Randomly Generated Nonsense
Alright, this is absurd. It does not matter how well you play. This game will randomly decide what happens. It seems to happen the better you play so I have become convinced this is actually nerfi...
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I have my stats almost maxed out on accuracy and there are at least three holes per round (if I’m swinging well and scoring low) that go completely off the rails where the ball is landing far from any indicators (blue arc or landing zones) without explanation. Not an odd bounce or spin which I accept as “seeming” random.
it’s literally like the game says “if you hit the ball properly it will land here”. So I hit the ball properly and it lands… far away from that.
@EdrickLee33 wrote:I have my stats almost maxed out on accuracy and there are at least three holes per round (if I’m swinging well and scoring low) that go completely off the rails where the ball is landing far from any indicators (blue arc or landing zones) without explanation. Not an odd bounce or spin which I accept as “seeming” random.
it’s literally like the game says “if you hit the ball properly it will land here”. So I hit the ball properly and it lands… far away from that.
You may be already, but the way to view the expected landing area is one the size of the shaded area centred about where the blue arc indicates, and noting that variable wind/gusts could be a factor (you'll see the blue live moving about). The ball's trajectory is weighted much more heavily towards the centre of this zone too. This may come down to what constitutes 'far away' for you though.
A video example would be interesting to see if you still feel something inexplicable is happening.
- @Ultrasonic_77 I understand and as mentioned above, the ball is flying three times that expected landing area away from that expected landing area.
I have been playing golf games for over 30 yrs. I wouldn’t be commenting at all if it wasn’t absurd. I can also understand that people not playing in arcade wouldn’t notice. It is a difficult game. But the fact is, even if you do everything correctly, this game still decides you didn’t. That is absurd.
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:
@EdrickLee33 wrote:I have my stats almost maxed out on accuracy and there are at least three holes per round (if I’m swinging well and scoring low) that go completely off the rails where the ball is landing far from any indicators (blue arc or landing zones) without explanation. Not an odd bounce or spin which I accept as “seeming” random.
it’s literally like the game says “if you hit the ball properly it will land here”. So I hit the ball properly and it lands… far away from that.
You may be already, but the way to view the expected landing area is one the size of the shaded area centred about where the blue arc indicates, and noting that variable wind/gusts could be a factor (you'll see the blue live moving about). The ball's trajectory is weighted much more heavily towards the centre of this zone too. This may come down to what constitutes 'far away' for you though.
A video example would be interesting to see if you still feel something inexplicable is happening.
You keep saying the blue arc swaying is "wind GUST" I have wind gust turned off in settings but the blue arc still sways back and fourth in arcade mode.
- @SlimDown57 and the line is lying lol
That “sway” would even be an acceptable amount of “randomness” if that’s what it represented. But it doesn’t.While I disagree that the RNG is nonsense, I do agree with the original polster some changes are needed. I see his arguments all the time during play. I play basically with modified SIM settings.I turn as much off as possible with the exception of the putting grids.
The reason I believe some RNG is required is because purely using controller feedback makes gameplay too accurate. This is because the controller doesn't have enough granularity as an input device.
However in saying this player input should be the main factor in the results of shotmaking. In this game one gets the feeling that RNG has priority.
When I play this game more often than not I feel I hit swing and go find my next shot, until I am inside 50 yards of the pin. And then the game is too easy, it's just a matter of a flop or pick shot and a putt.
There is little to no strategy when I play now, and I can race through a round in about 20 minutes.
Flop and pick shots will stick next to the pin regardless of how fast or sloped the greens are.
Give control back to the players based on controller input, tighten up some of the dispersion zones of some of the clubs and fix the ball physics and the game could be great.
And allow us to turn off all the menu's that are not essential, as well as the reticule that are currently on the screen.
@SlimDown57 wrote:.You keep saying the blue arc swaying is "wind GUST" I have wind gust turned off in settings but the blue arc still sways back and fourth in arcade mode.
That isn't actually what I said. Rather the post you quoted was pointing out that changes in the wind are what causes the blue arc to move. Gusts will cause bigger deviations but as you say the wind isn't a constant speed and direction even with gusts off so the line still moves.
- I've had great fun with the game (about 230 hours of it) but ultimately its unfixed drawbacks have now made me lose interest in it. I was 3 under with 4 to play in the 20 tokens to enter weekly comp at Kiawah only to get done over by a Direct X error that crashed my game and lost my tokens, played it again for 20,000 points and finished 10 over🤣. The ball was played from different spot to where it landed on 5 different occasions during these 2 rounds, I was given an OOB penalty on 4th at Kiawah for driving into the rough at end of fairway, putting - the ball rolled over hole twice only to finish a couple of feet past it, all the usual gripes that people have been talking about since the game was released. Could be a marvellous game but I doubt that EA will sort these issues out, so what could be a realistic sim is in fact an unrealistic farcical arcadey lottery in which EA decide where you will randomly play your shot from, no matter where it landed, that is when they are not nicking your tokens from you. It's only a game and games are supposed to be fun but the nonsense that happens in this game (such as the triple bogey pickup) that was declared to be ultra realistic by the Devs before release has been driving me doo lally. Rant over.... 🤣
