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alfie8 said:
The biggest issue with Sherriff Showdown is how inconsistent the guns are. Some guns will give you a score of 50,000+, whilst others will give you less than 10,000. This makes both competition inside cars (between friends/family ect.) and the daily high-score pretty unfair as it's mainly based on whether you get a good car/gun rather than how many targets you can hit.

It would be nice to see some new guns on Sherriff's, especially with it being a major attraction this season with the opening of Frontier Falls and Gold Rush.
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I miss the golden nugget guns... :D Blue & red
 
All in all, the biggest issue with Showdown is the guns and the scoring system. They're just not reliable. The speakers in the cars aren't as good as they were too, the "You got a Bonus!" Sounds like it's being played by some cheap low quality speaker. Another thing i noticed, when riding with a friend or family is that if you get a bonus point, the screen shows it, but the person who also shares the screen can't see their score when the bonus audio is being played.

Personally, I think it's time they scrap the current score system as it seems really unreliable, filled with obvious flaws (the screens), not as advanced as the Golden Nuggets one, which could record high scores of the week, month, and entire season AND display it. It had a more robust seven segmented display (the screens are really distracting personally), with better speakers for "You got a Bonus!" While other riders can still see their score.

On the guns, it seems like you don't even have to aim, just point it at a certain area and you'll almost without a doubt hit 2 targets, then they'll immediately reset, again, you'll get more points. A bit of a challenge would be nice with targets that done reset instantaneously.

I wonder who made the Golden Nuggets scoring system. I'd love to see a modernised version of that back in the ride!
 
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Trooper Looper said:
All in all, the biggest issue with Showdown is the guns and the scoring system. They're just not reliable. The speakers in the cars aren't as good as they were too, the "You got a Bonus!" Sounds like it's being played by some cheap low quality speaker. Another thing i noticed, when riding with a friend or family is that if you get a bonus point, the screen shows it, but the person who also shares the screen can't see their score when the bonus audio is being played.

Personally, I think it's time they scrap the current score system as it seems really unreliable, filled with obvious flaws (the screens), not as advanced as the Golden Nuggets one, which could record high scores of the week, month, and entire season AND display it. It had a more robust seven segmented display (the screens are really distracting personally), with better speakers for "You got a Bonus!" While other riders can still see their score.

On the guns, it seems like you don't even have to aim, just point it at a certain area and you'll almost without a doubt hit 2 targets, then they'll immediately reset, again, you'll get more points. A bit of a challenge would be nice with targets that done reset instantaneously.

I wonder who made the Golden Nuggets scoring system. I'd love to see a modernised version of that back in the ride!
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The new scoring system was implemented by Being Creative, who also re-themed The Haunting in 2016.
 
Themeparksandy1981 said:
I went on it yesterday and it was awful. The score on our cart listed old scores and didn’t know to we got back to the station what our scores was. Also there was a lot of targets flashing Blue. I told the operator and he just looked at me and continued to load the ride.
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Wow, it sounds like its in a really dire state! Drayton, It's time to give The Wild West shootout the love and TLC it deserves!
 
The carts laptop screens didn’t work today
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Also some of the targets today were having a disco.
 
Managed to get this high score earlier - our screen didn't work so I wasn't sure what I got until I got to the station
Didn't hear any bonus announcements or audio on our car either as a result
 

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Elise said:
Managed to get this high score earlier - our screen didn't work so I wasn't sure what I got until I got to the station
Didn't hear any bonus announcements or audio on our car either as a result
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How did u manage to get that score?
I think that the bandit above the undertakers gives the highest scores per hit.
 
There’s a couple of guns right now that shoot multiple targets at once - these are both in Car 1.

There’s a “hidden” bonus on the top of the undertakers roof - which can you shoot most of the way along the second half of the ride.

There are 3 bonuses close together in front of you when you enter the main room, continually shoot these (shooting other targets in between). In the mine at the start, you can shoot 4 targets in a circular motions that will boost your score.

But the main tip is get Car 1. One of the guns also gives points just for shooting at the moment!

If you get a stoppage for any reason then that is also the easiest way to boost your score!
 
Themeparksandy1981 said:
How did u manage to get that score?
I think that the bandit above the undertakers gives the highest scores per hit.
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Turn around in areas where you have less targets to get the targets behind you where there's more / focus on the bonuses + always be hitting something ideally is how I play
 
I went to Drayton yesterday with my 3yo daughter (who evidently from the score hit nothing bless her). When we got out the lady attending the ride said "You got the new highest score!" to which i quickly passed on "Well done you got the highest score!!" to my daughter - she is now buzzing and cannot wait to go back!

The score board had a 53000 score as its highest score previously, and I was just saying to a friend the closest ive ever got to that was 44000 - So i was happy with the result (and thankful to my daughter for not hitting anything!!)

Interestingly I got into the Car with a '1' on the side, but this flagged as Car 4 on the screens.

Do we know how often the new score screen resets? I know the old screen with red LEDs had a yearly score as mentioned on a previous page..
 

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The high score does seem to be persistent though, I had the pleasure of visiting twice in a week last year and it had kept the high score- I believe it was around 45000- so it does seem to be saved somewhere
 
I think when guests report that when targets ain’t working or flashing blue they don’t contact Maintenance straight away as it maybe a long process in rebooting everything.
 

Euro Theme Park Archive uploaded a Video of Golden Nuggets when it was relatively new. Its weird seeing the ride have pretty good warm lighting before it was all changed the the tacky multicoloured lights came in. But it shows how many effects are broken on the ride currently. Its a wonderful ride with wonderful theming, I just wish the park gives it some TLC in the future with all the effects back working and some old ones back in action.
 
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