Re: Unexplained shot behaviour

I'm right there with you Chava Maceta!!

Check out some of my other rants on this subject!! My latest one today (7-09-23).

@PinarelloFP3Your other post is spot on and you have pictures on the one inch putt with levitating ball. The physics just got worse after Update 3.0.

I thought it would improve as my golfer gets better. My golfer is level 50, OVR 99, and has the following specs: Cameron Champ Driver, Patrick Cantlay Wood, Lexi Thompson Hybrid, Tony Finau Iron and Wedge, Dustin Johnson Ball. Yet the RNG just got worse. Here is an example of how bad it is even with the top of the line specs. I was going for a drive in a par 5 at Lighthouse Point where the bunker is 330 Yards away. In first round, my ball ended up in the sand when I used a power drive with my driver. In the second round, I toned everything down where I set to drive and used a wood instead. The 5 mph wind is going against me where I expect the ball to go short; also my wood has a set distance of 283 yards which is 47 yards from the bunker. I had the perfect center swing and guess where it landed…the ball still ended up in the bunker 330 yards away from the starting point. I don’t even think Hulk Hogan is powerful enough to hit 330 yard with a Wood.

I have played this game straight from April 7 until last Wednesday. I just needed a break from the game because I have been frustrated with the RNG, and the physics just don’t make sense.

I am attaching a link to your post so others can check it out too.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/AGAIN-EA-s-PGA-Programmers-and-code-writers-show-their/td-p/12729673

I'm trying something new, we are now playing multiplayer mode private games with new avatars that don't have skill points or specs.

The RNG is what it is... and as I have said in other posts I just hit the ball and go chase it.

The game is still too easy at the hardest settings. We played two rounds and I still shot well under par.

I have noticed that using performance mode my distance control is much better than before. Or they changed something in the last patch.

Things are a bit more challenging, but it still is no where close to where it needs to be. RNG definitely needs to be tightened up, and the swing mechanics need to better represent controller input, with options for all level of players.

And of course ball physics that make sense.

the wind is a total joke. had so many wind issues today

after 1 round I just turned the game off.

really sad because I was really looking forward to this game.

I have terminal cancer and around 6 months left and I just can't believe I

wasted darn near 100 bucks on this crap, but then again what should I have expected

after the past I have had with EA.

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@davefv92 wrote:

the wind is a total joke. had so many wind issues today

after 1 round I just turned the game off.

really sad because I was really looking forward to this game.

I have terminal cancer and around 6 months left and I just can't believe I

wasted darn near 100 bucks on this crap, but then again what should I have expected

after the past I have had with EA.

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Sorry to hear about your personal challenges.

But I hear what you are saying about your recent past with EA. I took a pretty long hiatus away from video gaming so my memories dare much further back for this company.

I remember a fledgling company called Electronic Arts, that were truly innovators in the sports gaming field. It appears the company I remember is long gone. And instead of a small dedicated team wanting to put out the best product they could has instead become a corporate juggernaut looking to make as much money as they can instead.

It's too bad they haven't realized they can do both at the same time. 

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@ELF014 wrote:

I'm trying something new, we are now playing multiplayer mode private games with new avatars that don't have skill points or specs.

The RNG is what it is... and as I have said in other posts I just hit the ball and go chase it.

The game is still too easy at the hardest settings. We played two rounds and I still shot well under par.

I have noticed that using performance mode my distance control is much better than before. Or they changed something in the last patch.

Things are a bit more challenging, but it still is no where close to where it needs to be. RNG definitely needs to be tightened up, and the swing mechanics need to better represent controller input, with options for all level of players.

And of course ball physics that make sense.

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Yesterday while i was watching PGA golf i think the leader was - double digits! They must find a way to make it harder for them to score that good.

@SlimDown57I'm okay with it... it took them 4 days to get to a score low enough to close to what we get on one round.

I am not advocating to increase the difficulty for everyone. I'm just asking for additional settings to make game challenging for everyone. Even at the hardest settings this game is too easy for most of us.

If you had flipped the channel to watch the LPGA the final score was in the single digits after 4 rounds. And only a handful were under par.

Being able to shoot -15 or -20 isn't my idea of fun. Though I don't begrudge those that do.

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@ELF014 wrote:

@SlimDown57I'm okay with it... it took them 4 days to get to a score low enough to close to what we get on one round.

I am not advocating to increase the difficulty for everyone. I'm just asking for additional settings to make game challenging for everyone. Even at the hardest settings this game is too easy for most of us.

If you had flipped the channel to watch the LPGA the final score was in the single digits after 4 rounds. And only a handful were under par.

Being able to shoot -15 or -20 isn't my idea of fun. Though I don't begrudge those that do.

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While your not advocating to increase the difficulty for everyone that is what generally happens in my experience. IMHO  

Now that I have unlocked "Power Drive" and have been using that, I can see that the shot dispersion is ramped up.

I get what they are trying to do with that, it's a kind of risk and reward, with power sacrificing accuracy, I get that but.....

.... If I nail a Power Drive perfect on the middle, I SHOULD NOT expect it to randomly fly away in the wrong direction(with the exception to wind, that actually does make sense). I strongly stand by that.

To make my point, if my shot was slightly to the left or right, I agree with the dispersion being exaggerated for using the power drive, that's the whole point, but don't punish any players when they do something right! I can't believe I have to spell that out

I would much prefer the swing meter to increase in speed when using the power drive, that makes getting the accuracy harder, that makes more sense, but perfect timed shots not following the aim arc in the slightest, surely you can see how wrong that is!?

@ELF014  You talk so much sense and I can see your dedication to the golf games past and present in other posts, so if you agree with me I know I am talking sense :-)

"And to increase difficulty just reduce the size of the swing path that constitutes a straight shot." - Exactly. If that sentence was a shot, you've hit it straight down the middle of the fairway

@Stevie-G-you-seeAs they say... this isn't rocket science. And you don't always need to reinvent the wheel to make things better.

The concept of a wheel has worked just fine for thousands of years. Refining it is what is important.

My ex would disagree with you about me being sensible.

@Stevie-G-you-seeThe power drive for sure has a much stronger dispersion. With a wide fairway, the power drive is great. With a narrow fairway and bunkers close by, that shot can be problematic regardless of how well you aim your shot. The power drive in narrow fairways has bitten me constantly. RNG has constantly said What you gonna do when the bunker runs wild on you each time I use power drive in narrow fairways. For narrow fairways with bunkers at a Par-5, I use the power drive and aim for the rough because I have a better shot of making the green from the rough instead of the bunker.

It really is counterintuitive that RNG is forcing players to make bad shots instead of good ones because the bad shots are providing better results. The good results from bad shots are incentivizing bad shots. I like the idea of rewarding good shots and punishing bad ones as stated by @ELF014 

Just to show how simple the game is, I won the Amateur Championship on the hardest settings possible minus having the green grid on and after the 4 rounds, I was -30. Another thing I’d change on the game is the penalties for bad lies, it’s way too forgiving. I’d like to see a golf game where it’s less of a shootout and picking up shots is more of an achievement rather than simply standard. I’ve had some rounds where it’s like Golf Clash golf…. Anything less than a birdie is rubbish