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TW10 Bugs List

Hey everyone, I thought it might help the community and the developers if we could have an easily found list of some of the current bugs that plague the TW10 Wii community. I know for a fact that the developers keep their own list of stuff we mention on the forums, but this will also help new players find out what's already been discussed.

Let's be clear on a few ground rules. This is NOT the place to complain about the game or tell everyone how much you hate some part of the game. This is also NOT the place to suggest new features for TW11 or complain that EA didn't make TW10 a certain way. What you can report here are software-related bugs and glitches where the game takes incorrect/illogical actions or incorrect data is displayed or represented.

Here's how it works:
First, READ THE CURRENT LIST. If the bug you have in mind is not on the list, post it below. I (or another mod) will then review it and add it to the list here at the top if it's legitimate. Feel free to also post revisions of bugs on the list if you can make them more specific or if they are inaccurate in some way.


Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 Community Bugs List

The OB Bug - The player holes out and the "OUT OF BOUNDS" message is displayed. The player then receives one penalty stroke added to his actual score for the hole.

Average Score (and other stat errors) - In career mode, the stats section displays incorrect data. Most often the "average score" stat is incorrect, but other stats such as holes-in-one have been reported to be incorrect as well.

Water Hazard Lie - The player hits his ball into a water hazard and is forced to take his next shot from under water. The lie % is so low that it is impossible to hit the ball back to the grass, resulting in an unplayable situation.

Invisible Wall - During a putt, a player's ball hits a mysterious "invisible wall" on its way to the hole, and ricochets to the side. Another version of this is when the green grid indicates a straight putt, and yet the ball takes a very unnatural, angular path, usually resulting in a missed putt. Most likely a physics problem or a glitch with CPU putting assistance.

Glass Over the Hole - A player makes his putt at reasonable power percentages, and his ball seemingly glides right over the hole as if the hole does not exist. (This cannot yet be confirmed to be an actual bug, and may be user error. More evidence should be gathered, especially in the cases of uphill putts or slow greens.)

Club Tuner Crash - When the player visits the club tuner, the system freezes and he is forced to shut down. Most (if not all) reports of this come from users playing the PAL version of the disc as opposed to the North American NTSC version. (This one needs more info if anyone's got it.)

Lie % Indicator - When taking practice swings from the rough or sand with a partial percentage lie, the lie percentage indicator display shows the lie percentage improving with every practice swing, when in reality the player is hitting from the originally indicated partial percentage lie.

Loft Reset After Practice Swing - The player adjusts the loft of his shot, then takes a practice swing. The loft is reset to default as a result of the practice swing.

Character Appearance Malfunctions - There are a bunch of these that have been floating around. One popular reported bug is the "white Tiger" glitch, where a player's character is displayed as a light-skinned, bald Tiger Woods character model. Other character model bugs simply involve the wrong clothing being displayed, as well as glitchy textures for features such as hair and teeth. (If anyone can provide specific descriptions of these bugs, please add them below).

Incorrect Hole Commentary - At the start of a hole, the announcer describes the wrong hole during the flyover. Also, during play, the commentators make inaccurate statements about the current play action, e.g. describing an approach shot during a putt, talking about the ball landing in the rough when it is clearly in the fairway, etc.

Shot Replay Bug - The player takes a shot, then elects to view a replay of the shot. During the replay, the ball takes a different path from the original shot and comes to rest in a different location. This is especially frustrating when a shot is holed out for eagle two or hole-in-one in the orignal shot, and the replay causes the ball to miss the hole during the replay, leading to final scoring of the replay, rather than the original shot. This is a problem with the physics system and luck factors being left "live" for the replay. A solution would be to have the physics variables captured during the original shot and frozen for the replay, or to have a video capture method implemented instead of a live shot replay.

Practice swing reset of loft- When you adjust loft and take a practice swing, the loft returns to the original position. If you take the shot without realizing that you have to reset the loft, the ball flies over the intended landing spot. If all factors were returned to the original state, I guess it would be right as programmed; but the aiming adjustment remains in place- only the loft is returned to the original position.

G.

Good one, G. That's a major one that has bothered me for a long time. As you suggested, it may not technically be a "bug" where code is firing incorrectly, but just a programming oversight. I can't imagine they designed it to be the way it is now, so we'll put it on the list.

One version of putt bug is also when the ball goes over the hole like it is not there

I've had it where I load a game, and upon startup my golfer isn't wearing the suit I bought him. He's actually wearing a black EA shirt and silly pants.

wii.Rimar wrote:One version of putt bug is also when the ball goes over the hole like it is not there

Happened to me tonight for the first time. I tapped a 2 ft putt at just over the percentage given (as I always do). Ball went straight over the hole and stopped 3 ft the other side! All replays seemed to jump as well just as the ball got to the hole!

I haven't heard much about the putting incident described above where the ball goes over the cup. I've added it to the Invisible Wall bug for now, but I would like to hear some more confirmations that this bug exists, and it isn't merely poor putting strokes on the part of the user.

DD, I've noted your character model bugs in a general report of all sorts of that type of thing.

Ive experienced most of the bugs NoChin has listed over time.
Most recently I drove the green on *. Andrews hole 1, ball finished up about 20ft past the hole, putted into the hole for an eagle. Message said WATER HAZARD (as if I had putted into the stream in front of the green) and was given a score of par.

One bug I noticed the other day which NoChin has not listed was the hole commentary on a certain hole was refering to another hole, not the one I was actually playing. It was describing the slope of the green and bunker positions etc. which were not there. This was quite common on TW09 but to be honest I very rairly listen to what is said on TW10 and I suppose it can't be classed as a serious bug because I imagine most players press A to jump through it.

One bug which bugs me (excuse the pun) is with the swing tuner hanging which quite often means a reboot.
I had this problem from day one. I exchanged my TW10 disk for another copy but the problem was still apparent.
Recently I replaced my broken Wii with a new black one. The swing tuner problem is still there.
This prooves it can't be the disk or the Wii and because of lack of posts on this problem I am at a loss as to why I and only a few others are plagued with it. As I live in the UK I wonder if it is a problem only on the UK disks or PAL system?
I would be really interested to know if anyone has had this problem from any other country except the UK.
Please post a reply if you have.

Replay bug .
You hit the replay button after a great approach or hole in one and it goes off the green and this is where you have to play your next shot !! WTF ??Ive only had this happen off-line.

Ive had the putting bug numerous times. Someone once said its like a piece of glass covering the hole. The ball just slides over the cup.

Have experienced all the others mentioned apart from changing clothes

Still love this game though.

Club tuner freezes 1 in 10 times approx.

This is a British Pal(tv system) version.
jimbob59

I have had this happen to me where the putt goes right over the hole and about 5 feet passed. In fact it happened to me twice yesterday!

Good stuff, everyone! Keep 'em coming. Thanks for the additional replies about the "glass over the hole" effect.

Woodstock, the replay bug has been discussed on this forum before with the developers, and it's not really a bug as much as it is poor design and/or an unfinished feature. Either way, it's something that's been around since TW08 and it needs to be fixed. Thanks for mentioning it.

Regarding putting over the hole sindrome I have had this happen many times but I have never considered this to be a bug in the game. It has always happened to me on a downhill put particularly when the green is fast and/or on a slope. Like in real golf, dowhillers on fast greens can you have the same thing happen. I know from experience!
As far as I can remember I have never had this happen on an uphill or flat green unless the put is massively overhit.
Has anyone had this happen on flat or uphill puts?

wildman wrote:Regarding putting over the hole sindrome I have had this happen many times but I have never considered this to be a bug in the game. It has always happened to me on a downhill put particularly when the green is fast and/or on a slope. Like in real golf, dowhillers on fast greens can you have the same thing happen. I know from experience!
As far as I can remember I have never had this happen on an uphill or flat green unless the put is massively overhit.
Has anyone had this happen on flat or uphill puts?

OK this is what I was wondering, because I know this could easily happen on fast greens with downhill slopes, and I've never heard of this bug before I started this list. Let's keep discussing this to make sure it is in fact a bug and not user error.

I've had the club tuner crash several times- on initial entry, on saving, on switching clubs. It always means a reboot.

There are continuous synching problems with the commentary and course events. I'm making my putt and the announcer is telling me that I've got 193 yards to the pin. This is different from the appropriateness errors we get such as announcements that we're heading to the rough when the ball is clearly in the middle of the fairway with a PRO set. That may be a synching error, or it may be a calculation error of some kind. The first problem is clearly a delay in the audio vis a vis the action on the screen.

G.