Golf Club Architect

Updates

• Updated happiness system to take only the 10 most recent player reports.
  
• Updated beauty system to take only the 10 most recent player reports.
  
• Updated props with appropriate terrain markers where missing.
  

Improvements

• Improved new game creation time.
  
• Improved the splash screen.
  

Fixes

• Fixed UI state not being correctly restored when playing the course yourself.
  
• Fixed happiness score overlapping the tooltip bounds.
  
• Fixed rectangle bulldoze decal not rotating.
  
• Fixed skipping to next day not stopping if clubhouse deleted while skipping.
  
• Fixed the wrong tool key bindings showing up when you start the game.
  

Updates

• Added more opportunities to gain skill points for your custom golfer. You now get a skill points for landing a tee shot on a fairway and landing a shot from a bunker on the green.
  
• Updated cup placement so that placing a cup on an existing green uses the correct surface angle.
  
• Updated surface tool to not reset the surface angle when switching surfaces.
  
• Updated button sfx so they all have on hover and on click sound effects.
  

Fixes

• Fixed being able to place the clubhouse in water in the bottom left of the map.
  
• Fixed various issues with prop blocking data not being available to various subsystems that need it.
  
• Fixed slow down when loading saves where a lot of golfers were putting at the same time.
  
• Fixed making a ball unreachable while the golfer is navigating causing the golfer to get stuck.
  
• Fixed saves corrupting when saving, loading and resaving.
  

Updates

• Removed solid background for the top bar and improved layout.
  
• Updated day duration to be 3 times quicker with 3 times fewer tee times.
  
• Updated speech so that speech lines show for an appropriate duration.
  
• Updated speech so that it is affected by the game speed.
  

Fixes

• Fixed the balance tooltip so it no longer covers the balance value.
  
• Fixed being able to place tees and cups in trees and other props.
  
• Fixed being unable to interact with putting and bunker shots buttons on character customisation screen.
  
• Fixed editing bunker shots attribute not working correctly.
  

Fixes

Fixed players unable to navigate to elevated tees.

Features

• Added a bunker shots attribute.
  
• Added a sound effect for when a ball hits a tree branches.
  
• Added footsteps for long grass, short grass, stone and dirt surfaces.
  
• Added a fence placement sound effect.
  
• Added a context menu when right-clicking on holes, golfers, and props.
  
• Added an overall course rating and simplified the beauty, happiness, and skill rating displays.
  
• Added the ability to run a list of commands whenever the game loads.
  
• Added new particles systems for shots from rough and dirt.
  
• Added a new tool to place feature bridges.
  
• Added ambient water sound based on camera location.
  
• Added a confirmation window when leaving the character customizer.
  
• Added support for practicing a hole that is closed.
  
• Added a command to clear the console window.
  

Updates

• Updated golfer shot choice so golfers now choose the club for their next shot based on the surface lie.
  
• Updated the clubs available when practicing a hole so you can only select those appropriate for the current surface.
  
• Updated the console to no longer include debug commands.
  
• Updated the method you use to choose either scenario or sandbox mode for new games. This option in now in the new game window.
  
• Updated the bottom buttons so they now grow when you hover over them.
  
• Updated the minimum distance of driver shot to 180yds. Previously this was 150yds.
  
• Updated the splash screen, loading screen, and main menu to use the new game logo.
  
• Updated the console so semi-colons now accept suggestions.
  
• Updated happiness and speech notifications so they now fade out as you get further away from them.
  
• Updated the console so only commands invoked from the console are added to the command history.
  
• Updated the save/load/workshop upload windows so they now react to changes in the file explorer.
  
• Updated the overall ambient audio volume so it now fades out when the game is paused.
  
• Updated the wind volume so it's now normalized and similar to the rest of the other ambient audio.
  
• Updated the notice window so it mentions early access will come soon.
  
• Updated the main menu music so it loops indefinitely.
  
• Updated the Discord link in the main menu to use a permanent link.
  
• Updated golfer shot choice so golfers are now discouraged from playing shots blocked by obstacles.
  

Improvements

• Improved loading times by tweaking walkable area calculations.
  
• Improved the performance of shot analysis so it no longer causes spikes when players choose their shot.
  

Fixes

• Fixed not being to use the eyedropper tool to select cups.
  
• Fixed painting a surface immediately after eyedropping a surface.
  
• Fixed being able to connect a fence to a previously placed post.
  
• Fixed placing a fence from an existing post telling you you can't place it when you can.
  
• Fixed the eyedropper not selecting the correct surface angle.
  
• Fixed paths being deleted when connecting a path to a previously placed node and then starting a new path section.
  
• Fixed price notifications not playing when the game is paused.
  
• Fixed unable to evict player from course who's using the practice net.
  
• Fixed the eyedropper not accurately selecting different props.
  
• Fixed height floor for bridges being water level and not world bottom.
  
• Fixed various issues with loading saves such as the nav mesh not generating and players snapping to the origin.
  
• Fixed console window not scaling to different monitor sizes.
  
• Fixed ball rolling too far in sand.
  
• Fixed golfers taking a drop when unable to navigate to a ball on a disconnected island green. They will now wait to see if the problems is resolved and if not they'll go to the next hole.
  
• Fixed player stuck in walk cycle if route to navigation target cut off while navigating.
  
• Fixed exception being thrown when bulldozing fence panels.
  
• Fixed not being able to zoom when only using keyboard input.
  
• Fixed the ball floating on top of water.
  
• Fixed exception being thrown when quitting a practice hole as the player is about to take their shot.
  
• Fixed players taking ridiculous drops due to miscalculation of ball being unplayable.
  
• Fixed some audio not using volume.
  
• Fixed players not correctly handling a hole being closed while they are playing it.
  
• Fixed issue with requested navigation target not saved to game state and causing issues on load.
  
• Fixed the workshop item uploader window not working correctly.
  
• Fixed land under tee not height editable after bulldoze.
  
• Fixed grass being offset slightly causing graphical glitches on the edges of grass areas.
  
• Fixed post process not enabled on main camera.
  
• Fixed ball in cup audio clip being cut off.
  
• Fixed only being able to aim at the terrain when playing golf.
  
• Fixed notifications sometimes appearing in distance in the sky.
  
• Fixed club tooltips not showing.
  
• Fixed terrain physics sometimes not generated correctly causing issues such as failed navigation and putting.
  
• Fixed rare input errors.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused you to get stuck in paused mode.
  
• Fixed an error that occurred when you went back to the main menu.
  
• Fixed another exception being thrown when bulldozing fence panels and posts.
  

Updates

• Updated player speech notification to appear centrally over the head of the golfer.
  
• Updated player shot aiming curve to be red when the shot hits an obstacle and green otherwise.
  
• Reduced impact of putting accuracy state as golfers were missing simple putts far too much.
  
• Updated some top bar icons.
  

Improvements

• Performance optimisation where terrain normal map was being generated a tall times even when height of terrain is not edited.
  

Fixes

• Fixed player aiming not taking power attribute into consideration.
  
• Fixed height lock state not being restored on load.
  

• Updated player speech bubble to be less jarring.
  

• Added ability to set whether you can see incompatible saves.
  
• Improved player putting. This is the first pass at a new system whereby putting is predicted analytically and the best result chosen.
  

• Fixed golfer speech and nother notifications disappearing when the game was paused.
  
• Fixed being able to load games that were incompatible with the current game version.
  
• Fixed being able to remove Joe Golfer from the custom golfers file.
  

Known Issues

• Golfers don't putt very well on sloped greens. This has been the case for a while as we've been working on more pressing issues. The next update aims to address this and so for the best possible playing experience it is advised that greens should be flattened using the terrain flattening tool.
  

Features

• Added green, orange and red tracer colors based on how well the shot was hit.
  
• Revamped shot analysis for players. Previously they would take an often unreasonable route to a hole. With this update a player analyses the course better and will aim for the middles of fairways and play to island greens a lot more accurately. This initial implementation establishes the framework for future rules to be added like staying away from water and other hazards.
  

Updates

• Updated grass to be less glossy.
  

Improvements

• Added a button in the options menu that opens the directory that contains the game logs.
  
• Changed the skip night button to be a toggle rather than a single click.
  
• Improved the day/night cycle to include a moon at night and an overall better looking skybox.
  
• Players now walk slower on slopes.
  
• Reworked the Steam Workshop window so you can see which saves are compatible with the current version of the game.
  

Fixes

• Fixed being unable to set a holes par to 3.
  
• Fixed continue button enabled when continue save is not compatible with the current version of the game.
  
• Fixed the names of the bush and pink bush.
  
• Fixed player name not being substituted for beauty message.
  
• Fixed prop under cursor not correct for beauty props.
  
• Fixed terrain tools operating too fast in higher game speeds.
  
• Fixed missing app icon.
  
• Fixed auto saves using scaled time and thus happening more often than you expect.
  
• Fixed green fee notification displaying in Sandbox mode.
  

Features

• Added Steam Cloud support.
  
• Reimplemented terrain editing for improved performance.
  
• Added support for metric.
  
• Flags now raise and disappear when golfers are close.
  

Updates

• Updated bulldozing of tee and cup to also bulldoze the surface leaving a dirt patch, the same as paths.
  
• Updated bulldozing props returns the ground to dirt.
  

Improvements

• Added the ability to change the hole par.
  
• Added an icon for the eyedropper.
  
• Made the scrollbar in the character selection window always visible.
  
• Bulldozing props with locked surfaces underneath them now turn the surface area to dirt.
  
• Removed the now redundant closed hole indicator text (Press H to open hole).
  

Fixes

• Fixed edit hole name button appearance.
  
• Fixed upload course to workshop dialogue looking wrong when there are no saved games.
  
• Fixed notifications not going when game is paused.
  
• Fixed incorrect key mouse combo showing for height brush size.
  
• Fixed benches so they can now be bulldozed.
  

Fixes

• Fixed missing references in confirmation and save/load dialogues.