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Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

09:31 AM - July 14, 2015 by Steve_OS

Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR is available today for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. We wanted to open a new discussion for those of you that didn't get a chance to try out the EA Access trial.

Get in a few rounds and post your impressions.

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# 301 smitty67 @ 07/21/15 09:27 PM

I agree with the two previous posters, I use the green beads because of the same reason you guys mentioned above. It's the equivalent of what the pros and their caddies are doing.

On TW 14 I turned the beads off and used the percentages of below feet, above feet, and uphill or downhill and that seemed to work out pretty realistically for me as well.

# 302 DivotMaker @ 07/21/15 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sroz39


	Although I generally agree with both yourself and the poster you quoted, it is one of the easier ways to raise the difficulty of the game without turning the green grid off, which I don't think is very realistic. A tour pro essentially sees these beads in his mind when he's reading a green, so I'm not going to limit myself with reading putts because these systems STILL aren't powerful enough to convey elevation properly without the green grid. But the thinking behind the zoom is absolutely on the money, the pros have yardages and "zoom" in their own way. Now, if I could move the camera in and around on the hole overview, that would be a nice compromise. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I am a big fan of no zoom as I like to use the "yardage book" just like the pros do and I do get an elevated look downrange to judge my aim from where I am hitting the shot which is what the Pros do as well.....I feel that the zoom makes the game too easy for me personally, but I do get that others feel differently and respect that as we all don't play the game exactly the same way....

# 303 kehlis @ 07/22/15 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by DivotMaker


	I am a big fan of no zoom as I like to use the "yardage book" just like the pros do and I do get an elevated look downrange to judge my aim from where I am hitting the shot which is what the Pros do as well.....I feel that the zoom makes the game too easy for me personally, but I do get that others feel differently and respect that as we all don't play the game exactly the same way....

I compensate the difference by using zoom for nothing but getting a closer view at the green. I still aim from the view from the golfer but with an idea of the green I'm hitting into.

That is a compromise I was willing to make with myself though like you, I respect the different opinion on the matter all together.

# 304 PRO_TOO @ 07/22/15 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by saucerset


	The info box on the top right of the screen shows the exact distance to the pin.

Elevations too?! Gotta have to look out again.

Did you guys change the standard clubs in your bag?! I just go with the standard settings. Any tips on swapping clubs here and there?!

# 305 sroz39 @ 07/22/15 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by PRO_TOO


	Elevations too?! Gotta have to look out again. Did you guys change the standard clubs in your bag?! I just go with the standard settings. Any tips on swapping clubs here and there?!

I just changed the loft of my driver to 10.0� until my power gets high enough, then I use an 8.5� driver.

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# 306 vmoney883 @ 07/22/15 09:02 AM

Any news on any DLC coming its way?

# 307 sroz39 @ 07/22/15 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by vmoney883


	Any news on any DLC coming its way?

To be perfectly honest, I am more than a little surprised that EA's marketing department has not given guys like Handsward the go ahead to talk about the DLC/Content Update plan going forward. This game is getting killed in reviews, a quick way to get some better publicity would be to talk about future plans for this title.

The decision making at the top with EA and the lack of transparency baffles me at times. This is in no way a reflection on Handsward as his excitement in wanting to talk about the future of this title has been evident.

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# 308 catcherforbaseball @ 07/22/15 12:48 PM

Make it so we can earn XP outside of career mode when we play with our created golfer. For example, online, play now, and maybe even in night club mode.

I like to play with my created golfer against my buddies in "play now" mode. What's the point now when I don't even earn XP.

# 309 sroz39 @ 07/22/15 01:21 PM

I wish in Career mode, there was a way to see what differences there are in yardage with your current attributes and all the different clubs. ATM, it's all trial and error. If I want to replace my 3 hybrid with a 2 iron, I won't know the tangible difference until I play the round.

It would be great info to have right on the menu screen where you choose your clubs.

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# 310 pencerm @ 07/22/15 07:45 PM

I posted a while back that I wished the option was there to adjust AI scoring as in years past to make career mode a little more difficult. Now I've noticed something else off with the scoring.

The scores have mammoth drop offs after round 1 in some tournaments for no reason. For example, I'm playing The Open. I shot a -6 in round 1 and was surprised to see Mickelson bested me with a -8. But after round 2, the leader was still at -8 (other than myself in first at -11). Now I'm in round 3 and the best AI score is at -7 (I'm at -14). It's like everyone comes out in round one and goes low and then just plays par or worse the rest of the way. This happens is just about every tournament.

It really makes some of these tournaments anti climatic when I know I can just play for par every hole and win.

# 311 knob1701 @ 07/22/15 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by catcherforbaseball


	Make it so we can earn XP outside of career mode when we play with our created golfer. For example, online, play now, and maybe even in night club mode. I like to play with my created golfer against my buddies in "play now" mode. What's the point now when I don't even earn XP.

Make it so I can assign my xp points the way I want. I normally only like to make my golfer around 75-80% and stop there to keep it somewhat challenging.

# 312 hawley088 @ 07/22/15 09:35 PM

PLEASE add a dynamic difficulty to career mode, I'm in the second round of the web.com tour and I am bored already, I'm up Over 10 shots already

# 313 smitty67 @ 07/22/15 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sroz39


	I wish in Career mode, there was a way to see what differences there are in yardage with your current attributes and all the different clubs. ATM, it's all trial and error. If I want to replace my 3 hybrid with a 2 iron, I won't know the tangible difference until I play the round. It would be great info to have right on the menu screen where you choose your clubs. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

We should have a whole thread that starts with the first 5 words of this post

"I wish in Career Mode.............." and we can fill in the blanks. I wouldn't know where to begin.

# 314 JOS1181 @ 07/23/15 12:15 AM

They probably should have waited another year before releasing so the game wouldnt be so bare.

# 315 sroz39 @ 07/23/15 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by smitty67


	We should have a whole thread that starts with the first 5 words of this post "I wish in Career Mode.............." and we can fill in the blanks. I wouldn't know where to begin.

To be honest, EVERY game is like this. Just look at all the other forums and their wishlist threads.

I'm having a great time in Career mode, personally. I missed the cut in the Wetlands tourney and finished top 25 at Bay Hill at -9, with the winner shooting -21 (no falling off to let me win like some others are seeing). But I'm having a great time because I set my expectations accordingly.

The large majority of us on these forums knew about the lack of courses, modes, options etc. If not before EA Access, most certainly after whether it be from playing or watching streams. So I'm not going to sit here and whine about stuff I knew weren't going to be included. By purchasing the game with what I knew, I was accepting it's relatively bare-bones state.

I'm hoping guys like Handsward continue to read people's ideas and include what they can. If they don't, I'll be the first to complain because of their stated intentions to release content updates, both free and paid. In the meantime, I knew what I was buying.

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# 316 PRO_TOO @ 07/23/15 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by hawley088


	PLEASE add a dynamic difficulty to career mode, I'm in the second round of the web.com tour and I am bored already, I'm up Over 10 shots already

I upped the lie difficulty to advanced, swing to hard, everything the hardest.... Play the EA invitational at wolf creek and we can talk again...

To me this is much harder and challenging now. Love it.

# 317 JoeFrancis @ 07/23/15 09:12 AM

This game is an abomination, the putting is horrible, the online is badly glitched, and it's bare bones as far as content or features. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, and with EA's track record, they either won't fix all the glaring issues, or they will and when they do they will break countless others. EA is the worst game maker on the planet, and it's a shame they keep releasing broken games. This will be the last EA game I buy.

# 318 PRO_TOO @ 07/23/15 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by JoeFrancis


	This game is an abomination, the putting is horrible, the online is badly glitched, and it's bare bones as far as content or features. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, and with EA's track record, they either won't fix all the glaring issues, or they will and when they do they will break countless others. EA is the worst game maker on the planet, and it's a shame they keep releasing broken games. This will be the last EA game I buy.

I bet you wont!!

Read 2 posts above! But anyone got their opinion. Fair choice.

# 319 vmoney883 @ 07/23/15 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by sroz39


	To be honest, EVERY game is like this. Just look at all the other forums and their wishlist threads. I'm having a great time in Career mode, personally. I missed the cut in the Wetlands tourney and finished top 25 at Bay Hill at -9, with the winner shooting -21 (no falling off to let me win like some others are seeing). But I'm having a great time because I set my expectations accordingly. The large majority of us on these forums knew about the lack of courses, modes, options etc. If not before EA Access, most certainly after whether it be from playing or watching streams. So I'm not going to sit here and whine about stuff I knew weren't going to be included. By purchasing the game with what I knew, I was accepting it's relatively bare-bones state. I'm hoping guys like Handsward continue to read people's ideas and include what they can. If they don't, I'll be the first to complain because of their stated intentions to release content updates, both free and paid. In the meantime, I knew what I was buying. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I think you're spot on here. This was my main rant; people who brought the game knowing what it was like then made posts: saying lack of content; bad player creation; no game modes; its unplayable without DLC....
Personally I did not buy the game because of those reasons and I fear that there will be very little DLC now because of how well the game has sold (No1 in the charts here in the UK). So with those figures EA can see this golf game as a fantastic release and a job well done contrary to what any reviews say as it's all about the sales. Its for those reasons that I think DLC will be incredibly limited and not for a long time, hence why there has been zero updates regarding its release.
If people were not happy with the game content why did they buy it without any knowledge of when DLC will be available and what it will actually be? Just makes no sense to me. EA absolutely laughing with this one.

# 320 JoeFrancis @ 07/23/15 11:32 AM

My main issue is the broken online, which does a vast assortment of troubling things, but to be fair on lack of content, the game came out with a very limited amount of news about it. I guess in retrospect I could have waited until I heard from others, but their experiences might not be similar to mine, I enjoy online play, and this is definitely badly broken, and to hope that EA fixes this correctly is pie in the sky

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