PGA Tour Xbox - unable to get a perfect swing

I don't know... To put in on perspective on xbox in about 40 holes with finese shot, a couple power spots, and max control i made 3-4 birds.  On pc with a new golfer in 6 holes i made eagle and 3 birdies.  Xbox just seems very sluggish and non responsive 

You are absolutely right...100%. Even if you read reviews from gaming magazines online they specifically mention the delay. It is a problem and you are 1 of MANY that have that problem.

Plus, the mechanics are just strange. The "Driving Challenge 2" mentions hitting a long drive which equates to a driver+power of 100%+a fairway in regulation.  Well, I hit 2 but I can't seem to hit 5 in a row to save my life. I believe there are a couple hindrances, 1) what the hell constitutes 100% power??? And 2) there is literally no detail about the ACTUAL swing mechanics.  Pull back and forward tells me nothing about the speed, power, etc factors.

Plus, I feel.like I swi g the same apeed every time but the indicator tells me power is +.2% then +.4% then -1.5%...ON THE SAME STYLE OF SWING?!?!?! What in the world is wrong with this game.

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@TriumphRider wrote:

You are absolutely right...100%. Even if you read reviews from gaming magazines online they specifically mention the delay. It is a problem and you are 1 of MANY that have that problem.

Plus, the mechanics are just strange. The "Driving Challenge 2" mentions hitting a long drive which equates to a driver+power of 100%+a fairway in regulation.  Well, I hit 2 but I can't seem to hit 5 in a row to save my life. I believe there are a couple hindrances, 1) what the hell constitutes 100% power??? And 2) there is literally no detail about the ACTUAL swing mechanics.  Pull back and forward tells me nothing about the speed, power, etc factors.

Plus, I feel.like I swi g the same apeed every time but the indicator tells me power is +.2% then +.4% then -1.5%...ON THE SAME STYLE OF SWING?!?!?! What in the world is wrong with this game.

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Yup, I find there's also a whole lot of randomness to everything.   I'm about ready to pack it in and get a refund from MS and maybe revisit the game after some improvements.   The swing of your actual golfer is slow, the swing mechanic itself is wildly inaccurate and there seems to be a randomness built in to make you hit offline shots.  I've lost track now of how many times I've seen the swing feedback meter show perfect/perfect yet my ball drifts off target left or right.   Try and hit one down the left side of a fairway... perfect/perfect on the swing yet there goes the ball drifting off into the rough, or always seemingly conveniently enough a bunker.   The best is doing it in a practice round with mulligans on, hit one that goes left/right despite perfect/perfect, then hit another same shot, same spot perfect/perfect on the swing and it's perfectly straight.  Go figure.  There's a randomness that seems to be programmed in to dictate off target shots regardless.   Then there's the sheer madness on Xbox of trying to always get perfect/perfect.  It's always a bit slow, or over powered etc. etc.   It's just poor mechanics all the way around.

I want to love this game, it's beautiful... from the courses, to the presentation, the sound all of it is great.  The mechanics though and the camera settings?  Awful.   IF you could take the other golf game's mechanics and put it into this game...  perfection.

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@petro1319 wrote:

Yup, I find there's also a whole lot of randomness to everything.   I'm about ready to pack it in and get a refund from MS and maybe revisit the game after some improvements.   The swing of your actual golfer is slow, the swing mechanic itself is wildly inaccurate and there seems to be a randomness built in to make you hit offline shots.  I've lost track now of how many times I've seen the swing feedback meter show perfect/perfect yet my ball drifts off target left or right.

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What does the swing plane line look like though? This will affect the ball path even if the power and timing are 'perfect'. I've been trying to decide for myself if there is still some randomness built-it but this is definitely a factor, as you'd hope.

Bro you need to push the stick forward fast to get 100%+ it took me a while to figure out as it is not explained anywhere. But driving challange 2 is bugged i hit all 5 but don’t unlock the last star

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@petro1319 wrote:

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@TriumphRider wrote:

You are absolutely right...100%. Even if you read reviews from gaming magazines online they specifically mention the delay. It is a problem and you are 1 of MANY that have that problem.

Plus, the mechanics are just strange. The "Driving Challenge 2" mentions hitting a long drive which equates to a driver+power of 100%+a fairway in regulation.  Well, I hit 2 but I can't seem to hit 5 in a row to save my life. I believe there are a couple hindrances, 1) what the hell constitutes 100% power??? And 2) there is literally no detail about the ACTUAL swing mechanics.  Pull back and forward tells me nothing about the speed, power, etc factors.

Plus, I feel.like I swi g the same apeed every time but the indicator tells me power is +.2% then +.4% then -1.5%...ON THE SAME STYLE OF SWING?!?!?! What in the world is wrong with this game.

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Yup, I find there's also a whole lot of randomness to everything.   I'm about ready to pack it in and get a refund from MS and maybe revisit the game after some improvements.   The swing of your actual golfer is slow, the swing mechanic itself is wildly inaccurate and there seems to be a randomness built in to make you hit offline shots.  I've lost track now of how many times I've seen the swing feedback meter show perfect/perfect yet my ball drifts off target left or right.   Try and hit one down the left side of a fairway... perfect/perfect on the swing yet there goes the ball drifting off into the rough, or always seemingly conveniently enough a bunker.   The best is doing it in a practice round with mulligans on, hit one that goes left/right despite perfect/perfect, then hit another same shot, same spot perfect/perfect on the swing and it's perfectly straight.  Go figure.  There's a randomness that seems to be programmed in to dictate off target shots regardless.   Then there's the sheer madness on Xbox of trying to always get perfect/perfect.  It's always a bit slow, or over powered etc. etc.   It's just poor mechanics all the way around.

I want to love this game, it's beautiful... from the courses, to the presentation, the sound all of it is great.  The mechanics though and the camera settings?  Awful.   IF you could take the other golf game's mechanics and put it into this game...  perfection.

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I'm on pc and I never hit a perfect swing either.  either my tempo is off or I under or over swing.  Its hard as hell and I can count on my hand how many times I've done it.   Its much much easier to do when putting.  That being said the game still plays great though.   At least its not hard to go  straight with the analog stick.  lol
 
The randomness is definitely a real thing and intentional for sure.   And sure does make you wonder how so many guys just hit perfect shots every time eh?  lol

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@RichAC wrote:

 
The randomness is definitely a real thing and intentional for sure.   And sure does make you wonder how so many guys just hit perfect shots every time eh?  lol

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I don't suppose anyone does. The game mechanics mean that it's no big deal if we don't though so it isn't necessary to score well.

For what it's worth I play on PS5 where I hit a mix of slow and fast, with the occasional perfect. I'm very definitely not a top player though. 

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@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:

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@RichAC wrote:

 
The randomness is definitely a real thing and intentional for sure.   And sure does make you wonder how so many guys just hit perfect shots every time eh?  lol

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I don't suppose anyone does. The game mechanics mean that it's no big deal if we don't though so it isn't necessary to score well.

For what it's worth I play on PS5 where I hit a mix of slow and fast, with the occasional perfect. I'm very definitely not a top player though. 

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the whole thing about randomness is that it doesn't always go where you want it if you don't hit it perfect.   of course putting points into your golfer's attributes help.

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@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:
@RichACI believe the context here was perfect swing timing/tempo.

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exactly?  The point is when you are off on your tempo or overswing,   you are more likely to randomly hit off target.  As it is we have a circle telling us where the ball can deviate within which might be even with a perfect swing, i'm not sure.  So of course people are going to wonder if that is severely disadvantaging them.   I don't find it to be a big deal myself.

Getting slows on every shot is certainly a disadvantage one way or another and is something that needs fixing by EA for players finding they can't do anything else even on the slowest swing speed.

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@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:

Getting slows on every shot is certainly a disadvantage one way or another and is something that needs fixing by EA for players finding they can't do anything else even on the slowest swing speed.

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now that I think about it.  My tempo is literally always slow on almost every single club shot except putting.   Literally.  I'm also on PC not xbox so I agree it must be something with the game.