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Balls of Steel

Balls of Steel

Earn a 1,000,000 pinball score in SP

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How to unlock the Balls of Steel achievement in Duke Nukem Forever - Definitive Guide

The key is the upper left flipper and tilt... hold down the left flipper and bump the ball into play then try use tilt (left analog stick) to tilt the ball into the path of the upper left flipper. Once you have the ball under control (not moving) in that left flipper area gently flip it up to knock down the 3 switches just above it, once all 3 are down you get around 5000/6000 points and the switches reset after a second or two. After flipping the ball if it's spinning away then use the left tilt to keep it in that top left area. As long as you take your time and only tilt once/twice between flips you should be fine in avoiding the machine locking up from using too many tilts.
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.
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10 Jun 2011 02:50

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Thats the way! Did it the same way with a 2x multiplicator. So it was faster finished! Perferct and very easy achivement! I lost no ball with this trick!
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By TAI JASON on 11 Jun 2011 00:59
Yup I figured this out and had the cheevo before any one ever posted any solutions on it. And without this method GOOD FLIPPN LUCK!! EASY CHEEVO!!!
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By CrustyDirtDemon on 11 Jun 2011 19:10
Managed to get 850,000 without even trying yesterday. Tried to do this method today, but I just can't get all the combo buttons down. The physics are too random and it all seems to be based on luck.
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By citizentone on 12 Jun 2011 21:02
Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll edit the guide to suggest trying to get some multipliers first.
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By Mr Heathcliff on 13 Jun 2011 18:26
I tried it for 2 hours ... I wanted to give up but then I became a 6 x multipler and few minutes later bleep blop
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By I HawK I Slip on 14 Jun 2011 13:53
class guide, would never have got this cheevo without help, cheers.
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By o Heres Jonny o on 15 Jun 2011 10:54
Same here. This guide made it SOOOOO much easier!!!!!!!!!!! It took me a bit to get the combo going, but once I did, the points were flying!!! THANK YOU! XD
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By Fall of Zebes on 16 Jun 2011 08:14
Can you do this on either pinball machine?
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By Predalien90 on 16 Jun 2011 15:43
I feel this should be noted within the solution itself. I was having a hell of a time with this, spent hours of annoyance on this achievement because my tilt would randomly stop working or it would send the ball to the right instead of the left.
Note - If you're using an old worn out controller where the joysticks can be gently moved without much pressure this achievement may become a hassle with this solution, the worn joysticks will strongly mess with tilt and it will be noticeable fairly quickly. Once I took out a new controller that I luckily had laying around with perfect condition joysticks, this worked perfectly.
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By Skurkitty on 16 Jun 2011 20:26
Thumbs up! I love me some pinball, but 1,000,000 on this table is next to impossible.... except for this trick lol
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By Joker7175 on 17 Jun 2011 03:20
Eventually got it but now I REALLY hate pinball. Thumbs up for the solution. Pressing LT/RT to move the multiplier lights as Ben Reynolds mentioned is what i used to get a relatively more easy 4x multiplier, which made the grinding a little bit quicker.
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By Grootbuster on 18 Jun 2011 12:20
After scoring 998,550 points and screwing up my last ball I lost. So one broken controller (thrown against the wall and shattered), 45 minutes, and a ton of frustration later... Thankfully I got it.
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By BlindAres44 on 18 Jun 2011 20:43
Excellent solution. Now I can say "I've got balls of steel!" and it's actually true.
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By Chardcore on 19 Jun 2011 04:43
I never knew I could hate pinball, thanks Duke. Also great work with this solution worked like a charm.
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By mcnolty on 20 Jun 2011 15:21
Good solution.
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By STlNKY FINGER on 21 Jun 2011 16:41
Got it in 5 minutes using the video guide under this one.
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By Chicago AJ on 04 Jul 2011 01:34
For those who are wondering, I got it on the Titty City pinball so the achievement is doable in both pinball tables.
As said before, aim for a X4 multiplier, it's so less pain
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By Shernos on 21 Aug 2011 04:40
@Skurkitty
Thanks, I was wondering if it might have been my controller. You just saved me :)
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By Nebasu on 01 Sep 2011 23:38
Thanks for this solution... Worked great
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By Mrsod on 20 Oct 2011 14:31
The most important thing when using this solution's method, is to have a NEW CONTROLLER. After 1 hour of attempts with my normal controller, i switched to a new controller and got the achievement on my very next try, without error. With my old controller, the tilt would often not work, but worked 100% on a new controller!
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By Vannos on 30 Oct 2011 22:03
THANK YOU for this guide! Most nerve racking achievement in this game.
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By JustinSaneV2 on 05 Jan 2012 01:19
Got it easily ......... after I got round to reading the guide :D
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By Calex dEUS on 10 Jan 2012 22:11
Ugh this guide is great and I got the technique down but it's still a pain. I got up to 600k and lost my last ball because I just get so impatient.
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By iAmTheTot on 24 Mar 2013 22:38
I'm glad you play pinball how Duke would play pinball, by cheating. Nice guide, will be using this for the DLC pinball.
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By Emzx99 on 18 Dec 2013 01:34
Thanks for this, Getting the x2 really helped!
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By Ayerow on 09 May 2014 04:17
So happy that this method was able to make short work of what would have been a very irritating achievement.
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By Onyx Grimoire on 29 Jul 2015 00:21
Fuck this Achievement
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By Arador on 21 Mar 2016 04:01
Even after 7 years after the launch of this game this achievement is still a pain in the a** great guide helped me out alot
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By SONofGIANTS610 on 10 May 2018 03:39
Broke the gamecase got it firdt try after doing it felt satifying the game disk will die after 1000G
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By on 14 Jun 2020 16:05
Not actually that hard. Hardest part is just getting the Combo. If you can manage a 4x Combo, you can get this in like 5 mins. Took me maybe 30 mins-1 hour to get this total
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By on 03 Dec 2022 15:26
Literally got this in 10 minutes after trying 4 times what's hard about this exactly? Try marshomadness on eetz chowdown good god
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By sobadnomad on 15 Jun 2023 16:11
This achievement is pure RNG and hell I've gotten up to 400k multiple times JUST FOR THE STUPIDTILT TO KICK IN AND MAKE ME RUN OUT OF BALLS.

ON MY WINNING RUN, I GOT THE BONUS AND AT 996K TILT KICKED IN BALL WENT STRAIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE/ NEXT BALL SHOOTS STRAIGHT OFF THE BUMPER TO THE BOTTOM/ LAST BALL HITS 5 THINGS TILT KICKS IN WITHOUT ME HITTING THE LEFT STICK HITS A THING AS ITS GOING DOWN

1.04 MILLION.
This some some of the most vile degenerate shit I've seen, and IV'E COMPLETED THE CANCER RARE REPLAY 360 GAMES!

Without this method this achievement is impossible with it almost impossible! YOU ARE LIFE SAVER SIR!
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By My Ringtones on 07 May 2024 05:40
^I think your cap lock was left on by accident.... Happens 🤷🏼‍♂️

But now to my own rant: damn this achievement sucks steel balls. If I wanted to play a pinball game I would've bought one. The game would frequently register 2 tilts. One from me pressing left and then another one to the right when the stick snapped back into its center position. Would frequently be in a tilt lock for no fault of my own.

Awful achievement. But it's finally unlocked.
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By Dr Marty on 07 Jun 2024 02:20
I'd certainly agree with possibly trying to get a multiplier or two going (you have to light the 3 lights at the top of the board - but if the ball goes through a red light it resets it to gray. You can move the lights by pressing the bumpers to try and get the one(s) you need).

Otherwise the guide worked perfectly for me! Also, I *think* you lock the board if you tilt 3 times in about 5 seconds - better safe than sorry to just wait a short while if you tilt twice quickly I found.
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By Ben Reynolds on 13 Jun 2011 17:30
What a total joke of an achievement. The physics behind the pinball itself are so sh*t that it is impossible to play it properly. Even attempting to get this using the solution above is stupidly difficult and frustrating simply because you have no control and how random the ball behaves. Horribly crap game mini-game in a horribly crap game :(
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By BrumtownMangler on 03 Jul 2011 21:47
im really good at pinball i love pinball games but this duke nukem pinball table is really hard. id say follow how to do it just like the video or how this guide says to do it. what i did was i practiced getting the multiplyers and i got really good at getting the multi up and i discovered their was another multiplyer past X6 and thats when the duke nukem logo lights up when i got that anything i did was giving me lots n lots of points and made it real easy to obtain also id say practice using the tilt without getting the table to lock up all that stuff helps alot and i was able to get a high score of 2,263,800 with the full multiplyer going. so good luck fellow gamers its tough so practice what the guide says and youll get good at it.
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By DRUNK JEDI on 25 Jul 2011 03:28
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"Balls of Steel" is the most difficult Duke Nukem Forever's achievement. A video to help you (it's the same Mr Heathcliff's solution but the video is interessting to understand the method).
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Just got 1,000,000 and still going excellent guide
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By StressyGit Xx on 02 Jul 2011 17:04
I tried for ages to get it by just playing and I couldn't get more than 200K, then I used this method and got it on my second go, great guide, thumbs up! :D
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By RayvenMorrigana on 24 Aug 2011 11:36
this achievement is gay great guide tho
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By FinalFireDemon on 02 Sep 2011 22:24
Great guide, shitty achievement.
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By Macfly77422 on 09 Feb 2012 17:37
IT'S NOT WORKING FOR ME!! Am struggling big time! It's annoying me!!
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By on 03 Mar 2012 23:09
IT'S NOT WORKING FOR ME!! Am struggling big time! It's annoying me!!
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By on 03 Mar 2012 23:36
Thank you so much i spent 3 hours tearing my hair out then i found your guide and it worked 1st time mate your a life saver thank you Excellent guide thumbs up to you! :P
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By F3AR Avenger on 05 Apr 2012 16:02
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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.

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To speed up and facilitate the process of getting 1,000,000 points, you first need to get a x2 multiplier.

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.
Video guide .
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