Lads three days and its out, will be buying obv. Will go Bone too due to sexy controller.
There's been streams of it and it seems the changes are for the best, new tempo swing looks a solid idea and can't dial in your shots with the loft boxes anywhere near as much as on the first.
An hour and half of it here from Irving, a prominent TGCTours player who's actually quite shit at the game but an awesome geezer, he got it early:
my swing has properly gone to shit in TGC2.. what am I missing?
The launch has been a disaster. The servers are fucked.
Basically though the swing is now tempo based, smooth, proper speed in both directions. On the first, it didn't mater, as long as you got 100% in the cone you were good. Its completely tempo. Fast on the backswing will slice it left, slow will go right.
Also, there's three sets of clubs. Standard (beginner, easier to hit, driver only goes 240 yards), player (swing is about the same as TGC1, driver = 265y) and pro (hard as fuck to hit straight, but added spin, and driver goes 279). Also all clubs get added distance dependent on clubs picked.
I've played indies with server issues before, this is completely unplayable. Like fucking broke beyond belief. Tried to buy some shoes earlier for my avatar, did 6 minutes of spinny ball connecting then came back error.
Also due to server problems, even if you do get a round in somehow, the swing is fucked. Constantly veers off at 90 degree angles even for the top players.
Can play offline of course, where its stable, but 95% of the game is the online side. They did beta test it, 100 players on PC. Heard the PC version is perfect lol.
First round done. Tour clubs (by fuck is driving hard), but I'm finding it easy to hit a perfect swing. Easiest course but I haven't been on the driving range yet: