Post by Brighttail on Jan 16, 2016 20:01:08 GMT -5
A while back I was told by Anthony from HB that the reason that a putt might go in on my screen but not on the screen of a friend that I was playing, was that there are minor differences between graphic cards. I accepted this without question, but then I would see a ball miss on my own screen, while I was playing alone and yet on replay it went in (and vice verse). So this explanation didn't make sense anymore because it was the same computer on both the actual shot and the replay. This time I was told that when each shot is made, only a certain part of the shot is placed into memory, so there might be slight differences. HB supposedly fixed this but then there was an issue with saved shots that the shot would not save the wind at the time of the shot and the replayed shot was using the current GLOBAL wind. This too apparently was fixed.
None of it got fixed. As an example in tourney play, I made a hole in one. I went back to watch the replay and it missed. Again, it missed but slightly different. Again and it missed again but this time by about 20 feet. I replayed it 10 times. Two times it went into the hole, each time a little differently. The other times all the shots were different, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.
I decided to have a friend of mine test a new theory. We turned on angle snapping and tried to play each tee shot ( and some putts ) the same exact way. Since angle snapping was on, we were hitting the ball 100% straight. The differences in our shots sometimes was amazing. On the par 3s we made zero adjustments and our shots were identical and yet the result often time was 20-30 feet different from each other. We tested this on putting, getting our balls within an inch or two putting on the same line. We would make no adjustments and putt. On one particular 8 foot putt that broke from left to right, my ball went right of the hole by 3/4 of a grid. His ball went dead center of the cup as the ball never broke. There were several more instances where things just made no sense.
Before last patch I talked with Anthony about putting which seemed very off. Balls running over the center of the cup as if the cup didn't exist. Balls hitting the edge of the hole and reacting in weird if not impossible ways. When asked about it, Anthony said no changes were made to putting so nothing had changed and yet in the next patch, putting was suddenly 'patched', no explanation as to why. Since then, people like Brad Garcia has told me that he is missing more 5-8 foot putts but making more 20-25 foot putts. I have seen similar results.
Anthony says there is no randomness in putts but hasn't said their isn't in other shots. While not intended I really think there is randomness in every shot, as it is the only explanation to things I have seen. We know there are errors in the game, a ball that goes in during tournament play for birdie and suddenly i'm 2 feet away putting for par (twice). I haven't even gotten to match, duo play and 4 Best ball play where over 1/2 of the holes have differing results on all the screens, which for me makes the game less fun to play. Worse part is I played two weeks ago with a friend. At the end of 9 holes i was -2 with 7 putts lipping out. My friend showed 8 of 9 of those going in. So i'm hoping people can understand the frustration.
Of course I could be just whining and somewhere in the time since last patch I have gotten a lot worse. I suppose that is possible but I don't think so. I checked the stats. I was 28 % on Long putts and am now 31%. I was 85% on medium putts and am 81%. Short putts I actually hit 98% (which is so hard to do ) earlier this week and got it back to 99%. Bottom line something has changed and I guess I'm just unable to adapt. If this was just me, i'd say i'm whining, but I have talked with many people who all have felt that putting / the game has changed in a way that they cannot explain. Just about all feel putting has changed in a way for the worse.
Take it as you will
None of it got fixed. As an example in tourney play, I made a hole in one. I went back to watch the replay and it missed. Again, it missed but slightly different. Again and it missed again but this time by about 20 feet. I replayed it 10 times. Two times it went into the hole, each time a little differently. The other times all the shots were different, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.
I decided to have a friend of mine test a new theory. We turned on angle snapping and tried to play each tee shot ( and some putts ) the same exact way. Since angle snapping was on, we were hitting the ball 100% straight. The differences in our shots sometimes was amazing. On the par 3s we made zero adjustments and our shots were identical and yet the result often time was 20-30 feet different from each other. We tested this on putting, getting our balls within an inch or two putting on the same line. We would make no adjustments and putt. On one particular 8 foot putt that broke from left to right, my ball went right of the hole by 3/4 of a grid. His ball went dead center of the cup as the ball never broke. There were several more instances where things just made no sense.
Before last patch I talked with Anthony about putting which seemed very off. Balls running over the center of the cup as if the cup didn't exist. Balls hitting the edge of the hole and reacting in weird if not impossible ways. When asked about it, Anthony said no changes were made to putting so nothing had changed and yet in the next patch, putting was suddenly 'patched', no explanation as to why. Since then, people like Brad Garcia has told me that he is missing more 5-8 foot putts but making more 20-25 foot putts. I have seen similar results.
Anthony says there is no randomness in putts but hasn't said their isn't in other shots. While not intended I really think there is randomness in every shot, as it is the only explanation to things I have seen. We know there are errors in the game, a ball that goes in during tournament play for birdie and suddenly i'm 2 feet away putting for par (twice). I haven't even gotten to match, duo play and 4 Best ball play where over 1/2 of the holes have differing results on all the screens, which for me makes the game less fun to play. Worse part is I played two weeks ago with a friend. At the end of 9 holes i was -2 with 7 putts lipping out. My friend showed 8 of 9 of those going in. So i'm hoping people can understand the frustration.
Of course I could be just whining and somewhere in the time since last patch I have gotten a lot worse. I suppose that is possible but I don't think so. I checked the stats. I was 28 % on Long putts and am now 31%. I was 85% on medium putts and am 81%. Short putts I actually hit 98% (which is so hard to do ) earlier this week and got it back to 99%. Bottom line something has changed and I guess I'm just unable to adapt. If this was just me, i'd say i'm whining, but I have talked with many people who all have felt that putting / the game has changed in a way that they cannot explain. Just about all feel putting has changed in a way for the worse.
Take it as you will