Bruce B Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Daryl Welsh announced it yesterday on the xbox forums Here is the synopsis from him: There is a new course download available now for all Links 2004 users (with Xbox Live). This course, ?The O.M. Director?s Cut,? is a special edition release of our fantasy course ?Ocean Mills Country Club.? It will be available world-wide at the same time at no charge. This course was not part of our original release schedule and it will not affect the plans we have in place for the new courses coming out in the coming months. Over the last 5 months we?ve found that Links 2004 has a great community of players that meet and communicate at the Links-2004 forum on Xbox.com and they have been asking for a more challenging course. Well we?ve heard that feedback loud and clear and took the opportunity while working on this most recent Auto-Update to deliver a course that meets the need expressed by the community. The goal we gave our course designers was to take the most challenging course in our lineup and make it even more difficult to score par or better without leaving the bounds of what is possible on a real life course. In our own play-testing we have all struggled to shoot par and we feel our designers hit their goal right on the mark. In this ?Director?s Cut? release of Ocean Mill our designers have: 1) Moved and enlarged many of the bunkers on the course. You?ll find big nasty bunkers right where your drives use to land in some spots. 2) The fairways have been narrowed and the routings have been moved so players must plan for the optimal shot angles into the green for their approach shots. 3) We have spent a lot of effort to adjust the rough around the course. If you land in the rough you?ll probably cringe now, as we?ve made it very penal to hit out of the rough with this course. 4) We?ve also adjusted the slope of the greens and fairways. These have been significantly altered and keeping the ball on the fairway will be a challenge on some holes (especially hole #5). Learn to keep the ball below the hole on the greens if you want avoid 4 putts. 5) On top of all the above we?ve added almost 500 yards to the length of the course when played from the championship tees making some Par-5?s a true risk-reward when going for it in 2, in addition to requiring longer clubs for the approach shot on the Par-4?s. This is by far the most challenging course the Links team has put out in 10+ years. We hope everyone enjoys this new course. The Links Development Team thanks each of you all for your continued support of our game. This course is planned to be available on XSN Sports to start creating tournaments within 72 hrs (by 3/5/04). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I love a challenge! This should kill my already piss poor shooting average. :green: It's nice that this course is free, after having paid for the last one. It would be easier to pay for courses if they continued to also offer free stuff. It would make you feel like they are working toward finding a happy medium between profit and customer loyalty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Awesome. :tu: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Moving to general Xbox as the Live area is for scheduling games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishepa Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Excellent! I love new courses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orpheus Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 A tougher Ocean Mills. Sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bryan Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hell yeah! :twisted: You'll see me on the links tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataTox Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Was already planning on hitting Links tonight, and now this just seals it. I'll look around for you guys tonight; maybe we can get a couple of LCVG rooms going. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I don't know what they're talking about, "most challenging course" indeed. I shot a -5. Hmm, maybe they meant without unlimited mulligans. Damn, this new course is hard. Trees snatching my ball out of the air, grass growing at an alarming rate, sand creeping across the fairway, hills undulating like a belly dancer... One hole they barely touched was 16 (they lengthened the fairway before the dogleg, most of us won't be able to reach it in one, and the pin has moved to the right side of the green). That one was already enough of a bitch, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Now I know what I'm doing when I get home. If anyone needs a playmate, send me an invite. I have a halfway built up beginner player, and a just started intermediate player. Haven't even thought about advanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I just got Link after the 29.99 price drop so I may be up for some gaming tonight. I don't think I'll make it online to Stell Battalion but my beginner self would love to partake in the Links craze. I'll have both downloadable maps when I get home by the way. PS: Allen I love the new Carve avatar:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I just got Link after the 29.99 price drop so I may be up for some gaming tonight Just do yourself a favor and dont play the new downloadable course first, or it might be the first and last time you play Links. Much more difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bryan Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Everyone, post your score on the new course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Okay. My setup was: tees: Championship Wind:Breezy Clear conditions Pin Placement: Medium Shot a +1. It was anextrordinarily frustrating round and I know I can shoot much better than that but like the more challenging course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJames Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 First round on the new course: Championship Tees Difficult Pins Clear Breezy No Mulligans . . . . +10 :shock: I got stuck in the woods on the first hole and took a few cracks at it before taking a drop. Ended up with a +6 on that one. This course is so hard all I could do is laugh when each hole came up. Every part of the course is sloped. When your ball lands its going to end up on one side or another. Greens are about the same way too. I landed in the woods enough to think I may be playing that deer hunting game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLYING SE7EN Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Mr James said: Championship TeesDifficult Pins Clear Breezy No Mulligans . . . . +10 ..uum...........who else wants to play the OLD courses tonight???? :shock: :oops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishepa Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Championship Tees Easy Pins Calm Winds No Mulligans Clear +5 I'm an advanced player however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataTox Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Championship Tees Easy Pins Calm Winds No Mulligans Clear Shot a +4. Thank the maker I didn't pay for this course or I would be demanding my money back! Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Two Words for my play on the course DONT ASK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bryan Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Championship Tees Moderate Pins Calm Winds No Mulligans Clear Shot -4 in my first round. One hell of a tough course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Well my first game went swell (considering I haven't spent much time with Links lately) tees: Championship Wind:Breezy Clear conditions Pin Placement: Medium Finished +7 Of course reality set it the next couple of rounds. something like +18 & +23 respectively. :cry: Tough course, but I enjoyed the challenge. My putting caught fire,.... in a bad way. I was down-right dreadful in the second two games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce B Posted March 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Daryl Welsh from the xbox forums announced that the following update will be available sometime tonight to address: In this Auto-Update we fixed three things: 1) Posting of XSN Rounds back to back within a 30 min period would cause one of the rounds not to post. 2) Dollar amounts on the Xbox Live Leaderboards were being randomly reset, although Wins/Losses/Inc were being tracked correctly. 3) Viewing a saved shot would revert the current profile's skills and career progress to the point in time when the saved shot was saved. All three of these were caused by code added for AU2 (the autoupdate released 3 weeks ago). For each of these our code reverted back to the retail version of the code that shipped back in November. We spent countless hours over the last three weeks verifying these fixes and making sure there were no other impacts across the game. We also had other test teams outside of our studio help test to further verify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Bruce I merged the autoupdate topic with this one and renamed the thread for ongoing update discussions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 3) Viewing a saved shot would revert the current profile's skills and career progress to the point in time when the saved shot was saved. After downloading the new course and playing a single-player round, I went online and saw that my character had been reduced from 31 skill points to 4. My offline stats were correct and I had almost $2 million in my bank, which let me buy 30 skill points, though it erased around $40,000 I'd recently made. AT NO POINT DID I VIEW A SAVED SHOT! XSN is still broken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 I guess it's a good thing I've still got around 7 skill points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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