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Metallica Pinball Remastered 1.0 Gameplay Stream!

Stern Pinball·video·54m 18s·analyzed·Apr 2, 2025
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TL;DR

Stern releases Metallica Remastered 1.0 with new song, wizard mode, light shows, and gameplay mechanics.

Summary

Stern Pinball hosts an official gameplay stream for Metallica Remastered version 1.0, showcasing major new features including a new Lux Turner song, the Unforgiven ultimate wizard mode, enhanced mystery awards with color-coded progression, new expression light shows (remix variants), expanded 72 Seasons mode, Hardwired and 72 Seasons scoring buffs, and refined Combo/Transformers Limited Edition mechanics. Designers John Borg and Oscar H. Ray discuss implementation details, rule changes, and demonstrate gameplay across multiple modes.

Key Claims

  • Version 1.0 adds Lux Turner as a new playable song unlocked via 72 Seasons mode item collection

    high confidence · Oscar H. Ray and John Borg on stream; Lux Turner described as unlockable via Insider Connected and challenge mode

  • Metallica now has 24 total songs with color-coordinated expression light shows

    high confidence · John Borg states '24 songs' and discusses months of light show choreography work

  • The Unforgiven is now the ultimate wizard mode, filling the gap of the only original song without a corresponding mode

    high confidence · Oscar H. Ray explicitly identifies The Unforgiven as previously unmapped song; now ultimate wizard mode with victory lap progression

  • Version 1.0 adds 132 total achievements for 1000 XP, representing a complete achievement fill-out

    high confidence · Stream commentary confirms 'full 132 achievements, 1000 XP' with IC app integration for challenge mode tracking

  • New remix light shows use entirely different color palettes from the original album art-based color schemes

    high confidence · Joe (Joe's name mentioned joining stream) explains remix variants use 'completely different color palettes' unrelated to album art

  • Mystery awards now prevent duplicate item awards during 72 Seasons mode progression

    high confidence · John Borg confirms 'you won't get duplicate items' in version 1.0, ensuring unlock path efficiency

  • Hardwired and 72 Seasons modes were buffed with increased point values in this update

    high confidence · Stream discussion notes Hardwired and 72 Seasons are 'worth a little more' with specific references to mode value increases

  • Fuel mode now uses a gentle rumble effect instead of full shaker motor blasts on every switch

    high confidence · John Borg explains Fuel mode redesign: 'every switch was like firing the shaker motor at full blast. So, now it does more of a rumble. Feels like you're actually revving an engine.'

Notable Quotes

  • “We're going to have championship of the world on uh 1.0 today. That's a lot of pressure you're putting on me.”

    Oscar H. Ray and John Borg @ Opening — Sets playful, high-stakes tone for the stream demonstration; establishes that 1.0 is a major milestone release

  • “I want more mystery awards.”

    John Borg (quoting his own early design notes) @ ~6:00 — Reveals designer intent to address community feedback about mystery award variety and progression pacing

  • “24 songs. All I know is it took me months and months to do all those light shows. The longest out of any music hit the sheer number of songs plus uh stuff very long.”

    Joe (designer/developer) @ ~8:00 — Emphasizes scope of expression light work; indicates massive effort investment in visual synchronization for music tracks

  • “Every song from the original game has a mode. And it's fun to practice it before you actually get there because when you actually get there, you want to you want to play well.”

    Oscar H. Ray @ ~11:00 — Highlights game design philosophy: challenge modes provide accessible practice paths while maintaining wizard mode prestige

  • “So, if I hit those three grave markers, because I didn't actually hit them during single ball play, the next shot I hit will actually raise them up.”

    John Borg @ ~65:00 — Demonstrates complex rule interaction design; shows awareness of edge-case gameplay scenarios and progression mechanics

  • “Now it's kind of a complex algorithm where it tries to go in a certain order, but if it can't award something, it'll come back to it some.”

    John Borg (regarding competition mystery rewards) @ ~52:00 — Reveals sophisticated backend logic for deterministic mystery award sequencing in competition mode

  • “Before it was like one Metallica letter. Now it's like two, three, four letters.”

    John Borg (discussing level 4 mystery awards) @ ~60:00 — Shows iterative tuning of mystery award values to create meaningful progression incentives at higher levels

Entities

John BorgpersonOscar H. RaypersonJoepersonMichaelpersonMetallica RemasteredgameStern PinballcompanyInsider Connectedproduct

Signals

  • ?

    code_update: Metallica Remastered 1.0 released with comprehensive feature set including new song (Lux Turner), ultimate wizard mode (The Unforgiven), redesigned mystery awards, new expression light shows (24-song remix variants), enhanced Combo mechanics, and mode balancing adjustments.

    high · Official Stern Pinball stream demonstrating 1.0 gameplay with detailed feature enumeration; designers discussing months of development work on light shows and rule refinement

  • ?

    design_innovation: Version 1.0 introduces dual expression light show variants (original album-color-based + remix alternate color palettes) for all 24 Metallica songs; remix variants use entirely different color schemes including rare LP pressing homages.

    high · Joe discusses 'months and months' of light show work; designer explains Ride the Lightning green color choice as homage to rare French pressing error; stream shows color-coordinated light choreography

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Metallica Remastered 1.0 introduces tiered difficulty settings for Combo mechanics (default/medium/hard); medium mode allows combo persistence across balls; hard mode requires same-ball pairing; enables accessibility without reducing challenge depth.

    high · Designer explains: 'The default is medium where any combos you get will carry for the whole game... hard is they both you have to do both on the same ball'

  • ?

    product_concern: Crank It Up mode was identified as underpowered relative to new scoring opportunities in 1.0; designer proactively adjusted jackpot integration and sequence rewards to restore mode parity.

    high · John Borg: 'Because of all the new scoring opportunities, Crank It Up was kind of getting left behind... I changed... when you beat a crank it up mode, you get like a 25 million award... now it will [go into jackpot]'

Transcript

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0:07
We ready? Ready. Yeah. Cool. Hi everyone. Welcome to the 1.0 Metallica release video here. You guys excited? I am excited. We're going to have championship of the world on uh 1.0 today. That's a lot of pressure you're putting on me. I know. Me, too. Especially when you stand next to this guy, right? There's a lot of new goodies in this update. Make sure to check out the readme file. Uh the big ones though, we got a new song. We have a new song. Lux Turner is finally in the game. Yes. Uh so also a new challenge mode for that. Um you can unlock the song and challenge mode via insider connected and uh there's also a new mode in the game that anyone can get to the uh the Luxerna combo challenge mode. So I don't know if we'll get to that on stream. Uh but if not, we can always play it as a challenge mode. Um so should we just fire up a normal game here? Let's go. Let's do it, guys. All right. like first.
1:04
I'll go first. All right. Check out the um expression lights. Pardon? I think Joe's joining us. Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. So, on top of all the stuff that Ray already uh mentioned, there is now a second set of expression light shows for each song. So the first the original expression light shows all the songs were the colors for them were based off the album colors for the album art and then the alternative light show remix the remix ones use completely different color palettes for those light shows. So they'll be they'll be vastly different looking even though the effect color palettes are totally different than the album art.
1:54
We also um added a bunch of new mystery awards. Um ever since we started this project, John actually one of the earliest things he had written up was, "I want more mystery awards." And yeah, it was a little light on mystery awards originally. That's awesome. Yeah. The thing with the mystery awards is like if you got up to level three or four, you were still getting things that you get at level one. Yeah. And I just wanted to make it really worth your while to get all those. You get the five lanes and you bump the mystery level up to the next level and it changes the color mystery insert and uh Yeah. So, bigger, better, and stronger mysteries. Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff. Hopefully, we'll see some of them. Um, you can see right now uh I cannot select uh Deluxe Turner, but I'm going to log in and we can play the new song also because I uh got the topper mode on a previous game. Uh I can play Justice for All. Um let's see here. Where is

  • Combos and Transformers Limited Edition pairings now persist and accumulate jackpot values across plays, similar to Tron's End of Line mechanic

    high confidence · Designer discusses Combo jackpot persistence: 'before it would always reset every time you complete it. And so now um based on the unique sequences, it actually will keep that Transformers Limited Edition ("Combo") jackpot'

  • A rare French pressing of Ride the Lightning LP with mistaken green coloring inspired the remix light show color choice for that song

    high confidence · Designer explains: 'there was a French pressing of Ride the Lightning album LP that they did there was an error pressing of it where they mistakenly made it green instead of blue' and used green as an 'homage' (noting original pressing count ~500)

  • “So, because of all the new scoring opportunities, Crank It Up was kind of getting left behind.”

    John Borg @ ~58:00 — Demonstrates designer awareness of mode balance issues and proactive rebalancing to maintain mode diversity and value

  • “I realized that nobody would ever get fade Tee'd Off Shane Black.”

    John Borg @ ~58:30 — Reflects on initial design decision that proved too difficult; indicates playtesting feedback driving rule softening

  • “You can set it Tee'd Off hard and then you really have Tee'd Off pay attention cuz if you drain and don't pair up the Transformers Limited Edition ("Combo"), then you lose the Transformers Limited Edition ("Combo").”

    John Borg @ ~62:00 — Explains difficulty scaling for Combo mechanics; shows multi-tier approach to challenge depth (medium/hard modes)

    • Lux Turner
    game
    The Unforgivengame
    72 Seasonsgame
    Hardwiredgame
    Fuel Modegame
    Ride the Lightninggame
    Sparkygame
    Crank It Upgame
    Master of Puppetsgame
    Batterygame
    Transformers Limited Edition (Combo)game
    Blackwatergame
    Grave Markergame
    Tron (End of Line)game
    Metallica (band)organization
  • ?

    design_philosophy: Designers implemented challenge modes as accessible practice paths for wizard modes; allows players to learn songs and modes without tournament/high-stakes pressure; supports skill development and community engagement.

    high · Oscar H. Ray: 'it's fun to practice it before you actually get there because when you actually get there, you want to you want to play well'; challenge modes accessible from gameplay menu

  • ?

    technology_signal: Fuel mode haptic feedback redesigned from full-power shaker blasts on every switch to contextual rumble effect simulating engine revving; improves player comfort and thematic immersion.

    high · John Borg: 'every switch was like firing the shaker motor at full blast. So, now it does more of a rumble. Feels like you're actually revving an engine. That way, your hands don't get [fatigue]'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Version 1.0 Combo/Transformers Limited Edition system redesigned with persistent multi-ball jackpot accumulation, multi-way bonus scaling (2-way/3-way multipliers), deterministic mystery award sequencing in competition mode.

    high · Designer discusses Combo jackpot persistence 'like end of the line on Tron'; explains three-way Combo bonuses 'will go up by 500k'; references 'complex algorithm' for deterministic mystery reward ordering

  • ?

    content_signal: Stern released official 1.0 gameplay stream with designers providing comprehensive feature walkthroughs, rule explanations, and design rationale; positioned as community engagement and transparency effort.

    high · Formal Stern Pinball-hosted stream with John Borg and Oscar H. Ray discussing technical details, design decisions, and new mechanics; references to 'readme file' with detailed documentation

  • ?

    product_launch: Metallica Remastered 1.0 represents a comprehensive content update milestone; adds 132 total achievements, integrates with Insider Connected for progression tracking, introduces 3 new modes (Lux Turner, Unforgiven, Frantic).

    high · Stream confirms 'full 132 achievements, 1000 XP'; Insider Connected app integration for high scores and challenge mode tracking; explicit mention of three new modes with distinct unlock requirements

  • ?

    community_signal: Designers demonstrate commitment to community feedback integration; directly reference earlier design notes ('I want more mystery awards'); show iterative refinement based on playtesting and house testing.

    high · John Borg quotes his own design notes; references 'people in house have been testing it, giving me some good feedback'; adjusts difficulty after realizing initial design ('nobody would ever get fade Tee'd Off Shane Black')

  • ?

    design_innovation: Version 1.0 introduces layered rule complexity with Combo pairing mechanics, sequence-based progression, difficulty-tiered challenges, and implicit rule interactions (e.g., mystery rewards advancing mode progress, button-triggered item collection).

    high · Stream demonstrates self-destruct button mechanic auto-collecting field items, Combo pairs triggering mode unlocks, band member level persistence across modes; designer discusses rule sheet updates documenting new interactions

    • 2:52
    Luxter? There it is. There it is. It's always the last. Yeah, there's a lot of songs. Like 24 songs. Is that how many we have? Uh yeah, 24 songs. All I know is it took me months and months to do all those light shows. The longest out of any music hit the sheer number of songs plus uh stuff very long. And they're color coordinated nicely, too. Oh yeah, I love this.
    3:25
    choreography. So cool. Oh my god. I was not. Okay, we're just warming it up. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't been able to play much of anything. Let me pull up the uh the notes here and I can highlight some more of the new goodies.
    3:51
    We got all the expression lights. We got the new luck to turn a song and mode. Got um Oh, yeah. There's a new ultimate wizard mode. So, in the previous, you know, the original game, every song corresponded to some feature in the game except for one song. Do you know what that song is, John? Oh, I'm sorry. Get up there. What song you had to pick? Destroy. There is a seek and destroy mode in the game already. The song I'm hinting towards is the unforgiven that's um never had a mode in the original game. So, right, Michael, it's now the wizard mode. The ultimate wizard mode. I was wondering why it wasn't showing up. Uh so now if you um do a whole bunch of cool, you know, a bunch of features in the game, you can play the unforgiven uh ultimate lizard mode. And it's also a challenge mode. So, anybody can access the challenge mode from the gameplay menu. Player four. Um, however, if you get to it in game, you can get to victory laps, which are more fun. U, if you do the challenge mode, it'll just end once you beat it. Um, so it kind of dangles a little carrot for you. And now, basically, every song from the original game has a mode. And it's fun to practice it before you actually get there because when you actually get there, you want to you want to play Well, yeah. Yeah. It's a really fun mode. Um, people in house have been testing it, giving me some good feedback. They like it. We won't uh I don't think we'll spoil it on the stream here. I mean, we we could, but we'll leave it up to you guys to discover. Oh.
    5:30
    All right. All right. Someone needs to get a Oh, I'm getting I'm like, why am I getting the verified here? Verified. Yeah. That's right. We uh we're all still under 10 mil here. This update also uh fills out all the rest of the achievements. So, we're at a full 132 achievements,000 XP. So, uh get out to the locations, log in, get them achievements. Didn't you add some new uh data into the IC app for Metallica with this update? Yeah, so in the progress page, uh you Oh. Oh, it's a warm-up game. Um, yeah, you can go online um in the IC app and see your high scores for a lot of the different uh challenge modes. Um, also in this update, there's this new thing, the combo set list. So, there's these sequences. You can see anytime you get one of those sequences, you'll get that uh sequence. So, if I get like right ramp, left ramp, you'd see right lamp lamp light up. And then if I play fade to black, you'll see fade to black light up. And if you get both of them, uh that's considered like a a setless pair. Um and that helps you uh work towards the new Wow. Wow. Power dream. That um lets you work towards the new Luxerna mode. Okay. All right. It's okay. We got all three. Sand um window. He does better under pressure too as they come back. Yeah. You know, ball three sometimes you could have, you know, 10 million points on your second ball and score 300 million by the time you're done with your me at home. I'm start one. I just started the game. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, unless something turns around, we probably won't get, uh, five combo pairings for Luxerna mode, but, um, in a game, you know, that you're going deep into, um, every once in a while, you just want might want to just hit some combos and see if you can light the light the new mode. It's a really, really fun mode. I also kind of beefed up some things. Hardwired and 72 seasons are worth a little more. 72 seasons. Yep. You just need to hit 72 switches.
    7:55
    Um, I guess I didn't even say how to unlock uh Luxerna. Tragic. So, it's tied. The Luxerna is on the 72 Seasons album, right? Um, the 72 Season album has like a baby's crib with a bunch of toys lying around. So, to unlock Luxerna, you need to get all of those toy items. So, you need to play the 72 seasons mode and every time you get like a little robot or a baseball bat or whatnot, um those are achievements. Um people might have noticed on Insider, why are there 15 one point achievements for each of these items and that's what they're for. So, if you get all 15 of them, uh that's how you unlock uh the Lux song. Um so, a lot of you probably already have it. Um, but if you don't, you just got to play 72 seasons um until you do. And on this update, I actually made sure that you won't get duplicate items. So, as you're playing the mode, you won't, you know, eventually you'll unlock it. Okay. Um, before this stream, I went and made sure I had all of them so I could choose a song. Uhhuh.
    9:12
    Going after grave marker. I see. I am going after grave marker. And I like to light up light your outline saves. Yeah. That and hardwired. Oh yes. I usually try to start hardwire before I start grave. Yeah. And hardwired is like I said it's um worth a lot. Um this is I only have one more shot for I know that is invisibility. I only need to make that right over. Another fun change with this 1.0 you know, is when you have the button flashing for your self-destruct button, it'll actually collect all the items that you see on the field. So, if you're really close to crank it up and you need a couple snakes and you see a couple snakes on the board, you can hit the button and that'll um that'll give you some snakes. Nice job. He's ready. I got hardwired. I would end up
    10:09
    let's fight. I got to survive a lot of great markers here.
    10:18
    I don't know if it's the best guy, right? But I really like stacking the coffin multiball with the snake multiball. See, every time I do it, I walk away with a ton of point. The snake multiball is very valuable. um especially um deeper into a game because the jackpots and all the multiballs grow based on all the different items you have.
    10:53
    Oh, if you uh have blackened lit and crank it up lit, before it would always play blackened, but now it'll actually give you the choice if you want to do blackend or crank it up. That's cool. Yeah.
    11:09
    Oh, Sparky just reminded me bunch of new speech in this update as well. So, some more uh things you have for um we have it on family mode for the stream, but adult mode um definitely has some some other good ones in there. Uh are more band members like much more mix. Uh it's a little bit of everything. Yeah, a little bit of more band member.
    11:43
    Ah, come on. You got your super lit. Oh. Oh, one. Get it. Get it. Oh, you got a good mystery lit. Oh, I love Let's show off the new mystery awards. Okay. It's over. Oh, almost. The mystery is color coded based on how good the award is. Yep. Yeah. When you bump up to a a higher level, it change color.
    12:09
    Oh, now you got it purple. Uh, red is level four. There you go. And you got hard work. Okay, here we go. Now we got to shoot all these little white inserts. All right.
    12:43
    help the goal of hardwire, right? You got to make those five flashing shots once I qualify. Yep. The five flashing circles and and each time you're hitting them, the values counting. There's one. Yeah. So, that's a hurry up value. And whatever value you collect, it adds that to your final jackpot. Hurry up. No. So, the faster you do them, uh, the Oh, I got crank it up. I got crank it up, too. Darn. All right, that's a respectable game. Yeah. Oh, you got an extra ball. Oh, thank goodness. Now you crank it up. So, that that mode just got him 12 million and you only hit a couple shots. So, um the new code definitely um buffs that a little bit for you. So, you have something to go for if uh you know, you're down in a tournament, multiballs 20 shots away. Oh, come here.
    13:36
    [Music] He's cooking up now. There it is. Nice. Uh, let's we're going to play a little bat. We're going to shock Sparky for a while. All right. All right. If you want to play this mode good, hit the white shots and especially the flashing white shots. That'll make Sparky worth um a lot more. [Music] like that. Yeah. So now instead you can hit sparky to progress the mode or you can hit the white shots to build the sparky value. So right now Sparky is only a million but if you hit some white shots he'll There you go. And the flashing white shots even more.
    14:21
    There you go. So now Sparky two and a half. Two and a half. Nice. Oh, I the the death target took me out. All right, 62 million there. Way to go. All right. Well, in case I don't do anything, uh I'll at least show off some more new stuff. Um so, if you get, like I said, if you get five of these pairings, you'll get um Luxerna. If you get 10 of them, you'll get the other new modes. So, there's actually three new modes. Unforgiven is the wizard mode, Luxerna, and then Frantic has its own multiball. Um, but you have to get 10 combo pairings. So, that's that's quite the challenge. Um, but you can do that. You'll you'll get a nice fun multiball. This will show you the unforgiven wizard mode progress. So, as I achieve these goals, you'll see letters of the unforgiven light up. Um, so you need nine out of these or however many letters are unforgiven. I think there's nine. Um, and you'll notice it says like for whom the bell tolls fade to black. To get those, you actually have to reach the completion criteria. So, you know, fade to black, you got to get it all the way black, uh, etc. That's the be all end all done. Yeah, you basically um, and you'll notice some of those said like, "Oh, please." Oh my god. All right, I'll get it next game. I I didn't know whether to nudge cuz I thought I had grace. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
    15:54
    Yeah, the Lux should turn the light show. Expression lights. Yeah, I like the way yellow and then the lights start popping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
    16:06
    Um I was going to say you'll notice on the Unforgiven it says like max band membersh that it's made a little easier now. Um because after you play Black and your band member levels don't reset. Oh, that's good. So basically it just means you got to kind of beat all the multiballs or at least play them a bunch. Yeah. Um, and then later blackens will be worth more and more because you'll have higher and higher band member levels. So, keeps the game kind of exciting. I love that. Yeah, just the intro to it is hysterical. The rules and everything. I remember that was your idea, John, to have have Sparky shock the shock. Yeah. Uh, looks like I'm cooked.
    16:53
    Oh, where was my grace period ball? I thought that was out. Oh, I needed one more target for outline ball save.
    17:15
    out there. like, "Oh, you Oh, I'll get out there." Wow. Bork before he wins championship of the world. Look at that, man. Log in. So, this is what Yeah, that's right.
    17:30
    Yeah. You'll There's um some new high score champions, too, for the new modes, of course. Uh well, I kind of want to do another one. You want to do I think so. You want to do a challenge round? I feel like we didn't or unless you want to play another game. Whatever. Whatever you want to do. Uh yeah, let's do another game. If um if we're taking forever and there's extra balls, we can Oh, I guess same order. Same order. Oh yeah. Um we, you know, if we're if it's starting to take a long time, we can just plunge off. Um nice.
    18:08
    Another uh thing I tweaked was the combo jackpot value. So before there was this stuff kind of going on behind the scenes of as you're hitting these sequences, the combo jackpots's going up. Um but it would always reset every time you got it. And so now um based on the unique sequences, it actually will keep that combo jackpot. So it's kind of like end of the line on Tron where Oh. Yeah, it can get a lot of them if you get a lot of them. Um, and I I think you can only build it single ball. Um, but also another thing is before you would just hit the right ramp and the end of line and it would go up by 250 over and over again. But now if you do like a three-way combo like left ramp, right ramp, end of the line, it'll go up by 500k. So like basically all a lot of the updates um added meaning to combo. Ready for your last meal? Oh, heavy magical
    19:13
    Yeah, it's really show show off there. There's actually I think Wow, it is not liking me today. So, you got uh this is the remix light show for ride the lightning. The reason why I picked green is there was like this error like there was a French pressing of Ride the Lightning album LP that they did there was an error pressing of it where they mistakenly made it green instead of blue. So when I needed an alternate color for this I'm like I'm going with green as an homage to the to that really rare version of the leg. I think it's like 500 or something really small. Yeah. Yeah, since legs you can find counter of them, but the original
    20:01
    I let my outline saves, but I find that alternate by the lightning show. Nice shot. Yeah, million other fellows that they'll know. Maybe they'll pick up on that, but I think
    20:26
    Yep. Oh, I also made the um the pop bumpers will now the color will match your pistons. So people, it's kind of a little known rule. The pop bumpers grow the pistons. There's like three pistons and each one corresponds to a pop bumper. And the higher you grow your pistons, the more the dead end is worth when you when you collect them. Yeah. Yep. So, if you see So, if you see a pop bumper at like red, then that means it's ready to collect at like 7x value. So, um there's uh quite a bit of just lots of little things. Again, read the uh read the read me.
    21:14
    It's a novel soon available. Yeah. Yeah. Come on now. Lock is lit. All right. You're going on a plane ride.
    21:31
    Jackpot. I do remember some years ago when Jackpot came out
    22:07
    Got some topen hurry up wanting to be collected there. Double [Music] jackpot. See this? If you get two balls stuck in there, um it'll release them faster and Oh, thank you. That happens to me at home all the time.
    22:33
    Cuz sometimes I'll accidentally backhand jump. I didn't know it on purpose. Not going to be knocked out, but you know, when you're trying to save all that kind of slap there. Oh my god. Super Jackpot at 2x. You got to get it though. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. Oh, actually, it probably would have still counted. There's like a grace. Grace. Yeah. Nice freaking shot. Electric chair.
    23:04
    Jackpot. Extra ball and Yeah, you got a lot going on. That's I do. Got to get in there.
    23:20
    And he had seven. He's still going to be there. I want to plunge off the extra, I guess. Oh, he just did it. Oh, I thought he got one. Oh, did he? Oh, no. You're right. Yep. Flashing for me.
    23:48
    So, some of the new mystery awards. Uh, let's see. We got you can award us hardwired progress. You can award self-destruct buttons. Uh, it can advance your outline saves.
    24:04
    Um, and now there's a competition mystery reward sequence. So, before even when you had competition mode on, it would be random. They never it was never a uh deterministic deterministic. Yeah. Now it's And it's kind of a complex algorithm where it's it tries to go in a certain order, but if it can't award something, it'll come back to it some. Yep. All right, John. All right. Right. I can't. Oh, are those new expression lights? The Is that the remix show? Yeah. Uh, block is lit. I think it is. Yeah. Fuel. I think so.
    25:00
    Yeah. Where's the ball at? Oh, yeah. That's something. Um, the fuel mode now. Before when you were in it, every switch was like firing the shaker motor at full blast. So, now it does more of a low rumble. Feels like you're actually revving an engine. That way, your hands don't get Yeah.
    25:26
    Yep. Yeah. So if you wanted to see all the new ones, you can just set that to remix flight
    25:55
    shows. I think Joe's the only one that got master of puppets multiball while we've been playing. I was like one shot away on last game. I had mine lit. Getting greedy trying to get hardwire going. I tried to do a dead pass and I misread the ball and but I got my outline.
    26:16
    Oh, did you see that? Back. Oh yeah, we got to do an instant replay on that. That was crazy. That was cool. I think the wind from the flipper pulled the ball out.
    26:39
    Excuse me. Have you got a volt meter on you? Ball two lock. Yeah. Oh,
    26:50
    Jacob's ladder. Oh, I got extra ball. Got extra ball. Shoot again. Nice job. Oh, your uh ramps are almost lit. Yes, I I lost my my master of puppets progress.
    27:24
    We got 72 seasons ready. Oh, there it is. Yeah, you want to hit the switches cuz if you start multiball, you won't start double spinner shot there. Darn it. All right, there we go. All right, [Music] I got two pops coming up here. Oh, double. Yeah. So, this is the mode that you want to play if you um don't have the uh insider after me to get Luxerna. There we go. All right. Well, you'll when you come out of this, you can get multiball. Yeah.
    28:17
    I'll use the ball time. I'll just try to get Oh, yeah. Sneaky ball. Oh, he's got double my ball. Yeah, you can get 4x scoring on the piston.
    28:30
    Oh, I missed the shadow. I missed the Don't go anywhere. Oh, I got the lock ball. Also, apparently an infinite ball save. Wow, that was I forgot it was in there. That was interesting. I was trying to swat. I was trying I was trying to swap for the back door shot and I drained off both the balls.
    28:50
    Oh jeez. Yeah. So you can see his pop bumpers are green and yellow. So that means he's got two pistons ready to go. Should be a good good chunk of change if you cash it out over there. All right. 72 switches. There they are. Nice. All right. That just started. Here we go.
    29:21
    Yeah. So, yeah. So, during that mode, each of those targets would have awarded um I don't know, probably four or five million. You were building up as standup. Yeah. the the switches build the standups and then the standups collect it. Oh, nice. All right. Yeah. You know what? I'm just going to go for what?
    29:52
    I'm just going to try to do combos cuz I got nothing better to do. Not falling for that one right
    30:04
    now. There we go. Oh yeah. Nice. So, that actually gave me two sequences. That gave me the right ramp left orbit sequence and the left orbit uh grave marker sequence. See if I can get to Luxerna the hard way. Come on. Engine info. All right. So, I got right ramp left loop. So, that one's done. So, if I start hardwired, I can pair those guys together. And master of puppets. Great. Let's do master of puppets. Well, actually, we can hardwire. Why not? Got out lane saves. The world is my oyster. Yes. Did you advance these in Pokeball or only single ball? Uh the combo sequences are only in single ball. All right. What did I do? Oh, I that's a new achievement actually. Target practice. I hit the the targets in order. Oh, nice. That's a good achievement. That That's hard to do, actually. It is. But I just accidentally did it. Funny. Jackpot. All right. So, I started uh what is this? Master
    31:11
    puppets. What do I need here? One more pick target. That's such a good song. Jackpot. Actually, I kind of want to drain cuz I don't I don't want to use my outline sinks. Oh, I got a self-destruct button. So, every time you complete a pair of those things, you earn a button. So, I completed the gray marker with the whatever combo. And so, actually, if I hit it now, I'll get all these snakes, which will give me the snake. So, that uh that gave you my snake automatically. Oh, nice. Uh, all right. Let's do more.
    31:56
    Yeah. And there's like 14 different sequences. So, left ramp, captive ball. That's a sequence, right? You know, left.
    32:05
    I started uh Justice. That's good. That's one of the modes. Um there's three difficulty settings. The default is medium where any combos you get will carry for the whole game. But the features you start, unless you pair them with a combo, will go away at the end of the ball. That's medium. That's default. Um and hard is they both you have to do both on the same ball. Uh let's see where I'm at here. All right. So, I want to start hardwired or battery if I Oh, yeah. Battery. Uh, left. Oh, I'm starting one is the mode that's playing right now. So, left loop, left ramp is what I want actually to lock in that combo before I
    32:48
    drain. Left roof, left ramp. That's kind of Oh, there's the 72 seasons. Look at that. Okay, get that left.
    33:27
    I don't think I hit it fast enough. [Music] Oh, actually I did hit enough cuz I got another combo pair. My button lit up. Yeah, we might actually. That's a free game. Need coffins and electric
    33:46
    pair. Actually, starting hardwired will be a combo pair as well. So, we might actually get to watch the turnout.
    33:58
    And I think I want to play battery, right? Up now. Oh, it's lit. That chair doesn't look too comfortable. Could you turn it up a little? Yep.
    34:15
    And you can get combo sequences during crank it up. You just can't do them during multiball. Get in there. Who put that scoop way over there?
    34:32
    Lady Justice is still going. There we go. All right. So, that starts hardwired. Hardwired. Start crank it up. I want to do battery because that will complete. That's all right. Oh, I got hardwired. And since I have the button, I can actually my button is orange and red, which tells me I have three buttons available, which is the max. So, actually, if I hit if I hit two hardwired shots, collect the extra ball. I can use the rest of the buttons. There we go. Now, watch watch my points explode. [Music]
    35:12
    Huge jackpot. hardwired. All right, I got to get out of cranked up now. Oh,
    35:29
    need what? Snake. Oh, it's ball two. Fall two. Ball two. Yeah, but you're right. I should have went for that. Yeah. Let's
    35:39
    see. I might have luck trying to lit on my next ball cuz I think I got [Music]
    35:47
    five. Another dimension in the game now is you used to never pay attention combos at all. And now as you're playing, you're like, "Oh, I battery let me get the battery combo." Or the other way, battery combo the battery mode. I never paid attention.
    36:05
    Yeah. And and I think the medium difficulty is a good balance where if you're just hitting stuff, uh you'll probably get the mode without too much. Um but if you want to challenge, you can set it to hard and then you really have to pay attention cuz if you drain and don't pair up the combo, then you lose the combo. Oh, that's kind of like my director's cut. Like that's how I extended, but then I realized that nobody would ever get
    36:46
    fade to black. [Music] Oh, [Music] Yeah. All right. You can escape if you want. Oh, that's another thing. So, because of all the new scoring opportunities, Crank It Up was kind of getting left behind. So, I changed um there was an adjustment that defaulted to no that I changed to yes, which is when you beat a crank it up mode, you get like a 25 million award. And by default, that wasn't going into your jackpot, but now it will. Oh, nice. So, if you beat a crank it up mode, your jackpot will now be bigger.
    38:15
    It almost is easier from a combo thing. I [Music] actually Yeah. Seal the casket.
    38:30
    Oh, nice. Stop it. [Music] all right. Thought it was on to something.
    39:13
    Nice shot. What's cooking, little guy? You going for it, Mike? You got one. Let's
    39:45
    go. Here you go. I just shoot flashing shots and I rack up points. [Music]
    39:58
    Yeah, I think that was the um the new recording of it. So, it'll 50/50. You know, sometimes you hear the one from the old game. Well, sometimes you hear a new one. So, this cool gives you some more things to listen to. Oh, come on. But yeah, that's a classic line. I think you wrote that one back. Yeah, complete Metallica and shoot the rams. I mean, we've all been skipping through the mystery animation, but um I did a lot of work to make it scroll nice and pretty. Uh the last update or the version before it was kind of jagged. So, if we remember not to skip it, you can see some
    40:39
    pretty Yeah. Yeah, there's some good stuff. Yeah, you can. At level four, you can just start late justice no matter how many letters you have. Like that's one of the the new awards. You know, before it was like one Metallica letter. Now it's like two, three, four letters.
    41:10
    That thing just grabbed it out like see it. Oh yeah. Multiplayer fun.
    41:22
    Oh Jesus. Oh no. No out lane. You like going down the same out lane twice apparently. Yeah. My curse. some achievements though. Yeah.
    41:38
    XP. Yeah. [Music] We got fuel lit and park. Oh boy. Nice. You got the fuel going. So now you can feel the nice little little rumble.
    42:10
    it made that scoop. Oh I know. It's good about that though. You can kind of avoid it. Work on those lanes. Right. Otherwise, these be falling in there too much. All right, so I don't have it lit yet. Let's see. I got to be close. One, two, three. All right, I just got to start two modes between Ride the Oh, actually, if I start ride the lightning, it'll give me both free to death and ride the lightning. So, I just got to start. That's easy, right? I hope. All right, maybe a Yeah, got to not die down the middle. I don't like how that's starting.
    43:01
    Yeah, he's getting fried. He's now all right. The kids about to ride the lightning. Yeah. So, the um the rule the rule sheet online will also be updated and kind of tell you the combos. So, if you're not familiar like oh creeping death means sparky or for whom the bell trolls means you know cop multiball or whatever. Um, but for people that play the game a lot, you'll be uh, you know, used to what the different songs do. All right. So, I just want to get that extra ball is my main priority here. There we go.
    43:54
    No, I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself. Oh, actually start working.
    44:02
    This is actually kind of an interesting uh hack. So, if I hit those three grave markers, because I didn't actually hit them during single ball play, the next shot I hit will actually raise them up. And so, now I can work on resurrect again. What's that? Yeah. Uh, I have my I have the boat lit. It's over there. Yep. Go for it. Uh, the ball is stuck. I'll wait for the ball search. I think it's on it's on the up post. Yeah, it is. Not tilting this.
    44:40
    Make the shot. All right, let's start it. right. I don't like this. I don't like this.
    45:01
    That one's even harder than the There we go. All right. So, during this mode, you get unlimited ball save until the mode's over. So, you kind of chill. Um, you do lose like 5 seconds if you drain. Um, but you basically you can um you can either work towards crank it up items if you want, but the main goal is to get combos every time you get the prerequisite uh combo level. Right now, you can see it says um combo score 5x two-way combo for next level. So, if I get two-way combo, there's a two-way combo. So, level up. Invincible. Nice. And so, it reset my timer back to 60. Nice. Oh, yeah. Now, but now look, now I need a three-way combo. So, it's you need like two two-way combos, then three three-way combos, four four-way. So, it gets harder and harder. So, eventually, you know, you'll run out. But, in the meantime, I'm getting good uh points. All my combos are scoring 7x their normal value. That Oh, no. Uh, I needed to hit this.
    46:14
    Yeah. Three-way combo. Keep it alive. One, two. All right. Captive ball will work.
    46:29
    Look at amazing. Nice. Yes. Shoot the scoop to collect the extra ball.
    46:43
    All right, she still got one more freeway. Good. So, if you really want to push your luck, you know, you could wait, you know, do other stuff and then once you're down to like 10 seconds, then go for the combo. But if you miss, you know,
    47:01
    trouble. Also, I think every um when you're down to like 10 seconds, uh just hitting like a two-way combo will add a little bit of time to kind of keep you alive. Shoot the flashing. As long as the two-way combo is um not a terminating combo, if you go like cramp or something cuz I actually could be doing these pistons. Oh, they're not. That's right. You can't grow that throw that during this mode. That would be really good. But if you built it up before this mode, you could, you know, cash in.
    47:32
    All right. How much time? I got 20 seconds. Oh boy. Three-way combo. All right. Although I'll lose. I don't think I'll have time.
    47:54
    Two. Wait. [Music] Did you get it? I I had a mega grace period
    48:08
    and but now I'm on four-way combo. So now it's like good luck. But it's kind of fun because the thing about this game is it's kind of brutal sometimes. So combos, you know, they can be punishing if you miss. But this mode, there's no reason not to go for them cuz you got ball save as long as the mode's going and you really want to go for them cuz they're worth a lot. And they reset the timer. Yes. Nice way.
    48:51
    Something like that, right? Right. So you can use it as your last shot. So if you if you do if you know you need a four-way combo and you hit three, then you can end it there and it'll count as your fourth. Same for the same for the captain. Yeah, and maybe the fuel lane. I actually don't know. I don't know everything all the time.
    49:16
    [Music] Actually, I guess I Oh, I can mystery. [Music] 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 That was a lot of points. Three, two, one. No, sorry. I miss I What I meant to say is right now to advance a level, I need a four-way combo. Oh, okay. So, the next four levels are four-way combos and then they turn to five way for the next five.
    50:12
    No, no, it's it's it's uh Well, you could go left, right, left, right, left, right, but they got to be consecutive. Yeah, you got Yeah. All right. I think I'll I'll mic drop.
    50:28
    I'd show you frantic multiball, but that might take another half hour to get to. So that multiball is really cool though. Um it basically all the the shots are lit um white and when you hit a shot it changes it from white to yellow and it hits that shot it goes yellow blue to blue green and you try to match two colors and then those become jackpot. Oh yeah. Come on multiball. Oh
    51:03
    Oh, so you're jungle lord. I see your initials on the game. I'm like, who's jungle lord? Nice scoreboard. You're around town in a couple spots,
    51:15
    too. Moments of greatness every once in a [Music] That's a free game. I don't think you have what it takes. Man, that was such I remember when we were trying to come up with what should we do for a ball save animation cuz the original game didn't have a ball save animation. It literally just said ball. And we I don't remember how, but we were brainstorming and we were like, what if you know raising the pinball from the dead, right? like a like a resurrection and Reese came up with the idea of the word right now. [Music] Yep. Mike, you helped with the original Metallica, right? I helped them uh I helped that last update, which a lot of people don't even know about. So, make sure you like cuz that update made the grave marker easier to get to and crank it crank it up way easier to get to. Yeah, I mean the Yeah. So, what's great about this remaster is all the stuff that was in that update is obviously in this one, but there was even some other stuff past that. Um, like the multiple jackpot values now are they're worth more basically based on all your items. So, if you're deep in the game and have, you know, 100 electric chairs, you're I got in trouble for Oh, wait. There you go.
    52:59
    [Music] last roll. Oh, yeah. So, the new frantic mode. So, right now it just it plays this cool music video that they let us have. Um, but if he gets the frantic mode, it'll play the conference. Don't shake the game.
    53:30
    All right. You are the master. Ah, champion. Woo. [Music]
    53:40
    Awesome. Good job. That was fun. Get your uh get your Metallica 1.0 today. Uh yeah. So, lots of new features. Um, also some new insider features. Um, if you go to the uh Metallica game on the insider page and then go to trophy room and the progress tab, you can see all the items you've collected. You can see your best combo challenge score, your best uh unforgiven challenge score. So, some new stuff was added there as well. Um, yeah, go uh play. See you guys.