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Stern · 2024 · at 9 UK venues.
The Uncanny X-Men brings Marvel’s mutant heroes and villains to pinball in a game built around assembling the X-Men and taking on the Brotherhood of Mutants. The playfield uses characters and locations from the comic universe rather than relying solely on the films, giving it a distinctly comic-book identity.
The game is structured around choosing characters, completing missions and building towards larger battles. Different X-Men contribute different abilities, making the choice of who to work with part of the strategy rather than simply a visual feature.
There is a lot happening on the playfield, but the character system gives it a useful structure. Choose your team deliberately; the X-Men you build can make a difference to how you approach the game.
Written by Silverball
Silverball guide · The Uncanny X-Men
The Uncanny X-Men will happily let you start a mission the moment one lights. Spend a little time in the Danger Room beforehand and the same mission is worth double, and the future you travel to afterwards gets easier as well.
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The magenta head looming over the top of the playfield, and the machine's centrepiece. Hits on it are what put the giant Sentinel in front of you, and beating that one is what starts the multiball the rest of the game is pointed at.
The panel with the red X through it, ringed by the eight missions. The four in the corners are the gentler set. Xavier's line printed underneath tells you what it is for: this is where your team's progress is kept.
The jet on the left with its name printed beside it. Off the plunge it feeds the ramp above it for a skill shot, and later it is the first half of the two-shot super jackpot in Berzerker multiball.
The signed lane in the upper left. Hit it again and again from the plunge and it builds a five-way time loop, which is the most interesting of the four skill shots on offer here.
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Strategy tips written by players on PinTips , not by Silverball. Best-voted first.
Hit the sentinel head multiple times for multiball
Don't be too afraid of the challenging modes - Genosha Under Siege and Fiery Assault aren't too difficult and can score consistently high amounts compared to the easier modes.
X men is garbage game
Start with Bitter Rivalry since that's the easiest mission, then Stopping a Juggernaut.
You're best off softening the Sentinel up just enough that the last hit starts a multiball before starting a mission (preferably the challenging ones since you'd score more points).
Completing Sentinel Facility Raid, then saving Rogue gives an add a ball to any multiball once per ball. To use this during a multiball, press and hold the action button when it is flashing green.
A Fiery Assault plays much like New Orleans on Foo Fighters but without the side flipper. Multiball Extension makes a major difference.
Completing “difficult” modes have a different future mode, “Escape Nimrod” shoot the three red shots and then shoot midtown or the subway to complete.
(0.91) A Fiery Assault is recommended as the first mode of the game. Completing "The Future" afterwards allows all sentinel multiballs for the rest of the game to be extended if all balls drain.
(0.90) Save the City can be worth substantial amounts of points. Hit each shot three times (this can be during any multiball) and then shoot the center ramp when nothing else is going on to start it!
Try hitting the X-Jet shot to feed the danger room early on during sentinel & save the city multiballs. The shots in the danger room help boost jackpot values during both multiballs.
Shoot the downtown loop five times in a row off the plunge for time loop skill shots, then hit the uptown ramp to finish the skill shot and add +15 seconds to ball save. This is a very tough skill shot!
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