Overview
"The bodycount continues..." in Arminio's gritty mod!
Ivan TBA released his re-theme of Pharaoh (Williams, 1981) for Visual Pinball X in 2019, and as a fan of 80s slasher films, Arminio released a "gritty mod" in 2025. It gives the game a less glossy, more sepia-colored look, and makes other changes and tweaks to more closely recreate the atmoshpere of 80s horror films.
Changelist:
• Different colors and slight changes in material on various parts of the table with more realistic lighting on most of elements (playfields, apron lights and background added, new lower flippers look, fixed some light spills etc.)
• Lights are now set to interact with ball (trying to get more natural reflections on every ball on the table)
• Better visibility of text on the table
• New ramps graphics (inspired by ramps from the "Friday The 13th" table by theGhost787)
• New graphics and lights on some targets and walls (Jason's head etc. with new light flashes on hits that can be activated/deactivated via options in script)
• Added several playfield backwall panel images, LUTs, flipper colors (use F12 menus to select)
• Added holes for drop targets (for realistic look)
• Added discrete shadows to all flippers and to most of pegs on upper playfield (also for more realistic look)
• Added dynamic ball color and dynamic ball shadow - discrete changes depending on ball position - trying to get a bit more realistic ball shine, shadow and general look depending of a color tone of a playfield (I hope it also improves realistic look and feel)
• Some new sound effects added, some changed a little, some plays differently by random choice...
• Intro speech now plays from start (on some PCs, intro playback skips almost a second of speech - fixed now...)
• New script options to set specific look of desktop mode, light hits, turn screams om drains on/off etc. - check "GRITTY MOD OPTIONS" section in the script for details
• For desktop players: background image changed, logo added, new LED engine, added ball in play, match, high score to date, bonus ball, shoot again, tilt and game over info + added option to turn off/hide all that info, logo and LEDs (useful if you use desktop mode together with standard b2s backglass - check "BackGlassOnDestop" option in "GRITTY MOD OPTIONS" section in the script)
• Support for b2s backglass lights animations (if paired with "gritty version" backglass)
