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Post by gmadd313 on May 5, 2016 9:37:01 GMT -5
Is anyone else a little disappointed with the physics of the game? I just wanted to see other's thoughts on the Web Tour.
You have an uphill shot in to a 14 mph wind, and the green slopes back to front. How do shots hit the green and pick up speed in that scenario? It doesn't seem physically possible for that ball to be rolling to the back of the green.
I've run in to this a lot. It seems to happen with balls bouncing out of the rough. If its thick rough, I don't think the balls should be rolling that fast afterward. I would think that thick rough would essentially be killing the ball.
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Post by unclefester75 on May 5, 2016 12:58:44 GMT -5
I understand but don't have a problem with it. It is just how video games are. Nothing is going to be perfect.
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Post by nantez88 on May 5, 2016 13:09:29 GMT -5
Don't forget about rock hard fringes too. Absolutely ridiculous when the ball acts like it's been sprung off a trampoline when you pitch on the fringe
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Post by lessangster on May 5, 2016 13:31:50 GMT -5
Sometimes to me the physics don't seem to work right. I hate it also when the ball hits the fringe and bounces a good 6 feet into the air, it just wouldn't happen in real life.
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Post by lessangster on May 5, 2016 13:40:48 GMT -5
I wish someone would set the courses up on the softest settings but fast putting greens. Yeah we would all be dropping the ball in close to the flag instead of dropping it on the front of the green and relying on a good bounce. You could then put the flag tight in behind a bunker and still give the player a realistic chance of getting close. We played Loch Lorne golf club a couple of weeks back on TST and the greens were soft, most of us scored pretty well myself in particular, I didn't get that close to the top of the leaderboard but I felt I had a good tournament. You would probably have more people in the mix at the top of the leaderboard rather than the top dogs who seam to have figured out pretty well where to land the ball on the max firm settings running away with the tournament.
Edit. I've just missed the cut at -1
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Post by Andrea on May 5, 2016 17:10:52 GMT -5
After 500+ hrs played on PS4 and 300+ on PC feels to me like 50%+ of the physics of this game is complete BS tbh - Balls that stops on top of red slopes and then, after being just touched, transforms into projectiles LOL - Random ball lies: sometimes a little slope on the fairway makes your trajectory 45° deviated while other times a hill won't change sh%$.... - (this is typical of fast and firms PAR 5's) You hit way off the green onto the fairway...the ball is almost dead and then it reaches the green and took speed like it was motorized - of course then the ball ends out on the other side - On a course I won't even nominate I hit a particular kind of sand (the darker one) which yeah is "harder" but I @!$#ing bounced from that sand onto the green (almost 20yds) going from a huge miss to an almost HIO #greatgame - The queen of all BS's tough is what I call the "last time spin"; this happens always when you've hit a marvelous shot...but then hey, 1feet from an amazing hole-out, the ball turns 45+° like a huge F U - And then there's phantom breaks/putts...ROTFL #cantwaitforTGC2
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Post by Moe Slorkman on May 6, 2016 1:10:52 GMT -5
Don't forget about the hole physics.
I've had putts going in the side of the cup bounce off the side of the hole , massive downhillers that stop short , and the biggest annoyance the ones that go straight over the hole. I've never hit a Putt in real life straight over the hole like there is nothing there. The ball will always catch the back of the hole most of. The time it would drop the odd time if I've hammered it it will pop up and stay out .
Don't get me started on side winds and ball flight haha.
Personally now any course I'm designing in future will have medium fairways as the trampoline effect from the fringe and rough in the game drives me nuts.
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Post by bogeyman on May 6, 2016 2:19:39 GMT -5
Don't forget about the hole physics. I've had putts going in the side of the cup bounce off the side of the hole , massive downhillers that stop short , and the biggest annoyance the ones that go straight over the hole. I've never hit a Putt in real life straight over the hole like there is nothing there. The ball will always catch the back of the hole most of. The time it would drop the odd time if I've hammered it it will pop up and stay out . Don't get me started on side winds and ball flight haha. Personally now any course I'm designing in future will have medium fairways as the trampoline effect from the fringe and rough in the game drives me nuts. Not sure whether you've seen it Moe but checkout Brighttail post in the clubhouse thread re admission of putting problems by HB. Very interesting!
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Post by mcbogga on May 6, 2016 3:41:55 GMT -5
Is anyone else a little disappointed with the physics of the game? I just wanted to see other's thoughts on the Web Tour. You have an uphill shot in to a 14 mph wind, and the green slopes back to front. How do shots hit the green and pick up speed in that scenario? It doesn't seem physically possible for that ball to be rolling to the back of the green. I've run in to this a lot. It seems to happen with balls bouncing out of the rough. If its thick rough, I don't think the balls should be rolling that fast afterward. I would think that thick rough would essentially be killing the ball. The theory is correct - rough sucks the spin out of a ball on contact so any forward momentum will translate into roll if it hits the green. Where they went wrong is how hard the heavy rough is - you usually don't get a lot of energy left in the ball after hitting the second cut. Should be a lot more variation in how the ball bounces than there is currently. Occasionally it should bounce as it does now but most of the time it should lose a lot more momentum. It should not be as predictable as it is now out of the heavy rough.
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Post by Moe Slorkman on May 6, 2016 3:47:29 GMT -5
Don't forget about the hole physics. I've had putts going in the side of the cup bounce off the side of the hole , massive downhillers that stop short , and the biggest annoyance the ones that go straight over the hole. I've never hit a Putt in real life straight over the hole like there is nothing there. The ball will always catch the back of the hole most of. The time it would drop the odd time if I've hammered it it will pop up and stay out . Don't get me started on side winds and ball flight haha. Personally now any course I'm designing in future will have medium fairways as the trampoline effect from the fringe and rough in the game drives me nuts. Not sure whether you've seen it Moe but checkout Brighttail post in the clubhouse thread re admission of putting problems by HB. Very interesting! Very Interesting I must find out more information
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Post by mvs on May 6, 2016 4:03:33 GMT -5
if this is true I demand my recent bad results will be wiped out(not my fault the game is broken)
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Post by unclefester75 on May 6, 2016 5:38:04 GMT -5
Also, I have never in real life seen a situation where everyone in a foursome hits their drive the exact same distance hole after hole.
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Post by dh-nufc on May 6, 2016 14:00:05 GMT -5
Also, I have never in real life seen a situation where everyone in a foursome hits their drive the exact same distance hole after hole. I've never seen that in the game either. There is always some variance. You've also got to consider that every one of our gofers in The game is exactly the same. Yeah, improvements can be made to physics as mentioned above but at the moment we all play by the same rules so it's no big deal. (That doesn't stop me cursing when it goes against me when playing tournaments)
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Post by BillySastard976 on May 6, 2016 15:30:37 GMT -5
We have to be realistic about just how much realism we can expect from a game.
There are many things that can and I hope will be improved,such as the never ending ball rolling,even in bunkers that sometimes happens,and as was mentioned elsewhere,the stupidity of a ball hitting a green fringe and bouncing like it has just hit a trampoline.
The driving is simple,so four balls landing within a few feet of each other is bound to happen,until,hopefully,driving is made more difficult to master.
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Post by marino313131 on May 6, 2016 15:46:53 GMT -5
Perfect thread for this week as I have been practicing The Arizona for the upcoming tournament and strangely have had extremely limited effect by all types of wind. Anybody else finding a general lack of effect by the wind on this course? At this point for all courses I don't even factor in side wind in regards to distance
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