Played four hours of it. I can finally properly talk about what I experienced during the beta test.
Graphically its a fair bump up. Trees no longer look 2D, the lighting is much improved. Rough looks way better and more natural. Your avatar is improved, with a lot of customisation options. Crowds are still fairly dead and a bit shit.
Physics are a massive improvement. The rollout is realistic, lies aren't as harshly punishing (some heavy rough gives a 90-95% lie but your ball will roll more on landing).
Putting has had a overhaul. No longer is it too easy to hit one straight, if you're slightly off line the ball will clearly take off more left or right. Power also has been changed slightly, had to essentially relearn it although it didn't take long.
The career mode is much better, you go through Q-School, then Web, then the pro tours (well, PGA due to the license). There's five difficulties from very easy, aka AI is shocking, to very hard, where they'll be scoring -8 to -11 per tournament.
More licensed courses, and more HB official ones. Can't comment on user courses as its the day of launch but some users have ported theirs over. St Andrews still plays a great round.
Three clubsets ala TGC2. Being a veteran I started on Master clubs and they're very fair if very tough. Deviation from a straight line and tempo come into play massively, although its easy to keep the line in the cone. Rarely hit a perfect/perfect, but slow/perfect only punishes you slightly, likewise fast/perfect as long as you're in the cone. Basically its 80% about tempo (easier to get on easier clubsets but you lose a lot of distance), and 20% line.
Feels very good on PC, slight stuttering when using the fast forward as the ball flies through the air, but a patch would soon change that.
Its early days but it feels like what HB wanted TGC2 to actually be.
I bought 2019 for my PC, worked fine. Stopped working after recent updates, crashes on start up, tried everything. Rolled back drivers, windows builds, tried to change DX dlls, command prompts etc.
I posted in their forum bug/help section. Not even a reply a month later, despite them having their dev members online every day. Never got a response.
£25 wasted essentially, and I love those games as you're aware. Horrendous customer service. Four members tried to help but appears its a Unity error. Every other game works fine.
I hate situations like that because I'm not always strong enough to vote with my feet if I really like something. Like when employees from my local curryhouse were scamming my card, I only managed to stay away for 11 months because chicken pathia.
Well maybe the backing of 2k will make for a more solid release? Although 2k have been glitchy in the past haven't they? Fingers crossed as I do like a good golf game too
Nah theres currency which you earn in game for cosmetics or clubs which have slightly different stats but arent game breaking, but of course being 2k you can spend 50 quid on that currency if youre a mook type.
Well, me and Chaz bought this in the recent sale and are having a rare old time. We both can't be fucked with the hardcore timings etc so just pap it on easy, load up a course (of which there are many), pour a drink and have a round.
Longest putt contest is go
Unfortunately the sale is now done but it'll be around again I think. Would be good to get anyone else on for a round if they're up for it. Tis a nice cleanser after whatever other more stressful online game we've been playing.
I'm not sure. There's some MP mode called Divot Derby which I think does that but we just tend to play Match Play. The gaps between shots are perfect for drinking/smoking, any sense of panic would ruin the good vibes maaaaaaaan.