After way more attempts than I'd like to admit I finally managed to get things rolling the right way. My record before this was 25 billion. Before I start talking about the run, if anyone is interested in playing this, you can download "Pinball FX3" on Steam and you need to purchase a DLC with the Attack from Mars to play it but there is a test version of all machines that anyone can try.
Lately I've been trying this tactic where I try and get a multiball or total annihilation going before attacking the ship in the middle to get the city saved. With each city it requires more hits and the most dangerous part is striking the middle as it often likes to go down between the flippers. What I've learned is that using the right flipper has the most success rate but having many balls such as in multiball or total annihilation naturally you get more attempts and can afford to lose a few.
I had a great run here and it was the first time I managed to get "ruler of the universe", one thing I learned was that you could still get more free balls in the late game which is something I didn't expect so curious to find out how many and how often they appear if I ever get this good of a run again.
The world record stands at 850 billion so my attempt here to reach 66 billion was not too shabby if I may say so. A few very noob losses of balls I could've avoided and I really need to check the settings to see if the tilt function can work in any other way than it does right now cause I've given up on using it cause it never saves me.
Another note, I haven't on purpose upgraded anything in the game (gaining xp allows you to upgrade certain things like more points on the bouncers in the top or longer "ball saved" time if it gets lost soon after starting a new ball.) I wanted to keep it at the basics in case that's what counts world records only but maybe I should check under what kind of rules they do it.
Anyway, in this attempt I happened to be listening to Spotify so most of the songs in the background are of Jamule (I'm really into deutschrap lately).
