VPinWorkshop Original · 2022
Finish seven missions and the three character multiballs. Then complete the Final Chapter and shoot the upper sky loop to defeat Galdor.
Find the main routes, advance Mima, and give every shot a purpose.
Objective
The seven mission lamps and the Mima, Corey, and Tracy lamps form the ten-part checklist. Finish every lamp. The Final Chapter waits until only one ball is moving before it starts.
The installed table
Hit the captive shield three times. The wall drops and the glowing hole under the ship becomes a lock. Put three balls there.
How to try it: Hold the ball still on the right lower flipper. Aim at the dark opening of Mima shield + gravity hole, not at its rim or the nearby posts. After the ball settles in the hole, watch where the machine kicks it back and regain control.
After a mission, one outside orbit flashes. Make it, then shoot the round MISSION hole at lower left to begin the next mission.
How to try it: Hold the ball still on the right lower flipper. Aim through the open channel at the bottom of Left orbit + Mission; the ball must pass the entrance switch and continue up the lane. If a weak shot rolls back down the same lane, let it return to a flipper before trying again.
The three name lamps are the multiball checklist. Watch returns through the inlanes; a settled ball is easier to aim than a rolling one.
How to try it: This is a status area, not a shot. Read its lamps while the ball is held on a flipper, then aim for the named shot whose lamp is still dark.
The center VUK starts a ready multiball. The broad ramp beside it scores Corey jackpots and advances several missions.
How to try it: From the left lower flipper, aim into the center vertical eject hole when its lamp calls for it. For the main ramp, aim through the posts at the ramp's bottom and use enough force to climb it. Watch the kickout or ramp return before choosing the next shot.
The right orbit prepares missions and scores Tracy jackpots. The small upper flipper shoots the sky loop for Corey progress, Corey Supers and the final winning shot.
How to try it: Hold the ball still on the left lower flipper. Aim through the open channel at the bottom of Right orbit + sky loop; the ball must pass the entrance switch and continue up the lane. If a weak shot rolls back down the same lane, let it return to a flipper before trying again.
Knock down all three drop targets, then shoot the scoop. Awards cycle: Mystery, Double Scoring, Super Spinners.
How to try it: Hold the ball still on the left lower flipper. Aim at the dark opening of Scavenge scoop, not at its rim or the nearby posts. After the ball settles in the hole, watch where the machine kicks it back and regain control.
A route with a recovery
On the plunge, make the flashing top lane for the skill shot. Do not sacrifice the ball chasing the advanced version yet.
This opens Mima’s gravity hole and starts a 30-second, 2× playfield multiplier. Every later group of three raises it, up to 5×.
Shoot the gravity hole three times, then the center VUK. In Mima multiball, make seven under-ship loops; the gravity hole then lights for the Super Jackpot and an add-a-ball.
Play through seven missions while you advance Mima, Corey, and Tracy.
Seven jobs
Send the ball through the gun route, then hit the newly lit major shot. Repeat three times. You have 100 seconds.
Make 25 Mima loops beneath the ship. Either direction counts. You have 75 seconds.
Two major arrows light. Hit either; a new pair appears. Four hits finish it in 75 seconds.
Hit the main ramp or sky loop four times total. The sky loop pays more. You have 75 seconds.
The hatch opens into the lower mini-playfield. Use its two small flippers to clear all six targets.
Get 25 pop-bumper hits in 75 seconds.
Shoot the center VUK, then the left orbit before the short combo timer ends.
Three completed missions lights one; six lights another. Both are earned at Ship Cannon. The game allows two extra balls.
Three names
Prepare: shield ×3, then gravity-hole lock ×3.
Start: center VUK.
Score: seven Mima loops light the gravity hole for Super and add-a-ball.
Prepare: sky loops light five inserts; shoot each blinking insert’s major shot.
Start: center VUK.
Score: main-ramp Jackpot, then sky-loop Super.
Prepare: bumpers light five cross inserts; shoot each blinking insert’s major shot.
Start: center VUK.
Score: orbit Jackpots; two light the center VUK for Super.
A multiball counts toward the finale when it ends; you do not have to make its Super. Still, take at least one Super when you can. The shots teach the same routes used later.
Useful detours
Clear three drop targets, then enter the scoop. The three awards repeat in order: a random Mystery; Double Scoring; then five-times spinner scoring for 30 seconds.
This is where you earn a lit extra ball. It also starts a ten-second ball save and, once per ball, adds a ball during an ordinary multiball.
Hold the left flipper while the plunger is pulled to change the skill shot. Reaching the center VUK awards points and adds a ball; reaching Scavenge scores more and can light an extra ball. Learn the normal flashing lane first.
Prepare before releasing balls
Mission shots and character progress often share the same orbits, ramp and VUK. Advance a mission until its useful arrows are ready, then start the character multiball. The extra balls make the shared shots easier to complete.
Do not postpone a safe multiball indefinitely. A completed character counts toward the Final Chapter after its multiball ends, even if the Super Jackpot was missed.
Control the center returns
The shield and center mechanisms can send the ball back quickly. Hit them from a cradle and keep the opposite flipper ready. If the ball reaches an inlane cleanly, catch it before choosing the next mission or lock shot.
During multiball, take the Ship Cannon add-a-ball while it is available. In the Final Chapter, survival changes: the battle fails when one ball remains, so keep shooting the broad center-right routes instead of trying to trap every ball.
Turn progress into value
Survive the 15-ball battle, then use the upper flipper for the winning sky loop.
All ten lamps complete
Do not cradle. The battle fails when only one ball remains. Keep balls alive, swing at the three lit center-right shots, then look up at the upper flipper for the sky loop.
Your cabinet
This guide is for the installed Blood Machines 2.0 VPX original on cabinet .94. The installed script is the rules authority; VPinWorkshop’s official rule card was the cross-check. The playfield and every close-up above came from that installed table.
A dedicated 36-minute video tutorial was found but not reviewed: it has no captions or chapters, and its audio stream was unavailable here. Where the display disagrees with this guide, trust the display.
