Justin Thomas

[Lisac]

Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

[BDKiiing]

Re: Justin Thomas

Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

Turn down CPU attendance. No top pro golfer plays every single tourney.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

It's odd...in my first career mode season, it was Adam Scott who was unstoppable. He won 8 or 9 events, I won 5, and I think JT won 3. I still have attendance set to 90%, but increased round and event deviation to see how that worked, since someone on Reddit recommended that.

[bjenks]

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Is anyone else annoyed how in every Tourny Justin Thomas is always on Top?.

I've heard this from other people as well about Justin Thomas. Unfortunately for me it has been Patrick Reed and to a lesser extent, Tony Finau. It's honestly tilting to see Reed end up in the top 5 or better in every event. lol.

[jcas007]

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I was wondering if anyone else had that problem, Justin Thomas is always on top I'm in my 1st season on career on the 10th tournament and Thomas has won 6 and been in the top 10 all the others

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[MrArlingtonBeach]

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I was wondering if anyone else had that problem, Justin Thomas is always on top I'm in my 1st season on career on the 10th tournament and Thomas has won 6 and been in the top 10 all the others

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Yes, it's clearly something in the game's AI scoring code that makes Justin Thomas (as well as some of the other pros) dominant in the game. For me, it was Adam Scott that was playing out-of-this-world, winning almost 10 events in the first season. But is seems like most folks have the coverboy play like a superhuman in their seasons.

I did adjust sliders a bit in career mode to help with this. The best I have come up in terms of slider settings is (playing on Pro swing difficulty with custom modifications, and all events are set to two rounds):

CPU Skill - 82%
CPU Event Skill Deviation - 25%
CPU Round Skill Deviation - 10%
CPU Attendance - 90%

[maconnolly]

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Yes, it's clearly something in the game's AI scoring code that makes Justin Thomas (as well as some of the other pros) dominant in the game. For me, it was Adam Scott that was playing out-of-this-world, winning almost 10 events in the first season. But is seems like most folks have the coverboy play like a superhuman in their seasons.

I did adjust sliders a bit in career mode to help with this. The best I have come up in terms of slider settings is (playing on Pro swing difficulty with custom modifications, and all events are set to two rounds):

CPU Skill - 82%
CPU Event Skill Deviation - 25%
CPU Round Skill Deviation - 10%
CPU Attendance - 90%

It is, indeed, the game's base-code that ensure Justin Thomas enjoys a significant advantage over the field. I've done a bit of digging in the files - the 'skill level' attribute is a scalar value between 0 - 1 (to about 4-5 decimal places). Justin Thomas is around the 0.922 (if I recall) and the next one down is a relatively big gap. The rest of the field is then much more tightly grouped. Essentially, the CPU Event Skill Deviation and CPU Round Skill Deviation sliders are the in-game-UI way to fix this behaviour.

For those looking for a more robust 'fix', I have created a mod that adjusts the rosters in each of Q-School, the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour to ensure all of the real-life players (of each level) are competing against you in each, whilst also adjusting the skill levels for the PGA Tour to create a more competitive field.

I am going to create a thread in which I share the details, including a download link, once I am able to (need a post-count first).

[yanks126ws]

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Snooping around on the PC files, Justin Thomas had the highest skill rating (.95). I was able to change the via modding though and add in missing pros like Tiger and Rory

[yanks126ws]

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Is this something that can easily be done, or do you need some other program to do it? I'd love to be able to modify NPC golfer stats and add Tiger, Rory, and DJ, even if it's just having their names in it. Ironically we could easily rename the computer golfers in the last version, but not in this one...

I was able to do it with Unity EX and just editing the resource.asset file. It will export the file as a text file and you can swap the names in and then import it and you are all set

[yanks126ws]

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[Ebpmd]

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I'm beyond clueless when it comes to computers but I'd love to change names of current players to those of the '70s. I'm a classic sports fanatic. Any way you could talk me through this process?

[ManInBlack]

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I'm beyond clueless when it comes to computers but I'd love to change names of current players to those of the '70s. I'm a classic sports fanatic. Any way you could talk me through this process?

You will need to download a program called UnityEX, and then point it to the resources.assets file in your game directory (golf_Data). Then you will need to export SimOpponents-PGATour into a text file. (right click, export selected).

Once that is done you can edit the names and ratings of any golfers, such as replacing a scrub with Jack Nicklaus, etc. Then just go back to UnityEX and click "Import files".

When your game starts back up the new golfer names should appear in your existing career. If you changed ratings on some players, any past results that you've had for that season will also be modified as well, many with different winners.

[Ebpmd]

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Thanks. Is this only for PC version?
I have PS4

[packmanuk]

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This is a great find. Someone could make a full roster with all the correct players with their real stats to make a more enjoyable career mode.

[ManInBlack]

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This is a great find. Someone could make a full roster with all the correct players with their real stats to make a more enjoyable career mode.

It's actually very easy to do yourself, it would just require a bit of typing and editing the SimOpponents-PGATour.txt file. Player ratings would be very subjective any way, all of their personal favorites would most likely be rated higher than the rest.

A user on the first page of this thread stated that he had modified all three tour rosters but he hasn't posted in a good while.