The Golf Club
Build Notes v0.70
KEY FIXES AND UPDATES IN v0.70
* New Official Timed Tournament Added - TGC Summer Open is open for 3 days and it involves two rounds of Dr.Yetis’s frankly awesome Haunted Forest C.C. course. Results will be posted on the website next week.
* Hole Overview Camera - The B button (or equivalent) now displays a blimp view of the hole with yardage markers every 50 yards.Now there are no excuses for misjudging that dogleg.
* Rock object collision. - The ball now bounces off rocks, which rocks!
* Improved Text Quality. - The smaller and thinner text was losing its edges. Not now.
* Social Notifications Option - There is now a setting to turn these off should your friends’ superior performances be bothering you.
* Shot Shaper Enhancements - We have improved the clarity of the gauge and also added the display of ranges on the grid. Remember that the impact on distance of a loft adjustment can go up or down.
* GPU Performance improvements. - As noted above, some of the console optimisation is beneficial for the PC build. We love our children separately, but equally.
* Vsync Display setting added. - The big question in PC gaming has been Vsync On or Vsync Off? Now you can play that game in The Golf Club. Turning it on will lock your game at 30fps or 60fps.
* Tour Leaderboard fixes. - Now there is no claiming that you were pushed out of first place by a leaderboard bug.
* Tour settings fixes. - No more tournaments played without the intended settings but Direwolves are still available.
* Added ability to remove ball tracers in the Display Settings
*Boring sounding things:
-Fixed null reference exceptions in course creator when exiting the place way-point tool.
-Fixed camera going out of focus and updating only the UI when sometimes entering the course creator on a new course.
Plus other minor fixes, polishing and tidying.
Build v0.60 Update - Tours and Tournaments
- Tours and Tournaments mode added
- Users can create their own tournaments (single location events) or tours (multi-location events) and share them
- Settings/rules can be customized per competition
- Private (friends only) competitions are supported
- Club distance tweaks
- Loft resolution tuning
- Short game shot tweaks (Pitch+Flop)
- Desert course theme
- New official courses: “Yuma Desert Golf Club” and “Sonoran Golf and Country Club”
- New Course Creator Items and Features
- New wildlife (ducks, swans, fox, wolf, chicken, cow, goat, pig, sheep, crocodile)
- New terrain sculpting brushes
Known issues:
- In the details for a published competition it still states 'unpublished' even though it has been published.
- If, when creating a competition, you scroll the cursor too quickly on the event line-up (course thumbnails at bottom of screen) you will lose the cursor. It can be retrieved by saving, selecting add new event and then going back again.
- When you change the name of an event within a tour it displays correctly in the event details to the left but displays as the course name in the event line-up thumbnails.
As always - enjoy and post any issues you run into in the forums!
Build 0.6 Update - Tours and Tournaments
<*> Tours and Tournaments mode added
<*> Users can create their own tournaments (single location events) or tours (multi-location events) and share them
<*> Settings/rules can be customized per competition
<*> Private (friends only) competitions are supported
<*> Club distance tweaks
<*> Loft resolution tuning
<*> Short game shot tweaks (Pitch+Flop)
<*> Desert course theme
<*> New official courses: “Yuma Desert Golf Club” and “Sonoran Golf and Country Club”
<*> New Course Creator Items and Features
<*> New wildlife (ducks, swans, fox, wolf, chicken, cow, goat, pig, sheep, crocodile)
<*> New terrain sculpting brushes
As always - enjoy and post any issues you run into in the forums!
Patch Notes 17 May 2014 - Build v0.51
EARLY ACCESS BUILD v0.5 NOTES
- Introduced an automated drop on hitting the water.
- Reskin the in game popup windows to be more streamlined across consoles and pc.
- Added the ability to remove Ghost Balls on the pause menu, under the
- Change Rivals option.
- Fixed bug where a Ghost Ball could sometimes get stuck on a penalty stroke.
- Fixed bug where a Ghost Ball would sometimes fail to log a penalty stroke.
- Fixed bug where a Live Ball would stop taking shots if the player finished before the Live Ball.
- Added the ability to force Ghost Balls to play in stroke order in the pause menu – see Turn Order option in the Pause Menu.
- Added the ability to force Live Balls to play in stroke order, as well as seeing their avatar – see Turn Order option in the Pause Menu.
- Ghost Balls in Turn Order play will use the same avatar as the player that created the scorecard.
- Fixed bug where the Pause Menu wouldn’t always populate correctly.
- Choosing ‘Send Invite’ to a friend that is on the same course as you will add them to your game in addition to sending a message.
- Messages received during a game will slide out under the scorecard. Hit
- Back/Select on the gamepad or click the Join Now text to join the senders game.
- Live Balls will automatically replace Ghost Balls in the scorecard when they join if the scorecard is already full.
- Updated fringe physics properties.
- Added delete button call outs to Course Creator screens.
- Gameplay (swing mechanic) tuning.
- Pitch swing animation update.
New Weekly Build - 8th May 2014 - Build v0.40
* If the height tool is over the green, slow down the rate at which it raises/lowers the terrain so you can tune the slope of the green easier.
* Press Start or click the Player Info panel in the front end to launch the Message Centre.
* Click Messages in the Social Ticker to activate them.
* When finishing an course you haven't rated, the default setting is now the course's current rating.
* Scorecard is no longer interactive.
* New and improved Pause Menu
* Moved social options (change rivals, active friends, watch replay) into the pause menu
* Social Ticker will now populate with messages from your archive when you first start the game
* Fixed bug preventing messages from cycling in the Social Ticker
* "Friend has started a round on X" messages will auto-delete themselves when the sender is no longer playing
* Added "Friend has complete a round on X" messages
* Ball labels will fade out 3 seconds after the ball has come to a stop
* The Hole Info and Scorecard aspects of the HUD are now visible in all camera mode
* Fixed bug where the game could sometimes get stuck on the end of a course when playing with a Ghost Ball
Weekly Update - Build v0.30
* Fix issue where the course creator is stuck on one hole when waypoints are placed on top of each other
* Improvements to club selection on large or shared greens
* Fix for penalty application when exceeding shot limit
* Update help menus for mouse and keyboard controls in the course creator to show buttons for each tool
* Add WASD support for tools (along with the arrows) to scale and rotate brushes and objects
* Improve logic to determine when a tee shot is desirable
* Turn off edge panning when the editor menu is active
* Tweak speed of rotation/movement of the camera in Course Creator for mouse/KB
* The user will now always appear in the Global filter of the leaderboard, regardless if they are in the top-10 or not
* Added notifications for when a friend finishes a round and favourites a course
* Improve notification display logic
* Fix bug where moving the pin to another area changes the hole that pin is associated with
* Improved full-screen handling and screen flickering in windowed mode
* Fix issues with the selection tool in the course creator not being able to find brushes/items when they're overlapped
* Fix for 50% input power limitation with low frame-rates 64 bit game version
* Moved course save data out of the registry, fixes lost progress in courses when saving
* Green Grid update. Grid colours now take into account green speeds. This helps course designers judge reasonable pin placements based on green speeds and slope. http://www.gcga.org/documents/speeds_slopes_locations.pdf It also helps players understand any given greens behaviour a bit better when playing.
* It is now possible to take a screenshot when publishing a course with only the keyboard
New Dedicated Forums
Patch - 25/04/14
* Fixed course ratings. Minimum number of ratings is now required for it to show up.
* Update button callouts for Play, Appearance and Save & Exit option in course editor menu
* Fixed Course Creator sliders showing the wrong description when they are full.
* Fixed replay for echos not properly setting up the camera
* Fix for ghost stroke and hole displays on the scorecard
* When starting a game from certain notifications, the sender's ghost will now be added to the game.
* Added reset button to start-up Input configuration.
* More performance optimizations
Weekly Update 0.2
New build should be up there now
* Ghost Ball Surfacing
Showing current shot number,
yardage from pin
* A restart button in the in-game menu, so it’s easier to restart a round
* Controller Crash bug fix
* Mouse Controls in Course Creator Improved
* Ultra wide resolution support
* Nvidia GPU Improvements
* Server Speed Improvements
* Lawn Mower now available in Course Creator