Rory McIlroy PGA Tour: Online Modes Review

[Hunkerdown]

I am glad I went to EA Tiburon playtest and got this game for free. It is worth free.

[sroz39]

I've played three H2H matches on Tour mode the other night, all three times with full foursomes, and it was fun. I wish the opponent shot was alot more visible, put the tracers back in or something, but the three matches were competitive.

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[ShivasIrons]

Rory McIlroy online is a huge disappointment. "Golf without limits." In online H2H, the game limits one to a double bogey at most. That's right. Once an online player gets to one over par on a hole without holing out, the hole is over. The game "shot-limits" the player, giving him an automatic double bogey. Go to the next hole. You are limited to double bogey. No triple bogeys or higher allowed.

Why no XP allowed in H2H? You can only earn XP by playing career mode. No XP in live tourneys either. The game forces one to play career, which I personally have no interest in playing. In TW14 you could buy a maxed character and go online and play. This game eliminated that option. And, then we have to read from some idiotic EA developer that the "telemetry in the data shows that most players all play career." Well, the game forces one to play career if you want a maxed out character to go online to compete with.

TW14 on simulation mode was an outstanding game, even considering the glitches and defects that EA promised to fix but never did. I miss the diagonal swing and the fading red dot. Never thought I'd be saying that when I first encountered that analog fading red dot strike meter, but it was a very innovative feature. Rory McIroy is a huge disappointment. It's made me go full, head-on into The Golf Club.

Seconding the comment above about hoping Microsoft makes TW14 backwards compatible.

EA has ceded the simulation game to The Golf Club. An indicator of this was when 3-4 months ago when EA abruptly ceased posting simulation and tournament live tournies for TW14. In true EA form their was no notice. And, the devs were all completely silent when questions were asked about that on the EA forums. Who treats their customers like that?

Now, with all the negative reviews, EA devs are out again talking vaguely about how they are going to "fix" things? I'm still waiting for the promised "fix" that never occurred in TW11 when EA sold the dlc course Cog Hill that had a defect in it of not having a pin or hole on the 11th hole. All you could do was take a max shot limit score to advance to the next hole. EA didn't fix it. They just went silent and ignored their customers who had paid for this dlc. Who treats their customers like this?

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by ShivasIrons

EA has ceded the simulation game to The Golf Club.

LOL, simulation? Can't say I agree. TGC falls so short in the short game and tee to green is as easy as Tiger or RM in Arcade mode. No tempo in the swing of TGC and they refuse to resolve a bug in the putting engine that allows for the ball to not react properly off the putter head when on sidehill lies and the putt is hit perfectly straight. TGC is far easier than RM for me to play and there are NO OTHER gameplay options. They refuse to listen to their customers asking for additional gameplay challenge. HANDSWARD is developing an improved TOUR swing that is coming out soon.

Don't disagree with the rest of your post.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

LOL, simulation? Can't say I agree. TGC falls so short in the short game and tee to green is as easy as Tiger or RM in Arcade mode. No tempo in the swing of TGC and they refuse to resolve a bug in the putting engine that allows for the ball to not react properly off the putter head when on sidehill lies and the putt is hit perfectly straight. TGC is far easier than RM for me to play and there are NO OTHER gameplay options. They refuse to listen to their customers asking for additional gameplay challenge. HANDSWARD is developing an improved TOUR swing that is coming out soon. Don't disagree with the rest of your post.

The lack of commentary online is disappointing. It's too quiet, I had to throw on some music.

And why don't you play 18 holes with ranked matches? They way they distribute wins and losses after 9 holes is very weird.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pappy Knuckles

The lack of commentary online is disappointing. It's too quiet, I had to throw on some music.

I played an online tournament the other day and there was commentary when there wasn't during EA Access.....

[Pappy Knuckles]

Quote: Originally Posted by DivotMaker

I played an online tournament the other day and there was commentary when there wasn't during EA Access.....

Maybe in tournaments it's different. In ranked and unranked it was dead quiet out there for me.

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pappy Knuckles

Maybe in tournaments it's different. In ranked and unranked it was dead quiet out there for me.

I've heard that and my understanding that was not the case in previous Tiger versions, at least not TW14....