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Post by SweetTeeBag on Nov 5, 2019 14:49:46 GMT -5
You mentioned a patch coming out that was going to fix some things. Is there a site to go to see status, etc.? When I start my swing with the ball the power meter disappears. I also have no idea what make a swing harder or softer? The graphics are really amazing! Would be really a blast if there was a team or league mode. I love to bowl for real and leagues are fun, but physically just too hard for me as a once or twice a year bowler. I don't know if there is a site to go to other than maybe sending a message over to them at the Farsight website |
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Post by lastchancehombre on Nov 6, 2019 11:06:36 GMT -5
You mentioned a patch coming out that was going to fix some things. Is there a site to go to see status, etc.? When I start my swing with the ball the power meter disappears. I also have no idea what make a swing harder or softer? The graphics are really amazing! Would be really a blast if there was a team or league mode. I love to bowl for real and leagues are fun, but physically just too hard for me as a once or twice a year bowler. I don't know if there is a site to go to other than maybe sending a message over to them at the Farsight website Somebody posted this a few pages back here. Don't know how responsive they are though.
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Post by mde8965 on Nov 6, 2019 13:24:12 GMT -5
I’m really late to this party. But haven’t been hanging around much. Waiting for the next TGC game to drop before jumping back in.
Anyway just got this game last night. Messed around a few games using “Quickplay” mode. I assume that’s arcade mode? Most of you all are playing in simulation mode, right? I’m going to try that tonight.
I’ve had the mobile version of this game for 3+ years now. It’s not great.
I love bowling. Back in the 90s I had a PGA card and shot a few regionals. Never won or made top 10. In league I averaged around 220. I do have 4 300 rings a few 299 rings and 1 800 ring (834). But all that was back in the days before sports leagues and multiple oiling patterns.
I burned out on bowling in the early 2000s. Since then I’ve had two different devastating orthopedic injuries that will insure I will never bowl again or at least not very well.
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Post by ErixonStone on Nov 6, 2019 13:40:33 GMT -5
On PC, in simulation mode, all forces are applied to the ball before it is released. That differs from arcade mode and the mobile game, and where this game really shines.
It's still an extremely shallow game - more equipment choices don't really make the game deeper - but there is potential for the franchise to expand into some sort of online league play.
I hope the control scheme will be improved to be more complex and nuanced. I would like some representation of a pre-shot setup where you can adjust things like hand position that affects when a ball starts to hook. Hook is a function of friction, angle and lift, but the game reduces it down to friction and a binary representation of lift. Ball speed is, weirdly, a property of the ball itself instead of being an attribute of the player.
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Post by mde8965 on Nov 6, 2019 21:16:02 GMT -5
Yeah so far from playing this it appears speed is more about how long you hold the backswing too. I did find out that holding it too long causes you to pull the shot left of target considerably. Doing a “flick” causes the ball to go slower.
Just like the mobile version I’ve found out that if you accidentally throw the ball slower than you want and the hook starts to take the ball high (directly at the head pin or Brooklyn) that if you move the left stick in the other direction the ball straightens out. Totally unrealistic.
I’ve had the game for the second night and already shot a 300 (in sim mode) and already went through the open play, league and pro am tournaments getting all gold stars. So I would say, as others have said, the game is way too easy.
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Post by nevadaballin on Nov 7, 2019 0:45:28 GMT -5
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Post by SweetTeeBag on Nov 7, 2019 7:52:04 GMT -5
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Post by mde8965 on Nov 7, 2019 8:32:34 GMT -5
This game is not very good to many unrealistic hits Unrealistic hits... kinda like every other video game we've ever played lol. Actually in sim mode the realism of the pin action and ball reaction is the best I’ve ever seen in a bowling video game. The unrealistic part of this is the lack of hand position changes, a physical way to affect ball speed other than just how long you hold the backswing, being able to influence ball trajectory after you have released the ball and it’s traveling down lane, etc... You know I bought a Wii back in the day strictly for the bowling game. The pin carry/reaction was very unrealistic and the game would troll you (such that no matter what you did you were not getting a strike at certain times regardless because the game predetermined that) but the physical act of hand position, release points, how hard you hit it with your wrist at release, etc was as spot on as you could expect from a video game. Incorporate this game, 1080p graphics, and the Wii like physics and I would buy whatever hardware would be required to play it. Even if it were VR. And that would be the game I would happily join an online league for. Off course then we’d have to have API and anti cheating policies because kids would no doubt write scripts. What a world. |
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Post by gdog on Nov 7, 2019 10:41:56 GMT -5
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Post by ErixonStone on Nov 7, 2019 10:47:51 GMT -5
By "release angle" do they mean the target trajectory? Do they mean that your bowler will be placed at the same position, but the target will be reset to directly in front of you?
The oil effect is a big deal. Hope it works correctly.
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Post by lastchancehombre on Nov 7, 2019 11:19:26 GMT -5
And still no update(s) for consoles since release? Considering MS & Sony sit on patches for a bit for approval I'd assume the 1st patch would have hit consoles by now but I'm more interested in this 2nd one with the purported 'sim mode' updates. Be a shame if they're not including the console's with these patches. The game will go still very quickly without some tweaks to setup, release. & oil patterns in sim mode.
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Post by gdog on Nov 7, 2019 11:31:41 GMT -5
And still no update(s) for consoles since release? Considering MS & Sony sit on patches for a bit for approval I'd assume the 1st patch would have hit consoles by now but I'm more interested in this 2nd one with the purported 'sim mode' updates. Be a shame if they're not including the console's with these patches. The game will go still very quickly without some tweaks to setup, release. & oil patterns in sim mode. Only takes 5-7 days max on console. I feel they are pushing patches out on pc as a kinda beta test before they push a big one to console. That's my assumption anyways. Like you should have the sim mode fix by now right? We'll see. |
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Post by SweetTeeBag on Nov 7, 2019 11:37:48 GMT -5
By "release angle" do they mean the target trajectory? Do they mean that your bowler will be placed at the same position, but the target will be reset to directly in front of you? The oil effect is a big deal. Hope it works correctly. Yeah and hopefully oil transition during the tournament will add to the realism and help keep scores down some I'm hoping. |
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Post by lastchancehombre on Nov 7, 2019 12:06:11 GMT -5
And still no update(s) for consoles since release? Considering MS & Sony sit on patches for a bit for approval I'd assume the 1st patch would have hit consoles by now but I'm more interested in this 2nd one with the purported 'sim mode' updates. Be a shame if they're not including the console's with these patches. The game will go still very quickly without some tweaks to setup, release. & oil patterns in sim mode. Only takes 5-7 days max on console. I feel they are pushing patches out on pc as a kinda beta test before they push a big one to console.That's my assumption anyways. Like you should have the sim mode fix by now right? We'll see. Hadn't thought of it that way but you're probably right though. Or at least let's hope so. Just a few tweaks with this one & it could be a real winner for bowling enthusiasts! |
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Post by SweetTeeBag on Nov 7, 2019 20:47:41 GMT -5
Finally got my 1st 300 tonight  but now I need 12 more to fill the diamonds in the ring  |
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but now I need 12 more to fill the diamonds in the ring 