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I just finished playing the first round of the DSP XBox One Society tournament at the same course and I second your motion for the name change! It's a good thing we were playing Pro-Am swing difficulty, as I'd have done well to hit 3 fairways in Pro. I better wait until I've got a bottle of belly wash before I take this on in the PC Society under "Pro"
Rob, the PC version of this game is a tinkerers dream. I'm one of those who get off just experimenting with settings to see what yields what.Greensboronclion wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:30 pmWell my caddie and I just got off the course in our latest DS event and we both need a drink. The fairways on that course were as skinny as I ever seen but we survived. Glad to see you setup a place for PC players as I sometimes think we are the poor sister of the consoles with this game but I see something with this game that I didn't see in previous three versions on PC and that's players. Way more players this time around on PC than we had before and by a huge margin and that is significant as with the Xbox and PS4 sales this game has to be selling well. I personally will pick the console version up at some point but right now I am really enjoying the game a lot and I believe it looks and plays better on PC.
J_Cauthen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:36 pmI just finished playing the first round of the DSP XBox One Society tournament at the same course and I second your motion for the name change! It's a good thing we were playing Pro-Am swing difficulty, as I'd have done well to hit 3 fairways in Pro. I better wait until I've got a bottle of belly wash before I take this on in the PC Society under "Pro"![]()
I prefer the pro-am setting with no meters on. No meters for me is very challenging but at least the pro-am gives me a higher chance of being on the fairway.J_Cauthen wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:11 pmAnyone have any suggestions for difficulty or settings they'd like to try? In the current tournament I have the swing difficulty set to Pro-Am, with the swing meter selections set to "Open". It seems like some like them off and others like them on. Even though they are considered an aid, if find them a distraction and actually play and score better with them OFF (although if you saw my quad & triple, back to back bogies in last night's round you wouldn't think so). Pro-Am is the best swing difficulty fit for me, but we've got some players in this Society who are going to shoot in the low 60's almost every time out with that. Come to think of it... I did have the Swing Difficulty set to Pro yesterday... I don't feel as bad about my 82 now as I did before remembering that!![]()
I did find something that might be a better answer to the swing meter(s) on/off in the Difficulty Settings discussion. If you go into the Display/HUD settings menu under your "MyPLAYER" menu, you can opt to turn both meters there and they will override the Society difficulty setting.
To some it might sound like a "cheat" since you're doing something that side-steps a Difficulty Setting, but on paper, you're actually making the game play more difficult by turning the meters only, and relying on the golfer animation and haptic feedback to gauge your backswing length.
I'm back to playing in the official 2K21 and Reddit Societies, where the swing meters are locked to "ON" after discovering this and it does work.
Danimal wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 11:56 pmAfter playing Winged Foot I decided it was in terrible shape so this weekends US Open is being played at an alternate location which I think is more apprealing.
Next weekends Tour event is a course not in PGA 2k21 so that will also be at an alternate location.
I'm in a real life golf tournament Weds. - Sunday, my last of the season unless I do well so won't be checking the PC much.
Dang it... I didn't get back from doing my choirs in time to play the Whisky Dunes tournament! These new 8:00 PM EDT tournament deadlines are still giving me a fit. I've just got to make sure I get my round for the 16th's tournament in tonight, or it'll probably catch me off guard again tomorrow.broomer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:59 pmjust finished the gorgeous Whiskey Dunes --- but after my play I am heading for Vodka Back Porch
prefer playing Pro --- any additional aid settings you guys choose to set are fine w/ me, JC, except for that distracting power bar thingee![]()
need to contact HB_Craig to see if he can get me a special Putter Yip-Control patch ASAP![]()
I played w/o the power bar in place as you intended w/ that setting as "Open"
Okay, I wanted to make sure it wasn't a hassle to get that option in play. Did it automatically default to no power bars since that what you set in your base settings? It seems to be doing that for me.
Yes, it did .....I almost didn't play Whiskey Dunes since in an earlier post it was mentioned event was set @ Pro-Am difficulty (which I don't prefer)
I know what you mean all too well, Greens .....((smh))Greensboronclion wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:50 ambrommer every day I play it seems like I am on Legend level.![]()
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I have yet to try a 360 controller with this game on my PC. You've got me curious now to test it. I'm also going to have to try your tip with putting. I tend to push putts when I'm concentrating on producing an even, deliberate tempo, but when I get revert to my TGC 2019 putting stroke, a more jab type stroke, I pull it badly. I'll report back with my results, thanks for sharing that tip!Greensboronclion wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:28 pmToday, 08:19 PM
Today I found something out about this game and felt it's worth sharing. First off I played two rounds today and Sam problem with putting where no matter what I do when I draw back the putter the line is always right at the bottom and right or straight at the top and my ball never rolls true and I never can play for enough break. Now I use a stock Xbox One and decided it was time to break out some other controllers and do some testing on the practice green. I tried a 3rd party Xbox One and Xbox 360 and no matter what I did my info showed a straight line and no deviation left or right constantly and that is what I expected as that's why they are 3rd party. So next I breakout stock Xbox 360 expecting lots of left or right and go surprise it also was so a straight line constantly and now I am confused. So I gather all the controllers up and even my extra Xbox One stock controller to have two stock in front of me. I noticed with the stock XB one there was more play left and right in both so I realized at that point because the others were not like that that could be the issue. So back to the practice green with the stock Xbox one and I found out if you gently press the stick to the left and not hard gently and then draw the putter back you then start getting consistent straighter lines on the backswing and start making more putts. Now I am beginning to understand why the only controllers that are passing the TGCC test are the Stock Xbox One and PS4 controller but why. Well first off the game was designed for console and it makes sense they would build around those controllers and for PC the Xbox One is now the preferred and only real new stock controller that's not 3rd party. But why the Xbox 360 was failing is now obvious as it's old and was never optimized for this game and that's plane as day. It's my opinion that these should be the only two to be allowed
glad to hear this DoGgs..... was hoping my 6 yr old 360 would be OK on 2K21 for the Tours API as I have played most of the Test Society events w/o any negative feedback --- except for high ++ numbers scoring