Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 14 Available Now For Season Ticket Subs, Post Your Impressions

[jbd345]

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^ You can not even see which way your dang ball broke because of the camera?

Crybaby? Really? Tell me how it feels missing two putts in a row because you can't see how you misread the green the first time bud.

Ever hear of putt preview dude? If your playing on sim mode you have a valid arguement. Camera is not much on an issue their are bigger problems with this game that need to be addressed first. I for one am not touching career mode until the cut line problem is gone.

[Klocker]

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wow... full on Sim mode about my third round out with rory against Tiger in a quick tourney....


shot a 93!


played just like real life, had some good holes a couple great and some blow ups (several OBs on bad swings) . that is what is so realistic is you can make one small miscalculation and it costs you.

also am starting to see the idea behind the TCS, rather than backswing distance. Once I start to get the feel for all the minor adjustments I can make, I see how the tempo and stroke really affect the result. So on the whole it may be more realistic than simply the backswing distance. (as realistic as you can get electronically)

Would love to see an option for backswing and face open and close though.

[DivotMaker]

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I for one am not touching career mode until the cut line problem is gone.

It is being investigated along with a host of other issues. Below are threads where Sean commented on patch updates today....they are working on quite a few things.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9396331.page

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9401262.page

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9401539.page

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9401588.page

[cj24]

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anyone know of a way to unlock the other legends without going through the legends mode?

I haven't created a golfer and don't really play the game that way, but I'd really like to use the other legends. Is there an end run around having to play the mode to unlock them?

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Is there anywhere in the game where you can see your stats on each course? I enjoyed that feature in the game last year and I'm not sure if I'm just overlooking it or if it was taken away this time.

[MGpet]

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In recent times, I played TW07, 12, and preordered the Masters HE after downloading the demo on a whim.

First, the bad: I had played exclusively on the 360 in the past, but went over to the PS3 to play with friends. Loading times are torturous, but you slowly get used to them. I would have happily paid $10 more to get the digital version and the HE upgrade if it cuts back on loading times off the disc (if that's even the case...)

The putting cam can be a pain, and I'm glad there is a patch in the works to return to the demo's version of it. It's not gamebreaking for me, but it doesn't make sense.

I've found at least one error, with the caddie book showing me the wrong hole (TPC Boston, #13 I think). Pretty important if you're playing pure sim mode.

It would be nice to see what upgrades I just unlocked by leveling up all in one place, as opposed to having to go through each category and filtering unlocked items. Especially since each time you switch, there's a delay of a second or two.


The good: Full Sim mode is a blast to play, and it mimics real life golf. You need to be able to accurately assess your condition and lie, pick your shot, and stay focused. And, just like real golf, it's good to have and know your miss, because you will miss. Playing on Tournament conditions from the tips, medium pins, medium rough, I have only broken 80 once in six rounds (77 at the new Pinehurst). Shot 86 in windy conditions at County Down, and 85 at Bethpage, and it was fun. When you save par from the rough or from under the trees, or hit one to 8 feet and make an outside-the-edge putt for birdie, it is so rewarding.


I haven't started career mode yet. I want to level up a bit more (only at 14 or so now), and wait for the patch to squash those nasty cut line/results bugs I'm reading about. But I am getting my money's worth just popping out for practice rounds and playing dress-up with my CAG for now.

[Barto]

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I played my first couple rounds last night both on the US Amateur and CC Bushwood at Muirfield. I shot a +3 at the US Open @ Pinehurst and a +12 at Muirfield (my first tournament using the sim settings).

Overall, the game is awesome. I love all of the new bells and whistles this game has. My only gripes would be:

1. Putt follow cam as countless others have complained about.
2. Banners w/ Stats and help information being displayed over the ball/putter, so i can't see my putt as i hit the ball
3. I don't care for how the putter is lined up behind the ball before you make the stroke.
4. I noticed that so far, none of my rounds have had any commentary. I'm not sure if i need to adjust the gameplay settings or not.

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Is there anywhere in the game where you can see your stats on each course? I enjoyed that feature in the game last year and I'm not sure if I'm just overlooking it or if it was taken away this time.

GREAT question...I too miss those particular stats.

I'm a level 22 now and trying to make the US Open in career mode lol. I have played five rounds in my CC as well.

Loving this game so far. The presentation this year even in the CC's is outstanding, with tons of stat overlays to see how you're shaping up against other members as you play. I love the colors and fonts of the menus and overlays, gone is that annoying yellow from last year..no more squinting! It all looks very professional this time.

I have the game installed, and loading times are very swift compared to past TW games. When you add up 18 holes of fast loading, it actually has an impact on your total playing time for a round, which means I can get more rounds in a session.

Graphics and sounds are nice...I've really been liking their music choices this year and last year. Good, classy, chill golf music, great to get you in the mood for a relaxing round of hitting your ball in the sand

Gameplay and level of challenge with Sim difficulty is amazing. As good as TW11 was for feeling realistic, this game takes a big step forward this year in gameplay. It feels like I'm really out there, and has been said here, every bad shot is on you for not executing. I like that putting is a bit less touchy this year; it's hard enough just to get to the green (but in a good way).

Great game, and a patch forthcoming to resolve some issues will be welcome so I can go full-steam w/career mode. If the patch does it's job, this could get a 9/10 from me.

[BBallcoach]

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struggled on hard all night... last round before bed... -10, looks like a bump in the difficulty coming tomorrow night... I gotta work up to full sim

[Lieutenant Dan]

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I played my first couple rounds last night both on the US Amateur and CC Bushwood at Muirfield. I shot a +3 at the US Open @ Pinehurst and a +12 at Muirfield (my first tournament using the sim settings).

Overall, the game is awesome. I love all of the new bells and whistles this game has. My only gripes would be:

1. Putt follow cam as countless others have complained about.
2. Banners w/ Stats and help information being displayed over the ball/putter, so i can't see my putt as i hit the ball
3. I don't care for how the putter is lined up behind the ball before you make the stroke.
4. I noticed that so far, none of my rounds have had any commentary. I'm not sure if i need to adjust the gameplay settings or not.

Putt follow cam is being addressed. If they can fix it without breaking something else, they will.

Commentary...no commentary in amateur or CC rounds. If you do play now, or are on the tour, commentary should be there.

[poster]

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I didn't play the demo much, so I am looking for tips on how to get better at swinging with the controller on sim difficulty.

I am pretty good with the straight shots (not always easy for me), but the draws and fades are a killer for me (I know they are difficult shots to execute). I looked for some tutorials, and found some guys on You Tube who are always on a straight plane in the swing meter. I am not even close on draws/fades.

I've been practicing alot on the practice course and playing the Par 3 course, and am slowly getting better.

Are there any tips anyone can give? Just practice more?

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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A couple of pages back I proposed a workaround for this cut bug by setting your golfer on the last tee time to avoid the AI simming after you finish. That doesn't work unfortunately as I thought the way to set that up would be late afternoon tee time thinking that would always give me the last tee time. It doesn't. The only thing I could offer is to let the AI sim happen in real time rather than pressing the button to skip to the end of it.

I haven't gone past the first couple of web.com tourneys, as I'm playing mostly online, to see if that works but I have noticed that the stats are getting weird. I saw an overlay while I was playing and it showed my previous tourney final standings. The top guys all had something like -745 and my score showed +999. I didn't play that badly LOL.

One gripe about the career season stats, they have a decent range of stats in there except one I like to see the most, FIR%. How could they miss that one especially when they have GIR% in there. And I really miss those checkmark ticks for hit fairways and GIR on your scorecard and the way they use to show the % of those at the end of your round along with your score total putts. Now we just get the same scorecard we have between holes. Big omission there for me.

[DivotMaker]

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All of you who may be seeing stats/scoring or other issues with the game:

Have you tried clearing the cache on your 360 or PS3's? I mention this because I have yet to see any of these issues so far and I cleared my cache when reports started to surface about these issues. It is worth a try to see if that may be one of the causes and why neither EA, Sony, nor MS saw theses issues during the certification process. Would love to hear if this helps with any of this. This does not include the online camera issues in H2H play.

Thanks in advance....

[Gerg04]

Divot/HANDS...pass on that we'd like button combos (or booster pins) to allow:

--throwing the club you are currently using
--breaking club over your knee, Tin Cup style


Maybe next year bring back the caddy so we can beat him when he's wrong.

Just some ideas...

Really like Sim mode...all it's missing is a means to express our frustration unprofessionally on the course, heheh.

I wanted to go back and quote this again because this is how I felt last night...no matter how many things I did well I did 1 or 2 things to completely ruin it.

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[fishepa]

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How do you clear the cache again?