It would be nice to see ball squirt tied to lie and axis hit whether it be back or forward swing, not just random massive ball squirt in any direction or no squirt at all with no rhyme or reason.
If the ball were above my feet and I hit a straightish axis hit and I'm a right handed player, the ball in RL will likely squirt left, here the ball can squirt in any direction and it's totally random. Even a level lie here and a straightish axis hit can result in many many yards of deviation. In RL I would seldom hit a good shot from a flat lie straight into a right or left pond. In RL I would seldom hit a good drive from a flat tee lie straight into a right or left pond or bunker.
The main reason I ask for clarification, is I see posted all over the place that we should make the game harder to hit the fairway, harder to hit close to the hole, harder to hit the green. I have talked to many players and many will tell you due to ball squirt it already is extremely hard and many will say it is easy. Some players have never seen the ball squirt, some have never seen it not squirt, some are seeing it randomly.
I admit, I have a tin foil hat firmly affixed to my skull, but I am coming from another golf site that I spent many many years on. That was also many years of account swapping with other top level players watching first hand how all accounts were in fact not created equal. The absolute top player account had wind that was so easy to judge it was not even at all close to funny. Playing another account I had 4 hole outs from the fairway, more hole outs in 1 round then I had in the previous 2 years on my account. Another account was so easy to make a putt the hole may as well been a bucket. Its not that hard to test this stuff, people talk, people come up with interesting and innovative ways to confirm their theories. That account has been dormant now for a year now after 6 years of daily play.
However I can tell you, nothing ticks players off more, then finding out for certain that no matter how hard they practice they will never be allowed to reach above a certain level and will always be kept below another level. First question most ask after finding that out, is who exactly makes that determination, second question is why? Third question is where to now, fourth question is how many review sites can I hit to warn potential buyers.
So I ask for forgiveness and patience for harping on about this, however I thought I stumbled upon the site I would spend the rest of my days daily toiling away. I thought and presently still think/wish I stumbled upon something unique and different still. However when I'm presently seeing that some players have never seen the ball squirt, some have never seen it not squirt and some are seeing it randomly squirt, it brings a certain level of fear.
I do not see this as unreasonable for the developers to come in a state exactly what is going on given the wide discrepancy of player experiences.
Again, though, and I have said this since early access, It would be nice to see ball squirt tied to lie and axis hit. It is so clearly not in the slightest tied to those now at all.
