PGA Tour 2K23 MyPlayer and MyCareer Details And Early Impressions

[jr86]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

Career Mode videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsz99QTjJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ11YZxu0ow One thing mentioned in the Seamount video is that you cannot use ANY created course to swap into career mode...it has to come from a list of 2K approved courses...which means there will probably be no way to swap in a replica/RCR of real host courses...

FFS more hand holding from 2k, just give us back solo society and let me set it up how I want it is that too much to ask..smh

[MrArlingtonBeach]

I am not really all that impressed with the overall changes to career mode, TBH. It does look like more of the same...with some small changes and a few updates.

Swapping courses out in career mode for new ones is huge...but limiting it to "2K Approved" ones, while seemingly OK, means we will now depend on what they put on that list. How often will they update it? They also said it will only be courses by their NextMaker designers...that's fine, but still doesn't allow for as much "real-life" immersion as I'd like.

I am super glad that tiebreak playoffs are in...but that should have been in before.

More sponsors are fine, too. But that system looks unchanged, other than now you can have 3 sponsors. Rivals look basically unchanged, too.

My biggest gripe is going to be having the female players in the PGA Tour. In one of those career mode videos, two of the LPGA pros were in the Top 5 of FedExCup point standings as they started playing the FedEx-St. Jude Championship - a FedExCup Playoff event. That's unrealistic and makes me not really wanna play. Not because they are female or anything like that - but because it's not how reality is. Same goes for having female golfers as your rivals. I really wish they'd have included the LPGA Tour...having Lexi Thompson play week in and week out on the PGA Tour makes zero sense. Immersion was the biggest problem in 2K21's career mode, along with the glitched leaderboards...and it seems that 2K23 might have the same immersion issue for me.

Another thing...and I will be 100% honest here...I really don't understand all this progression/fitting/archetype/golf ball sleeve/etc. stuff. I mean, I get the concept and the selecting an archetype and all that, but there's some randomness to it, I guess, in terms of when you can do a club fitting or when you get certain gear? I'm really not following how all that stuff works.

And then you need VC for things - not just to "buy" consumable balls, but to move skill points around and be fitted or to "deconstruct" your fittings? Maybe I am losing some of my sharpness as I get older, but much of the MyPlayer stuff is flying well over my head, and using VC for this, even if it's small amounts, seems strange.

[bmf395]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

My biggest gripe is going to be having the female players in the PGA Tour. In one of those career mode videos, two of the LPGA pros were in the Top 5 of FedExCup point standings as they started playing the FedEx-St. Jude Championship - a FedExCup Playoff event. That's unrealistic and makes me not really wanna play. Not because they are female or anything like that - but because it's not how reality is. Same goes for having female golfers as your rivals. I really wish they'd have included the LPGA Tour...having Lexi Thompson play week in and week out on the PGA Tour makes zero sense. Immersion was the biggest problem in 2K21's career mode, along with the glitched leaderboards...and it seems that 2K23 might have the same immersion issue for me.

100% agree with this. Yikes.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Sorry, but this just immediately pulls me out of the "reality" of playing a PGA Tour career mode...I wish they would have added the LPGA, like TW14 did, and allowed players to do a career mode in that tour, with the female pros as the rivals in that set up:

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

Yahoo! Confirmation! "A new wrinkle with PGA Tour 2K23 is that you’re able swap out courses for certain events to help keep things interesting and not leave you playing at the same places every season. Many will also be happy to know that events will no longer end with two golfers tied atop the leaderboard and without an official winner declared. Instead, there will now be tiebreakers, which can be aggregate or sudden death depending on the event."

Haha, no I confirmed it and then you questioned it, so I re-confirmed it AGAIN at this preview event.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChaseB

Haha, no I confirmed it and then you questioned it, so I re-confirmed it AGAIN at this preview event.

To be fair, the answer provided in the Q&A article wasn't one that was really a "lock", IMO. It came with some caveats and such.

You even said yourself that it was "possible something got lost in translation once or twice", and that you "didn’t see most of this stuff with [your] own eyes".

I'm just glad the article here today, as well as the videos posted out there show and confirm that custom schedules are in. And I do very much appreciate you asking the questions and things. I just know from time to time, the answers provided might not exactly match up with what actually happens...for example, we now also know that there will be a "2K Approved" list of courses that you can choose from in terms of swapping...it's not every course that could be used. That was something that was not confirmed until today.

[countryboy]

The female golfer(s) playing alongside the male golfers isn't ideal, but not the worst issue that career mode could have, at least for me. The scoreboard glitch and the tied golfers at the end of a tournament were two issues that really killed any hope of immersion in the mode previously.

Again not ideal, but I'm sure that I will find enjoyment out of the mode, so long as the two aforementioned issues don't rear their ugly heads again.

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

To be fair, the answer provided in the Q&A article wasn't one that was really a "lock", IMO. It came with some caveats and such. You even said yourself that it was "possible something got lost in translation once or twice", and that you "didn’t see most of this stuff with [your] own eyes". I'm just glad the article here today, as well as the videos posted out there show and confirm that custom schedules are in. And I do very much appreciate you asking the questions and things. I just know from time to time, the answers provided might not exactly match up with what actually happens...for example, we now also know that there will be a "2K Approved" list of courses that you can choose from in terms of swapping...it's not every course that could be used. That was something that was not confirmed until today.

What I wrote was clear, but because some people were so adamant it could be wrong, I didn't want to cause a fuss with others over something when it would become clear soon enough either way so I just didn't want to fight about it.