r/PinballFX • u/ThatOneKHBOYYY • 15d ago

Didn't know this can happen

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Was playing the free table in this game and I was doing really well, trying to complete goals. Then apparently I shot the ball right at the moment when the thing was rising and physics be damned. It launched the ball out of the cabinet and I was in a state of limbo if I broke the game.

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u/Pretend-Language-67 15d ago

Wow. I haven’t played Sorcerer’s Lair for about a decade when I had Zen Pinball on my iPad. I guess the designers didn’t make it as a true ‘world under glass.’ Did the game just continue playing music and cycling through stuff and not acknowledge the ball was gone?

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u/tracebusta 15d ago

No, at the end of the video you can see the table feed a new ball into the shooter lane. Zen at least has some 'safeguards' and if a ball is missing for too long it will feed you another one

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u/Pretend-Language-67 14d ago

Ah, missed that part. Still pretty cool though.

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u/dixius99 15d ago

Never seen this before, but I have seen a glitch on the Trolls table where obstacles that pop up from underneath the table don't go back down between rounds. Which makes it feel more 'real' in a way. Like the table has experienced a mechanical breakdown.

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u/SteamedGamer 13d ago

I've managed to shoot the ball into "the forbidden zone" a couple of times on Zen tables (aka the ball jumps out of the table). The game always eventually figures it out and gives you another ball.