Saint Bay Course Adjustments - Overview

Date

Feb 15, 2016

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Dear Shot Online Players,

Today's maintenance is complete and the servers are back online. Thank you for your patience.

PATCH NOTE SUMMARY

- Saint Bay Course Renewal
- Character-bound locker for Gold Platinum Members Only

Saint Bay Renewal Details

This update won't introduce a completely new Saint Bay, but a refreshed version of this challenging course. Despite how pretty Saint Bay is, players did not like the deep, sometimes TOO deep bunkers, which not only caused frustration but also many penalty shots.

Some flags have been repositioned as part of this renewal as well, which were sometimes placed in very tricky positions, especially holes that were close to cliffs. Also some rough locations were added where you previously landed out of bounds.

All of these changes should not trick you into thinking that Saint Bay's difficulty changed to easy or medium, the challenge on completing this course with a decent score remains. With the increased height of the new bunkers, we are also introducing a new element in Shot Online: Wet Bunker. What makes Wet Bunkers difficult to deal with is not the distance the ball can travel (which is unchanged compared to normal bunkers) but the speed of the gauge bar is much faster.

Below are a few screenshots to show you examples. The height of bunkers was generally changed for all holes, the last screenshot (Hole 16) also shows a new rough zone between lighthouse and green.

OLD (Hole 2)	OLD (Hole 6)	OLD (Hole 11)	OLD (Hole 16)

NEW (Hole 2)	NEW (Hole 6)	NEW (Hole 11)	NEW (Hole 16)

Click the pictures to see them in full size!

To sum it up:

- All bunkers were filled up with more sand (height changed)
- Pin positions changed: Hole 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16
- Hole 10: The green was slightly flattened
- Hole 16: New rough zone between lighthouse and green
- No changes to EXP were made, but can be considered in the future

Regards,
Shot Online Team