EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Available Today - Patch Notes

[Steve_OS]

EA Sports PGA Tour patch 11.0 and Season 10 are scheduled to be released tomorrow, to...

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[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Some good stuff in there...pretty wild they are totally replacing the physics they had for golf ball interaction with the cup with a whole new tech. I mean, it definitely needed it, but I am just surprised they are just totally overhauling it with a "new tech" at this stage in the game's life.

The green view in the Hole Map is pretty cool...2K has a similar view, but I like that EA is implementing the actual green grids into their view. 2K does not show any grids on theirs.

I appreciate that they are adding cosmetics to the Pro Pass free tier, but they are apparently just EA hats and visors, so not a huge deal I guess.

Two to four-player, turn-based stroke play for private matches is a good add as well.

Not gonna lie, I keep being impressed with how much they continue to work on and tweak this game. I really hope cup physics are actually fixed now, since that has been a big reason I haven't played the game much...I was still getting horrible ball/cup reactions that were not normal.

I really would like to see more courses added, especially the 2024 major hosts like Valhalla, Pinehurst No. 2, and Royal Troon.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Tomorrow - Patch Notes

ApexHound video on the patch as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUg03k0JpGA

[Dawgfan1]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Tomorrow - Patch Notes

As long as everything in this patch works as described (especially the cup physics fixes) and no major issues are created by it, I'm somewhat pleased with it. The cup physics are the biggest win for me, it was probably the most pressing problem with the game and I hope the reason it took several months to fix is cause they wanted to get it right (and making "new tech" would probably add to that). The new green view looks really cool, definitely makes it more realistic for sim players that we'd already know the general green breaks for approach shots instead of blindly guessing or relying on past experience. Adding turn-based stroke play is pretty good for online players, I know that's been wanted from launch. Good stuff all around, though I wish it took less time than this after the Ryder Cup update to get a solid patch.

For the future, I'd like to see some more transparency regarding what the roadmap is for this year. Maybe things aren't quite finalized yet, but as soon as they can I'd like to see confirmation and info for what they plan to do this year i.e. adding 2024 major courses. I feel like their communication has dipped since the Ryder Cup update, even giving us some info on what they're working on for additions and fixes would be nice. I'm glad the cup physics are purportedly getting fixed now, but it wasn't great getting no updates on that apart from one mention in a video they did with TheApexHound back in Aug/Sep.

[jbd345]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Tomorrow - Patch Notes

ApexHound video on the patch as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUg03k0JpGA

Apex responded to to a comment about if the 24 majors will make it in, and he responded “I think they will”

[golfnut67]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Not a game changing patch with a lot of content, but there's a lot to like and like MAB said, it's encouraging and even surprising that they are showing signs of staying on top of this. And hopefully this is a sign that they have the budget and interest to keep at it, add new courses, and just continue to tweak and grow the game. I'm willing to pay real money for it as a live service model if what they are doing is worth it.

On the downside, I couldn't care less about EA clothes or any of that lol. I haven't changed any of my outfits or clothing in months, and I try to pick stuff that doesn't have any branding or logos at all, or at least the most subtle stuff like that. And never anything Nike (I won't go into why).

Just make the game better and keep adding courses and improvements to the gameplay.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Gamer Ability has posted a video with some examples of how the new cup physics look. He said animations do look better with the cup physics, but he still had putts he felt should have dropped but didn't...he also said he needs more time to draw his final conclusions on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9e0lFvrHdE

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Another thing I noticed...

In the paid Premium Tier of the Pro Pass for this season, there's an actual Titleist hat.

It was odd that for the longest time now, only Titleist visors were available in the game. But at Level 65, there's a black/white Titleist Tour Performance hat.

[The Kid 24]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Still don't understand why fitted hats aren't in the game.

[RIFRIG]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Haven’t played EA golf in ages as not been playing golf IRL due to back troubles. It’s an odd thing but the more I golf the more I game. Getting back to full fitness & will start hitting the practice ground soon so getting the itch to play EA’s game again. I have picked up the game on PS5 as it was cheap & after a few rounds feel it looks a little better than the series X version but I find it really challenging with Sony’s controller.
I’m shooting 5-10 shots more & mostly down to putting. Looking forward to checking out the patch tonight to see if the scores come down with new ball physics.

[bigkev]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

I've played 4 rounds, so far so good for cup physics.

[RIFRIG]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

Did we lose some Pro Golfers? Somebody missing that was there before.

[Dawgfan1]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

I've played about 18 holes so far and watched some more of the game, so far so good with cup physics. I can see what GamerAbility is saying about putts feeling like they should've gone in and didn't, and I did get a lip out where the ball was mostly over the hole, but after watching real-life golf content recently I've realized harsh lip outs do happen in real life that look like they should've gone in. So I'm mostly fine with that happening from time to time, my main issue before was that they would happen in physics-defying ways that looked BS. There might still be some tweaking to do with the physics and animations but so far it seems on much more solid ground than before and looks much less broken.

I was also wondering how the green view would work on Sim and if it might give us too much info on green breaks and beads (since beads are off on Sim). I was playing the 6 hole tourney at Top of the Rock and tried to use the green view beads to help me on a putt, it told me slightly left-to-right so I aimed that way and the putt ended up straight with some break both ways that wasn't fully captured by the green view grids. If that's a constant limitation with the green view then I think that's good, we should only be getting broad info from it and not be able to use its beads to bypass no-bead green grids on Sim.

Also interesting that the season is 70 days, that puts us until right before the Masters so that'll likely be the next patch. Hopefully we get some of the info I mentioned before around or before then.

Did we lose some Pro Golfers? Somebody missing that was there before.

From what I can see nobody is lost, everyone that was there at launch is still there.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Available Today - Patch Notes

Played an 18-hole round in career at LACC for the US Open, played a 6-hole quick round in career at Tara Iti, and a 4-hole daily at Chambers Bay post-patch.

Cup physics do seem better, or at least the animations of ball and cup interacting are more realistic. The green view is a nice add...provides info without giving away too much.

I think I'll work EA PGA back into the rotation a bit more, now that cup physics seem improved. The cosmetics in the Pro Pass Premium Tier are actually more appealing this season, too. It's the first time I'm even considering ponying up for it. Some new clubs, new Nike gear, even some shafts and such.

[RIFRIG]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch 11 and Season 10 Arrives Tomorrow - Patch Notes

I've played about 18 holes so far and watched some more of the game, so far so good with cup physics. I can see what GamerAbility is saying about putts feeling like they should've gone in and didn't, and I did get a lip out where the ball was mostly over the hole, but after watching real-life golf content recently I've realized harsh lip outs do happen in real life that look like they should've gone in. So I'm mostly fine with that happening from time to time, my main issue before was that they would happen in physics-defying ways that looked BS. There might still be some tweaking to do with the physics and animations but so far it seems on much more solid ground than before and looks much less broken.

I was also wondering how the green view would work on Sim and if it might give us too much info on green breaks and beads (since beads are off on Sim). I was playing the 6 hole tourney at Top of the Rock and tried to use the green view beads to help me on a putt, it told me slightly left-to-right so I aimed that way and the putt ended up straight with some break both ways that wasn't fully captured by the green view grids. If that's a constant limitation with the green view then I think that's good, we should only be getting broad info from it and not be able to use its beads to bypass no-bead green grids on Sim.

Also interesting that the season is 70 days, that puts us until right before the Masters so that'll likely be the next patch. Hopefully we get some of the info I mentioned before around or before then.



From what I can see nobody is lost, everyone that was there at launch is still there.

Worked it out….TPC courses drop some Available pros from the list. Must be something to do with LIV. Never noticed before.