Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

[kerosene31]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

The day EA takes away Simulation Mode is the day I walk just like I did a few years ago. When it comes to difficulty, EA ADDED and didn't subtract levels of difficulty and challenge. If peeps feel like Sim Mode is not as advertised then go back to Tour Pro. Problem solved.

We do realize that there are different difficulty levels, and that we can even customize them. The problem is that tour pro is way too easy for most people.

The other issue is finding people online to play the same difficulty. For example, the country club here is only going sim I believe. I fear that most of the hardcore crowd is going to go sim, while most of the casuals will go tour pro or below. For people that only play offline, they can customize it however they want, but this isn't the largest online community and it might be a little harder to find the right difficulty with good people.

On that note, is anyone interested in a cc on 360 on either tour pro or tourney difficulty??

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

I'm enjoying the demo but I've experienced 3 hard freezes. Is this something I will have to worry about when the real game drops?

Hi Jack....


The only time the 360 demo has frozen on me is when I have restarted a round before finishing it and then using the Y button to speed up the shots. Ever since I figured this out, I have not had a freeze since.

The demo is 3 months older code than final and Hands and the Dev Team told us thy were spending additional additional Dev time polishing TW14....I hope it pays off.

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

We do realize that there are different difficulty levels, and that we can even customize them. The problem is that tour pro is way too easy for most people.

The other issue is finding people online to play the same difficulty. For example, the country club here is only going sim I believe. I fear that most of the hardcore crowd is going to go sim, while most of the casuals will go tour pro or below. For people that only play offline, they can customize it however they want, but this isn't the largest online community and it might be a little harder to find the right difficulty with good people.

On that note, is anyone interested in a cc on 360 on either tour pro or tourney difficulty??

I hear ya Kerosene.....what might be interesting would be for any Sim-only CC to mix in some tournaments with the Zoom to target on and see what kind of scoring results and participation is like. If enough folks want to play with those settings, mix them up 50/50. As of today, I prefer the current default settings on Simulation, but I am willing to try playing with Zoom to Target. Does that sound reasonable.....?

[CallCenterZombie]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

We do realize that there are different difficulty levels, and that we can even customize them. The problem is that tour pro is way too easy for most people.

The other issue is finding people online to play the same difficulty. For example, the country club here is only going sim I believe. I fear that most of the hardcore crowd is going to go sim, while most of the casuals will go tour pro or below. For people that only play offline, they can customize it however they want, but this isn't the largest online community and it might be a little harder to find the right difficulty with good people.

On that note, is anyone interested in a cc on 360 on either tour pro or tourney difficulty??

I see what you're saying, Kerosene. I think players between Tour/Pro and Sim difficulty online will depend on how EA sets up the online tournaments. It won't be an issue in CC, though so at least you have that. I guess only time will tell.

[HANDSWARD_EA]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

I'm enjoying the demo but I've experienced 3 hard freezes. Is this something I will have to worry about when the real game drops?

This is one of the reasons that I hate demos. We just aren't finished with the game yet. It is fairly stable at the point of it being made, but there are still edge case stability issues that will cause all sorts of crashes. I know running into these types of issues in a demo can easily turn a gamer away from the game.

The thing you can count on is the fact that a solid 5-6 weeks of hard work was put into the game after the demo went out the door. We fixed a ton of bugs in that time.

[Gerg04]

I'm enjoying the demo but I've experienced 3 hard freezes. Is this something I will have to worry about when the real game drops?

I had the same problem at first. Deleted and downloaded again, no problems since.

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[Danimal]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

This is one of the reasons that I hate demos. We just aren't finished with the game yet. It is fairly stable at the point of it being made, but there are still edge case stability issues that will cause all sorts of crashes. I know running into these types of issues in a demo can easily turn a gamer away from the game.

The thing you can count on is the fact that a solid 5-6 weeks of hard work was put into the game after the demo went out the door. We fixed a ton of bugs in that time.

With all due respect last years finished game froze on a lot of people. Myself I only had it happen once but in our CC we had several users who would constantly complain of freezes.

So much so we had to remove the round attempt limits so people wouldn't get DQ.

I hope this won't be the case this year but you can surely see why people would be concerned.

[Jackdog]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Hi Jack....


The only time the 360 demo has frozen on me is when I have restarted a round before finishing it and then using the Y button to speed up the shots. Ever since I figured this out, I have not had a freeze since.

The demo is 3 months older code than final and Hands and the Dev Team told us thy were spending additional additional Dev time polishing TW14....I hope it pays off.

Hello! Thanks for the response. Same here but on the PS3 version. I'm ready for this bad boy to drop.

[Jackdog]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

This is one of the reasons that I hate demos. We just aren't finished with the game yet. It is fairly stable at the point of it being made, but there are still edge case stability issues that will cause all sorts of crashes. I know running into these types of issues in a demo can easily turn a gamer away from the game.

The thing you can count on is the fact that a solid 5-6 weeks of hard work was put into the game after the demo went out the door. We fixed a ton of bugs in that time.

Excellent. Thank you for the update. Looking forward to the finished product.

[DivotMaker]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

With all due respect last years finished game froze on a lot of people. Myself I only had it happen once but in our CC we had several users who would constantly complain of freezes.

So much so we had to remove the round attempt limits so people wouldn't get DQ.

I hope this won't be the case this year but you can surely see why people would be concerned.

Handsward and the entire Dev team are painfully aware of how '13 froze on alot of people, myself included. I can tell you from experience that playing the Alpha builds during TW CD were easily the most stable I had ever played on, including released versions. I am hoping like you and everyone else that the 5-6 weeks spent polishing the final build of TW14 will alleviate the freezing issues many experienced in TW13.....

[kerosene31]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

I hear ya Kerosene.....what might be interesting would be for any Sim-only CC to mix in some tournaments with the Zoom to target on and see what kind of scoring results and participation is like. If enough folks want to play with those settings, mix them up 50/50. As of today, I prefer the current default settings on Simulation, but I am willing to try playing with Zoom to Target. Does that sound reasonable.....?

I'd only be playing on tournament at the highest anyway, so that wouldn't matter to me (I can't read greens at all without the grid, every putt just looks flat to me). Others might be interested though.

I really only play my cc online (great feature by the way!).

[Lieutenant Dan]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

I'm 100% in to try Simulation in the final (no demo for me). However my concerns about putting w/o a grid are similar to kerosene's; I have a lot of trouble with the 2d aspect of it. The grid makes up for not 'feeling' the green under your feet or being able to walk around the cup to size things up. I tried with no grids the past two years and man, it's tough. But....people do play that way with some success, so I gotta give it a fair shot so I can go 'sim' all the way in the CC.

If enough of us struggle and moan over it though, we might end up customized just to include the grid.

[Danimal]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

I am hoping like you and everyone else that the 5-6 weeks spent polishing the final build of TW14 will alleviate the freezing issues many experienced in TW13.....

Good to hear. Like I said I never had a freeze but I wasn't a fan of setting the attempts limit for rounds in a tourney above 1. I guess I don't trust people's competitive natures even when it's just a video game

I know it is impossible to tell if someone quit or crashed so I don't see a real solution to the problem unless instead of DQing an individual you just gave them a score equal to the worst score submitted or something.

Which opens up a whole other can of worms so I just talked myself out of that lol.

[globalbeats7]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

i think, for now, a tweener difficulty between tournament and sim works well for me and prob some others that arent completely happy with default sim.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Re: Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions (PS3, 360)

Just one more week until early release. I'm kind of looking forward to getting in a game of skins online on sim difficulty. It was fun last year, but this time around there should be a bit more drama during putting.