EA SPORTS PGA TOUR has deployed Title Update 5.0, welcoming The 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool to Season 4. Royal Liverpool Golf Club is now available to play in all game modes. In career mode, The Open Championship now alternates every season between Royal Liverpool and St Andrews. Menus, screens, and key art have also been updated to be styled in the Season 4 Open Championship theme. New Challenges will also be released after The Open Championship that recreate key moments from the event.
On top of these seasonal improvements, the update also includes many quality of life updates and stability fixes, including updates in career mode and online mode allowing players the flexibility to curate their gameplay experience. For example, updates to career mode allows players to switch between Quick and Full rounds at the start of each round instead of only at the start of each tournament.
Similarly, in online mode, matchmaking has been updated to allow additional players to join into a lobby for 60 seconds after initial matchmaking is completed. These changes will make it easier to fill matches with players and will allow for 16 player matches to occur more frequently.
Furthermore, Online mode will also be updated to rotate through new playlists, instead of always offering the current “Random, 9 Holes, Tour”. These playlists will each have a theme and feature a smaller set of random courses along with variations to the course conditions and wind settings to make gameplay more engaging.
EA SPORTS PGA TOUR continues to evolve with feedback from our passionate community and the EA Orlando and EA Madrid teams carry on behind the scenes to deliver more updates in the near future including one round tournaments for career mode and turn-based match play for online and private match modes. Both of these features will be included in the next major patch and we will provide more specifics on timing as we get closer to release.
