Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[hawley088]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

How's the play from the rough and sand? Do you still have to do some math based on the lie and club length or is it just set it and swing? I haven't played in a couple years but I used to love being stuck inbetween clubs and having to nail a 70 percent swing, is that still part of the game?

[OnlookerDelay]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

(Originally Posted by DivotMaker)
Why are you looking at your Golfer's FEET? He does not swing the club with his feet. I hope they give the option to remove the green ball, but I don't see it anyway, so I am good either way....LOL...."too close to my golfer's feet"....

Amen bro thx you. Well said

I was the idiot who made the original statement to which DivotMaker is responding. I think I might have played better if I'd have quit looking at my golfer's feet during the swing...

Seriously though, I did a very poor job of expressing what I was trying to communicate... I *meant* to say that I have a hard time ignoring the swing fill meter during the swing, even though it's beneath my golfer's feet. A person with an average or better level of concentration should be able to ignore the meter if they're trying, since it's that far away, but I'll confess that I'm less than average in the concentration department. Hopefully, that doesn't sound quite as idiotic, does it?

[calbearlover]

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3-Click Impression


Tee to green the gameplay is very good on 3-click. You actually do spray the ball sometimes left or right which is what I look for in a golf game and became very frustrated with in The Golf Club.

Now the short game and putting is easier on this game but that's much better than having tee to green being easy and boring and the putting and short game being much harder.


It is a very fun and exciting golf experience and having the crowds and presentation is a much needed change from The Golf Club and Perfect Golf which I'm currently playing.


Now with that said, the game is far from perfect. As many have stated the game needs many more courses, a more robust career, more difficulty options added, and overall more options for us to play how we want to play.


Lastly I'd like to let people know out there how to play this game at the hardest difficulty since it still seems to be discussed. Bear in mind I'm a 3-clicker so how this applies to swing stick im not sure. Go into settings and custom set up. Set everything off or to hardest difficulty (I play with green grid on).


When you set up your shot for some reason its already set up to dial a distance for you (Lame). All you have to do (PS4) is hit square and it maxes out the distance for the club you have. Now from there you can change type of shot to what you want or loft or deloft the club. Now you actually have to think about your shot and how hard to hit it on the meter. I use the same method for putting and pitching. Chipping since there's different roll outs depending upon the lie I will actually dial a distance and it's still hard to place it close.


Anyway A few house rules and its a very rewarding golf game so far. Here is to hoping EA does actually support this game with updates, patches, and much more DLC.

[fistofrage]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

Spieth put a few in the rough at the John deere and still made some birdies. The pros nail 8 foot putts like they are nothing but I struggle with anything over 5 ft with a break in rmpga. Helps keep my scores in check. I checked the stats and my FIR is 79 percent which is good for first but my GIR is much less and is around 60th best in the league. By no means a cakewalk but I think the drives could be a little more punishing.

That's kind of my point. That course wasn't difficult so putting it in the rough still gave him shots at the pin, heck he even went up the other fairway in round 3 and dunked one in. For pros, the course is what makes golf hard for the pros. They hit some errant shots, but rarely multiple consecutive bad shots, if the course doesn't really penalize them for a bad shot, they are going to get right back to shooting darts on the next shot. On Sundays, the leaders are dunking 15+ footers like its a walk in the park. Infact, I'd almost say on the pro tour, the caddie is just as or maybe more important than the golfer in a lot of cases. They are the machine operator and the golfer is the machine. They tell the golfer exactly where to put it and the golfers for the most part can do that with regularity.

[calbearlover]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

How's the play from the rough and sand? Do you still have to do some math based on the lie and club length or is it just set it and swing? I haven't played in a couple years but I used to love being stuck inbetween clubs and having to nail a 70 percent swing, is that still part of the game?

It's not incredibly difficult but there's two ways to make it more difficult and realistic. Move the aim marker to the exact yardage the hole is away and now you have to adjust your swing power to account for roll out or spin back. Or move it 50, 100, or more yards away and do the same thing, similar to links golf (if 22 yds from pin move max distance to 50 and calculate swing power) Keep in mind I play 3-click.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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Two things are making this game very unpleasant, everything else is great.

1) putting, oh dear god, worst putting mechanic for any game. Period.

2) the celebration or frustration animations.. It's about to the point of just looking completly silly.

[Klocker]

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Lastly I'd like to let people know out there how to play this game at the hardest difficulty since it still seems to be discussed. Bear in mind I'm a 3-clicker so how this applies to swing stick im not sure. Go into settings and custom set up. Set everything off or to hardest difficulty (I play with green grid on).


When you set up your shot for some reason its already set up to dial a distance for you (Lame). All you have to do (PS4) is hit square and it maxes out the distance for the club you have. Now from there you can change type of shot to what you want or loft or deloft the club. Now you actually have to think about your shot and how hard to hit it on the meter. I use the same method for putting and pitching. Chipping since there's different roll outs depending upon the lie I will actually dial a distance and it's still hard to place it close.

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Preach it


makes the game much more realistic for me.




Its hard to dial it in when you move the marker to full but it is more realistic imo. I like trying to get that 3/4 shot (or reduce swing speed) to get that in between custom shot. yes I don't score as low but it's a good challenge and let's of recovery opportunities

[PRO_TOO]

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Preach it


makes the game much more realistic for me.




Its hard to dial it in when you move the marker to full but it is more realistic imo. I like trying to get that 3/4 shot (or reduce swing speed) to get that in between custom shot. yes I don't score as low but it's a good challenge and let's of recovery opportunities

I'll test that today! Wish we could set it to permanent. Makes sense what he said remembering the gp from older titles. I found this custom setting kinda weird yesterday too and was asking my friend about it. Now calbearlover came up with this explanation! Thank you man!!

[DivotMaker]

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I guess we will wait and see on DLC, but my bet is it will be near nothing until November time.
Absolutely focus is elsewhere, when I say the word 'focus' it also equates to budget. It does not take a genius to work out that this game has been built off a budget extremely small in comparison to the two games I mentioned and probably in comparison to previous TW games. Just look at the official golfers they have? Pat Rodgers is one of 13? Compare that to Fifa rights and licencing.
Its because of this I just cannot see them spending significant money on DLC ie not getting the Augusta rights prior to release. That there shows there ambition for the game. Just my opinion but without any announcements as to what they will be releasing and when its to be released. I just do not see there being lots of significant DLC (courses) in the near future.
I do not want to ruin the fun for anybody enjoying this game, it's great that you do, and on top of that I hope I am proven very wrong but sadly I do not see that being the case.

You DO realize that this game is no longer a yearly release title? You DO realize that RM has nowhere near the budget or resources that Madden/FIFA/BF have, right? However, none of that is relative to RM and it is a new business model for the PGA TOUR game. Surely they had a smaller budget for this game versus TW14 which was the most expensive PGA TOUR game ever released in terms of how much EA invested ion the licensing for that game. That doesn't mean they don't have a good plan to support and continue to develop RM moving forward.

I do agree that they do need to start announcing their plans moving forward sooner than later though.

[DivotMaker]

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Lastly I'd like to let people know out there how to play this game at the hardest difficulty since it still seems to be discussed. Bear in mind I'm a 3-clicker so how this applies to swing stick im not sure. Go into settings and custom set up. Set everything off or to hardest difficulty (I play with green grid on).


When you set up your shot for some reason its already set up to dial a distance for you (Lame). All you have to do (PS4) is hit square and it maxes out the distance for the club you have. Now from there you can change type of shot to what you want or loft or deloft the club. Now you actually have to think about your shot and how hard to hit it on the meter. I use the same method for putting and pitching. Chipping since there's different roll outs depending upon the lie I will actually dial a distance and it's still hard to place it close.


Anyway A few house rules and its a very rewarding golf game so far. Here is to hoping EA does actually support this game with updates, patches, and much more DLC.

Exactly what I am doing and it is challenging. Also turned of green grids completely last night and scoring is even more realistic so far. Of course that was on Bay Hill. I might not feel that way on Troon or other courses that have more slope in their greens....

Lastly, I am going to experiment this weekend on running my putting cursor to the direction I want it, then running it all the way off the green to see if I can dial in any sort of distance feel with the putter.....

[vmoney883]

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You DO realize that this game is no longer a yearly release title? You DO realize that RM has nowhere near the budget or resources that Madden/FIFA/BF have, right? However, none of that is relative to RM and it is a new business model for the PGA TOUR game. Surely they had a smaller budget for this game versus TW14 which was the most expensive PGA TOUR game ever released in terms of how much EA invested ion the licensing for that game. That doesn't mean they don't have a good plan to support and continue to develop RM moving forward.

I do agree that they do need to start announcing their plans moving forward sooner than later though.

Yeah I am fully aware that this is not a yearly release, I said previously that my estimate for significant DLC (courses) would be November time, after the first couple of months of Madden/ Fifa being released.
However if sales are as bad as I presume they are for this game (I have no stats but just going on general consensus and feedback). Then I imagine the DLC will be even more limited and sparse and could just fizzle out unfortunately as this game get forgotten about by anybody other than the die hard supporters.
It's a tough situation as you want to buy the game to support the release, however if like myself you would be very reliant on more courses and the alternate shot/ 4 ball, it's difficult to justify the purchase as the game stands.
That said if EA were to announce what/ when the DLC will be released then I would buy it and I think many others would too.
The lack of communication on there part is very poor in my opinion, as if you just visit there twitter page you see hundreds of people asking the same questions and having the same complaints. Yet not one response regarding them.

[frankstallone83]

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How's the play from the rough and sand? Do you still have to do some math based on the lie and club length or is it just set it and swing? I haven't played in a couple years but I used to love being stuck inbetween clubs and having to nail a 70 percent swing, is that still part of the game?

Not really, at least not with the analog swing but as Calbearlover pointed out you can still do that using 3 click mode. I've been told that you can but it's so much easier to just "set it and swing" what's the point? It's all about timing now.

I'm with you though, I like the old trying to nail 70% system better but I've whined about that enough already so I'll spare everyone and just shut up, just wanted to help answer your question.

[Anakin19732001]

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I see the DLC plans a bit different. We all know how EA is and this is a good chance for them to get a lot more money out of this game...

Download pack 1 - (4-5 courses with new equipment)
Download pack 2 - (another 4-5 course and new equipment)
Download pack 3 - where the ladies at... LPGA players are now downloadable
Download pack 4 - the legends pack...
Download pack 5 - 5 tour pros for DLC
Download pack 6 - another 5 tour pros for DLC
Download pack 7 - Augusta pack including the par 3 course
Download pack 8 - weather pack

watch!!!

[redsox4evur]

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I see the DLC plans a bit different. We all know how EA is and this is a good chance for them to get a lot more money out of this game...

Download pack 1 - (4-5 courses with new equipment)
Download pack 2 - (another 4-5 course and new equipment)
Download pack 3 - where the ladies at... LPGA players are now downloadable
Download pack 4 - the legends pack...
Download pack 5 - 5 tour pros for DLC
Download pack 6 - another 5 tour pros for DLC
Download pack 7 - Augusta pack including the par 3 course
Download pack 8 - weather pack

watch!!!

You had me up until 7. I have a pretty good feeling that Augusta isn't going to be in this game. If EA had the license for Augusta why would they hold back the course and give it to fans when the game came out? Or not show any footage of the course in the game.

[kehlis]

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You had me up until 7. I have a pretty good feeling that Augusta isn't going to be in this game. If EA had the license for Augusta why would they hold back the course and give it to fans when the game came out? Or not show any footage of the course in the game.

Where did he suggest they have the license?