Revamped and Reinvented: Unlock the Exciting New Features of EA Sports PGA Tour Update 40

The patch notes for the 4.0 update of EA Sports PGA Tour have been released, addressing several bugs and enhancing the overall gameplay experience for golf enthusiasts. This update, which arrives two months after the official launch of EA Sports PGA Tour, aims to resolve issues and implement desired quality-of-life improvements as requested by the community.

EA Sports PGA Tour marks the return of this renowned sports game franchise after an eight-year hiatus, rejuvenating its presence in the gaming industry. In comparison to previous installments such as Tiger Woods PGA Tour and the more recent Rory McIlroy PGA Tour, this latest edition of EA Sports PGA Tour introduces a host of exciting features and gameplay enhancements. With a lineup of over 30 unique courses, including iconic locations like Augusta National and the Old Course at St Andrews Links, as well as two fantasy courses, players can indulge in a diverse golfing experience. Furthermore, EA has announced that additional courses will be introduced to the game in the upcoming months, with one of them being included in the EA Sports PGA Tour 4.0 update.

The latest update 4.0 for EA Sports PGA Tour features a range of stability enhancements and gameplay improvements. In addition, players can now enjoy new weekly and seasonal content. This update also introduces the prestigious Los Angeles Country Club to all game modes, expanding the selection of courses available in EA Sports PGA Tour. Career mode now includes The U.S. Open Championship, which alternates between The Los Angeles Country Club and The Country Club every season. Moreover, players can participate in new challenges during the U.S. Open Championship, allowing them to relive the most significant moments of this prestigious tournament.

In addition to addressing stability issues and introducing new weekly challenges, the latest update for EA Sports PGA Tour (version 4.0) includes several quality-of-life enhancements. Notably, the Swing Meter and Aiming Arc have been redesigned to provide clearer indications of the ball's trajectory. Furthermore, the update includes updated models for certain golfers to more accurately represent real-life professional players. This update also marks the introduction of women golfers to the EA Sports PGA Tour franchise for the first time.

EA has committed to regularly updating its golfing sports game, promising to add more challenges and courses over time. Since the franchise's inception with Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf in 1998, Electronic Arts has generated over $771 million in revenue. The success of the 2023 release of EA Sports PGA Tour on Steam, which generated nearly $700,000 in sales during its first week, indicates a strong likelihood that EA will continue to enhance the game and release new iterations, aiming to reclaim PGA Tour's status as one of the most popular sports games.

EA Sports PGA Tour Update 4.0 Patch Notes

Store & Content

New specs can be earned through weekly quests, weekly tournaments, and seasonal tournaments.

Command Series: Improves Power and Control attributes.

Escape Series: Improves Accuracy and Recovery attributes.

New Signature Series specs added to the store to rotate throughout the season:Patrick Cantlay

Tony Finau

Jessica Korda

Lexi Thompson

Additional cosmetic content will be added to the store later this week.

Gameplay Indicators

Add new “Modern” swing meter visuals with notchless design and improved visibly in bright skies.

The visual setting "Club Trail" has been replaced by the new "Swing Meter Style" setting. Users now have the option to choose their preferred swing meter visuals and enable or disable club trails.

The aiming arc has been updated to include a visual effect and change color if the ball is projected to collide before reaching its highest point. This enhancement is designed to provide clearer indication when aiming at obvious obstacles such as bunker lips directly in front of the golfer or trees that are not visible.

The putt read line, aiming arc, and online ball trails have undergone visual enhancements in line with these updates. Additionally, the issue of fixed flat edges occasionally appearing on the shot dispersion indicator when aimed at highly sloped terrain has been resolved.

Fixed big hit moments sometimes showing incorrect ball tracer lines near where the ball is hit.

Gameplay Physics

Altitude information has now been incorporated into the course select screen, along with an updated understanding of course-specific ball flight physics. It is important to consider that when playing at high altitude courses such as Banff Springs, the ball tends to travel a greater distance and follows a slightly lower trajectory.

Minor improvements to ball rolling physics, fixing some unnatural movement that could occur when slowly rolling down steep slopes.

Gameplay Animation

Fix instances where swinging while the golfer is moving to address the ball would result in a frozen swing animation.

Fix instances where the golfer could get stuck in a continuous shuffle.

Gameplay Cameras

Update address camera obstruction logic to move to the next highest available camera instead of always moving to the highest camera.

Fix drop ball camera positioning for left-handed golfers.

Gameplay HUD

Only display the drop-down text that says "For eagle to win the hole" when the golfer is on the green or within 50 yards of the hole.

When tying the hole will result in winning the match, modify the drop-down text to read "...to win the match" instead of "...to tie the hole."

Fix for the ball flight graph not being updated when ball flight is skipped.

Gameplay Misc

Improve AI golfer’s ability to make short putts.

Fix for rare occurrences that could incorrectly place the golfer under tournament structures for their next shot.

Fix for ball being visible in practice state after a hole flyover is viewed while the golfer is in practice state.

Career

Fix for a crash that could occur after completing the last hole in a playoff.

Updated David Lingmerth to have Sweden instead of USA flag.

Online

Permanently disable golfer reaction NIS in online gameplay in order to speed up play for all players.

Improved solution for preventing softlock issues during online gameplay when the player's hole timer expires while utilizing the "Fast Play" setting.

Resolved the issue of players appearing in the incorrect order on the in-game online scoreboard after one player quits or disconnects during a round.

Challenges

Fix for crowd members obstructing the golfer in the first shot of some challenges.

Added animation to challenge banner shown after holing out.

Settings

Fix for some visual settings not being saved persistently unless the save button was pressed multiple times.

Fix for putting grid setting not updating when changed during active gameplay.

Audio

Numerous fixes and improvements for commentary during rounds that use Match Play scoring.

Reworked St. Andrews ambience, added additional bird and background sounds.

Fix for crowd sometimes not applauding short putts.

Fix for commentary mentioning “beautiful afternoon” when using “Morning” time of day.

Courses

Global: Update a number of courses to use course-specific or tournament-specific tee markers depending on the context for the round.

Chambers Bay: Fix for ocean texture flickering.

Chambers Bay: Remove misplaced terrain decal on right side of hole 17.

East Lake: Fix for a structure handrail being visible behind the 9th green when structures are disabled.

Lighthouse Pointe: Fix for some online spectator cameras being obstructed by trees on holes 10 and 16.

Oak Hill: Fix tee marker placement.

Pebble Beach: Add collision to bushes on the right side of hole 3.

Pebble Beach: Remove long grass that was encroaching on hole 8 tee box.

Pebble Beach: Fix unnatural seagull movement on hole 7.

Pebble Beach: Fix for incorrect color on some tournament structures such as holes 5 and 6.

Teeth of the Dog: Fix blurry hole images shown in hole preview screen.

TPC Scottsdale: Fix for the caddie being visible while playing holes 17 and 18.

TPC Scottsdale: Add collision to a variety of cacti.

Quail Hollow: Fix for some crowd members clipping through each other in the tournament structures on the 15th hole.

Wilmington Country Club: Fix incorrect tree hitbox on hole 3.

Golfers

Updated Scottie Scheffler’s head model.

Dustin Johnson updated to use Taylormade glove.

Xander Schauffele updated to use Callaway glove.

Update Jessica Korda’s outfits and logos.

Outfits & Gear

Fix texture clipping on EA SPORTS V-Neck polos.

Fix some instances where the golfer’s hand was clipping through the glove.

Fix for golfer hair clipping with hat for few seconds when entering gameplay using low visual settings.

Brighten texture on “EA SPORTS – White” ball.

General Stability

Fix for softlock caused by exiting gameplay quickly after entering a round.

Fix for softlock occurring if the “Sharing Options” popup is viewed while a round is being completed.

Fixed the issue where players would experience a softlock when attempting to use the "hold to skip" feature during TPC Scottsdale hole 16 NIS. Additionally, addressed the problem where starting an activity from within the EIS would prevent players from accessing Quick Play without having to restart the game.

Branding

Structures, outfits, wipes, etc. update to use the latest U.S. Open logo.

Updated The Open logo on pin flags.

Ensure the loading screen for Augusta National always shows the Masters Trophy instead of the seasonal trophy.

Wells Fargo Championship updated to use one-color white logo.

FedEx St. Jude Championship updated to use one-color white logo.

UI

Career: Update all in-game leaderboards to show “E” in the “Total” column for any golfer that has not teed off yet.

Fix for players encountering issues when trying to navigate to the "FedExCup Rankings" directly from the "Statistics" or "Official World Golf Ranking" sections in their career.

Fix for the "Season Timeline" overlapping with gameplay when accessing the quest tab from the scorecard screen after viewing quests in the "Season Summary" of the Career Hub.

Challenges: Fix for text overlapping the golfer in some preview rewards screens.

Equipment: Add “Change Club” button to the first driver slot.

Equipment: Resolved the issue where the "Equip to all" button would mistakenly assign blueprints to the wrong clubs in non-default bags under certain conditions.

Equipment: Rectified the problem with the equip confirmation pop-up, ensuring that the "No" button functions correctly.

Equipment: Fix text overlap that occurs when using “Copy Bag”.

Leaderboards: Removed “Sort” and “My Position” from all leaderboards.

Unable to delete multiple golfers without having to refresh the list of golfers by leaving and reentering the screen.

The counter for "Players in session" now correctly displays "1" instead of "0" when a player is present in an online lobby before matchmaking.

The issue with the "Add Players" button appearing even when there are already 4 players in a lobby has been resolved.

Outfits: Remove “Equip to all” button when a “None” node is selected.

Outfits: Fix for incorrect outfit sometimes being displayed after quickly navigating between outfits.

Update the outfits screen to ensure that the item description area is consistently displayed when navigating through nodes.

Outfits: Remove icon transparency on non-equipped clothing categories.

Outfits: Fix text overlap that occurs when using “Copy Outfit”.

Private Match: Resolved the issue where the "Start Round" button would still appear after a player left, leaving only one player in the EIS.

Quick Play: Rectified the problem where custom holes that were previously chosen would persist, even if a non-custom hole selection option was recently made.

Fixed the issue with the "Go To Mode Select" button not functioning properly when focused on a nameplate in Quick Play.

Resolved the problem where the gameplay style text would mistakenly switch to "Custom" when the Swing or Putt Mechanic was modified in Tournaments or Online mode in the Settings.

Store: Add timer to indicate when pages will be updated with new content.

Store: Remove the ‘Rotate Camera’ button hint when attempting to equip a newly purchased VFX item.

Store: Add text description to body of “Insufficient Funds” pop-up message.

Store: Item names are now centered.

Tooltips: Full redesign and update of gameplay onboarding tooltips.

Tooltips: Fix tooltips being displayed during a hole flyover or “Unplayable Lie” screen.

Tooltips: Fix for gameplay tooltips being displayed on the scorecard screen if the screen is opened during the intro NIS.

Tooltips: Update references of “Competitive” to “Online”.

Tournaments: Update rewards pop-up to display a score of 0 as “E”.

PC Support

Improved solution implemented to prevent double input from being recorded on store pages when dismissing an error popup via mouse input.

Resolved issue where players could bypass locked challenge tiles by utilizing mouse input to click the "Select" button prompt.

Fixes to various screens and gameplay HUD elements in order to scale correctly and better support wide screen monitors.

EA Sports PGA Tour is available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Source: EA