Patch for Weather?

[mwjr]

Should we expect a patch at any time that might address the weather? I swear every offline career tournament I play in the wind is steadily blowing 20-25 MPH.

[mrsaito]

Re: Patch for Weather?

Should we expect a patch at any time that might address the weather? I swear every offline career tournament I play in the wind is steadily blowing 20-25 MPH.

What level are you playing on?

[mctrees02]

Re: Patch for Weather?

Make sure when you start a season that you set live weather to OFF. This helps significantly and I'm usually only seeing 1 (sometimes 2) rounds of a 4 round tourney in high winds.

[mwjr]

Re: Patch for Weather?

What level are you playing on?

Customized. A little higher than Pro, slightly lower than Tour Pro.

[mwjr]

Re: Patch for Weather?

Make sure when you start a season that you set live weather to OFF. This helps significantly and I'm usually only seeing 1 (sometimes 2) rounds of a 4 round tourney in high winds.

So I can only make that change at the beginning of a season? What about in career?

[queman11]

Re: Patch for Weather?

under road to the pga tour scroll all the way down until pga tour settings

[mrsaito]

Re: Patch for Weather?

So I can only make that change at the beginning of a season? What about in career?

I'm pretty sure you can toggle live weather off or on between events, you don't have to wait for between seasons.

mwjr - I asked about the level you were on because most of the weather complaints I've seen on this board were from folks playing at the tournement level. Personally I'm on tour pro and I'm holding back a bit on my created golfer's XP. This worked reasonably well last year for keeping the game challenging and avoiding the most unreasonable pin placements.

As for this year's weather I don't know if that type of 'game tuning' will work as I'm still on the Nationwide Tour. So far so good.

(I like this game a lot but I don't have all that much time for gaming and the fact that FIFA/NBA 2K/The Show/NHL are all so good cuts into my Tiger bandwidth).

[mwjr]

Re: Patch for Weather?

My swing difficulty is on Hard right now, but I've left the Caddie and spin on. I think that's between Pro and Tour Pro.

[shermas]

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My swing difficulty is on Hard right now, but I've left the Caddie and spin on. I think that's between Pro and Tour Pro.

Gotta turn the caddy off and take off spin... I was reluctant, too, but the game is a blast without all the assists. I still can't putt without the swing meter, but everything else is off.

[shermas]

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Oh, and back to the weather, I would love a patch, too. Offline tourneys are absurd. 30 mph wind and driving rain at the els club in the desert, with Live weather? Nice work, EA.

[mwjr]

Re: Patch for Weather?

Gotta turn the caddy off and take off spin... I was reluctant, too, but the game is a blast without all the assists. I still can't putt without the swing meter, but everything else is off.

LOL! Seriously, if you saw my scores you'd know that I simply cannot do what you ask.

[OnlookerDelay]

Re: Patch for Weather?

Wasn't the patch last week supposed to fix Live Weather in Career mode, among other things? I haven't tried career mode since the patch came out, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it didn't!

[mwjr]

Re: Patch for Weather?

I'm playing on PS3. Was there a patch last week?

[shermas]

Re: Patch for Weather?

I'm playing on PS3. Was there a patch last week?

Yep... Not sure if weather was included or not. The wind WAS pretty mild in my last event, so maybe they fixed it. Doesn't matter, though, bc my game keeps freezing now. Waaaaah.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Re: Patch for Weather?

Weather was not fixed on the PS3 patch so its safe to assume that the same can be said for the 360 patch.

As a workaround, just purchase some boost pins with your coins and there stands a pretty good chance that you will get the "calm the wind" pin which will reduce the wind by 30%. If you buy more boost pins and get the same wind pin it will upgrade to silver and a 40% reduction and one more bought will upgrade it to gold and a 50% reduction.

The first 3 pin packages I bought contained the wind pin so I'm now at 50% reduction and you can always sell back the other pins you don't want so it won't cost you much in coins.

You can also buy refill pins, sometimes they have sales for 75 refill pins for a really good price so now I have 50% reduction and 225 refills to use to calm the wind in career mode (which should last you a few years in career), so the wind is not an issue anymore and all that cost me was about 20000 coins which doesn't take long to accumulate in the game.