BATTLE DELUXE
AKA COMBAT DELUXE

A BROKEN TABLE FROM ZACCARIA PINBALL PACK 12

Okay, so, this won’t actually be a full review. There’s no point, because Battle Deluxe is broken. The auto-plunger regularly throws the ball between the flippers. If one didn’t know better, they’d swear it’s deliberate because it’s so perfectly aimed that it goes between the flipper and the drain pin itself. This has happened at least once every game we’ve played so far. Jordi gave this a MASTERPIECE rating on Zaccaria and we don’t remember it happening this much on that platform, but this is so bad that we can’t even ballpark a rating on this build. It’s that broken and unplayable. Since it’s the auto-plunge, it’s a game mechanic that you cannot avoid since it’s part of the table’s gameplay. It so commonly kills your balls off that at one point the table threw every single ball during multiball right between the flippers, including one from a ball save. You might be able to nudge once or twice, but eventually you have to TILT to defend against this. Combat Deluxe is yet another AtGames Legends Pinball table that’s a relatively expensive piece of software ($25 to $35 for this pack) on a relatively expensive platform ($400 to $1,500+) that doesn’t work, and because it’s older, we’ll assume no patch will ever come. According to this Reddit post, Combat Deluxe has been like this for two years and counting now. So, to Magic Pixel and AtGames: have a little f*cking pride in your work, because this is shoddy and shameful. It might not be what you want to hear, but we want you to succeed, and this is the type of easy to spot fatal flaw that DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY from your product. Die hard fans who will look the other way on stuff like this are not a sustainable business model. They’ll still be there, but if you keep putting out stuff like this, you won’t be, because you’ll make no new fans along the way. Do better.
WE DECLARE BATTLE DELUXE TO BE OUT OF ORDER