DHS Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run - Ride/Queue Details and Discussion

Tom Morrow

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I’m a little unclear on the scoring. Is your score based on your role (pilot/gunner/engineer)? It seems as though the pilots are given a combined score but I am unsure of the other two roles.
 

Darth Snips

Well-Known Member
OK, this is pretty cool:

I remember seeing rumors of a "Wookiee Mode" when the ride first opened. Awesome to see it for real!

By the way, I rode SR again last Friday (Feb 14), and I was really disappointed in the loading experience. I did Single Rider, so I skipped the pre-show and went straight to the Chess Room. But the procedure was completely different from the usual operations.

No one was allowed to wander the room. No one was sitting at the chess table. No one was exploring and taking pictures.

Instead, we were given our color cards and told to line up in the back corner of the room, near the bunk bed. Everyone just stood in line until their color was called. Has anyone else experienced this? Single Rider was moving really slowly, so they could have been having some technical or capacity issues. Maybe this was just a one-time affair to speed up the process (like the switchbacks in RotR's hangar). I really hope this is not the new normal for this ride, because that experience of roaming the Falcon is truly special.
 

WEDway Inc & Company LLC

Well-Known Member
OK, this is pretty cool:

I remember seeing rumors of a "Wookiee Mode" when the ride first opened. Awesome to see it for real!

By the way, I rode SR again last Friday (Feb 14), and I was really disappointed in the loading experience. I did Single Rider, so I skipped the pre-show and went straight to the Chess Room. But the procedure was completely different from the usual operations.

No one was allowed to wander the room. No one was sitting at the chess table. No one was exploring and taking pictures.

Instead, we were given our color cards and told to line up in the back corner of the room, near the bunk bed. Everyone just stood in line until their color was called. Has anyone else experienced this? Single Rider was moving really slowly, so they could have been having some technical or capacity issues. Maybe this was just a one-time affair to speed up the process (like the switchbacks in RotR's hangar). I really hope this is not the new normal for this ride, because that experience of roaming the Falcon is truly special.


Wow, that is pretty cool. Anyone wanna test it out? :D
 

Kram Sacul

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In the Parks
Yes
OK, this is pretty cool:
I remember seeing rumors of a "Wookiee Mode" when the ride first opened. Awesome to see it for real!

By the way, I rode SR again last Friday (Feb 14), and I was really disappointed in the loading experience. I did Single Rider, so I skipped the pre-show and went straight to the Chess Room. But the procedure was completely different from the usual operations.

No one was allowed to wander the room. No one was sitting at the chess table. No one was exploring and taking pictures.

Instead, we were given our color cards and told to line up in the back corner of the room, near the bunk bed. Everyone just stood in line until their color was called. Has anyone else experienced this? Single Rider was moving really slowly, so they could have been having some technical or capacity issues. Maybe this was just a one-time affair to speed up the process (like the switchbacks in RotR's hangar). I really hope this is not the new normal for this ride, because that experience of roaming the Falcon is truly special.

I forgot how cringy that channel is. It’s a neat one time trick though.
 

aluisi

Member
OK, this is pretty cool:

I remember seeing rumors of a "Wookiee Mode" when the ride first opened. Awesome to see it for real!

By the way, I rode SR again last Friday (Feb 14), and I was really disappointed in the loading experience. I did Single Rider, so I skipped the pre-show and went straight to the Chess Room. But the procedure was completely different from the usual operations.

No one was allowed to wander the room. No one was sitting at the chess table. No one was exploring and taking pictures.

Instead, we were given our color cards and told to line up in the back corner of the room, near the bunk bed. Everyone just stood in line until their color was called. Has anyone else experienced this? Single Rider was moving really slowly, so they could have been having some technical or capacity issues. Maybe this was just a one-time affair to speed up the process (like the switchbacks in RotR's hangar). I really hope this is not the new normal for this ride, because that experience of roaming the Falcon is truly special.


That would be me who posted about it on the Galaxy's Edge discored back in Augest of last year. Everyone kinda gave me crap for it. Glad it was real. I tried to tell people. Surprised it took this long to be found.
 

Tom Morrow

Well-Known Member
Alright, so I've probably ridden 16 times now, and it's been open since August. On probably 3 out of 4 rides, the video has hung or lagged for a second or two. Are they ever going to fix this? The video and sound quality is otherwise good but as soon as this happens, it takes you right out of it.
 

MrConbon

Well-Known Member
Alright, so I've probably ridden 16 times now, and it's been open since August. On probably 3 out of 4 rides, the video has hung or lagged for a second or two. Are they ever going to fix this? The video and sound quality is otherwise good but as soon as this happens, it takes you right out of it.
It seems to be a framerate hitch. It’s pretty often in video games and since this is essentially one giant video game, the same is here too. There’s no reason why the couldn’t do some optimizations to try to prevent it though.
 

trainplane3

Well-Known Member
It seems to be a framerate hitch. It’s pretty often in video games and since this is essentially one giant video game, the same is here too. There’s no reason why the couldn’t do some optimizations to try to prevent it though.
I've been on it once so I don't know what it looks like but the other possibility is microstutter, one the big things that SLI is known for.
 

Marc Davis Fan

Well-Known Member
Alright, so I've probably ridden 16 times now, and it's been open since August. On probably 3 out of 4 rides, the video has hung or lagged for a second or two. Are they ever going to fix this? The video and sound quality is otherwise good but as soon as this happens, it takes you right out of it.

This is particularly interesting because I've been on the one at DL many times, and only had this happen once. It could be the luck of the draw, or it could be that something needs to be fixed in the WDW version?
 

trainplane3

Well-Known Member
Would it be a graphics card issue if the sound also hiccups?
Depends if the sound is being output through the GPU. Apparently the cards they use support DisplayPort with audio. In my brief 2 years with SLI I've learned one thing, if something can go wrong with SLI it will and probably in some hilarious way.


Have they tried setting the refresh rate to 59 fps instead of 60?

How bout unplugging it and plugging it back in?
144 or bust.
 

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