changed the name, but you didn't change it to true. Oh, I didn't change it to true. All right, that's okay. You know what? You know what? I have another score in here. It's like 55. I'm going to get that. Yo, slowly but surely, guys, you're going to have a really good Christmas when this comes out and you get to flip this. What's Marty asking? He said, is that just a line? But what is what just a line of code? Oh, I guess I scored. Whatever. It's a script option at the top to turn it on. Yeah. Guys, this Christmas, look forward to... I don't want to stick Astro to this particular date. They're shooting for Christmas. The game looks amazing. Hopefully we'll have a good Christmas, huh, Astro? Maybe. You know? my Christmas gift will be finishing the fucking thing at this point I'm just like I'm just ready for it to go out the door you're just ready you've been working on this what two years like yeah two years and like three months something like that it's crazy that's why I warn anytime someone's doing an original I warn them I'm like you know a fully featured original you know like yeah obviously a reskin or doing something with just flex is a lot less work but this was like this is probably the most ambitious vpx project yeah i agree i agree the first time i fired this up i was like what what what game did they get what game did they just rip off it's no it's fully 100 original all right astro thank you so much for letting me do this this was great everybody have a great thanksgiving and i will not see you thursday because i'm gonna be because i'm gonna make love to my wife what's that from that's from clue that's from clue baby all right you just gave away the end of clue congratulations just one of them just one of them ruined it i'm gonna go home and have sex with my wife all right kids thanks see you later have a good thanksgiving you I feel nauseous, believe me Never had a lot of shit come easy Had to work hard, struggle just to be me Had to rise up just so they could see me Did what I had to do just to feed me And what was left over I put towards my dreaming but the only thing in life that has meaning are the things you gotta work for believe me take into your hands a plan your own hands can land your own brand and damn i feel like no one takes accountability they want the credibility convincingly unwilling to put in the hours it takes to get some power but we can sour take a cold shower yo everybody we're gonna go and raid our buddy Sarvets. You just got to be ready for Sarvets. He's a genius. He's funny. And no apologies. He's straight up desktop twitcher. Have a great Thanksgiving, guys.

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    high · Multiple references to 'we're still not shipping yet,' attract mode issues, bullet-tracking bugs, and planned patch notes

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    community_signal: Design feedback from community members (Slam Tilt, Whizball) influencing game direction; passionate team with shared IP love

    high · Astro crediting Slam Tilt and Whizball for design improvements; designer noting all team members 'love Die Hard'

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    gameplay_signal: Challenging villain shot requiring strategic planning; post-pass mechanics intentionally disabled to prevent skill exploitation

    high · Astro demonstrated 'post pass does not work' by design; villain shot described as challenging but not unfair due to guardian scoop

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    content_signal: Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 hosting early access preview stream with designer present, building community anticipation

    high · Live demonstration with guest designer, real-time gameplay feedback, chat engagement, and promise of future detailed analysis

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    licensing_signal: Die Hard film trilogy (first three films only) used as VPX homebrew theme; no indication of official licensing

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    product_concern: VPX platform instability during demonstration including crashes, attract mode issues, and bullet-tracking bugs

    high · Multiple crashes during stream ('You crashed it already'), bullet counter stuck at 14 of 15, attract mode bugs, incomplete scoring implementation