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** Release Notes 6/25/15 **

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2015 12:51 AM

  Richard4168:

  Stop your bellyaching alosso. Its more like Asso. Every update, you b!tch about something. Just play the game already, or quit.

  OIC - Forum Neighbourhood Watch approaching. Of course, your side of Freedom of Speech is more important than any other - protect it with orders in commanding tone (Stop! Quit!) and pretend that everything is o.k.

  Beware though not to be a minority - twice as many posts in the "bugs" and "issues" threads than in this one.

• bluey403 1,533 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2015 1:03 AM

  Maybe I should have remained silent on this one as well,

  My mistake, all is good.

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2015 4:50 AM

  WGTicon:

  TaylorMade Black R1 – The player-favorite black R1 driver is BACK on WGT! It’s only here for a limited time, so be sure to get it while you can – unlocking at Levels 11, 48 and 93. PLUS, there’s a new unlock at Level 99 giving top players solid all-around performance and max distance

  Clever marketing bringing out the L90 R15 recently.  Give you that gamesmanship as  good extra choice:)...Easy for me to say as long since past L90.  Guess timing coincides with squeezing every last go out of the VUSO qualifiers, but overall good stuff, IMO.

  L103 / Ltd edition Black - VERY NICE bit of kit, IMO.  Organically always wants to land soft, very soft and not run out.  This can counteracted very well when needed with a smidge of TS even in a TW.  Slight HWs that smidge of TS seemed to counteract the balloon effect satisfactorily too.  Not tested it out anywhere enough in any conditions, but can see it would be a "nice" addition. 

  Trouble is the black med traj (l93/98) driver is so good anyway. Score wise I would be struggling to see any difference 1 round to the next (as you would expect), but some holes some conditions either would have the edge.  Th eL99/103 might have more teeth some places where it really counted though, and so in fairness nice extra choice.  Would i remember to actually swap it out / in I am not sure, but that's me and a nice product. 

  Easier to control than a med traj one, has it's place but still like the R1.  A 289 med traj one would be interesting, but which level ??  BTW the ultra slow meter was a v dull experience, just not needed for such an easy going thing.

   

  WGTicon:

  aylorMade R15 Hybrid

  Would that happen to be endeavouring to plug that obvious 225 yard hybrid gap :)

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  Country Club Improvements – See new Officer permissions, including the ability to email all club members, invite new members, change club messages and select different tee boxes for each hole in CC tournaments.

  Early doors - thanks all round.  If was going to get super nit picky would like to be able to select individuals for certain tasks, but that's picking at a nice improvement.

  WGTicon:

  New Camera Views for Putting – Added multiple camera angles for better views on your putts.

  WGTicon:

  New Camera Views for Putting – Added multiple camera angles for better views on your putts.

  Problem is some one broke the dots ages ago now.  Without that perfect this is unnecessary clutter mostly.  Not really tried it enough, and don't have to use it and maybe helps here and there.  It is no no replacement for always smooth dots front and reverse though.  EDIT: because the dots are fundamentally flawed too often it should not be added until the fundamental is fixed, IMO.

  WGTicon:

  “Last Ball” warning – Fixed an issue that incorrectly displayed a message that players were on their last ball, when they still have more of that type available 

  Last ball warning now back - OK ta.

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  Stand Bag blocking “Last Ball” message – Fixed issue that did not display the “Last Ball” warning when a Stand Bag Plus was equipped

  as said last ball warning back....Stand bag now needs fixing as we know.

  EDIT: My meter is usually fine.  Today shockingly bad.  Try again tomorrow - more boredom threshold low frankly for that as everything else works fine as usual always...

• DufferDuce 96 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2015 6:40 AM

  New Camera

  Another futile attempt by WGT to make it look like they are improving the game. NO improvement here at all. In fact it's worse because now you can't view opponents putt from reverse angle. And the additional angles of viewing a putt are of virtually no benefit.

  If you truly wanted to add a camera to improve the game I would suggest a camera that gives a much better view of the green that shows contours and slopes when we are on approach shot. So that we can judge when and where and how much spin to use.

  I see NOTHING of improvement with this new camera.

  DufferDuce

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Jun 27 2015 7:10 AM

  Of course it depends upon one's perspective, but this was a very good release. Very nice. And repleat with the customary, complimentary, unrealible meter pace that will linger, and linger, then "poof" disappear  ;-}

• SteveW65 4,540 Posts

  Sun, Jun 28 2015 3:14 AM

  Jimbog1964:

  WGTicon:

  Country Club Improvements – See new Officer permissions, including the ability to email all club members, invite new members, change club messages and select different tee boxes for each hole in CC tournaments.

  Early doors - thanks all round.  If was going to get super nit picky would like to be able to select individuals for certain tasks, but that's picking at a nice improvement.

  Still waiting on the promised 'set a time/date when CC tournies go live' so we can set them up in advance if going oh hols etc. Would be a very useful addition for CC owners. It was only a year or so ago wgt said they liked it and would work on it lol.

• MikeHD 89 Posts

  Sun, Jun 28 2015 3:44 AM

  100% agree Duffer.

  The new angles are a complete waste of time (and of WGT's computer programming resources).

  And now in a multi-player round there is absolutely nothing to do while waiting for others to putt except fall asleep ... unless you enjoy watching players take turns to miss from "WGT-defined" vantage points that usually have poor views and are of no interest whatsoever. 

  Far from making the game better, his feature has made the game considerably worse with long periods of boredom.

  I just wonder who WGT consulted before adding this "improvement". 

  DufferDuce:

  New Camera

  Another futile attempt by WGT to make it look like they are improving the game. NO improvement here at all. In fact it's worse because now you can't view opponents putt from reverse angle. And the additional angles of viewing a putt are of virtually no benefit.

  If you truly wanted to add a camera to improve the game I would suggest a camera that gives a much better view of the green that shows contours and slopes when we are on approach shot. So that we can judge when and where and how much spin to use.

  I see NOTHING of improvement with this new camera.

  DufferDuce

   

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Sun, Jun 28 2015 8:59 AM

  Apologies if this was brought up, but no time to run through the entire thread.  

  Trying to get a quick 9 in before working on the basement remodel project and noticed that you can take the shot now in zoomed view.

   

• RyjaTybas 5,150 Posts

  Sun, Jun 28 2015 11:50 AM

  This update has really spoiled live play with friends - with two totally unnecessary changes.

  Does anyone ever test these things??

  First, opponents can no longer get reverse view of putts - which adds interest while waiting.

  Second, chatting using the space bar now sends the reverse/forward view zig-zagging all over - which is really annoying.

  Surely these changes - or glitches - are NOT acceptable. Why spoil the game for no reason?

   

• AndreasHelke 676 Posts

  Mon, Jun 29 2015 3:24 AM

  SHRUDE:

   

  Custom tee boxes.......  why???  Am I missing something here?
  

  Chambers bay has some very long holes. So WGT uses this feature in the current Qualifier tournament. Hole 1 and 9 are using the Master tees instead of the Legend ones.