Greetings once again golfers!

It's a little off-schedule (but in a good way!) as the next update is imminent, but I thought I'd share with you what else will be arriving in the upcoming 1.17 update.

If you missed the last post, check it out here to see what I've been working on previously, including new camera modes, new game modes and updated control layouts coming to 1.17. Since then I've been wrangling further control changes as well as refining the Career mode which was added in 1.16.

Career Updates

Since 1.16 was released many of you have offered welcome feedback on the new Career mode via the discussions and Steam Chat and I've been working to act on it.

Most notably the in-game scoreboard, when playing a Career round, now shows all of the other league players, along with their current score. Not only does this offer much more interactive feedback as you play the round, it actually revealed a few, uh, wrinkles in the CPU score generation, which have since been ironed out. It's now also possible to rename the players in the league, including your own profile name, by clicking on the player's name in the league browser. Thanks to everyone who suggested this, it has been well received so far by the brave beta testers 😁

Along with the ironing of wrinkles I took the opportunity to re-balance the Career slightly. CPU players now alter their behaviour based on your selected clubset, so that entry level players have less resistance when starting out, and more advanced players can increase the challenge as they level up their clubs. The barrier for unlocking the next league has also been lowered to placing in the top 5 of the previous league. You'll still need to place top 3 to gain access to those cosmetics though!

Oh, and resetting your Career no longer removes any unlocked items from your inventory - these are now persistent between resets!

That's it for this update - it's not an exhaustive list (I haven't even begun to cover all the new achievements!) - however the full change list will be published once the update is released. As always thank you to everyone who plays the game, supports the development effort, and those of you who play on Super Video Sundays! (do join in if you haven't already 😁)

For now though, Happy Golfing! 🏌️‍♀️⛳