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No back spin...is it only me?

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Sat, Feb 14 2015 12:57 PM (45 replies)
  • spdemon
    1,588 Posts
    Sun, Dec 7 2014 9:04 AM

    ApexPC:
    I play at least 1 multiplayer game every day

    lmao 1 try a few more the game is a dang mess 

  • LOLserver
    3,522 Posts
    Sun, Dec 7 2014 9:11 AM

    ApexPC:

    I have seen 2 disconnections of opponents when I was playing members in GB or Europe. I was not disconnected.

    I have seen no slow loading, nor any of the other issues mentioned.

    I play several multiplayer games a day (alternate, see my profile matches history), I see people disconnecting EVERY SINGLE game and see often DQ's or sometimes people giving up and leave the game.

    This situation has happened only recently. 

    Been here long enough to see the problem lately. I have never complained about disconnections before, EVER, but it is just very annoying not to play, ONLY multiplayer games, properly.

    As said, it is NOT so important when playing on your own, you can always close the game, reboot or whatever is necessary to carry on playing your unfinished game, but you can not do that when playing together with other players.

    Luckily alternate mode is not played for credits, it is mainly for fun.

    Eric 

  • LOLserver
    3,522 Posts
    Sun, Dec 7 2014 12:24 PM

    We have tried to start an alternate now 4 times......impossible to finish the first hole!!!!

    Don't now what else to say....honestly :(.

    Eric 

    edit...not me missing the connection but the other.

     

  • Romax
    1,876 Posts
    Mon, Dec 8 2014 11:59 AM

    LOLserver:

    Been playing alternates for the last 4-5 days and several times I do not get any Back Spin in my shots even if I had added it ....it is only me?

    Eric

    It's not just you with the backspin thingy. I have seen the odd occasion when a 64 Cleve pitch just goes wrong, but last night I had a 17 yd pitch and hit full bs as usual. That shot for me is often in the cup or very close to it..... It rocketed past the hole like I'd hit a PW flat.! 

    When friends I play with a lot say WTF  R ? , I know they were expecting a draino or at least close too it also......not 10 yds past the hole..... haha.  I've spent years working on that shot and holed out 502 times ( mostly with 64 Cleve ) so  yes it is quite annoying for WGT to mess with the backspin in alt shot, even though they deny doing so. And that's no BS !

  • phiber
    2,795 Posts
    Mon, Dec 8 2014 12:32 PM

    those are some of the same issues I have been experiencing.  I am a flop freak and use it often when around the green (depending on the lie of course).   Here lately (last 3 maybe 4 weeks) flops have been ridiculously off.  Chips as well.  Last night I had a 6 yard chip with my trusty and proven Z Satin wedge that hit the green just about exactly where it should have then proceeded to roll out to 13 yards.   and that was full BS.

     

    Hey Icon, I hear what you are saying, but too many folks seeing too many of the same things, and most of them are people that know what they are doing, they've been here a while, they clear their cache, they have multiple browser playing options etc....I was once told by a WGT person that if they changed anything, they would notify the community via the forums and via e-mail.  This wasn't that long ago.  I  have been here over 3 years now, played a lot of WGT virtual golf, and I have seen my irons change several times, like now when the BS is completely different than it was just a short time ago, and I have NEVER seen a post in the forums or received that proverbial email explaining what has been done.  The players that play a lot, know what their equipment is capable of.  We are not morons!  (well most of us are not anyway, I might put myself in that moron category for continuing to believe that it will get better).

    I play strictly for the enjoyment of the game, I don't gamble here, wouldn't even if I could, my note book is totally useless anymore, the math just doesn't work like it did a year ago, the shots don't do the same thing they did a year ago.  But, I assume, nothing has changed! 

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Mon, Dec 8 2014 12:49 PM

    Romax:
    It's not just you with the backspin thingy. I have seen the odd occasion when a 64 Cleve pitch just goes wrong, but last night I had a 17 yd pitch and hit full bs as usual. That shot for me is often in the cup or very close to it..... It rocketed past the hole like I'd hit a PW flat.! 

    Had the exact same thing happen last night and still scratching my head over it. The only thing that makes any sense is either I didn't change from full to punch, I changed and it didn't register or I used the wrong wedge. 

    What fails here is if I didn't change the shot from full to punch the ball would have gone a lot further given the strength I hit it. Using the wrong wedge would have done the same thing unless I actually did set the 64W for a punch and the game played the 60W while showing the 64W. This I could see as I've seen that quirk before with high irons. Not often enough to think there's a problem but 2 guys having the same problem almost at the same time is cause for concern.

    On the back spin concern, right after reading Eric's post the first 2 64W punches I hit in an AS match went about 3-4 yards further than I expected. LOL-With Eric's post fresh in my mind I start thinking stuff but by exercising extreme caution in the rest of the match and succeeding matches I'm convinced it was me.

    Ahhh, the power of suggestion. Almost fell off the edge there.  ;-)

  • LOLserver
    3,522 Posts
    Mon, Dec 8 2014 12:55 PM

    Cleaned cache, deleted history in all browsers, etc, etc...same procedure to start with a new game....BUT, no back spin AGAIN in one of the 3 alternate played today :(

    To me is very easy to see when no bs because of the LOW flight and the 10-20 yards short ball first bounce and the long roll approach.

    Sort of...I am counting on NOT having BS at least once every second alternate.

    All is only for fun on alternates, indeed.....but is has NOT been like this EVER b4!!! 

    Eric

    edit...I don't recall if the BS/PUNCH problem started after the last update, perhaps it did.

    Hope you WGT have a look at it....please!

  • JFidanza
    1,676 Posts
    Mon, Dec 8 2014 1:01 PM

    phiber:

      Last night I had a 6 yard chip with my trusty and proven Z Satin wedge that hit the green just about exactly where it should have then proceeded to roll out to 13 yards.   and that was full BS.

    ..I was once told by a WGT person that if they changed anything, they would notify the community via the forums and via e-mail.  This wasn't that long ago.  I  have been here over 3 years now, played a lot of WGT virtual golf, 

    my note book is totally useless anymore, the math just doesn't work like it did a year ago, the shots don't do the same thing they did a year ago. 

    True, and then people may wonder if the naysayers against those who are pointing out the issue are just bootlicking shills, insane or under a spell of magic, etc. because although it may be nice to play a challenging game, to engage in a program that's more of a problem, like gluing together a broke lamp, is not enticing IMHO.

    I've basically stopped playing and streaming and I watch 98% less ads for free creds, and I wonder how many others were keen enough to bail ship until this might change.

    I suspect this was a fault of programming or a wrench thrown into the system on purpose but if it was the former I would have thought of an update to revert back as many members might have quit, or if it was the latter I'm thinking they might have shot themselves in the foot because this might not have increased balls sales, etc. but might have the opposite affect.

    Unless you like playing the game at this stage...which might look something like this:

    "You lose. Isn't this fun?"

    But, people can draw their own conclusion. 

     

     

  • LOLserver
    3,522 Posts
    Tue, Dec 16 2014 5:30 AM

    Sick & tired of this chit :(

    Playing with Comodo Dragon; NO back spin in alternates at least once every 18 holes.

    I give up trying to play alternates with Comodo Dragon and now I will try to play ONLY alternates using Maxthon. Meter is not as smooth as with Comodo but as WGT does nothing to fix it, I simply give up.

    Please Icon or Shoe, send this thread to the bugs section. I have already explained the problem in detail.

    The game was NOT like this until the last month or so...why is it like this now?, who the hell knows.

    Eric

  • 777999
    2,111 Posts
    Tue, Dec 16 2014 3:21 PM

    I'd ask the following first???  Were you playing out of the deep rough, or perhaps was the lie severely downhill???  Either would result in a shot not playing exactly as expected!!!

    Phil  aha., Coyote

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