Huge Bugs In Tiger Woods 10...

[UK Jack Bauer]

...and nothing being done about it so far.

I've posted in a thread about the bugs I'm suffering from on the US EA forums, I'll link to the thread here as well. Does anybody know if there's someone I can email? Because I can't play the game and nobody seems to give a damn! Very, very disappointed.

ORIGINAL THREAD HERE

[Responding to the thread "Will Only Let Me Use Beginner Clubs"]

I have this problem as well, I cannot believe that a patch has been released and yet this hasn't been fixed.

EA, can you at least give us some hint that you know about this and you're going to work on it? I'll give you all the bug reports you want. Here's the events leading up to it...

Playing on Xbox 360, UK release of the game. I downloaded the update that was released today, and proceeded to play the game.

Finished a few Tournament Challenges (managed to unlock every course), saved up just short of $100k, went to the pro shop, purchased the Callaway FT-iQ driver, Callaway FT Hybrid woods, Bridgestone Golf J36 Cavity Back irons and Bridgestone West Coast Design "Liquid Copper" Wedges. Went into the Club Tuner mode, all of the default clubs were selected. Upon going to the In The Bag menu, I noticed all of the default clubs have been selected and some of the clubs I've purchased aren't even in any of the lists.

When trying to select any of the clubs I've bought in the appropriate places, exiting and re-entering the In The Bag menu restores the default clubs, and playing a game of golf presents the default clubs.

Current lists...

My drivers list contains the default driver plus a Callaway Hyper X driver I'd bought previously and Ping Tour-W wedges I'd bought previously. (NO SIGN OF THE CALLAWAY FT-iQ DRIVER.)

My woods list contains the default woods plus Ping G10 Hybrid woods I'd bought previously, Ping Tour-W wedges I'd bought previously, the Callaway FT-iQ driver and Callaway FT Hybrid woods.

My irons list contains the default irons plus Mizuno MX-950 irons I'd bought previously, Callaway FT Hybrid woods, the FT-iQ driver and Bridgestone J36 Cavity Back irons.

My wedges list contains the default wedges plus Mizuno MP-R Series Black Nickel wedges I'd bought previously, Ping Tour-W wedges I'd bought previously and Mizuno J36 Cavity Back irons.

My putters list contains the default putter and a Nike IC 20-15A putter I'd bought previously.

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I've also noticed that you can't change the clubs in your bag - if I deselect the 6I iron and try to replace it with the GW wedge, once you save it and go back in the default club selection is there again.

Please advise me on a way I can fix this, or if you're not planning to, tell me how I can go about a refund. The game is now unplayable for me (and I'm not starting again only for this to happen again).

[UK Jack Bauer]

If anyone else suffers from this I've found a workaround (albeit ridiculously long-winded and time consuming). See below.

Okay, I seem to have found a fix for this. I'm kind of nervous about reporting it because I don't want anyone at EA to think "so it was user error then" - it's not, it's a massive bug. But after six hours of screwing around with the game yesterday out of desperation, I managed to fix the situation. I did a lot of things so here's what I did, in exact detail and in order, to fix it. I'm not sure which bits fixed it but I've put a title above what I THINK did it.

1 ) I went into the Pro Shop - NOT THE BAG - and equipped the second of each club I'd bought (not the third). So my intermediate driver instead of my expert driver, etc...

2 ) I clicked the Play Now option to test if they appeared. They appeared, seemingly with all my tuning options still there.

3 ) I quit out, went to the Performance Tuning section, and each club had the text of the EA clubs (EA SPORTS Oversized Driver etc.), but if you looked at the club itself when you were swinging it to about 50%, you could clearly see it was the club I'd equipped in the Pro Shop. But the tuning options were for the beginner clubs.

WHAT I THINK FIXED IT...

4 ) In preparation for the next step, I entered the Pro Shop and deselected everything I've ever bought. So default shirt, default pants, default shoes, no glasses etc... And for clubs I equipped all of the default clubs, first selecting the second available set I'd bought in each category and then selecting the original clubs again (just to make sure that the selection "stuck").

5 ) What I was then going to do is reset the tuning of the beginner clubs - being the only ones I could select to tune - to their original settings. Unfortunately there is no "default settings" button though, so I created a new golfer, wrote down the settings for each club, loaded my original golfer again and inputted the settings. This changes the "tuned" text on each club to "default", so it definitely worked.

The tuning settings for the default clubs are...

DRIVER: Loft 9.5, power 25%, workability 22%, spin 22%, bias 50%.
ALL OTHER CLUBS: Loft 0.0, power 25%, workability 22%, spin 22%, bias 50%.

Sometimes the game will put your selection off by 1%, but you know if you've inputted them correctly because when you save the settings it will switch from saying "tuned" to "default" next to the club header.

6 ) After this I went into the bag and deselected an 8I, swapping it for an LBW. I exited and re-entered to make sure that it had kept the setting. It had.

7 ) I went into the Pro Shop and equipped the second driver I'd bought again, exited the Pro Shop and entered the In The Bag screen to see if it showed the driver I'd selected in there. It had. I then repeated this step, selecting the second club I'd bought and exiting the Pro Shop EACH TIME, going into the bag and checking it was there, until all my second clubs were selected - each with their REAL NAMES (i.e. Callaway driver instead of EA SPORTS driver).

8 ) I went into the club tuner to make sure all the clubs appeared with their actual names and appearances, and tuning abilities. It all checked out, but then I altered the tuning of each club just slightly so that it would save new, uncorrupt settings.

9 ) I quit the club tuner and went into the Pro Shop, selecting the latest driver I'd bought (the one that started these problems off in the first place). I quit the shop, went into the bag again to make sure it was there, and it was. So as before, I repeated this step selecting the next latest club I had quitting the Pro Shop EACH TIME, going into the bag and checking it was there.

10 ) That's it. Eventually, I could see that they were all there. They all worked in the club tuner as well, and now everything is as it should be.

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If you want to try a quick and easy way that MIGHT fix it... Just go into the Pro Shop and equip your default clubs, then go to the club tuner and set the default settings detailed in step 5. Try to use your latest clubs then, as this may be the one thing that is causing the problem - but I've listed absolutely everything I did in-case that doesn't fix it for you. Something in the detailed report I've written above fixed it for me, so it should fix it for you too.

But please, EA, fix this bug anyway... I doubt every one of your customers is going to read this...

[T-Mills-85]

Cheers for posting that up Chris. Just picked the game up today. Glad i spotted this before i started banging my head aginst the wall. Sorry that you had to.

[ayresy27uk]

have tried this and it hasn't worked! please please help me!!!!!