FEATURE UPDATE 2

hbdeveloper
On December 19, 2014

We are delighted to announce that Feature Update 2 is now available. It is the second update for The Golf Club and we hope all the members out there enjoy what it brings to the game. We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved so far and this update only serves to enhance that feeling within the studio. We have confidence that the Handicap System will add a positive new dimension to the game and for those that aren’t too keen on Handicaps there is always the option to play rounds and tournaments and follow leaderboards that don’t involve the handicap system. We are also really pleased with the Countryside Theme and can’t wait to see what you can create with it. And this is all for free!

Main Contents

New Theme – Countryside
Handicap System
New Game Mode – Stableford
Multi-plant tool in Greg Norman Course Designer
Optimization on all Platforms
Expanded Commentary
Ability to change Tee Box styles and colours
New Official Course – Flin Flon Golf Club
New Official Course – Great Tottington Golf Club
New Official Tournaments for all handicap levels – some available immediately, most progressively over the holidays.
New Official Tours for different handicap levels – to be released over the holiday period.
Colourful plants and shrubs added to Greg Norman Course Designer.

And here are the majority of the bugs we fixed. Please excuse the wording, terminology or any unprofessional text but there isn’t a lot of formality when the QA and Dev Teams send notes to each other in the heat of the battle. We thought you’d enjoy taking a look nonetheless.

BUG Summary (282)

Gameplay: Sand: Some areas of rough or heavy rough sometimes appear as a Sand lie. See pictures and description.
[PC] UI: Tour and Tournament leaderboards: When selecting the leaderboard from the Tour(nament) Details screen, on the first page, if user scrolls the names with the mouse, the ‘pics’ of the users will turn green. Only affects 1st page.
Ghost balls: User is able to add more than 3 ghosts to their game. Extra ghosts appear grey. Sometimes all rivals on scorecard are same color after continually adding rivals without removing. See video.
[PS4] Since the recent PS4 2.0 updates, users are having a longer than usual loading time when launching TGC. Rare crash while loading also.
[PC] Gameplay: Scout Camera: On consoles, the Scout Camera sends the camera to the distance that the selected club can hit (landing area). On PC, the Scout Camera sends the camera all the way to the green/flag, instead of the club distance.
Gameplay: Lies: I was clearly above the water table, in some rough, but my lie was showing as water. See screenshot.
[PC] UI: On 9 hole courses, after finishing a hole, the scorecard appears, the labels for Leaderboard and Advance, are not in the correct positions (positioned for an 18 hole card). Accessing the leaderboard and coming back fixes it. (screenshot)
GNCD: Trees: 2/3 of the Ponderosa trees in the Boreal theme have a square base. The 3 Spruce trees look square near the base as well. 2/3 of the Cedar trees also have a square base.
[All] UI: In game, the ‘Hole Overview” callout is missing the ‘w’ at the end. Currently reads “Hole Overvie”
[PC] Gameplay: While in “approach” or “putting” camera options, pressing spacebar switches the camera to behind the golfer, but all controls are unresponsive other than “E” and “Q” to go back to regular cameras.
[PC] KB/M: Gameplay: Cameras: There is no way to lock the “approach” and “putting” camera options to take a shot in those views.
[All] GNCD: Many assets in the designer are either appearing black (PC) or appearing with strange textures (console). see screenshots.
[PC] Gameplay: Ball is appearing black in game. Billboards, ball washer, and tee markers are also black. see screenshot.
[All] Gameplay/Select Player: The golfers image in the select players screen and in gameplay has different shading across the lower body. Appearing in game as well. See screenshots.
[XB1] GNCD: Planting objects or surfaces, or making terrain edits in the Boreal theme take 1-2 seconds longer than other themes.
[PS4/PC] Using 2 controllers, at player edit screen, when player 2 selects Edit Player, it defaults to Player 1.
[All] UI: Course Details: On the Course Details screen, the ‘Yards’ info is moved into the ‘Holes’ tile instead of in its own tile, which is now blank.
[XB1] If user boots their XB1 without an internet connection, starts TGC, and then applies an internet connection and chooses GO ONLINE, the course lists will not load and none of the filters will switch. User must close and launch the game again
[XB1] If user boots their XB1 without an internet connection, and starts TGC, they will not have access to any courses in the course lists. No Official, no unpublished.
Commentary: John said “Number 12″ as the player addressed his tee shot, which was correct, but then followed immediately with “This the 12th hole coming up”. One of those was unnecessary.
Commentary: Hole 3 – Centennial Oak – Championship – par 4, tee off comment was about green being below the player so might need a little less club yet it was the first shot of a par 4 with no chance of reaching the green.
Courses: Add the following courses to the Suggested List: “Centennial Oak Golf Club – Championship” and “Halifax Black”
[PC] User was in a Tournament, finished first round of 4 rounds. Next day, played 3 ‘warmup’ holes on the same course as the tournament. Backed out, went to continue tournament and had continued from his ‘warmup’ place. Lost his Tournament first round
UI: GNCD: Sculpting Brushes: Some sculpting brushes in the carousel menu have a black background, while others have a slightly translucent background. Not consistent.
[PS4] Trophies: The “Tour Pro” trophy text reads, “Complete at 72+ hole Tour…”, should be “Complete a 72+…” — ‘at’ should be ‘a’
Commentary: Four Ball: Commentary refers to individual players scores (1 under, 4 below par, etc,) rather than the team score of 1UP, 2UP, etc., which is shown on the scorecard.
[XB1] Online: Invited users are not added to the ‘host’ users scorecard if the social setting Auto Add Friends is set to OFF.
[XB1] UI: In-game, if user accesses the pause menu > settings > display settings, then mashes B to go back, the help bar ticker appears and the game can become unplayable. Seems to think that its at the Main Menu.
[XB1] Multiplayer: Users having trouble joining LIVE with friends. When a friend joins the same course from an invite, they are showing as AWAY on one of the users scorecards. User can sometimes go to Pause > Active Friends > Add to Game and become LIVE
[Console] Props: Courses with private plane prop are almost unplayable. Prop broken.
[XB1] Offline friends are appearing in the “Active Friends” section of the pause menu. Should read, “All friends are currently offline”.
Gameplay: Match Play: Games do not end when a player has clinched the win. example, 4UP with 3 holes left to play, match should end.
Commentary: Match Play: Score was EVEN going into hole. Guest player won the hole to go 1UP. On next tee, commentary said “Nothing changed on that hole, in terms of score”
Commentary: Match Play: Player 2 had honors and tee’d off. Player 1 stepped up to tee and commentary said “Ok my friend you have the honors”.
Rules: Match Play: Player 1 won a hole. Players then halved the next hole. Player 2 received honors on next hole. Player 1 should have retained the honor because they were last to win a hole.
Commentary: Match Play: Player 2 was putting to make the game EVEN, but commentary said “This one to go 1UP”. Happened multiple times in the round and increased to 2UP, then 3, then 4.
Commentary: Match Play: Player 1 won the hole to go 1UP. Start of next hole, commentary said “All tied up here”.
Commentary: Match Play: Numerous time throughout the round, playing with 1 guest, commentary said “Hole will be halved”. But a player has actually won the hole and gone ahead (1UP, 2UP, 3UP)
Commentary: Match Play: When a player misses a shot to halve the hole, commentary says “You’ve exceeded your shot limit of 7 over par”. Player could have hit a birdie, par, bogey. Did not reach 7 over par
There is no confirm sfx for when the user choses to delete a generated sand trap from the hole
There is no confirm sfx for when the user choses to move a generated sand trap from the hole
There is no confirm sfx for when the user choses to detach a generated sand trap from the hole
Gameplay: A shot hit onto a concrete section of building assets can behave wildly. See description for video.
Block: 3d art: If a shot gets hit onto a Helipad or Parking Lot, the ball can go through the surface and get stuck underneath. User cannot get the ball out and must take the 7 over penalty to progress. Shot must be at a minimum height or speed to happen
[PS4] Crash: PS4 users in the forums are having regular crashes in the GNCD while in the Boreal theme. Unable to reproduce consistently. see description
Gameplay: User cannot continue a game with a guest, and keep score. See description.
[PS4] Course disappeared: User on the forums says that he published a course, “Skaro Country G.C.”, and it has not appeared on the public course list, and is saying that it is no longer in either designer list.
[PS4] UI: While putting, using different camera angles and adjusting the putting markers distance, the marker information can become hidden behind the golfers head.
There was nothing displaying in the Tournament Leaderboard screen at the end of the final round tournament hub. The Tournament was the UK Open. Press triangle to access leaderboard. The leaderboard was empty
PROTEE – rendering stutter on camera movement when on green
[PS4] Tournament: Users avatar pics are not showing up on leader board in between holes.
[XB1] Forum bug: XB users saying that the ‘buzzing’ or ‘popping’ sound is back . The sound clips are playing multiple times when accepting or backing out of menus, or while commentary is playing and user tries to advance. Stuttering sounds and voice
[Console] Depth of Field: The DOF setting is defaulting to ON when user is starting a new round, even though they have changed the setting to be OFF by default. Shows as OFF in settings, but can tell it is on. Must go to display setting and save again.
Gameplay: Sometimes when the camera is moving to follow a shot, a crescent shaped shadow or light section moves along with the camera. Prominent in GNCD when inclination is set full. see screenshots
PS4: UI: While in game, if user access the pause menu and selects Recent Activity, and there is no recent activity to display, there is ‘Default Textg’ shown behind the “No Recent Activity” label.
Tour Leaderboard – Friends Rankings are not being sorted correctly
Blocker: Gameplay: On rare occasion, when starting a course, user will have no controller function in-game, aside from Pause Menu access and navigation. Function returns if user Restarts Game from pause menu.
GNCD: Sculpted greens losing some of their edits after reordering holes. See description for details
GNCD: After placing holes, used the ‘reorder’ tool and unwanted edits were made. Greens resized themselves, sculpting and some added surfaces disappeared. See description for more.
Leaderboard came up empty on tour hub when the tour is not started yet.
Tour leader board show up empty in tour hub if the tour has not started yet.
Dubious of average drive distance stat. Can this be checked?
PS4 – As I played a tournament the standings got more and more weird with multiple entries by same player.
The tournament standings during final round didn’t look quite right. A user had the same score as me at the end of three rounds yet their overall score as the final round progressed didn’t seem to accurately reflect their round score.
Minor visual thing – Tournament completed rating screen – final score numbers overlapped slightly by left bracket of total shots
Typo in Tour Pro trophy text. ‘Complete at 72+ hole tour…. ‘. Should be ‘complete a 72+ hole tour…. ‘
Tournament Preview – Leaderboard – my completed score didn’t make the top ten thus it appears in the bottom row but the score is wrong.
No audio plays for x button press to continue to the next round when on the leaderboard for the end of first round in a tournament.
[PC] Front End: If user is playing with gamepad, and their mouse is on screen and hovering a tile, pressing A on the gamepad will act as a mouse click and accept the tile that the mouse is on, instead of what is highlighted with the gamepad.
UI: Turn Based Play: Club distances do not update for opponents in turn based play. If the user changes clubs from the default club, the spectators only see the club change, the carry distance for the clubs do not change.
[PC] GNCD: UI: In GNCD, there is no message bar initially. If user chooses to test play their course, then go back for more edits, the help bar and ticker appear along the bottom.
[PC] UI: When selecting a tournament to play, many times the first tournament on the search page is already highlighted and will not advance by clicking on the name. User can click to the right of the name, under Rating, Plays, etc. as workaround.
[PC] Translation: GNCD: The “To Pin: ## Yards” and “Pin Height: ##’ #” Up/Down” strings are not translated in German. Link to picture in description.
[PC] Create Competition: When creating a competition, when renaming an event, if user clicks on the text area and it unhighlights the event, if they press Enter to submit name, they will be sent into the event. See steps and video
[PS4/PC] Stats: Career: The headers above the graphs for career stats are not changing properly when scrolling through the various stats. Pressing X or clicking on a stat corrects the header.
[PC] GNCD: ESC key is not functional for going back from “Create Bunker” and “Create Surface”. Once you enter the brush carousel, the ESC key will not send user back.
When the SDK is not connected, the system acts funny. Also can not exit anymore. Only using ALT-F4.
The startup screen is referring to the HB EULA. Not sure if we can do this. Might need to show a link to our EULA. Please advise. Alan?
KEYBOARD MAPPING – 1. Arrow LEFT/RIGHT to move camera LEFT/RIGHT
ANALYSIS SCREEN – We need a setting to disable the analysis screen completely. When playing head to head this is time consuming.
ANALYSIS SCREEN – We need a pause button on the analysis screen to leave it there until continue is pressed.
ANALYSIS SCREEN – The Analysis screen always shows the same name (see GUI item 3).
ANALYSIS SCREEN – When hitting left the graphic on the bottom left draws a line to the right and vica versa.
When you select a course to play, the GUI only shows a graphic of the MORE and FAVORITES. All the other boxes are empty.
In the course editor we would like the character back and mouse play, so someone can create and test courses without playing real shots.
Please ENABLE Turn Order by Default.
Please remove the SHIFT shot modification button and replace with ARROWS Aim Left/Right.
Please map ARROW LEFT AND RIGHT as key A and D to move the camera left and right.
Please remove the aiming circle when the shot has launched, and show it again when the system is ready for the next shot. It acts very strange when the camera moves.
When you play with 2 or more players, the Analysis screen will always show the UserName iso UserName (Guest 1, 2, 3 etc). Same for the scorecard.
We can not find the REWIND shot anywhere. Is this supposed to be in the Pause menu?
When you click the EXIT button or Application.Quit (close window) the game will hang/crash when the socket is still open. A socket close before application.quit might fix this.
Course Play – The analysis screen reports HOLE 0. Might be related to issue 1.
Course Play – We are only able to play 1 hole on any course. When the 1 hole is finished it goes into the rating mode and finish the game.
PTTGC Status Message – We are unable to send this message on the first shot when the ball is on the tee. It only accepts and displays this message after the first shot. {“protocol”:”PTTGC”, “INFO”:{“status”:0, “message”:”Ready for swing”}}
TGCPT Status Message – When the ball has landed after the analysis screen we get the same status message 5 to 10 times. At the same time the camera view is moving around very hectic/erratic for 1 or 2 seconds. Maybe related? Did not see this in the PC gam
TGCPT Status Message – When on the TEE, it reports surface: Green.
TGCPT Status Message – It reports a “t” in front of the playerID.
Shot Analysis Screen – In the shot above (Screenshot 3), you can see the typo in Sand Wdege. This should be Sand Wedge. In the HUD its displaying correctly. Its only in the Analysis screen.
Shot analysis screen – Club face is closed 3 degrees, please turn the picture 3 degrees in the other direction.
Shot Analysis Screen – This flight projection is wrong. What its supposed to show is in Screenshot 2 below. Explanation: The ball starts LEFT 3 degrees. The club face is closed and the spinAxis is also LEFT 9 degrees, so it will spin more to the left.
Shot analysis – Club face is closed 3 degrees, please turn the picture 3 degrees in the other direction.
Shot Analysis – Please round the smash factor on 2 digits (ToString(“F2”)).
The following shot data should result in a “slice”. Its currently producing a “draw”: “ballSpeedMPH”:”94.71″, “ballSpeedKMH”:”152.42″, “ballDirection”:”-3″, “ballAngle”:”21″, “spinAxis”:”-9″, “backSpin”:”3328″
spinAxis -9 (negative) should turn the ball LEFT. A positive value +5 should spin to the right.
The spinAxis is currently turning the ball in the opposite direction in the game.
Tour Hub Screen -Tournament List not in order. * Start TGC Official Tour Long * Progress to Tour Hub * Observe courses are in a strange order 1,11,2,12,13, etc
PS4 Crash 1.02 – eboot.bin!CarouselMenu_Move_int+0x1dc
Hole 3 on Harbour Island Black user is not given a driver off the Tee
No backing appearing on Leaderboard Screen between holes
No heading appearing in scorecard screen between holes
PS4 Crash 1.02 – eboot.bin!Echos_EchoPlayer__PlayCurrentShotc__Iterator1E_MoveNext+0xec eboot.bin!Echos_EchoState_Update+0x38
PS4 Crash 1.02 – boot.bin!StanceChangeHudGrid_Start+0x18
[PC] Message Centre: The “Visitor” messages for when a friend plays your created course, have the A – Join Now callout, but it is not functional.
I’m getting stuck with a weird looking loading ring when using the ‘Play From here’ option in the course creator. This is with build 185997 (the latest this morning) and yesterday’s 185836. It happened going into the action (losing my work in the process…
Suggested Course Filter – Also has HB Official courses in
[PS4] UI: GNCD: When starting a new course in the designer, at Theme Select, the callout for ‘Move’ reads “$Move”
GNCD: Mushrooms in Create/Add > Objects > Plants, are labelled as “Plant”. Other plants have proper names, such as Fern, Fallen Tree, Lilies.
We don’t appear to be awarding GIR when someone holes out from off the green. Can someone look into this…assuming it should be awarded of course.
Can’t highlight and delete a wolf
[PS4] UI: Select Course Search: When user accesses a course list that only has one page, the page numbers in the lower right corner are misaligned (1/1). see description
GNCD: If user creates a green with a hole that is very close to, or level with, the water table, the hole can act as a water hazard. If user gets the ball in the hole it will add 2 strokes and make them shoot again as if they shot into water.
No pen pics showing for Tournaments created by many users on ps4. Check PC and Xbox
[XB1] Create Competition: When user is creating a competition, the keyboard popup for naming says, “Enter the name of your tour.”. This should say “Enter the name of your competition.” because the user has not chosen if it is a tour or tournament yet.
[PS4] If 2 local players (2nd as Guest) begin a game using with 2 controllers, and one of the users then changes to a different Guest, that controllers input will be lost.
[PC] GNCD: If user creates holes near the edge of the creation area and there is a water hazard, a portion of the water appears black. (see screenshots) Appears in gameplay after course is published as well.
[PC] – Competition Leaderboards – Clicking on the Next/Prev page arrows with the mouse does nothing.
[Console] Can’t play against ghosts in 2nd round of Tourneys/Tours
Multiple Achievements Not Unlocking (more than just in this one thread) (http://www.hb-studios.com/forum/index.php?topic=5104.0;topicseen)
[XB1] Official Tours/Tourneys not showing (all tours showing 0 plays)
General and Consistent Connection Issues (on Xbox in particular)
[XB1] Audio: No sounds for ball impact with ground. No sound for ball entering the cup. No sound for ball entering water hazard.
[XB1] Audio: No commentary present within gameplay.
[XB1] Audio: Double/Triple/Quadruple “ding” sounds for selecting to advance/go back. Navigating through FE
PC – Pause Menu – The Back Button moves to the centre of the screen when scrolling lists.
[PC] UI: Message Centre: When scrolling through filters in the message centre, messages will not show what the message is from (New Round, Live Rival, etc.) until you click on them.
[PC] Stats: Rankings: You can highlight panels and click on. They animate, but otherwise do nothing.
[PC] Create Competition: Settings: There is no way to scroll the list of settings with the mouse, or any indication that there are more settings below the cut-line.
[PC] Course Designer: Editor Menus: The ‘To Green’ & ‘To Tee’ labels should be hidden when in a menu.
[PC] Course Designer: Editor Menus: Mouse can highlight course elements when a pop-up is up.
[PC] Course Designer: Set Course Name: The Back and Continue buttons have no hover or clicked state.
[PC] Course Designer: Set Course Name: Clicking on the text field makes the indicator disappear.
[PS4] – On the Tour Hub screen the number of rounds is descrived as plural, e.g. 1 rounds.
Environments: Links: There is a very abrupt end to the clouds when looking out to sea in the Links themed courses.
[All] Course Creator: While in the GNCD, if you go to Appearance: Time of Day and set Inclination: Full, and set Time to around half way, many textures appear on the course as you scroll or move with the camera. (see screenshot)
[PS4] “Saving Local” an already published course will automatically add the word “NEW” at the beginning
Audio: Commentary: The commentator will say my ball is going to get wet even though I end up staying in the rough and not rolling into water.
PS4: Tutorials: Callouts: Tutorial screens are displaying callouts for XBOX. Shot information shows LB/RB instead of L1/R1, and X for (Square) for shot type. Also says to hold LT instead of L2 for stance grid (shot shaper).
Create Competition List – Clarify or remove white ‘X’
Gameplay: Tour: In a tour with Wind Meter turned off, there is a line showing where the Wind Speed is usually displayed, does not need to be there if the setting is turned off for the Tour. (see screenshot)
Front End: Tutorial Screens: Official terminology not being used. (see screenshot)
[XBOX] Course Creator: Callouts: The button callouts for Scale/Rotate Brush when adding an object resemble a PlayStation D-pad rather than an XBOX D-pad (see screenshot)
[PC] – Trash cans, watercoolers, and lights are difficult to highlight when placed in close proximity to other objects.
[PC] – The User has a ‘Width’ option when they’re highlighting Heavy Rough in the course editor
[PC] – The course preview displays “2 Friends” instead of “2 Friend Plays” on course previews for Play Round
[PC] – Player will lose their profile picture when exiting the game, closing Steam, and locking their PC.
Front end: Select Course Search Screen: If you enter a search (type in keyword) and hit enter on keyboard, you are taken into the course details for the first course that appears in the list of courses containing the keyword instead of choosing from list
Exploit: User can quit and resume game on lipped out putts to have another chance at making the putt.
Gameplay: UI: After watching a few replays for a ghost and user, when back to gameplay the HUD scorecard had disappeared. Reappeared when it was my shot again. (see screenshot)
Edit Player: When entering Edit Player screen, user is started on change hat option, but the shirt option also has a highlight until it is selected. (see screenshot)
Edit Player: UI: Clothing scroller UI needs to be bolder on the hat option. (see pics)
Gameplay: UI: Hit a shot and press pause when ball is in motion, when you resume the aiming reticule appears on screen for the remainder of the shot video (see pic)
Menus: Settings: Gameplay: Wind Meter: The text description is set up differently than all the other options in settings. “Set to OFF to disable Wind Meter” should start on a new line instead of continuing after the “Set to ON” description.
Gameplay: Settings: When turning on/off green grid, it does not appear/disappear until next shot.
In game, Start Menu. If you go to in to watch replay, then back out to menu, the select indicator does not appear on any other options than Watch Replay.
In game, Start menu, Watch Replay, Select indicator stays on each name of the available replays (Player and ghosts)
Gameplay: UI: The putting accuracy meter is currently displaying over buttons callouts while playing with kb/m.
[PC] – [Front End] – User cannot use the directional pad on a gamepad to select a player notification at the bototm of the screen
[PC] – [Front End] – User is able to press the B or Circle button at the Main Menu with no effect, however there is still a flair as if an option has been selected
[PC] – [Front End] – Using the TAB key to switch through the menus only scrolls through 3 options
[PC] In a match with a ghost and one guest player along with the host. The final results showed a 4th player displayed with 36 and represented by a player icon.
[PC] – Scrolling through the messages in one filter affects the scrolling of the other filters.
[PC] – The back prompt is displayed twice in the Message Centre
[PC] [Create Course] – Text is not properly centered for Water and Hills in the Terrain Options
[PC] – The yard counter in the top left of the HUD and the counter that hovers over the flag are not consistent
[PC] – User can add or send an invite to a already joined friend from the social menu
[PC] – Button icon disappears after idling on the Scorecard
[PC] Locking the windows session with game running, upon unlocking, the Title will be set in a tiny square and resolution.
Gameplay: Birdie animation: When the golfer is celebrating it doesn’t look like he’s holding the club(see pic)
LB/RB button callouts: The images used for LB and RB are backwards. If you look at a 360 controller you will notice that the right button is a bit wider starting at the middle of the controller and gets narrower as you go to the right.
Course Editor: Objects: The user should not be able to place boats on/in land
Gameplay: When playing Match Play or 4-Ball, on an 18 hole course, the first 9 holes (top section of scorecard) will not display the match score.
[Console] UI: When accessing the Handicap “Scoring Record” screen, the users played courses are overlapping each other until user scrolls through them or changes filter. See attached video.
UI: Course Rankings screen: Slight overlap with users name and ‘Leaderboard updates periodically”. See screenshots.
[Console] UI: The Scoring Record Screen changes the background to a flat color. PS4 is gray, XB1 is yellow. See description and video.
[Console] UI: Between hole scorecard: The Leaderboard and Advance callouts are overlapping the bottom of the scorecard. See screenshot.
[PC] UI: Create Competition: When creating a competition with HCP scoring, callouts for setting HCP range are ‘right-click’, but only works using ‘left-click’.
[PC] UI: Stats > Handicap (Scoring Record screen): The callouts for sorting filter and terminology toggle are showing XBOX callouts, while I am using KB/M with no controller connected.
[PC] UI: Settings: In Settings, any settings that have 2 options (on/off), callout the ‘C’ key for toggle, but it does not function.
Add the ability to add rivals in stableford rules
Stroke Index – Evens on easier half and Odds on harder half
Scorecard – Need a key to show what the dot means.
Scorecard – Needs a call-out for LB when in Stableford rules
Move A,N,T out of side panel and put at Bottom of the screen in a key
Handicap – Scoring Records Screen – Improve text in terminology
Handicap – Should show Stroke Index on Handicap enabled courses (Even if you don’t have a Handicap)
Course Details Screen – Yards not lining up
Handicap – Course Details screen should show whether a course is Handicap approved or not and also if it’s not valid
Handicap – Remove the X from courses on the Select Course Metro and Select Course List screens – Tick and unticked is enough
Handicap – Text in Ticker Bar saying you need to play a round should be in Red
[PC] UI: Scorecards: The ‘Back Nine’ button to view the scores of the back nine is not functional. Currently cannot see your scores on the back 9. see screenshot.
[PC] UI: Scores on the scorecard are moving closer to the edge of their box with each hole. See screenshot.
[XB1] UI: Course Rankings Stats (end of round): On some stats, when user is displayed in the 10th place tile but is ranked lower, the rank number says ROUND instead of a number. If checked from Course Details > Leaderboard, nothing is displayed there
[PS4]GNCD:In test play, if friend has recently published a course, user can choose to ‘load course’.The GNCD logo is still in top right corner while playing (stays until restart TGC).Exiting brings user to GNCD on friends course to edit. See descrip/video
[HCP] Added notification when game first starts if user handicap has changed
[HCP] Add option for handicap restriciton to tour creation
[XB1] Messages: Don’t seem to be getting “score bested” messages.
[PC] Messages: Don’t seem to be getting “score bested” messages when a friend beats your score on a course.
Private Competitions: Users that are not friends with the creator of a private competition are able to join, compete and place on the leaderboards via an invite from an actual friend of the creator. Should only be accessible to friends of the creator.
No ‘click’ sound is heard when toggling the game mode in the main menu
[PC] Gameplay: Water sometimes ‘shakes’ when user changes the aim of their golfer. see link for video in description.
[XB1] Stats: Users stats are sometimes not updating, or are losing information. User reported a drop in ‘Rounds Completed’ and corresponding Birdies and Eagles, after performing a hard reset, but also after booting without a hard reset. See description.
[HCP] Course Creator handicap ineligible warning popup
[HCP] Match rules update when handicap are applied.
Gameplay: Sand: Some areas of rough or heavy rough sometimes appear as a Sand lie. See pictures and repro steps.
[HCP] Database handicap feature creation and updates.
[HCP] Score Record (New screen)
Career Stats handicap update
[HCP] End of match screen handicap update
[HCP] Score Record Update (Possible new screen)
[HCP] Handicap Evaluation update(new screen)
[HCP] Ranking/Leaderboard screen handicap update.
[HCP] Scorecard screen handicap update.
[HCP] Hud handicap update.
[HCP] Rival select scren handicap update.
[HCP] course select screens and course details screen handicap update.
[HCP] Player and rule select handicap update.
[HCP] message center handicap display
[HCP] Helpbar display for handicap
[HCP] On boot-up, Notify the user if their Handicap Index has changed while they were away due to an expired scorecard.
[PC] UI: On 9 hole courses, after finishing a hole, the scorecard appears, the labels for Leaderboard and Advance, are not in the correct positions (positioned for an 18 hole card). Accessing the leaderboard and coming back fixes it. (screenshot)
[All] UI: In game, the ‘Hole Overview” callout is missing the ‘w’ at the end. Currently reads “Hole Overvie”
[PC] Gameplay: While in “approach” or “putting” camera options, pressing spacebar switches the camera to behind the golfer, but all controls are unresponsive other than “E” and “Q” to go back to regular cameras.
[PC] KB/M: Gameplay: Cameras: There is no way to lock the “approach” and “putting” camera options to take a shot in those views.
[All] UI: Course Details: On the Course Details screen, the ‘Yards’ info is moved into the ‘Holes’ tile instead of in its own tile, which is now blank.
Commentary: John said “Number 12″ as the player addressed his tee shot, which was correct, but then followed immediately with “This the 12th hole coming up”. One of those was unnecessary.
Commentary: Four Ball: Commentary refers to individual players scores (1 under, 4 below par, etc,) rather than the team score of 1UP, 2UP, etc., which is shown on the scorecard.
[XB1] Online: Invited users are not added to the ‘host’ users scorecard if the social setting Auto Add Friends is set to OFF.
[XB1] Multiplayer: Users having trouble joining LIVE with friends. When a friend joins the same course from an invite, they are showing as AWAY on one of the users scorecards. User can sometimes go to Pause > Active Friends > Add to Game and become LIVE
Commentary: Match Play: Score was EVEN going into hole. Guest player won the hole to go 1UP. On next tee, commentary said “Nothing changed on that hole, in terms of score”
Commentary: Match Play: Player 2 had honors and tee’d off. Player 1 stepped up to tee and commentary said “Ok my friend you have the honors”.
Commentary: Match Play: Player 2 was putting to make the game EVEN, but commentary said “This one to go 1UP”. Happened multiple times in the round and increased to 2UP, then 3, then 4.
Commentary: Match Play: Numerous time throughout the round, playing with 1 guest, commentary said “Hole will be halved”. But a player has actually won the hole and gone ahead (1UP, 2UP, 3UP)
Commentary: Match Play: When a player misses a shot to halve the hole, commentary says “You’ve exceeded your shot limit of 7 over par”. Player could have hit a birdie, par, bogey. Did not reach 7 over par
Replace 3 & 5-wood samples
Gameplay: A shot hit onto a concrete section of building assets can behave wildly. See description for video.
[PS4] Crash: PS4 users in the forums are having regular crashes in the GNCD while in the Boreal theme. Unable to reproduce consistently. see description
[PS4] Course disappeared: User on the forums says that he published a course, “Skaro Country G.C.”, and it has not appeared on the public course list, and is saying that it is no longer in either designer list.
There was nothing displaying in the Tournament Leaderboard screen at the end of the final round tournament hub. The Tournament was the UK Open. Press triangle to access leaderboard. The leaderboard was empty
Blocker: Gameplay: On rare occasion, when starting a course, user will have no controller function in-game, aside from Pause Menu access and navigation. Function returns if user Restarts Game from pause menu.
GNCD: Sculpted greens losing some of their edits after reordering holes. See description for details
GNCD: After placing holes, used the ‘reorder’ tool and unwanted edits were made. Greens resized themselves, sculpting and some added surfaces disappeared. See description for more.
Leaderboard came up empty on tour hub when the tour is not started yet.
Tour leader board show up empty in tour hub if the tour has not started yet.
Minor visual thing – Tournament completed rating screen – final score numbers overlapped slightly by left bracket of total shots
Tournament Preview – Leaderboard – my completed score didn’t make the top ten thus it appears in the bottom row but the score is wrong.
No audio plays for x button press to continue to the next round when on the leaderboard for the end of first round in a tournament.
UI: Turn Based Play: Club distances do not update for opponents in turn based play. If the user changes clubs from the default club, the spectators only see the club change, the carry distance for the clubs do not change.
PS4 Crash 1.02 – eboot.bin!Hud_ShowPreShotElements_bool_single_single_bool+0x102
PS4 Crash 1.02 – eboot.bin!JobManager_ScopedJob_1_RunJob+0x1a mono-ps4.sprx!mono_jit_runtime_invoke+0x405 [C:\unity\mono-consoles-ps4\mono\mono\mini/mini.c:5115]
PS4 1.02 Crash – eboot.bin!CourseSelection_OnCourseListComplete_RestError_DB_List_1_CourseMetadata_string_string+0xae mono-ps4.sprx!mono_jit_runtime_invoke+0x405 [C:\unity\mono-consoles-ps4\mono\mono\mini/mini.c:5115]
PS4 1.02 Crash 003 – > eboot.bin!EndOfMatchScreen_ColourFavourite() + 62 bytes C++ eboot.bin!Database__Postc__AnonStoreyF7_1__m__1BA_Response() + 46 bytes C++
GNCD: Mushrooms in Create/Add > Objects > Plants, are labelled as “Plant”. Other plants have proper names, such as Fern, Fallen Tree, Lilies.
[PS4] If 2 local players (2nd as Guest) begin a game using with 2 controllers, and one of the users then changes to a different Guest, that controllers input will be lost.
[Console] TBMP still un-syncs and makes you disable/re-enable to continue
[XB1] Audio: No sounds for ball impact with ground. No sound for ball entering the cup. No sound for ball entering water hazard.
[XB1] Audio: Double/Triple/Quadruple “ding” sounds for selecting to advance/go back. Navigating through FE
[PC] UI: Message Centre: When scrolling through filters in the message centre, messages will not show what the message is from (New Round, Live Rival, etc.) until you click on them.
Gameplay: Shot Suggestion: If a user is chipping to a green, too close for 9 iron, but there’s a small water hazard on the far side of the green, club suggestion will choose 9 iron to hit over the hazard, rather than a wedge to hit the green
Gameplay: Lost some controller function. Tried to accept a join friend request while finishing a hole as the leaderboard was loading. (see description for more)
Live Multiplayer: Shot Order On: On the odd occasion two players will end up stuck watching each other shoot. This seems to happen most often on little shots around the green or while putting.
Commentary: Gameplay: Started a round on Rural_Test (18 holes), went to pause menu to turn up Commentary volume, when I returned to gameplay the commentator said, “We have a short course here, just the 1 hole.” but it was an 18 hole course.
[PC] – Scrolling through the messages in one filter affects the scrolling of the other filters.
[PC] – The back prompt is displayed twice in the Message Centre
Course Creator: When testing a hole in the creator, if you use the Rewind feature after teeing off you will be returned to the tee box without a tee. Sometimes the ball will sink into the ground