shots and shot types
(EA) needs to add ALL shot types to each different approach/bunker/whatever, its stupid having 2 (TWO) shots out of a bunker from inside 20 yards. im sick of being limited to certain shots from parts...
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I have to agree that opening up the various shot types would make a lot of sense, even if just to enable players to find their own style, instead of being limited to a couple of devs idea of what golf is, and how it should be played.
@Noya_Wesa wrote:I have to agree that opening up the various shot types would make a lot of sense, even if just to enable players to find their own style, instead of being limited to a couple of devs idea of what golf is, and how it should be played.
I fully support this idea.. but I would take it a step further. Opening up the use of all shot types would just remove shots from the game. A PICK shot is essentially a FLOP shot out of the sand.
What I have proposed instead is to remove all the shot types, and instead allow us to manipulate the characters stance to execute whatever shot we want.
Allow us to open or close the characters stance to hit a fade/draw... move the ball forward or backward in the stance to add a little height or trap the ball... and the ability to open the club face to hit a high lofted shot. And everything time we make an adjustment... the further from a stock swing the timing become incrementally more difficult.
For beginners... in the lower levels of difficulty you can disable or minimize this timing parameter... as well as enabling a shot arc so they can understand how each change in stance effects the ball flight.
For more established players they can play with all these aids disabled.
This would make for a much more realistic and challenging game in my opinion with a full palette to make whatever shot you want from wherever you want with no limitations.
I would also like to see the swing speed accelerate progressively faster from the start of the swing to the top. This way a pitch or chip would feel like a more realistic motion, and you could use the same swing for all shots. Plus timing a fast swing near the top for perfect yardage would be incrementally more difficult than a pitch shot with a 3/4 swing. Again more representative of real life.
First up, note that all shot types are made available to new players in the Coaching Academy, which whilst terribly signposted is intended as the games tutorial.
My personal view: I enjoyed the game mechanic of all shot types not being available for normal play at the start of the game, with an incentive to keep playing being to accumulate skill points, develop my golfer and explore what may ultimately be optimal for my play-style. Note that whilst there is a reward point cost it is intentionally possible to re-allocate skill points to explore different options. Whilst I absolutely get that not everyone will have gained any pleasure from this core gameplay mechanic, I'm also confident I'm not alone in having enjoyed this aspect and as such my vote would be a strong 'no' against the notion of his needing to be 'fixed'. For keen players I'm sure most will have fully unlocked everything by now anyway so it's moot for them, and later adopters I'd suggest are if anything likely to be more casual players more inclined to enjoy the current mechanic IMHO.
@Ultrasonic_77 wrote:First up, note that all shot types are made available to new players in the Coaching Academy, which whilst terribly signposted is intended as the games tutorial.
My personal view: I enjoyed the game mechanic of all shot types not being available for normal play at the start of the game, with an incentive to keep playing being to accumulate skill points, develop my golfer and explore what may ultimately be optimal for my play-style. Note that whilst there is a reward point cost it is intentionally possible to re-allocate skill points to explore different options. Whilst I absolutely get that not everyone will have gained any pleasure from this core gameplay mechanic, I'm also confident I'm not alone in having enjoyed this aspect and as such my vote would be a strong 'no' against the notion of his needing to be 'fixed'. For keen players I'm sure most will have fully unlocked everything by now anyway so it's moot for them, and later adopters I'd suggest are if anything likely to be more casual players more inclined to enjoy the current mechanic IMHO.
I don't think you understand what the OP was complaining about. It is not the fact that shot types are not available from the beginning. It is that available shot types cannot be used at any time.
I noticed this the first week I played the game, you can only hit certain types of shots from certain places in the game. Shot types are not always available to you... this is not restricted to when you are in the sand.
@ELF014 wrote:I don't think you understand what the OP was complaining about. It is not the fact that shot types are not available from the beginning. It is that available shot types cannot be used at any time.
I noticed this the first week I played the game, you can only hit certain types of shots from certain places in the game. Shot types are not always available to you... this is not restricted to when you are in the sand.
Think I may partly have been getting mixed up with a different thread actually.
What specific limitations do you think there are that would benefit from being changed? On the specific example of bunkers close to the green it's not immediately obvious to me what the benefit of expanding shot type range would be if the Pick still remained the clearly best shot type to use?
