EA SPORTS PGA TOUR - Deep Dives

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@MaouYumisu wrote:

I was unaware that other EA Games were causing all these issues of bricking people's consoles, shutting down, etc. Thanks for the heads up. That's perfectly good reason to have 30fps as the standard to prevent that if possible.

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You're the first person to mention consoles being 'bricked'?

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@birdyboy1998000 wrote:

this isn’t a moan at all, I am genuinely looking forward to this PGA, however I’m very hesitant at wanting to get it because of the issues involving Fifa. 

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Don't worry, highlighting real game issues is not remotely 'moaning'. The F1 2021 issue I mentioned above was a big problem but thankfully one that hasn't recurred with the current game. Notably the F1 games don't use the Frostbite engine for what it's worth though. I would be careful about referring to consoles being 'fried' though as that implies real hardware damage, and is very different to consoles just shutting down.

I only very occasionally play FIFA (badly) so I don't spend time on that part of this forum. Or Madden come to that. To what extent frame rates may be a real cause of the issues though I wouldn't necessarily be confident about. I'm expect last and current gen FIFA both run at 60 fps for example?

if you take a look on the Fifa forums and madden forums even happens from time to time on Battlefield 2042, you don’t need to scroll down far to find out about these issues and most of these threads started soon after the game was released, I’ve made a few, one was locked because we continued to question and the others just ignored. We just get a response of your console is overheating, clean it or it’s immediately ‘your console is the issue send it to Microsoft’, that’s all well and good but why send it to Microsoft with one game doing it and also at the cost of £280 (if your console is out of warranty) it’s not the first thing I would suggest. 

being an Xbox series x user, I had to try out flight simulator, I couldn’t resist, a game that I have been able to play for the most I’ve played 4 hours including keeping it in game while having a break and then further playing 2 hours on call of duty and have no shut downs at all and we are all immediately told, console issue, not our issue speak to Microsoft, Sony or your PC is knackered, we don’t even get a response of, ‘we will go away a investigate this issue’, just straight to the ‘it’s a console issue’, we go to Microsoft and the response is, ‘ if it’s one particular game doing this, then it’s an issue on the game side’. The fact my console can render a 1:1 scale of planet earth and can play a game that demands more from my console than Fifa 23 and previous enhanced FIFA’s, I think it will sway towards a game issue. Speaking to a friend who is a developer at Rebellion (Sniper elite series) and he’s told me an it’s an issue within the coding, further raising my suspicion that it’s a game issue. Also when playing Fifa for the time that I get before it shuts down my console, the heat that it releases, is no different to the heat from playing flight simulator or call of duty for hours on end. 

away from the moan, that’s why I am hesitant about purchasing PGA, as much as I am looking forward to it and seeing what it looks like and what’s on offer, I just feel as though that it’s going to join the trend of what seems to be enhanced EA games that shut down people’s consoles and PC’s 

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@birdyboy1998000 wrote:

away from the moan, that’s why I am hesitant about purchasing PGA, as much as I am looking forward to it and seeing what it looks like and what’s on offer, I just feel as though that it’s going to join the trend of what seems to be enhanced EA games that shut down people’s consoles and PC’s 

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Best to just wait and see what happens when the game is released and then make an informed decision whether to buy or not.

(I won't get involved in the FIFA issue as others will be much better placed to do so but I do recall similar seemingly justified frustrations with F1 2021 from those affected.)

Yeah, that’s probably the best thing to do, I’m hoping it doesn’t join the trend that we see with the other enhanced EA games but since they haven’t been fixed, I just feel a bit hesitant, as I said, looks good from the videos, looks like it has promise and glad to see it return to EA 

Looks like we'll have more course info. tomorrow:

https://youtu.be/uZQKSnGp4ZA

After watching the new course deep dive, I really hope we can turn off those popups "Albatross" "Birdie" that popup out of the hole. Just breaks immersion. 

I'm more concerned with how bad they look instead of turning em off. Pretty sure they'll improve it. If not then oh well. Could be worse. 

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@xGBx_Boogie wrote:

After watching the new course deep dive, I really hope we can turn off those popups "Albatross" "Birdie" that popup out of the hole. Just breaks immersion. 

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Yes, I'd agree. Those pop-ups did rather go against the general stressing of realism in the video otherwise. It seems like a relatively simple thing to include an option to turn off so hopefully this will happen. 

A little bit more and we had fireworks!