How was this game released with the shot mechanics so broken? You can line up a shot and hit it the same way and the ball lands 20 yards away from the same shot set up. Reading greens is near impossible the moving lines are wrong 50% of the time. Some greens are faster uphill then downhill. Wth EA do your devs have no shame?
@firemedic1401 wrote:How was this game released with the shot mechanics so broken? You can line up a shot and hit it the same way and the ball lands 20 yards away from the same shot set up. Reading greens is near impossible the moving lines are wrong 50% of the time. Some greens are faster uphill then downhill. Wth EA do your devs have no shame?
The core shot mechanic isn't 'broken' but you do need to understand how things work. There is a deliberate random element to shot outcomes but this is significantly reduced as the player spends skill points and applies 'specs' to improve their golfer. Don't judge the game just on the base character performance.
An issue with the direction the beads on the green grid move in some situations has been acknowledged and is being fixed:
@firemedic1401 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77Exactly my point. A random element in a game where you adjust for many variables just to have a random outcome is broken..
There is a random element, reducing the significance of which is a significant gameplay mechanic. I agree that my gut reaction is to be against any random element at all but it doesn't feel as bad as I'd first feared once you've developed your character a bit as I referred to above. If you can't accept this then the game isn't for you but overwhelmingly people who give the game a chance seem to end up enjoying it.
By saying the game isn't broken I was making the point that the game was behaving as intended, rather than this being something you should be expecting to see 'fixed' I'm afraid.
@firemedic1401 wrote:
@Ultrasonic_77My character is developed a bit like you have stated twice. Just because I have a opinion on how a game should play is different then yours means it ain't for me. How do you know the game is performing as intended? Where you on the creative team? If it was behaving like intended why were the menus laggy and not awarding the rewards for 3 days. Was that intended?
I don't work for EA so no I was not involved in the game's development. However there is in-game reference to the random element (see description of Power Drive shot making challenge in the Coaching Academy challenges) and the accuracy stat operates specifically to reduce this (referred to as the 'dispersion circle'). Maybe you could suggest you think the random element is larger than intended I suppose but it's definitely there by design.
My most recent 'random' element was that on a simple putt the ball simply veered completely left for no reason at all. The surface was smooth, the swing was smooth. The ball should have gone straight forward and does 99% of the time. Other 'random' elements see the ball aimed toward the right side of the fairway with little to no wind and the random circle showing middle to right landing to avoid water and the ball yanking left and landing in the water nowhere close to the circle.
Argue all you want, but this game has clear bugs as the later reviews and comments on this board will tell you.
@joestevensus wrote:My most recent 'random' element was that on a simple putt the ball simply veered completely left for no reason at all. The surface was smooth, the swing was smooth. The ball should have gone straight forward and does 99% of the time. Other 'random' elements see the ball aimed toward the right side of the fairway with little to no wind and the random circle showing middle to right landing to avoid water and the ball yanking left and landing in the water nowhere close to the circle.
Argue all you want, but this game has clear bugs as the later reviews and comments on this board will tell you.
The game absolutely had loads of bugs, as is sadly the way with all modern games. I've not remotely suggested otherwise, and even provided a link above covering some bugs the devs had acknowledged and were addressing
If you see examples of where you think a perfectly hit shot inexplicably deviates by more than the indicated shot dispersion then sharing videos in the bug section would be helpful. One thought though would be whether you have wind gusts on? This could be a contributing factor. As could lie angle If you hadn't considered this.
What I'm sttring is definitely not a bug is that there is some random element to shot outcome.
I'm not sure specs should matter that much. Yesterday I hit a tee shot that showed the line going perfectly straight through the centre of the ball, club speed as perfect and backswing 0.7% short. That shot violently shanked 100 yards to the right and ended up in the water, rather than the left edge of the fairway where I was aiming. This happens multiple times every 18 holes.
In real life you don't shank a ball you hit basically perfectly. That isnt how physics works. If I shanked it fair enough, but to hit a ball perfectly straight only for it to shank violently 100 yards from its target just isn't right.
I don't like it either, and probably the main reason why most have stopped playing the game. Some Simmers want even MORE random, but even some of them hate it. When I started a second golfer, it reminded me how bad it was, the feeling it doesn't matter what you're doing, the game is taking over and sending the ball wherever it wants. Lots of Arcade players left, and 3 clickers too.
