Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[DivotMaker]

Quote: Originally Posted by BL8001

Yes but what pro golfer doesnt observe his putt from different angles before putting? I guess the one who is making a living teaching the swing in some remote town and not playing the tour. Zoom just needs an option of on/off/short game only (any shot with 30yds)/only putting

I'm not arguing about this. Just saying it IS playable currently. I have been beating the drum for more cameras since release here and in other forums.....

[MJDrocks]

I have also been playing around with settings trying to figure out the appropriate settings to start my career with. Currently I have everything off and I have been doing practice rounds to mediocre results. I may need to leave Green Grid on because with the lack of cameras you can really find yourself guessing.

[BL8001]

Yep, I don't mind turning off the assists but life on the pga tour is built around having more info, every bit of knowledge they have leads to lower scores.

They all strike the ball well enough that the game really is putting and who makes the fewest.

So being blind on the greens serves no purpose to me.

I know you can putt with it off, I did it. And it just felt dumb.

IRL some players have their caddies stand on the high or low side. You can use the human form to vizualize the slope. It's a little secret. Just look at shoes as the first indicator.

I was really hoping EA knew this and had the caddy staying to one side. For the first 5 holes I played after thinking to check this he stood on the lowside in the game and I was so happy. Then he didn't, then he did, then he didn't and I knew it was just random caddy placing.

Can't expect EA to know that trick.

[DivotMaker]

Your choice of camera also has alot to do with being able to read the greens. While you say it feels dumb to you, I feel going gridless feels more like how it is to putt IRL, there is the element of surprise and chance. I have completed two full seasons in Career on Xbox One and PS4 and I can read the greens almost as well as with a grid on. It simply takes practice. LOTS of practice.

[BL8001]

Dumb just in terms of this;

I am a 6.4 handicap IRL. After I hit my approach shot as I walk to the green I survey it and the land around it to get clues to what the predominant break will be.

Can't really do that in the game with zoom off. You can stare at the green before hitting your approach shot but it isn't the same because you only have 4 angles to choose from and none give you the same feedback like real life.

Once I reach the green I try to immediately sense the overall slope of my upcoming putt with my feet as I walk to mark my ball. Then I do my best to locate the fall line.

Cannot do either of these in the game for obvious reasons.

If I putt first or during any window after anyone else has putted, I would first walk to the low side of the putt, midway between ball and hole and get the best mental impression of how the ball would take the break. Then walk back to the ball and stand directly behind it and take just a few strokes to gauge distance of the line I have determined.

Can't do that in the game with zoom off.

And in before anyone comments it must be hell to play behind me, no, I can do all this extremely quickly. Once you have your pre-putt routine down it works like clockwork. And if you put this in to practice, then if you miss a putt you just missed a putt. It happens.

Back to the same thing, if you could just swivel the camera and walk the green by having the putting cams with zoom on when you reach the green with zoom toggled off, perfect!

[BL8001]

It's kind of strange that the most videogame-y thing in a live golf broadcast is the pro tracer (which is also incredibly cool) yet it's not in Rory.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Just finished up a tournament at Lighthouse Pointe. What an awesome course. I started off horribly on day one and was working my way buck up the leaderboard the next few days. I had Speith in my crosshair going down the back nine, but I choked it away. I ended up four strokes behind and in 3rd place. I'll take it, though.

[BL8001]

I was thinking about this today...what if you could walk to your ball after each shot?

It could be skippable with X/A or whatever.

With the frostbite engine, in battlefield and hardline I can walk anywhere I want for the most part.

It would just be so sweet to sight see just like you really do when you play golf.

I would take it in 3rd person where my caddie and I walked down the fairway. The camera could be rotated and zoomed in or out. So if you saw a cool bridge or any interesting landmark you could walk over to it and move the camera around to get a good view.

Imagine the incredible screenshots that would be posted.

A huge part of playing golf, even for the pros is taking in the surroundings.

I don't think this is asking too much. It's already there in other frostbite engine games.