just played 24 for the first time today. played one game for an hour and a half, played 7 suitcase multiballs (a drag because the shots needed to light lock on the right ramp increase with each MB, so by the end it took 21 left ramp shots to light locks for the 3 balls on the right ramp,) and never collected nuke jackpot. i'm assuming that after collecting super jackpot, you have to shoot all the lit red arrow shots again, then maybe the left ramp again to collect nuke? i ended up with only between 2-300 mill which was really disappointing for all that work. GC on the machine was over 700, and the guy who has the GC is a novice who told me "i don't know how i did it but i got a nuke jackpot and that rocketed my score up there." kinda sucks that the scoring is so imbalanced, on the other hand it's cool that there's a quite difficult multiball with a big reward if you complete it. i didn't even bother focusing on the other jackpots, modes or multiballs. scenes come whether you're aiming for those shots or not. occasionally i'd hit a safe house hurry up to start that MB, or a sniper multiball. on the machine i played, it was not easy to backhand the sniper shot. it was possible, and i started off going for it, but it was not reliable. the right ramp was backhandable if you were accurate and firm, too, but again, it had to be a perfect shot, so i much more frequently shot left ramp, then right ramp from the left flipper.
what are people doing to collect nuke jackpot? i cradled balls as much as possible during multiballs, but since shots have to be hit on both sides, found it difficult to stick with just one or the other flipper. i'd usually try to lose a ball up the left ramp and hit the right ramp, and most of the time the shots i was missing for nuke jackpot were right orbit and sniper.
am i just drunk or is suitcase multiball the only way to go with this game? i never completed a nuke jackpot, likewise never got (either a safehouse or sniper jackpot-- i got one and not the other, can't remember which, or how i got it.) was really close to completing the game, though. not sure if that's even worth money, or if there's a wizard mode. i didn't notice if the spinner value builds, but that shot, and the pop bumpers building some jackpot, seemed potentially worth something and safe. that backhandable left ramp though is probably the only thing worth shooting all day. it's just so easy to loop that shot, nothing else seems desirable. anyway-- if i could figure out a way to reliably get nuke jackpots, i think i could get good scores, so tell me how it's done.