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Smart Move

Smart Move

You can get this Trophy when a pumpkin bomb ball explodes in one of Doctor Octopus' tentacles on Spider‑Man table.

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How to unlock the Smart Move achievement in Marvel Pinball - Definitive Guide

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This trophy is tricky and you'll need a little patience to get it. Essentially you need to be fighting Doc Ock and Green Goblin at the same time, and get Goblin's pumpkin bomb ball to explode while Doc Ock is holding it.

Here is a strategy with images, courtesy of Ruldra, that is probably the easiest:

COMPLETE DOC OCK STAGE 1
Doc Ock won't start picking up balls until you get to his Stage 2, so the first thing you need to do is beat him once (complete Stage 1). See the Clone Chaos trophy for more info on starting and completing a Doc Ock Stage.

START DOC OCK STAGE 2 AND GREEN GOBLIN STAGE 1
Once you have completed Stage 1, you'll need to start Doc Ock Stage 2 (start it the same way as before) and Green Goblin Stage 1 (hit the Green Goblin ramp three times) so they are running at the same time. I suggest you get Doc Ock going first, then start Goblin.

Regarding Doc Ock in Stage 2 – he will only grab balls when he's in the "checkmate" position of the fight (the starting position at very top of the table). If he's moved down a bit while you were starting the Goblin fight, you'll need to push him back up by hitting Websling ramps.

Here are pics of each stance:

Non-starting stance – will NOT pick up balls



Starting stance – will pick up balls – He needs to be in this stance!



So make sure Doc Ock is in the proper stance before continuing.

GET DOC OCK TO CATCH THE BOMB
With both fights going, there will be two balls on the table: the normal ball and Goblin's pumpkin bomb ball. Catch both, one on each flipper. Since the pumpkin bomb will explode if you lose your normal ball, let the normal ball drain down the center and shoot the pumpkin at Doc Ock right after so he grabs it. If you time it right the bomb will explode while Doc Ock is holding it and voila, trophy!

StOrMtRoOpErMx19 has created an excellent video showing how to get this trophy using the above strategy:

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To get this trophy, you need to start the second stage of the fight with Doctor Octopus and the fight with the Goblin at the same time, make the Octopus grab the orange ball (pumpkin bomb) and at that moment lose the main ball so that the bomb explodes in the Doctor's hand. To accomplish all this, first you need to defeat Doctor Octopus once, since he only starts grabbing the balls when he fights again. After the first battle with the Doctor, prepare to activate the Goblin (so that you only have to shoot once at his ramp to start the battle) and also deactivate the battle with Doctor Octopus. After activating the fight with the Doctor, the ball will appear on the left flipper and it is very advisable to get onto the Goblin’s ramp the first time in order to start the fight with him. Next, you need to “catch” both balls (regular and orange) with both flippers from different sides (raise the flipper and hold the ball) in a short period of time (because if the Doctor moves forward too much, he will stop grabbing the balls). Next, we synchronously lower the flippers and somewhere in the middle of the ramp we send the orange ball into the paw of Doctor Octopus (it won’t work if the ball goes in a circle or in the center), and in the meantime the iron ball should fall between the flippers. The doctor grabs the pumpkin, the iron ball falls through, the pumpkin explodes... BLACK!

You can read more about how to activate battles with villains in the tip above.
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17 Dec 2011 12:41