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Steam News17 January 20206y ago

Update 7 - Kraken Rising

Ahoy fellow Pinball Lovers! What's new A new and colorful UI, the pause screen now displays the main missions' progress and more stats than ever. The Kraken shows it's true tentacles.

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What changed

3 fixes5 additions6 changes0 removals
  • UI and audio
  • Gameplay
  • Compatibility
addedWhat's newA new and colorful UI, the pause screen now displays the main missions' progress and more stats than ever. The Kraken shows it's true tentacles. New and improved portrait cameras and settings. Oh, and you'll be happy to know that the Adventures are now a bit easier to reach.
addedUpdate 7 - Kraken Rising - Patch Notesnew, improved and beautified UI
addedUpdate 7 - Kraken Rising - Patch NotesWindows desktop display orientation can now be set for the duration of the game via command line arguments (Properties/Set Launch Options...) e.g. rotate the main display by 90° / to portrait: -rotate 90 rotate display 2 by 270° / to portrait (flipped): -rotate2 270
changedUpdate 7 - Kraken Rising - Patch Notesimproved cameras: automatic portrait/landscape switch, camera saved per orientation, better handling of aspect ratios for all cameras, orientations and screen sizes, select aspect ratio constraints (16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4).
changedUpdate 7 - Kraken Rising - Patch Notesdynamic mode for portrait cameras
changedUpdate 7 - Kraken Rising - Patch Notescamera selection now properly filtered and named according to orientation portrait/landscape

Pinball Wicked changes

addedA new and colorful UI, the pause screen now displays the main missions' progress and more stats than ever. The Kraken shows it's true tentacles. New and improved portrait cameras and settings. Oh, and you'll be happy to know that the Adventures are now a bit easier to reach.
addednew, improved and beautified UI
addedWindows desktop display orientation can now be set for the duration of the game via command line arguments (Properties/Set Launch Options...) e.g. rotate the main display by 90° / to portrait: -rotate 90 rotate display 2 by 270° / to portrait (flipped): -rotate2 270
changedimproved cameras: automatic portrait/landscape switch, camera saved per orientation, better handling of aspect ratios for all cameras, orientations and screen sizes, select aspect ratio constraints (16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4).
changeddynamic mode for portrait cameras

Ahoy fellow Pinball Lovers!

What's new

A new and colorful UI, the pause screen now displays the main missions' progress and more stats than ever. The Kraken shows it's true tentacles. New and improved portrait cameras and settings. Oh, and you'll be happy to know that the Adventures are now a bit easier to reach.

Update 7 - Kraken Rising - Patch Notes

  • Tentacles! Visible in "Action" mode by default, you can enable these for "Pure" via the "Kraken Mode" options in Settings->Operator.

  • new, improved and beautified UI

  • Windows desktop display orientation can now be set for the duration of the game via command line arguments (Properties/Set Launch Options...) e.g. rotate the main display by 90° / to portrait: -rotate 90 rotate display 2 by 270° / to portrait (flipped): -rotate2 270

  • command line options for Player Count 1-4 (-Players 3) and Game Style (-PureAction 0)

  • improved cameras: automatic portrait/landscape switch, camera saved per orientation, better handling of aspect ratios for all cameras, orientations and screen sizes, select aspect ratio constraints (16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4).

  • dynamic mode for portrait cameras

  • camera selection now properly filtered and named according to orientation portrait/landscape

  • improved thumbstick/analog plunger control

  • seamiles increased by 20% for all lanes/ramps

  • Online System to support current and upcoming features

  • EULA and Privacy Policy are now presented on the first game start in addition to the already existing confirmation dialog before the game's installation which is presented by the steam client

  • feedback: you can now message us directly from within the game, which is especially useful for bug reports as this will transmit some debug information (e.g. ball states). This is currently one way, so if you want a reply please use the other support channels, too.

  • fixed: Buccaneer Frenzy achievement

  • fix: using Alt+Enter to switch from windowed to fullscreen will now use only valid resolutions as fullscreen resolution

  • fixthe available resolutions are now always properly detected when using multi monitor setups with different diplays

Pinball Cabinet Support Addon

Multi Display / Window Support

The pinball cabinet support addon (beta) is a special offering which you can request directly from us. You can find the request form in the Addons menu of the preview build. This feature does require online activation and is currently available for free.

A backglass and a dmd window can be configured via the settings menu after activation. Custom background images can be added to the folder %LocalAppData%\PinballWicked\Images

Special Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to check out the preview on the experimental branch!

Stay tuned! Have fun! Flip out!

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Steam News / 17 January 2020

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