Speaking of Pinball Arcade, when I finally got into virtual pinball about 10 months ago Pinball Arcade was what I first came across on Steam. Previously over the years virtual pinball just wasn’t good enough to hold my interest for very long. But once I started playing PA I have really enjoyed it the past 10 months.
When I came across Visual Pinball after PA I decided to give that a shot as several good folks on pinballarcadefans recommended it. With the inevitable growing pains (wanting to punch my monitor trying to get the dang thing working) but eventually I was able to get it to work. More growing pains as I was learning to be able to manipulate tables, deals with all of the errors, all of you have experienced this to some degree with VP. When it came to VP9 tables it was great playing tables that weren’t available in PA. However between the physics of VP9, and then the addition of DX11 lighting in the summertime for PA, Pinball Arcade was my pinball of choice and I only played VP occasionally.
However with the emergence of physmod and now VP10 beta, I have started to swing back to preferring VP. However with the release today of Judge Dredd on PA I decided to give it a run though. I used to think that PA was the superior product but with the lastest workings on VP I think it has pulled ahead. Playing JD on VP I had gotten used to the superior physics of physmod and VP10. The ball is more floaty in PA and I am having a hard time going back to it.
I honestly think that PA is just tailoring to the more casual pinball crowd that doesn’t necessarily want to have ball drains every 60 seconds. I don’t think PA is any way a substandard product to the newer workings of VP it’s just the way Farsight has decided to build the game. Which is fine. With VP10 beta the graphics are also on par with DX11 PA in my opinion. Taking a screenshot of first PA’s Judge Dredd and then a version of VP10 beta they book look good.
I am not trying to derail the thread just had some random thoughts on PA and VP.
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