Played last night for the first time in about 3 weeks with some friends on-line.Was playing the Wetlands course (selected it because it was not a course any of us were familiar with).I don't remember the hole... but I was a pitching wedge distance out under benign wind conditons to a pin sloping pretty severely away from me. The ball landed 10 feet past the hole and spun 30 feet back uphill. Leaving me a 20 foot downhill putt. I thought what the heck? Until one of my playing partners spun his back even further.I expect the ball to actually kick forward and check at best leaving me an uphill putt.Especially since a few holes earlier I hit the same shot to a green sloping towards me where the ball settled and dribble only a few feet back to the pin.The ball physics can seem pretty inconsistent at times... including some invisible breaks on putts.

Ball phyics is the worst i've seen in any golf game.

The ball physics is Egregiously Abysmal and I have just lost patience with it. From another post, the lip hangers and plastic wrap effect were mentioned. There was another post that mentioned the excessive backspin bringing ball backwards. It happened to me in Wolf Creek when I had a 71 yard finesse shot carrying a backspin that drove my ball backwards 69 yards; the net gain is 2 yards. This feels like full contact golf where Bills defenders are driving the Bengals rusher back to line of scrimmage. This is what the OP is seeing from this post. Other examples of bad ball physics is when the ball goes in opposite direction of the wind. I still picture the “works most of time” conversation in this case as well. Other golf games including all Tiger iterations, Rory and 2K do not have ball physics issues.

I think much of what you said defines the overall play experience across many of the courses and often irrespective of the skills that a player does or doesn't have. I also think that your subject line is what the programming team said. 😉

@ELF014 I don't mind a challenge, but with the way WC plays it just feels like a punishment tournament, especially with 4 rounds of it. On my good days, I disable as many of the assists as I can and enjoy playing the game at the little more challenging level, on my rough days I need the assists; neither type of day are good days at WC though.

@PalomaMarvel24 Did you have to mention 'W*** C****' and the truly insane backspin there? I'll have nightmares now... 😉 That is one of the courses that is beyond terrible for it, in my opinion. Some of the shots see the backspin being enough to roll back tens of yards, when at best it would halt after a very short distance due to the angle of the slope. It just feels unreal when you watch a ball spin backwards uphill that far on a short shot.

Struggling to understand the ball physics in this game

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Noya_Wesa
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
@PalomaMarvel24 I have a good moan about the poor quality greens at Evian, but I don't go out of my way to avoid it, because as you rightly say, once you do focus on the power game there, it becomes much more accessible overall.
ELF014
3 years ago
@Noya_Wesa I have faith that you can probably navigate W*** C**** without too much issue. It's been awhile since I have played it but from what I remember there are plenty of scoreable holes.

The test is getting through the other holes... meaning you don't aways need to aim at the pin. Even the pros don't do that.

Though if you are playing 3-click on the fast settings... that is pretty difficult. When I tested it, there seemed to be a lag between pressing a button and when it triggered on the meter.

I have more feel for the game using the stick for my swing.
Noya_Wesa
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
@ELF014 Yeah, I can manage to get around it, even with most of the assists turned off if I put my mind to it. It just feels like a lot of effort though. I'd prefer to go play St Andrew's in high wind conditions, than play WC on a calm day. 🙂
3 click on the PC is pretty much on the money timings wise, I will grant them that.
PinarelloFP3
2 years ago
Hello!!
Here it is YET AGAIN EA!!
The amazing gravity defying golf ball!!
Amaze your friends!! Be the talk of the town folks!!
I thought you people at EA fixed this caca!! This ball started on the left rim of the cup and went all the way AROUND THE RIM to rest miraculously on the rim in an act of gravitational defiance never before seen!!
What should've been a birdie now is going to be a par!!
WTF??
PalomaMarvel24
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@PinarelloFP3 wrote:
Hello!!
Here it is YET AGAIN EA!!
The amazing gravity defying golf ball!!
Amaze your friends!! Be the talk of the town folks!!
I thought you people at EA fixed this caca!! This ball started on the left rim of the cup and went all the way AROUND THE RIM to rest miraculously on the rim in an act of gravitational defiance never before seen!!
What should've been a birdie now is going to be a par!!
WTF??
Looks like Kylo Ren has used his force freeze on the ball. This issue has been in the game since the Notorious Update 3. It’s bad that this is still an issue.
Katybee_1313
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@PinarelloFP3 wrote:
Hello!!
Here it is YET AGAIN EA!!
The amazing gravity defying golf ball!!
Amaze your friends!! Be the talk of the town folks!!
I thought you people at EA fixed this caca!! This ball started on the left rim of the cup and went all the way AROUND THE RIM to rest miraculously on the rim in an act of gravitational defiance never before seen!!
What should've been a birdie now is going to be a par!!
WTF??
After the ball going around the rim is weird, but I saw it before. I got my ball hanging at the edge of the hole a few times when I play real golf, with part of the ball hanging over the hole. And I also saw it many times with pros, just waiting there as long as they could hoping the ball finally fall in the hole.
Edit: There is one and he was given a stroke penalty because he waited too long to tap the ball in the hole.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=soo+kim+waiting+for+the+ball+falling+into+hole&sca_esv=594958446&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc6vK6lL2DAxWLJTQIHWmXBycQ_AUoAnoECAMQBA&biw=1280&bih=559&dpr=1.5#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:5dd50bb5,vid:APSGbjqiZew,st:0
chad_sex1ngton
2 years ago
Yeah, I think there's a reason this game doesn't have replays. They would make it much more apparent there is something amiss with the physics. Youtube would be awash with examples of janky shots. 7 irons into a green sloping towards me, flag 1/3 on. Hit it on the front third, it rolls 21 yards up the green and another 10 yards off the back. Duh? I wonder if early internal testing of this game found it was too easy and folks were shooting -14 around Augusta first time out. Certain aspects of it are over-powered, so to redress the balance they've 'massaged' the physics a little to make it so any 7 iron or lower simply won't stop. And yes, I've played it long enough to raise my stats. and acces all the shot types...it still happens. It just feels a bit off somewhere in the mechanics.
Mark_Miwurdz
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
The net is awash with examples recorded using the pc or consoles recording facility.
Mark_Miwurdz
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mai3gtWfhlY
lolwhat1234
2 years ago
@Mark_Miwurdz wrote:
The net is awash with examples recorded using the pc or consoles recording facility.
Not to mention EA's community manager, shortly after launch, just telling people to use the clipping feature on their console/PC.
The lack of replay feature isn't an elaborate cover-up, it's just a low priority feature request because people already have a way of saving replays (albeit limited).

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