The Golf Club Closed Beta Impressions (Q&A Inside)

[Matt10]

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I'll be speaking with Anthony Kyne from the development team at the top of the hour. Happy to add some questions to my list if you have any you would like to get answered!

All I want to know if the ball trail will be out of the full version. Thanks!

[DivotMaker]

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I expect that you have to have a powerful PC or a very good laptop to be able to play on steam, would you know the min requirements for a laptop ?

These requirements are posted all over their forums.....

[MrBill]

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The podcast interview with The Golf Club Producer Anthony Kyne is now online -

http://www.virtualsportsnetwork.com/forum/showthread.php?135407-VSN-Arcade-Radio-Episode-90-VSN-Interviews-Anthony-Kyne-from-The-Golf-Club

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Does anyone know if this going to be a retail game or strictly digital. It doesn't bother me either way, I'm just curious. Hopefully this comes out soon.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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HBS has given us 'hard core" simulation guys the option to turn OFF four of the assists we wanted the most in the latest build released this afternoon: Overview/zoom to aim, marker view, shot suggestion (you have to pick your club and/or shot type chip, pitch, flop, normal, punch), and wind meter.

Thanks for letting us know John.

That was posted over at their forums! AWESOME!!!!

[ODogg]

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Does anyone know if this going to be a retail game or strictly digital. It doesn't bother me either way, I'm just curious. Hopefully this comes out soon.

I think i read digital for PC and disc for consoles later but someone would need to confirm..

[jmaj315]

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so i know its waaay wayy in advance, but I just watched the Project Morpheus conference from GDC. Oh my

And then i listened to the VSN interview....

I think The Golf Club would be awesome in VR!

eventually i hope

[bluengold34_OS]

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I think i read digital for PC and disc for consoles later but someone would need to confirm..

I have heard the same, but I am almost sure it hasn't been confirmed by the studious yet.

A new build dropped tonight, and I will make one last attempt at recording after I think I figured out what the software issue was tonight. They have increased difficulty on both drives and putts, eliminated the exact targeting zoom for drives, and a bunch more - hopefully the program records correctly tonight.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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Hey blue, if you get a chance:

Can you play a round (with tougher greens, not so flat greens to test how hard it is to truly read them) that has ALL aids (zoom, aim marker, grids, etc) OFF. Keep wind on (unless you don't want to) as I think its fairly realistic to know the wind.

Would love to see the outcome if you get time!!! LOL

[bluengold34_OS]

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OK - Here is a 9 hole video of me playing a created course with no aids turned on, except wind meter and view of general location of landing.

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[LingeringRegime]

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HBS has given us 'hard core" simulation guys the option to turn OFF four of the assists we wanted the most in the latest build released this afternoon: Overview/zoom to aim, marker view, shot suggestion (you have to pick your club and/or shot type chip, pitch, flop, normal, punch), and wind meter.

Thanks for letting us know John.

That was posted over at their forums! AWESOME!!!!

I hope that their will be different records, and leader boards for the hardcore settings. Nothing worse than people going the cheap way to get better scores in a competitive setting.

[Lieutenant Dan]

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OK - Here is a 9 hole video of me playing a created course with no aids turned on, except wind meter and view of general location of landing.

Great stuff Bob. It looks like it's getting more and more smoothed out.

How exactly are you reading the greens? Hard to see the curves on the green at youtube resolution in a small window with a piss-poor connection LOL.

[bluengold34_OS]

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Great stuff Bob. It looks like it's getting more and more smoothed out.

How exactly are you reading the greens? Hard to see the curves on the green at youtube resolution in a small window with a piss-poor connection LOL.

It's actually not that hard when playing the game Dan - just like in real life, sometimes you read it wrong. You then stare at the screen and say "Damn, I thought it was breaking the other way"

Try putting the video at 720P Dan, see if that helps -

[TheBleedingRed21]

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I hope that their will be different records, and leader boards for the hardcore settings. Nothing worse than people going the cheap way to get better scores in a competitive setting.

Pretty sure I read they are working on a way to prevent that.

[bluengold34_OS]

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Here is a breakdown of some of the stuff they changed in build 3 -

1) We've tweaked driving and putting - making it a little harder
2) We've taken out the aim marker, you can only now aim from behind the golfer. You can also only move it Left and Right
3) We've fixed a big issue that we found with NVida graphics drivers which meant that a few of their cards were generating courses differently to other cards
4) loads of bugs and optimizations