Duke Nukem Forever
60 Achievements
1,205
25-31h
Balls of Steel
Earn a 1,000,000 pinball score in SP
25
How to unlock the Balls of Steel achievement in Duke Nukem Forever - Definitive Guide
Keep doing this and you can grind it out, took me about 30 mins. Obviously, if you get the first ball in that top area then you have 2 extra balls in case you mess up along the way.
Hope this helps.
Edit** In addition... Tai Jason and Ben Reynolds have both suggested trying to get a multiplier first (this is done by lighting up the 3 red lights in the middle of the board) you will then score more points and earn the achievement quicker.
This trophy is one of the hardest trophies in the game, unless you use a really easy method, but we will come back to that soon. First off you want to find a pinball machine. There are two pinball machines in the game, one in "The Duke Cave" and the strip club in "Duke Nukem's Titty City".
The first one, in "The Duke Cave", is located right in the beginning. After Duke has opened up the door with his hands and killing an alien crouching, you will have to enter a room full of training object and two aliens doing their daily workout. Turn around and you will see it to the right in the corner.
The second one, in "Duke Nukem's Titty City", is located in the Game Room. When you first enter the main room of the strip club, take a look to your left and you should see a doorway with a sign over it saying "Game Room". Enter that room and continue up the small staircase. Once up on the second floor, look to your right and it's right there.
Now that you have found your pinball machine you want to get a score of 1 million points. What you want to do is get a bonus multiplier of x2. To do so you have to hit the 3 upper dots 1 time each to make them all glow red. This can be pretty annoying, but you will get it sooner or later. If you get the time to see which dot the ball is going to hit you can flip the left flippers () to make the already lighten dots move to the left, and flip the right flipper () to make it move to the right. The reason you want to do this is because if the red dot gets hit by the ball again it will turn back to as it was before, and you will have to hit it once again.
When you have got the multiplier to at least x2 you want to catch the ball with the upper left flipper by holding the button. Now that you have the ball lying against the flipper you want to quickly release and hold . This will make the ball roll up and hit the panels to the left, then it will most likely bounce out to the right, so what you want to do now is to flick the . This will make it tilt and the ball should lay itself back to the same position again. You can tilt at most two times every shot you make if needed, but on the third tilt you won't be able to use the flippers and you will probably lose a ball. But remember to only do this each 5 seconds, or you will lose control over the flippers again, due too rapidly tilting. Repeat until you have 1 million and the trophy is yours.
If you feel that it gets a little hard to control everything with only the left hand you can go into Options after pressing and then into Controls. In there you'll see "Swap Left & Right Stick". Turn it on and you're now able to tilt the table with the . Makes it a little easier on your hands, and maybe your mind.
Credit goes to blazenarutoshippuden.
Here's a video to show better how to use this method:
Credit goes to PowerPyx.
To do this, you need to activate the three red indicators at the very top of the machine.
After this, you need to fix the ball on the upper left flipper, just “catch” the ball by lifting and holding all the left flippers (LT), now that the ball is clamped by the flipper, release the left trigger for 00, 10ms and quickly press it to set the minimum force of throwing the ball , when the ball jumps, pull the left stick to the left so that the ball can knock out all 3 cartridges to the left of the flipper, fix the ball again, launch it into flight, push the machine and catch the ball with the flipper, repeat until you get the coveted million.
Note : you can push the machine only 2 times and after that, taking a break of 5 seconds, during each push a sound signal will be heard if you have exceeded the established “shock” rate of the machine, i.e. If you have used up the 3/3 limit, the machine will stall, you will lose control of all flippers until the ball falls down, and if you start pushing the machine without waiting for 5 seconds, it will also stall.
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