Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

[oldman]

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I've been gone a day. Did anyone ever respond to the career mode question? Is each year 8 tournaments long or do the courses repeat?

Also on past TW when they released DLC courses were they added to career mode?

Thanks.

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[emiles76]

The biggest let down for me is the CAP customization. I mostly play the career mode, so to have so much lacking and the absence of any sort of Gameface option is really disappointing. EA has had Gameface technology since, what, 2012?

[wheels2121]

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I've been gone a day. Did anyone ever respond to the career mode question? Is each year 8 tournaments long or do the courses repeat?

Also on past TW when they released DLC courses were they added to career mode?

Thanks.

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Yes, but in those cases the career mode was set up for those courses to be added. In other words, you could play the Travelers as soon as you bought River Highlands. Since there's no calendar on RM, we can't tell what tourneys are even in the game

[shogunofharlem3]

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You know I'm a bit puzzled seeing all these comments about how amazing the graphics are. Yes they are pretty good but I'm not blown away and in something areas the graphics look downright Xbox 360'ish


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I've had fun with it so far but the pop in is driving me crazy. One second there is an open field then all of a sudden a critter appears.

I like it though. May be my first golf game since Tiger 09 on Wii.

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The biggest let down for me is the CAP customization. I mostly play the career mode, so to have so much lacking and the absence of any sort of Gameface option is really disappointing. EA has had Gameface technology since, what, 2012?

It's woefully lacking isn't it? It actually first appeared in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, but even before that, the CAG creation tool in Tiger Woods 09, for example, allowed me to tailor enough facial and physical features to create a golfer that most people would recognize as me. What we have in this game has to be a stop gap place holder until they can patch it with something more current gen... wouldn't you think??

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Priceless... and very poignant in this case!

[bubbaman11]

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The biggest let down for me is the CAP customization. I mostly play the career mode, so to have so much lacking and the absence of any sort of Gameface option is really disappointing. EA has had Gameface technology since, what, 2012?

It was definitely in TW08, and I remember recycling those pics for one of the Masters editions (not sure which one). I remember thinking it was cool at the time that EA kept the pics that long.

[Beelzebot44]

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What we have in this game has to be a stop gap place holder until they can patch it with something more current gen... wouldn't you think??

That's what I keep hoping, but their silence on it is absolutely deafening. Both here and Twitter they have flat out ignored direct questions about that, leaving me doubtful that anything is coming.

[PsychSmokeBBQ]

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Hey guys,

Am I missing something where I can't seem to 'Zoom' in on the hole in Tour Mode? I'm not super familiar with the game, but it seems as though this almost makes every shot 'blind'. I can see the hole map, but that doesn't show you much of course. Thanks for any insight!

[ricky24]

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You need to switch to arcade or create a custom game type to zoom to the hole. Also get an easy achievement for creating a custom game type.

[Pompeo89]

It will be interesting to look back at this thread a year from launch and see what complaints they will be able to patch. I know the depth of career mode is my first priority. The playoff system included in that. Last night also noticed that max score is double par which sucks. The celebrations have to go too lol. Just can't get over those. I'm sure the dev team will do their best I can tell they care about the product they put out. This will be a fun game to follow.

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Hey guys,

Am I missing something where I can't seem to 'Zoom' in on the hole in Tour Mode? I'm not super familiar with the game, but it seems as though this almost makes every shot 'blind'. I can see the hole map, but that doesn't show you much of course. Thanks for any insight!

Zoom is locked out in Tour mode. You can get a slightly better look ahead by pushing the right shoulder button and changing the swing camera to the highest setting. It lets you see considerably further down the fairway. I do this and then go back to the "default" swing camera by hitting the shoulder button two more times to execute the shot.

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It was definitely in TW08, and I remember recycling those pics for one of the Masters editions (not sure which one). I remember thinking it was cool at the time that EA kept the pics that long.

Wow, was it that long ago? I'm getting senile in my senior years!

[Chairman7w]

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Just makes you wonder why. What the H$%L have they been doing for two years?

To me, it seems absolutely unforgivable to come out with a NEXT-GEN game, that doesn't even have what the previous GEN had! Isn't that the whole idea of next gen??? To be better, to improve, to expand??

How could they take a year off, and come out with a Next Gen game, that is less featured, less courses, less golfers, and still has some of the problems the old versions had?? (playoffs, in particular)

It's totally baffling.

It will be interesting to look back at this thread a year from launch and see what complaints they will be able to patch. I know the depth of career mode is my first priority. The playoff system included in that. Last night also noticed that max score is double par which sucks. The celebrations have to go too lol. Just can't get over those. I'm sure the dev team will do their best I can tell they care about the product they put out. This will be a fun game to follow.

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How could they take a year off, and come out with a Next Gen game, that is less featured, and still has some of the problems the old versions had?? (playoffs, in particular)

It's totally baffling.

I'm with you... there are some basic features that don't seem to be that tech dependent that they shouldn't be there, like live hole-by-hole leaderboards for online tournaments, for example.

I got an answer from one of the devs on the playoff question years ago that probably still holds today. The reason they can't do it is twofold:

1.) They can't represent a non-licensed player, even with a formless ghost player because even showing their shot telemetry along with their name could be seen as unauthorized use of their likeness.

2.) they really don't have statistically built/attribute based model of the unlicensed players you might be playing in the playoff against, so the game would have no real basis for recreating how that particular player might play, even with telemetry representation only.

The unseen "AI" players on the leaderboard are nothing more than spreadsheet results based on scoring trends.