Everybody’s golf hot shots

Gordon

DrDamn I had a quick go last night as well. Plays well, shot timing is a little trickier than I remember but that may just be a skills issue. The voices definitely need to go, I don’t need to hear some guy chuntering on about his demon arm before each shot FFS. It looks nice enough if a little muted. Overall I’m pretty happy and looking forward to hopefully unlocking some less obnoxious characters later.

DrDamn

Try the Advanced shot option but switch your default view to a side view of the character when taking the shot. Shot option is set when you choose your golfer (triangle to go into settings - there are three options for shot type). More like EG on PS3. You judge strength by backswing (hence switching to side view give you a better guide) with pings for 50% and 100%. Then you get a circle decreasing into the ball for the impact gauge. I was hitting balls much more consistently with this. Seemed a lot smoother.

One of the clever things EG used to do was freeze the background, and pause animations and effects when you were taking your shot. Aside from helping reduce distractions it also meant the framerate for the shot was very consistent and on the PS4 version went up from 30fps to 60fps.

DrDamn

DrDamn also looks like there are 10 courses included in the game (which was really hard info to find!). Which is decent for an EG game where 5 or 6 is the norm.

Gordon

DrDamn Nice one, will give all that a try

DrDamn

Played some more at lunch and have unlocked the first vs. character match. Trying to find my happy place with the controls and not quite there yet. Noticed the new manual spin pre-shot also relies on you adjusting your aim to compensate. Older EG games you could aim for the pin with a tree in the way, add left spin to go around during the shot and it would banana round and end up landing by the pin. Here you need to aim to compensate for the spin you are putting on the shot. More realistic and needs more judgement based on the amount of spin you add.

My scores were creeping down, with being able to hit it far enough more of a factor in getting birdie/par than anything else.

Also food you get to boost stats is not a temporary thing, it’s permanent and you can use any you buy or win on any character.

Gordon

DrDamn I thought there was something odd going on with the spin, that explains it. I’ve been doing best with type 2 (I think, the one where the meter is like a ski-slope)

Gordon

Played a bit more and settled on the default meter, I’m getting used to it now. I don’t like any of the button layouts though. The one with decent camera controls wants O as the swing button which is just wrong.

It’s so weird. The game itself is fine but there’s bad decisions and unforced errors in just about every part of it. HDR is broken as well, it doesn’t do anything. The whole game looks very desaturated and grey.

DrDamn

Gordon you can switch the classic controls to use X for swing but they also managed to break it because power adjustment on impact (reduction) doesn’t work anymore. You’d normally do that with O but it just doesn’t register as a press for impact.

Switching classic control to use X is also slightly convoluted. Use one of the custom setups on the second row, press to re-assign and then select reset. It allows you to then pick what you want it to reset it to from the 3 normal options. Pick classic and then remap take shot to X instead of O. This then feels just like old EG bar the breaking of power adjustment on impact.

Gordon

DrDamn I actually had it set up like that but I don’t like the classic swing controls. I want the standard swing gauge but the control scheme with the camera controls I want requires you to use the pre-shot spin system as well rather than setting spin during the swing. Why are spin and camera controls linked like this? It makes no sense. I’ve got a setup that works for me now but the whole thing is needlessly complex.

Gordon

Tried a quick round on my Portal and the washed out visuals are gone, it looks great. Must have left auto-HDR turned on my console settings or something. I managed to get used to using O as the shot button, so with type 3 controls, classic swing meter and shot camera 2 it finally feels good to play. Took a while to get there but I might actually be able to just play the game now instead of fannying about in the settings.

DrDamn

The addition of the world tour story stuff is pretty huge. Adds lots of single player content and you only need to do the first one on each character to unlock them. I turned off the chatty story bus quite quickly though 😁

Think I might just suck up the O button to shoot and join you on the classic controls Gordon.

Gordon

DrDamn It’s worth making the effort, it feels great once you’re used to it

DrDamn

In case you’ve not worked it out, you need to complete all the tutorial lessons to unlock Pac Man if you pre-ordered.

DrDamn

Sidespin issues. Seems like it’s very unpredictable unless you get perfect impact. All these shots should be heading off to the left before swinging back to the right and more or less ending up where the aim was positioned. Only perfect impact is acting close to this.

DrDamn

Initial patch for Switch confirmed for next week and they are working on PS5 and PC patches too.

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