Brimstone Pinball General Discussion

[Flarp55]

Just a thread to discuss BP in general.

Terminology:

Plain bumper: The ordinary black bumper with no blades.

Shooter: Blue bumper that shoots dots.
Double-ended shooter: The kind that rotates and shoots one dot out of each of its two ends
2-shooter: The kind that shoots 2 dots out of one hole
4-shooter: The kind that shoots 4 dots out of one hole

Blader: Black bumper that has one or more blades.
Single blader: One blade
Double blader: Two blades
Triple blader: Three blades
Windmill blader: Slow rotation
Fan blader: Fast rotation

Laser: Pink bumper that shoots lasers.
Single laser: One laser
Double laser: Two lasers

Stationary bumper: Stays in one position and doesn't move.
Bouncing bumper: Bounces around, can ricochet off other objects.
Stalking bumper: Follows you around.

Aiming bumper: Aims its weapon at you.
Rotating bumper: Rotates its weapon at a fixed speed.
Non-aiming bumper: Does not move its weapon.

List of known bumpers:
Note: This list is incomplete. Please help by posting additional known types of bumpers.
Bouncing plain bumper
Stalking plain bumper
Stalking aiming single blader
Stationary rotating double-ended shooter
Stationary non-aiming double-ended shooter
Bouncing triple fan blader
Bouncing aiming single laser
Stationary rotating double laser

[Chemoeum]

I bet Adam's gonna spitfire his own names he originally came up with.

There's one aim you forgot. For the types of aims, there is fixed aim, rotating aim, and lock-on aim. There are two types of non-aiming bumpers.

Some shooters have two-directional barrels. Those ones usually remain stationary.

Stalker bumpers have exhaust pipes and engines, stationary bumpers have a... thing... under them, and bouncers don't have anything equipped that signifies their mobility type.

[Flarp55]

(05-22-2014 12:01 PM)Chemoeum Wrote:  Stalker bumpers have exhaust pipes and engines, stationary bumpers have a... thing... under them, and bouncers don't have anything equipped that signifies their mobility type.

Huh, never noticed that.

(05-22-2014 12:01 PM)Chemoeum Wrote:  Some shooters have two-directional barrels. Those ones usually remain stationary.

I thought they rotated?

[Chemoeum]

The bumpers remain stationary, not the weapon. The weapons definitely do rotate, though.

[Flarp55]

Those darn 4-shooters!
Whenever I'm in a tough situation that I otherwise would have escape, those darn 4-shooters shoot a bunch of dots at me and one of the dots inevitably spears me.

[Chemoeum]

Some shooters shoot faster, and some lasers blink from on and off.

Bumpers can also be classified as clockwise or counter-clockwise.

Some 2-shooters and 4-shooters shoot rounds faster than regular 2-shooters and 4-shooters.

Bladers can be 3 or 4 spikes in length.

[Flarp55]

(05-25-2014 03:36 AM)Chemoeum Wrote:  Some shooters shoot faster, and some lasers blink from on and off.

Bumpers can also be classified as clockwise or counter-clockwise.

Some 2-shooters and 4-shooters shoot rounds faster than regular 2-shooters and 4-shooters.

Bladers can be 3 or 4 spikes in length.

um, don't lasers always blink on/off? I've never encountered one that doesn't. What is your HS on hard? mine is 16000

[Chemoeum]

I don't even have the game, yet I am still able to contribute to this discussion. Haha

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Also, I didn't really mean "some." All laser bumpers do blink their lasers.

[Flarp55]

Evidently I have the second-highest score of all BP hard players.