EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse Support and Much More - Patch Notes

[RIFRIG]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse

I agree whole-heartedly with this! The broadcast camera looks broken to me. It might even be worse than the broadcast camera in Tiger Woods 14. I'm really disappointed in the limited camera options in this game. I'm not a fan of follow camera, even when they're done right, but this follow camera leaves a lot to be desired compared to EA's follow cameras of golf games past. And the Pro, presentation option works good until the camera cut.... it cuts too late the the downrange view, and secondly, it often cuts to views that are more obscure than your original view perspective.

I wish they would give us an option of when to switch to the downrange camera view, and then give us more fixed options for reverse angle views of from say 135 to 180 degrees looking back toward the golfer. Putts are impossible to follow completely using the pro view once you get outside of 15 feet.

It’s not great but on the Pro camera when you switch to landing you can move the camera around with the stick.Only for a short time but there is some movement.

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Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse

It’s not great but on the Pro camera when you switch to landing you can move the camera around with the stick.Only for a short time but there is some movement.

I didn't know that, but I'll give it a try. There's no way to trigger when the camera switch occurs, right? You know, like you can in PGA TOUR 2K23? I love that option!

[RIFRIG]

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I didn't know that, but I'll give it a try. There's no way to trigger when the camera switch occurs, right? You know, like you can in PGA TOUR 2K23? I love that option!

Another option is using follow camera which does hold with the golfer a decent amount once the ball is at it’s apex using the opposite stick to what you swing with move the camera around to see it from the side or reverse as it descends to it’s landing area. You can even zoom in to the ball a touch. Create your own broadcast so to speak.

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Another option is using follow camera which does hold with the golfer a decent amount once the ball is at it’s apex using the opposite stick to what you swing with move the camera around to see it from the side or reverse as it descends to it’s landing area. You can even zoom in to the ball a touch. Create your own broadcast so to speak.

Dang it... I'm down to less than an hour in my trial time in both the Series X and PC versions and now I'm finding out this option is here. I'm going to check it out now... thanks!

[RIFRIG]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse

Dang it... I'm down to less than an hour in my trial time in both the Series X and PC versions and now I'm finding out this option is here. I'm going to check it out now... thanks!

It’s not 2K standard but something other than the straight follow camera. I like it myself because I’m in control of it rather than getting the disoriented sense of where am I on the course.

[gsize19]

Re: EA PGA 23 New Update

Anything change with lie penalties?

(lack thereof mostly it sounds like)

I keep seeing people wondering/complaining about that not being nearly penal enough anywhere off the fairways.

It's a real game breaker for a golf game to not reward/penalize keeping your ball out of harms way. This is not a problem unique to EA Golf either.

So it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes, but I have noticed shots are harder than they were in the rough and heavy rough than out of the box. Seems like a subtle tweak, but one that was needed. The ball still rolls fairly easy in the rough, that's not a game breaker for me, but I would like to see in a future patch some tweaks on ball mechanics when the balls enter the rough and if you land hard in the sand, it should be buried. It almost always rolls fairly easily in the sand, so needs tweaked slightly also...

[CujoMatty]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse

One other thing I haven't seen people comment about which has been a huge improvement was fixing the hole size. That was weird to say lol.

But seriously. The ball is far more realistic on shots that aren't centre cup. Huge huge huge improvement.

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It’s not 2K standard but something other than the straight follow camera. I like it myself because I’m in control of it rather than getting the disoriented sense of where am I on the course.

I tried this last night on my PC trial version and it worked in both Pro and Follow modes. The Pro mode would be my overall choice if it would at least allow an option to switch to the downrange camera at an earlier point in the shot. In PGA TOUR 2K23, I normally do the switch at about 75% into the shot. When used the non swing stick (right stick in my case) to do this in EA's Pro option, the camera switches so late that there's very little time to move the camera angle to what you want.

Naturally in follow camera I was able to start the trolleying and panning almost instantly after contact, but it's dizzying because it doesn't switch to another perspective, it just swirls and tracks the ball... it's a bit dizzying to be honest. Yes, I'd occasionally get and interesting angle using the follow and stick rotation, but it was too much work to do it and the return on my efforts only produced a satisfying angle maybe 1/3 of the time.

FWIW, the broadcast camera perspective now seems to be broken worse than it was before the patch. Many of the camera angles it cuts to are from other fairways, or behind hills, buildings and trees.

[golfnut67]

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One other thing I haven't seen people comment about which has been a huge improvement was fixing the hole size. That was weird to say lol.

But seriously. The ball is far more realistic on shots that aren't centre cup. Huge huge huge improvement.

Totally agree. That and the putting grid disappearing is awesome.

I wish they would fix the hideously large club heads and putters. It's worse on some pros than others, but some of the putters especially are gigantic, and some of the stances have the toe of the putter pointing upward in a very awkward way. I've seen a couple of mallet putters look half the size of the golfers foot lol. I guess it's just leftover graphics from Rory.

[Tweeg]

Re: EA PGA 23 New Update

i hope next update will fix AI issue we need -40 from AI players ....-25 what they usually do now on 100lvl is not enough. difficult slider needs to go 150lvl so AI can play better

This is why I quit playing EA Sports golf games a very long time ago. I don't understand the enjoyment of shooting rounds in the 50s over and over again.

[Brucie]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse

3-click thoughts:

Appreciate the wayward tee shots finally. However, the AI already chooses your club for you, chooses your shot setup for you, and shows you where your shot will land. And now with the addition of 3-click, the swing meter displays exactly how much power to hit your shot with.

Playing a game that holds your hand and does all the work for you like this game does, is not enjoyable to me. I find myself playing 2-3 holes and then shutting it off. It's dart board target practice, not golf.

[golfnut67]

Re: EA Sports PGA Tour Patch Adds 3-Click Swing, New Presentation Settings, PC Mouse

3-click thoughts:

Appreciate the wayward tee shots finally. However, the AI already chooses your club for you, chooses your shot setup for you, and shows you where your shot will land. And now with the addition of 3-click, the swing meter displays exactly how much power to hit your shot with.

Playing a game that holds your hand and does all the work for you like this game does, is not enjoyable to me. I find myself playing 2-3 holes and then shutting it off. It's dart board target practice, not golf.

I totally get this and can't imagine playing 3 click.

I hated the game at first, but after finding the right difficulty level, which for me is Tour right now where I shoot a little under par occasionally, turning off all aids except zoom and the grid, it really let me dig into the coolest part of this game--learning the touch and feel of the stick and how far to pull it back on approach and pitch shots. Turn off the swing meter for sure. Turn off the swing feedback arc. It's fun and challenging to learn the tempo of the stick with the short game.

Sometimes I shoot a few under, or just now, 8 over at The Players. It all comes down to how in or out of "the groove" I am, just like 2k.

[vols]

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I didn't know that, but I'll give it a try. There's no way to trigger when the camera switch occurs, right? You know, like you can in PGA TOUR 2K23? I love that option!

How do you get camera to change in 2k?

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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How do you get camera to change in 2k?

Directional pad

[Brucie]

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How do you get camera to change in 2k?

D-Pad while the ball is in play. Also, for the pre-shot free-roam cam hit F10 to activate, then F11 to shut off the on-screen HUD elements.