We know this update took much longer than the previous updates… Well, that is for good reason. To say this update is “massive” might be an understatement. The update has a ton of quality of life improvements, but it also adds in a lot of new content!
What’s New Summary?
Bot Golfers: The A.I. golfers all have unique playing styles, personalities, and difficulties!
50 Bot Challenges: Beat the bot challenges to unlock their gear, new ball trails, clothes, and more!
2 New Achievements: Beat Joe Duffy and Beat all Bot Challenges.
Cross Platform Private Matches: Match Code now makes it easy to get friends into your private matches. You can now do private matches with your friends who bought the game on the Oculus store.
New Ball Flight Camera System: There are now a variety of camera angles to see after you’ve hit the ball.
Split Screen Spectator Mode: Watch other players side by side as you complete the hole.
Designer Fairway Templates: Fairway templates have been overhauled. There are a lot more templates now and existing templates work a lot better.
Gameplay Settings: Smart Putter, Split Screen settings, Vive swing controls.
Match Settings: Bot difficulty and how many holes you want to play. (Front 9, Back 9 or all 18.)
Quality of Life: Give Up button, club selection improvements, control improvements, UI improvements, Lobby Improvements, etc.
Bug Fixes: Yeah, there were a few of these too!
Challenges and Bot Golfers!
Next time you play Tee Time Golf you might notice the “Challenges” option from the play menu. Challenges let you play against a Bot golfer in a 9 or 18 hole challenge. If you beat the bot you unlock them for use in Local Play and when Hosting a Match Online. You also unlock new gear, ball trails, clothes, and equipment available to purchase.
You asked for a better single player experience, and this is it. Over 10+ hours of entertaining and challenging single player experience.
Over 50 challenges in all.
Meet Chips McGee
Challenges are a new way to play
Ball Flight Camera System Improved
“Variety is the spice of life” right? Before the update you’d get the same camera after every shot you’d take. Now there is a lot more variety which gives a lot of nice-looking views during your golf round.
Designer Fairway Templates
When you are creating a new hole, you’ll notice the fairway templates have been improved. There is now a great selection and they connect to the green by default.
New Gameplay Settings
If you open you pause menu during gameplay, you’ll notice a Gameplay Settings screen.
Note: This screen varies depending on your setup: VR, platform or active controls.
Here is a quick summary of the options:
Putter Type: The Smart Putter will switch from the small to medium putter around 5 feet. The Classic Putter does this around 20 feet.
The reason we gave this option is because we’ve seen that most new players under hit their short putts too often. We notice when people use the medium putter around the 5-20 foot range, they had better success than using the classic putter approach.
However, we know everyone plays a little differently, so the classic putter selection is still an option.
Split Screen Spectator Mode: On/Off/Local Only/Online Only. This is used for if you want to see the other golfer in your view the entire time. For those of you who want to have a turn-by-turn experience, this is our solution.
Vive Swing Control Type: Choose whether you want to activate the swing by holding the trigger or holding the grip button.
Power Swing Assist (VR-Only): Shows you a visual indicator of how much power you are going to swing with. Note: The default swing still relies on swing speed for distance control.
Swing Hit Assist (VR Only): Makes contact with the ball more forgiving if you were going to miss the ball.
Match Settings
Match Settings screen is available from the lobby when you play a local match or host an online match. There are the following options:
Holes: Front 9, Back 9 or All 18. This means players have more control over the type of match they want to play. This will also help course designers when testing their course.
Bot: There are a few different options in the Bot settings.
- Off: No Bot will join the match.
- Random: A Random bot they you have previously beat in challenge mode will join you.
- Easy/Medium/Hard: A bot at this difficulty level will join the player. (If the bot has been previously beaten, if not it will default to the hardest available at the difficulty you selected.)
- Competitive: The Bot that joins will be as competitive as possible compared to the players current level.
Quality of Life
A lot of little things have been added in the game to give it a bit more polish. Here is a list of what’s been improved:
- Face Animations: Golfers now give more appropriate face animations on post hole reactions.
- Give Up Button: If golfers feel they can’t continue they can decide to give up on the hole from the pause menu. They will automatically be given a score of 10 and receive no XP or Coins.
- Zoom on Mouse Wheel (Keyboard/ Mouse Setup): Zoom has been added for mouse wheels.
- Scorecard Text: Albatross, Eagle and Hole in One all have unique colors on the scorecard.
- Rendering performance speed improvements. Should get better FPS more often.
- Improved Asynchronous loading of courses and screens.
- More comfort when teleporting or changing position. A quick black fade in and out when moving to another position.
- Cross Platform Private Matches: Match Code now makes it easy to get friends into your private matches.
- Transparent Fullsized Golfers if they get too close to you.
- Shoes Display in VR: Show off your shoes even if you are in VR!
- New Planes and Blimps! More variety, higher quality and different flight pattern!
- New lobby area is now outdoors and more energizing! The Lobby area is now different for both VR and Non-Vr golfers. Lobby now shows all the fullsized golfers as well.
- More in-game controller button hints.
- Improved club suggestions near green.
- VR Cloud Orientation: Mostly fixed strange rotation when you turn your head. Still happens but only in narrow circumstances.
- 2 New Achievements: Beat Joe Duffy and Beat all Bot Challenges.
- Motion Controller Hints in gameplay lobby.
Bug Fixes
- Main Menu Mouse Hover over buttons sometimes wouldn't highlight button.
- Fix for published courses sometimes not giving XP/Coins.
- Various structures have had collision fixes/ improvements. (The Oil Drill for example previously was missing some collisions and now works as intended.)
- Game stoped responding when ball stops very close to the hole.
- Yards to Pin: This now shows correctly in all circumstances. (Your distances will display in Yards or Feet, not sometimes get mixed up between the two.)
- Round Complete UI showing too high in VR.
- Left handed golfer lighting issue.
- Many other small bug fixes.
Thanks for sticking with us! We are grateful to all who purchased the game and want to give you the things you have been asking for.