We are pleased to push this significant update out to all our Early Access participants. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the game. The update will be released later today (Feb 18, 2015). We wanted to get this out to allow everyone to see what is coming before the updates start to come through
Please Note due to network improvements people using 1.2.1.4 who try to play online with people using 1.2.1.3 will experience game issues and disconnects. We will endeavor to put in a check in future releases for you
Please note we have removed the different sized snap spots on the swing meter. This does not mean you have lost your aids, we just felt that it was easier to hit the snap with a straight line. The aids work exactly as before.
Listed below are all the things included in the update. We are pleased to push this significant update out to all our Early Access participants. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the game.
Additional Game Play Modes
Alternate Shot Stroke PlayAlternate Shot Match PlayAlternate Shot Hazard Golf- Stableford Individual
Alt Shot Skins- 3 Man Points - Divides 9 points per hole among the players
New Features
- A new Mop Filter menu to allow you to select either Stroke, Match or Skins Mops in the mop list. Basically now you can select the type of game you want to play and then there will be a list of MOPs for that game play type
- A Snap to Landing Area Camera Toggle (F3)
- A Snap to Green Area Camera Toggle (F2)
- A new End of Game Results Screen to show points or money per player / team. This will show once the host closes his scorecard at the end of the round
- A new Non Active Player Camera (Only Active Players see the player cam the rest see a side and back camera). The purpose of this was to make it feel more immersive in that you are there watching your fellow playing comapnions
- Added Lie to the Swingmeter graphic
- Added Caddie Advice when off the mesh which replaces the lie message
- Added two decimal places to output of snap in practice mode 3 click (Visual only code uses 6 decimal places)
- Added chipping distance and splash shot distances below swing meter when selecting chip or splash
- A new Menu in the Player Menu to enable or disable the Break Line Indicator
- A Break Line Indicator in the game to facilitate green reading for those who do not like grids. The BLI is at the bottom of the aim stick and shows the direction of the slope and also the strength via the length of the line. This can be enabled or disabled in the player menu
- Added Aids used by players in the Game Join Screen Area
- Option to toggle front, back and all 18 holes
- Removed the different sized snap graphics for different aids. Aids work as before we just removed the graphic to make it easier for everyone to see the snap point
Bug Fixes
- Network improvements
- Removed the team a player was in who got kicked from the game preventing them from winning all the skins after they left
- Online Real Time Weather location fixes. If the weather station is invalid you will see an exclamation mark when pressing check weather.
- Fixes to the flag tending game logic
- Several fixes to the cup physics to improve the lip out and game ending effects of bad situations around the cup
- Improvements to soft game play conditions
- Improvements to bunker physics
- Improvements to rough impact on long irons
- Improvements to rough roll out of ball
- Make putting out of the rough much more difficult to judge
- Balls now show for other players when not on the green. Ball marks still on green
- Fixed brightness and shadows during rain and storm
- Fixed the glowing effects remaining on screen during a storm
- Fixed the ball getting stuck in the lip on a holed putt
- Put a space in between Hole and number, Par and number and Distance and Y/M
- Removed shadow from aim stick to avoid conflict with BLI
- Defaulted long range bunker shots from splash to full
- Fixed losing the splash button after mulligan
- Changed animation delay to account for higher performance
- Fixed occasional ball showing instead of marker when on green
Course updates
Illinois updates
- Fixed some bad pins and also smoothed some of the greens.
- Fixed UV errors on Cart Path textures.
- Texture improvements, most textures upgrades from 1024x1024 to 2048x2048.
- Planting updates to trees, grasses, outer terrain trees.
Southampton Links Updates
- Fixed some bad pins and also smoothed some of the greens.
- Texture improvements, most textures upgrades from 1024x1024 to 2048x2048.
- Planting updates to trees, bushes, new grass objects.
- Updated ocean settings
- Updated directional and ambient light settings for non dynamic sky