I have been playing basically any / every golf game since MS Links 2001. I played Links and Shot Online at a very high level, but I am having difficulty grasping the swing of this game. I have tried every swing setting from slowest to fastest and every drive is slow swing and I always over swing at the top. Just does not seem like the stick matches the screen and I am playing on a PC gaming monitor. Also with putting if I try to pull back slow and steady my animation either stops or glitches when I push forward and its an under swing. If I pull back faster then I risk fast / fast and the putt can just squirt any direction w/ a straight swing. Chipping / bunkers Im usually fast / over swing. I just cant figure out what I am doing wrong, but it is getting annoying.

Not sure if anyone following this thread is still having issues, but this may well help if you are:https://youtu.be/uXDLBWYMT84

@BuckHasTheBookSo basically the skill challenges and some in-game play is not really skill, it's luck. For example, in one of the bunker challenges, I must have hit over 500 shots before I got the ball in the cup in one swing. Several hours of swinging over and over, until I made it...and to be honest, when I did I thought, "I could have swore I hit the exact same shot several times before with the same stats". So why didn't it go in the first time??? Hahaha.

And the delay isn't a player problem...it's a developer/game issue. It has been discussed by not just the player base as a whole but popular gaming sites. It's well documented that there is input delay.If it was intentional, then it should be discussed as such and the reason for it. Transparency is better than everyone trashing the unknown and it causing others not to buy your game. That should be obvious

@BuckHasTheBook It's getting old fast, and it's a brand new game. Too much luck involved. The minutiae will bring this game down. It should definitely be detailed but not to the 100th degree for God's sake. Good grief.

I've been playing this quite a bit I still just can't understand certain components of the swing mechanics. It's not an bandwith or hardware issue with my PC. I'm really suprirsed that there is so little explanation as to how the game works. The practice challenges are fine for practice, but why is there not tutorial or explanation to the fine mechanics of each swing/shot type???Unexplained Issues:Swing always registers as SLOW no matter how fast the actual swing isSwing meter shows a perfect swing (Straight line up the center) yet sometimes the ball will fly straight with only forward spin, sometimes it flies way out to the right or left??? The ball icon shows a lot of sidespin but the swing meter shows a perfect swing??? It doesn't appear to be lie dependent as I've tested this from the same lie in challenge mode. I've hit two shots from the same lie, both showing a perfect swing meter, but one goes straight to the hole, the other is so far right it goes out of bounds!!! ???Swing distances also seem to be all over the place for identical shots.

Confused on Swing Mechanics (XBOX)

47 Replies

evilstans
Seasoned Traveler
3 years ago
I think it's some sort of input lag. If you wait for the animation or meter, then you botch the swing. It seems to be anywhere from 2-5 seconds behind.
Might be the same with hoe the menu switches take a few seconds.
jitter77
3 years ago
I have EA Pro in my PC and tried it there and it felt like a whole new game. My PC is old i have a 2nd gen Intel i7 (2600) and a Rx 570 GPU. Some of the cut scenes and what not stuttered, but the swing was alot better. I was still slow and over swung a little, but the animation was much closer to what i was seeing on the screen. This was with the same monitor and even the same controller. I'm thinking it might have to do with the 30fps on consoles. To me the console version is borderline unplayable compared to PC. I should also mention in PC i used a fresh golfer w/o finese shot and 15-20 less yrds of distance and i had an eagle and 3 birdies in 6 holes. On Xbox i think i made 3-4 birdies in about 40 holes.
DeadxGoat
3 years ago
@jitter77Disconnect your internet during a match. You will now no longer have this issue. Granted you will also be kicked out of the match in 5 minutes.

I am assuming you pc is wired and console is wireless hence you have more lag while swinging on the console.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years ago
Hey, everyone. Make sure your TV is in game mode. Also, if you have Dolby Vision for Gaming enabled in your Xbox settings, disable that as well. Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
jitter77
3 years ago
@DeadxGoat wrote:
@jitter77Disconnect your internet during a match. You will now no longer have this issue. Granted you will also be kicked out of the match in 5 minutes.

I am assuming you pc is wired and console is wireless hence you have more lag while swinging on the console.
You know what they say about assuming 🙂 Every thing i have is wired and i use the same official wired Xbox controller on PC and xbox. I have been learning to work around the swing lag. The slow tempo and overswing almost balance each other out. I am ranging from -2.0% to like +.9%. I just aim long and hope for the best.
DeadxGoat
3 years ago
@jitter77 Not sure what the controller has to do with what I stated. I as asking about your internet connection, not your controller. The input lag is almost certainly due to the game requiring an internet connection while playing. You can remove the lag by disconnecting your internet while playing.
jaytexus
3 years ago
Yea this game has got me so confused and frustrated with the swing. Playing on PS5 and Tour settings.
Timing makes no sense. Pulling back on the stick it seems like the animation is just slow to react so when you push forward when the club reaches the top it logs it as a over swing, so you just learn to push up sooner even though the club isn’t at the top of your swing yet really.
Every drive or shot to the green is considered slow. No matter how fast I push the stick up through the controller it’s always slow. Don’t get it. Some chips or puts alI will accidentally get Perfect tempo, but when I try the same speed on the next drive, it’s slow.
Approach shots. 4-5 iron. I’m like ok I have to go short of the pin to run it up bc it’s not going to get a whole lot of backspin. I get that. It runs passed the hole and off the green. Next time, remembering what happened last time, go even shorter. The ball stops 1-2 from where it landed.
Have the trail of the ball visible. It says it’s gonna be past the hole bc the green is lower elevation. Take less club. It lands in the fairway front of the green. Next shot like this, it flies it.
Ball trail says it will land right at the fringe of the green. “Oh just overswing a little and it’ll land on the green,” my brain thinks. Nope, panda well short in the bunker.
I’ve played golf games for a very long time. Multiple Tiger Woods games from when it started to when it ended, Rory game, Golf Club 1 & 2, and the 2k series. Was really good at all of them. But this game is frustrating me to no end because the swing mechanics are not consistent nor does it make any sense. On top of that there’s nothing that goes through and shows you ALL the swing mechanics that I know of.
Just need to get this all off my chest. Have a good day everyone and good luck.
Ultrasonic_77
Hero
3 years ago
@jaytexus wrote:
Every drive or shot to the green is considered slow. No matter how fast I push the stick up through the controller it’s always slow. Don’t get it.
What swing speed setting are you using? If it isn't 'slowest' then reducing this should help with this.
jaytexus
3 years ago
@Ultrasonic_77 Yea I’ve tried that and still the same thing. Tried all of them.
Ultrasonic_77
Hero
3 years ago
@jaytexus wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Yea I’ve tried that and still the same thing. Tried all of them.
Did the change at least make the issue better, as in you were slow by less? If not are you definitely pressing the button to save the change rather than just scrolling left and right between the different options and then coming back out? Only asking as I think it's less obvious than it could be that a save is required for the change to take effect.