A Fun Golfing Challenge

I was playing another game and an ad for Golf Rival came up. I watched the ad and became curious. I continued my other game for about another week and the same ad reappeared so I decided to jump to it and install it. It totally sucked me in. I played day and night, 7 days a week, for 6 weeks. As I climbed stages, I was learning the wind charts and clubs. Occasionally a fully outfitted player would compete with me and crush me. I enjoyed it to the fullest as I wanted those awesome clubs and the technique to use them, a great learning experience. As with other Golf games, you can Pay to advance, but you don’t have to pay. It can take quite a long time to grab enough Legendary clubs to compete, unless you let go of your cash. But let me tell you, golf is expensive in real life. There are bad apples that emoji bomb you as you line up your shots, but there is a MUTE button to silence them. The developers put the option of being a jerk to your opponent just like real life. But the large majority of players are courteous and well wishing. This is a very good, fun, challenging, and engaging game. Golf Rival has EARNED a place on my phone. Install it if you know the game of golf, or if your are a novice. Either way I know you will enjoy it!

Decent and Fun

The competitiveness does need to shift is the reason I give it a 3. 1. Not right to be placing someone who has been playing thousands more games than you because hmm obviously they have clubs that are supposed to be far upgraded than yours. (I see this probably significantly when you move to next stages.) 2. This is a two parter, people who pay for stuff and game modes. I see someone who has 100 kangaroo balls like 120 black balls, upgraded Bat Wings to like level 5-6 so on it’s like ok your already driving the ball an extra 100+ yards than me great it’s a waste of time. Also really hurts in the Draws it’s like hmm I have maybe 3 balls of each, this person has all these upgrades on my same stage level I don’t stand a chance besides to get lucky they miss fire!!! So I say make a stage mode or some sort of feature that levels it out to just skill. Nobody should have x30 more balls than you, nobody should have a Bat Wing level 2 and facing someone at level 6 and so on with the other clubs. Put those players using some algorithm facing one another so it gives the playing field a little more even. For instance I love the concept when finding opponent you can adjust your setting “No special balls” “Clubs within one ranking up any legendary or free game for all the base level clubs etc” if that means you lower the ranking trophy boost from 60 down to 30 or whatever so be it but at least the game is more fair and gives you a chance against equal level opponents.

Love this game but…

There are many things about this game that are just truly aggravating. When the special challenges come up and you go up against people around your skill level but as soon as you start advancing you’re facing against (for example) a level 6 bat wing compared to your level 3. While you can barely get to the fairway, the other person can clear it with no problem. The most aggravating thing over all is the problem with the clubs changing on you depending on your slight distance from the pin. Thus eliminating the possibility of dunking the ball. Instead of lining it up with your iron, it changes to your wood, then your wood club has wind debuff so it’s nowhere near where you were lining it up. See what I’m saying? ANNOYING. Yes, I love this game, yes I spend money on this game even though I’m paying into this obvious pay to win system. I’ll continue to play but I strongly urge the devs of this game to fix this small yet incredibly annoying thing plus al the pay to win stuff to maybe slow down a bit. Maybe even some better gem discounts and more opportunity to play for stuff. Maybe even some new game modes. Me and my buddy play this game at work together and we would love to have a simple custom game where we can pick the map and maybe the wind (just a few obviously) I hope the devs see this and do something. That would just be dope.

Its just alright

The game overall is fun and addictive and you can get pretty far without paying (so far on level 12)but you have to watch a ton of ads to get that far. The game does have many many flaws. First off it’s pretty easy to get legendary clubs but almost impossible to upgrade legendary clubs without paying for the game. The only way to not pay is to hoard coins then spend 40k coins for 1 legendary card in daily deals. They have challenges but you only ever get 2 legendary shards by spinning the wheel. They also have 4 rounds of challenges with the last round being absolutely impossible because they are all bots that make it in 2-3 shots every time. They also have a dice roll thing with is interesting but is flawed too. One you get over so many shards they switch shards so you can’t get to 100 to get a legendary card. Another way they want you to pay for the game. There is a ton of bots in this game and it’s very obvious when you are playing a bot. For example sometimes there shots are off screen where you can’t even see it, or when they are going for eagle you see there shot mid air and then glitches and you don’t even see it until it goes in hole.(They never miss). You mize well forfeit the match when you start it. This seems to start after level 10. Also it seems the wind is very inconsistent and sometimes doesn’t affect other players balls but always does yours.

DONT SPEND MONEY!!!!!!!!!!

Please , keep your money and spend it on a game that will at least not cheat you, don’t know which one that might be because there all crooks but this game has made up bots that are just tossed in the game. I was in the Global 50 that means the top 50 players in the world. I was 45th my friend that plays was in 36th another friend in 22nd and the guy I first new at this game was in 11th position. I went from 45th down to 50 in 1 Day the developer had made the game impossible to win at because he added a new level that everyone could not lose a game for a day are two that had a glitch. The next day people were logging on and couldn’t even win 1 single game the whole day and night. Then we started to notice players who were never in the top 50 just automatically appeared in the game. WADE if you are a real person then I’ll eat my words but this guy comes along out of nowhere starts at 49th day 1. Day 2 he’s at 38th day 3 30th, day 4 22nd, day 5 17th by this time I knew something was up then he passes my friend that was in the 11th spot so I messaged the developer and they have said nothing. This is what you deal with once you get to a certain point of the game and can’t win any more are if you get a higher level and get shut down by the developer

This game is the worst…

Let me start off by saying I make games for a living. This game is a poor poor poor copy and clone of Golf Clash. The two biggest problems I have with this knockoff are at the core of the course design. As you start to work your way up the tiers you get to increasing more gimmicky holes which in and of themselves are not an issue. The issue is there is little room for risk reward shot making. Execute a risky shot well doesn’t put you in a better position to score. Play safe and lay back also doesn’t put you in a better position to score. So basically all players just bomb into the same “rough” or sand trap and eventually on to the fairway (although sometimes playing entirely in the rough is the best approach) and eventually into a shootout. Landing in the fairway doesn’t mean your second shot has a better chance of making it on to the greens in regulation. Who designed these holes any way? Using limited content, like special balls, doesn’t necessarily help either so it’s not even p2w. And then there is the shootout where I have won a lot of times because I was within 50-60 yards of the flag on a par 3. In what world does this even make any sense? Having inaccessible flags on obstructed tee shots is no way to prove who is the better shotmaker. It puts most everything into the hands of RNJesus. And that my friends is no fun whatsoever. You want winning and losing to come down to execution and thoughtfulness and not a dice roll.

Fun game but buggy

I really enjoy playing this game, but I don’t like playing the tournaments anymore. You get placed against opponents who have obviously been playing much longer than I have. One opponent hit a drive 550 yards! I was like what the what?!? Also I lost one game when it inexplicably disconnected while I was about to putt for the draw. It wasn’t my WiFi that caused the problem it was the game. Secondly, frequently it mixes up clubs when I’m playing. It should be irons but downgrades to wedges for some odd reason. This can be very frustrating! Please fix these bugs and get an algorithm that fairly places tournament opponents. I strictly avoided the Albatross tournament because I’ve never had one and yet I faced an opponent today who has obviously excelled at that tournament because I was matched with him twice today in a regular tournament and both times he had an albatross to win (although the second one did not show his ball going in the hole, it just stated he’d won with an albatross, so I’m a bit skeptical about it.). I enjoy playing the stages where players are more evenly matched. I would suspect there are many like me who stay away from the tournaments because of the disparity. Unlike many players, I don’t disconnect if it’s obvious I’m going to lose so this uneven matching is very discouraging.

Fun at first but then you gotta pay to win

Game starts out fun but to be able to compete with others in your rank you can’t win due to their clubs being way better. I’m at level 12 and every round I play is against some one with clubs so much better than mine it really makes no sense why they would still be on this level. So I ponied up $50 to buy more gems so I could open more chests but unfortunately it’s a scam because all the clubs you get are junk and not the good clubs you need. I believe mot of these players with the massive advantages are actually bots and not real people. Feel pretty ripped off at this point but I’m the dope who got suckered into spending money. Update: after a couple more weeks of play, I have not played a match with a single player with clubs that are not far better than mine. I mean my clubs are at a level 4 and my supposedly matched opponent will have the same club at a level 7 or 8. The only way I can win is if they make a grave error. A draw will always give them an even larger unfair advantage than the one I already overcame just to get to a draw. I’ve managed to reach several hundred points into level 15 to only get beaten so many games in a row I will wind up under the 15,000 point range and go back to level 14. No matter how many chests I open I can’t get cards for the clubs I need to win unless I pay for them. So I say again, do NOT spend money on this game.

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