More Details Emerge About The Golf Club

[MERACE]

Re: More Details Emerge About The Golf Club

And they want this game to appeal to the masses so with one difficulty level, it will most likely lean toward the easy side rather than the difficult.

Unless the developer Anthony is lying or really sucks at virtual golf games here is his experience with the difficulty of the game:

http://www.hb-studios.com/forum/index.php?topic=549.0

"I have created a course we're planning on having on the servers for the Closed BETA, that has huge flat greens and wide fairways. With my extensive experience in the game I'm hitting about 14 under on that, but that's easier than any course I've ever played as an amateur golfer in real life.
I also play Pinehurst River, http://thegolfclubgame.com/2014/01/1...p-carousel-387, regularly and my best score it 1 Over.

And you have to realise that I've played the game for at lease 5hrs a day for about a year. So there's plenty of challenge"


-MERACE

[JayBee74]

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Only one difficulty level? How can that possibly work to the satisfaction of all. The different degrees of difficulty of the courses won't make any difference to the fact that some people will find it all way too easy and others too hard.

That's a selling point of the game to me. Coupled with neutral golfer skills, you can gauge your game against anybody even if you play single player or multi player offline.

Wonder if you'll have a handicap?

[OnlookerDelay]

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I just learned this morning that voice chat across platforms will not be possible in The Golf Club. I'm not surprised by it though. The producer cited the fact that the voip's that come with the platforms are not compatible across platforms, which again is no shock.

To further explain how "multiplayer" works in The Golf Club, one of the developers described it this way:

"Multiplayer is asynchronous, so there really are no 'matches' aside from defined tournaments that you can open up over a set amount of time."

I think they're having to call it asynchronous because if they're going to realize their goal of cross-play between XB1 and PS4, they can't directly tie the two together. They'll have to use HBS server's as a buffer between the two, so there will be some degree of delay associated with that.

I still think people who wanted to play what we call turn-based play could still do it. They would just have to agree to see who was furthest out and defer to that player to play their shot. All you'd see is a vertical color bar with a player's name over it, and a corresponding color shot tracer showing the flight of the ball, but that would probably get the job done for some. They're still tossing ideas around, so this isn't set in stone. Of course a lot of what I've said is based in speculation, so take it with a grain of salt.

[MERACE]

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Wonder if you'll have a handicap?

The developers mentioned that with their game engine it is definitely possible and that they would like to add that to game in the future.


-MERACE

[Lieutenant Dan]

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The developers mentioned that with their game engine it is definitely possible and that they would like to add that to game in the future.


-MERACE

Golf handicaps are math I just don't grasp.

When I play IRL, I just play scratch and write small so there's room for my triple digit score :P