Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

[Klocker]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

I can cite multiple examples where this has happened, in my estimation. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 went from an average game, with spoon-fed putting, to the second best console video golf game of all time with its Meterless Precision Putting interface that was also fully proportional. I continue to marvel to this day at how good the putting feels and rewards the senses in that game. This option was added as a patch, as DivotMaker indicated earlier, in response to user feedback. In fact, I got a personal e-mail from one of the developers, thanking me for my persistence in beating the drum for that option.

Let's load that up again and get it going. would love to see putting feel improved for sim players.


I've been milking my playtime and have maybe one round left to play tonight and then I'm pulling the trigger on this game and look forward to playing tomorrow night at 9pm pt. I really like it and am going to give the devs the benefit of the doubt that patches, updates and dlc will round this game out even more.

The overall feel on the course and playing is great, really enjoying it and makes me feel like playing just one more hole, one more hole... I think I have got the sim set up that I think I will really enjoy and the bumper camera change makes looking at the course and swinging from different lies very easy.

I am disappointed at no cloud cover or overcast whatsoever not to mention rain on course but hopefully they will patch some simple weather options in. Also hope to see the create a player improved but in meantime this is now a golf game that I actually will enjoy more than any in years actually.


I like what they're starting with and hope they try to innovate and not just recreate older versions of TW games with prettier graphics.

[sbauer318]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

EA access members get 10% discount

Yeah I know. I meant it's like a steam early access game in that it's not really a finished product yet.

It's almost the same thing. When you buy an early access game you know that the developer may stop working on it or call it finished at anytime. You're buying into it early at a discounted price, hoping that one day it will be something great.

We are saying the same things here.

[k1lo5]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

A question to the anyone currently playing this game! Can you select or customize your swing style?

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[kehlis]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

Actually, yes it can.....they have had numerous patches to various versions of Tiger that impacted gameplay tremendously based on user feedback......

Gameplay cant be fixed through updates? That couldn't be farther from the truth.

I can cite multiple examples where this has happened, in my estimation. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 went from an average game, with spoon-fed putting, to the second best console video golf game of all time with its Meterless Precision Putting interface that was also fully proportional. I continue to marvel to this day at how good the putting feels and rewards the senses in that game. This option was added as a patch, as DivotMaker indicated earlier, in response to user feedback. In fact, I got a personal e-mail from one of the developers, thanking me for my persistence in beating the drum for that option.

Yea, gameplay was a poor word choice by me and wasn't my actual intent.

I was talking more about game design.


So some are not impressed with the putting mechanic, as far as I know that isn't something that can be changed with patch, I'm not sure if the example provided and this years game are the same. Not at all pretending to know though.

There seems to be a lot of straight shots which is only fixed with house rules. Not sure if that can be changed.

As always though, correct me if I'm wrong on those things.

[DivotMaker]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

Yea, gameplay was a poor word choice by me and wasn't my actual intent.

I was talking more about game design.


So some are not impressed with the putting mechanic, as far as I know that isn't something that can be changed with patch.

There seems to be a lot of straight shots which is only fixed with house rules. Not sure if that can be changed.

As always though, correct me if I'm wrong on those things.

All of the above can be updated and improved.

[kehlis]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

All of the above can be updated and improved.

Happy to take your word on that.

I hope they work on some of those things.

[sbauer318]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

Happy to take your word on that.

I hope they work on some of those things.

That's the bigger question - will they? How much time are they willing to spend redesigning large, core pieces of functionality?

[Pompeo89]

This may have been answered already but can anyone confirm if TPC Scottsdale will be included in the career schedule for those who have pre-ordered?

[goillini03]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

Sorry if this has been asked, but I am in my phone. How do you start your career? I went through the prolouge and played a play it now 18 hole round. Should I be seeing something different?

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[OnlookerDelay]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

The ps4 version sure seems less grainy to me it still has a certain amount of graininess in the textures of the grass but I think it's intentional and doesn't look bad.there was no question to me that things look clearer. The golfers have a better sharpness and the colors seem crisper.

As far as swing improvements it's exactly the same and there's even a little lag when putting sometimes or in cut scenes which I also experienced on the x1. I would say I find the general swing technique better on the ps4 but it's most likely due to the fact I prefer the ds4 controller.

I'd say that based on your experience, the PS4 version is sporting at least a 180p higher resolution. If the XB1 version is 720p, it's a more organic 720p than what I'm used to seeing. It's probably a testament to the quality of the Frostbite 3 engine.

I'm wondering how much, if any, of the graininess that so many of us are seeing is an intended effect? I can see where a producer might say they were trying to achieve a "film" effect. If that's so, I would question why you would want to be attempting to infuse a film effect into what for the player is a "live" event.

Whatever is going on with it, EA Sports doesn't seem to want to address specific questions about the resolution and frame rate. I'm hoping they'll be willing to give some official information on this post launch.

I appreciate your reasoning on why you think the PS4 version feels better to you. I'm partial to the XB1 and XBox 360 Silver Edition controllers for golf games, not so much so because of the feel of stick itself, but its physical location on the body of the controller. I prefers a left thumbstick swing, since my brain has made an association between my left arm and the left thumb in a thumbstick modeled golf swing. My thumbs are long and the higher position on the controller body of the left thumbstick with the XB1 and XBox 360 controllers creates a less severe angle for my thumb to manipulate the left thumbstick with greater precision and feel.

I'll be interested in reading the reactions of others who've both played the Early Access versions and then the PS4 versions of RMPGAT this coming week.

[jbd345]

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I can cite multiple examples where this has happened, in my estimation. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 went from an average game, with spoon-fed putting, to the second best console video golf game of all time with its Meterless Precision Putting interface that was also fully proportional. I continue to marvel to this day at how good the putting feels and rewards the senses in that game. This option was added as a patch, as DivotMaker indicated earlier, in response to user feedback. In fact, I got a personal e-mail from one of the developers, thanking me for my persistence in beating the drum for that option.

This here gives me hope that this dev team will make an effort. PGA tour is smaller than madden or Fifa, and gameplay issues should be first on their list rather than ultimate team or some player doesn't have the right face mask.

[fishepa]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

I preordered the digital version of this game on the ps4 for the simple fact that I don't want to get off my butt to take out Destiny.

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[AceFan84]

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I hope you guys are ok that buy it on good faith they will fix a lot of these big issues, I'm not that optimistic that will happen. I am just going to have to pass on this year's game, maybe if they do really improve on it I will pick it up for $20 or so. For now I'm content playing older TW games on PS3 and TGC.

[Zalf]

Re: Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Trial Available Now on EA Access, Post Your Impressions

Details on 2 seasons of "simmed" Pro career:

I passed the Web.com portion and wanted to check a couple of things in the mode I am most interested in. Withdrew from the start of each tournament to move through the seasons. I don't think the withdrawals would impact any of the things I checked.

- 16 tournaments a season including the FedEx Cup progressive playoffs(which I correctly did not qualify for.)

- No special end of season wrap up

- No option to change things like courses between seasons. Concerned on what that could mean for using new courses in career mode.

- All 4 Majors are played at the same courses in year 1 and year 2. /sigh

- No other tournaments changed courses or their spot in the schedule.

- 16 tournaments. All in the same order and on the same courses year after year.

- No additional stat tracking after going through either 1 or 2 seasons.

Any other tour pro mode questions that this test might have answered?

[VTKombat]

My 10 hour rollercoaster ride with RMPGA has come to an end. It started out with me cursing the hell out of EA and wanting to back out of my preorder, to now jonesing like crazy for some more. Now i gotta get through 2 days of work until i can get my predorder and carry on with my crazy pro career. I was able to finish my tourney at Royal Troon, where I hung around in 30th position before making a late climb in the final round to finish in 7th. Had some good opportunities and blew some with some drives in the rough, a couple iron shots into the greens bunkers, etc but that all added to the adrenaline rush. Trying to carry momentum into the next tournament, I was soon bitch slapped back to reality as I fell victim to the brutal, Wolfs Creek. First round was a +5, but really liked the course. Very challenging. Cant wait till tuesday to hit up my next tourney. A lot of things are missing, but the core golf, with all the aids turned off, is pretty addictive.


For added fun, grab your favorite bottle of jack and take a shot every time you here " you can't hide the pin from this guy" Good Times!