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Axs5898Sxa614's avatar
3 years ago

The AI on Quick Play in career mode is messed up

I just entered the 4th round of a tournament as 1st place 7 under. The AI played 9 over in 14 holes during quick play. This really ruined my whole tournament.

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  • Noya_Wesa's avatar
    Noya_Wesa
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago

    I'll happily agree that quick play is messed up. 

    Having tried it at last, after finding it monotonous to play 4 rounds each tournament, I now consider it a choice between getting bored playing 4 rounds each time, or fighting an insane AI that is set on destroying my stats and trying its hardest to ensure that I won't achieve first place. 

    I'm not the greatest player in the world, but when doing the 4 days in normal mode, I usually end up with a score of around 20 or better under par combined across the event, and will see 3 or 4 bogeys at most. 

    In quick play, the AI seems to think that I will get at least 3 bogeys per day, and I'll be lucky to achieve a combined total of 10 under by the end of the event. 

    I'm not sure what kind of algorithms they use to get such weird random numbers, but it makes quick play a non viable option in reality. Clearly they don't base it on actual scoring averages for the player. 

  • I posted about this a while ago.

    Quick Play Screws me over.  Ok just some background.  I am level 49 and have been playing a lot and getting back to about where I was in EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 The Masters.(been playing PGA Tour games for years  99-2012)  So since I don't want to have to play 72 holes every event I just play 72 holes on majors and FedEx Playoffs.  So maybe I am the only one but Quick Play screws me over about every other event.  For example I make a lot of Pars and Birdies now.  When I was learning the game I got more Bogies than Birdies but got better the more I played.  So after 3 rounds I was tied in 2nd place and behind by 2 (-5, -7 leader).  So I should have a shot at winning in round 4.  So I go to start round 4 on 14.  4 holes left. and my score is +5 and the leader dropped by 1 shot to -6.  So with 4 holes I need to pick up 11 shots.  The quick play got bogeys, double bogeys, and 1 hole it even got an 8.   I didn't even know you could get an 8 on a hole.  Now all 3 previous rounds I didn't get a bogey, only Pars and Birdies  So quick play completely screwed me over.  I was playing well and it blows my final round.  If it happened earlier in the week I might be able to climb back but with just 4 holes left it is impossible.  Any quick play solutions?  I don't want to play 4 full rounds every event.  To try to help me with this I changed AI Scoring Difficulty to 0 when not plying a championship to hope I don't get blown away during a bad quick play, but with 10 over par there's little hope.  When I play 4 full rounds I turn the Scoring Difficulty back up to normal and win by quite a few strokes.

  • I have this issue as well. So many bugs in this game.

    On quick play in career mode, the AI scoring always screws me. For example I ended a day -9, my shots were mostly birdie and eagles. Then the simulation the next round put me 3 over par. The AI shot all bogies and double bogies. I have never even gotten a double bogie in this game.

    To make matters worse, I changed it to all 18 holes and it remains on quick play. It has been on all 18 for like 5 tournaments and it still stays on quick play. I've switch it back and forth and it never changes from quick play.

    It's pretty much unplayable until this is fixed. I wish it had the option to just play 1 round for the tournament like every tiger woods game ever.

  • sandwich_slim's avatar
    sandwich_slim
    3 years ago

    So EA just ignores a problem that they don't know the answer to or what

  • Yes, this is atrocious. My AI regularly plays its 48-52 holes WAY over par.

    First time playing the PGA championship at Oak Hill, I finished my part of round 3 on hole 14 with a score at -8, two shots behind the leader. By the end of the round AI had taken me to -6, leader at -11. Round 4 the AI played the front 9 and I'm teeing off at -3, with the leader at -14. What a joke, EA.

  • The_Boogiest_Ma's avatar
    The_Boogiest_Ma
    3 years ago

    I just started the Masters. AI played the first 10 holes in 4 over par. The leader so far is at 7 under par. I'M 11 SHOTS BEHIND AND I HAVEN'T EVEN PLAYED A SINGLE HOLE YET.

    EA you have to do something, this is a huge disservice to the good parts of the game.

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